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Members of the ROTC stand guard at the flagpole on the Diag on Sunday.

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American flags placed by the Young Americans for Freedom mark the 15th anniversary of 9/11 on the Diag on Sunday.

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The School of Music, Theatre, & Dance hosted a noontime carillion recital in remembrance of 9/11 at Burton Memorial Tower on Sunday.

Terrorism abroad has not discouraged students from travel abroad programs

Fifteen years later, effects of 9/11 still apparent for University students

Summer attacks influence international experiences

Lasting impacts remain in public perception

JACKIE CHARNIGA Daily Staff Editor

On August 4, Nadine Jawad, a Ford junior at the University of Michigan, received a text on the lawn of Magdalen’s campus at the University of Oxford, holding her phone in one hand and playing

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with a piece of grass in the other. “God, my phone is blowing up because of that stabbing,” she said. “It’s like, I’m fine, mom.” The incident happened earlier that day in London, a city an hour and a half from Oxford by bus. The perpetrator had knifed victims indiscriminately near Russell Square. Among the five injured,

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one woman — an American tourist — was killed. Darlene Horton, 64, was traveling with her husband who was teaching abroad when she was killed. Other American students on the lawn, sitting next to her, started checking their phones too, See ABROAD, Page 7A

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Fifteen years later, Sara Frost, School of Music, Theatre & Dance senior and New York native, remembers being picked up by her father just two hours after her first day of first grade began, on September 11, 2001. Frost was in Manhattan on 9/11 when the al-Qaeda terrorist group coordinated a series of attacks by hijacking passenger airlines — two of which hit and later collapsed the World Trade Center North and South Towers in New York City. Confused and unsure of what was happening, Frost and her father went to a local market on their way home. “I have a stark memory of just rows and rows and rows of empty shelves, which was kind of crazy — it was only probably about three hours after the planes hit, they hit about 9:30 in the morning — and already the shelves were just bare,” Frost said. “In terms of imagery, that’s something that, just

empty shelves, has stuck with me because no one knew what was going on.” Two thousand nine hundred seventy-seven people died as a result of the attacks, including 18 alumni of the University of

“Even though I was so young, the images that one associates, it’s just really right there at the forefront of my brain, especially today.” Michigan. “Even those of us who are new here, recalling our experience of the national trauma in other parts of the country, now share in the collective bereavement of the University of Michigan family,” said then-University President Mary Sue Coleman at a 2002

ceremony honoring the victims. Though the attacks happened when most current University undergraduates were in elementary school, the events still have a lasting impact — for some, personally, and for others, as part of broader shifts in public perception. “That day has always stayed really fresh and really kind of visceral in my mind,” Frost said. “Even though I was so young, the images that one associates, it’s just really right there at the forefront of my brain, especially today.” Beyond the personal, one of the bigger impacts of that day was on public opinion. Following the attacks, University researchers from the Institute of Social Research found in their “How Americans Respond” survey that half of respondents were more trusting of the government in late 2001 than just one year earlier, helping create attitudes reflective of increased patriotism and community among fellow citizens as well. “The HAR survey results See SEPTEMBER, Page 7A

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“I was at school. I don’t remember it happening but my mom told me that school was cancelled and she came to pick me up”. LSA sophomore Kyle Frank “We were watching the news on TV and then went to Kroger to get food and water in case another attack came close to home and my mom said everyone was quiet and concerned”. Nursing sophomore Jen Battaglia “I came home from school normally and my babysitter’s older kids came home and asked her what happened. She told them that planes flew into buildings and I obviously didn’t understand the significance” Engineering freshman Parker Misch “I don’t remember much but my mom picked me up and brought me home. She didn’t tell me anything because I was too young but she was worried because my dad worked in Manhattan at the time” Engineering freshman Alec Distel “I’m pretty sure I was in dance class but I don’t remember that day. I just know because my mom told me”. LSA junior Julie Carter

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WHAT: Renowned Greek artists Olga Alexopoulou and Cacao Rocks will be live-painting as a part of the Global Graffiti Project, an effort to engage campus with street art and international graffiti artists. WHO: Institute for the Humanities WHEN: 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. WHERE: Panera Building, 777 North University

WHAT: Google Chief Economist Hal Varian will headline this year’s W.S. Woytinsky Lecture. Varian has been instrumental in Google’s corporate strategy, and will present on data in industrial economics. Varian’s remarks will also be livestreamed. WHO: Department of Economics WHEN: 11:40 a.m. to 1 p.m. WHERE: Lorch Hall, room 265

Eid Celebration WHAT: Following morning prayers, the Muslim Students’ Association and Muslim chaplaincy will host festivities and dinner for students celebrating Eid al-Adha. WHO: Muslim Students’ Association WHEN: 6:30 p.m .to 9:30 p.m. WHERE: East Hall

Resume 101 workshop WHAT: This interactive session will teach attendants the bullet plus model and provide peerreviewed suggestions meant for any student preparing to seek employment or admission to graduate school. RSVPs are required. WHO: University Career Center WHEN: 5 p.m. to 6 p.m. WHERE: Student Activities Building, room 3003

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WHAT: The 19th century telescope in the observatory’s old dome will be open to the public, if warm, dry weather and clear skies hold. WHO: Department of Astronomy WHEN: 9 p.m. to 10:30 p.m. WHERE: Detroit Observatory

WHAT: The Knight-Wallace Fellowships for Journalists will host Molly Ball, political reporter for The Atlantic. Ball will address the upheaval of the political establishment in this election cycle. WHO: Knight-Wallace Fellows WHEN: 5 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. WHERE: Wallace House, 620 Oxford Road

Global policy talk WHAT: Annie Maxwell, President of Skoll Global Threats Fund, wil discuss the role of imagination and creativitiy in addresing critical threats facing the world after 9/11. Maxwell’s work involves promoting greater cooperation and understanding between North America and Europe. WHO: Ford School of Public Policy WHEN: 4 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. WHERE: Weill Hall, Annenberg Auditorium

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About 25 families and individuals gathered on the University of Michigan’s Ingalls Mall to listen to a 9/11 memorial recital Sunday. Theconcert was a performance of the carillon bells, which are housed in Burton Tower and controlled by a series of levers and pedals. The recital took place at noon. Tiffany Ng, assistant professor of carillon, organized the concert and performed. Ng said she felt this recital was part of her duty to the community. “As University carillonist, playing both for the campus and the community, I strongly feel that it’s my responsibility on days like this to provide a place of reflection and a place of

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WHAT: Dr. Martin Kaufman will review his research and mapping of Flint’s water pipes, and conduct a discussion on costs of outdated infrastructure across the nation. WHO: College of Architecture and Urban Planning WHEN: 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. WHERE: Walgreen Drama Center, Stamps Auditorium

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Concert draws small crowd to Ingalls Mall at performance in memory of the lives lost in 2001 largest carillon bell three times, symbolizing the three rings of a fire station’s bell to signal the end of the fire to memorialize the first responders who lost their lives on Sept. 11. Chief Collins, who has been in his current office for two years, said it was a unique and moving experience for him. “I can say I have never done anything like this before,” he said. “I was really honored to be asked to participate.” He added that the memorial was an effective way to honor the past and the tragedy 15 years ago. “It means a lot to the community; it means a lot to the first responders,” Collins said. “Time has a way of diminishing the impact of tragic events that transpired, and it’s really appropriate, I think, to give pause and reflect on what transpired.” After the “Last Alarm,” Ng performed several pieces on the carillon. The first was “In Memoriam — September 11, 2001,” which composer John Courter composed a few days after the attacks in 2001. Ng said she chose the other pieces based on the sound of this particular piece. “I chose other pieces that were in a similar style, of magnificent, resonant and mournful music, interspersed with a couple more lyrical pieces and a piece that hopefully gives people hope, ‘Imagine,’ ” she said. Ng also noted that the memorial was important to her personally, having started her undergraduate studies at Yale University shortly before the attack in New York. “It was sort of the first thing that happened to See CONCERT, Page 7A

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Burton Tower bells ring in honor of Sept. 11 attacks 15 years later commemoration,” she said. She added that given the carillon’s ability to portray a series of emotions, memorials like this are an important part of the purpose of the carillon as an instrument. “I think that’s one of the roles of the carillon, that we don’t just peal for joyous occasion and to accompany people’s lunchtime breaks, but that we also bring a seriousness and solemnity to the campus soundscape for those days of memorial, when we remember in particular the first responders who all over the country, every day, are putting themselves on the line for us,” Ng said. The recital opened with a performance by Ann Arbor Fire Chief Larry Collins, who rang the “Last Alarm.” This involved the ringing of the

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Men’s Glee Club hosts contest to find new song lyrics for bicentenial

Students display 2,977 American flags on Diag to honor, remember 9/11 victims

Winning submission to be performed during November 2017 festivities

Young Americans for Freedom recognizes lives lost fifteen years ago in campus commemoration

EMILY MIILLER Daily Staff Reporter

The University of Michigan Men’s Glee Club is preparing early for the University’s bicentennial celebration, launching a contest earlier this month for a lyricist for a new song they plan to perform at the November 2017 festivities. All students, alumni, and faculty members are eligible to submit to the contest. It will close on November 15th, after which a committee of the Glee Club’s director, the song’s composer and student members of the Glee Club will choose the winning lyrics. The song will be added to a Michigan songbook, which contains all the Michigan songs ever written including “The Victors” and other traditions. Eugene Rogers, associate director of choirs and conducting with School of Music, Theater, Dance and the director of the Men’s Glee Club, said there is a precedent for this type of contest at the University, tracing back to the alma mater, “Yellow and Blue.” “Charles Mills Gayley wrote the very first Michigan song, the alma mater,” he said. “He responded to a student ad and received twenty dollars for writing the alma mater as we know today. And that’s the case for a lot of our Michigan songs.” After the committee has chosen the lyrics for the new song, Kristin Kuster, professor of composition with SMTD, will compose a piece of music to accompany them.

Rogers said Kuster is the first woman to compose for the Men’s Glee Club and add to the compilation of Michigan songs. “So that’s for us really a triple excitement because we have a brand new text, a brand new piece written by a new composer, as well as the first female professor to compose it,” Rogers said. Kuster noted she is only the second woman to receive tenure in the Composition Department at the University and said she is honored that the Glee Club asked her to write the piece. “I am grateful to be part of this important milestone in the Men’s Glee Club’s commissioning history,” Kuster said. “I am committed to advocating for the underrepresented composers in our contemporary classical music scene; namely, female composers and composers of color. My hope is that my presence in commissioning projects such as this will help transform our field into a more inclusive, and therefore more enriched culture of music making.” She said she will have ample inspiration to help her compose the song, coming particularly from students. “This opportunity to write again for our Men’s Glee Club is thrilling, and I am excited,” Kuster said. “The inspiration for writing music for this group for this occasion surrounds us on our campus: it is exuded by all of our students, across every discipline.” The piece, she added, will be inspired by a series of emotions

she’s oberved on campus. The expressions of nostalgia, pride, and/or camaraderie that emerge from this new piece will be dependent on the lyrics we choose, yet also will drench every single note on the page,” she said. “All of these feelings will inevitably be present because I adore this place.” This new Michigan song, once completed, will premier at the Glee Club’s spring concert in April. They will also perform the new song during their annual spring tour, which has a bicentennial theme this year. Finally, it will be performed as a part of the University’s bicentennial celebrations in November 2017. SMTD senior Patrick Kiessling, president of the Glee Club, said he was looking forward to participating in this new part of the Glee Club’s repertoire. “To be commissioning and helping create a new Michigan song with the Glee Club, that will be in this Michigan songbook and a part of the Glee Club and the University’s history for the next years to come, is truly a unique privilege,” Kiessling said. “We’re really excited to be writing the first chapter of this new song’s story with the Glee Club.” The Glee Club sings a few selections from the Michigan songbook at their end-ofsemester concerts, and Kiessling said finding out which songs is always a large part of preparation for these concerts. “We always enjoy learning which Michigan songs we See GLEE, Page 7A

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On Sunday, the 15th anniversary of the attacks on Sept. 11, the University of Michigan’s chapter of Young Americans for Freedom organized their annual tribute on the Diag. The display of 2,977 American flags — which represent each loss of life from the tragedy — attracted the attention of students, faculty and members of the Ann Arbor community.

LSA junior Dominic Stanchina, vice chairman of YAF, noted the unique qualities of his organization’s tribute. “It’s attention-getting,” he said. “It’s a visually stimulating piece so we can catch people off guard. They see almost 3,000 flags for 3,000 victims and it (makes) them pause.” YAF secretary Derek Loewen, an LSA junior, said the need for the commemoration is especially relevant in a time when the threat of terrorism still persists.

“It happened 15 years ago and people are already starting to forget about the events, when that sort of terrorism is still relevant today,” he said. “We want to remember and pay respects to those that did lose their lives, but also to remind people that there is still an active threat today and we can’t lose sight of that.” According to its website, Young Americans for Freedom is a nonprofit, educational organization that devotes itself See FLAGS, Page 7A

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Misogyny doesn’t have to win

ast month, presidential candidate Hillary Clinton made history by becoming the first female presidential nominee from a major political party — an MELISSA enormous milestone STRAUSS in the fight for gender equality in America. But as we celebrate this important victory, we must not fall victim to complacency. The battle is not yet won. Although Clinton has made “18 million cracks” in the glass ceiling, the falling glass may just reveal a titanium plate awaiting us beyond. Don’t get me wrong — a Trump presidency will likely be catastrophic for women’s rights. However, electing the first female president will not solve our problems overnight. Misogyny has already reared its ugly head during this election cycle, evidenced in shouts of “Lock her up!” at the Republican National Convention and “Trump that bitch!” bumper stickers. Even if Clinton is elected in November, these voices will not fade away quietly — and they may even worsen. A few weeks ago, I found myself on a 10-hour car ride to my grandmother’s house and decided to start listening to Malcolm Gladwell’s excellent new podcast, “Revisionist History,” to kill the time. During his first episode, I was compelled by Gladwell’s discussion of the sociological phenomenon of “moral licensing” and found it alarmingly relevant to today’s presidential election. According to an article from Stanford University, moral licensing “occurs when past moral behavior makes people more likely to do potentially immoral things without worrying about feeling or appearing immoral.” We have already seen this concept in action with the noticeable increase in blatant racism throughout the country since the election of President Obama. To put it simply, people tend to feel more comfortable openly making racial comments or jokes because, in their minds, they couldn’t possibly be racist if they helped elect the first Black president. Disturbingly, a number of our international friends, including Brazil, Germany, Poland, Turkey, France, Canada, Australia and — until Teresa May’s election following the Brexit fallout — the United Kingdom, have elected a female head of state once, and then

never again. In our own country, despite women gaining the right to vote in 1920, we still only have 20 females in the Senate and 84 in the House of Representatives. This only makes up about 20 percent of each chamber, even though women constitute 50.9 percent of the U.S. population according to the U.S. Census Bureau. If Clinton wins the presidency this fall, we must not allow ourselves to fall victim to this same pattern. The door cannot close behind her for the millions of capable, passionate and competent women that can surely follow in her footsteps. Unfortunately, misogyny is an ingrained part of our culture. It is not likely to slip away easily. If we elect the first female president in November, the misogyny will grow stronger and uglier. She will almost certainly work twice as hard to earn the respect of both her government colleagues and the general public. She will almost certainly receive more hateful comments, challenges to her temperament and credibility and watchful eyes critiquing her every move than any other American president in recent history. While it will be a necessary and historical milestone, the first female U.S. president will face her fair share of difficulty. This all being said, moral licensing is likely not a conscious decision. Although I am certain that a few bad apples spoil the bunch, I refuse to believe that most people are inherently bad. Most of the time, we don’t intend to offend others. And this is all the more reason to remain diligent in the fight for gender equality. If we get too comfortable, the louder and angrier voices win. If Clinton takes office this fall, we need to challenge those voices that seek to put her down based solely on her gender. If we fight together, moral licensing doesn’t have to win. Misogyny doesn’t have to win. Hate and anger don’t have to win. We need to ensure that the door remains open not only for our sons and brothers to reach their fullest potential, but also for our incredible daughters and sisters. —Melissa Strauss can be reached at melstrau@umich.edu.

Polarization and PokeDating

he summer of 2016 will be one to remember: For the first time, a woman is the presidential candidate of a major political party; the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia and the Colombian government signed a peace treaty ending a 50-year war; but most importantly, “Pokemon Go” was released unto the world. An intrinsically ROLAND social game, “Pokemon DAVIDSON Go” sated my desire for human contact until I heard of PokeDates: a dating website for “Pokemon Go” players. I moseyed on down to the homepage and began the sign-up process until I noticed something peculiar. As part of finding your perfect match, the website asks for deal-breakers and the two first suggestions were “ultra conservative” and “a bleeding heart liberal.” It seems like not even Pokemon is spared from our nation’s hyper-politicization. Is nothing sacred anymore? These suggested “deal-breakers” don’t exist in a vacuum. They’re symptomatic of the way politics have infiltrated our lives. The polarization between our parties is as high as it was during the Civil War. This polarization has lent itself to a hyper-politicization that stretches from our day-to-day interactions to what would nominally be called politics, and has entered our previously relatively apolitical institutions such as the Supreme Court. For years, the Supreme Court had a protective layer. Judges serve life-long terms so they don’t have to worry about reelection and can rule how they feel is correct. There was also an understanding between the political parties that even if one doesn’t agree with a particular judicial nominee’s views, if they are sufficiently qualified, they should be sworn into the court. This is no longer the case. Candidates like Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump have helped reduce the court to an explicitly political institution by discussing our nation’s highest court in candid, political terms. Earlier this year, Sanders tweeted, “Any Supreme Court nominee of mine will make overturning Citizens United one of

their first decisions.” This notion that a justice must have explicit priorities is unheard of in American politics. Similarly, Donald Trump released a list of whom he would nominate for the Supreme Court vacancy in a move widely seen as an attempt to win over evangelicals. I recall one debate during the Republican primary in which Trump explicitly called upon Mitch McConnell to “delay, delay, delay” Obama’s Supreme Court nomination. All of this discourse has turned the Supreme Court into just another pawn for politicians to play with, rather than an institution that carries itself aside from politics. It’s important to recognize the Supreme Court has been politicized not only from the outside, but also from the inside. Earlier this year Ruth Bader Ginsburg delivered a searing critique of Donald Trump: “I can’t imagine what this place would be — I can’t imagine what the country would be — with Donald Trump as our president.” At first, it was viscerally satisfying to hear one of our nation’s most accomplished women excoriate serial misogynist Donald Trump. However, upon further reflection I began to think that maybe this type of discourse wasn’t good for our democracy. It further politicizes the Supreme Court and diminishes trust in public institutions, which in turn destabilizes our democracy. It would be easy to end this piece with a call for us to learn to accept one another’s different political views on a deeper level and not allow them to become key markers of our identity. I don’t think that’s remotely realistic. Frankly, I could never go on a PokeDate with someone who plans to vote for Trump this November. A Trump vote speaks volumes about a person’s underlying ethics in ways I’m not remotely comfortable with. But what I can say is that we should each critically reflect on how deeply we have let politics penetrate our lives and whether we’re comfortable with that level. This bar will be different for everyone, but reflection is the first step to restoring some sanity to our democracy and rescuing our institutions from the grip of politics which may even — yes — make America great again. —Roland Davidson can be reached at mhenryda@umich.edu.

hroughout the ongoing election cycle, I have been made acutely aware of our national media’s tendency to remove politicians from their histories, forgetting the ways in which politicians have demonstrably impacted ISAIAH our lives ZEAVINand focusing instead on their MOSS words, their outfits and their “personalities” (an idea that, given the extremely limited access we have to these people’s lives, I question outright). These fig ures, then, become nothing more than TV characters whom we watch, judge, mock, make into memes, etc. And why should we care about two characters whom the heav y majority of us find untrustworthy and corrupt? Why should we be moved to action? We already have Don Draper, SpongeBob and the Gilmore Girls to worry about. And I actually trust them. Predictably, we turn off the TV when these political fig ureheads appear, leaving us apathetic and unamused. This notion of the media dehistoricizing objects is not a new one — and I think it’s fair to refer to our political fig ures in this way because, for most of us, they will never be anything more than images on our screen. In his formative 1936 essay, “The Work of Art in The Age of Its Mechanical Reproducibility,” Walter Benjamin discusses the effects of the emerging film industry on its contemporary audience. He notes that sharp, clear reproductions of original images have never been more easily attained. Before film, art could still be replicated. The difference, according to Benjamin, lies in film’s ability to “place the copy of the original in situations which the original itself cannot attain.” And while the reproduced piece might otherwise feel and look like the original, Benjamin asserts that this process of reproduction will inherently leave the copy lacking authenticity. The original piece, Benjamin claims, maintains a certain aura obliterated with the new capability to endlessly, relentlessly replicate the object. This process, in effect,

deconstructs the concept of originality all together — what is an “original” if it will always be placed into some new context the object could never attain by itself? Think of your favorite Drake “Hotline Bling” meme. Is the video itself the original, or is it that meme, which puts Drake into an entirely new conversation with some other idea — maybe an inside joke between you and your friends? Doesn’t that meme become the original object? Every time we put something into this sort of new context, are we not recreating an original? But how could an original be recreated? Our national media enacts this same method of removing objects from their larger historical context, thereby obliterating the sense of the original. Just as a TV character might evolve with each episode of its show, politicians become new figures every time we hear about them, in new contexts

“Just as a TV character might evolve with each episode of their show, politicians become new figures every time we hear about them.”

that operate singularly, neglecting to address their larger histories. An example: Michael Bloomberg, who instituted racist and unconstitutional stop-andfrisk policing in New York City while mayor, spoke in prime time at the 2016 Democratic National Convention. I was shocked Bloomberg was allowed to speak, especially at a convention for a party that claims to be the voice of marginalized people in this country. Liberal media outlets, in anticipation of Bloomberg’s speech, described him as “the nation’s leading independent and a pragmatic business leader.” And, because of his career as a businessman, Bloomberg’s proClinton sentiments would prove that Trump, even among his colleagues, is disliked. Here, we see Bloomberg lifted out of the muck of his history,

without a stain, in order to further the Democratic Party’s message. But we must remain skeptical of this, to examine our political figures’ histories and policies, because these are the ways in which they actually impact us. At the convention, we do not even need to listen to Bloomberg’s words to examine his efforts to detach himself from his own history. The mayor of Atlanta, Ga., Kasim Reed, introduced Bloomberg: “Please welcome, the three-time mayor of the City of New York…,” which sounds exactly like the introduction athletes receive: getting the audience excited about the present moment, about the sporting event to come. This moment glorifies the future and ignores, for the moment, the past. For now, they are on your team; they are here to help. Bloomberg then took the stage, with blaring saxophones accompanying him — almost the exact track celebrities receive as they come onstage to talk with David Letterman. Perhaps this is all that matters: his fame, his name recognition. The fact that he, that guy with that name, is endorsing our candidate… It must be terrific! Bloomberg began his remarks by thanking Mr. Reed, mispronouncing his first name in the process. I should also note the irony that Reed is a Black man, introducing a figure who actively implemented a policing program that consistently violated the civil liberties of people of color. I posit this scheduling decision was designed to make us, on some level, look past Bloomberg’s past entirely. Not only is he at the students’ convention, but he’s being introduced by a Black man who’s talking about Bloomberg as a “mentor” and a “friend.” Why should we worry about all that stuff he used to do? He’s here now. What we see here is Bloomberg as the work of art in the age of its mechanical reproducibility. The original object, with its tattered and destructive history, is long gone. The past has been effaced. The reproduced Bloomberg saunters onstage, triumphing the capture of his original. He can now begin anew. These are the mechanics of mechanical reproduction. Right in front of our eyes, shameless, unembarrassed. Now what? —Isaiah Zeavin-Moss can be reached at izeavinm @umich.edu.

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What TV leaves out

FILM REVIEW

By BEN ROSENSTOCK Daily TV Columnist

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When she tells you she hasn’t seen the “Before” trilogy.

‘Southside’ is a cinematic snooze Half-hearted biopic leans on impersonations By REBECCA LERNER Daily Film Editor

In our largely nostalgiafueled culture, supporters of President Barack Obama are feeling melancholy about his Cdeparture from office. Many, Southside after seeing the sorry state With You of the current Get Lifted election cycle, Film Company have resorted to siding with State Theater neither Hillary nor Trump, but rather Obama. Facebook and Twitter newsfeeds are inundated with posts and clickbait articles about the way the people will miss him after January 2017. Obama himself seems more than aware of his increased popularity — he walked up to the podium at the last White House Correspondents’ Dinner to Anna Kendrick’s “Cups (When I’m Gone).” “Southside with You” is the latest product of this anticipatory nostalgia. The directorial debut of Richard Tanne, the film follows Barack Obama (Parker Sawyers, “Zero Dark Thirty”) and Michelle Robinson (Tika Sumpt-

er, “Get On Up”) on a semi-fictionalized account of their first date. Michelle is his advisor at the Chicago law firm where he’s working as a summer associate. She thinks it’s inappropriate for them to be romantic, but he’s trying to convince her to prioritize their feelings over office politics. During one of Sumpter’s most compelling scenes, she explains that she first has to prove herself as a woman, and then must start again to prove herself as a Black woman. Despite her reservations, they spend the entire day together, walking around art museums and going to a community center to see Barack in action, ending the night with a viewing of Spike Lee’s “Do the Right Thing.” Unlike the film that it’s often been compared to (“Before Sunrise”), the pacing of the film drags, forcing us to comfort ourselves with the fact that we know the very happy ending. “Southside With You” has less of an actual plot and more of the makings of a political commercial. In all fairness, the aimless wandering does feel slightly reminiscent of “Before Sunrise,” if the audience had walked into the Linklater film with eight years of preconceived notions about the plot and main characters. The acting of the film is not so much acting as it is imper-

sonation. Sawyers captures the essence of the President, down to his self-assured stutters and compulsive smoking to calm himself down. But while his stylistic acting remains more subtle, with only a few pure Obama-isms, Sumpter’s impression of Michelle Obama’s speech patterns is jarring and extreme. If you close your eyes, it’s like listening to Michelle Obama practice her enunciation; if you keep them open, it’s like watching a stale and tedious “SNL” sketch. While we watch them go through the perfectly lit, picturesque day, it is impossible to forget that they are characters playing real people we know, that this is a movie. Tanne is overly cautious, not pushing into unknown territory or exploring new emotional ground. He stays safely at a kind and almost boring portrayal of two people falling in love. It’s too comfortable, shot on location with beautiful shots of Chicago overlaid with dreamy music. The film is so soothing that it lends itself to being good white noise if you happen to drift off in the theater. There’s also the contentment that comes with knowing how everything is going to work out — they may be driving broken down cars and living with their parents now, but we know this story ends in the White House.

In many ways, TV has an advantage over other forms of storytelling when it comes to realism. There’s something artificial about fitting a neat, well-defined character arc into a 90-minute movie, even in the best of them. TV, though, allows storytellers to take their time and show gradual character development over the course of many hours. But there are certain things that even TV can’t show, things so mundane or trivial that they just don’t make for good TV. There’s one glaring absence from TV in particular that sticks out to me, an abstract one: the constancy of emotion. There was a week or so this past June when I felt like shit. It was a weird funk I was in, one that I can’t boil down to one specific thing. I was a bit jaded still about not having gotten a summer internship, and I wasn’t working as many hours as I wished I was, so I felt a little lonely and directionless, like I was waiting for the fall to start for my life to resume. Aside from that, I’d thrown up that week at a party and had a pretty debilitating hangover the next day or two. So for a few days, I felt bad physically and bad mentally, like time was moving so slowly and I was stagnating. And it kind of occurred to me that that’s something movies, TV and even books rarely depict: sustained sadness, anxiety or loneliness. I guess showing the same character feeling the same emotion for a long, drawn-out period of time naturally doesn’t make for good storytelling. It’s not entertaining, and after a while it just gets tedious and boring to watch the same character being sad, or angry, or whatever. It even makes them unlikable. If we see a character never smiling, we’re less inclined to like them, even if they have good reasons for it. I think that TV ignores emotional constancy for another big reason, though: it’s easy to ignore in real life, too. In life, it’s easy to completely gloss over these long periods of time. In real life, somebody might say “For a few years I was really depressed,” and we

comprehend what they mean, but we don’t truly get a sense for how constant and terrible that crushing feeling of darkness must be. I’ve never experienced clinical depression, so that doesn’t quite apply to me, but I know that it’s something more constant and relentless than I can conceive of. It’s just hard for us to comprehend feeling the same steady darkness for interminable lengths of time. In the past few years, TV has begun to tackle depression — often an inherently constant, unchanging experience — in new ways, finding a way to make it work narratively. “BoJack Horseman,” “Crazy Ex-Girlfriend” and “You’re the Worst” are all comedy series that have avoided becoming stagnant by showing how their protagonists’ mental illness impacts their relationships with others, and how they make strides to reach out and get the help they need. Yet few series depict the often mundane, boring reality of feeling like shit, whether it’s rooted in biological or human causes. No mainstream, accessible TV show depicts long periods of sobbing in grief, or sitting and staring out a window for hours at a time, wondering where it all went wrong. Shows that do dwell on the same internal conflicts over and over tend to disappoint; the first half of this season of “Mr. Robot,” for example, has repeatedly shown Elliot (Rami Malek, “Short Term 12”) struggling to accept the specter of his dead father (Christian Slater, “Heathers”) in his life. While it may be realistic to see him resisting so persistently, it makes for redundant viewing. This doesn’t only apply to negative emotions, though. It can also apply to emotions like love. Think about all the great will-theywon’t-they relationships on TV and how many characters were caught up in years of unrequited love, years desiring another person and seeing them begin relationships with other people. What about Jim (John Krasinski) from “The Office?” Remember the night when Pam (Jenna Fischer) kissed Jim at Chili’s? From what I recall, the only reaction we really see is a surprised smile from Jim. But can you

imagine, realistically, how much Jim must’ve been freaking out about that? I bet he went home that night and just smiled in his bed for hours and barely got any sleep because he couldn’t stop running it over in his head, trying to remember what exactly it felt like and trying to interpret what exactly it meant. It probably haunted him for weeks after! And Jesus, how did Jim get through the entirety of Season 3 still being in love with Pam? Maybe Karen (Rashida Jones) distracted him a little, but I’m sure he still had so many internal conflicts, so many moments where he thought about how Pam was honestly a lot better than Karen, moments where he lay next to Karen in bed and felt guilty. I understand why “The Office” didn’t depict these moments; among many reasons, it’s an ensemble show, and not a show that can dip directly into one character’s head to show us his internal demons. But realistically, within the context of the story, I bet a lot of them were there. To be fair, I know that I’m more annoyingly self-reflective than a lot of people. But I think almost everyone must have some moments where their thoughts are entirely consumed by one thing, whether that’s romantic obsession, or anxiety about some upcoming event, or grief. Everyone has moments when they can’t stop thinking about something, no matter how much they try to distract themselves. And the truth is, stories rarely depict that. In the end, this may be an unsolvable problem. Narrative, which is usually defined by change of some sort, may be diametrically opposed to sustained depiction of any one emotion. To make being sad into an exciting, dynamic conflict, by showing one person grieving in a multitude of different ways, is to betray the reality of it. In reality, the truth is that being sad is usually boring and redundant. And nobody wants to watch boring TV. Rosenstock is being a Sad Boy. To ask for his favorite Frank Ocean track, email bdrosen@umich.edu.

TV REVIEW

Classifieds ‘Things’ laughs at

parental mundanity By SHIR AVINADAV Daily Arts Writer

We open on a young girl crying. She tugs at the arm of her mother, whose indifference clearly perturbs the woman Asitting on the bench next to Better them. The wailing goes on, its Things grating sound Series Preirritating, yet miere compelling. In these few short Thursdays moments, “Bet- at 10:30 ter Things” FX wordlessly establishes the unique narrative language it uses to tell the story of Sam Fox (show co-creator Pamela Adlon, “Louie”), a single mother of three trudging through the frustrations of everyday life. Sam turns to the disapproving woman and bluntly asks, “Do you want to buy her the earrings?” revealing the reason for her daughter’s incessant crying. In the simplest and tersest way possible, Sam asserts her confidence in her parenting — a quality that defines her character and foregrounds the premise of the series. This teaser speaks volumes about the kind of character we can expect Sam to be and the kind of series we can look forward to, without actually expressing much verbally. Though a half-hour comedy, FX’s new series, co-created by Adlon and Louis C.K. (“Louie”), dips its toe into drama territory

— delivering its honest comedy (a particular brand of C.K.’s and Adlon’s) with the same nuance that presents itself in real-life, everyday challenges. This crossing of genres feels both natural and instinctively relatable — requiring minimal exposition in the delivery of both narrative content and comedy. The scene following the episode’s teaser illustrates the succinct and often speechless manner in which information is delivered to us. In the shopping mall bathroom with her previously crying daughter, Duke (Olivia Edward, “Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt”), Sam receives a phone call from a man whose identity is revealed to us only through her exasperated moan and a hesitant “Hi, Richard,” then a cut to shot of him sitting in his office. A series of awkward vocalized pauses ensues before Sam curtly says “I’ll see you in school things,” putting an end to the painful conversation. The camera cuts back to a tightly framed two shot of Sam and Duke, evoking their close relationship. Sam’s honesty when Duke asks who was on the other end of the line and Duke’s knowing “Ew, eww!” in response echoes this closeness. With little spoken, this sequence conveys a network of meanings that provide a window into both the plot and theme of the episode as it gradually unfolds. Adlon skillfully delivers a subtle range of emotions that convey the complexity of Sam’s relationships with her daughters, her struggles as a single mother and

her vulnerability within her personal and love life. The artful precision with which the episode is cut and the often vague dialogue gives us just enough information to satisfyingly arrive at our own conclusions about the plot. And while dramatic in tone, the witty dialogue and physical comedy tactfully provide moments of relief when the burden of Sam’s exasperation become too much to bear. A scene in which Sam shops for school supplies with her daughter Max (Mikey Madison, “Bound for Greatness”) is characterized by Sam’s irritation with being unable to find graph paper while Max, the stereotypical teenager, dejectedly plods ahead through the aisle. At one point, unable to contain her frustration, Sam yells out into the store “Does anybody work here?”, an extended gesture of her own isolation. Just when her frustration reaches a climactic point, she receives a comically unexpected response from a store employee over the loudspeaker, and her anger dissipates. It’s a moment that feels hilariously relatable, reflecting the trivial annoyances that culminate in a catharsis of anger and frustration before subsiding. “Better Things” is emotional without being mawkish, hilariously self-deprecating without being slapstick and likely to be one of the best new shows this fall. Adlon demonstrates her skill as the much deserved lead of the show with an undoubtedly thrilling evolution to come.

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Peachy ‘Atlanta’ Grouplove plays it By SAM ROSENBERG Daily Arts Writer

If there’s anyone currently in pop culture with an idiosyncratic personality and perspective on life, it’s arguably Donald Glover. The 32-year-old A wunderkind Atlanta actor/rapper first rose to Series Preprominence on miere (Two YouTube, and episodes then as a young watched) writer for NBC’s “30 Rock” FX before scoring a role on the cult hit “Community.” But around 2011, Glover began an unexpected route into the world of hip-hop, releasing a multitude of EPs and mixtapes under the WuTang generated moniker Childish Gambino. Though most critics didn’t initially take him seriously, Glover developed a loyal fanbase and thus continued to perform as Childish. He toured, released his second studio album Because the Internet in 2013 and his EP Kauai in 2014. As he eventually cut ties with “Community” and his stand-up background, Glover gradually went from being known as the goofy Troy on “Community” to a serious, hard-working and occasionally self-deprecating artist. Glover puts his knowledge of hip hop and comedy to good use, intersecting them beautifully and almost seamlessly as the writer, producer and star of the FX sitcom “Atlanta.” Blessed with an incredible cast, breathtaking visuals and authentic writing, the refreshing “Atlanta” achieves a rare balance between witty, deadpan humor and pathos that most comedies about success and the American Dream struggle to attain. Next to “Master of None,” “Atlanta” is the

Goldilocks of socially conscious comedy: thought-provoking without being didactic, eccentric but not alienating and intelligent without trying to be high-brow. Among the few exciting TV programs showcasing more diverse storytelling — “Master of None,” “The Get Down,” “The Carmichael Show” and the upcoming “Insecure” — “Atlanta” is a huge standout, presenting the modern day Black experience with both hilarious and sobering results. Glover leads as straight-man Earnest “Earn” Marks, a Princeton dropout struggling with a deadend job at the airport and a complicated home situation with Vanessa (newcomer Zazie Beetz), his best friend and the mother of his infant daughter. But once he discovers his cousin Alfred (Brian Tyree Henry, “Boardwalk Empire”) is an up-and-coming rapper named Paper Boi, Earn sees an opportunity to manage him and make something out of his own life. Plot-wise, “Atlanta” can seem like another conventional coming-of-age story, and in a sense, it is deceptively simple. However, with Glover’s deft sensibilities and keen observational eye, “Atlanta” spins the formula in a thoughtful and entertaining way, making us laugh in one scene and pensively reflect during another. Directed by music video filmmaker Hiro Murai, “Atlanta” ’s first two episodes make the most out of developing the characters and story, even showing the city itself as a character. Murai adopts a visual style as unconventional and intriguing as “Mr. Robot” ’s, utilizing the city’s spacious exterior with beautiful aerial shots and gorgeous wide shots and the interiors of city complexes with soft focus and intimate framing. While the pilot, “The Big Bang,” spends most of its halfhour setting up the story, as any first episode would, it quickly

establishes each main character’s voice and personality, illustrated by the dynamic of Earn, Paper Boi and his soft-spoken assistant Darius (an excellent Keith Stanfield, “Straight Outta Compton”). At first, Paper Boi is reluctant to bring Earn aboard his burgeoning rap enterprise, believing that he’s only trying to manage him for the money. Both Earn’s persistence and Paper Boi’s hesitance seem genuine, thanks to their witty banter and both Glover and Henry’s acting chops. However, once Earn gets Paper Boi’s song on the radio, they join forces. Things seem to turn for the better until a hostile encounter with a hater leads both Earn and Paper Boi to jail. In the second episode, “Streets on Lock,” Earn and Paper Boi each experience the aftermath of that encounter to an equally gut-busting and terrifying effect. Uncomfortable with the early trappings of fame, Paper Boi attempts to divert his fans, but can’t seem to escape his notoriety. Simultaneously, while Earn waits in processing, he witnesses the mistreatment of the mentally ill, police brutality and transphobia in three blistering sequences. His awkwardness in these situations provide some much-needed levity, but these scenes will nevertheless render you speechless. The beauty of “Atlanta” is that it never once feels like it’s trying so hard to showcase why its observations on societal issues are important; it just does. The camera simply captures Earn, Paper Boi and Darius journeying through mundane everyday situations in the trenches of the Georgian capital. To sum it up: “Atlanta” is definitely one of the best (if not the best) shows of the fall season and truly captures the peak of Donald Glover’s career as an artist and voice of our generation.

safe on new Big Mess By SHIMA SADAGHIYANI Daily Arts Writer

“We’re back in business / you’re such a big mess / and I love you,” is how Grouplove’s new album, Big Mess, begins, and it’s these Bthree lines that largely sum Big Mess up the rest of Grouplove the album: a very big, Atlantic Records aimless mess that, though unrestricted in its guitar strums and happy-go-lucky vocals, you can’t help but love. Despite the overall chaos of Big Mess, the album starts off relatively organized. “Welcome to Your Life” is a flashy attention-grabber of an intro song, very reminiscent of 2011era Grouplove. Its hippie, feelgood sound directly mimics old iconic Grouplove favorites like “Tongue Tied” and “Lovely Cup.” “Welcome to Your Life” is the perfect first song because it skillfully captures Grouplove’s entire appeal as a band: the promise that, no matter where you are (even if it’s dreary Michigan in mid-November), within the first few notes, you’re instantly transported to somewhere stress-free, with warm sand underneath your toes and the sun illuminating all the beauty this world has to offer. With this first track, Grouplove grabs your hand and says “welcome to our album; it can also be your life.” Attention successfully captured, Grouplove wastes no time showcasing their best qualities through the songs “Do You Love Someone” and

“Standing in The Sun.” Both of these tracks are mellower than “Welcome To Your Life,” yet both contain the same uninhibited quality. In every moment of these songs, Grouplove is holding nothing back; the background instruments clash together to produce a cacophony of sound that fits so perfectly with the simple, yet genuine vocals. Grouplove isn’t afraid to be cluttered, and in their imperfection comes authenticity. “Do You Love Someone” and “Standing in The Sun” are personable, optimistic and entirely pure in their pandemonium.

The problem is Big Mess, overall, flatlines. Many of the songs in Big Mess, like “Good Morning” and “Cannonball,” hold these same qualities. In fact, looking at the individual songs in the album separately, Grouplove continues to put 110%, no holds barred, into each and every note. However, a problem materializes when viewing the album as a whole. Despite the vivacity of distinctive songs, there’s hardly any distinction in sound from one song to the next. Big Mess, overall, flatlines. While none of the songs are horrendous, they do all seem to blur into one giant clamor of California beach vibes and free spirit alt rock when listened

to as a whole. For example, “Spinning,” when heard on its own, is a light song that’s easy and fun to listen to. The line, “Me, I can never stop my world from spinning” layers perfectly over the simple, optimistic jangle of the background music. However, when heard in succession with the extremely similar “Good Morning” and “Cannonball,” the song loses its charm and transforms into an indistinct mass. The songs in Big Mess are too homogenous, and thus the album loses the noteworthy characteristics that are apparent in its individual songs. “Enlighten Me” and “Traumatized” are the only two songs that show any variation from the rest of the album. “Enlighten Me” is darker and more melodramatic than any typical, upbeat Grouplove song, while “Traumatized” seems to draw influences from bands like Cage the Elephant and Pixies with its angry electric background and half-screaming vocals. These two songs are islands in the sea of monotony that is Big Mess and show where this album could’ve gone if Grouplove had experimented with their sound just a little more. Big Mess is a solid album with notable individual songs, but it’s very safe. Grouplove isn’t making any leaps or experiments, nor do they seem to want to. To take a stab at relevancy, whatever Grouplove produces next needs to take their sound up to the next level. But for now, unassuming, easygoing uniformity is the only thing to expect from Big Mess.

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ABROAD From Page 1A receiving emails from concerned family members across the country. In post-9/11 and a postBrussels Europe, this is a scenario has played out over and over — families contacting loved ones abroad or wondering, “What if it was my son or daughter?” at home. Amid mounting terrorist attacks in Germany, France, Britain, Turkey, Belgium, Russia and Spain, reports warning foreign students to avoid places like shopping malls, schools, airports and other forms of public transportation are increasingly common. On May 31, the U.S. Department of State issued a warning specifically about traveling in Europe between that date and August 3, telling travelers to be on alert for potential terrorist attacks targeting major events, commercial areas and transportation. “The large number of tourists visiting Europe in the summer months will present greater targets for terrorists planning attacks in public locations, especially at large events,” the alert read. The Department of State wasn’t wrong. Three weeks before the stabbing in London, a truck was driven into crowds celebrating Bastille Day, killing at least 84 people and leaving 18 others wounded in the French Riviera city of Nice. Amid this atmosphere, the Center for Global and Intercultural Study, the office that coordinates most study abroad programs for LSA students, sent about 650 to 700 University of Michigan students abroad this summer. LSA junior Margaret O’Connor was among 13 University students studying abroad in Germany through the Center of Intercultural and Global Studies at the time. She wrote in an email interview that she was eager to experience the culture first-hand and exercise her language skills in a way that would be impossible to do in the United States. “Because both of my sisters attended (the University) and studied abroad, I’ve envisioned myself doing the same for a few years,” O’Connor wrote. “I’ve studied German for several years in high school and later took intensive German in the (Residential College), so going there made a lot of sense for me.” O’Connor was traveling across Berlin on the underground with two of her friends on the night of a popular soccer game. The train was fairly crowded and rowdy, with many passengers from the game. While waiting for their connecting train, O’Connor and her friends heard three small explosions that sounded like they were coming from the train car. People began to scream, and O’Connor immediately believed she was in the center of a terrorist attack. “It took about a minute for us to realize it was only fireworks some excited sports fan had lit off, but the feeling of pure terror

CONCERT From Page 2A me when I entered adulthood, to experience this tragedy,” she said. “From the top of the carillon tower at Yale, you could see the smoke from the Twin Towers. I think it deserves commemorating and living on in our memories every year.” Collins said he appreciated the overall effect of the

GLEE From Page 3A get to perform during our semesterly concerts in Hill Auditorium,” he said. “We really enjoy them, they’re all beautiful, moving pieces and very personal, obviously, for us as a group at the University of Michigan.” Kiessling said he is hoping for lyrics that highlight the best parts of the University.

we experienced was really rattling,” O’Connor wrote. “It made me really sad and angry that we live in a world where attacks like this are almost expected, and could happen anywhere to anyone.” When recollecting the experience, O’Connor wrote that she wondered whether they reacted the way they did because they were abroad, and news of the dangers abroad has been anything but understated. She noted, however, that she did not believe her family and friends would have deterred her from going abroad and that for her, there was no perceived threat regarding her visit to Germany. “Shortly after we came home, however, Munich was struck by more gun violence, and I felt weirdly connected to it because it happened right in the middle of the city not far from where we spent most of our time,” O’Connor wrote. For O’Connor, potentially dangerous situations alone wouldn’t deter her from an enriching educational experience, but she added that it would certainly be a consideration if she were to go on a future trip. Speaking to programs in France in particular, Rachel Reuter, the health and safety adviser for CGIS, said despite mounting terrorist reports from the country, the number of students applying to study abroad has steadily increased over the past several years. CGIS reported the numbers of their Winter application cycle showed 23 applications in 2014, 33 in 2015, and so far this year more than 62 students have applied to study in France. LSA senior Mallory Jamett said she chose the Arts in Paris program because it was the best opportunity that worked within her art history major. Her parents were nervous about her decision, but Jamett believes they would have been hesitant regardless of where she chose to study. “The Paris attacks were fresh on everyone’s mind, but since U of M hadn’t canceled any other study abroad programs to that area, my parents didn’t see any large cause for alarm,” Jamett said. Jamett was watching fireworks on the lawn by the Eiffel Tower during the Bastille Day terrorist attack in Nice. Upon returning to the home of the French family she was living with, Jamett checked her phone for the first time that night. It was flooded with concerned messages asking where she was, asking if she was OK. After checking Twitter, Jamett learned that a truck had intentionally driven into the celebrating crowd. Jamett said this attack came as a nasty shock to French citizens and study abroad members alike, but she wasn’t that surprised. “The strange thing was, I didn’t find it terribly shocking, and I think it was because I had been desensitized to violent attacks from the U.S. With so many mass shootings and violent crimes, as a culture, America sees this violence much more often than France,” Jamett said.

memorial, and was surprised by the number of people who came to listen. “I was really impressed with the overall program, standing down in the plaza and listening to that,” he said. “I was impressed with the number of folks that showed up. They came and went, but there were a fair number of folks who just stayed out there on the plaza. I think that showed a lot of respect. I’m thankful for Tiffany and the

“We are looking for lyrics that help celebrate the University, the fact that it has remained such an incredible location and avenue of opportunity for so many for the past 200 years,” he said. He said another important requirement for the lyrics is the inclusion of the three main ideals of the Glee Club, which are tradition, camaraderie and musical excellence. However, he added that beyond these requirements, there’s a large range of possibilities for the

News “I recognize that this tragedy caused lots of people fear and grief, but at the same time, I could only recognize the effect of it. I felt very little of these emotions myself.” CGIS Director Mike Jordan said the swell in applications, despite the changed atmosphere, speaks to the strength of the programs and the mindsets of the students seeking those opportunities. “If you look at something like what happened in Brussels, three students backed out but one was unrelated to the attacks, so two students out of 21 withdrew,” Jordan said. In Jamett’s 22-person program, participants were University students from a variety of majors. “I consider the U.S. to be dangerous; the entire world is filled with risks. It’s a matter of if that area is an active war zone,” Jamett said. “If the area that I want to study in is particularly violent, then I would definitely reconsider studying there, but to rule out an area purely due to fear would be shortsighted.” Jordan, the junior studying at Oxford, expressed a similar sentiment, citing the color-coded terrorism threat advisory scale — an alert system for travelers post- 9/11 through Homeland Security. The different levels, beginning with green, which signifies a low threat, and ending with red, indicating a severe threat, trigger specific actions by federal agencies and state and local governments, and impact the security measures at some airports and other public facilities. “It seems like for a year or more the risk color was orange,” Jordan recalled. “You cannot just live in constant fear.” When a real emergency hits, Reuter said CGIS has various measures in place to reach out to students and reassure families. The department has 10 emergency responders available to attend to the 24/7 emergency phone line. It also requires students, staff and faculty abroad to put location and contact data into their international travel registry. When circumstances become dangerous in a particular region, Reuter and her team hop online. “I start contacting them via email, cell phone, Facebook, WhatsApp, however we can get a response,” Reuter said. Due to the large numbers of students within LSA, Reuter said it is the only college with a position like hers. Through the Office of the Provost, another senior international health adviser is in place. “We have partners on the ground throughout the world that provide logistical support for our programs,” Jordan said. “They have policies where once the students have all checked in with them, they’ll notify us. And I think that alleviates a lot of parents’ fears.” Reuter also stressed the importance of registering side trips — any supplementary travel during a study abroad — through MCompass. “I don’t care if you’re on a side trip in Amsterdam or drunk on a beach in Mexico, my goal is to make sure you’re safe,” she said.

University doing that.” Ng also said part of the event’s success was owed to the quality of the instrument, adding that she hopes to continue this memorial on Sept. 11 in years to come. “These English bells, cast in 1935 in Loughborough, England have a very deep, resonant and mournful sound that’s perfect for memorial repertoire, I think,” she said. “It works just so well here.”

song. “These lyrics are fairly open-ended as well, so we look forward to seeing all of the different submissions we’ll receive, and all the creativity that the University of Michigan tends to foster,” Kiessling said. Kuster echoed his sentiments. “Because our lyrics will come from U-M-affiliated writers, we also expect we’ll be moved by something beautifully and brilliantly unexpected,” she said.

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SEPTEMBER From Page 1A paint a picture of Americans rallying around each other, concerned and even distrustful of some groups of foreigners,” the report says. Communications Prof. Michael Traugott and Political Science Prof. Ted Brader, researchers of this study, could not be reached for comment on the report. LSA junior Grant Strobl, chairman of the University’s chapter of Young Americans for Freedom, helped stake 2,977 flags on the Diag as part of the 9/11: Never Forget Project to remember the lives lost during the attacks. He said he thought it was important to continue to recognize the impact 9/11 had. “The freshmen coming to the University of Michigan weren’t even in kindergarten when 9/11 happened, so it’s important that we remember and remind students how vulnerable our country was on that day and the fact that our way of life is still at risk,” Strobl said. Vulnerability was another common facet of public opinion after 9/11 — the ISR survey also found that many Americans suffered a loss of personal safety and security. The survey report stated that about half of its respondents said their personal sense of safety and security was reduced “a great deal” or “a good amount.”

FLAGS From Page 3A to promoting the ideas of free enterprise, limited government and a strong national defense. Stanchina said his group’s objectives highlight the importance of commemorating 9/11. “The ideas that we like to bring to campus, the speakers and the topics we like to embrace and have spoken about, those are the reasons that the attack occurred,” he

Frost recalled having to complete extensive safety drills in her New York school following the attacks, such as practicing getting underneath the desk or rushing to the school gym. Arab and Muslim Americans have also been at a higher risk of hate crimes since the attacks, according to the FBI Hate Crimes Statistics reports, which note anti-Islamic hate crimes have increased from less than 2 percent in 2000 to more than 16 percent in 2014. Evelyn Alsultany, director of Arab and Muslim American Studies, who teaches the course “Why Do They Hate Us: Perspectives on 9/11,” wrote in an email interview that political responses to the attacks — such as U.S. involvement in the Iraq War — led to an increase in anti-Arab and anti-Muslim sentiments following the attacks, which continue to exist to this day. “Saying that the cause of terror is Islam is simplistic and inaccurate,” Alsultany wrote. “That is not to say that Islam has nothing to do with it when these are self proclaimed Muslims in the case of ISIS and al-Qaeda, but that it is not the origin or cause of terrorism. If it were, then 1.6 billion Muslims could be involved in terrorism, instead of a small fraction.” In the past year, Muslimand Arab-American students at the University have gathered to participate in a speakout regarding Islamophobic remarks, and feeling targeted

on campus. One recent example includes chalkings on the Diag last March stating remarks such as “Stop Islam,” prompting a statement from University President Mark Schlissel calling for a campus-wide need to respect all students. “What Islamophobia reveals is an inability to understand that the 1.6 billion Muslims of the world are people like any other people — consisting of a range of experiences and characteristics,” Alsultany wrote. History Lecturer Jonathan Marwil said.the attacks have a wide array of consequences, from health impacts for those who could have breathed in the debris or dust from the site, to changes in political and military relationships with different nations, to broader cultural implications in American music and literature. “The consequences internationally have so far been huge, considerable,” Marwil said. “And there’s no evidence to suggest that those consequences are going to diminish in the foreseeable future.” Despite having experienced the attacks firsthand, Frost said said she finds herself forgetting more and more of what happened on Sept. 11 as the years go by, though she hopes for more remembrance events to keep the significance prominent. “Our national security was completely robbed from us, and I think that affects all citizens still,” Frost said.

said. “We feel a special duty to commemorate.” Captain Chris Dennis, professor of Naval Science and Commanding Officer of the Navy Officer Education Program, said the events from 9/11 affected not only the United States but also the rest of the world, and the act of remembering and reflecting upon it should unite people across the globe. “Everybody’s heart broke and there was an outpouring of love and support for the United States, and I think really for

humanity,” he said. “That for me is what is special about 9/11. That spirit of togetherness and suffering together and reclaiming humanity together.” Dennis also said the simplicity of Sunday’s commemoration is the most powerful agent for getting people to reflect on the tragedy. “It’s fairly understated,” he said. “I hope people stop and remember the vulnerability of life and redouble their efforts to work together with one another.”

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Michigan takes care of business, beats UCF 51-14 to win second straight By MAX BULTMAN Managing Sports Editor

It was a resounding win, a 37-point drubbing that covered the spread and left no doubt as to who was the better team. It just wasn’t as flawless as the week before. Coming off a 63-3 blowout of Hawaii in its season opener, the No. 5 Michigan football team (2-0) was never in any danger against Central Florida (1-1) on Saturday. The Wolverines won 51-14, and after Michigan jumped out to a 31-0 lead, the Knights never came within 24. But it was hardly perfect. UCF racked up 275 rushing yards, capitalizing on a handful of long runs to show the Michigan run defense it was not impenetrable. Knights running back Adrian

Killins had only one rush in the game, but he took it 87 yards to the end zone. Quarterback Justin Holman broke off a pair of long runs before leaving the game with an apparent injury before halftime, and his backup, Nick Patti, held his own too. Perhaps Michigan coach Jim Harbaugh said it best, talking about his team’s offensive and defensive lines. “I wouldn’t call it dominating,” he said. “Took care of business.” The offensive line gave up eight tackles for loss, and the running game struggled to find a rhythm, finishing with 119 yards. But, as Harbaugh pointed out, that was largely due to UCF’s apparent emphasis on stopping the run. And that opened up the passing game. Redshirt sophomore quarterback Wilton Speight was strong again, completing 25 of 37 passes for 312 yards and four touchdowns, two of which went to senior tight end Jake Butt. Butt’s second score gave him three for the season, matching his total from all of last season, to go with his 86 yards on the day.

Michigan 51, UCF 14

Fifth-year senior wide receiver Amara Darboh was on the receiving end of Speight’s other two touchdowns. Redshirt junior fullback Khalid Hill tacked on a pair of scores on the ground, giving the converted tight end a team-high three for the season. Asked what he would have thought about that fact a couple years ago, Hill said he wouldn’t believe it. “This is a great feeling,” he said. “It’s a great accomplishment, but I just want to keep getting better and scoring more touchdowns.” Hill also caught a pass, one of 10 different Wolverines to do so Saturday. Butt led the team with seven catches, and Darboh broke the 100-yard mark with 111. Darboh made his first catch on a 45-yard ball from Speight, part of a more prominent deeppassing game Saturday, to go up 21-0 in the first quarter. His other touchdown came on a fourthquarter crossing route, which he took 30 yards to the end zone to cap the scoring. But for as solid as Speight looked See UCF, Page 2B

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Rashan Gary playing up to hype in young career Nation’s top 2016 recruit steps in at defensive end, earns first career sack By JAKE LOURIM Managing Sports Editor

Chris Wormley had not yet started his answer about Rashan Gary when Gary appeared in the doorway to Wormley’s left. The two defensive ends had just helped the Michigan football team rout Central Florida, 51-14, and Wormley, a fifth-year senior captain, was asked about one of his top mentees. Almost on cue, Gary had just walked in on Wormley and redshirt sophomore quarterback

Wilton Speight’s postgame press conference to join them. “I mean, look at him over there,” Wormley said. “He’s a freshman. He’s, what, 18 years old? Six-(foot)five, (287 lbs.). Unbelievable pass rusher. Quick off the ball. Learns the defense really well. He’s a fast learner. You put all those together as a freshman, it’s something special. He’s a good kid. He plays hard, he plays fast and he just wants to win.” Then, Gary walked up to the podium to sit beside Speight and Wormley, forcing two of the most important players on the team to scoot over. “Oh, boy,” Speight said. “Lot of meat.” There was plenty of room for Gary in the camera shot Saturday, and the true freshman proved there will be plenty of room for

HARBAUGH’S PICK n Wilton Speight has earned the loyalty of his head coach. SportsMonday Column, Page 2B

him on Michigan’s defensive line this year. If Gary inched onto the stage last week against Hawaii, making three tackles in a low-key blowout win, then Saturday may have been his breakout game. Playing increased snaps, Gary tied for second on the team with six tackles, led the Wolverines with 2.5 tackles for loss and added an assist on a sack, ending a bothersome drought of … one week. “I was itching for a sack this week, because I didn’t get one last week and I felt like I owed the D-line,” Gary said. “Because I

missed one (against) Hawaii, and I’m like, ‘I’m not going to miss any opportunity I get from now on.’ ” The sack came early in the second quarter, when Gary and redshirt junior linebacker Ben Gedeon teamed up to smother UCF quarterback Justin Holman at his own two-yard line. The Knights punted three plays later, and Michigan made it 31-0 three plays after that. Gary’s chance came as a consequence of early-season injuries. Senior defensive end Taco Charlton and redshirt sophomore tackle Bryan Mone both missed

“He plays hard, he plays fast and he just wants to win.”

Saturday’s game with injuries. Gary didn’t start — redshirt sophomore Chase Winovich did instead — but he played most of the snaps, as Michigan needed him to. No other defensive end saw significant action, and Central Florida, in its first year running a new up-tempo offense, ran one play every 22.6 seconds of game time. Gary said he felt more comfortable than last weekend — in part thanks to the help of Wormley and Charlton, one of whom anchored the line, the other of whom Gary helped replace. The Wolverines swap defensive linemen constantly during games, and Gary is leaving enough of an impression with the coaches to keep his name in that rotation. For head coach Jim Harbaugh, a man who shows an almost

BIG-PLAY THREAT n Michigan’s deep passing game had a breakout day, plus more takeaways. Page 3B

religious devotion to the tenacity required of football players, few compliments mean more than calling a player tough. Saturday, when asked about Gary, that was one of the first words out of the coach’s mouth. At one point during the first week of practice, Harbaugh recalled, Gary dislocated his finger and went in for an X-ray. “The trainer was like, ‘Man, what is that?’ or something to that effect,” Harbaugh said. “That’s football,” he recalled Gary saying, and Gary returned to the field. Another time, Gary cramped up during practice, so Harbaugh took him out, only to find the youngster back on the field a halfdozen plays later. “He’s really good like that,” See GARY, Page 2B

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The perks of being Jim Harbaugh’s quarterback J im Harbaugh won his 70th game out of 100 as a college head football coach on Saturday, but he was once 1-3. And the loss that put him at 1-3 came on Sept. 25, 2004, when his San Diego team lost to Princeton, 24-17. One of JAKE the crushing LOURIM blows in that game was a Todd Mortensen interception with 3:45 to play. Mortensen, a senior transfer from Brigham Young, went to the sideline, and Harbaugh’s reaction — like everything else about Michigan’s second-year head coach — was familiar. “I could tell he was disappointed, because he’s competitive, and he wants to win as much or more than anyone. But I didn’t get chewed out in the moment,” Mortensen said. “… I don’t even remember what he said, because his reaction was so supportive, it didn’t make a lasting impression on me.” What Mortensen does recall is what happened the next day in San Diego’s film session. Harbaugh showed his quarterback the film. He taught him how to avoid the mistake in the future. And most importantly, he stuck with his guy during the low point in the season. Mortensen didn’t make any glaring mistakes the rest of the year, the offense averaged 44 points in the last eight games and the Toreros finished 7-1. “From that game on, I never had a game where I felt like I was the reason we didn’t win the game,” Mortensen said. When Mortensen visited Ann Arbor last year for the Michigan-

BYU game, he introduced himself to then-Michigan quarterback Jake Rudock, who had a similar renaissance in the second half of last year, breaking out after a few rough games. Last weekend, redshirt sophomore Wilton Speight entered the exclusive fraternity of Harbaugh’s starting quarterbacks. That club comes with a number of perks, including the mentorship of a coach who once starred at the position himself and has strong ties to the NFL. But there’s another advantage to being Harbaugh’s quarterback, and it may be the most important one: complete, undying loyalty. Of the 128 Football Bowl Subdivision teams, 17 played multiple quarterbacks in their season opener (for reasons other than injuries and blowouts). They weren’t insignificant names, either: Alabama’s Nick Saban, Notre Dame’s Brian Kelly and Texas’ Charlie Strong all hadn’t picked a definitive starter at the most important position in sports. Needless to say, Harbaugh was not like them. He went with Speight after an eight-month competition — though he didn’t disclose it until kickoff — and will now almost certainly stick with Speight for the rest of the season, barring injury. In fact, in his years in college, Harbaugh has almost never allowed a quarterback controversy. This is his ninth year as a college head coach. Only once has he had two quarterbacks throw more than 25 passes each in a season. His backups play only due to injuries or in garbage time. He picks his guy and rolls with him. And however he feels about his team, however his team fares, he is completely unwavering in his support of the starting quarterback.

UCF From Page 1B through the air, the Wolverines’ rushing offense left something to be desired. Freshman wide receiver Eddie McDoom, freshman running back Chris Evans and senior running back De’Veon Smith all had their moments, but by and large, UCF seemed to have the right game plan against Michigan’s run game. “You’ve gotta understand, in this game, you’re gonna always have mistakes, no matter what,” Hill said. “Our defense made some mistakes, but they also corrected those mistakes. Our offense made mistakes, but we also corrected our mistakes. We didn’t just keep doing it over and over.” And with the score as lopsided as it was, it’s hard to argue. Fifth-year senior Kenny Allen made three field goals, tying a career high, and Michigan altered two UCF punts and two kicks, one of which was an outright block. Michigan put in its backup quarterback, redshirt junior John O’Korn, with 6:07 remaining, and it wore down the clock still up by a comfortable 37. The Wolverines did what they were expected to. They took care of business.

Start with last season, when Harbaugh gave graduate transfer Jake Rudock the nod over thenredshirt sophomore Shane Morris. Through three games, Michigan was 2-1 and Rudock had thrown for fewer than 200 yards per game and three touchdowns against just five interceptions. The following Monday, Harbaugh faced a question about where Rudock could improve, which he took as an insinuation of doubt at the position. “Just, the question, to me — just the way you started the question off after the game, it’s like questions to divide and compare,” Harbaugh said. “… I sense sometimes the questions to compare and be divisive, so I’m quick to turn those off.” Asked a follow-up, Harbaugh defended Rudock again: “To be clear, Jake Rudock’s the best quarterback. Not by a small margin. He’s our best quarterback. … I feel it’s divisive when you just pull out one name to just keep hammering; there, there, so hope that’s clear. He’s our best quarterback.” As much as Rudock struggled in the first third of the season, Harbaugh wasn’t having any criticism, inquisition or even the slightest hint of an ambiguity at quarterback. And his faith paid off, as Rudock polished off one of the best single seasons for a quarterback in Michigan history, leading the Wolverines to a 10-3 season. That has been Harbaugh’s track record throughout his career. In 2004 at San Diego, his first head coaching job, Harbaugh chose Mortensen, who started all season. When

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Wilton Speight (center) can rest assured that Jim Harbaugh (right) will stand by him during tough times.

Mortensen left, his old backup, Josh Johnson, took over for 2005 and 2006. The 2007 season was the only one of Harbaugh’s career with even a little ambiguity. That was when Harbaugh inherited a struggling program at Stanford and waffled between T.C. Ostrander (who started the first four games and the last one) and Tavita Pritchard (who got the nod in between). In 2008, Harbaugh settled on Pritchard, and in 2009, he started a young redshirt freshman named Andrew Luck.

“From that game on, I never ... felt like I was the reason we didn’t win.”

the sideline, where Harbaugh had an unusual reaction. “He just grabbed me and hugged me and was kind of laughing and was like, ‘Don’t worry, we’ll get it next drive. Don’t sweat about that,’ ” Speight recalled. Laughing? This is a man who doesn’t take a play off in pickup basketball games. And here’s his hand-picked starting quarterback giving the ball away on the first play of the first game, and Harbaugh laughs? It sounds crazy, but it works. Speight will make more mistakes the rest of the season, but in Harbaugh, he has a quarterback’s most loyal ally. Lourim can be reached at jlourim@umich.edu and on Twitter @jakelourim.

Chase Winovich finds a home

hase Winovich has been a member of the Michigan football team for three seasons, worn three jersey numbers and worked at three different positions, JACOB and up until last GASE Saturday, he had almost nothing to show for it. For most of his first two years as a Wolverine, the three-star recruit from Jefferson Hills, Pa., was a player without a role, moving from position group to position group without his coaching staff being able to find him a suitable fit. Winovich entered as a linebacker, redshirted his first season under then-Michigan coach Brady Hoke and moved to tight end under new coach Jim Harbaugh last year. He spent

most of his time playing on the scout team, seeing game action just six times. But at the end of last season, with his team preparing for the Citrus Bowl against Florida, Winovich got in on some plays at defensive end during a scrimmage — despite not even knowing the scheme or the defense — and permanently changed the path of his career. For the few plays he was on the field, Winovich immediately caught the eye of the coaching staff — later, he said, he found out that the entire defensive staff gathered in a postscrimmage film session to watch one play that he made. Right then, it was decided: Winovich would be moving to defensive end. “I think they believed in me from the beginning,” Winovich said, “and I believed in myself.” *** Saturday, Winovich stood in the Crisler Center media room, surrounded by reporters after

making the first start of his college career. After a strong spring for Winovich and an injury to senior defensive end Taco Charlton last week, Winovich learned earlier this week that he had been chosen to take Charlton’s place in the lineup against Central Florida. He was so excited that he could barely sleep last night, and he posted the news on Twitter, vowing to “represent the best university in the world” with his first start. And impress Winovich did, picking up five tackles and his first career sack, knocking the ball out of UCF quarterback Justin Holman’s hands in the process. After the game, with most of his family standing just a few feet away in the media room,

Winovich’s voice nearly cracked as he attempted to express the emotion he was feeling. “I’m not gonna lie and say that I was perfect out there, because nobody was,” he said. “But I felt like I left it all out there. And this one … this one today was for my family. They always believe in me. … Just to have the opportunity to go out there — people can’t take that away from me. There’s not a lot of things that really tug at my heartstrings, but that’s one of them.” Winovich isn’t the only player who has thrived thanks to Harbaugh’s willingness to move players around the field. Redshirt junior fullback Khalid Hill played tight end last year but now has three touchdowns in two games. Junior center Mason Cole has transitioned seamlessly from being a starting left tackle. But Hill and Cole were both experienced players who likely would have found playing time anyway — Winovich’s metamorphosis is harder to understand. How exactly did he do it? How could a player who had little to no success for two years suddenly save his career at a third position? If you ask him, he’ll cite an unexpected source of inspiration. “(My brother) sent me this quote by Bruce Lee,” Winovich said. “He talks about water. ‘Water can flow, water can crash. If you put water in a bottle, it becomes the bottle. If you put water in a cup, it becomes the cup.’ “Be shapeless — that was the moral of the story. Whatever mold they tried to put on me, I tried to learn. I’m not gonna lie, it’s tough. Sometimes, (if ) you’ve been playing football your whole life, you get set in your own ways and how you do

“I think they believed in me from the beginning.”

GARY From Page 1B Harbaugh said. “Real football player. Doing a great job.” Expectations have always been high for Gary, the top-ranked recruit in the nation last year, from the February day he committed during Michigan’s “Signing of the Stars” ceremony to the April night he came out to a loud ovation from fans at the Spring Game. Tuesday, after his first day of classes, Gary said he tries to shy away from that attention whenever possible. “I try to stay low, but yeah, a couple people know me and they’ll say hi, take pictures,” Gary said. “But besides that, you see me with a hoodie on.” Asked if that works, Gary said, “Sometimes. But I’m 6-foot-5, so it don’t always work.” At this rate, it’s going to get harder every week.

Of Harbaugh’s all-time college starters, Johnson, Luck and Rudock — that’s half of them if you’re counting at home — are still in the NFL. Now, Speight is the latest of Harbaugh’s pupils with that opportunity. In two starts, the results have been positive, albeit against lesser competition: Speight is 35-for-50 for 457 yards with seven touchdowns and an interception. But even during Speight’s costly mistakes — or mistake, singular, rather — Harbaugh has stood by him all the way, as usual. The blip happened on the first offensive snap of the season opener. Speight rolled out to the right and tossed the ball into the waiting arms of Hawaii’s Damien Packer. Then Speight’s momentum carried him over to

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Redshirt sophomore Chase Winovich has settled in at defensive end, his third position in three years at Michigan.

stuff and how you think stuff works, and you go in there and you get absolutely torn apart by Coach Mattison for doing it that way. You reevaluate your life and everything you’ve gotta do — which needs to happen — and you go out there the next day and say, ‘Well, I’m gonna go out there today and do it the right way.’ … I felt like I improved my game a lot of ways and was shapeless.” After the immediate emotion wore off following the game, Winovich transformed into an ecstatic ball of energy, quoting everyone from UFC fighters Conor McGregor and Nate Diaz (on his fighting mentality) to his father, Peter (comparing settling in at his new position to his dad coming home from work and shouting, “Honey, I’m home! Put the steaks on!”) The last quote may have been the most appropriate — Winovich sure seems at home now. Instead of putting in long hours on the scout team or trying his best to provide depth on offense, he can relax and do what he’s most comfortable doing. “It just lets me get out there and play,” Winovich said. “Sometimes you don’t choose your passion — your passion chooses you.” After the “shapeless” journeyman was finally done answering questions, reporters parted and left behind one of the only people in the room who looked happier than Winovich — his father. Without skipping a beat, Winovich walked up to him and wrapped him in a giant bear hug. The Winovich family left the room together and ducked through a side door that opened up into the bowels of Crisler Center, Peter Winovich still basking in the culmination of his son’s journey. “I always wanted to see what the furnace room looked like,” he said. Gase can be reached at jgase@umich.edu and on Twitter @JacobGase.

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Five things we learned: Wolverines 51, UCF 14 By MAX BULTMAN Managing Sports Editor

The Michigan football team rolled to another blowout victory Saturday, trouncing Central Florida, 51-14. And after our first week of classes, we at the Daily were in the mood to do some more learning in the press box. So that’s what we did. Here are five things we learned from this weekend. 1. Beware the big play. Of the 275 rushing yards Michigan allowed Saturday, 212 of those yards came on five plays. That doesn’t make the number any less significant — Michigan has much better teams to play this season that would happily take five big plays — but it does give it a different meaning. Had the Wolverines given up 275 rushing yards by getting consistently pounded for 8-10 yards, that would be a sign of systemic problems on the defense. Instead, the stat can be chalked up to either a handful of great offensive plays, or defensive lapses. UCF broke the Michigan contain more than defensive coordinator Don Brown probably would have liked, and against quarterbacks like Ohio State’s JT Barrett, that could be an issue. But there’s a lot of football to be played between now and then, and there’s no reason to believe Michigan can’t shore up some of its big-play faults. Still, it’s a dent in the Wolverines’ armor, and one they would be wise to close up quickly. 2. The linebackers may be better than we thought. When Michigan’s entire starting linebacker corps graduated after last season, many

were (justifiably) concerned with their replacements. But through two games, the group has answered its doubters. Redshirt junior linebacker Mike McCray was the Big Ten Defensive Player of the Week in Week 1, and he had another strong game against the Knights with six tackles, one and a half for loss, and a forced fumble. Senior Ben Gedeon combined with freshman defensive end Rashan Gary for a 12-yard sack, and Jabrill Peppers continues to be Jabrill Peppers. Against Hawaii and UCF, that bunch was solid. Soon, though, they will go up against stronger competition — possibly as soon as this week but certainly by the start of the October. McCray, Gedeon and Peppers will be judged by how they play in those games, not the ones Michigan wins by 37. But for now, there’s not much to complain about. That’s a good start. 3. Special teams will be OK without John Baxter. Four altered kicks alone make a good special teams day. Add in the fact that Jabrill Peppers nearly returned another punt for a touchdown and that the Wolverines started five drives in UCF territory, and it becomes a great one. After special teams coordinator John Baxter departed for Southern California this offseason, it was fair to wonder whether Michigan’s special teams — much improved last season — would regress. Saturday should quell some of those concerns. Tyree Kinnel tipped two punts, and Chris Wormley got his hands on a pair of field goals, in what was the best attacking day the Wolverines’ special teams have had in some time.

Only one of the kicks went down as an official block — Wormley’s first, in the first quarter — but they all contributed to Michigan’s dominance in the third phase. The Wolverines won’t be able to do it each week, but the more fear they can put in kickers and punters, the better off they’ll be. 4. Deep passes are a go. It took Jake Rudock more than half of last season to figure out the deep passing game with his receivers. Once he found his touch, Rudock turned in one of the best quarterback seasons in recent school history, due in large part to his success throwing downfield. Two weeks into 2016, redshirt junior quarterback Wilton Speight seems to have already found that stroke. Speight linked up for big gains with each of his top three targets — senior tight end Jake Butt and fifth-year senior receivers Amara Darboh and Jehu Chesson — including a 45-yard touchdown to Darboh in the first quarter. Getting the deep ball to work consistently would be huge for the Wolverines, who have arguably the most receiving depth of anyone in the Big Ten. 5. Bold Prediction: Khalid Hill gets two more touchdowns next week. A year ago, predicting Hill to get any rushing touchdown would be bold. Now, he has more on the season than any other Wolverine. Since his conversion from tight end, Hill has shown high value in short-yardage situations. That value will be highlighted against a Colorado team that should be significantly better than either team Michigan has faced thus far. The Wolverines will score, but they’ll have to work for it, and that’s when fullbacks make their name.

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Greg Ryan used an adjustment to spark the Michigan women’s soccer team in its 4-0 win over UC Riverside.

‘M’ routs UC Riverside By BRAD WHIPPLE Daily Sports Editor

At halftime of Friday’s match against UC Riverside, Michigan women’s soccer coach Greg Ryan recognized his team’s UC RIVERSIDE 0 4 MICHIGAN offensive system wasn’t matching up with the Highlanders. He felt his team wasn’t playing aggressively enough, and made the proper adjustment heading into the final half. For the last 45 minutes, the adjustment paid off. In the 59th minute, Abby Kastroll cradled the ball on the flank, and the sophomore midfielder used her unmatched speed to take the ball along the right side. With enough space to create a scoring opportunity, she crossed the ball in front of the mouth of the goal — past three defenders — to sophomore forward Reilly Martin, who kicked the ball through the legs of goalkeeper Alanna Guzman. There were plenty more goals to come for the Wolverines (4-11) in their 4-0 shutout of UC Riverside at U-M Soccer Stadium. In Michigan’s second straight shutout, the game boiled down to amplified offensive pressure,

playing the ball forward and keeping the Highlanders on their heels in the second half. “(In the) first half, UC Riverside came out really strong,” Kastroll said. “We came in the second half, changed our tactics and just went at them and it ended up working out for us. We realized that goalscoring opportunities weren’t just going to come, we had to work for them.” With one goal on the scoreboard, it took until the 81st minute for the second — the first of a three-goal flurry that came in the final 10 minutes of regulation. After the ball flew over her head and began rolling toward the goal, Kastroll sprinted onto it, put one touch on the ball and rocketed it into the net from 18 yards out. Whether she was weaving in and out of defenders, winning loose balls or challenging the goalkeeper on every potential goal-scoring opportunity, Kastroll made her presence felt all over the field, all night. It was only a matter of time until one of her shots fell. “I like just to go hard because it’s just pretty motivating for the team,” Kastroll said. “Some people react to someone yelling at them (to) do better or encouraging them, I just like to go into a tackle to get the team going.” Four minutes later, senior

midfielder Jessica Heifetz scored her first goal of the season off a corner kick, when she launched the ball through the legs of Guzman off a short bounce. Soon after, junior midfielder Rubina Veerakone served the ball into the box, and freshman forward Grace Salvino got a piece of it before it went in for her first career goal. In the second half, UC Riverside rarely made it past midfield, and Michigan’s defense limited the Highlanders to only one shot — three for the game. With a fivewoman back line captained by redshirt sophomore goalkeeper Sarah Jackson, the Wolverines outmatched and outnumbered their opponent. “I think we just put them on their back foot with all the pressure,” Ryan said. “No goals against Ole Miss, no goals against Notre Dame, no goals again tonight. Defensively they’re doing a great job. ” Friday’s match marked the end of Michigan’s non-conference slate, which means the Wolverines are inching even closer to their primary goal of winning a Big Ten championship. But Michigan is not letting its guard down. “We’re definitely not content going into the Big Ten play,” Kastroll said. “We’re hungry for more.”

September 12, 2016 — 3B

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