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LSA freshman Emily Levy speaks at the Students for a Democratic Society “No To Trump” rally on the Diag Friday.
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150 gather Friday to rally against institutional racism, war MATT HARMON Daily Staff Reporter
About 150 students and Ann Arbor residents gathered on the Diag Friday night to protest President-elect Donald Trump’s agenda, calling for institutional reform nationwide.
The demonstration was sponsored by the University of Michigan’s Students for a Democratic Society chapter. LSA freshman Liam Knight, who brought the chapter back to the University after the original chapter died out, said while the Facebook event specifically targeted Trump, the main goal of the protest was
to fight larger institutions of discrimination and corruption in America. “What we want to emphasize is that the problem is much larger than just one person,” he said. “There are systems and structures of power that allowed someone like Donald Trump to get elected and that is what we have to oppose. We want
to make it very clear that the only way you can do that is by getting organized and protesting.” In a list of demands on the event page, speakers from SDS criticized war, racism, gender identity discrimination and corruption from both sides of the political spectrum. Chants during the event See PROTEST, Page 3A
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Over the past few weeks, protests calling for action against discrimination on campus and nationwide have swept the University, drawing thousands. More than 100 times that number — about 110,000 spectators — watched the football team beat Indiana this weekend at The Big House, a place that can seem a world away from student activity on campus with its cameras and fanfare. This football season, however, student-athletes have bridged the gap on a number of issues, using their platform to call attention to social issues like racism and police brutality
through demonstrations of their own. University football players and cheerleaders have followed in the footsteps of San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick, who began kneeling during the national anthem in late August in protest of racism against Black Americans. Michigan student-athletes have raised fists or taken a knee during the national anthem in nearly every game this year, beginning with the Sept. 24 Big Ten conference home opener against Penn State. National outlets from ESPN to ABC covered the players’ initial actions and Michigan coach Jim Harbaugh’s subsequent remarks. Though it’s been two See BIG HOUSE, Page 3A
CEO of Shinola dicusses company’s Michigan Open mic pulls away successes, relationship with Detroit features
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Tom Lewand, a University alum and CEO of Shinola, a Detroit-based company, lectured Friday to an audience of about 300 students and faculty at the University of Michigan about his experiences working in Detroit. The event, held in Rackham Auditorium, was hosted by Phi Chi Theta, a business fraternity at the University. Lewand said Detroit has played an integral role in his life and in the crafting of Shinola. He also spoke about his experiences nurturing a startup into a successful brand and the knowledge he gained from 20 years in the executive office of the Detroit Lions, saying even after he was fired by the Lions after several disappointing seasons, he still wanted to stay in Detroit. “We sensed, for the first time in my lifetime, a tremendous energy, a tremendous opportunity and just a tremendous activity in our community,” Lewand said. Lewand was hired by Shinola in June 2016. He emphasized that skills he learned while in sports management have been largely transferrable to Shinola. “We had to have a great product first, and then we had to give people a great experience and that’s the same thing at Shinola,” Lewand said, joking that a great product wasn’t always commonplace while he was with the Lions.
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After a sloppy, snowy start that saw both Michigan and Indiana punt on their first three drives and the Hoosiers take a 7-3 lead into halftime, the 3rd-ranked Michigan football team was on upset alert for the second consecutive week. It was a shaky debut for redshirt junior quarterback John O’Korn — who made his first start for the Wolverines in place of the injured Wilton Speight — but luckily for Michigan, it had another star to throw its weight behind. Senior running back De’Veon Smith broke the game open with a career-high 158 yards and two huge touchdown runs from 34 and 39 yards out in the third quarter, and the Wolverines (7-1 Big Ten, 10-1 overall) pulled away with a 20-10 victory as snow covered the field at Michigan Stadium. “It’s a great feeling when you win a football game,” said Michigan coach Jim Harbaugh. “Two opposing wills against each other — you have to beat that See FOOTBALL, Page 3A
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He also described what it was like to walk through the floor of the factory for the first time and listen to employees’ stories prior to being at Shinola. “It’s the idea of doing well by doing good,” Lewand said, speaking to how the stories have inspired him. Shinola has based their reputation on the long-standing narrative of manufacturing in Detroit, though they’ve faced
criticism becasue parts for their products are largely not actually made there. This June, the Federal Trade Commission told Shinola to stop their slogan campaign that used phrases such as “Where American is Made,” noting that nearly 100 percent of the company’s watch materials are made overseas. In response, Shinola added the phrase “Swiss and Imported Parts” underneath the slogan
“Built in Detroit” on their watches. In his remarks, Lewand emphasized his belief that Shinola’s underlying goal is to play a role in the economic development of Detroit by creating jobs and other opportunities in the community. Business sophomore Megan Graham, who attended the event, echoed his sentiment, saying she See SHINOLA, Page 3A
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Sunday’s “With All That I Am” open mic night for poets, storytellers and musicians aimed to provide University of Michigan students a space to perform and raise awareness about diversity and inclusion on campus. Music, Theatre & Dance freshman Mason Reeves performed four original poems. He said the recent political climate in the wake of Presidentelect Donald Trump’s win encouraged him to produce more of his own works. “I’ve been inspired a lot to create, and I think the only way for me to get better at creating to the point where I can get people to listen is to at least try it out and keep performing,” he said. Music, Theatre & Dance freshman Liam Allen said he thought this was an important venue for students to come together. “I think a lot of the time people need an outlet, a space to feel that they are able to express themselves and have it be OK,” he said. See OPEN MIC, Page 2A
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OPEN MIC From Page 1A Allen performed an original song with his own guitar accompaniment. “When you can look into the eyes of the person performing, it’s a different way you can connect to it — it’s much more intimate,” he said. The event was hosted by MOSAIC: Intercultural Performance Ensemble, a student organization dedicated to creating live art to increase diversity and representation on campus. Music, Theatre & Dance senior Aline Mayagoitia, the creative director of MOSAIC, said the event was an opportunity for students to express their thoughts on important issues in a way that is not normally facilitated at the University. “We are a presenting organization, so we usually couple with student theater or other organizations to make pieces that have either a cast or creative team or a voice that is
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usually not represented in other organizations on campus,” she said. Mayagoitia said this was the first non-theater performance MOSAIC has hosted, with students presenting original works from poems to songs, as well as reenacting excerpts from plays and other performances they have been a part of. “Identity is so much more complicated than what our binary systems want us to believe it is, and I think a really good way to express complicated things is through art and through poetry, music and storytelling,” Mayagoitia said. “Today is about us, as artists, as poets, as people, expressing our own words.” During the event, Mayagoitia spoke about recent campus events, including student protests in the Ann Arbor community, saying this open mic night aimed to create a safe space for underrepresented students to speak up. “We think we’re understanding and we think we’re so open and yet, there are still crimes that are happening at our doorstep, and still a lot
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of hate that we need to combat with expressing ourselves and plainly saying who we are,” she said. “That’s where the title came from.” Elyakeem Avraham, a junior in LSA and Music, Theatre & Dance and the associate director MOSAIC, said he hoped the event would widen the lens and perception of audience members so they could leave with an open mind about different identities. “I really want them to be able to know that there are ways to articulate, understand and educate yourselves about other identities that people hold,” he said. The open mic included excerpts from “For Colored Girls,” a show directed by Avraham and set to be performed on Central Campus this February. “It’s the coming-of-age story about everybody’s personal identities and everything they hold within,” Avraham said. “A lot of times the media perpetrates or stereotypes people for a lot of things that can cascade over their whole ethnicity or race, religion or sexual orientation. With All That I Am is basically that personalization and humanization of people individually, and that’s what our community is hungry for and needs.” Reeves and Allen said these kind of events are particularly important for students today and they hope to continue working with MOSAIC to perform self-produced work and audition for larger campus productions. “I think that a lot of times when people are having casual conversation they can put up a blockage and there can be a kind of force field around them so you can’t intuitively see through them,” Avraham said. “But the interesting thing that a performance does is that it gives people that time capsule, that blank space to be a canvas and to create and allow people to really see their true colors. I think live performance has a way to interpret what we feel in actual life that we can’t say in everyday conversation because it isn’t in our casual dialogue to do so.”
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FOOTBALL From Page 1A other team and also the elements. Our team did both of those things today.” In the first half, the Wolverines’ offense stalled early and often, as the Hoosiers (3-5, 5-6) had little trouble getting to O’Korn in the pocket. O’Korn had a difficult time shedding tacklers, and he took three tackles for loss, including two sacks, in the half. Michigan went 0-for-7 on third down in the first frame, only managing a 28-yard field goal from Kenny Allen to get on the board before the Hoosiers answered with a 2-yard touchdown run by Camion Patrick before the break. O’Korn struggled to throw the ball on a cold, windy day, completing just 7 of 16 passes for 59 yards. He finally turned the tide of the game with his feet, though, pulling off a 30-yard scramble on 3rd-and-8 that set up Smith’s go-ahead touchdown in
BIG HOUSE From Page 1A months since athletes first began demonstrating in this way, at every game, the fists still go up, sometimes even without attention from the cameras. Priscilla Huddleston, an LSA junior and cheerleader, said she feels she cannot ignore the platform she has on the field during the national anthem. Leading three other teammates, Huddleston was the first student to take a knee and raise her fist. “It’s historically been the athlete’s position to empower their community,” she said. “It’s sparking conversations in classes. I only have a platform for four hours … I only matter in uniform, and I have to use that time and make it count. I have a block ‘M’ on and I’m not just supposed to wave a pompom and cheer you on. You can’t expect me to be silent. I didn’t understand how much of a platform I had until now.” Demonstrations at the University mirror similar actions by athletes at both the collegiate and professional level across the country. Huddleston recalled a discussion with All-American senior cornerback Jourdan Lewis — who, along with senior tight end Khalid Hill, outside linebackers senior Mike McCray and freshman Devin Bush and freshman inside linebacker Elysee Mbem-Bosse participated in the demonstration — before the Penn State game. She said she and Lewis noticed a feeling of hypocrisy during the national anthem, especially in the wake of a series of fatal police shootings of Black Americans. “Don’t sing this song, and a Black man just died. I haven’t sang (the anthem) since Ferguson,” she said, referring to the nonindictment of the police officer who fatally shot Michael Brown. “(Lewis) wasn’t sure if he wanted to do it at first, but then he and other players looked at the actual words of the national anthem, and did it because they didn’t feel comfortable with it. I did it because I didn’t feel comfortable with the actions of law enforcement. Jourdan and I both said, ‘You know what, this is disrespectful against our people.’ ” The University Athletic Department did not make players participating in the protest immediately available for comment, but in a press conference after the Penn State game, Lewis noted his longstanding frustration with racism in America not only in the recent
the third quarter. “I’m not real pleased with the way I threw the ball, but that’s part of battling the elements,” O’Korn said. “Gotta complete passes when opportunities present themselves. … Luckily, our run game and our O-line had my back today, and it doesn’t matter how we get the win as long as we get the win.” Indiana had more success in the passing game than the Wolverines, as quarterback Richard Lagow tallied 191 total yards. His 37-yard pass to Nick Westbrook in the third quarter that ended up being the longest completion of the game for either team. The Wolverines’ defense held the Hoosiers in check, though, tallying 11 tackles for loss — led by senior defensive end Taco Charlton’s 2.5 — and eight pass breakups. As a result, Indiana’s offense managed just a field goal. Michigan’s special teams made its mark as well. Fifth-year senior kicker/punter Kenny Allen gave the Wolverines a boost in the field-position battle with three punts of more than 50 yards.
climate following the election, but more generally throughout time. “It’s not just this week, it’s the whole mess,” he said. “Regardless of anything, I’m going to stand up for injustice. That wasn’t disrespecting anything. I love this University. I love this country, but things can get better.” Harbaugh, who originally opposed Kaepernick’s “method of action,” reversed his position at the same press conference. He later clarified, saying that he supports Kaepernick’s motivation, but not his approach. “Because I am the football coach doesn’t mean I can dictate to people what they believe,” he said. “I support our guys. I think this is something — it’s not going away, it’s going to keep happening.” Michigan cheerleading coach Pam St. John supported the protests from the start, facilitating team conversations about the actions and blocking some cameras to protect her athletes from backlash. The cheer team’s number of minority cheerleaders has grown in the last few years, and both St. John and students said this has contributed to a more inclusive environment. “I went to school here and came during the end of the Vietnam War during a time of civil unrest,” St. John said. “This is part of the culture that I believe is the University of Michigan. My first instinct is to protect my student athletes … my opinion is that that’s their right to do that as part of freedom of expression and freedom of speech. It’s my responsibility as an American to protect that.” “I’ve never felt tokenized because of my coach, and she protects me,” Huddleston said. “My teammates stopped and listened (about the protest).” In contrast to the football and cheerleading coaches, marching band directors released a policy on “student self-expression,” banning band members from engaging in demonstrations during performances. In an email statement, directors wrote the policy, dated Sept. 30, was a preemptive measure against student disruption. “Their work as a band is nuanced and coordinated — any personal expression would disrupt the band’s overall performance,” the statement reads. “Band members would be held accountable for displays of expression during a performance.” Neither marching band members nor directors were available for direct comment. University President Mark Schlissel’s 49-unit Diversity,
The coverage unit also came up big, as fifth-year senior tight end Michael Jocz and freshman safety Khaleke Hudson both blocked punts in Hoosier territory. Now, the focus will shift to next week’s matchup with No. 2 Ohio State in Columbus, with a Big Ten Championship Game berth and potential College Football Playoff appearance on the line for Michigan. Even with that daunting task on the horizon, Harbaugh is pleased with where his team stands, even despite Saturday’s early struggles and the Wolverines’ quarterback uncertainty. “Every week is a test, every game that you line up is a test,” Harbaugh said. “There’s gonna be a lot of tests in life. It comes in many forms and fashions. Our team playing a really good Indiana football team — that was a huge test for us today. Coming off a loss — that was a huge test for us. “Playing in big playoff-type games and responding, coming together as a team gives us a great feeling. I feel good about it.”
Equity and Inclusion strategic plan, released in October, includes a sub-plan created by the University Athletic Department focusing on minority recruitment, diversity and cultural sensitivity training for coaching and management staff and improving the literacy of student-athletes on the DEI objectives. St. John said student action this year demonstrated both the urgency and necessity of diversity education in athletics. “Staff and coaches were out in front of this with the DEI plan,” she said. “Any time awareness is brought, it fortifies the action.” Kaepernick’s original protest drew objections from many pundits and commentators accusing him of a lack of patriotism and of disrespecting the national anthem. While most criticism of University participants has been relegated to social media, teams have still reckoned with internal disagreements. In an interview, defensive end Ron Johnson, an LSA freshman, voiced personal disagreement with the fist raising, but emphasized the team’s overall support. “Players did it of their own will,” he said. “I want to show respect for people who fight for our country … I’ve been singing the national anthem all my life, and I just think there’s other ways of going about it. We haven’t talked about it as a full team, but every game they still keep doing it.” Huddleston pushed back against the idea that the demonstrations disrespect those who serve the country, recounting her experience kneeling before the Oct. 22 homecoming game against Illinois. “I started freaking out because the Navy was right in front of me, and I have family members in the military and I know how hard they work,” she said. “I jumped out of line and went up to someone in uniform and cleared it with her, and made sure she knew it was not me trying to disrespect her and her sacrifice for her country. I heard her talking to her coworkers about it after and they were saying ‘No, that’s extremely brave of her.’ It shouldn’t be that brave to protest something you believe in. People in the Navy almost die, and for one of them to say that, we need to reevaluate how we feel about our First Amendment rights.” Student-athletes have also been invoked in other protests on campus this year, with student organizers calling out the assumption that Black male students are athletes, with a group at a September protest saying, “You cheer us on the football field... we are more than your money.”
included rhythmic call-andrepeats such as “All these racist politicians we don’t need em” and “When Muslims are under attack, what do we do?” with the crowd responding “Stand up, fight back.” In attendance was the first SDS president, University alum Alan Haber, who graduated in 1965. In speaking to the crowd, Haber, a self-proclaimed “senior for a Democratic society,” emphasized that both the Democrat and Republican parties in this country support the act of war and students must stand together to fight both issues and individuals. “Don’t be heartbroken that we don’t have Mrs. Clinton as our president,” Haber said. “This woman, very good on some things, is basically an advocate for the war system. Politics in this country has not gotten itself out of this imperial mode … Trump isn’t changing that and Hillary wouldn’t have changed that. That’s for us to do.” During the event, recent campus crime alerts were cited as direct acts of racism by speakers and attendees. Last Friday, a woman was told she would be lit on fire if she did not remove her hijab while walking downtown. The next day, two men pushed a woman down a hill and yelled at her for being in America. LSA freshman Sonny Newman said the attacks on campus are part of a larger attitude of discrimination toward all minorities on campus,
SHINOLA From Page 1A supports such efforts to employ Detroit natives. “I intern for a company in Ann Arbor that actually employs women from Detroit and so I really resonated with the whole story about the startup in a city that is having a lot of problems,” she said. “I just really resonated with the background of Shinola and how that really contributes to the same work I’m doing now.” Since its inception in 2011, the compant made a name for itself as a luxury lifestyle brand, with products such as watches and
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including non-cisgender people. “How can we say that Ann Arbor is safe when my friend was called a faggot the other day while walking to class?” Newman said. “How can we say that Ann Arbor is safe when earlier this year, when pronouns were added to class rosters at U of M, there was a backlash? People like Grant Strobl changed their pronouns on Wolverine Access to things like ‘His Majesty’ and encouraged others to do the same using the hashtag #UMPronounChallenge. Well I am inviting all of you to take the real UM Pronoun Challenge. This entails asking people’s pronouns and respecting them.” The issue of racial and social impct on the election was brought up by Ann Arbor resident Joel Reinstein, who said because the law does not allow former felons and undocumented citizens to vote, Trump was given an advantage. “People are living in this country and working in this country who have no representation in the government they live under because they are undocumented. Fuck that,” Reinstein said. Speaking to how the University is responding to multiple recent anti-Trump protests on campus and the student outcry about discrimination, Knight said in an interview he thought the University as well as University President Mark Schlissel are going about the issue in the wrong way with their poster campaign. The posters feature slogans such as “Listen More, Judge Less” and “Appreciate Our Differences.” “The point is not that people
leather goods, as well as other items such as bicycles and record players. “We look at opportunity in the marketplace, we look at opportunity in our expertise, with the men and women who design our products who have the ideas — we are a tremendous entrepreneurial company,” Lewand said of the range of products. “We saw an opportunity in the audio space, just like we saw in the watch space.” Lewand’s also noted Shinola’s success with this model. “We’re a $100 million company this year but really in our third year of sales,” Lewand said. Business senior Moynawk Gangopadhyay said he attended
are disagreeing disrespectfully,” Knight said. “It’s not an issue of values bring different. It’s an issue of people are trying to spread hate and we have to take the stance that this is not acceptable full stop. We will not tolerate white supremacists on this campus ever and I don’t think the University has taken the extra step that they really need to do.” Ann Arbor resident Katie Whitney, a protester who was in the crowd with her five-year-old daughter, was holding a sign made of duct tape that said “Hate Ain’t Great.” Whitney said she brought her daughter to the protest because she wanted her daughter to see her parents standing up to “powers of white supremacy and saying no we don’t accept this.” “I’m here because something’s got to give,” Whitney said. “I used to not be particularly an activist. I cared about issues but since this election, I have been truly afraid for my friends and my family. My husband is Jewish and said we need to start making plans for how to leave this country and that scares me.” LSA freshman Emily Levy, who had never attended a protest before this year, said she wanted people in Ann Arbor to continue demonstrating and showing both the University and the country that collective voices cannot be ignored. “After this rally is over, after the Diag turns back to normal, life goes on, you all go home, I want one thing from you. I don’t want this to be the last time I see any of you in a crowd like this. I want all of you to keep fighting,” Levy said.
because he was interested in learning about that structure. “I liked how (Lewand) talked about what particular branding strategies they have and whether or not they could have the scale to expand internationally,” he said. Beyond product mix and sales, Lewand also said diversity, in gender, race and background, has played an important role throughout his career, from his time at the Lions to his time at Shinola. He advised crowd members to lead a balanced life. “I believe in physical, mental and spiritual health,” Lewand said. “There are three legs to the stool and if you don’t have all three, you’re not going to be successful as a human being.”
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ASHLEY ZHANG | OP-ED
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Relaxing to fuel your future
y older sister, a productivity goes to die. On a University of Michigan college campus full of students, alum of the class of there is a general vibe of 2011, always told me that Michigan studiousness and academia. There was a very “work hard, are countless libraries, play hard” school, but academic buildings it’s a phrase that cannot and study spaces be fully understood guaranteed to have until you stay on students hard at work. campus for a weekend In that environment, and see for yourself surrounded by so the stark disparity many people studying, between a Saturday it’s hard not to join the and Sunday night. bandwagon. In a study The former is filled by the City University ASHLEY with debauchery and of New York, ZHANG cheer, the darkened commuter students streets swarming with people were interviewed, and it was found fighting the bitter cold on their that many valued campus libraries way to the next party. One day as quiet, distraction-free places later, the streets are silent and to study in comparison to the still, and it’s near impossible to distractions in transit or at home. find an open seat in the library. Though its source may be a The overnight transformation mix of peer pressure and fear of is jarring, but it’s a reputation societal judgment, productivity that Michigan students have on college campuses cannot be always been proud of. However, called a bad thing. However, the merits of the “work hard, play I’ve seen that same mix of peer hard” lifestyle are questionable. pressure and fear of societal I hadn’t even realized how judgment encourage toxic much I’d bought into it until I behaviors in the same stroke. was heading back to my sleepy, Snapchats of coffee at all hours suburban hometown of Troy, of the day, complaints of staying Mich., for Fall Break after a in the library until 2, 3, 4 a.m. that mere month and a half of college. hinge on bragging and offers of It was like slipping into summer. stimulants like Adderall are all After all, last time I’d been common on a college campus, home, it had been summer, free where everyone is trying to of worries, midterms and stress. get ahead, sleep is “overrated” Being back in that environment and success, sleep and sobriety made it far too easy to fall back are presumed to be mutually into the ways of lazy, hazy days: exclusive. Somehow, lack of sleep wake up at noon, scroll through has become a badge of honor Netflix, pick a movie because these days, and it’s turning high “TV shows are too much of schoolers and college students a time commitment,” snack into exhausted zombies who intermittently, stop halfway think a mere three or four hours through out of boredom, pick of sleep is the norm. another one, rinse and repeat. A common exchange heard on The next day, I became a campus goes as follows: mall person, the same kind Person A: “I’m so tired. I stayed Cristina Yang marveled at like up ’til 3 a.m. writing a paper.” aliens in season seven of “Grey’s Person B: “I’m worse than you. Anatomy.” Yes, I just moseyed I didn’t sleep ’til 4 a.m. studying and ate mall foods and bought for an exam.” mall things without having to Person C: “You guys slept? worry about catching the last Lucky. I pulled an all-nighter to office hours before I had no finish this project.” more chances. And it was divine. Somehow, it’s become a Until Fall Break came to competition to see who can an end, and my to-do list was survive with the least sleep, and longer than it had been before. I’ve even been guilty myself of As I buckled down in the library bragging about supplementing to catch up, I felt terribly guilty lack of sleep with unhealthy about wasting away the days of amounts of caffeine. However, the break while my friends stayed side effects of sleeplessness are on campus and both studied more serious than the bleariness and partied late into the night. and exhaustion of the next day. You see, home is where Scientists at Oxford, Cambridge,
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Harvard, Manchester and Surrey universities have found that lack of sleep can increase the risk of severe health problems, including cancer, heart disease, type 2 diabetes and obesity. Moreover, sleep deprivation may aggravate depression or even cause an anxiety disorder, illnesses for which college students — swimming in stress and away from home — are already at risk. While night owls may believe that they are getting ahead by gulping coffee late into the night, they are actually slowly jeopardizing their health and, by extension, their future. Meanwhile, students who do get in their full eight hours of sleep are made to believe that they are weak or falling behind their peers. This sleep deprivation competition benefits no one. Perhaps sleepless weeks would not be so harmful if students took their days off to relax and recharge, but unfortunately, most college students’ idea of “relaxation” is partying and drowning their stresses. It’s certainly not healthy for students to suffer through sleepless weeks with the promise of an alcoholfueled weekend pushing them to study into the early hours of the morning. By Sunday night, all the forgotten homework creeps up again, and students cram into libraries until dawn to make up for the wild weekend. And the toxic cycle of sleep deprivation and intoxication repeats. So how, then, does one find the perfect balance between work and play? Take breaks when they’re needed and don’t feel guilty about it. Whether you’re returning home for Thanksgiving break or staying on campus, eat up, rest easy and forget about the stresses of school for a while. While schoolwork is important and the air of academia on campus is a wonderful environment to study in, it’s also important to take a break from time to time. Whether that break is becoming a “mall person,” sleeping in until noon or just going home, just remember that taking a breather isn’t equivalent to weakness or falling behind. Rather, it’s fuel for the future.
Ashley Zhang can be reached at azhang@umich.edu.
Protests are good, but denial isn’t
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ike millions of people of anti-Trump protests are these past two weeks, whining cry-babies trying to I have been trying to change the outcome of the understand the outcome of election, aimed at showing the presidential enough opposition election. I have to Trump to make gathered so far the Electoral College that Donald vote against him. I Trump’s rise is far don’t even come close from monocausal. to agreeing with that Rather, the election framing. It may be results originated easy to find a subset from several of protesters who sources including, are trying to change but certainly not the election results, MAX limited to, white but I have yet to see LUBELL supremacy, sexism, a majority stance education disparity, the rural- from an anti-Trump movement urban divide and a lack of or politician attempting to engagement with the working portray the goals of protests as class on the part of Democrats. changing the outcome of the Conversations deducing how election. I believe the general Trump rose to the top of U.S. and explicit purpose of these politics have become rather protests is to unite against complex. National dialogue the hateful values Trump and protests have constituted propagates. However, even if some of the reaction to the the main goal of anti-Trump election. Dialogue and protests protests and dialogue isn’t are a necessary next step to to push against the election figuring out where the body results, that intention persists politic goes from here. Much in many ways in the reaction to of the dialogue has focused on Trump’s win. how Trump was elected and Even if the major goal of how liberals can move forward, and some of it has been taking place on the University of Michigan’s campus, along with several protests. Though I am a proponent of dialogue and protests, these reactions must focus on fixing the system that got us here instead of promoting denial of the current state of our national politics. So far, the protests against Trump have expressed rage against his presidential win — they demonstrate the views of a subset of the United States that will never agree with his values. The protests display a anti-Trump protests is not United States that believes in to change the election, it has denouncing the intolerance existed in some rhetoric on the and demonization that Donald left. For example, one petition Trump used to rise to power. was widely spread throughout Though I think protests are liberal social circles, calling beneficial strategies for any for the Electoral College to movement, it’s worth noting change its votes and elect that protests will only go so Hillary Clinton. This argument far. For the most part, it seems is based on the idea that since as though protests only unite Hillary won the popular vote, those who share similar beliefs. the Electoral College should That is why the dialogue that unilaterally elect her and is occurring is a necessary deny Donald Trump his seat addition to the anti-Trump in the Oval Office. Even if protests. Primarily, this dialogue electors could change their needs to include engagement votes, which they probably within the Democratic Party, won’t, the argument misses to restructure and re-engage a very important point: Even the people who decided they if the popular vote went disagree with its values. That to Clinton, it only did by a sort of discussion identifies relatively small margin. We how the left can ensure that shouldn’t be celebrating that; people like Trump never rise to we should be afraid of it. We power again. should be questioning why so I believe there is a group of many people didn’t denounce people that thinks the goals Trump’s sexism, racism,
Though I think protests are beneficial strategies for any movement, it is worth noting that protests will only go so far.
homophobia and xenophobia by voting against him. This is the primary problem with denialism. Denialism fails to figure out how we got here. It fails to question how we deconstruct white supremacy. It fails to question how liberals engage with the working class. It fails to question the role that Hillary Clinton’s gender played in her loss. It fails to figure out why 41.8 percent of eligible voters decided not to vote. These people decided they didn’t share Donald Trump’s values, yet also decided they didn’t care enough about these values to stop him. A major slogan employed by protesters has been “not my president.” The point of such a slogan seems obvious: Many people in this country using it don’t agree with the beliefs of their new president-elect. The major problem with such rhetoric is that it erases a very obvious and important fact — Trump is your president. The left needs to remind itself of that every day for the next four years. We need to remind ourselves of it every time we lose sight of the liberal ideals of tolerance, equity and safety for all. We need to remind ourselves of that fact, as liberals try to restructure the Democratic Party to fight against racism, sexism, neoliberalism and liberal elitism. Once again, I am not critiquing anti-Trump protests or dialogue. Instead, I am pushing for a more deliberate, thoughtful agenda that focuses on re-engaging voters. Protests and dialogue need to focus on understanding how the United States and Trump got here. They also need to engage with those who were not sufficiently motivated to vote against his presidency. So stop chanting that he is not your president. Scream about how you will never accept Trump’s hatred. Scream love for the communities currently living in fear. Scream that you resent it, but that he is your president. Every time you say the words “President Donald Trump,” be reminded of this failure. Let it be a call to action about how you will help the communities that are going to be battered under a Trump presidency. Be reminded of what you are going to do to stop alt-right, white nationalist politics from continuing to rise in the United States.
Max Lubell can be reached at mlubell@umich.edu.
CAITLIN HEENAN | OP-ED
Competition among pre-meds is unhealthy CAITLIN HEENAN
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s an organic chemistry lab exam is fast approaching, the topic of studying comes up among a group of me and my classmates. How best should we prepare for the exam? We know we shouldn’t simply memorize the material but the temptation to just make up some flash cards and cram information into our brains for a short period of time is too great. However, what started as a seemingly normal collegiate conversation took a turn for the worse as the topic entered a dark place. No, not cheating, but purposefully “helping” other classmates by giving them the wrong answers to questions. Yes, in discussing how best to study, the idea came into fruition to actually lie to fellow students in order to boost one’s own chances of doing well. As a student who aspires to go into the medical field, my mentality toward classes such as orgo or biochemistry — those that often foster such a competitive mindset — is do or die. Either I get a good grade and my success is secured, or I do not do well and I need to resort to my list of backup plans. The competitive nature of the courses we take has fostered this mindset in me as well as in many friends following similar
intended career pathways. Courses in which the top 25 percent of students can get an A — even if their actual class grade would be the equivalent to a C — and the lowest 25 percent are unfortunate enough to receive a D, pit students against one another. These courses promote a kind of competition detrimental to not only a student’s success and academic environment, but also the larger professional working world. Students who learn in an environment in which an individual’s success is held to a higher standard than accruing greater knowledge and sharing ideas that could benefit everyone undoubtedly carry those sentiments to their professional careers and future work environments. I don’t know about others, but I was hoping constant competition among my peers would end with my academic career. Perhaps this is just the result of naive daydreaming about becoming a doctor. The reality is the pressures that exist in the academic community for pre-med hopefuls are echoed in the careers themselves. Physicians are among the highest-rated professions for suicide. What’s more, female physicians are two and a half to four times more likely to commit suicide than the general population. And more broadly, those in the medical field are also
more likely to develop drug addictions and become depressed. While not all of these issues of mental health can be attributed solely to choosing to become a doctor, there is a clear link with immense amounts of stress and maintaining a professional career in the health industry. Rather than suggest my peers find a new career pathway if they can’t handle the pressures of the medical field, feeding into the competition that already infests their intended field, I propose a culture shift. Why continue an ineffective system that results in increased suicide and drug addiction rates among our life-saving professionals? Why continue an ineffective system that pits students against one another and fosters a hostile learning environment? Let’s not! While the kinds of classes we have to take may never change, we as students have the right to choose the way we see our education. Rather than seeing our time here at the University of Michigan as a way to crush our competitors in order to become the best and brightest, we should view this as an opportunity to learn as much as we can from the people around us and do the same for others.
Caitlin Heenan is a senior opinion editor at the Daily.
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Monday, November 21, 2016 — 5A
TV COLUMN
FILM REVIEW
Searching for hope on a TV screen ‘Better Things’ and ‘Moonlight’ offer glimmer of positivity in the void
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‘Seventeen’ captures teen loneliness with nuance Director Kelly Fremon Craig debuts with new young adult classic Some!!”). Steinfeld is back, giving the Daily Arts Writer kind of performance we haven’t seen from her since her breakout “The Edge of Seventeen” role in the Coen brothers’ “True is not a movie we deserve, but Grit” remake. The Nadine she a movie we need. The film creates is at any moment both is the directorial debut for heartbreakingly relatable and screenwriter Kelly Fremon wholly unlikable.What “The Craig (“Post Grad”). The idea of Edge of Seventeen” captures a movie about a so masterfully girl that’s written is the intensity and directed by a of emotions at woman (a former that age and the girl) is already loneliness that “The Edge of (unfortunately) comes from feeling Seventeen” refreshing, but them. Nadine Craig also fills her feels, like many Rave & Quality 16 film with enough teenagers do, STX Entertainment humor and heart to completely alone feel new even in a in her suffering. jam-packed genre. Craig treats the For a long time, absurdity of these the halls of high school have feelings with exquisite empathy preferred the small screen, with and gentleness. shows like “The O.C.” and “Gossip Sure, it’s familiar. Major Girl” taking the place of “Clueless” plot points of teen movies are and “10 Things I Hate About You.” hit — fight with a friend, close “The Edge of Seventeen” feels like relationship with a teacher, the rare instance when you run awkward sexual encounter with into someone you used to know the wrong boy before ending up and it isn’t awful — it’s actually with the right one. The movie weirdly wonderful. walks the line of cliché, but its Nadine, played brilliantly by familiarity works in its favor, Hailee Steinfeld (“Pitch Perfect conveying a sense of universality 2”), is nervous and awkward. Her and breathing originality into sanity hinges on her relationship stock scenes. The song Nick with her only friend Krista (Haley (Alexander Calvert, “Arrow”), Lu Richardon, “The Bronze”), so Nadine’s bad boy crush, plays naturally all hell breaks loose in the car for Nadine — Angus inside Nadine’s almost-seventeen- & Julia Stone’s “Big Jet Plane” year-old brain when Krista starts — is exactly the sort of song a dating her older brother Darien boy would have played for me in (Blake Jenner, “Everybody Wants high school. It knows its world MADELEINE GAUDIN
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and stays true to it. The attention to detail from the soundtrack to Nadine’s costuming creates a world that is both intricately singular and emotionally universal. That treatment gets extended to all of the characters. There are no villains in “The Edge of Seventeen.” Even Krista, whose transgression could have easily been spun as betrayal, is a good person who cares deeply about Nadine. No one is a stereotype and no one — not even Nick, who has very limited screen time — is one-dimensional. It’s refreshingly realistic and the strongest force keeping “Seventeen” away from the forgettable teen movie abyss. The biggest issue with “The Edge of Seventeen” has nothing to do with the movie itself, but rather with the fact that the Motion Picture Association of America gave the film an R rating. That’s absurd. So, okay, it fails the one “fuck” test, there’s underage drinking and some bra-on almost-sex. In the age of the internet, where any thirteen-year-old can, with very few clicks, find as many nipples and swear words as they want, it seems naïve to think that no one under the age of seventeen is fit to see a movie like “The Edge of Seventeen.” It’s also disappointing because this is exactly the sort of movie I needed at fifteen or sixteen and also exactly the sort of movie I would never, at that age, want to see with my parents.
COMMUNITY CULTURE PREVIEW
Laura Jane Grace promotes memoir Lead singer of Against Me! talks transgender identity, life on road always been a songwriter and a lyricist, but I’ve always been a fan Daily Arts Writer of literature and an avid reader.” In reflecting on deciding to At the beginning of her memoir, write the memoir, Grace said, “It Laura Jane Grace writes, “It was seemed like reconciling with the put to me bluntly that ‘little boys past, which is kind of the first step don’t play with Barbie dolls like to take in going forward.” little girls do,’ and that was that.” In her book, Grace recognizes This moment was the importance of one of many that self-forgiveness Laura Jane marked Grace’s and cleaning the Grace reads earliest memories skeletons out of of battling gender her closet. This “Tranny” dysphoria as a is another reason Today at 7 p.m. child, a battle that the book is so would continue incredibly human Circus Bar throughout most of — it’s a beautiful $30 her life until 2012, tribute to her past when Grace came difficulties. out as transgender. Her coming “It got to the point about four out reconciled her inner desire for years ago where I kind of just femininity, internalized for years realized that the physical and the through sex, drugs and her own metaphysical weight of everything music — and was all detailed in her was too much,” she said. “You writings as any work of great rock know, like, the sheer amount of ‘n’ roll literature should. boxes of journals that were in my Grace started her journey of closet, I felt like we ought to do dealing with gender dysphoria something with them, and that at a young age, and tackled it by there had to be a book in it.” starting one of the most widely So Grace, along with her friend, celebrated punk bands in recent editor and co-writer Dan Ozzi, memory, Against Me! In her latest condensed a million and a half work, Grace has taken her first words of her journal entries into dive into the world of literature an eighty-thousand word story, with a memoir that explicitly detailing her rise from starting captures her war with gender a small band in Gainesville, Fla. dysphoria, placed beside journal to becoming an icon not only in excerpts specifying the struggles punk rock, but also in the LGBTQ and rewards of life as a touring community. For years, Grace has musician. Her journey is called been fighting for her community “Tranny: Confessions of Punk through her punk ethos, and it Rock’s Most Infamous Anarchist only becomes more inspiring as it Sellout.” resounds throughout “Tranny.” “Privately I’ve always had “Punk rock does mean aspirations to be a writer. It’s something to me you know, and something I’ve always wanted to like I’m thankful for the influence do,” Grace said in an interview it’s had on my life and I still think with The Michigan Daily. “I’ve with a punk mentality,” she said. DOMINIC POLSINELLI
In the memoir, we see Grace embody punk rock, using it as her armor, shield and weapon in her outward battle with society and inward battle with dysphoria. It’s an ideology she’s employed since she was thirteen, and one that has taken even greater precedence in the increasingly hostile social environment of modern America. With recent political and social upheavals, Grace’s story of transition is more relevant than ever. Grace realizes this, and realizes 2017 will be daunting, delivering words of fierce encouragement — “the punk in me is saying, ‘fight back.’ ” It’s a universal notion: hold on tight to whatever is important to you and use it to stand tall and fight back. It’s a crucial mentality to have in a world where not all identities are respected equally. “The system is full of shit, and that’s why resistance movements need to be there, and that’s why protest music needs to be there and that’s why politically minded music needs to be there,” she said. Grace is just as ready to destroy barriers with her art today as she was as a an anarchist teenager, and it’s a notion perfectly encapsulated by her journey in “Tranny.” The memoir is a testament to creating a better tomorrow by fighting both inner demons and those around you. This coming Monday at 7 p.m., Grace will be in Ann Arbor at Circus Bar in support of the new book, and a ticket to the event includes a copy of the powerful memoir. Attendees will see Grace recount not only the rise of the iconic Against Me!, but also a story of self-discovery and finding inner clarity.
n the past two weeks since say that these progressive shows Donald Trump was elected the got Trump elected. With the next president of the United impending Trump presidency, it’s States, my weekly TV schedule has crucial that we continue to work seemed less important than ever. to populate the TV landscape with Sure, TV is good for escapism, but people of all races, sexualities, in the face of such horrific things gender identities and ages. Still, happening in the real world, though — in this time of darkness, whether I’ll catch up on “How to Get I remember how far TV and movies Away with Murder” or make time to have come, and it gives me hope. binge “Transparent” Take the recent suddenly seems trend of casual trivial. abortions on TV. In Of course, I the past few weeks, quickly remembered three shows have that in times of featured women political turmoil, art who make the is more important decision to terminate than ever. A wealth their pregnancies of smart pieces without fanfare or have been written excessive agonizing. BEN about this already. Too often, abortion Genevieve Koski ROSENSTOCK is portrayed as an recently quoted Roger Ebert’s absolute last resort, a tragic decision famous speech in which he claims, that women should only make in the “the movies are like a machine that case of rape or some particularly generates empathy,” arguing that vulgar circumstance. Lindsay from by setting out to engage with every “You’re the Worst” may be a terrible piece of pop culture we encounter, partner and a terrible person, but we become more understanding ultimately her choice to get an people. The Michigan Daily’s own abortion is the sanest choice she’s Dayton Hare suggested that artists made this season. Lindsay knows are obligated to “bring people it would be irresponsible to raise a together into the oneness of human child with a man who frequently existence.” revolts her, and it would be cruel As I caught up on my shows to use a child to force herself into recently, I realized that part of the staying in a marriage she doesn’t reason I assumed Hillary Clinton really want. would become president is that I Meanwhile, what’s revolutionary watch an overwhelming amount about seeing Lindsay or Paula of progressive, liberal-minded TV. from “Crazy Ex-Girlfriend” or Most of my favorite new fall shows Xiomara from “Jane the Virgin” have female leads — “Fleabag” and get an abortion is that these women “The Good Place,” for example. aren’t rape survivors, or teens who Most of my favorite returning accidentally get pregnant and have shows have predominantly female to “pay the consequences.” These casts with a wealth of roles for are middle-aged women who women of color, like “Jane the emphatically don’t want to have Virgin” and “Orange is the New more children, so they choose not Black.” Hollywood most definitely to. It’s that simple. still has a long way to go in terms I also recently watched of bringing marginalized groups to “Moonlight,” a film that’s so the screen — just look at last year’s personal, layered and subversive Oscars controversy — but we’re in a that I don’t even know how to period of unprecedented onscreen begin to explain its radicalness. diversity. Being so used to that “Moonlight” isn’t exactly a feeldiversity, so used to the feminist good movie, but I left the theater in beliefs I see regularly espoused awe, convinced that writer-director on my favorite shows, has only Barry Jenkins was capable of really emphasized how much of a bubble changing the way people think I live in. about race and sexuality. Living in a bubble can have Of all the art I’ve taken in since negative consequences if you Nov. 8, though, nothing provoked so assume the rest of the world is the visceral and immediate a reaction same as yours, but I don’t mean to in me as the season finale of “Better
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Things.” “Better Things” has brought tears to my eyes in more than half its episodes, but I was still shocked at my own reaction when I watched the last scene. As Sam and her daughters sing along to “Only Women Bleed” by Alice Cooper, the camera cuts to a wide shot of their minivan barreling down the highway, a single line of text below closing out the season: “dedicated to my daughters.” There was something about that line that made me tear up every time I even remembered it for the rest of the day — something about the simplicity of it, the way it felt so quiet and elegant yet so enormously important. At the end of the day, we want our daughters to feel like they’re understood and respected and loved — not just because they’re our daughters, but because they’re people. As an upper-middle class, straight, white male, I am the apotheosis of privilege. If “Moonlight” profoundly affected me, I can’t imagine how it must feel to be a gay Black boy watching his own identity — an identity rarely acknowledged, onscreen or otherwise — come to life. And as emotional as it made me, the dedication in “Better Things” must mean more to the women who see it, women who are regularly denigrated with cumulative microaggressions and explicitly hateful acts of violence. Of course, we can’t let inclusive TV trick us into thinking the whole world is this open-minded. More importantly, we can’t let ourselves subside into complacency just because watching a show with an all-Black cast gives us the superficial appearance of social activists. I’m not advocating for ignoring reality and being blindly optimistic about the state of our country just because “Atlanta” and “Insecure” have been renewed for second seasons. I just think that in a time when it can be so hard to even log onto Twitter without seeing some heinous news pointing toward massive societal regression, the increasingly progressive state of TV is a small, hopeful sign. Sometimes, all you need to regain your faith in humanity is a little sign: a shot of a Black boy drenched in moonlight, or a four-word dedication. Sometimes, little signs are all we have.
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Actually, the ‘Shrek’ soundtrack is his lasting legacy.
Remembering Leonard Cohen by his debut album It takes a deeper cut than ‘Hallelujah’ to understand the importance and legacy of the late, great musician ADAM THEISEN
Managing Arts Editor
A cult-favorite poet from Quebec who wrote the most ubiquitous song of his generation, who didn’t command the largest audiences of his career until he was in his 70s, who had limited vocal range but an endless vocabulary — Leonard Cohen looms as such a large figure in music because he never followed expectations or conventional wisdom, building the kind of career and biography that will never be replicated. His acclaimed catalog of music and writing, coupled with that transfixing voice, strong sense of style and Zen disposition, make you want to hang onto his every word, to try and use all he says a guide for living. He’s a musician second and a philosopher — lover of wisdom — first. Songs of Leonard Cohen, the singer-songwriter’s nearly 50-year-old debut record, still holds up as perhaps his most essential work. It’s not the album with “Hallelujah,” but it contains many of Cohen’s most beloved and oft-covered songs. It’s an ideal entry point into a lengthy, impressive career that never followed any kind of straightforward path. It was released in the ’60s, when folk music dominated the charts, but even now that its style feels of a different era, the idiosyncratic work of Songs remains an important, easy-to-obsess-over work of art. Cohen announced himself in the most unbelievable way with “Suzanne,” the immortal opening track of Songs. The song is an out-of-body experience, as Cohen narrates an encounter by a river with a dream-like vision of a woman, with whom he draws explicit parallels to
Jesus Christ. It’s barely a pop song, but rather a search for enlightenment — one man trying to understand life with just an acoustic guitar and a desire for connection. Cohen positions himself as an old-school troubadour on Songs, a timeless artist looking for meaning through his muses and stories. Many of these tracks are about people he has crossed paths with, especially women who have inspired him, and they’re all poetic ballads and epics in the folk and storytelling tradition. “Suzanne” may as well be Athena. “Marianne” is Eurydice. These songs are worldly, detailed and multifaceted — understandable, considering Cohen was already an accomplished writer before his music career and didn’t release this album until he was 33. Unlike many other folk singers of his era, Leonard Cohen was never known for acidic wit or complexly funny turns of phrase, and he stays remarkably clear-headed throughout Songs. While Dylan would tell a departing lover, “You just kind of wasted my precious time,” Cohen offers only, “Hey, that’s no way to say goodbye.” While Van Morrison would collapse into a puddle of ecstasy upon meeting a woman who seems like Jesus, Cohen stays calm, letting the listener absorb all he has to say without embellishment. But despite Cohen’s quiteearned reputation for deepthought seriousness, his warmth and sense of humor are consistently underrated. “Sisters of Mercy,” which closes side one, is one of the album’s true joys. Written about two hitchhikers Cohen met in Edmonton and scored with celebratory percussion, “Sisters” is a simple
ode to human interaction and spontaneous gifts, as Cohen thanks the two women for inspiring this song. It’s music that shows how one can be occupied with the meaning of life while still appreciating the everyday wonders. A lot of people characterize Leonard Cohen as “depressing,” but that deep voice belies a warm romantic, one who’s always hopeful for a better world even in his lowest moments. Undeniably, Cohen’s legacy will be “Hallelujah” in the way Frost’s is “The Road Not Taken” and Da Vinci’s is the Mona Lisa. It’s a brilliant piece of art that has earned an unlikely place in the mainstream public consciousness. For as long as people sing, that song — in forms both transcendent and awful — will always be. But it’s more than worth it to explore Leonard Cohen beyond just “Hallelujah.” As Songs of Leonard Cohen and his entire body of work demonstrates, he was an immensely intelligent artist with empathy for everyone. To listen to Leonard Cohen sing in that uniquely transfixing voice was to learn and to live, to dream of and to believe in a vision of the world only someone as strange and thoughtful and beautiful as him could truly understand. Goodbyes and hellos, adventures and failures, the holy and the broken — he sang about them all. Leonard Cohen helped put us in better touch with the world, and he connected his listeners to the wonders of living. Cohen could take emotions that you couldn’t quite describe yourself and spin them into grand tales that explored the mysteries of love and life while never losing touch with the basic humanity these feelings came from.
FILM REVIEW
In the words of Paris Hilton, “that’s hot.”
An ode to the fashion of the aughts Remembering a time where Paris Hilton and Pictochat reigned types. Before he became the poster child of the modern-day streetwear movement, Kanye West was a 2000s fashion icon, advocating for neon sweaters and unnecessary scarves simply by wearing them in public. Perhaps such quirkiness was merely an outgrowth of the slightly-more-punk yet slightlyless-everything-else fashion of the nineties. It’s probable. But perhaps it stood for something more, a form of release for a nation in grieving. The early aughts of America were the perfect breeding ground for a strange form of nuanced sadness, one that still perpetrates our lives today. It cannot be a coincidence that some of the most iconic movies, books and clothing trends American popular culture has ever set forth came to light in a time of tragedy. I’m not saying that nationalism was on the forefront of every woman’s mind when she put on a tie-dye poncho, but there may have been something subconscious involved, a desire bubbling beneath that crocheted surface. As is historically the case, this Western-derived movement rippled across the world in no time. In 2002, Versace debuted a couture collection full of gem-covered gowns in hues of lime green, hot pink and, on several occasions, rainbow. At the same time, commonplace stores like Target boasted brightly patterned dresses that were supposed to be worn over leggings. By 2005, nearly everyone in the clothing industry had both feet in the fun-loving bandwagon, from high-end designers to bargain brands. Even Abercrombie, the most subdued (and overpriced) of every mall’s mega-retailers, offered up their fair share of bubble skirts and lace-trimmed camis (both of which were, indeed, overpriced). We can’t talk 2000s-era fashion without making mention of celebrity clothing lines. Jay Z and Damon Dash’s Rocawear, Avril Lavigne’s Abbey Dawn, Miley Cyrus’s collaboration with
Max Azria for Walmart. For many of the decade’s rich and famous, the notion of creating a personal brand appeared to mean more than the clothes themselves. In other words, we may never have seen Miley wearing the cheetah print pants from her own collection, but it didn’t matter. The charm brought about by a big name, coupled with an adherence to the style of the decade, was enough to make celebritycurated clothes a “thing” for a brief moment in time. But why should we care about any of this in 2016? We have iPhones and a celebrity as our president-elect. Why does it matter what we were doing ten years ago? It’s common knowledge that the trends of the past shape what we wear in the present, so it only makes sense that elements of ’00s fashion have made a resurgence. I was going to say that they “have come back to haunt us,” but I am wearing a tattoo choker as I write this, so I’m not one to talk. All kidding aside, look around. Tracksuits are back for both men and women. “Bellybutton shirts” have been reincarnated in through the modern crop top. Rapper Tyler, The Creator is at the helm of a successful, colorhappy clothing label, Golf Wang. I don’t speak French, but I can confidently say that 2016 has given me a sense of fashion déjà vu that I have yet to experience at any other time. No, Kendall Jenner’s 21st birthday number was not groundbreaking. It was a friendly reminder of fashion’s blinged-out, bubbly past, one that we so often forget in lieu of the stone-cold seriousness that plagues the industry today. I hope Paris Hilton is still laughing. Her Cavalli-meetsJuicy Couture sense of style once meant the world to an entire industry. Who knows? Perhaps this form of fashion will come back in full force, hair crimped, denim miniskirt riding up just a bit too high. Thank you, 2006. I’m sure we haven’t seen the last of you.
(Naomi Watts, “King Kong”) jumps out at her, as one does. is a child psychologist who Something supernatural jumps has to split her time between out at her. It’s a dream. It’s the her practice and caring for her same fake-out nonsense that catatonic son, Stephen (Charlie has become the bane of these Heaton, “Stranger types of movies, Things”). After a put in by writers young boy (Jacob who have realized Tremblay, “Room”) that they don’t goes missing and have anything “Shut in” is presumed dead, interesting in Rave & Quality 16 she begins to think their film to that his spirit is keep audiences EuropaCorp haunting her. As invested. a massive winter “Shut In” fits storm bears down that profile to on them, Mary and the spirit a T. The constant fake-out — or whatever is causing the jump scares are tedious, but disturbances — are trapped at least predicting how the indoors. overwrought build-up will That synopsis has a few things amount to nothing can become going for it: a claustrophobic a game in and of itself. Beyond setting, a fear of the unknown that, the movie offers nothing. and a bit of a man (or woman, The performances, beyond a as the case may be) vs. nature sadly underused Tremblay, theme. Somewhat stunningly, range between disinterested director Farren Blackburn and hammy to the point of (“Marvel’s Daredevil”) hilarity. After the initial manages to take that promise eeriness of the premise wears and do absolutely nothing with itself out, there’s no tension it, instead choosing to focus at all, just scene after scene of on the same hackneyed jump jump scares and Mary worrying scares that plague every two-bit about jump scares. horror or thriller flick. With all that in mind, the Mary hears something first two acts of “Shut In” are outside. A raccoon jumps out bad, but they’re forgettably bad. at her. She hears something They’re inoffensively bad, more upstairs. The kindly gentleman flat-out boring than anything who has taken a liking to her else. Then the third act begins,
and it begins with a twist so ill-advised and laughably ridiculous that it genuinely boggles the mind. There’s no build-up to it, no foreshadowing. It’s just a sudden left turn for the story to take for no other reason than, “Hey, other thrillers have twists. We should have a twist, too.” What follows is a solid five minutes of exposition, so the audience understands that the subject of this twist is singlehandedly responsible for everything bad that has happened in the movie. What it amounts to is an extended game of hide-and-seek, with Mary hiding in a closet for what feels like a small eternity. Once again, there’s no tension, because not only does the audience not care about the characters, they’re still recovering from the hilarious shock to the system that was that twist. “Shut In” could have been a tense, claustrophobic thriller with a talented cast. Instead, it never fails to treat itself with the utmost seriousness, even in its silliest moments, and it settles for something lesser. It’s boring and lazy in its storytelling, and outside of some genuinely wellshot moments, there’s little above average or even plainly average to the rest of it.
TESS GARCIA
Daily Arts Writer
Somewhere, on the night of Kendall Jenner’s 21st birthday, Paris Hilton laughed. Not because she was denied access to a club — although her track record is not clean of such incidents. No, that brisk November evening, Hilton laughed for all that she once loved. The outfit Jenner donned for her special day was a direct reference to everything the fashion world has worked to forget: the first ten years of the 21st century. She found a photo of Hilton in a racy crystal slip, and redid it in the form of a nine thousand dollar imitation. 2006 was back, if only for a night. This is not me urging you resurrect your shutter shades and Livestrong wristbands. Please do not. Rather, I’m here to address what most industry experts have long since stuffed in a junk drawer alongside their Neopets. No, not their Hannah Montana Fan Club memorabilia (which I definitely do not have). I’m talking about early 2000s fashion in the United States of America. The fashion of this first decade was, above all, fun. Color coordination was a must. If you didn’t have pink clip-in hair extensions, you could probably say goodbye to your Pictochat group. Using a scarf as a belt? Congratulations on your street cred. Not even the popularity of TV programs like “The Fashion Police” (may Queen Rivers rest in peace) could stop Ashley Tisdale from wearing a pleated skirt over her gauchos. I can’t really pretend to know what sparked this ten-year wave of rampant eccentricism, but I sure am glad I was here to see it wash over an entire country. Though some of the most poignant examples of this movement involve women’s fashion, men, too, made their fair share of bold clothing choices. Baggy jeans for the hiphop set, fedoras for the scholarly
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“Where’s Barb?!”
Cheap jump scares ruin the potential of vaguely scary thriller ‘Shut In’ Disappointing ghost story starring Naomi Watts is no ‘The Ring’ JEREMIAH VANDERHELM Daily Arts Writer
Thrillers have one job, and it’s in the name: they need to thrill their audience. Everything, be it the performances, the
direction or the editing, is in the service of aiding and abetting the adrenaline junkies in the theater in getting their high. When it works, as it did with last year’s spectacularly unnerving “The Gift,” the result is a movie that stays with the
viewer long after the credits have rolled. When it doesn’t, as is the unfortunate case of “Shut In,” the outcome is nothing more than an hour and a half of wasted time. The premise, to be fair, is an innately creepy one. Mary
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In final game at Michigan Stadium, Smith carries Wolverines to victory KELLY HALL
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John O’Korn ran up behind De’Veon Smith and lifted him up. The senior running back had just powered in his second touchdown of the game to put No. 3 Michigan up 20-10 over the Hoosiers. It was a moment of relief for the Wolverines, who had trailed for most of the contest. O’Korn struggled throughout his first start at Michigan, but one thing always seemed to work: handing off the ball to Smith. So now, after Smith seemed to will the Wolverines to a major lead that they would ultimately maintain, the redshirt junior quarterback raised up the player
who put the team on his back. The running back accrued 158 yards for two touchdowns, saving his longest run for his 39-yard score in the final seconds of the third quarter. He averaged 6.9 yards per carry, and instead of running backs coach Tyrone Wheatley steadily rotating Michigan’s four leading running backs like usual, Smith was given the ball over and over again for good reason. “Yeah, I mean, (Smith was) grinding out first downs,” said Michigan coach Jim Harbaugh. “De’Veon, he played with great motivation and some great play by the offensive line. It felt like old-fashioned, slobber-knocker football … “De’Veon breaking tackles — even the hard runs, the yards
after contact, pushing for the first down was critical.” Though Smith’s heroics were more visible in the second half, he was a major contributor in the first as well. He broke loose for a 25-yard run on 4th-and-2 in the second quarter to set up for the Wolverines’ first score of the game, a 28-yard field goal made by fifth-year senior kicker Kenny Allen. “You know, it was a very important game for us seniors, and I believe our team wanted to go out with a bang, and that’s what we did,” Smith said. “We weren’t getting it done in the first quarter. We were getting threeand-outs on offense and defense was still sticking in there for us, but we wanted to go out with a bang and that’s what we did.”
Smith credited the offensive line for his success, and that humility is what redshirt junior linebacker Mike McCray thinks makes him so good. “He works hard, probably more than anybody on the team,” McCray said, “and he has the heart to get the extra yards that he wants to get and what we need.” On Senior Day, Smith showed some of that heart when he refused to go down, bowling over an Indiana defender on that 25-yard run on fourth down. Moments like this are what make fifth-year senior defensive tackle Ryan Glasgow call him an “absolute animal.” “I remember the first time I ever tackled De’Veon was in a See SMITH, Page 2B
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t appeared Dymonte Thomas was first, followed shortly by Khalid Hill. Before long, everyone joined: Ben Braden, Delano Hill, AJ Pearson. One by one, those seniors took JAKE turns diving LOURIM headfirst into the snow that by then had covered the field at Michigan Stadium, like they had all finished a game of snow football in the backyard and wanted to take a few moments to revel in the atmosphere. Anyone did it. Thomas, who made eight tackles Saturday. Hill,
who has scored a team-high 10 touchdowns. Pearson, who has hardly played in his entire career. It did not seem to matter. They all stayed, all waited out the worst times of their careers and, on Saturday, all survived. Until this weekend’s 20-10 win against Indiana, the Wolverines had cruised past opponents, held off opponents and did whatever it was they did to Rutgers. They had not yet done merely the minimum it took to escape, as other teams have so far this season. Saturday, that was enough, especially for these seniors. They know they could have squandered their College Football Playoff hopes. They know they could have fumbled See SENIORS, Page 2B
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ndiana called a timeout, and then De’Veon Smith picked up the first down, and then the chant started in earnest. In the previous few minutes, there had been murmurs of it, as if those remaining JAKE from an LOURIM announced crowd of 110,288 had been waiting to start it. Then, with just under four minutes to play, with the No. 3 Michigan football team in possession and the game finally in hand, it came out in full force: BEAT O-HI-O. As the Wolverines ran out the clock on a 20-10 victory against Indiana on Saturday at Michigan Stadium, the chant rumbled throughout the building. It continued after the clock ran out and the Michigan Marching Band played “The Victors.” It echoed through the concourse as the fans filed out of the bowl. It may well echo around the state all week. The chant was “BEAT O-HI-O.” It was not “BEAT THE BUCK-EYES,” the more common call before Jan. 12, 2011. That day, Michigan introduced its new head football coach, a man named Brady Hoke. Hoke put the Michigan-Ohio State rivalry on a pedestal. He refused to wear red. He wanted to win this game more than any of the others. He called the Buckeyes “Ohio” as a slight, which is how the chant started. As Jim Harbaugh leads the Wolverines near the pinnacle of the college football world, those in the fan base try to erase memories from the painful years that came before. That will be hard to do this week. Though most of Hoke’s staff
SMITH From Page 1B scrimmage his freshman year,” Glasgow said. “I think me and Chris had him on a running back draw, and we were sure to take him down, and he kept his legs
SENIORS From Page 1B chances to put away an inferior team on their home field. They know they could have lost their fourth straight Senior Day game. They’ve done it all before. They played better, but did not manage to survive, in last year’s heartbreaker against Michigan State. They did the same in their home finale in 2013 against a much better Ohio State team. In between, they suffered losses of every form. The Minnesota game in 2014 brought the Shane Morris concussion incident, to say nothing of the fact that the Golden Gophers came into the Big House, dominated the Wolverines and stole the Little Brown Jug off their sideline. Utah stomped Michigan until a downpour halted play, then stayed in the stadium and finished it off with only Utes fans in the building. Maryland spoiled the Wolverines’ Senior Day, all but extinguishing their bowl hopes with a trip to Ohio State coming the following week. This year’s seniors remember all of that. Perhaps that was part of the emotion of this year’s Senior Day. Defensive tackle Ryan Glasgow finished the live portion of warmups to see his parents standing on the sideline, holding a frame with his jersey in it. Thomas, Hill and cornerback Jourdan Lewis shared a moment before they ran out of the tunnel for the final time. “Before the game, we were all like, ‘I can’t believe we’re touching the banner one last time,’ ” Thomas said. “We all came in together, we all grinded together and now we’re all leaving together, except for a few guys who transferred.
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Former Michigan coach Brady Hoke never got his team to the level he wanted, but his fingerprints are all over this year’s team as it heads into “The Game.”
is gone, most of Michigan’s players are his recruits — and “The Game” is the biggest game in college football this week, just like Hoke always wanted. Much has changed around Ann Arbor since Hoke resigned and Harbaugh arrived. Harbaugh religiously avoids placing more significance on one game than another. If his team does so, he reasons, then it didn’t give its best effort in all of the games — an unpardonable sin in Harbaugh’s book. The next game, he repeats, is the most important one. Brady Hoke made no such stipulation. “(Ohio State) is the most important game on that schedule, and not that the others aren’t important, but it
is the most. Important. Game. On. That. Schedule,” Hoke said at his introductory press conference, pounding the podium for emphasis. “… It’s very important to me, and very … it’s almost personal.” Hoke’s four years as head coach will always be a sore spot because of his record, especially compared to his successor. But Hoke was, by all accounts, a good man whose players loved him. He just didn’t win nearly enough football games. He did, however, get his team ready for Ohio State. In four editions of the most important game on Hoke’s schedule, Michigan played some of its best football in all of them, winning one and making the other three far closer than they should have been. Hoke also put his fingerprints
moving, and we got back to the line of scrimmage and we were like, ‘This kid is a horse.’ This kid just doesn’t stop, he’s relentless, so that’s always awesome to have in a running back.” After snow angels were made and all of the fun in Michigan’s first snow of the year had
been had, redshirt sophomore linebacker Jabrill Peppers pulled Smith’s chair out for him in postgame media availability. Peppers took it a step further and uncapped Smith’s Gatorade for him, too. It’s safe to say that Smith had earned it.
“When they started playing that video, when they started playing that sad music, Khalid comes to me, he’s like, ‘I might start crying.’ I’m like, ‘If you cry, I’m gonna cry.’ And (Lewis) is like, ‘No, what’s wrong with y’all? Y’all got a game! Let’s go win!’ And then (Lewis) is like, ‘You know, I might cry too, y’all.’ I was like, ‘We’re gonna be all right. Let’s just go win, and let’s make the best of this last year we got together.’ ” Almost four hours later, with their final home win safely in tow, they celebrated. Morris, Jake Butt, Henry Poggi, Patrick Kugler and Ben Gedeon — all seniors who have gone through various forms of adversity in their own individual careers — took a picture together. Offensive lineman Kyle Kalis, in his own inimitable style, waved his arms frantically to pump up the crowd. Glasgow, for the first time in his career, ran to the student section and jumped on the wall — before he realized he was jumping in the wrong section. It was one of Michigan’s least impressive victories of the season, yet it may have been the one most worth celebrating. The Wolverines are 10-1 and are heading down to Columbus next week for a showdown against Ohio State because they did what it took to win Saturday. They managed just 59 passing yards, their lowest total of the season. They had the same number of first downs as Indiana, 15. They outgained the Hoosiers by just 29. Only a pair of De’Veon Smith touchdown runs late in the third quarter secured the win. But they did secure the win. These seniors don’t take that for granted — and neither does their head coach. In 1986, quarterbacking a then-undefeated Michigan
team, Jim Harbaugh lost the last game he ever played at Michigan Stadium, 20-17 against Minnesota. “It’s not a good feeling,” Harbaugh said Saturday of losing his home finale. “At all. I’m glad our guys played eight home games and won ’em all. “The constant, being a Michigan football player through the ages, is that you play in the Michigan Stadium. You play in that venue, that Big House. Always has been that way, is and always will be. That’s the one constant — all the time, the facilities, the changes, society and everything else — is that you play in that stadium.” It hasn’t always gone smoothly here, and it didn’t Saturday, perhaps a fitting end to the seniors’ careers. Michigan trailed at halftime for the first time all season, and with starting quarterback Wilton Speight injured on the sideline, uneasiness spread among the announced crowd of 110,288. About a third of the student section emptied out at halftime. Those who remained at the end had the opportunity to savor the feeling. By then, the snow had blown around the stadium and coated the turf. The cheerleaders made snow angels in the end zones, and the students threw snowballs on the field. “Let It Snow” played over the speakers. With an eighth straight home win this year, the Wolverines added another lasting memory to erase all of the sour ones. Afterward, Harbaugh, who has won 78 games as a college head coach and reached the Super Bowl, called it “one of the best wins I’ve ever been involved with.” Because, as the Wolverines found out Saturday, that’s how it feels to survive.
all over this year’s team, and for that Harbaugh owes him a great deal. He recruited Michigan’s entire starting defense, from fifthyear seniors Chris Wormley and Ryan Glasgow on the line to senior cornerbacks Jourdan Lewis and Channing Stribling at the back end to, yes, even redshirt sophomore Jabrill Peppers. He brought in starting quarterback Wilton Speight, even after other schools shied away from Speight following an injury in high school. He signed all three of Michigan’s top receivers and laid the foundation for an offensive line that now starts three fifth-year seniors. And as much as the program is different now than it was two years ago, parts of Hoke’s culture remain. Fifth-year
senior Ryan Glasgow, whom Hoke brought in as a walk-on before he blossomed into one of the defense’s most important players, said after Saturday’s game there was “no doubt” that this weekend’s showdown is the biggest of his career. “Ohio State, Michigan, greatest rivalry in sports — how can it not be in the back of your mind from right after the day you play it until the next year?” Glasgow said. “I don’t really hesitate to say that it’s probably the biggest game that you play in every year — all dependent on what rankings are and what position you’re in, but it’s always in the back of your mind.” In the final minutes Saturday, Glasgow couldn’t help but hear the “BEAT O-HI-O” chants coming from the stands. How could he
not? The passion and sentiment Hoke instilled didn’t leave when he did. “Great guy, great mentor,” Glasgow said. “I still check in with him every now and then. Personally, I owe a lot to that guy. Believed in me from the beginning. As an unrecruited walk-on, sometimes that doesn’t happen.” Harbaugh, meanwhile, preaches the importance of treating every game like a championship game, and it doesn’t hurt that this really is one. If Michigan wins Saturday, it will win the Big Ten East division and advance to the Big Ten Championship on Dec. 3. That only adds to the usual storylines. Each team has plenty of players from the other state, including both starting running backs (Michigan’s De’Veon Smith is from Warren, Ohio, while Ohio State’s Mike Weber hails from Detroit). Each team is ranked in the top three heading into the matchup for the second time ever. “I don’t need to say too much about the game — it’s just the game,” Peppers said. “Now that it’s finally here, we can zero in on it and put all our focus towards it, ’cause this one’s for all the marbles. Everything we want is right in front of us. We just gotta go out there and execute.” No longer do Michigan and Ohio State have to downplay this weekend’s showdown to avoid getting ahead of themselves. Regardless of which coach is at the helm, the game Saturday is the biggest of the season. Hoke and most of the rest of the country treat it that way because it’s “The Game.” Jim Harbaugh and his team do because it’s the next game. This week, it just so happens to be both. Lourim can be reached at jlourim@umich.edu and on Twitter @jakelourim.
O’Korn’s run salvages shaky day MAX BULTMAN
Managing Sports Editor
Football games rarely actually depend on one play, but Saturday night, one run certainly seemed to swing the outcome. With the Michigan football team trailing Indiana, 10-6, late in the third quarter, redshirt junior quarterback John O’Korn was struggling. All game long, O’Korn had been under pressure, and most of the time, it didn’t end well. He was sacked twice, hurried twice and tackled for loss on another play. His feet have been considered an asset off the Wolverines’ bench, so when starting quarterback Wilton Speight went down with an injury last week, it was widely expected he would showcase them early and often. It just hadn’t been working out that way. As the game wore on, O’Korn said, passing game coordinator Jedd Fisch told him over the phone, “You need to make a play.” He did. Moving to his left, O’Korn took off scrambling, turned the corner and started up field. It didn’t appear to be a designed run like other times Saturday, but he found a hole regardless. Fifth-year senior receiver Jehu Chesson sealed a great block outside, and O’Korn shot through the lane. As he crossed midfield, it looked like he had all kinds of space to keep going. “I thought I was going to score,” he said. “Got tackled from behind.” Though he was stopped at the 34-yard line, it was enough to kick-start the Michigan offense. Senior running back De’Veon Smith trucked a Hoosier defender and scored on the next play. Smith then added a 39-yard score on the next drive, and that was all the offense the Wolverines would need. Prior to O’Korn’s run, the Wolverines were sputtering. They had just 166 total yards of offense, and even with another strong showing from their defense, six points wouldn’t have been enough. They were the beneficiaries of great field
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John O’Korn looked inconsistent in his first start at Michigan on Saturday.
position for most of the game, but with O’Korn starting his first game in two years, the offense lacked direction, creativity and, until his long run, production. “When John took off for that run, that’s what really sparked us,” Smith said. “That really is what got the offensive line going. It’s not like I had the whole game in control. The defense was definitely in control — they were making stops and putting us back on the field. We were just making plays as an offense.” O’Korn said he knew Sunday afternoon that he would start for Speight, and even though no team likes to lose its starting quarterback with two weeks left in the regular season, there was reason for confidence around Schembechler Hall. O’Korn had started for a season and a half at Houston, and all spring and summer he was said to be in a heated competition for the starting quarterback job. But that optimism seemed misplaced early. Partly due to heavy pressure from the Hoosiers and partly due to an apparent tendency to leave the pocket,
O’Korn mustered just 59 total passing yards. He was 7-for-18 on the day, with no touchdowns or interceptions, but thanks to a bruising game from Smith, that was enough. Michigan coach Jim Harbaugh said O’Korn “did a lot of good things” against Indiana, but he also said that Speight could potentially return for next week’s tilt against Ohio State. If the Wolverines win that one, they will earn a spot in the Big Ten Championship Game and have an inside track to the College Football Playoff. To beat the second-ranked Buckeyes, though, Michigan will need some kind of improvement under center. Ohio State is an entirely different beast than Indiana, and the Buckeyes are talented enough to bring even more pressure than O’Korn saw Saturday. So even as Harbaugh and his players expressed their pleasure with O’Korn’s performance, a nugget of truth came from the man himself. “Luckily,” he said, “our run game and our O-line had my back today.”
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MINH DOAN
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NEW YORK CITY — For the past two seasons, the Michigan men’s basketball team has been thoroughly manhandled SMU 54 MICHIGAN 76 by Southern Methodist. Last season in Dallas, the Mustangs (3-1) held the Wolverines scoreless for the last 10 minutes of play to win, 82-58. The year before that, SMU won handily by 24 points. But Friday night at Madison Square Garden, it was a completely different storyline. Michigan (4-0) flipped the script from the past two seasons and came out strong, running up a 15-point lead with 3:43 left in the first half. The Wolverines never gave up that lead en route to a 76-54 win and a 2K Classic championship. “The last loss to SMU, we got punked throughout the whole game,” said senior guard Zak Irvin. “We didn’t want that to happen this game, and we came out with a chip on our shoulder.” Almost a carbon copy of Thursday night’s game against Marquette, Michigan came out swinging in all facets of the game in the first half. Senior guard Derrick Walton Jr. came out on fire, starting the game with three made 3-pointers in a row. Walton finished with 23 points to lead all scorers after not scoring at all against the Golden Eagles the night before. “It was good to see (Walton) come out and play,” said Michigan coach John Beilein “He can be an elite shooter, and we’ve seen that. We try to create opportunities for him as well as (let him) lead the floor.” Overall, Michigan shot a whopping 57.1 percent (16for-28) in the first half. The Wolverines continued the hot
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Redshirt sophomore forward D.J. Wilson has been a breakout player for Michigan in the season’s opening games.
shooting into the second half and finished the game 27-for-51. In the paint, sophomore forward Moritz Wagner and senior forward Mark Donnal produced a combined 12 points and 7 rebounds in the first half. Even more impressive, the duo held SMU forward and Duke transfer Semi Ojeleye to just 13 points, a far cry from the 22.7 that he had averaged in the first three games of the season. “(Michigan) did a really good job of taking us out of our rhythm,” said SMU coach Tim Jankovich. “I give them some credit, they took us out of some things, and we didn’t really handle it like we needed to.” Added Irvin: “We know
(Ojeleye) is a great player. We knew he was going to come out aggressive, so it was a good matchup with (Wilson), credit to DJ.” Redshirt sophomore DJ Wilson, in his second start of the season, wasn’t able to replicate his 10-plus rebound stat from the first three games of the season, but he had a respectable six points and four boards in 39 minutes of action. On the other end of the court, the Wolverines’ aggressive defense held a team that had averaged just under 40 points a half to 26 in the first half as Michigan went into the break up 19. “We took pride in guarding
“That last loss to SMU, we got punked the whole game.”
our man,” Irvin said. “It was huge for us, and especially in the first half, we held SMU to two offensive rebounds.” In the second half, SMU’s offense did a much better job in its half-court offense setting, but Michigan’s offense was up to the task. The two teams traded buckets for the first five minutes, but the Wolverines’ attack was too much for the Mustangs, and Michigan’s defense stayed steady and ran away with the game. Many pundits labeled the Wolverines’ trip to New York as their first real test of the season. Leaving Madison Square Garden with two dominant wins, it’s safe to say Michigan passed with flying colors. “We’re playing with a lot of confidence,” Donnal said. “Every single year, we’ve had these preseason tournaments, I think this is the first year we’ve actually won one. It says a lot about this group to start off 4-0.”
and the theatrics were few. Sure, the Wolverines got to stand behind a banner that dubbed KEVIN them the SANTO champions of the 2K Classic at the center of Madison Square Garden. And yes, senior guard Derrick Walton Jr. got to hold his team’s new trophy as pictures were taken to commemorate the moment. There was no confetti. There weren’t fans storming the court. This wasn’t one shining moment — and we still don’t know if Michigan will even come close to having one. In fact, there are a lot of things we still don’t know about the Wolverines. Are they going to live and die by the 3? Is this new defense under assistant coach Billy Donlon sustainable? When are the freshmen going to make the impact Michigan coach John Beilein is expecting? Can they really stay healthy for a whole season? Still, for 40 minutes Friday night, in the mecca of basketball, Michigan threw those doubts out the window. For 40 minutes, it imposed its will against Southern Methodist to the tune of a 22-point victory. And that’s a damn good start. The Wolverines entered Friday night having played their best half of the season against Marquette, eventually beating the Golden Eagles by 18. But the Mustangs were a whole different monster. It seemed no half of basketball could have been good enough for Michigan to
forget recent history. In 2014, SMU went onto the Wolverines’ home floor, poured on 17 unanswered points in the last 10 minutes and walked away from Crisler Center with a 62-51 victory. And last season, the Mustangs didn’t just beat Michigan. They flat-out embarrassed the Wolverines. Michigan traveled to Dallas, only to get outrebounded by 25, lose by 24 and let SMU turn the game into a one-sided dunk contest. But this Friday night, for the first time in a long time, it felt like the Wolverines had their swagger back. This Friday night, redshirt sophomore forward DJ Wilson wasn’t just dunking. He was rocking the rim and then strutting the baseline as if to tell the fans he’d be doing it all night. This Friday night, the college 3-point line wasn’t quite difficult enough, as the Wolverines pulled up from NBA range time and time again. And when they made it, they let SMU know. With under a minute left to play in the first half, junior guard Muhammad-Ali Abdur-Rahkman connected from deep. Then he let his hand stay in the air for just a few seconds extra. This Friday night, Michigan boarded a plane with a trophy in tow. There’s no telling if this is the preview of things to come. Entering the season, there was a sentiment that the Wolverines had the pieces for success in place. But those also came with the same doubts that will still exist tomorrow. Yet this Friday night, Michigan put its pieces together. It did so against a team that has owned the matchup the past two years. And it happened in the World’s Most Famous Arena. Doubts or not, that’s a hell of a start.
‘M’ tops USNTDP, 6-3 Wolverines go on 52-0 run, beat Howard ICE HOCKEY
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In its first action of the season, the Michigan hockey team played Windsor in a preseason game before beginning its regular slate. After a preseason filled with injury and uncertainty, freshman forward Nick Pastujov played for the first time against the Lancers, and with two minutes remaining in the first period, he scored the Wolverines’ first goal of the season on the power play. Since that exhibition game, Pastujov had been held scoreless. Friday night, though, he found the net, and in an exhibition once again. With the game tied at two in the third period, freshman forward Steven Merl crossed the puck to the middle toward Pastujov, who knocked it past U.S. National Team Development Program goaltender and Michigan recruit Dylan St. Cyr for a 3-2 lead, one the 18th-ranked Wolverines would never relinquish, as they defeated the USNTDP at Yost Ice Arena, 6-3. “I thought that this was far and away Nick Pastujov’s best of the game of the year,” said Michigan coach Red Berenson. “And it came at a good time.” Two other Wolverine recruits played in the game for the USNTDP: center Josh Norris — a good friend of Michigan forward Will Lockwood — and defenseman Quinn Hughes. “It was cool,” said freshman forward James Sanchez. “It was good to see what they got, and what they’re going to bring next year.” For the first 10-plus minutes, the game moved rather slowly, with the teams nearly even in shots. Then with about six minutes remaining in the period, Lockwood earned a trip to the penalty box for hooking. The Wolverines looked to kill the penalty as they cleared the puck to the opposite zone with 11 seconds remaining on the power play. Hughes skated toward the net and grabbed the puck before seeing a hole in the Michigan
defense and passing the puck to a wide-open Jacob Tortora, who slapped it past senior goaltender Zach Nagelvoort. The USNTDP held onto that lead heading into the first intermission. In the second, though, the Wolverines answered, as Lockwood struck to tie it at one. “I thought we played well,” Pastujov said. “We were there last year, so we know no matter what the score is, we know they’re going to put up a fight ’til the end, and that’s what they did. I thought it was a good, high-paced, really smooth game.” The USNTDP remained focused against its older opponents and continued to play aggressively throughout the game. With about a minute remaining in the second period, it pressed forward on offense. Norris skated to the Wolverines’ offensive zone and passed the puck across the ice to forward Brady Tkachuk. Tkachuk then hesitated, before feeding it to Tortora in the middle, who then backhanded it into the net to take the lead once again. Michigan quickly responded and tied the game up about 20 seconds later. Senior right wing Alex Kile zoomed to the USNTDP’s zone and fired a long pass to Luke Martin, who slapped the puck toward the goal. Fortunately for the Wolverines, freshman forward Adam Winborg managed to get his stick on it, tapping it in to tie the game at two. It took until the third period for Michigan’s offense to really click. Two minutes after Pastujov’s early goal, Sanchez stole the puck in the corner of the USNTDP’s zone and deked out St. Cyr to make it a 4-3 game with his first goal of the third. His second came with five seconds remaining in the period. Kile added a goal off a pass from Winborg at the 15:59 mark. “The game is on the line on the third,” Berenson said. “Tonight I didn’t think we got off to a good start. A week ago on Saturday we had a great first period, so-so second and not a good third. Tonight I thought our best period was the third. You want to be able to close out a game.”
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Though the game was supposed to be a walk in the park, the Michigan women’s basketball team transformed it into a leisurely stroll on the beach — and made it into its topthree scoring game of all time. The Wolverines pounded Howard, 109-41, in the teams’ first-ever meeting Friday at Crisler Center. It was just the 15th time in program history that Michigan has reached the triple-digit milestone — with the most recent being last weekend’s matchup with Niagara. This is the first time in school history that the team has gone three games in a row beating the century mark. And a large chunk of that, expectedly, came from Katelynn Flaherty. Before the first half was up, the junior guard tied her career high in assists at six. Flaherty went on to set her new record with a total of seven. “For (Flaherty) to do that, it’s just like a typical day for her,” sophomore center Hallie Thome said. “She’s one of the most outstanding shooters we have and in the NCAA.” Added Michigan coach Kim Barnes Arico: “She’s an incredible scorer. But when she finishes the night with (those statistics), she’s doing other things to help our team be successful. I think us having 32 assists on the night shows our ability to be unselfish and our ability to make that extra pass and score the basketball.” Barnes Arico chose to keep her starting lineup from the past two games: Thome, Flaherty, junior forward Jillian Dunston senior guards Siera Thompson and Danielle Williams. The Bison started off with a quick 6-0 lead within the first minute — surprising the Wolverines, who have never trailed that much this season. But Flaherty, in the second minute of play, bumped the Wolverines up by three, quickly followed by another 3-pointer from Williams.
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Sophomore center Hallie Thome was a force on defense for Michigan in the Wolverines’ 109-41 win over Howard.
Thome pointed out that going forward it will be tougher to erase that deficit if the team trails that early, and by that margin, when facing future competition. To its credit, Michigan never let Howard take the lead again — or score another point in the first quarter. The Wolverines went on a 36-0 run for a final tally of 36-6. The second quarter passed in much the same manner. By the end of the half, Flaherty led with 17 points, and Gondzrezick and Thome followed her with 15 and 12 points, respectively. Michigan extended its run to 52-0 in the second quarter, but the streak broke with a pair of mid-range shots from the Bison around the four-minute mark. Barnes Arico said she didn’t even notice the streak, though, and only recognized the efficient play. “I think it’s just exciting to see that we have a lot of people contributing to our (100-point streaks), and that’s exciting,”
Thome said. “Any night can be anyone’s game.” The Wolverines’ defense contributed to the standout performance with 16 steals for the night. Thome set the mark with three turnovers. Dunston also was a force on the field and set the bar for rebounds, with a total of 13. Barnes Arico also pointed out the all-around flexibility that sophomore guards Boogie Brozoski and Nicole Munger give the team. Combined, the two dished out 11 assists. Freshmen were a large part of the depth on the team that Barnes Arico noted. Notably, it was freshman Kayla Robbins who made the breakaway layup to push the Wolverines over the 99-point mark. It was guard KeAsja Peace who put Friday’s performance in a tie for the third-highest scoring game in program history. And it was guard Akenrieh Johnson who pushed the game over that mark.
Gondrezick finished the game with 22 points and went 5-for-7 on 3-pointers, making her teammates notice the similarities between her and Flaherty. “(Gondrezick) is hitting it lights out too,” Thome said. “Her and (Flaherty) on the court is something you just can’t mess with.” Despite all the milestones in the game, Barnes Arico is still striving to tweak her team to get ready for heavier competition. “Coaches are always pessimistic by nature,” Barnes Arico said. “I tell them to just take us on a run to the national championship and keep on taking those shots. I think our kids spend a lot of time in the gym and make an effort to be great shooters. “It’s been really positive, but it’s important for us as coaches to keep everyone grounded. It was fun, let’s enjoy the moment, but tomorrow we get back to work.”
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Five Things We Learned: Indiana tight end Michael Jocz getting a hand on a punt in the second quarter, giving the Wolverines the ball in Indiana territory. They ended up kicking a field goal for the first points of the game. Later, it was freshman safety Khaleke Hudson who blocked another punt in the fourth quarter. Michigan ultimately squandered the second scoring opportunity, but it benefited from great field position all afternoon. The Wolverines’ average starting position was at their own 39-yard line, while the Hoosiers’ was at their own 21 — thanks in large part to Allen, who had three 50-plus yard punts and four inside the 20-yard line.
JACOB GASE
Daily Sports Editor
After redshirt sophomore quarterback Wilton Speight went down with a shoulder injury last week, the Michigan football team was already in for a challenge in its matchup with Indiana on Saturday. A mid-game snow flurry, though, magnified the problem immensely. The Wolverines trailed at halftime, 7-3, before senior running back De’Veon Smith exploded for two touchdowns and helped them escape with a 20-10 victory. Here’s what we learned from Michigan’s 10th victory of the season. (Or at least what we think we learned. The snow made it nearly impossible to see the field.)
5. BOLD PREDICTION: Michigan beats Ohio State.
1. It was unfair to expect no drop-off at the quarterback position. After the news of Speight’s injury went public, his coaches and teammates expressed full confidence in his backup, redshirt junior John O’Korn. They pointed to his work ethic and steady focus, claiming they weren’t expecting much of a drop-off. In hindsight, that probably wasn’t a fair assumption. O’Korn is a talented quarterback, but he hadn’t started in two years and didn’t have the 10 games of experience Speight had accumulated this season, and that showed on Saturday. O’Korn struggled throwing the ball — though the weather factor can’t be ignored — completing just seven of 16 passes for 59 yards. He did spark the team with his feet, as a 30-yard run on 3rd-and-8 helped set up the Wolverines’ go-ahead touchdown. It was one of just
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Fifth-year senior kicker Kenny Allen has rebounded nicely since an apparent midseason slump. Allen had three punts of more than 50 yards on Saturday.
three successful third-down conversions Michigan had all day. 2. De’Veon Smith deserves the trust his coaches have in him. Some Wolverine fans seemed a bit perplexed after Smith received the bulk of the carries in last week’s loss to Iowa despite averaging just 2.3 yards a carry. Still, running backs coach Tyrone Wheatley made it clear this week that Smith is his most trusted back, citing his experience and development. Smith didn’t wait long to validate his coach’s trust
again, posting a career day Saturday with 158 yards and two touchdowns. His valiant effort in the third quarter proved to be the difference in the victory, swinging a 10-6 deficit into a 20-10 lead that Michigan clung to for the rest of the game. 3. The Wolverines’ secondary isn’t invincible. It’s still unwise to throw the ball near senior cornerbacks Jourdan Lewis and Channing Stribling — the two combined for four more pass breakups on Saturday and remain one of the top defensive back duos in the country. The Wolverines’
secondary allowed a few big plays through the air, though, allowing Indiana to temporarily seize control of the game. In the second quarter, Hoosier receiver Luke Timian picked up a 31-yard reception after Michigan senior safety Delano Hill fell down in coverage, setting up Indiana’s only touchdown of the game. Later, receiver Nick Westbrook made a great catch on a 37-yard gain despite tight coverage from Stribling, but Indiana had to settle for a field goal after the Wolverines picked up a stop on third down. Michigan was fortunate that the Hoosiers failed to capitalize on their opportunities, but the
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Finn, ‘M’ finish second in bittersweet end MARK CALCAGNO Daily Sports Writer
Erin Finn thought she finally had it. After passing Notre Dame’s Anna Rohrer in the final straightway, just 200 meters separated Finn from Michigan’s first individual cross country national championship since Katie McGregor in 1998. Despite the incredible nature of Finn’s career — which includes three Big Ten Athlete of the Year awards — it has been marked by misfortune, falling just short at the most inopportune times: she lost her shoe in the 2015 National Championship and injured her foot before the 1000-meter Olympic qualifiers last year. Saturday’s race, which took place on her 22nd
birthday, provided an opportunity for the senior to finally capture the crown her career deserved. “I thought that once I passed Anna Rohrer and made up that ground, I thought that the title might be mine,” Finn said, “I had no idea that Karissa Schweizer was coming behind me.” Mere seconds away from the finish line, Finn turned her head to see Schweizer pass her. It was a bittersweet moment, as the Wolverines ran to a suprising second-place finish — good for Michigan’s best-ever result — just one point behind Oregon. But Finn fell just shy of the championship that has eluded her for so long. “She did everything she could — similar to the team,” said Wolverine coach Mike McGuire. “She fought
hard to get in the lead with about 300 meters to go, but Schweitzer had a great kick at the end and was the better athlete today. She was the deserving champion today, and we tip our hat to her.” Finn looked poised to capture a triumphant moment, running the 6,000 meters in 19:44 — just 2.6 seconds slower than Schweizer’s. “Unfortunately, it wasn’t enough,” Finn said. “I thought it was, but I can rest in the fact that I could not have tried any harder or given it any more. But it was definitely a little heartbreaking, a little bittersweet to come so close.” Even though Finn never captured that elusive individual national championship, McGuire is unequivocally sure that she’s the best runner in program history.
“Erin’s the best distance runner we’ve ever had.” he said. “I’ll put up her body of work, and I don’t even think Katie would dispute it.” Michigan’s finish was aided by juniors Avery Evenson and Gina Sereno, who finished in 18th and 30th, respectively, and earned AllAmerica honors. Freshman Maddy Trevison, 46th, and redshirt junior Jaimie Phelan, 65th, also scored. Trevison gave Michigan an impressive boost, finishing seventh out of all freshmen runners in her first collegiate championship race. “All five of our scorers — and even Jamie Morrissey at number six — had great races,” McGuire said. “Maddy stepped up and probably ran 30 seconds faster than she did a month ago; Jaimie Phelan really came on with a really strong last kilometer where she probably passed upwards of 20 people. So in our scoring positions, we really couldn’t have asked for much more than what we got.” Despite the surprising nature of the second-place result — the team entered the race ranked fifth and simply desired to reach the podium Saturday — the “what-ifs” crept into the minds of Michigan runners following the championship, as one position separated the Wolverines from a share of the national title. “We were all kind of sitting here on the bus like, ‘Where could I have taken one more place?’ or ‘Where could we have gotten that last point?’ ” Evenson said. “We’re never going to blame one person, but it’s a what-if sort of situation.” “What if” is a question that has followed Finn in the most painful of ways. She will go down as one of the greatest athletes in school history, as she contributed to an all-time showing for her team, and, yet, she fought back tears when reflecting on her career. “I’m going to go back to bittersweet,” Finn said. “It’s been an incredible ride, and I’m so grateful to be a Wolverine and have finished that with my teammates. That fact that I could trust that every single one of them went out on the course giving everything they had — and knowing that I was doing the same — there’s nothing more special than that.”
Wolverines’ trend of allowing a few big plays per game could be problematic with No. 2 Ohio State looming next week. 4. Special teams can still make a difference. Other than fifth-year senior kicker Kenny Allen’s rediscovered success, it had been a quiet few weeks for Michigan’s special teams unit. The Wolverines’ kick coverage squad got back to its old habit of blocking punts on Saturday, though, and that helped swing the momentum in Michigan’s favor. First, it was fifth-year senior
Michigan may have looked sluggish the last two weeks, but “The Game” has a way of waking teams up quickly. Even in 2013 and 2014, when the struggling Wolverines were essentially playing for nothing, they put a scare into the Buckeyes and threatened their national title hopes. This year’s edition of the rivalry game has higher stakes than any year since 2006. The winner should be in the driver’s seat for a College Football Playoff berth, while the loser will likely be on the outside looking in. A surprise return from Speight would go a long way toward helping the Wolverines’ chances, but his status remains hush-hush. Regardless, Michigan’s defense will be ready to go, and its offense could benefit from a contest with more stable weather conditions. It’s never easy to win in Columbus, but the Wolverines have more than a fighting chance.
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1. ALABAMA: Let’s be honest: No one wants Bama.
2. OHIO STATE: The Buckeyes joined Northwestern and BYU in the elite club of teams that won in East Lansing this year.
3. MICHIGAN: The last year the Wolverines won in Columbus, the presidentelect lost the popular vote. Just saying.
4. CLEMSON: Dabo Swinney is more than ready to dab on any haters who think Clemson isn’t playoff-worthy.
5. WASHINGTON: By the transitive property, Washington would lose by 59 to Bama. Boom, math’d.
6. WISCONSIN: Does TJ Watt get to be in all those commercials now?
7. OKLAHOMA: Just when you thought the Big 12 was dead, one team is suddenly kinda ‘meh’ again.
8. PENN STATE: Congrats to the Nittany Lions, who are the highest-ranked team to have lost by at least 39 points.
9. COLORADO: The Buffaloes are high this week, which is a surprise to exactly no one.
10. WESTERN MICHIGAN: We’re pretty sure Kalamazoo is still too hungover from GameDay to see the Broncos’ Top 10 debut.