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Ann Arbor Hebrew Day School recipient of hoax bomb threat

Jewish Community Center evacuated after report of backpack bomb on Monday MAYA GOLDMAN Daily Staff Reporter

Last Monday morning, Ann Arbor’s Jewish Community Center was evacuated after the Hebrew Day School of Ann Arbor, located within the center, received a call claiming a bomb

was hidden inside a backpack in the school. The school administration and Ann Arbor police determined there was no bomb after a thorough search of the school and community center, and the 200 students were allowed back into the building two hours after the bomb threat was made.

Over 20 Jewish schools in 11 states received similar threats on the same morning. Ann Arbor police Lt. Matthew Lige told ClickOn Detroit the police and school officials are collaborating with the FBI to determine the source of the call. Despite the phone calls that morning, there have been no

attacks on any of the schools. According to CNN, calls of the same nature have been received by 68 Jewish Community Centers across the nation since January. A bullet was shot through the window of a classroom in an Indiana synagogue last Sunday night, and three Jewish See THREAT, Page 3A

Course to be taught in response to political climate, will critically navigate media facts MAYA GOLDMAN Daily Staff Reporter

Next semester, a new onecredit class titled “Fake News, Lies, and Propaganda: How to Sort Fact from Fiction” will be offered to undergraduate students by the University of Michigan library system. The class will be aimed at dispelling biases about the news and teaching students how to look at media with a more critical eye. Though the topic of fake news has been widely discussed in the context of the current political climate, Doreen Bradley, the University’s director

of learning programs and initiatives—who is one of the four designers of the course— said the course has broader roots. “I think the whole political environment kind of raised the issue even more, but our sense was that this was a needed issue even before the political turmoil of the fall,” Bradley said. “It will include things, obviously, related to politics, but we really want to focus on things like if you get something about health news, how do you know if you can rely on that health news? So we really want to make it a course that applies to students’ entire lives.” See MINI-COURSE, Page 3A

City government approves funds for Plans for Interim Library Lot review of AAPD practices, perception director

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After years of citizen protests and government consideration, Ann Arbor officials are finally moving forward with the first phase of a proposal to review the practices of the Ann Arbor Police Department. At its Feb. 21 meeting, City Council approved a $200,000 contract with Hillard Heintze LLC, a Chicago-based security consulting firm, to assess community perceptions of AAPD and its practices and make recommendations for the implementation of a civilian review board. Though the firm’s plan states that it will “provide recommendations for a model and implementation plan for Civilian Oversight of the APD (sic),” any potential civilian board would likely not have any oversight power other than non-binding recommendations — the city charter charges City Council and the city administrator have sole oversight over the police department. According to Councilmember Chip Smith (D–Ward 5), however, part of Hillard Heintze’s research will be to assess how an advisory board could work in tandem with the council. “Ultimately as a council person, I look for a board like that to give me advice on actions to take,” he said. “You know if

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The future of a controversial high-rise plan on a contested piece of land in Ann Arbor is coming to an apex as the City Council has announced a special work session on March 16 to discuss the issue in more detail. The real estate, located between Liberty and Williams streets on 5th Avenue, is currently a surface and underground parking lot called the Library Lane Parking Structure. Last year, City Council selected Chicago developer Core Spaces as a finalist to redevelop the property as a $10 million, 17-story high-rise. The building would include 357 apartments and 131 hotel rooms, in addition to office and retail space as well as an outdoor plaza. However, such an ambitious project provoked ire and scrutiny from citizen groups who felt constructing another high-rise downtown was unnecessary. Last year, the Ann Arbor Committee for the Community Commons delivered a petition to put the future of the Library Lot to the November election ballot, but it fell short of signatures. Alan See LOT, Page 3A

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there are complaints about an action or an officer, certainly I want to know what Chief Baird says about it, but I also want the independent group to be able to provide me their interpretation of what happened and how to best proceed.” And even after the firm makes the recommendations for implementation of a civilian advisory board, its enactment would still have to

be passed by a vote from the council. Councilmember Julie Grand (D–Ward 3) expects the measure to go through. “I would like to believe that I would be very confident in supporting (the recommendation) and that my fellow council members would be very confident in supporting the recommendations of this group,” she said. Though Jim Baird, the Ann

Arbor police chief, wrote in a memo to the council last June he would support a civilian review board if it were recommended by a third-party audit. He maintained, however, he did not personally view the body as necessary. “Following an audit of the Ann Arbor Police Department is the logical time to evaluate whether a Civilian Police See CITY, Page 3A

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On Friday March 3, Nadia Bazzy began her new position as interim director of the University of Michigan Sexual Assault Prevention and Awareness Center. Bazzy, previously assistant director of the Office of Student Conflict Resolution, will oversee SAPAC through the end of the year as organization leaders continue the search for a permanent director this spring. Bazzy replaced former SAPAC director Holly Rider-Milkovich, who announced Jan. 13 she was stepping down from her position to begin a new role as the senior director of prevention for EverFi, an educational technology innovator that works to empower students and adult learners. E. Royster Harper, vice president for student life, commended Bazzy in an email for her range of experience in the field of sexual assault. Bazzy worked to update the University’s new sexual misconduct policy, and advocated for survivors of See SAPAC, Page 3A

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ON THE DAILY: MC ‘SCHOOLS’ STUDENTS ON MATH, LEARNING Math homework has taken to a new beat recently with the work of SKULE.org not only in Ann Arbor and Detroit, but nationwide. SKULE.org — a new educationbased nonprofit — released an educational rap video titled “99 Math Problems” mid-February, an homage to Jay-Z’s “99 Problems”. The video received 400,000 views in its first week and was praised by schoolteachers around the country. Educational rapper Rohen Shah, the founder of SKULE.org and the face of MC SKULE, said as soon as the song was released, he and his team sent it to local school principals in the Ann Arbor and Detroit areas. From there, it reached the national level. Adhering to the tune of rapper Jay-Z’s original the video features middle schoolers singing and dancing at their school. At the center of the video is MC SKULE, a rapper who encourages students to treat math as an enjoyable challenge, and to not be afraid of attempting

problems. The video discusses fractions, multiplication and other basic math principles. He said schoolteachers around the country have been messaging the organization to say how much their students have enjoyed the videos. “Mostly the feedback was that they used it in their classrooms and the students loved it,” he said. “Some even said that it helped some of the students who usually wouldn’t speak out in class make comments.” Shah added that with enhanced technology today, it’s hard to keep kids engaged in class, when they are more likely to be become addicted to a Netflix show or listen to a song several times. “Rather than forcing them to pay attention to the math, why not make the math compelling?” he said. SKULE stands for Spread Knowledge Using Lyrics & Entertainment, as is the company’s mission. According to its website,

it aims to build a community of educators and artists to make learning fun for students. In October, DiagKNOWstics Learning, an Ann Arbor company co-founded by Shah, posted the first MC SKULE video to explain the Electoral College to young voters. Shah said then the goal of the educational rap tool is to reach students who may be struggling to

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THREAT From Page 1A cemeteries in three different states have been vandalized in recent weeks. Recent threats in southeast Michigan go beyond the Jewish community, too. A threatening voicemail was left at the American Muslim Society in Dearborn on Feb. 19, claiming Muslims are “agents of Satan” and that they “will be eradicated.” The FBI has also been called upon to investigate this voicemail. In December, the Ann Arbor Islamic Center received an anti-Muslim, proTrump letter with similar remarks. On Friday, former journalist Juan Thompson, a St. Louis resident, was arrested in New York for making some of the

LOT From Page 1A Haber, the leader of the petition, has criticized the council’s decision to sell the lot and said he wanted to build a civic commons on it. “Sometimes it seems (City Council members) would sell their mother if the price was right, and not even notice they were doing it, and they are trying to do that right now, not noticing what neverto-be center of community they are selling away,” Haber wrote in a Facebook post for the AACCC. “This citizen initiative is the alternative to 17 floor luxury hotel/ condo development, Chicago style., or its successor waiting to buy it out from under us.” Haber and others’ concerns have majority support from the community. A 2013 Park Advisory Commission survey showed 76.2 percent of respondents thought Ann Arbor would benefit from more downtown open spaces — such as a park or town square — and 41.5 percent of respondents chose the Library Lot as the best option to build such a space. Will Hathaway, a member of the Library Green Conservancy, a group that advocates for apportioning a part of the library lot as a public open space, is one such individual. Hathaway argued that the high-rise is mired with problems, the most important being parking. According to Hathaway, of the more than 700 underground parking spaces of the Library Lot, Core Spaces is planning to purchase or lease 196 of the spaces. However, he said 196 is not a sufficient number to satisfy all inhabitants of the high-rise, so Core Spaces is asking for another 85 parking spaces and 80 off-peak permits in the nearby parking lot on 4th Street and Williams Avenue. Hathaway argued even that is too little and would create a massive shortage of parking spots. “The rest of the people who don’t get a dedicated parking space who are in this building are going to be in the mix with all the rest of us looking for parking spaces,” Hathaway said. “So the impact goes way beyond those parking spaces that they’re proposing to take out of the system.” However, Councilmember Zachary Ackerman (D–Ward 3) argued the surface parking lot and 196 spaces underground were built expressly with the purpose of building a structure above it. He also noted that of the 160 spaces at

SAPAC From Page 1A sexual assault and human trafficking. “Nadia joined the University in 2015 as the Sexual Misconduct Program Manager in the Office of Student Conf lict Resolution and became Assistant Director of Sexual Misconduct in 2016,” Harper wrote. “During that time, Nadia worked with close campus partners to provide support around the new Sexual Misconduct Policy and its implementation. She has provided oversight to case management and the development of best practices.” Harper also noted Bazzy’s experience working

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bomb threat calls to Jewish centers around the country, but law enforcement officials do not think Thompson was behind other calls. While there has been no information released regarding whether Thompson made the call to Ann Arbor last week, officials discovered he was responsible for a bomb threat to a Jewish school in Farmington Hills, Mich., at the beginning of February. David Shtulman, the executive director of the Ann Arbor Jewish Federation, feels dismayed by the attacks. He said he wants more of a response from the Ufederal level. “It’s sad that this is happening,” Shtulman said. “I think it’s part of the larger sadness that’s happening all across the country to all kinds of groups. Personally, I wish that the president of the United

States would speak out a little bit more forcefully. It’s time for the administration to really speak out and say, ‘We’re not going to tolerate this anymore.’ “ President Donald J. Trump, whose senior adviser, Steve Bannon, penned several anti-Semitic articles, issued a statement condemning anti-Semitic acts on Feb. 21. However, many Jewish leaders, in the same vein as Shtulman, criticized the president for not responding to the acts — which have been occurring consistently since the beginning of January — sooner or in a more personalized fashion. “The anti-Semitic threats targeting our Jewish community and community centers are horrible and are painful and a very sad reminder of the work that still must be done to root out hate and prejudice and evil,” Trump said.

Fourth and William, only 80 can only be used during off-peak hours. Therefore, Ackerman said, the real issue is the other 80 spaces, which he said is more than enough of a trade-off for the high-rise. Ackerman noted that with the high-rise, Ann Arbor will gain a much-needed 20,000 square feet of office space for the tech community, as well as 120 apartments and 3,350 square feet of retail space. He added the benefits do not end there. “Each of these (spaces) will help activate 12,000 square feet of public plaza that will be built and maintained with private dollars,” Ackerman said. “This is important to note because our Parks Department is already responsible for maintaining 2,200 acres of parkland with a $14 million budget that they use in its entirety every year.” Ackerman’s assertion has some backing in Councilmember Kirk Westphal’s (D–Ward 2) comment regarding Haber’s attempt at the petition. Westphal told the Daily in June the future of the parking lot as a high-rise was decided through a transparent public process. “Before I was involved in city government, I participated as a citizen in the Calthorpe process for downtown over 10 years ago,” Westphal said. “The state of that particular parcel has not been contentious at all for decades, so going to the voters about a single piece of property didn’t seem to be a good use of the ballot mechanism.” Ackerman reasoned that in a state which prohibits rent control, increasing supply and competition is the best way to bring prices down for residents. He also noted that 42 of the housing units will be workforce housing, which will house individuals making $45,000 to $60,000 a year, 80 to 100 percent of Ann Arbor’s median income. Moreover the city will appropriate half of the $10 million revenue from the high-rise to the Affordable Housing Fund. In a meeting last Wednesday, the Downtown Development Authority decided to lease the 360 parking spaces for 50 years, the minimum that Core Spaces deemed necessary. The proposal is heading to the council, where it would be approved at an undetermined date. Hathaway also said the real estate biome around the parking lot is also problematic for building a massive high-rise. He said that the Core Spaces proposal

encroaches on a piece of land the council designated as a public open space in 2014, and other developers may take Core Spaces to court in order to prevent a highrise from casting a shadow over their planned developments. “Part of what we’re hoping is that we can avoid this whole protracted battle over who has a legal right to do whatever they want here and here, and instead get the community to step back and say, ‘Well, what would be the best way to develop this and this and this so that it all hangs together and supports the downtown around it instead of just treating each site in isolation?’ ” Hathaway said. “It’s better from an urban planning perspective. … It’s more holistic to think about the relationship between all of these different sites and how they could knit together the downtown.” Hathaway and Ackerman found common ground, however, in creating affordable housing for Ann Arborites with modest means. Hathaway contended that Core Spaces may be adding luxury student housing in the building to ease the parking issue, but suggested the council apportion the land for affordable housing. “If they use this site and a build a more modest building that included a 100 or 200 units of workforce housing, that could really help to create a more vibrant downtown,” Hathaway said. “You have people, in theory, who are the workers who work downtown living downtown, so less traffic congestion, less pressure on parking.” Ackerman said instead of building affordable housing on the Library Lot, the council is building it across the street. This year, the council is purchasing back this property, known as the Y Lot, for $4 million from the high-rise revenue because there was no development since selling the land in 2014. Ackerman said City Council is bringing 250 units of affordable housing on the Y Lot and leftover land in the Library Lot, and contended this was a smarter way to solve the affordable housing problem. “Talking about affordable and workforce housing only becomes lip service if we do nothing to build it,” Ackerman said. “Leaving this opportunity on the table is not just inaction on workforce housing, it’s action against workforce housing.”

with minority groups at a national level, particularly her invitation to attend a White House session regarding the experiences of Asian Americans — as well as Muslim, Arab and Sikh communities — this past winter. “This past December, Nadia was invited to a White House session that focused on the generational experiences of Asian Americans, including Japanese-Americans placed in internment camps during World War II, as well as modern day challenges facing the Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) and Muslim, Arab, Sikh, and South Asian (MASSA) communities today,” he wrote. This is a developing story. Check back with The Michigan Daily for updates.

MINI-COURSE From Page 1A According to Bradley, the concept of discerning the truthfulness of online news comes up in many other courses at the University. The new class builds off these predecessors, like Applied Liberal Arts 105, a class about digital research. “We teach a current course called ALA 105, and in it we do a segment on news to begin with, even just evaluating general websites that students find on the web,” Bradley said. “We just have seen over the past couple years a need to evaluate news and other types of nonscholarly information.” Social media has played a role in the fake news problem. Facebook has been heavily criticized in its role in dispensing unreliable news sources to users’ newsfeeds. Recently, the site has added warning labels to posts that have disputed information. Because of the role libraries play in helping to sort out different types of information, Bradley thinks the library system is the perfect place for the new course. She wants to use the class to teach students the skills librarians — and many other professions — must use every day.

CITY From Page 1A Review Board is warranted,” he wrote. “The commission’s report does not identify or even suggest systemic issues within the ranks or leadership of the agency that would warrant such a step.” At the time of this publication, Baird could not be reached for comment on whether his opinion on such a review board had changed. Relations between civilians and police across the nation reached a tipping point in August 2014 after a white policeman fatally shot unarmed Black teenager Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo. After the November 2014 shooting death of Ann Arbor resident Aura Rosser by a police officer, which was ruled as justified self-defense, local protests against police violence rallied around Rosser as a symbol for those affected

Monday, March 6, 2017 — 3A “As librarians, this is exactly what we do,” she said. “We evaluate everything that comes through — who wrote it, what’s it purpose, what is their purpose in (writing) it … everybody’s being asked to do research, whether you need to find this or that, and it’s a

Teaching students to be critical consumers of news and information is part of a good liberal arts education

skill that everybody needs.” Angela Dillard, LSA associate dean for undergraduate education, told the Michigan News a critical view of the media is a crucial part of a well-rounded liberal arts education. She echoed Bradley’s thoughts that the new class focuses on a more specific part of that skill. “Teaching students to be critical consumers of news and information is part of a good

by similar incidents of police violence. One of the main functions of an advisory board would be to review complaints made against police officers and provide advice to the council and AAPD regarding next steps. In the memo, Baird also defended the complaint

The complaint process is done internally through the police department process, saying it could not be as transparent as a report from the Human Rights Commission suggested it should be. “Due to the nature of the work officers perform and the conditions they perform it

liberal arts education,” Dillard said. “Students are learning this skill in all their classes. But today there is so much information that learning how to assess its validity is more challenging than ever. This course addresses that need.” Bradley and the other librarians involved in the course don’t yet know what kind of response there will be to the course, but they’re hoping to attract many students. As a one-credit mini-course, the class will only last the first seven weeks of the fall semester and will be taught by University librarians. LSA senior Rebecca Rothbart, the president of the Michigan Association of Communication Studies, said she sees connections between the fake news course and her communication classes. She said she is interested to see what the mini-course leads to, but also how the topic of fake news will be further integrated into other classes at the University. “I think from my standpoint as a comm student, this course seems to align with other coursework we’ve talked about, and even is a topic I’m sure will be integrated into future courses,” Rothbart said. “I think if it becomes … a class (communication students) can get credit for, it would definitely be a worthwhile class to take.”

under, much of it must remain opaque,” he wrote. “However, we should always be in a state of self examination to determine if there are areas where we can be more transparent.” Councilmember Graydon Krapohl (D–Ward 4) said he thought a civilian advisory board would be a way to shift the examination process from the police department to an independent body. “The complaint process is done internally through the police department,” Krapohl said. “I don’t want to say exactly off the top of my head –– complaints are brought in and then they are reviewed by senior officers, but all complaints are taken seriously, reviewed and investigated. We’re hoping through the audit, you know, how can we improve this process? That has been something –– maybe not everyone feels comfortable coming into the police station to make a complaint, and I think that’s understandable.”

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he term “supernova” the evils of Democrats and Obama, is used to describe the leveled a further validation and extremely dramatic embracement of factually inept destruction of massive stars within beliefs. Millions truly believed the our universe. This Democrats were going occurs in the final to establish death stages of stellar life panels, take away as a star burns its last all of our guns and amounts of helium and transform the country hydrogen, expanding into a “neo-socialist to an incomprehensible Europe.” size and increasing This dramatically the temperature of culminated in the its core to billions of election of the physical degrees. The outer manifestation of layers of the expanded an angry Facebook MICHAEL star eventually comment, President collapse in on MORDARSKI Trump. His emergence themselves, producing was condemned as a final, absolutely massive and racist, xenophobic and not true to catastrophic explosion that conservative values. The “Never destroys the star completely. Trump” movement desperately Things go out with a boom. tried to reign in his campaign that The Republican Party has had infected the party — or as permanently chained itself to the our secretary for the Department side of the Make America Great of Energy, also known as man Again Space Shuttle™, hurtling our who wanted to eliminate the country out of earth’s reality. Department of Energy, Rick Perry The GOP decided at its 2016 said, Trump’s candidacy was a national convention that the “cancer on conservatism.” party of fiscal conservatism Yet this cancer had metastasized and anti-slavery would now be and infected the members of dominated by isolationism and the party who decided to place ethnonationalism. The party of power ahead of country. They the pragmatic, wise, morally just nominated Trump and adopted words of Abraham Lincoln would his ludicrous platform, heading now be replaced by the scattershot, toward an election they believed misinformed, misspelled tweets of they would lose. And when the Donald Trump. Access Hollywood tape emerged This was a transformation that in which the nominee of the was years in the making. From party of traditional family values the adoption of Barry Goldwater’s bragged about sexually assaulting radical nationalist positions in 1964 women, many political pundits to President Reagan’s fiscally insane began discussing the death of the “voodoo economics,” irresponsible GOP — that this bubble of insanity defense spending and military had grown to its limit with the misadventures, the party grew to doomed candidacy of Trump. include the more fringe right-wing While many Republicans began ideologies, normalizing them in jumping ship and preparing to the process. With the acceptance rebuild their party — the world of the anti-Obama Tea Party, the was stunned by Trump’s “massive” GOP further incorporated beliefs electoral college victory. Suddenly, of science denial, xenophobia, blind these spineless Republican nationalism and a tribal mentality politicians immediately flipped that has a pathological hatred of their condemnations and came the U.S. government. scurrying back, blinded by the Yet as E.J. Dionne says in thoughts of pursuing their own his book, “Why the Right Went personal agendas. Wrong,” “no conservative Cue Speaker Paul “This administration — not Nixon, not is not conservatism” Ryan, Reagan, not the two Bushes — who pathetically defends the could live up to the rhetoric rooted administration’s insane proposal in the Goldwater movement that for an ineffective $14 billion began to reshape American politics border wall, all in the hopes of also fifty years ago.” fulfilling his nighttime fantasies of Now, the consequences of slashing upper marginal tax rates. elevating right-wing extremism Cue Senate Majority leader to normal political discourse Mitch “I’m not a fan of the daily have finally come to head. The tweets” McConnell, who, despite effects of the new Tea Party’s getting screamed at during his Freedom Caucus in Congress, town hall events, plans his total and the constant commentary dismantlement of Obamacare. of furious conservative pundits, And cue the countless other who, through cable news and talk Republicans who condemned the radio peddled pure nonsense of lunacy of the xenophobic, racist

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and ignorant Trump campaign, only to defend and cozy up to the new administration like pathetic dogs. From Rep. Jason “can’t look his daughter in the eye if he votes for Trump,” Chaffetz, to Senator Marco “Donald Trump is a con artist, Donald Trump will never be the nominee of the party of Lincoln,” Rubio — these congressmen, senators, pundits, all now have capitulated to the monster they helped create that is Donald Trump’s GOP. And now, chained to this administration, the GOP is a bubble growing ever larger — a star becoming all the more unstable. The problems that the nomination of Trump exemplified have been swept beneath the rug by a smiling Paul Ryan and a sweating Reince Priebus. And the ever-increasing temperatures seen before a supernova in the death of a star mirror the inner chaos within the Trump administration and the defense mounted by the GOP. In one month the 45th president of the United States has managed to attempt an unconstitutional travel ban, dismissed federal “so-called judges,” called the press the enemy of people, appointed a right-wing political hack as a permanent member of the NSC and had to force the resignation of his national security adviser because of an ongoing scandal. And as Reince Priebus, Sean Spicer and the GOP dance in goddamn circles attempting to put out these endless fires, a dotty old racist continues to wander around the White House in a bathrobe, tweeting about his crowd sizes and “The Celebrity Apprentice” — allowing his sycophant white nationalist advisers, such as Steve Bannon and Stephen Miller, to draft ludicrous executive orders further engulfing the GOP in a fiery hell. This is what happens when you normalize such fringe movements of ethnonationalism. This is what happens when a reality TV celebrity capitalizes on free media and your party lacks the constitution to dismiss his populist rhetoric. This is a bubble that was supposed to pop in November — a star destined to explode with the defeat of Trump — that now, is growing ever hotter, its stability becoming all the weaker. This is something that will go “boom.”

Michael Mordarski can be reached at mmordars@umich.edu.

couple weeks ago, I had So, while many Detroiters may the opportunity to attend realize that they should be eating TedxUofM’s annual healthier, the grocery store is so conference in the far away and only Power Center, and I about 40 percent of was struck especially people in Detroit have by Dr. Abdul El-Sayed’s regular access to a car. talk. University alum Systematic racism in El-Sayed, the health the last century has officer and executive concentrated people director of the Detroit of low income and Health Department, minorities in certain told the crowded areas in Detroit audience to “think where the crime ASHLEY upstream” when rate is especially ZHANG considering issues of high. So, while many poverty and public health. Detroiters may want to take a walk It’s true that poverty and poor around the block for exercise, the health go hand-in-hand, but the neighborhood isn’t exactly the story is bigger than that. It is safest to stroll around at night. not a simple cause-and-effect For people in poverty in food relationship between poverty deserts, being healthy is not a and poor health; rather, there are choice like it is for many of us. For several underlying factors that example, if I have poor health, cause and sustain poverty, and it’s because I didn’t visit the salad poverty itself has several effects bar in the dining hall, or I was that cause poor health. too lazy to cross the street to Removed as many of us are get to the NCRB. However, for from poverty, most University those who are not as fortunate, of Michigan students are at least poor health is a condition they’re aware of it as a problem. However, forced into by their environment the problems of food scarcity and and circumstances. lack of health education in America It is easy to judge people of low seem even further removed from income as lazy, not hardworking our privilege. It can be difficult and unhealthy, to tell them to pull to believe that there are people in themselves up by their bootstraps the United States — a developed and dig their way out of poverty. country — who do not have However, that is easier said than access to a basic human need: done, because the poverty they healthy sustenance. are in right now will keep them However, these problems are in poverty. The unhealthy diet closer than we think. A USDA maintained by a low income “food desert” is defined as “a leads to poor health that could low-income census tract where eventually lead to serious health either a substantial number or problems and a stay in the hospital. share of residents has low access Even with the Affordable Care Act, to a supermarket or large grocery health care carries a hefty price tag store,” and a map of food deserts that is a heavy burden for people in America shows a startlingly who already struggle financially. large amount across the country. Unable to work and having their Though they are more prevalent savings zapped by hospital bills, in the rural South, there is a food people in poverty cannot “pull desert not less than an hour away themselves up by the bootstraps,” in our very own Detroit. because they are caught in the There are several factors that vicious negative feedback loop of culminated into Detroit being a poverty and poor health. food desert. Built by carmakers, However, the cycle can be Detroit is a large city with stopped. The theme of this highways in and out of the city, but year’s TedxUof M conference not a lot of public transportation was “Dreamers and Disruptors,” for those living within the city. which certainly encapsulates

El-Sayed: He works to disrupt the current cycle of poor health and poverty and he dreams of a healthier Detroit. Public health policy has failed poor people in Detroit, but El-Sayed’s work with the Detroit Health System is all about stopping the vicious cycle that has forced people into poverty, so they have a chance to be healthy. A few projects in Detroit have sprung up as a result of his work, including Sister Friends, which mentors pregnant teens through pregnancy and childcare, and a partnership with Vision to Learn, which offers free eye exams and glasses to students in Detroit. These programs strive to break the cycle of poverty and poor health that wracks people of low income in Detroit. In the meantime, it is important to learn about the importance of public health and erase stigmas of poverty. It is so easy to judge people stuck in poverty without realizing the extent of their situation — a situation that leads to poor health and minimizes the chances of upward social mobility. Instead of shaming those with low income, we must strive to understand the whole extent of their situation and be cognizant of the uncontrollable circumstances that have trapped them where they are. We must empathize and withhold judgment, because there are extenuating circumstances that we do not understand. With the fate of the Affordable Care Act in the air, it is more important than ever to realize that while the law did have its flaws, accessible health care is a lifeline for people with low income, who are trapped in this awful feedback cycle of poverty and poor health.

Ashley Zhang can be reached at ashleyzh@umich.edu.

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The series for dreamers: Jack White’s Third Man A conversation with Pete Press brings life to vinyl Holmes and Judd Apatow Two Arts writers recount their experience at White’s new press CONNOR GRADY Daily Arts Writer

“If it sucks, you’re doing it right. I think that’s a fun thing to share with people.” This is how Pete Holmes — creator of HBO’s latest comedy series “Crashing” — replied when I asked him to describe the central message of his new show. Accompanying Holmes during our conversation was Judd Apatow (“Knocked Up”), one of “Crashing” ’s producers and the director of two of the series’ episodes. The Holmes-created and Apatow-produced comedy has been widely praised for its charismatic cast and clever wit. Released on Feb. 19, the series currently holds a 92 percent “Certified Fresh” rating on the popular aggregate site Rotten Tomatoes. Playing a fictionalized version of himself as a middling comedian recently separated from his wife, Holmes’s inspiration for “Crashing” is derived from his own experiences. Holmes divorced his wife in 2007 while struggling to progress his comedy career into his late-20s. It was at this time that Holmes became close with fellow comedian T.J. Miller (“Deadpool”), who features in two of the show’s episodes. “The fun thing about T.J. was — when my real wife left me, he invited me to come hangout for a week in Pittsburgh,” Holmes recalled. “We laughed, and had a lot of room service… [now] when one of us is hurt we’re like dolphins [and can sense it].” Holmes’s divorce had a profound effect on his psyche and drastically altered his perspective on life — he turned

away from his faith to being able to appreciate the mystery in everything. This shift freed him to address new and different topics in his comedic routine, Holmes stated. To fully explore these ideas about “boners and stuff,” Holmes and Apatow elected to do a television series, as opposed to a feature-length film. This represented a shift in from the norm for Apatow who — despite possessing a shared background with Holmes in stand-up comedy and the Los Angeles comedy club scene — typically does most of his production work on movies. For Holmes, he decided it was a show as soon as the premise started to present itself as something episodic. While not his traditional domain, Apatow said he enjoyed the change in directing constraints due to the freedom offered by television that permits deeper character explorations. Despite the difference in medium, he maintained the same approach of striving to be funny by working with the actors before filming to acquire their perspectives on the scene and their character. Applying this same approach to “Crashing,” Apatow and Holmes worked to develop a distinct style for Holmes’ character. When asked to compare his character on “Crashing” to his actual self, Holmes distinguished between the two personalities. “[My character is] like me if I was a little bit sweeter and more naïve. It was a little bit of a vacation [to play that role],” Holmes said. “It just helped me have a point of reference for any scene.” Although Holmes’s outlook changed, he still occasionally bombed during his stand-up

routines. “I remember doing a show with Kumail Nanjiani (“Silicon Valley”) that was so bad that I smoked a cigarette after the show because I wanted part of me to die,” he said, recalling one of his worst outings. As a longtime stand-up comedian himself, Apatow was able to relate to Holmes’ experience, echoing similar thoughts about the effects of rough comedic performances on comedians. “A lot of the fun of the show is watching someone do standup when they’re not good at it,” Apatow said. “[But] if [Holmes’s character] keeps trying, he’ll get funny enough to make money.” Due to this frank depiction of the stand-up comedy experience, “Crashing” was deeply influenced by comedian Louis C.K.’s series, “Louie,” Apatow confirmed. Apatow went on to explain that, when viewing “Louie,” he realized that there are only a few episodes in the show that truly portray the world of stand-up comedy. Having a connection to “Louie” — a series that has been nominated for 22 Primetime Emmys — can only be considered a positive for “Crashing.” However, “Crashing” was not constructed solely around finding the humor in daily struggles. Rather, it is meant to resonate with dreamers. “There’s always a trend toward people having big dreams,” Apatow stated. “In that way I feel people can relate to this.” Holmes echoed similar sentiments about his intentions for “Crashing.” “Hopefully the show will give a reference point to anyone following a dream,” he said.

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towards the end of the evening. Surrounded by his family, coworkers and attendees, White acknowledged those who work behind the scenes of music as well as the importance of art in a broader sense. “I also want to thank everybody here who works in a pressing plant,” White said, “who works on mixing and mastering, and every musician and artist in this room. Third Man Records is about no genre, it’s about poetry, it’s about painting, it’s about sculptures, it’s about music, it’s about history, it’s about Detroit, it’s about Nashville, it’s about America first and foremost.” Unsurprisingly, this sentiment was met with voracious applause; there was almost a visible glow of hope and inspiration. The night served not only as a testament to the power that music and Detroit had in the past, but to their inevitable place in the future of art and American life. Raising his glass, White concluded: “We’re all one family, we’re all together, and remember this moment because we’re making things beautiful last for the next generation.” — Carly Snider, Senior Arts Editor I was forced to repeatedly pinch myself on the night of Feb. 24, 2017 due to the dreamscape that became the Third Man Records store in Detroit. In celebration of the grand opening of the highly anticipated record plant at the store, Jack White threw a stunning private event that was almost too good to be true. Last year, I visited the store as a customer and left with a fond impression of the interior design of the store. Everything is fully merchandized from skateboards to coffee mugs. It’s layout is also littered with seemingly archaic machines custom designed in TMR’s theme: a mechanized puppet “house band,” a device for recording yourself and a booth to listen to the available vinyl

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On the eve of its opening, Third Man Press was a buzzing blur of yellow and black, chatter and song, excitement and awe. The artists, musicians, writers and legends of Detroit stepped out of the damp cold and into the warm world of Jack White — one that has the utmost respect for music, machinery and the city it calls home. Small but mighty, the record store portion of the venue was dimly lit and filled with live music. There was TMR memorabilia alongside classic Detroit, rock and other records. That more subdued area then funneled down a short hallway, past a picture of a young, sweaty Iggy Pop and into the main event — the vinyl press. Shocking was the change in tone, color and volume. As would only be fitting, rock was blasted through speakers and bounced off the shiny factory surfaces. Guests mulled about with food and drinks, talking about not only the décor, but the importance of the evening for the record industry, Detroit and artists. The press was vibrant; a bright yellow floor and tall, red beams drew guests’ eyes to the center of the room where workers were pressing custom vinyl. Friday night’s special: the debut albums of The Stooges and The MC5, pressed on bright yellow vinyl and sold in hand-screened sleeves. Sporting Third Man jumpsuits, the workers took care to mold, flatten and perfect each musical disc; this was no automated production. White purposefully curated this relatively small-scale press not only to boost the vinyl industry, but to connect and employ Detroiters by way of the music that shaped their city. White made note of these sentiments in a toast he gave

‘I’m Not a Feminist’ poses the necessary questions Classifieds The complicated, counterproductive nature of modern feminism ELI RALLO

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Jessa Crispin is an author and the founder of two liberal magazines. Despite the ironic title of her 2016 novel “Why I Am Not a Feminist,” a spirited attack on modern commercial feminism, Crispin herself identifies as a feminist. Her nonfiction book explains her issues with the now popular “soft and Disney-ified feminism” that has counterproductive effects on the type of feminism she wishes to see destroy the patriarchy and change the world. Crispin starts with the general question: Are you a feminist? From there, she draws on her critiques of modern feminism. With her audience in the palm of her hand she outlines her confident opinions on the institutions of the current wave of feminism that has every female celebrity, young woman and modern feminist hooked. Her critiques run on the basis that modern feminism has become essentially pointless — while it stands on the platform that it will become “universal,” it forgets that for something to become universal it must be accepted by all. It must essentially be non-threatening and ineffective for everyone to agree with its values. In order for feminism to recruit the masses, it needs to be close to the status quo — exactly what it does not want to do. Crispin argues that feminism should not have a desire to change the patriarchy we live in, but destroy it entirely — and reshape the world.

Crispin’s first major problem wrote. with mainstream feminism is Her novel works because she the way in which it has gained has strong opinions, a strong popularity through the United central voice, an idea of exactly States in recent years. “Feminism what she wants and evidence is trending,” she says in the first to back it up. Crispin faces this chapter of the book. Throughout beast knowing very well that the following eight chapters, she society will have contrasting explains exactly how feminism opinions — but she also knows has achieved that status. It that there are people who will bothers her that feminism has pick up her words and agree become “fashionable” when with them. creating a more equal society In terms of anti-feminist has actually literature, this become more is one of the “Why I am not a unfashionable most succinct, Feminist” than ever. universal and Celebrities like sensible critiques Jessa Crispin Beyoncé proudly on modern Melville House don the “feminist” feminism. label and Crispin It justifies February 2017 claims she has disagreeing with every young girl modern feminism calling herself one, as well. — even if this villainizes According to Crispin, so-called Crispin to every woman who “feminists” are creating the does identify as a modern day problems within feminism itself. feminist. The book is worth When looking back to the read for modern feminists the first wave of feminism, and women who disagree Crispin argues that women had with feminism alike. Simply universal wants and desires, educating oneself on another the right to vote being the one woman’s opinions and ideas on the forefront. With this when it comes to feminism is universal desire women were something Crispin believes able to accept their differences, this society lacks. Whether or band together and gain this not you agree with her ideas, right. Women were united Crispin’s polemic puts you in the under a single cause. Today, position to question your beliefs Crispin argues, women have too and the effectiveness of the many differences for modern second wave of feminism. She feminism to work. Differences makes the reader uncomfortable in race, personal history, class, and forces them to have a location and education, among conversation with themselves others, make feminism today about what they believe. It is not an institution that can bind impossible to close the book and women together but one that can ignore the central question of tear them apart. the text: Are the current goals “Kill the dominant idea about and ideas of feminism likely to what feminism is,” Crispin create the world we search for?

before making your purchase. In its marriage of aging ideas with modernity, the store craftily brings unique appeal to the classically mundane aesthetic of a record store. Yet, the store wasn’t quite finished, as the doors to the pressing plant remained tightly shut. I entered through the previously closed doorway to an explosively colorful plant. Workers manually pressed vinyl in the middle of the room using machines that were custom designed for the plant, roped off from walkways and tables where guests could circle the operation. A screen-printing station showed the manual application of artwork to the vinyl sleeves. The entire presentation was vibrant with the workingclass spirit of Detroit. Vinyl is the quintessential form of listening to music — fully superior in quality, tangibility and, of course, nostalgia. The entirety of the event not only celebrated the merits of manual pressing, but also commemorated the importance of vinyl as the physical representation of music. Towards the end of the evening, White himself gave a toast to the arts, to “every musician and artist in the room.” Embodying the TMR mentality, White’s speech praised all forms of art, from music to poetry to painting. Sticking to his word, Detroit artist Danny Brown gave a surprise performance later in the evening. In White’s beautiful testament, he also tied the arts into the history of Detroit itself. Beyond bringing jobs into the city, the TMR record plant has blended music’s past and present by cloaking emotion in surrealism; beneath the bright colors and intricate designs lies the heart of the human connection with the tunes that cause our visceral reactions — soundwaves worthy of being pressed into existence by the very hands that enjoy them. — Dominic Polsinelli, Daily Arts Writer

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DAILY MUSIC COLUMN

FILM REVIEW

Why I’m proud of my fat, bruised punk show lip The power and meaning in music and the injuries we endure for it

Netflix’s new for-streaming movie “I Don’t Feel at Home in This World Anymore”

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‘I Don’t Feel at Home in This World’ brings charm DANIEL HENSEL Daily Film Editor

The wonderful film “Frances Ha,” as described by co-writer and star Greta Gerwig, was conceived as an amalgamation of everyday moments, like deciding whether or not to pay a fee to use an ATM. The result is a film rich in humanity, a measured dissection of an average individual as she struggles to navigate her newfound adulthood. Many of those same emotions — those familiar beats, not from our movie history but from our actual history — are given their due spotlight in “I Don’t Feel at Home in This World Anymore,” the debut directorial effort from actor Macon Blair (“Green Room”) that premiered this January at the Sundance Film Festival, won its top prize (an honor shared by the likes of “Whiplash,” “Beasts of the Southern Wild” and “Precious”), then was unceremoniously dumped onto Netflix, its distributor. But the film is worth more than its lackluster distribution indicates. “I Don’t Feel at Home in This World Anymore” is a darkly funny and gritty action movie, one that takes left turn after left turn with total confidence — and with great payoffs. If “Portlandia” did “The Big Lebowski” with Phyllis and

Dwight from “The Office,” this She’s the hero in a revenge fantasy film would be the outcome. that feels all the more satisfying Ruth Kimke (Melanie Lynskey, when she gets her way, often by “The Intervention”) is the hero force. we neither deserve nor expect The magic of Blair’s film isn’t — a depressed nurse’s assistant limited to its two leads. Every whose house is burglarized character, even those whose time and, disturbed by the police’s on screens lasts not five minutes, intransigence, becomes a is instantly memorable: An elderly vigilante, obsessed secondhand goods with restoring salesman who “I Don’t Feel some semblance looks on the verge of justice and of death but can at Home in order in this cruel, still pull off some This World chaotic world. martial arts, a Her best friend’s police detective Anymore” husband provides whose divorceNetflix no assistance, so stricken grief takes she recruits the control of his life, Streaming on help of an off-kilter a bored housewife Netflix neighbor, Tony who could (Elijah Wood, probably recite “The Trust”), who himself has Betty Friedan by heart. no friends and who tries a bit too Cinematographer Larkin Seiple hard in everything he does. The recreates his genre-bending skills guy, after all, is quick to wield his from last year’s surprise summer pair of nunchucks at the slightest indie hit “Swiss Army Man” to provocation. form a kinetic style that constantly Though Wood is more adapts to the film’s quickly attention grabbing, it’s Lynskey’s changing moods. performance that buoys the film. Blair’s film is not just Ruth’s She’s just so much fun to watch. story: It’s a quintessentially Every sigh slightly tinged with modern American story — a disgust, every scrunch of the face Portlander’s fairy tale and an to digest what idiotic nonsense engaging slacker film that’s someone else says or does — (fortunately for those like myself, Lynskey is everyone who has ever bored by what one may consider wondered why people truly are the artificiality of Richard the worst. But Lynskey never has Linklater’s film) not like “Slacker” to suck it up or go on about her day. at all.

LAUREN THEISEN Daily Music Columnist

Of course, I know that “I love punk rock” is the least punk rock thing a person could possibly say, but as I left the Magic Stick after a sold-out Menzingers show over Spring Break, I just had to let out that exclamation — as corny as it is. My friend and I were leaving with, between us, two pairs of sore feet, a bloody lip, broken glasses, sweat-soaked clothes and a passionate yearning for a glass of water. We thought of all these as badges of honor: Proof that we had seen a perfect show. And it was perfect — physically draining, but perfect. Myself and other Daily writers have already given enough fullthroated endorsements of The Menzingers, so I’ll spare you too much repetition, but these guys from Philly are now veterans of the American punk circuit, having built up a hardcore, loyal fanbase and written a full set’s worth of great songs. At the Magic Stick, “Gates” sounded like a piece of classic American songwriting, and “Casey” brought some of the loudest screams I’ve ever heard. Meanwhile, the new songs from After the Party give you a little more room to breathe but still boast tightly written, energetic choruses and boisterous crowd responses. That crowd — if I hadn’t seen “SOLD OUT” taped to the venue’s doors when I walked in, I would have known by how packedtogether the entire room was. There were a host of different crowdsurfers for every song, jumping onstage unencumbered by security and leading the

loudest singalongs. It was physical but not violent, fans crazed by their favorite song jockeyed for the closest position to the stage, causing harm more out of a lack of awareness than any ill intent. I got kicked in the face towards the end of the show, and although it wasn’t my favorite thing at the time, I can’t help but smile now when I see the mark in the mirror. I’ve been thinking about that bloody lip of mine the past few days, and why I’m weirdly so proud of it. I’ve never been one to wear bruises proudly, like some kind of adventurer. I avoid pain as much as I can, and if you ever do see me sporting a bruise it’s much more likely that there’s an embarrassing tale of clumsiness behind it rather than an exciting story that shines a spotlight on my daring and athleticism. Sometimes it’s hard to quantify how much a certain artist means to you. Collecting all the albums doesn’t mean as much in the age of Spotify. Discovering all the b-sides and obscurities is easier ever since Youtube. You could definitely buy a t-shirt, or some stickers, or get a signed poster. You could even get a tattoo. But the struggle of being a fan is coming to terms with always being an outsider — supporting but never really being able to make an impact on the art you love so much. I try not to assign any kind of religious significance to music fandom, but getting to the front and shouting yourself hoarse at a show is definitely an act of devotion, maybe even a form of worship. The way people pack themselves in and struggle to get the best spot possible, the ways they dance and sweat and drain themselves over the course of the night — they’re giving everything they have to

the music that they love so much, becoming part of the show as they trade stability and comfort for that life-changing chorus. To be clear: don’t invade other people’s personal space, and please don’t use blood as a means of measuring loyalty. But just the fact that you’re willing to put yourself through the physical gauntlet of a great punk show speaks volumes about your feelings. I fucking hate to exercise, but I would have burned every calorie in my body as long as a band I loved kept playing. The opener for The Menzingers on this tour is Jeff Rosenstock, a DIY pop-punker who sounds like a cross between Mark Hoppus and Father John Misty. Rosenstock has broken out since his recent release, Worry., yielded indielevel hits like “Festival Song” and “Wave Goodnight to Me,” and his set was an exhaustingly spectacular celebration of his newfound success. His band played for a gloriously breakneck half hour with an energy level that no headliner could pull off without collapsing onstage. A lot of fans had come to see him, specifically, as the space in front of the stage got almost dangerously frenetic as Rosenstock screamed out his songs. While Rosenstock was exceptionally conscientious about making sure his most vulnerable fans weren’t crushed, he couldn’t hide how touched he was by this crowd’s display of passion. They weren’t just loud, but they were willing to put themselves in harm’s way just for his art. Out of all those bodies flying around this upstairs room in Midtown, nobody was literally shouting “I love punk rock,” but everyone was saying it — to each other, and to the artists.

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LINCOLN — With just over five minutes remaining, senior wing Zak Irvin pulled up from beyond the arc and nailed a 3-pointer. Irvin’s shot didn’t matter. It put the Wolverines up by 30 in a game that had long been over. But who Irvin received the pass from did matter. With Irvin’s shot, senior guard Derrick Walton Jr. notched the 15th of his 16 assists on the night, breaking Michigan’s singlegame assist record formerly held by Gary Grant. “Andrew (Dakich) told me that I was close,” Walton said.

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“Of course I was looking for guys the entire game, but Zak said he felt good, and we ran an action for him to come up. He got an open look, and I smiled, and I told him I loved him after.” Added Irvin: “Aww. I don’t hear that too often.” Behind Walton, the Michigan men’s basketball team routed Nebraska, 93-57, on Sunday night to cap off its regular season with a road victory in what was a seemingly meaningless game prior to tip-off. After all, the Wolverines’ fate had already been decided when Iowa defeated Penn State at noon and simultaneously locked Michigan (10-8 Big Ten, 20-11 overall) in as the eighth seed in

the Big Ten Tournament. Still, the Wolverines had been dismal away from Crisler Center prior to the matchup with the Cornhuskers (6-12, 12-18), entering Pinnacle Bank Arena with an uninspiring 2-8 road record. Sunday night wasn’t a chance to put those problems entirely to bed, but it was certainly an opportunity to take a step in the right direction

before beginning a postseason during which an ability to play in front of hostile crowds could prove to be the difference between moving on and going home. And to make matters worse, Michigan was tasked with responding from a gutwrenching, buzzerbeater loss to Northwestern just four days prior. The Wolverines recovered in full.

“I had no idea how we were gonna play tonight.”

“I said twice in the locker room … that I had no idea how we were gonna play tonight,” said Michigan coach John Beilein. “That Northwestern loss was so disappointing for these guys, but they handled it like they always handle it. They wanted to bounce back. They practiced well. “We had this late game Sunday, you have to wait all day. … To me it seemed like forever when you’ve been through a whole season. Then they went out, and they were absolutely excellent from beginning to end.” A pair of layups by Nebraska’s Isaiah Roby and Ed Morrow Jr. bookended a stretch in which

Michigan scored 14 consecutive points to claim a 14-4 lead within the game’s first five minutes. The Cornhuskers weren’t helping themselves either, turning the ball over six times during the stretch and allowing the Wolverines to notch eight points off them. At first, it wasn’t a matter of Michigan’s defense being anything exceptional. Nebraska still finished the first half shooting 56.5 percent from the floor, but they were plagued by 10 turnovers in the opening frame. On the opposite end, the Wolverines were running an offensive clinic from the See BASKETBALL, Page 2B

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Wolverines’ thundering road leads back to Illinois J ust over a month ago, on Feb. 4, the Michigan men’s basketball team was in a dire position. Ahead of a home game against lowly Ohio State — which the Wolverines would go on to lose — they MAX were sitting BULTMAN at 14-8, with a 4-5 record in a weak Big Ten. As it stood, they were in line to be the No. 8 seed in the Big Ten Tournament and far from a safe bet to make the NCAA Tournament. It’s surreal, then, that after a month in which the Wolverines have been as hot as any team in the conference, they still find themselves as a No. 8 seed when the Big Ten Tournament begins this week. They knocked off both of the Big Ten’s two best teams, scored blowout wins over Michigan State and Indiana and all but clinched an NCAA bid. In one sense, that last piece is all that truly matters. Michigan’s Big Ten Tournament will count for little more than seeding, and, regardless of their position in the conference tournament, the Wolverines are playing like an entirely different team than they were in February. But there is one aspect of being the No. 8 seed that creates an irresistible storyline leading up to this tournament for Michigan. The team it will face, Illinois, is due at least partial credit for starting the Wolverines’ secondhalf run in the first place. By now, of course, Maverick Morgan’s name has become a verbal punching bag in Ann Arbor. When he called the Wolverines’ a “white-collar” team after the Illini beat Michigan, 85-69, in Champaign on Jan. 11, it lit a fire. How fitting it is that, as the Wolverines now

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BASKETBALL From Page 1B outset. They finished the first half shooting 59.3 percent from the floor and 53.3 percent from beyond the arc, led by sophomore forward Moritz Wagner’s 11 first-half points off three 3-pointers and perfect mark from the floor. This time, though, the Wagner show didn’t last the whole game. Senior wing Zak Irvin and junior guard Muhammad-Ali AbdurRahkman each finished the game with 15 and 13 points, respectively, and senior guard Derrick Walton Jr. pulled the strings like a puppeteer — notching nine of his 16 assists in the first half before singlehandedly dismantling the Cornhuskers in the second stanza. Though Nebraska opened the second half with a layup, it turned the ball over on the next three consecutive possessions. At the 16:37 mark, Walton had already notched a doubledouble. With just over 11 minutes remaining, there were fans already heading toward the exits. And with 10 minutes left in the contest, Michigan led by 30.

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look to go on another run — this time through a conference tournament they seem suddenly equipped to navigate — it will start with Morgan and the Fighting Illini. Ten days after “the whitecollar game,” Michigan exacted revenge by outplaying Illinois at Crisler Center. It’s worth mentioning, of course, that it took some time, even after that win, before the Wolverines rounded into the form they have been in down the stretch. But it was still easy to see the different mentality they cultivated. And while back-to-back losses

to the Spartans and Buckeyes put that new mentality in question, Michigan has gone 6-2 in the last month, with its only two losses coming in overtime and on a buzzer-beater. The whole way, it has looked like a tougher, livelier team. Now, just in time for the postseason, the Wolverines will get an up-close reminder of what sparked that initial flame — and how far they’ve come. Even though the No. 8 vs. No. 9 game — in which Michigan has played each of the last three years — is typically considered a toss-up, the Wolverines’ recent

run should have them favored over Illinois. They have a senior point guard in Derrick Walton Jr. who is playing with a graceful brand of desperation. They have a big man in Moritz Wagner who, at any given time, is liable to be the best player on the court. And, most importantly, they have a supporting cast that is willing to accept the roles they’ve needed to accept in order to experience this success. Consider, for a moment, that at the time of the “white-collar” comment, Zak Irvin was the relatively unquestioned go-to guy on the team. Now, Irvin,

though still a gifted scorer, has accepted a secondary role as Walton has surged to the forefront. Some of this was surely not of his choosing — a lengthy slump forced other Wolverines to step forward — but to watch this Irvin after seeing him in the early going is to see a player increasingly comfortable with not dominating the ball. Off the bench, two players at opposite ends of their Michigan careers have added punch, too. Freshman point guard Xavier Simpson has emerged as a viable backup or complement to Walton, while senior forward Mark

Donnal has added a handful of sublime blocks — the epitome of someone rejecting the “whitecollar” label. Hardly any of this could have been said a month ago, when a rematch win over Illinois looked like it might have been among the highlights of the season. Thursday, the Wolverines will get a chance to win a game against Illinois that they’re expected to win. They’d be wise not to forget why that’s the case. Bultman can be reached by email at bultmanm@umich.edu and on Twitter @ m_bultman.

Wolverines do the expected LINCOLN — By tip-off Sunday night, the Michigan men’s basketball team already knew its postseason fate. After Iowa’s victory earlier that day, the Wolverines knew a matchup BETELHEM with No. 9 ASHAME seed Illinois awaited them in the second round of the Big Ten Tournament in Washington D.C later this week. But before Michigan could turn the page on its regular season, the Wolverines had one last task to attend to — a road contest with Nebraska (6-12 Big Ten, 12-18 overall) in Pinnacle Bank Arena. While Michigan had more games to look forward to, the Cornhuskers had nothing to lose. In their final game of the season, they were playing with house money. The Wolverines had already beaten Nebraska, 91-85, at Crisler Center in January, but Michigan had won just two games on the road this season. With the stage set for the Cornhuskers to play the spoiler — damaging Michigan’s NCAA Tournament stock — the Wolverines (108, 20-11) did what they were expected to do instead, blowing out Nebraska, 93-57, on Sunday night. “It’s just a testament to how we develop our guys,” said senior guard Derrick Walton Jr. “We’re so battle-ready for each and every single adjustment that’s thrown at us. Our coaches do a great job of putting us in the right positions, and it’s all about us at that point, just making the right plays.” Throughout the game, Michigan proved that it was simply on another level, as the Wolverines played their ideal roles for the team. Walton played the maestro, orchestrating the offense with

total command as he finished with a game-high 18 points and a single-game program-record 16 assists for his fourth doubledouble of the season. Senior wing Zak Irvin played his right-hand man, taking on the secondary playmaker role to the tune of 15 points with three 3-pointers. He topped off the night by scoring the bucket that clinched his fellow captain Walton’s assist record. Junior guard Muhammad Ali Abdur-Rahkman played the energizer, aggressively making moves all over the court. His 13 points were highlighted by a stretch of five consecutive points in the opening five minutes when he slammed home a dunk before Walton set him up for an open 3, which Abdur-Rahkman hit. Sophomore forward Moritz Wagner and redshirt sophomore forward DJ Wilson played the reliable big men they have become, nailing four 3-pointers and collecting nine rebounds while commanding the paint on defense. Redshirt junior guard Duncan Robinson, senior forward Mark Donnal and freshman guard Xavier Simpson played their key bench roles, from Robinson’s 3s to Donnal’s relief of a foul-ridden Wagner to Simpson’s defensive posture. With the cast of characters coming together, Michigan clicked on both offense and defense for all 40 minutes. The Wolverines shot a blistering 63 percent from the field and 51.9 percent from beyond the arc, while the Cornhuskers shot just 41.2 percent and 13.3 percent, respectively. “It gives us a lot of confidence, giving us some momentum going into our game on Thursday, especially how well we shot the ball but also just how well we played defensively from start to finish,” Irvin said. “I mean, that’s going to be huge for us to be able to make a run in the Big Ten Tournament.” For a team that has been both breathtakingly good and

frustratingly bad at times this year, Michigan showed that it had come into its own down the stretch of the Big Ten season. Against Nebraska, the Wolverines provided the exclamation mark for their 6-3 second-half record — including blowouts over Michigan State and Indiana and upsets over then-No. 11 Wisconsin and thenNo. 14 Purdue — earning their largest margin of victory at 36 points. In front of a packed crowd eager to celebrate the Senior Day

of guard Tai Webster, who scored a game-high 28 points in the first matchup, Michigan sent many fans rushing toward the exits halfway through the second half. Despite the large lead the Wolverines had, Michigan coach John Beilein said he didn’t feel comfortable. “I’m nervous through all these games all the way through until it’s over,” Beilein said. “... That’s the way it is.” Given the times the Wolverines have played down to the level of their opposition

or failed to close out games in crunch time, his hesitance made sense. But on this night, he had no reason to worry. Michigan dominated Nebraska from start to finish, and even though the outcome may not have impacted their Big Ten Tournament seed, the Wolverines will still go into Thursday afternoon rolling because of it. Ashame can be reached at ashabete@umich.edu and on Twitter @Betelhem_ Ashame. Please be kind.

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Seniors Derrick Walton Jr. and Zak Irvin had Michigan firing on all cylinders Sunday at Nebraska.

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After scoring 43 runs in a 5-0 start to begin its West Coast swing, the Michigan baseball team found less luck at the plate in the Dodgertown Classic in Los Angeles. Despite managing just seven runs combined against UCLA, Southern California and San Diego, the Wolverines (9-3) took two out of three games in the tournament due to dominant starting pitching, timely hitting and clutch performances from their bullpen. Rebounding from a 1-0 loss in the opening game against UCLA (5-5), the Wolverines won the next two in solid fashion, beating USC, 4-1, on Saturday and defeating San Diego on Sunday, 3-1. Michigan’s pitchers recorded 28 strikeouts in the three games and allowed only one earned run on a solo home run. Friday night’s contest against UCLA was billed as a pitcher’s duel, with the Wolverines sending their standout left-hander, junior Oliver Jaskie, to the mound against the Bruins’ ace Griffin Canning. The matchup lived up to the hype. Jaskie didn’t give up a hit until the fourth inning and compiled a final line of six innings, six strikeouts and three hits allowed. However, Canning was even sharper than Jaskie. Coming into the game, Canning had recorded 20 strikeouts and gone 13 innings without allowing a run. Against the Wolverines’ normally potent lineup, he hurled eight more scoreless innings and struck out 12, giving up just three hits. He grew sharper as the game went along, retiring the last eight batters he faced. The tide seemed to turn in the top of the ninth inning, however. With Canning having thrown 114 pitches, UCLA turned to its relief pitching. Michigan was able to put two runners on base via walks, but the Bruins’ bullpen escaped a

jam by forcing a groundout with runners on the corner. At this point, it appeared the Wolverines had gained most of the momentum, their bats liberated from Canning’s dominating spell. But as soon as they had gained that momentum, it slipped away. UCLA second baseman Chase Strumpf drove a double into deep left field off of freshman left-hander Tommy Henry’s first pitch of the ninth inning. The following at-bat, left fielder Brett Stephens laid down a bunt back to Henry, who decided to take the high-risk, highreward route and tried to get the out at third base. But the risk proved fatal, as Henry’s throw sailed past Lugbauer and pinchrunner Jake Hirabayashi came home with the game’s only run to give the Bruins the walk-off win. “It was a great game that came down to the wire,” said senior catcher Harrison Wenson. “We couldn’t make a play at third base, but we have a really gritty team and we’re going win a lot of games in extra and late innings.” It appeared that Michigan’s bats would have a good chance of rebounding against USC (7-4), which entered the contest with an earned-run average of 6.50, and they wasted little time in doing so. Senior centerfielder Johnny Slater brought home sophomore right fielder Jonathan Engelmann in the second inning with a double. The next inning, Wenson doubled in a run and later crossed the plate himself on a USC throwing error. Meanwhile, junior righthander Ryan Nutof was in control from the beginning, striking out the side in the first inning and retiring the first nine batters he faced. Making effective use of multiple pitches and attacking all areas of the strike zone, he went 6.1 innings, striking out eight while giving up just three hits and one run. “He did a really good job with the level of his fastball being

down, being in, being out, and throwing his curveball and his changeup,” said Michigan coach Erik Bakich. “I liked his body language, his demeanor – everything he’s bringing to the table mentally and physically.” USC tacked on its only run in the fifth inning with third baseman Adalberto Carrillo’s solo shot off of Nutof. But Michigan responded right back an inning later when sophomore designated hitter Nick Poirier ripped a liner into right-center field. Not content with simply a double, Poirier sprinted all the way to third base, displaying the aggressive baserunning that has become one of the Wolverines’ hallmarks this season. With two outs and Poirier still at third, sophomore second baseman Ako Thomas flicked a single to right field to drive in Poirier and push the Wolverines’ lead back to three runs. The Trojans refused to go down easily, but Michigan’s bullpen was up to the task. With two outs in the seventh inning and the bases loaded for USC, senior right-hander Keith Lehmann battled back from a 3-0 count to record an inning-ending strikeout of pinch-hitter John Thomas. An inning later, senior right-hander Jackson Lamb took the mound against the dangerous Carrillo with two outs and two men on base for the Trojans. Lamb came through with a strikeout to extinguish the threat and then retired the side in the ninth inning, sealing the victory and earning his second save of the season in the process. “(Lamb) pitches with a lot of passion and conviction,” Bakich said. “His mindset is a good fit for the closer role, and he likes being in those situations. He can pitch extended if we need him to, or he can go into an adrenaline situation and get one out if we need him to. That’s just being an older guy, having experience, toughness and grit.”

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At first, it looked like Sunday’s tournament finale against San Diego (6-3) in Dodger Stadium would follow a different trend from the previous two matchups. Michigan struck in the bottom of the first inning on a Wenson single for an early 1-0 lead, and the Toreros got multiple hits off of junior left-hander Michael Hendrickson in each of the first two innings, though they were unable to score. After the second inning, however, Hendrickson began to dominate, retiring 12 straight batters at one point. But with the bases empty and two outs in the sixth, the Toreros began a rally, putting two runners aboard with a single and a walk and plating the tying run due to a throwing error by senior shortstop Michael Brdar. Just as they had against USC, though, the Wolverines showed their resilience in the bottom

half of the inning, spearheaded again by Poirier, who drew a oneout walk to set up the bottom of the order. Engelmann and Slater hit back-to-back singles to drive Poirier home, and a wild pitch allowed Engelmann to cross the plate, giving Michigan all the insurance it would need. “Our guys are fighters,” Bakich said. “We want to win every inning – if they score one, we want to score two, and if they score two, we want to score three. There’s no question we can take a punch.” Junior right-hander Alec Rennard entered the game in the sixth inning in relief of Hendrickson. After walking his first batter, Rennard recorded a strikeout to end the frame, and wouldn’t let another hitter reach base until the ninth inning. By then, it was too late for the Toreros, as Rennard finished off the win and picked up his first save of the season.

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Despite finishing the Judi Garman Classic and Spring Break with a 13-5 victory Saturday over Long Beach State, Michigan coach Carol Hutchins didn’t mince words when describing her team’s performance. “Our heart is not yet beating as one,” Hutchins said. Her dissatisfaction centered around an offense that remained inconsistent in the early season. In the first four games of the tournament, before the blowout win against Long Beach State, the Wolverines (12-6-1) managed just four runs and 18 hits combined. While Michigan managed to win two of those games, the struggles hint at a broader trend through the first few weekends of the season. In eight games against ranked opponents, the Wolverines have averaged just 1.9 runs per game, winning just two of them. A dropoff from last year’s team, an offensive juggernaut that averaged more than seven runs per game and finished near the top of the national rankings in the category, seemed inevitable, especially given the reliance on young talent. But Hutchins believes the struggles that plagued her team this weekend often stem from a mental struggle rather than a physical one. “We’ve got a lot of kids who can really swing bats. We have some kids that can swing well, and when we’re on, we’re all on — we’re very contagious,” Hutchins said. “And when we’re off, we’re all off. So in my mind (the struggles) are from the neck up. We need to get a little bit tougher. We need to get feisty and fight. We’re going to have to fight for what we want, and to be a good offense they’re going to have to fight to be a good offense.” Michigan struggled to hit in the tournament opener against

No. 20 Arizona State, scoring just two runs, one off a passed ball in the bottom of the first inning. But that was all the help senior right-hander Megan Betsa needed. She turned in one of the best performances of her career, notching a complete-game shutout and allowing just two hits en route to her fourth win of the season. Her 16 strikeouts matched a career high and vaulted her to a tie for first in the country in strikeouts on the season with 94. Perhaps most notably, Betsa, who has focused on limiting walks and pitch counts early in the season, walked only one batter and faced a total of just 25 hitters in her seven innings. “I think she has been consistent and she’s been efficient,” Hutchins said. “…We just need her to do her part.” But after scoring a run on an RBI double by sophomore catcher Katie Alexander in the sixth inning against Arizona State, the Wolverines went 19 innings — spanning three different games — without scoring, and they could not overcome the low output like they did against the Sun Devils. Michigan stranded 10 runners in a 4-0 loss against No. 7 UCLA in its Thursday nightcap and produced a season-low two hits the next day against Baylor. Despite a strong outing, another Herculean effort for Betsa was not in the cards, as she allowed a leadoff homer in the top of the seventh inning to break the scoreless tie. The Bears would tally three more runs in the inning to win, 4-0. The next game against Cal State Fullerton looked to be more of the same, as the two teams took a 0-0 stalemate

into the fifth inning. But with a runner on in the fifth, sophomore second baseman Faith Canfield notched her second hit of the day — this one a home run over the leftfield fence to end the scoring drought at 19 innings. The go-ahead homer went down as the game-winner, as junior right-hander Tera Blanco would team up with Betsa for a four-hit shutout and a muchneeded victory. For Canfield, the home run was her fourth on the season, passing her season total of three last year. And with positive takeaways few and far between offensively, Canfield’s newfound power could prove to be a saving grace as Michigan heads toward conference play. “It was nice that I was able to help the team out, because we did need it,” Canfield said. “But I think we just need to keep pushing through it, everyone’s going to come around when it’s time.” Added Hutchins: “I think they were just relieved, like ‘Oh good, we got a run finally.’ It was the first run we’d scored in about 20 innings. I think we’re very tight — our swings are tight, our minds are tight and that’s why we’re not performing to our capability.” While the win, coupled with a 13-run outburst against Long Beach State may ease a few concerns, it will do little to answer the questions about offensive performance against quality opponents. And with the most difficult part of the non-conference schedule behind them, the Wolverines may have to wait to settle those worries until it matters most, as they might not play another ranked opponent until the postseason in May.

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As a team, the Michigan men’s track and field finished seventh out of 12 teams in the Big Ten Indoor Championships, but as individuals, the Wolverines put up a handful of impressive performances. Redshirt junior Grant Cartwright won the weight throw event with a school-record mark, and while those highlights didn’t prevail throughout the team, they did provide bright spots. “(It was) everything that I could have ever dreamed of happening in a competition,” Cartwright said. “It was just an incredible feeling. ... Since I’ve been 5 years old and doing sports, that was probably the favorite moment I’ve ever had.” Cartwright had started the competition with an underwhelming performance in the shot put — good for 10th place — but was able to bounce back with his record-breaking performance the next day. In addition to Cartwright’s performance, redshirt sophomore Joe Ellis finished right behind him with a secondplace finish in the weight throw, ensuring that the two Wolverines will compete in the NCAA Indoor Championships next weekend. Ellis’ performance in the weight throw comes a few weeks after he set the program’s record in the weight throw of 22.11 meters, a record which Cartwright surpassed with his 23.219-meter throw in Ohio. “I suspected some big things, but who would have ever

expected (this)?” said Michigan coach Jerry Clayton. Cartwright and Ellis will be joined in the NCAA Championships by fifth-year seniors Steven Bastien and Ned Willig, giving Michigan its largest group of athletes competing since 2013. Other solid performances by the Wolverines included sophomore Taylor McLaughlin’s sixth-place finish in both the 400-meter and 200-meter races, and a sixth-place mark in the 5,000-meter race by junior Aaron Baumgarten, who fell less than one second short of third place. Despite a handful of good individual performances at the Big Ten Championship, Michigan was disappointed with its seventh-place finish. However, Clayton was encouraged by Cartwright and Ellis and stressed a thorough reassessment of the team’s performances as they prepare for the outdoor Pac12/Big Ten Challenge in three weeks. For now, the Wolverines counted on positive chemistry between the athletes, exemplified by Cartwright and Ellis. “We’re literally brothers,” Cartwright said. “We do everything together. Without Joe, I don’t know where I’d be as an athlete.” As they turn the page and focus on the NCAA Indoor Championships, Cartwright said he’s looking forward to the tournament despite the absence of many of his teammates and hopes to improve on the alreadyremarkable feat he accomplished over the weekend.

“It was just an incredible feeling.”

With its seventh-place finish at the Big Ten Championship this weekend, the Michigan women’s track and field team produced a disappointing performance, well below expectations. Having won the tournament last year, coach James Henry was not pleased with his team’s result. “It was nowhere near what we were looking for,” Henry said. The Wolverines scored just 54 points, finishing far behind Penn State, which won the competition with 96.5 points. Senior Erin Finn and redshirt junior Gina Sereno, two of the program’s most prolific runners, spearheaded the team’s outing of few positives. Finn won a pair of thirdplace finishes in the 5,000meter run and the 3,000-meter run, after winning both races last season. Sereno, on the other hand, was able to give Michigan a victory in the individual category with her win in the 3,000-meter run, an improvement over her fourthplace finish in the event last season. It was her third Big Ten title and her first indoors. The redshirt junior further added to the Wolverines point total by setting a career-best time in the 5,000-meter run, placing sixth. However, by far Michigan’s most encouraging and exciting performance at the tournament was freshman Jade Harrison’s fourth-place result in the 400-meter run. The Sunnyvale, Calif., native broke two school records over the course of the weekend, finishing her second run with a time of 52.84 seconds. “I knew I was going to be on the traveling team, but I definitely didn’t know that I would be doing as well as I am doing right now (at the start of the season),” Harrison said. Despite the few standout individual performances, the Wolverines were clearly disappointed with their seventh-place finish. “It wasn’t Michigan track individual, it was Michigan women’s track team,” Henry said. Michigan will need to quickly evaluate and reflect on its performance at the Big Ten Championships and

“It was nowhere near what we were looking for.” focus on the upcoming NCAA Championships. Sereno and Finn will be competing in the meet as individuals, and while Harrison failed to qualify in the individual category, she is expected to compete as part of the Wolverines’ distance medley relay team, which qualified for nationals for the 15th consecutive year. Senior Jamie Morrissey, junior Jaimie Phelan and Sereno will also compete as part of the DMR team. Henry said the team needs to do the unexpected when it competes. The coach praised Harrison for being one of Michigan’s few runners who was able to do that during the Big Ten Championship. “You have to be willing to work hard when things do not go your way,” Henry said. “You have to be willing to take bad and make great from it.”

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Allen finds mojo in final weeks of senior season ORION SANG

Daily Sports Editor

The puck slid across the ice, bouncing off the boards before being corralled by the stick of Nolan De Jong. As the senior defenseman readied for a shot, Evan Allen found himself in front of the net between De Jong and Minnesota goaltender Eric Schierhorn, looking for a chance at a deflection. It was a position that the senior forward may have found unfamiliar during his time at Michigan, in more ways than one. Allen could have easily been the one to take the shot — after all, his trademark characteristic as a player has been his shot, powerful and accurate throughout his career. He has had to work to build the rest of his game around that one defining trait, and it certainly hasn’t been easy: for his first three seasons at Michigan — perhaps even earlier this year — Allen wouldn’t even have been on the ice at all during such a high-pressure situation with the game against the fifthranked Golden Gophers hanging in the balance. Yet there he was, just outside the Golden Gophers’ crease in a tie game with just over two minutes left in the third period. Minnesota defenseman Ryan Collins — all 6-foot-5 and 220 pounds of him — jostled Allen, trying to move him out of position. But Allen stayed in the thick of things, and when De Jong’s shot whistled toward him, he reached his stick out ever so slightly and deflected it past Schierhorn for the gamewinning goal. Allen’s place in that sequence is a testament of his development during his final year in Ann Arbor. Often confined to the bench as a healthy scratch or placed upon the fourth line — known as the ‘checking line’ — Allen spent his days as a bit

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Senior forward Evan Allen spent the bulk of his Michigan career in a diminished role. But now, as a senior, he has found flashes of the potential he possesses.

player. His role was far from the expectations placed upon him as a recruit. Allen had arrived at Michigan as a member of a ballyhooed class, an early signee alongside players such as JT Compher, Tyler Motte and Michael Downing. Initially, it appeared he would find success just as quickly as his peers. Allen began his freshman year playing on the same line as Compher and Motte, colloquially known as the ‘NTDP line’ after all three had cut their teeth with the United States National Team Development Program just down the road from Yost. His play and production, though, lagged behind his two linemates, and he would later

WRESTLING

Wolverines finish seventh at Big Ten Championships JAKE LOURIM

Daily Sports Writer

A season that started with the Michigan wrestling team redshirting three of its best athletes began its championship swing this weekend. And as they continued to travel with a young squad, the 15th-ranked Wolverines ended up right in the middle of the conference, finishing seventh at the Big Ten meet in Bloomington. Ohio State won the team title. Michigan’s misfortune dates back to last fall, when the program announced that senior All-American Adam Coon, junior All-American Alec Pantaleo and senior Big Ten champion Domenic Abounader would miss the season with injuries and redshirt. The absences of three top talents spoiled the Wolverines’ depth that could have carried them to their first Big Ten title since 1973, but Michigan managed with a young lineup and could have laid the foundation for a run next year with three of its best back in the lineup. The Wolverines finished the regular season at 8-7, 4-5 in the nation’s best conference, while facing 11 ranked teams. And when the Big Ten’s best converged this weekend, three Michigan redshirt freshmen, forced into action by injuries, finished in the top three. “I thought a lot of our guys wrestled really hard,” said Michigan coach Joe McFarland. “We just don’t have the horses right now to be able to compete with the top couple teams. We finished right in the middle, and like I said, there were a lot of top teams in the country that were here.” The Wolverines’ best finish came from Logan Massa, the runner-up in the 165-pound class. After earning a firstround bye, Massa defeated Nebraska’s Dustin Williams

and then Wisconsin’s No. 3 seed Isaac Jordan to reach the final against No. 1 seed Isaiah Martinez. In the final, Massa, ranked second to Martinez in the country in his weight class, gave up a six-point takedown and ended up losing by six. “This time, I kind of went out there and got caught off the mat,” Massa said. “And I was down by six points, and that’s a hard deficit to overcome in a match against a high-level opponent. I learned a lot from the match, and I’m just going to move forward and get ready for (the NCAA Championships).” Another redshirt freshman contributor was Myles Amine, who came in seeded No. 4 in the 174-pound class and finished third. Amine routed Maryland’s Josh Ugalde and Iowa’s Alex Meyer before losing in the semifinals to Ohio State’s Bo Jordan, who won the championship. “After that match, I had to realize that I’m right up there, and I had a bad match, so I had to shake it off and come back today and finish strong,” Amine said. “And that’s kind of the mindset I went into the day with. I had a couple minutes to mope about that, but this sport is too tough to feel sorry for yourself.” With that mindset, Amine bounced back to win the thirdplace match against Illinois’ No. 3 seed Zach Brunson by technical fall. Despite the seventhplace team finish, several of Michigan’s wrestlers finished better than their seeding position but still lost to higher competition. In the 133-pound class, redshirt freshman Stevan Micic lost a 6-5 decision to Ohio State’s undefeated No. 1 seed Nathan Tomasello. He, too, recovered to beat an Illinois wrestler seeded higher than him, Zane Richards, in the third-place match.

be taken off the line. As the years progressed, it seemed that nearly everyone else in the class besides Allen would play larger roles for Michigan. Compher and Motte were excellent collegiate players who formed two-thirds of the most dangerous line in all of college hockey last year before leaving early for the NHL. Forward Alex Kile and De Jong became captains, with Kile developing into an offensive weapon, and Downing — who also left for the NHL last spring — was a key contributor on the blue line. And through the first half of this year, it appeared Allen’s final season at Michigan would be no different from his first three. He played in just 11 of his teams’ first 18 games and turned

in nondescript performances in each of them, tallying only one total point. Then, the proverbial light turned on. Quite unexpectedly, Allen became one of his team’s most consistent contributors. He has played in every one of the 14 games after the winter break and has collected six goals and five assists in that span, averaging close to a point per game. “I think his confidence and his maturity (have improved),” said Michigan coach Red Berenson. “His preparedness to be a Division I player was not there when he first got here. And it’s here now, finally. So he’s got to take advantage of it. He’s running out of games.” Allen no longer plays on

the fourth line, either. He has moved up steadily within the lineup, and for Saturday’s game, he was placed on the first line with Kile and senior forward Max Shuart. Allen’s late career renaissance has not come without a learning curve. Pitted against the fifth-ranked Golden Gophers’ top line, Allen struggled on both ends, failing to make a significant impact only one night after scoring the game-winning goal. As Berenson pointed out after the game, Allen has yet to capture the everyday consistency of being a frontline player. Saturday’s shortcomings aside, Allen’s second half has still played out in a way that very few could have imagined. This has been his first year

playing center, and he has had to acclimate himself to everything the position entails, such as playing without the puck, taking faceoffs and minding the defensive zone. Berenson mentioned that he has seen plenty of players put it all together their final years to have what he deems ‘miracle seasons.’ In Berenson’s mind, Allen has not quite had that type of year. Instead, Berenson has seen glimpses of the player he thought he was getting when he recruited him so long ago. That, perhaps, is why the situation is so bittersweet for both player and coach. Allen has just three guaranteed games left: a weekend series at Yost next weekend against No. 11 Penn State, and then at least one game in the Big Ten Tournament. There will be no opportunity for him to completely live up to the expectations placed upon him as a recruit, to establish the ‘everyday consistency’ of a frontline player that his coach sought. Both Berenson and Allen, though, have come to terms with that. After all, the alternative — of Allen’s career ending quietly — would have been much worse. “I think his whole career has been coming down to these last few weeks,” Berenson said on Feb. 24. “He knows it, and he’s putting his best foot forward. It’s coming together for him. He’s always had good hands. He’s always had a good shot. He’s always been a smart player. And now it’s showing up, and he’s producing. I’m not surprised, but I wish it would’ve happened three years ago. But good for him.” Added Allen: “... It is kinda disappointing that it took this long, but I mean, it could’ve never have happened, so at least I got the opportunity and just gotta make the most out of it with however many games I have left.”

‘M’ loses in Big Ten quarterfinals Wolverines suffer second loss to Michigan State, will now await NCAA seeding NATHANIEL CLARK Daily Sports Writer

When the Michigan women’s basketball team last met Michigan State back on Feb. 19, the Wolverines MICH. ST. 74 suffered MICHIGAN 64 an 86-68 defeat, junior guard Katelynn Flaherty scored just four points and they shot a mere 17.6 percent from 3-point range. Though Flaherty managed 18 points and Michigan sank 33 percent of its shots from behind the arc Friday, those improvements were not enough, as the Spartans came out on top of the Wolverines, 74-64. Michigan State’s bench outscored Michigan’s, 22-5, in the process. “We got good looks, but we didn’t make them,” said Michigan coach Kim Barnes Arico. “It was a case where we weren’t really scoring the basketball, and then we weren’t getting stops so we couldn’t really get anything easy in transition either.” Despite once again coming up short against the Spartans, the Wolverines did not go down without a fight. With five minutes to go in the fourth quarter, Michigan State held a commanding 68-51 lead and looked to be running away with the contest. After trading missed baskets for a full 1:40, freshman guard Kysre Gondrezick broke the scoreless period with a 3-pointer. Twenty-five seconds later, she forced a turnover and raced down the court for a layup to pull the Wolverines within 12. While the Spartans did their best to milk the clock, Michigan trimmed its deficit to nine with just over a minute left when sophomore guard Nicole Munger found sophomore center Hallie Thome for a layup. The Wolverines still had faint hope of completing an improbable comeback.

But shortly thereafter, Thome was called for her fifth foul, forcing her to the bench and extinguishing whatever chance Michigan still had. Thome finished Friday’s game with 14 points and nine rebounds while Gondrezick finished with 23 points. “I’m not going go by individual performances,” Gondrezick said. “I think on both ends it’s a team effort. We had a game plan and other players just stepped up with the personnel they had and the range with the post players knocking in. It’s stuff like that that just gives you kind of like mental lapses but we just had to regroup. I know one thing that Coach talked about was that she admired the fight in us, and we just had to play to the end and we just came up short.” For much of the first half, it appeared the Wolverines might have been on their way to better fortunes against the Spartans. The two teams found themselves knotted at 19 points apiece at the start of the second quarter, and neither team managed to score for the first three minutes of the frame. Michigan State forward Mardrekia Cook then came through with a layup to break the deadlock. Less than 30 seconds later, Thome committed her second foul, forcing her to the bench for the remainder of the half. At first the Wolverines weathered the storm despite Thome’s absence, and even cut their deficit to one behind a 3-point shot from Flaherty with 5:30 left in the quarter. But Thome’s absence eventually proved too much for Michigan, as Michigan State went on a 9-0 run over the next two minutes. Only another pair

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Kysre Gondrezick led Michigan with 23 points in a defeat on Friday night.

of long-range baskets from Flaherty kept the Wolverines at a 34-28 deficit at halftime. “I think we got great looks,” Flaherty said. “We missed shots. Sometimes it just happens. Moving forward, we definitely need to find a way to keep scoring when that does happen. But I think we got great looks and we just couldn’t knock them down today.” The Spartans wouldn’t keep it close for long, though, as they opened the third stanza with a 7-0 run. The squads traded baskets for the majority of the quarter until Gondrezick and Thome made a pair of shortrange jumpers in the final minute

“We got good looks, but we didn’t make them.”

to pull Michigan within single digits. But eventually, Michigan State pulled away. With Michigan’s defeat Friday night, it will now have to wait until the NCAA Tournament selection show Mar. 13 to learn its postseason fate. Though the Wolverines will likely be in the NCAA Tournament field, their 1-4 finish to the season will end up costing them several seeding spots if they are selected. “I know that they’re going to go out fighting and that we are going to regroup,” Barnes Arico said. “And if we get selected, which we still feel like our total body of work, which will get us selected to the NCAA Tournament, it will be the first time anyone on our team has ever been in the NCAA Tournament. So we still have a lot to play for.”