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DETROIT — For the seniors, for a banner and to prove the NCAA selection committee wrong — these three reasons urged the Michigan women’s basketball team forward during its postseason appearances. It’s for those three reasons that the Wolverines, led by Michigan coach Kim Barnes Arico, battled Kent State, Wright State, St. John’s, Virginia Tech and Villanova to get to Saturday’s contest against Georgia Tech. And, most importantly, it’s for those three reasons that Michigan is going to get to hang its first banner in Crisler Center, after defeating the Yellow Jackets in triple overtime, 89-79. It was the first time in history that a WNIT final went into even a single overtime. “Our mood was ‘We have another quarter,’ ” said senior guard Siera Thompson. “They keep giving us another chance to win this game and we never had any doubt in our mind. We kept fighting, we came this far,
and we weren’t gonna lose this game.” The Wolverines (28-9 overall) hosted Georgia Tech (22-15) at Detroit Mercy in Calihan Hall on Saturday. The last time Michigan and the Yellow Jackets met was on Dec. 1 for the Big Ten/ACC Challenge, where the Wolverines broke away with a 92-52 victory. But, like Barnes Arico warned after the Villanova game on March 29, this would be a completely different team. With nine seconds left in the game, the Wolverines were down by three. Junior guard Katelynn Flaherty, though, had the ball, took a deep three and made the shot. It was tied at 67 with 9.6 seconds left. “I took the shot,” Flaherty said. “I knew we didn’t have much time left. I figured it was the best shot to take and it just happened to go in.” Georgia Tech still had a chance to claim victory, and with 0.6 seconds left in the game, a foul was called on Michigan. An
excruciating minute later —in which the referees reviewed the play — it became clear that the game was going to be decided by a pair of free throws. But the Yellow Jackets couldn’t capitalize and went 0-for-2, sending the game to its first overtime. Five minutes were put on the clock, and sophomore center Hallie Thome beat out Georgia Tech’s center in the tip-off, leading to a personal layup not long after. Williams then went 1-for-2 on free throws, pushing Michigan ahead, 70-67. With a minute to go, the Yellow Jackets hit their own three. Again, the game was tied. Thompson took the ball downcourt, and a timeout was called with 10.9 seconds left to go, but Michigan couldn’t put the game to bed. The Wolverines went into their second overtime. It was 76-74 with 14.1 on the clock, and a Georgia Tech player broke away for a layup, leaving senior
guard Danielle Williams on the floor and the Wolverines with possession. Michigan couldn’t take the game, though, and — once again — it was pushed into its third overtime. This time, sophomore guard Jillian Dunston predicted her team would win by 10 — a prediction that pushed the team through. “We knew this was it,” Flaherty said. “We were running out of gas. We knew they were tired. We just pushed through. (Dunston said it) at the beginning of the third overtime. It happened, and we just believed her.” After four points by Thome and two apiece for Flaherty and Munger, the game had 19.5 seconds left and Michigan was sitting with a 10-point advantage. Barnes Arico threw a thumbs up to the crowd, the clock wound down and Michigan had a championship victory on its See WNIT, Page 3 resume.
After President Donald Trump signed an executive order last week to reverse carbon emission regulations on coalfired power plants enacted by former President Barack Obama, members of the University of Michigan community reacted, on the whole, with criticism. University spokesman Rick Fitzgerald said University leaders are working to understand the full implications of Trump’s order, and are still working toward a 25 percent decrease in greenhouse emissions. “As we work to understand the implications of the executive order, sustainability remains an important topic for our university community,” Fitzgerald said. “We’ve invested significantly in this area, and are in the process of implementing key efforts to increase progress toward our goal to reduce carbon emissions by 25 percent by the year 2025.” Engineering Prof. Richard Rood teaches a class on climate
change, and said he considers the regulation rollback to be harmful and will degrade progress made to reduce carbon emissions under Obama. “Many climate scientists find it hurtful and also a very backward stepping political position,” Rood said. Rood said he considers Trump’s actions to be a strong political statement to the coal industry, but said he ultimately believes the bringing back coal jobs — one of Trump’s campaign promises — will not happen because of the economy moving toward alternate forms of energy. “From my point of view, its position that it will reinstate coal jobs is not something that’s going to happen, that’s driven more by economics,” Rood said. “In that regard, I think it (the executive order) is hollow.” Ross also said he believes Obama’s executive orders accelerated the development of renewable energy sources, but the United States could now be at a disadvantage with Trump’s reversal of the order. “I think what it does is it takes See CLIMATE, Page 3A
Over 6,000 attend annual Hash Bash, Student-led Leadership display hall advocate for legalization of marijuana forum aims
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showcases poetry, art SAPAC event highlights gender- and sexualitybased violence, assault ARIELLA MELTZER For the Daily
A wide variety of visual and written art created to highlight gender- and sexuality-based violence were displayed in West Quad Residence Hall as hundreds of students walked by Friday evening. The Networking, Publicity and Activism Program housed within the Sexual Assault Prevention and Awareness Center organized this event, called “rEVOLUTION: Making Art for Change,” which aimed to promote stories of survivors and educate observers on gender, sexism and empowerment. This is the 12th year SAPAC has hosted the show. Along with multiple rooms containing student submissions, a separate area was devoted to SAPAC resources encouraging participants to pursue healthy relationships and reach out if necessary. LSA senior Alyssa Dunbeck and LSA junior Srinidhi Subramanian served as coordinators of the event. “We hope that this event See ART, Page 3A
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Chants of “Free the Weed!” could be heard and cannabis flags were raised high on the Diag on Saturday afternoon as an estimated 6,000 people gathered to participate in the 46th annual Hash Bash. Leading activists, medical researchers, community leaders and citizens spoke on behalf of the support and legalization of marijuana consumption, followed by live music. One of the speakers at the event was 30-year-old Zahra Abbas, a University of Michigan-Dearborn student who, after being prescribed medical marijuana for her severe epilepsy, has been seizure free for almost two years. Abbas left the University three years ago because of her medical condition, but said she was able to return to her studies this past fall because of medical marijuana. “I was never seizure free without the cannabis,” Abbas said. “The most I made it seizure free before was three months and that was right after brain surgery. Without brain surgery, I would only make it a week or something at a time, and that would be a good week, but on the 13th, it’ll be two years seizure free.” Abbas said, as a student, she has been met with an
overwhelming amount of support from faculty and students who support the use of medical marijuana. “I even had one teacher that, he was really happy about it,” she said. “He was a psychology teacher and his wife used it.” Richie “Free the Weed” Clement, the legislative assistant to Detroit City Councilmember George Cushingberry Jr. (D– District 2), spoke at the event,
urging people to vote for representatives who support the legalization of recreational and medical marijuana usage. “If you don’t support weed, you’re not the one we need!” Clement chanted. Clement discussed the significant amount of misunderstanding he feels surrounds the plant and the implications of its consumption. “F—k the box, think outside
the box,” Clement said. “It’s time that people wake up and put to rest all the lies that’ve been told about the plant, it’s time to get away from this 1939 bullshit mentality.” Jerry Spencer, director of Great Lakes Bay Region of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws, an organization that advocates the legal use of marijuana, See BASH, Page 3A
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Congresswoman Debbie Dingell (D–Mich.) and Val Boreland, executive vice president of Content Strategy for NBC Universal, spoke on gender disparities in the workplace and the importance of mentorship in instilling confidence in young leaders at the Lean In Leadership Summit at the University of Michigan this past weekend. Alongside the two keynote speakers, the summit featured an interactive panel as well as breakout discussion groups, where conversations revolved around various methods for students to assert themselves and gain valuable advice from mentors around them. LSA junior Natalie Andrasko, co-director of Internal Operations for the conference, highlighted the importance of the summit in terms of fostering dialogue about gender in the workplace. “I think there’s a big problem where there’s a lot of career resources on campus, but it’s hard to start a dialogue about issues facing women, especially at our age when we’re just entering the See SUMMIT, Page 3A
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ON THE DAILY: SPRING INTO VOLUNTEER WORK Ann Arbor residents and Detroiters alike worked together for the University of Michigan’s largest day of service learning this past weekend, as over 900 University students traveled to the city for a series of volunteer projects centered around clean-up and farming. The event was organized by The Detroit Partnership, a student-run nonprofit aiming to unite Ann Arbor residents and Detroiters. This year marked the 17th annual day of service connecting students to volunteer sites across the city. “Volunteers participate in various hands-on projects throughout the city of Detroit, from urban gardening, to clean up and demolition with a focus on community revitalization,” the organization’s website reads. Twenty-one service sites from around the city participated in DP Day. At each site, Community Coordinators helped to run volunteer projects and lead reflections at the end of the day, with assistance from student site
leaders. This year, University students also partnered with volunteers from University of Detroit Mercy, Wayne State University and UM-Dearborn. LSA sophomore Myka Yamasaki is a member of the education team of The Detroit Partnership. She participated in the day herself, volunteering at Greydale Farm in the Brightmoor neighborhood. “It’s an urban farm, so we did mostly a lot of trash pickup,” she said. “A lot of people were helping create dirt piles that will be used to help grow produce.” Yamasaki said she and other student participants felt they were really making a difference through DP Day, and were glad they could offer real assistance to the farm’s owner. “The woman who owns the farm … said she was really happy we were there,” Yamasaki said. “She said that the amount of trash pickup on the farm and in the surrounding area, and the woodchip and leaf litter piles,
would’ve taken her three months to do on her own. It was pretty good to hear that we could actually do something helpful for them, instead of them just feeling like they’re hosting us.” The stated goal of the day was to involve students in the city and begin to build a connection, and Yamasaki said she saw students becoming more invested. She said there was a lot of interest in The Detroit Partnership’s weekly volunteer programs, which
connect students to the city throughout the school year. “People were really willing to ask me questions about what (else) Detroit Partnership does besides DP Day … which is really cool, because that’s something we want to encourage,” she said. “It’s not just one day, volunteering and forming a partnership with Detroit, so it’s really great to see.”
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As part of its eighth annual Marshall M. Weinberg Symposium on Saturday, the Weinberg Institute for Cognitive Science hosted Noam Chomsky, an MIT professor, linguist and cognitive scientist. The interdisciplinary symposium titled “The Architecture and Evolution of the Human Language Capacity”
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global political systems.” Chomsky’s presentation centered on the Galilean Challenge, where Galileo urged linguists to show how just a few sounds can construct “an infinite variety of expressions (that) reveal all the secrets of the mind.” University alum Mahela Ashraf questioned the challenge’s premise of infinite language. “Isn’t there going to be a point at which you come to a realization that everything meaningful that had to be said will have been said by 2050, and from then on, you are only trying to interpret those really original thoughts?” Chomsky explained how he has addressed this aim and how the challenge itself has evolved, asserting the challenge had not been taken up until the mid-20th century because the intellectual tools were not available. However, mathematicians have established a theory of computability, which illustrates how our brains can generate infinite variations of expressions. In doing so, mathematicians have made possible the “basic property” of human language — the ability to digitally build an infinite amount of structured expressions, which can be interpreted into a thought and externalized. The product of this is what he calls “the language of thought,” or the system of thoughts that, when externalized, can be used for communication. “The language faculty of the human brain provides the means to construct a digitally infinite array of hierarchically structured expressions,” he said. “Each of which is semantically interpreted as expressing thought, and each of which can be, and sometimes is, externalized in one or another sensory modality.” However, Chomsky believes internal language is used more than external language. Internal language refers to the linguistic knowledge inside the mind of the speaker; therefore, external language is only internal language See LINGUISTICS, Page 3A
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WNIT From Page 1A “It was a long battle through the year, but at the end we’re on top and that’s what’s good,” Thompson said, who currently holds three program records for games played (41), minutes played (4,776) and total assists (545). She played for the entirety of the game. The game started as tense and hectic as the ending. Within 34 seconds, Thome committed her first personal foul, ensuring the first two points on the board were from Georgia Tech’s forward Zaire O’Neil in a pair of free throws. It was fitting that the Wolverines’ two seniors made the team’s first five points of the game, with Williams’ classmate, Thompson joining her on the statsheet with a field goal after Williams converted from beyond the arc. It was sophomore guard Nicole Munger who pushed the Wolverines ahead of the Yellow Jackets for the first time with a 3-pointer that made the game 15-14 with just over a minute left of play in the first — a scoreline that remained unchanged
CLIMATE From Page 1A the federal government out of the important technological and economic benefits that we would realize from accelerating renewable energy as well as our participation in global markets,” Rood said. “Countries like China and Germany and other large economies will keep going on with technological innovation in addressing climate change, so it isolates us in that way.” Conversely, LSA junior Enrique Zalamea, the chair of the University’s chapter of College Republicans chair, said he favors Trump’s executive orders, and believes less regulation is key to the United States’s competitiveness in the global market. “Global climate change is a universal issue; shouldering the burden of restrictive climate change regulations should not fall on countries like the U.S., while free-rider countries like India and China continue to increase
BASH From Page 1A also spoke about the merits of petitioning the government. “We’re the ones with the petition for the legalization of recreational marijuana here in the state of Michigan,” Spencer said. An couple from Novi, Mich., who requested to remain anonymous because they were talking about drug use, outlined the routine for their celebration. “We smoked before, in the mosh pit, walking out of the mosh pit,” they said.
ART From Page 1A inspires you to continue participating in discussion surrounding gender-based violence,” Dunbeck said. More than 30 works were displayed, including drawings, poems and film. Participants and attendees agreed that regardless of the art form, the entire display was extremely impactful. LSA junior Yaya Sun said the event was more empowering than she expected, especially as it was her first year attending. “I really think it is a great way for survivors to get their message out,” she said. “It’s an opportunity to have a safe space that they can explore their message through art. Art is a really good way of expressing your emotions that you can’t normally say. I think my favorite piece was Sam Kennedy’s ... it was very relatable.”
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going into the second period. Michigan was winning despite shooting just 27 percent from the floor. In a media timeout with 4:44 left to go in the second quarter, each team totaled four fouls and Michigan was down by four. Notably, up to this point, Flaherty had only posted a pair of free throws. In true Flaherty fashion, though, this slump didn’t last for long. After going 0-for-7 in field goals and 0-4 in 3-pointers, Flaherty hit a layup and a 3-pointer to push the score in favor of the Wolverines. After taking a hit in the face during a frenzy dive for the basketball — something the referees didn’t make a call on — Flaherty got called for her own foul downcourt on the same player, Georgia Tech’s O’Neil. The game got uglier, another foul got called on Georgia Tech and Thome converted in the bonus to leave the score at 28-25. Going into halftime, the Yellow Jackets had made a pair of free throws, making it a onepoint game. The first major advantage of the game — a lead over four points — went to the Wolverines after a field goal from junior guard Jillian
Dunston. Another two-point field goal from Thome had Michigan in a 38-33 position in the third quarter. The Wolverines lost that edge, though, with around a minute left to go in the third period when the Yellow Jackets tied it at 40. With a defensive rebound, Georgia Tech was able to bring it down court for a layup with no Wolverine to defend them. Another foul on Georgia Tech’s O’Neil gave Flaherty a chance to make three free throws. Going 3-for-3, Flaherty brought her teammates into the fourth period leading, 43-42. The game wound down in a back and forth affair, and with roughly five minutes to go in the game, Barnes Arico called a time out with her team trailing by four. The Wolverines were in a hole, but a shallow one. The crowd’s roar overtook the stadium, deafening the arena. The championship victory was still possible. From there, the Wolverines managed to push the game to three overtimes. “We wore the other team down,” Barnes Arico said. And the rest — as Michigan’s future banner will tell — is Crisler Center history.
their (carbon dioxide) emissions, and with it their GDP,” Zalamea said. “We need to become more competitive in the global market, and one way to get there is through less regulations from the EPA.” In the long-term, Zalamea said, he wants to see the move to more efficient alternative energy sources and currently favors a plan proposed by conservatives that would roll back EPA regulations while also instituting a carbon dioxide emissions tax to slowly shift to cleaner energy. “I do hope that one day we can transition into more affordable and efficient alternate energy sources such as solar power or nuclear energy,” Zalamea said. “One of the ways we can make this big transition is through the zerosum carbon tax plan, proposed just a few months ago by a group of Republican congressmen.” Contrary to Zalamea, LSA junior Rowan Conybeare, the chair of the University’s chapter of College Democrats, said she believes Trump’s executive
order is “backwards” and will have a negative impact on the climate and air quality. “Trump’s executive action to roll back climate regulations is incredibly dangerous; it will negatively impact the air quality in every state, including Michigan,” Conybeare said. “We, as a state, have some of the most precious natural resources in the world — our state, and the livelihood of millions of people, are in danger because of Trump’s actions on climate.” Conybeare also said she believes Trump’s order will not succeed in creating jobs since it does not focus on long-term renewable energy. “Fortune reported earlier this year that renewable energy is creating jobs 12 times faster than the rest of the economy,” Conybeare said. “Trump’s executive order isn’t about boosting the economy — it’s about denying the impact and existence of climate change in favor of appeasing large corporations and manufacturers.”
One of the two, a prospective student, talked about how Hash Bash makes her feel about the University. “I was going to apply anyways, but this is just an added bonus, I guess,” she said. “The atmosphere was pretty cool because everybody was doing the same thing.” Chris Zane of Washington, Mich. said he hopes Michigan will legalize weed for recreational use, and added that Hash Bash offered him a chance to spend time “just chilling with my buddies, smoking.” Patrons of Hash Bash included people who were involved with the cause to
various degrees. Another woman, who requested to remain anonymous, was in Ann Arbor for her first Hash Bash. “We’ve been growing for the last three years and we kind of wanted to see what it was about and, honestly, it’s not what I thought it was,” she said. She attested to the broad scope of patrons in attendance. “I mean it’s actually super controlled and I’m really surprised there’s actually a plethora of people here,” the woman said. “Honestly, I was surprised to see some older people here and it’s kind of nice to see a variety of people down here, to be honest.”
The work Sun referred to is “Boys Talk About Me,” which Kennedy, an LSA sophomore, described as “a collage of stupid things boys have said to or about me.” The collection includes tweets, texts and other posts of degrading statements about Kennedy, many of them sexist and, at times, explicitly violent. Many other similar pieces expressed sometimes shocking stories and occurrences, or hopes for a better understanding of sexuality- and gender-related sexual matters. In a multi-paneled layout titled “When You Get It,” LSA junior Maeve Pascoe placed a drawing of a girl alongside the words “just going through an endometrial shift.” “As I sat in the laundry room of East Quad making this piece, a male student looked over as he was loading his laundry and remarked that he was impressed by my art,” Pascoe wrote. “He asked what the words meant. I explained, and he became silent. … It’s not something most people
are proud of. In fact, most women view it as a burden to bear. But why would it be a burden? Should our lives be a burden? It’s a natural part of life. Embrace it or not, it happens, and it’s something I’ve come to peace with. After all, it’s just a shift.” A film played behind the art displays, which was an original creation by LSA freshman Shreya Patel for a class project. “My first attempt at tackling this concept took a subtle approach using poetry as the audio component and abstract cultural patterns for visuals,” Patel said. “I decided to try and make a video that attempts at a resolution to the biggest area of neglect within my life.” Many SAPAC volunteers expressed that they wanted the event to be focused on empowerment for individuals affected by sexual and gender violence, sexism and other related issues. “I wanted to tackle my fear of coming out about sexual abuse,” Patel finished.
LINGUISTICS From Page 2A made audible. He stated languages seem very complex, and this view was held by professional linguists just 60 years ago. However, a new program called the Biolinguistic Program has shown how languages, in reality, are consistent from one to another. He briefly discussed the importance of biology in his work by hinting at some of his most familiar discoveries — language acquisition devices. “At peak periods of language acquisition, children are acquiring about a word an hour, that is, often on one presentation,” Chomsky said. “It must be, then, that the rich meaning of even the most elementary words
SUMMIT From Page 1A workforce,” Andrasko said. “Lean In is all about creating an open dialogue and trying to talk about issues that are sort of brushed under the rug, so we wanted to bring in influential speakers to talk about intersectionality and diversity.” In her speech, Congresswoman Dingell emphasized how important it is for women to support one another, saying her
Monday, April 3, 2017 — 3A is substantially innate.” He continued by saying linguistics, in particular, faces difficulty with Galileo’s objective because it must account for evolution. He asserted the language faculty emerged with modern humans, but not too much information is known about the evolution of modern humans. This, in Chomsky’s mind, complicates the primary goal of the Galilean Challenge — to determine the genetic structures that allow for language. Chomsky, also a renowned social critic and political activist, was asked by an audience member what could be done to turn the United States around from its current state. He urged listeners to do anything to speak out, asserting the United States is still a free society
with many opportunities to have individual voices heard. He also concluded that there is popular base of people capable of enacting serious changes to the current governmental practices. One of the necessary changes, Chomsky argued, is campaign finance. “For well over a century, elections in the United States have been essentially bought,” he said. “You can pretty well predict the electability simply on the basis of campaign funding.” LSA senior Anthony Quail shared Chomsky’s hopes for uniting and mobilizing the public. “In the present climate, it’s easy to forget that change starts with individual actions,” he said. “We cannot allow ourselves to feel powerless.”
network of women was an integral contributor to her own political successes politically. “Trust me when I tell you the importance of building relationships with your female peers,” Dingell said. “I’ve been where you are, I’ve been in your shoes. As women, we are all on the same team. We need to lift each other up, we need to celebrate one another’s successes.” She also brought up the difficulties of balancing different aspects of her life, as childcare
and personal relationships are still more of an issue for women in the workplace than they are for men. Dingell said while it was difficult having to respond to sexism, she did not allow it to discourage her and instead focused on proving those who doubted her wrong. “You have a lot of the same problems that I did, which is how to get the door open,” Dingell said.
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very time I walk into studying history, I would be the the humorless, dry, conscious adult planning his corporate settings responsible future — a modest that are career sacrifice that was networking events sure to pay academic on campus, a poison and professional is mainlined directly dividends. into my soul, further Yet this sacrifice transforming the grew in size and unique, colorful nature due to the qualities of my environment here creative identity on campus. I was into the gray, bland suddenly acquainted qualifications of with the ever-present MICHAEL a future “adult campus social MORDARSKI pressure and anxiety who sits behind an expensive desk.” that forces students to join Despite the dread associated every goddamn professional with these numerous club associated with law, health networking events, I, like and business. In addition, I felt nearly every other student on pressure to begin to utilize the this campus, have willingly seemingly endless opportunities submitted myself to this offered through the campus pre-professional, LinkedIn- career center. required, handshaking As I took on these environment that dominates opportunities, the creative campus — an environment elements and unique talents I that permeates nearly every once believed to have needed major and school here at the to be stamped, pressed and University of Michigan. molded through a series of On this campus, we are deathly corporate résumé offered an overwhelming workshops and internship number of workshops, résumé- preparation seminars in order building exercises, company to present myself, with a immersions and career fairs plastic smile and customized that we, as one of the most name tag, to an interviewer competitive and successful waiting to see how well my student bodies in the country, professional qualities matched utilize aggressively. up against my fellow peers in But in the process, a a desperate attempt to be an smothering competitive intern for their multinational culture is created that has a risk management corporation. profound effect of distorting the And all of this was due judgments and true motivations to the level of aggressive of students. Individuals on competitiveness that campus are forced to sacrifice dominates nearly every field of passionate talents and study on campus. The amount interests during the seemingly of dialogue dedicated to the endless competition of career stories of secured internships planning, campus involvement, in New York City, Washington networking and studying. D.C. and San Francisco must Arriving at the University, fill the halls of every building students are advised in a on campus. Students openly rational manner to choose brag about how busy their a major that both captures color-coded schedules are as their interests while also they work toward their double being career conscious. major and minor while also Essentially, do what you love, serving in leadership roles but make sure there are jobs within multiple clubs and still on the other end. Choosing finding time to tour companies, to study political science, I attend career prep courses, made a mature concession handle phone interviews and from my previous desires to refine their résumés. study writing and history. I The competition is seemingly believed the major would still endless with students securing offer courses and assignments undergraduate spots only to that would capture my apply for new more prestigious creativity and curiosity, while and well-connected schools simultaneously being one of within the University, such the undergraduate degrees as the Ford School of Public that demonstrated intellectual Policy or the minor in business maturity and competence and through the Ross School of a future career path in law, Business. And even more public policy or business. As anxiety-inducing, students opposed to pursuing a major from other fields of study more suited for writing or often come charging into new
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double majors to “diversify” their academic background, because why wouldn’t you take 18 credits a semester? You want a job, don’t you? I personally know a double major in neuroscience and English pursuing a business minor from the Business School with the intention of applying for a joint JD-MD program at Duke University. Yes, a brain surgeon lawyer who also owns a small business while simultaneously writing for The Atlantic. This induces anxiety and professional panic that reverberates throughout campus, distracting and distancing students from their original academic intentions and goals. I wrote a piece previously about the incredible nature and necessity of substantive learning. Essential to that was the curiosity and interest found within the student. Creativity and uniqueness can easily die within the hyperconnectivity of competition for careers. The LinkedIn profiles, text of résumés and leadership experience can often permanently steal a talented student away from a piece of work or an assignment that had the potential to create something infinitely greater. And as I stumbled around career fairs pretending that I would secure a position within the Business School later in my academic career, I put on hold talents and specific interests that made me unique. I did not utilize my curiosity and passion in a manner that exponentially increases my performance and quality of work. Writing and studying history were central to my sense of intelligence, and the eventual embracement of both increased the success I’ve had academically, professionally and socially. This is not a piece against hard work, networking and professionalism — instead, this is a simple observation that students on this campus often over-exhaust their unique potentials in a desperate competition among themselves pursuing fleeting internships, professional experiences and future careers. There are other methods and routes to the career and professional goals that may seem unorthodox or daunting, but often prove to be far more beneficial in the end.
Michael Mordarski can be reached at mmordars@umich.edu.
The ideal commencement speaker
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he cat’s out of the have a life or death importance, bag: We won’t have a or so I wish to suggest to you on commencement speaker this dry and lovely morning.” at the class of But his telling of a 2017’s graduation story makes the lesson ceremony. The meaningful. We need University of someone who can tie Michigan, once together our four years again, has bucked of education, who can concerns that show us how to be as students who compassionate people, were part of the who has led by example, Bicentennial who can show us to do ROLAND Commencement the same. Essentially, Student Advisory to me, a great speaker DAVIDSON Committee raised. would give us guidance Personally, I’m a little frustrated on what it really means to be the about how much outrage this Leaders and the Best. has caused in comparison to Secondly, the speech should more pressing social issues in be uncontroversial. I don’t our community, such as the subscribe to the belief that Ann Arbor Police Department’s inviting someone to give a speech killing of Aura Rosser in 2014. is an endorsement of their views But, I do understand that having and finding someone who is a commencement speaker is totally uncontroversial has important to a lot of people, so become increasingly difficult. I think it’s worth reflecting on Just ask the Dalai Lama, who what we would want from a was protested by students at commencement speaker. Like a University of California at San missing jigsaw piece, it’s often Diego after being invited as its easiest to appreciate the ideal commencement speaker. qualities of something when you Last year, the University chose don’t have it. to bring Michael Bloomberg, The best commencement who, while I don’t agree with all addresses I’ve heard offer us his political views, I thought was words of wisdom. As I’ve written an admirable choice. However, in the past, I think one of the many students were upset after University’s great pedagogical Bloomberg delivered his address. weaknesses is that there isn’t We could reduce his speech enough of a focus on creating a to a truism about engaging personal ethos, a code to live by. with people who disagree with A speaker could partially rectify you. But just like David Foster this problem. In David Foster Wallace, the devil is in the details. Wallace’s famous speech “This is He chose to deliver his message Water,” he extols the importance by attacking student activists of empathy. Wallace is acutely who have the noble goal of trying aware of how a cynic could to help make marginalized easily reduce this to a bromide, students feel more comfortable remarking, “Stated as an English at our University. It’s important sentence, of course, this is just a to critically discuss the methods banal platitude, but the fact is that they’ve used to achieve that goal, in the day to day trenches of adult but I wonder if commencement existence, banal platitudes can is the right place for that. We
deserve a speech which makes all students feel included. The speech should also address what it means for us to be graduating, right here, right now. What do 200 years of excellence from the University mean? We’re graduating into a world that is increasingly fractured along lines of race, class, geography, nation and culture. The list goes on. I appreciate that it may be difficult to balance these last two goals, but I think with careful deliberation, it’s possible. Recently, University President Mark Schlissel co-authored an op-ed about the importance of continuing to attract international scholars in our current political climate. We don’t need a polemic, but advice on how we, as global citizens, can navigate this fractious world. Lastly, the University’s bicentennial should be a celebration of 200 years of excellence. Let’s be frank: This is likely a major fundraising opportunity for the University by building a connection to its alumni. But I feel that the administration swung too far in that direction. Our commencement may be part of a larger ceremony, but it’s still our commencemnet! The University could have picked an alum to give our commencement speech, which would have allowed the administration to celebrate the bicentennial without sacrificing the address. Truth be told, I don’t have anyone particular in mind, and I doubt that the University will change course this late into the process. But I think at the very least, we should all do some reflecting on what the past four years have meant to us.
Roland Davidson can be reached at mhenryda@umich.edu.
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The missing students of color
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or the past seven years, a specter has been haunting my classes. I have been teaching classes on United States political and social movement history and on the history of race in the U.S. at the University of Michigan since the mid-1990s. Sometime around 2010, I noticed a change in my classrooms. My classes, I came to realize, had been profoundly altered by Proposal 2, the statewide referendum that in 2006 banned the use of affirmative action in college admissions in Michigan. It was not so much that there were fewer Black, Latinx and Native American students. There probably was a slight decline, but I had taught classes that were all-white or nearly all-white before. Nor was there a significant change in the political viewpoints expressed by students. The change was less tangible and at times felt difficult to put a finger on. Gradually, I began to realize that the students of color in my classes had become less vocal, less assertive. When they did talk about their experiences at the University, I sensed that they felt significantly more isolated within the campus community than had previous generations of my students. As a result, they seemed less willing to engage white students in discussions about racial justice. But it was the difference in the white students in my classes that was even more striking to me. They clearly had less experience interacting with students of color than previous generations of white students and less of a sense of how the University experience was different for students of color than it was for members of the white majority. With students of color making up a smaller proportion of the University’s student community, students of every
race and ethnicity came into my classroom with fewer cross-racial experiences and therefore with less confidence in their ability to honestly discuss the complexities of U.S. race relations in a mixed racial setting. Increasingly, I came to feel that my classes were haunted by the ghosts of the students of color who were no longer able or willing to enroll at the University because of Prop. 2. Without the voices of these missing students, the quality of learning in my courses on the U.S. racial experience was fundamentally compromised. For the University bicentennial exhibit titled “Remembering Students Missing After Proposal 2,” I have estimated that, in the decade since voters approved Prop. 2 in November 2006, at least 1,102 Black, Latinx and Native American undergraduate students were either unable or chose not to enroll at the University. I arrived at this estimate by comparing the number of underrepresented minority freshman who enrolled in the University between 2007 and 2016 with the number who would have enrolled in those years if the University had been able to maintain the percentage of underrepresented students who were enrolled in 2006. (You can read about how I made this calculation on the bicentennial exhibit’s website.) It is the specter of the missing 1,102 unenrolled students of color that haunts my classroom. In an undergraduate population of nearly 30,000 students, the loss of just more than 100 students of color per graduating class wouldn’t seem to have such a dramatic impact. In fact, according to the Office of the Registrar’s enrollment reports, the number of URM undergraduates was, at its low point in 2014, only 11 percent lower than it had
been before Prop. 2 went into effect. Still, the loss of these students has fundamentally remade the campus climate and educational environment. Why did the loss of this relatively small number of students have such a significant impact in my classroom? The answer, I believe, lies in the concept of “critical mass,” the idea that it takes a critical mass of minority faculty and students not only for students of color to thrive within a predominately white institution, but also for the entire campus community to realize the educational benefits of racial diversity. The concept of “critical mass” was crucial to the U.S. Supreme Court decision in the 2003 Grutter v. Bollinger and Gratz v. Bollinger cases, which ruled it was constitutional for the University to use race as a factor in admissions. Since I first entered college in 1981 and for most of my years as an undergraduate, as a graduate student and finally as a faculty member, I had been a beneficiary of “critical mass.” But it wasn’t until I saw the impact of Prop. 2 in my classroom that I came to fully appreciate how important critical mass was to the experiences of students of color and therefore to the realization of the educational benefits of racial diversity. Students who feel invisible and marginalized within the larger college community are unlikely to feel the confidence necessary to speak up and have an impact on classroom discussions even in those rare occasions when they are not the only person of color in the classroom. All of us in the University community suffer when the promise of “critical mass” goes unrealized. Matthew Countryman is an associate professor of history, American culture and AfricanAmerican studies in LSA.
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‘“Five Came Back” now streaming on Netflix
‘Came Back’ fascinates as meditation on war & film Star-studded cast explores the travesties of wartime filmmaking WWII-era America, using the work of Capra, Stevens, Huston, Daily Arts Writer Ford and Wyler as examples. Along with being thematically Sometimes, the greatest engrossing, “Five Came Back” weapon to use in a war is pleases aesthetically, as well. not a gun, but a camera. By There’s an inventive title capturing the grittiness sequence, an epic horn-heavy and travesties of battle, war score from composer Thomas documentarians have the Newman (“American Beauty”) power to shape the story and a gorgeous mix of color they are telling, subsequently and black-and-white archival educating and inf luencing footage from the 1940s. their audiences. This kind of With each blistering tactic became essential during detail and newsreel, the World War II, when five Old documentary tracks how the Hollywood filmmakers — styles and approaches of these John Ford (“The Searchers”), five inf luential filmmakers John Huston (“The Maltese ultimately shaped their outlook Falcon”), George Stevens (“A on the war. Capra and Wyler Place in the Sun”), Frank Capra sensed the threatening rise (“It’s a Wonderful Life”) and of Hitler and Nazism before William Wyler Hollywood did, (“Mrs. Miniver”) while Ford, — enlisted into the Huston and army to document Stevens were American efforts simply looking in fighting the for adventure Series Premiere when deciding menacing Axis (2 episodes Powers. The to join in the stories of these war effort. The watched) famous men, all differences in of whom risked incentives to Netflix their lives and enlist — personal their status as histories versus top Hollywood patriotism — directors during WWII, makes the documentary all are given a documentary the more enriching as the treatment of their own in directors’ attitudes toward the Netf lix’s beguiling three-part war change over time. series “Five Came Back,” based We observe Capra and Wyler on the book by film historian struggle under the weight Mark Harris. of governmental pressure Firing on all cinematic and box office failure with cylinders, “Five Came Back” is their propaganda films. We enlightening and entertaining see Stevens, who was known even for non-history buffs. for directing light-hearted The documentary operates comedies and musicals, grow as an absorbing take on hardened and alienated by the 1940s filmmaking, a complex war when filming in Tunisia. exploration of American We watch as Ford and Huston propaganda and a haunting were subjected to immense depiction of post-war milieu. scrutiny from the armed forces Meryl Streep (“Florence they worked with. Foster Jenkins”) narrates On the battlefront, the the background behind these directors especially struggled efforts with natural poise much more in trying to combine and thoroughness, while their artistic vision with their five current Hollywood real-war experiences. War filmmakers — Francis Ford propaganda may not have been Coppola (“Apocalypse the most ethical of decisions Now”), Steven Spielberg on Hollywood’s part, but (“Bridge of Spies”), Lawrence “Five Came Back” shows the Kasdan (“The Accidental manipulation of World War Tourist”), Guillermo del II through film in all of its Toro (“Pan’s Labyrinth”) and complexity. Paul Greengrass (“Captain Capra and Wyler initially Phillips”) — discuss the abandoned and reassembled social impact of the films a film project titled “The made before, during and after Negro Soldier” with Africanthe war. But perhaps the American playwright Carlton strongest pillar of “Five Came Moss. By subverting the Back” stems from the prolific standard negative Hollywood backbone and perceptive eye portrayal of Black people, the of director Laurent Bouzereau film gave a realistic depiction (“Roman Polanski: A Film of the Black American Memoir”), who has produced a experience during WWII, as plethora of behind-the-scenes it garnered rave reviews and documentaries for decades. attracted Black Americans Though “Five Came to join the war. At the same Back” has some difficulty in time, Capra had created warstructuring its formidable themed cartoons with Dr. subject matter, Bouzereau Seuss and Walt Disney to unfolds enough compelling amuse and motivate American social context to ref lect an soldiers, but at the expense entire half-decade of history of drawing racist caricatures into three hours. Tracing from of the Japanese. Such irony the late 1930s to the late 1940s, demonstrates the dynamics “Five Came Back” tackles of race in WWII America and cinema’s importance during how film as a medium had a role SAM ROSENBERG
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in perpetuating perceptions of different racial groups. To see these highly respected directors become grounded by the war is as gripping as it is troubling. As the war pushed these directors to their filmmaking limits, they each found ways to highlight the humanity within the inhumane atmosphere of war, all while taking an emotional and artistic toll by being on the battlefront. If there’s anything to take away from “Five Came Back,” it’s that the power of film isn’t just in storytelling, but the emotional and social context behind the storytelling. Capra, Huston, Stevens, Ford and Wyler weren’t just great American filmmakers for their compelling movies; they were great because their movies, war-related or not, were deeply rooted in something that was authentic and devastating enough to move audiences.
It’s hard to directly capture the essence of Argentinian singersongwriter Tei Shi’s newest album, Crawl Space. A patchwork quilt of sounds: echoing melodies dissolve into bold synth-pop harmonies, discombobulated beats peeter off into steady instrumental backgrounds. Crawl Space almost seems unfinished, a scrapbook of odd bits and pieces; as you rifle through its mismatching pages, you are plunged into Tei Shi’s dreamscape, her most intimate moments, her darkest fears. While this album is more complex than any of Tei Shi’s previous EPs, incorporating more elements and drawing from a wider variety of musical genres, it is infinitely more private than anything she has created in the past. Crawl Space is an exorcism: Tei Shi confronting her demons one angelic note at a time. Tei Shi’s style has significantly matured since the release of her very first EP Saudade in 2013. However, there are certain components that have remained constant. The simple combination of airy vocals and dynamic background, most prominently found in songs “Keep Running” and “Creep,” directly parallels songs “Basically” and “Nevermind the End” from previous albums. But
while these past releases were muted atmospheric background heavily minimalist, not allowing conceding the beauty of the songs to evolve into greater language itself to encompass complexity, Crawl Space dives a majority of the song. Even if into the unknown with verve. you can’t directly translate the Its songs are varying, relying lyrics, the caring devotion in Tei less on vocals and allowing Shi’s soft utterances makes the background rhythms to take a significance of “Como Si” clear. more prominent role in creating Though long, Crawl Space dynamism. is enticing. Each song hints at For instance, in “Baby,” the something you can almost see, but smooth blend of electronic and not quite. Largely abstract, what instrumental components help helps ground this constantlybolster Tei Shi’s evolving album croon of “Oh, are the brief baby love” and interjections turn the fourth of spoken word Tei Shi track of Crawl recordings. Songs Downtown Space into an “way to record,” otherworldly blur. “bad singer” and Contrastingly, “Justify” is all “bad girl” feature solely the sharp edges, honed beats daring bold voice of a little girl. These anyone listening to “justify me, fleeting moments of clarity now.” The final song, “Sleepy” help structure and ground the takes an entirely new direction sprawling album. They also altogether, with soft piano chords help construct a narrative; the forming a lullaby-esque eulogy. unflinching declarations of “I’m Tei Shi’s music is an a bad singer / I can’t do anything adventure. Like an antiquated well” and “I’m the baddest singer mansion, Crawl Space is a maze / I confess it” found in “bad of winding corridors and hidden singer” and “bad girl” provide rooms, every turn of the corner insight into Tei Shi’s fears, revealing a new surprise. Layers perhaps displaying the voices upon ghostly layers, the tracks she has to overcome whenever in Crawl Space consistently work producing a new album. to uncover fresh perspectives on Crawl Space shines a spotlight Tei Shi. on the skeletons in Tei Shi’s For example, “Como Si” stands closet. Every track is unique, out as the only track sung in Tei forming an album that shines Shi’s native language, Spanish. with creativity, ingenuity and, It offers a glimpse into an aspect most importantly, honesty. With of Tei Shi that had never been it, Tei Shi stands bare, facing significantly explored within the dark expanse of covert fears her music. The song itself and insecurities with dauntless is achingly vulnerable: The confidence.
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The reason ‘emo’ just isn’t as sad as everyone thinks
Lo Theisen explores the misassociation of emo and angst LAUREN THEISEN Daily Music Columnist
Every genre of music inevitably gets reduced to a stereotype in the eyes of the public. Hip hop is often cast as bluntly misogynistic party music. Jazz is thought to be impenetrable, highbrow virtuosity. The two words “heavy metal” immediately call to mind dudes with long beards, tattoos and leather jackets. And for “emo” rock — a label now so derided that many bands who come close to the phrase will immediately disavow it — most people will picture immensely sad teenagers, the drama of their privileged lives so overwhelming that they can only find solace in overly emotional, directly relatable guitar music. You’ll hear the adjective “whiny” to describe every vocalist. The word “wristcutter” might be thrown around. It’s an unpleasant, derisive view of a subculture, and it’s no surprise that no band wants to be associated with it. For this image, I blame Rivers Cuomo and Weezer. Of course, they didn’t invent emo (that dubious honor often gets awarded to ’80s D.C. hardcore band Rites of Spring), but Weezer parlayed its early success into 1996’s Pinkerton. Their sophomore record was a vast departure from the often kidfriendly, goofy image of The Blue Album, which propelled the band into stardom with hit singles like “Buddy Holly,” “My Name Is Jonas” and “The Sweater Song.” Instead, Pinkerton followed in the footsteps of the first album’s “Say It Ain’t So,” a beautiful, personal ballad by Cuomo about his parents’ divorce, his
stepfather and alcoholism. But where “Say It Ain’t So” felt perfectly crafted and poetic, these new songs were messy diary entries scrawled at 2 a.m., filled with awkward moments and way too much information. Pinkerton explores Cuomo’s Asian fetish, his infatuation with a lesbian and all of his deepest insecurities about fame and sex in the most painful detail. While initial reaction was infamously negative, the record soon gained a cult following and an eventual reputation as the best Weezer album — which means that plenty of bands still cite it as an influence. Within less than ten years, emo went mainstream, as groups like Brand New, Paramore, My Chemical Romance and Simple Plan wrote catchy, overwrought anthems of the suffering caused by teenage hormones. While I think all of these bands are great in their own right, their hit songs, coupled with the lesser efforts of trendy imitators, created the idea of the “emo aesthetic.” This label is perhaps best exemplified by Dashboard Confessional, whose frontman, Chris Carrabba, is the platonic ideal of emo. He’s a heavily tattooed, broodingly handsome acoustic-guitar strummer whose songs are almost always addressed to a beautiful female “you” who constantly gives him unbearable stress, hope, joy and pain. Carrabba’s 2002 performance on on “MTV Unplugged” might be the defining moment of emo. He wasn’t an especially famous artist at that point in his career (Unplugged is his only album to go platinum), but Carrabba is surrounded by adoring young
fans who sing every word back to him throughout the entire show, amplifying and validating all his most personal lyrics. It establishes this relative unknown as a great leader, a quasi-spiritual guide whose messages are filled with great meaning for his followers, and it opens your mind to how much impact a non-pop emo artist can have on people who understand what they’re saying. As more and more kids became devoted to what these singers had to say, the oversharing and spitefulness of many emo rock artists soon spread to other genres. Kanye West’s 808s and Heartbreak and Yeezy’s general lack of a filter call to mind Pinkerton, while Drake’s tendency to name and describe his exes in vivid detail feels petty while also giving his songs an extra level of relatability. For many of these artists, authenticity is no longer the rejection of corporations or the cultivation of a “tough guy” image — it’s the revelation of their darkest secrets for the entertainment of a paying crowd. But when painful emotions become a path to money, how do we actually deal with the pain? In a piece for The Ringer from last year, Rachel Premack looked at the popular community of Tumblr users that suffer from depression. They post blackand-white pictures of a sad, lonely looking Lana Del Rey, or quotes like: “It’s not that I
don’t enjoy being alive, but my favourite part of being alive is being asleep.” Premack’s piece explored the conflict and challenges of creating a community that accepts and destigmatizes mental illness without romanticizing it. “It became cool to define yourself by mental illness (on Tumblr),” one user is quoted as saying. “Like, in order to be interesting or valid, you had to have some kind of it.” In the same way, new emo artists are often judged by the depth of their backstories and pain of their past experiences. The traumas of songwriters make them interesting and cool. The worst thing that’s ever happened to them is the best thing they have to offer the public. To quote fellow columnist Will Stewart, “When did hating yourself and feeling like you’re going to have a heart attack become a bragging right?” But a new wave of bands is cutting against the trend of aestheticized pain, using their music as a path for real artistic
New emo artists are often judged by the depth of their backstories and pain of their past experiences
catharsis and reminding us of its true power. Modern Baseball, originally a catchy band that whined about girls a lot, has matured a great deal and now use their platform for social activism and the destigmatization of mental illness. The Hotelier consistently has some of the best lyrics in rock, words that perfectly characterize the psychological fight against darkness. Meanwhile, Hop Along vocalist Frances Quinlan imbues every words she sings with nearly unfathomable emotion and power, and Kevin Abstract continued to tell heartfelt stories and create better representation for queer rappers with last year’s American Boyfriend. Most recently, the punk band Sorority Noise has released You’re Not As_____ As You Think, already one of the best records of the year and a potential landmark work in how we think about pain and art. To get the elephant out of the room, yes, You’re Not As_____ As You Think is “depressing.” In “Disappeared,” singer Cameron Boucher notes that “just this year I lost a basketball team to heaven,” and of this group, the suicide of a friend named Sean in particular hangs heavy over the music. The opening track sees Boucher forget that Sean is dead and make an impromptu visit to
his old house. “I saw you in there / But I was looking at myself,” he sings hauntingly. Each track that follows continues to explore Boucher’s isolation, the pain and the grief caused by these tragedies. But Boucher is not simply a man wallowing in his sadness, looking for pity from fans. You’re Not As_____ As You Think is a brief album, and each word he sings sounds carefully considered, straining to hold the weight of a thousand other sentiments left unsaid. He pictures these touching images of where his friends are now, imagining them listening to The Gaslight Anthem in heaven or “shooting jumpers with Jesus, Mary and Joseph.” He’s trying so hard to fight against numbness and anxiety and loneliness, searching for humanity and connection and reality. All stereotypes are dehumanizing, and while some are more harmful than others, the idea of emo rock as a genre for privileged kids to whine about their lame problems has never been more untrue or unfair to its artists. These melodies and lyrics are vehicles for connection and sanity in a terrifying, sometimes awful world. At the core of emo isn’t a glamorization of sadness or death, but an all-out, highstakes battle for life.
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‘Turtle’ tells simple but enchanting tale of hope In an unusual tale of adaptation and transformation, animated film “The Red Turtle” enthralls and captivates BECKY PORTMAN Daily Arts Writer
Most survival movies end in rescue. In “The Martian,” Matt Damon makes it home to tell his tale; in “127 Hours,” James Franco, albeit painfully, escapes the boulder that entraps him; in “Cast Away,” Tom Hanks makes it off that godforsaken island, sadly without Wilson. While these films follow the familiar structure of shipwreck, despair and rescue, “The Red Turtle,” directed by Michaël Dudok de Wit (“Father and Daughter”) details a similar narrative in completely different terms. There is no physical rescue in “The Red Turtle,” no return home, no grand welcome reception, no special on the news. The rescue is the life that our castaway makes on the island that imprisoned him. Perhaps what the film reveals is that survival is more about improving the present situation than escaping it. “The Red Turtle” is a beautifully animated film about survival, but moreso about life and the events that
define it. son leaves to explore what else “The Red Turtle” begins the world has to offer, leaving with an unnamed castaway, his parents alone on the island. thrust from his small boat Years pass and the couple has onto an isolated island. He is gone gray with age, our castaway frustrated, fed dies in his sleep as up and alone. He an old man, lying “The Red sets sail thrice next to his love. on a handmade She wakes up to Turtle” raft, but each find him dead, Sony Pictures time the raft is cries over his body Classics mysteriously in mourning and hit from below turns back into The Michigan and dismantled. the red turtle. The Theater Our castaway is screen fades to then forced to black as she returns swim back to the to her home in the island, left alone yet again. He ocean. discovers that the source of “The Red Turtle” is subtle his raft’s destruction is a large both in narrative and animation. red turtle. The turtle makes The film’s aesthetic is minimal, its way to the yet breathtaking. The simple, island, and in line-drawn characters contrast a blind rage nicely with the deeply textured our castaway landscapes of the island and the kills the turtle, ocean. The lack of dialogue, while leaving it for sometimes slow, is a welcome dead. Days change from the talkative pass and he anthropomorphic characters of feels remorse animation’s past and present. for killing The creatures in the film are the turtle; full of personality without the he attempts need for excessive chatter. For to revive it example, the crabs develop and fails. The their own dance through their turtle then transforms into a charming actions and antics, like beautiful red-headed woman. following our castaway around Long story short, the castaway wherever he goes. and turtle-turned-woman The narrative is simple, but fall in love and have a baby, with a magical, beautiful twist. who possesses the human “The Red Turtle” may be a tale appearance of his father, but of survival, but tells the story in the aquatic (and turtle-like) a way that emphasizes thriving capabilities of his mother. The over surviving.
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Michigan defeats Yellow Jackets in triple overtime to claim first championship in program history ETHAN WOLFE Daily Sports Writer
DETROIT — The Michigan women’s basketball team needed a miracle and then some to become the Women’s National Invitation Tournament champions. Tied at 67 with 10 seconds left, Georgia Tech was taking the ball up for the final possession of the quarter and potentially of the season. Staunch defense forced a routine, long-range two from Elo Edeferioka. Her shot appeared wide right, but not before the whistle blew on a shooting foul by senior guard Siera Thompson with 0.6 seconds left on the clock. Any energy that the Wolverines had was sucked out of the room. Edeferioka went to the charity stripe in what would have decided the game’s fate. With 44 years as a program under its belt and nothing to show for it in the Crisler Center rafters, it appeared that one controversial foul call could dash the hopes of changing
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that. “I was praying that they wouldn’t go in,” Dunston said. “It’s a very hard moment to be in, to win the game on freethrows. I was hoping that she was going to miss.” Hopeful booing from the Wolverine faithful permeated Calihan Hall as Edeferioka stepped to the line for her first attempt. The shot clanked off the back of the rim, f lew in the air and hit the ground — the thought of her missing the second free throw becoming a reality in the minds of the thousands of fans looking on. As Edeferioka released the ball on her second attempt, she found the inside of the rim, only for it to bounce out to the right into the arms of Dunston, whose prayers were answered. In improbable
fashion, Michigan was neckand-neck in overtime with a team they beat by 40 points earlier in the season. “We’ve been in that situation before and I’m like ‘Not again. Let the kids win the basketball game.’ ” Barnes Arico said. “Our kids just played their butt off and when you get that call at the end of the game it’s a tough one.” From there, the rest is history. The back-andforth nature of the game continued for two overtimes with both teams struggling to capture momentum, before the Wolverines blew the door wide open in the third and final overtime period, in which they came out with an 89-79 win to become WNIT champions. The thought of Michigan as
“I was praying that they wouldn’t go in.”
WNIT champions, and especially the missed free throws, is remarkable considering how the Wolverines fought to tie the game. Georgia Tech appeared poised to win after an and-one layup put the Yellow Jackets up, 67-61, with 1:23 remaining in the final quarter. The entirety of Michigan’s season, marred with program record-breaking victories alongside extreme disappointment, would come to a close in 83 seconds. The Wolverines were gassed, and sought the hero that they’ve rarely needed this season. And they found one in Katelynn Flaherty. The junior guard received a pass at the top of the arc from Nicole Munger, where Flaherty danced around screens set by Jillian Dunston, ultimately
launching a 23-foot trey that found the bottom of the net to bring Michigan’s deficit to three with 1:06 remaining. After an errant Georgia Tech layup attempt, the Wolverines called a timeout to draw up what could have been their final play of the season. But it seemed as if the final play was decided before Michigan coach Kim Barnes Arico said a word — the ball had to be in Flaherty’s hands. Sure enough, coming out of the timeout, she was in a similar situation with the ball at the top of the arc, looking for separation to launch a three. With 12 seconds remaining, Flaherty dribbled to the right corner behind the 3-point line, using all of her might and kicking her legs mid-air to
“I knew that was as much space as I was getting.”
rocket the ball, arching over the height of the shot clock. Flaherty drained the three to tie the game, and she jumped into Dunston’s arms at halfcourt with the accompaniment of a roaring crowd and the entire Michigan bench out of its seats. “I saw two good opportunities to shoot the ball,” Flaherty said. “I knew that was as much space as I was getting so I just relaxed and shot. That was the big thing. A lot of my other shots I was tense and it’s funny how when I just relax and do what I had to do I made it. “Watching UConn and Mississippi State yesterday, when the girl hit the final shot I was like, ‘Wow, I wonder what that feels like.’ And then we got on a similar stage. It’s smaller, but it’s awesome.” Call it luck, or call it hardfought will, but Michigan finally made it over the hump to hang a banner. For the Wolverines, they needed a f lawless final minute of regulation. And in that minute, 44 years of waiting materialized right on cue.
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hrough all the smiles and joy on the court Saturday afternoon, after the Michigan women’s basketball team won the WNIT, it would have been easy to forget MAX where the BULTMAN team was nearly three weeks ago. On that night, a night where they expected to break a three-year NCAA Tournament drought, the Wolverines had their hearts ripped out. Sitting at Revel and Roll bowling alley, the players watched, hopefully, as each region was revealed, with confidence that the team would soon hear its name called. How sure did the team seem that it had earned a place in the field? As the final pairing in which the Wolverines would have fit was about to be announced, sophomore center Hallie Thome put on a wide smile, anticipating the good news. Instead, the names “Kansas State” and “Drake” came through the speakers. Her expression turned to shock. Even after the best regular season in program history, Michigan would once again be relegated to the WNIT. “The night we didn’t get into the NCAA’s I felt heartbroken for (seniors Danielle Williams and Siera Thompson),” said sophomore guard Nicole Munger. “But the next day in practice, we said we were doing it for them and we were winning it for them. This is for them.” It would have been understandable if, given that heartbreak, Thome and the Wolverines hadn’t wanted to play at all in the WNIT. It’s possible
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Sophomore center Hallie Thome and the Wolverines managed to overcome the disappointment of missing the NCAA Tournament to win the WNIT.
that, in the immediate aftermath, they didn’t. It would have even been understandable if, after the NCAA selection committee doubted them, they started to doubt themselves. But after the way they played their final game, through three unprecedented championship overtimes, one thing was clear: they learned to embrace a tournament that they didn’t want, and they proved they would have belonged in the one that didn’t want them. Looking back, maybe it shouldn’t have been much of a surprise that Michigan won the WNIT Final. It had already beaten its opponent, Georgia Tech, by a 40-point margin earlier this season in Atlanta. The Wolverines were probably the biggest snub from the Big Dance, and their talent made it
easy enough to pencil them into the semifinals, where Barnes Arico had led them in each of the previous two seasons. But there was something about a deep WNIT run that seemed less than inevitable. In the WNIT, as with most tournaments, it takes more than talent to win it all. To win six straight games against teams of relatively comparable skill levels, no matter who is on your roster, takes will power. There’s little room for passivity. And that’s where the uncertainty came in. There is a reason the NIT and WNIT are so hard to predict. There is simply no telling how a team will respond to letdowns, no way to gauge whether a team will respond with motivation or resignation.
For the Michigan women’s basketball team, there must have been at least a fair share of each. The Wolverines knew they were one of the 64 best teams in the country — particularly considering they were ranked in the top 25 just weeks before the selection show — and that must have made them irate. It also could have made them feel defeated. All that hard work, all those wins, and they’re stuck in the same tournament they’ve been in both the previous two years? It’s not hard to see how that might have led to some passivity when the tournament began. But whatever their immediate reaction, it was clear on Saturday afternoon that motivation eventually won out. “They just wanted to prove
‘M’ track enjoys success at Battle of the Blues Men’s and women’s teams finish first and second, respectively, in Durham SYLVANNA GROSS Daily Sports Editor
Last year, the Michigan women’s track and field team won the Battle of the Blues in Durham, N.C. while the men’s track and field team took second. This year, though, the roles reversed, and the men came out on top with the women following in the runner-up position. The Wolverines traveled south together to compete against Duke and North Carolina to open up the outdoor season. While the women’s competition was relatively close — Michigan’s women took second with 62 points, just 10 points below Duke and six above North Carolina — the men’s team claimed victory with 101 points with Duke trailing by 47 points. “It was really fun to be out there with all the guys, and the women’s team, too,” said senior thrower Grant Cartwright.
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“Something about outdoor season is a lot more fun than indoor season.” Cartwright, along with fellow All-American thrower junior Joe Ellis, contributed 16 total points to the team’s overall score. Ellis claimed the hammer title with the second-best throw of his career (66.34 meters) and Cartwright took the discus title with a career-best throw of 55.40 meters. Michigan men’s coach Jerry Clayton was impressed by Cartwright’s performance, considering he was in three events in one day — discus, shot put and hammer. Cartwright, however, didn’t see that as a “burden” and focused instead on finally getting outdoors after a long
indoor season. Joining the impressive throwing squad this year is freshman Andrew Liskowitz, who took the title for shot put. Cartwright believes it was the “highlight of the weekend” and emphasized how much the team rallied behind Liskowitz. Other notable performances from the men’s side included a one-throughfive sweep in the 1,500-meter run and the top two spots in the steeplechase. Senior sprinter Khoury Crenshaw claimed wins in both the 100meter run and 4x100 relay. The distance runners took four event titles with 11 top-four finishes. “It was an excellent meet,” Clayton said. “We had great performances in all the areas.
“Anytime you can win as a team, that’s what it was about.”
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Senior distance runner Gina Sereno managed to take first in the 1,500-meter race with a time of 4:21.38 on Saturday.
Anytime you can win as a team, that’s what it was about. It was a really good day for the team.” Though the women didn’t fare as well as the men, Michigan women’s coach James Henry wasn’t looking to win — similar to his attitude last year. For him, the meet is meant to open the season with good competition and scoring is the least of his concerns. Senior distance runner Gina Sereno, though, still pushed forward to take first in the 1,500-meter race with a time of 4:21.38 — a full two seconds over runner-up and teammate, senior mid-distance athlete Jamie Morrissey. Sereno, combined with the rest of the distance squad, racked up almost half of their team’s total. Although both Sereno and Morrissey don’t run the 1,500 — it was Sereno’s first time — the duo pushed through the first 800 meters together. “As you’re running together you have a sense someone is running with you,” Sereno said. “It makes it easier to know someone else is there. (The race) was a product of us training together and working hard in pushing each other. Every race situation lends itself to a different outcome. But, being able to practice every day and knowing how we run led to this.” Like the men’s side, the throwers contributed a great deal to the overall total. Junior Bailey Baker notched three points in the hammer throw with a distance of 55.17 — a full four-and-a-half feet better than her throw the previous week in the Pac-12 vs. Big Ten Challenge. “We got eight more meets before our conference championship,” Henry said. “This is one meet down and seven to go. This is a long long year, we want to improve and stay healthy and come together as a team. Those are our goals.”
the world that they had made a mistake and that Michigan basketball is a great team,” Barnes Arico said. “They refused to go away and it was just awesome to watch.” It was only fitting, though, that there was one final test of will awaiting the Wolverines, even as they climbed through the tournament and ended up in the finals in nearby Detroit. Trailing by three points with just 10 seconds remaining, junior guard Katelynn Flaherty hoisted up a prayer that, somehow, went answered to tie the game. Then, the unthinkable. Thompson was called for a foul while contesting Georgia Tech forward Elo Edeferioka’s jump shot with 0.6 seconds remaining. Seldom, if ever do referees call foul in moments in like that, but
the whistle blew. It looked like one more shocking outcome awaited the Wolverines. Instead, Edeferioka missed both free throws. Michigan did nothing to influence that, and no amount of will could have induced those misses. But given another chance, the Wolverines fought like hell. The game went into overtime, and then it went into another, then another. No other WNIT Championship had ever even gone to overtime before Saturday, but this one just wouldn’t end. By the third overtime, the Wolverines had apparently had enough of leaving matters to chance. They put away the game and took home a double-digit win in triple overtime. Margins don’t usually get that steep in games that require so much extra time. Fifty-five minute games are rare, and the games that do make it that long are usually so close that they come down to one or two small plays. Overtime is often decided by free throws. Triple overtimes are decided by will. And on Saturday, Michigan was the team that wouldn’t let go. The Wolverines won the game, stormed the court and won the tournament they hadn’t even wanted to be in three weeks ago. There was no way to go back and reverse the selection committee’s decision, no way to unfeel the emotions they felt in that bowling alley almost three weeks prior. Instead, they felt something new: vindication. Daily sports editor Sylvanna Gross and staff writer Ethan Wolfe contributed reporting to this column. Bultman can be reached by email at bultmanm@umich.edu and on Twitter @m_bultman. Please @ him.
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Michigan wins NCAA Regional NATHANIEL CLARK Daily Sports Editor
The legendary musician John Denver once sang, “West Virginia, mountain mamma, take me home.” Though the Michigan women’s gymnastics team was 350 miles from Ann Arbor, the Wolverines felt right at home at the NCAA Regional in Morgantown, W.Va. Michigan scored 197.50 points, which was enough to secure its 12th NCAA Regional victory. The Wolverines won five individual titles, tying a school record. “They’re probably a little tired,” said Michigan coach Bev Plocki. “But right after the competition, they were definitely excited. It was a lot of fun.” Michigan’s star performer was undoubtedly junior Paige Zaziski, who accounted for three of the Wolverines’ individual championships. Zaziski earned victories in the all-around (39.575 points), vault (9.875) and bars (9.950). As if all of that wasn’t enough, Zaziski was also substituted into the floor event at the last minute for junior Lauren Marinez, and subsequently placed third (9.900). “My teammates talked to me before I went on the floor,” Zaziski said. “And I think that was really helpful. I was just ready for whatever happened and to do whatever was best for the team.” Added Plocki: “Floor is an
event that we’ve been trying to get (Zaziski) ready on. She’s done well at it in practice, but we’ve given her a couple of opportunities in exhibitions earlier this year and they didn’t go so well. So we just kept plugging away at it in practice and building up her confidence. We made a decision that we would see how the meet was going and where we were sitting. If things were looking good, we were going to change the lineup.” But sophomore Emma McLean wouldn’t let Zaziski have all of Michigan’s glory. McLean excelled on the vault as well, tying for first place with Zaziski — not that Zaziski minded splitting a championship with a fellow Wolverine. “I’m just glad that we all came up big today and won (as a team),” Zaziski said. “I didn’t really care about the individual awards.” Senior Nicole Artz also earned a victory on the beam, tallying a season-high score of 9.925. Artz’s win was made more impressive by the fact that she was the only gymnast at the regional to score higher than 9.900 in the beam event. Michigan’s triumph in the Morgantown regional secured its spot in the NCAA Championships — which will be its 23rd appearance — in St. Louis, Mo. on April 14. And if the Wolverines perform in the NCAA Championships like they did at the regional, Michigan will feel just as at home in St. Louis as it did in West Virginia.
“I was just ready for whatever happened and to do whatever was best for the team.”
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Michigan sweeps Northwestern with 4-0 win ‘M’ routs Penn State to claim series sweep BASEBALL
BENJAMIN KATZ Daily Sports Writer
Before Sunday’s matinee against Northwestern, the No. 20 Michigan softball team — including coach Carol Hutchins — seemed looser during warmups than before its other games. As dancing and trust falls commenced, the Alumni Band, stationed in the right-center field bleachers, played the “Mission Impossible” theme song. Their song selection foretold the story for the visiting Wildcats (1-5 Big Ten, 13-19 overall). Their mission to even ruffle the feathers of the Wolverines’ senior righthander Megan Betsa seemed impossible. In the final slate of the threegame series, Michigan (6-0 Big Ten, 26-7-1 overall) completed the weekend sweep with a 4-0 victory, its 12th consecutive win and seventh straight shutout. Betsa pitched her own seventh shutout in a row, raising her scoreless inning count to 48. The senior fanned nine Northwestern
batters while allowing just two hits and two walks. Though not her typical double-digit strikeout outing, Betsa didn’t appear fazed, eventually settling in during the middle innings. Admitting that some of her mechanics were not their best early on, Betsa tried to find the “fast and fluid” attack of the strike zone that has made her one of the nation’s best hurlers. But with considerable adjustments from pitch to pitch, Betsa was able to find her rhythm. After squandering a single in the first and a double in the second, she retired the next 11 batters. Prior to Betsa catching her stride, Hutchins made one of multiple trips to the circle — an unusual occurrence with Betsa pitching. She tried to calm her ace down and get her command back in check, focusing mostly on mentality over mechanics. Hutchins reminded Betsa that just because Northwestern already faced her Friday in a 10-0 Michigan win didn’t mean she had to try harder to be more effective.
“You don’t have to be better than zero. I don’t think you can be better than zero,” Hutchins said. “She’s a human, she’s going to have moments of doubt or just trying too hard. She wasn’t always in a good flow, but the fact that she responded was huge.” Added Betsa: “My body speed wasn’t as good the first two innings. My arm speed wasn’t whipping. That was something that we talked about inning by inning, just staying loose, whipping my pitches, and I thought that got better as the game went on.” The Wolverines’ offense, meanwhile, was better than zero, boosting Betsa with just enough run support to pick up the win. Steadily increasing its lead with one run in four straight innings, Michigan created more breathing room for its ace. In the third inning, after a lengthy at-bat, sophomore catcher Katie Alexander hit a two-out single up the middle to drive in junior pinch runner Nikki Wald for the Wolverines’ first run.
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Senior right-hander Megan Betsa pitched her seventh shutout in a row, raising her scoreless inning count to 48.
Junior first baseman Tera Blanco and sophomore outfielder Natalie Peters each tallied an RBI to increase the lead over the next two innings. In the bottom of the fourth, sophomore second baseman Faith Canfield hit a long two-run homer to left field, only to have it called back due to Peters leaving first base early — an automatic out. The miscue negated much-needed insurance runs, instead leaving Michigan in a closely-contested 3-0 battle. “We had to celebrate (the home run),” Hutchins said. “She womped it, so we just had to say, ‘It is what it is. We’re ahead, let’s play.’ ” The fifth inning saw Michigan load the bases on two walks and a hit-by-pitch, and senior shortstop Abby Ramirez added a fourth run onto the scoreboard with a sacrifice fly. As much as they looked to be having fun before the game, Hutchins believes it didn’t translate to the game itself, where she thought her players got into their own heads. “They want things to go their way, and I thought today they let the fact that things weren’t going their way just deflate us,” Hutchins said. “We’d go up to the plate and have an opportunity, (but) the person at the plate would have a poor at-bat and that would deflate us. Just have a good at-bat because if you hit it hard, we can all be excited about that, but we were pretty outcome-oriented today and that doesn’t really work.” But while the entire team may have struggled with mental deflation, Betsa remained her usual confident self, and that proved to be the difference. “I honestly just feel confident, and I think it’s true confidence this time,” Betsa said Friday. “In the past, I’ve said that I’m confident, but I didn’t feel like I feel now. … I feel like most people aren’t going to score many runs off of me, and when runners get on base, I pretty much know I can get myself out of a jam.”
HUNTER SHARF Daily Sports Writer
One-third of an inning – that’s how long Penn State’s starting pitcher lasted on Sunday. In that short time, the No. 22 Michigan baseball team tallied five runs against right-hander Eric Mock – and didn’t stop there. In the final game of their series against the Nittany Lions (0-3 Big Ten, 10-16 overall), the Wolverines blew out Penn State, 14-1. Throughout the threegame sweep, Michigan (4-2, 22-6) produced 39 runs, tallying an impressive run differential of 30. After surrendering a 1-0 lead in the top of the first inning, the Wolverines’ offense erupted in the bottom half of the first. Upon being hit by a pitch, sophomore second baseman Ako Thomas advanced to second on an error by Nittany Lion first baseman Willie Burger. After a fly ball moved Thomas to third, the sophomore scored on a wild pitch by Mock. Then, junior third baseman Drew Lugbauer ripped an RBI double down the right field line, scoring senior shortstop Michael Brdar. In the very next at bat, redshirt sophomore left fielder Miles Lewis hit an RBI double, scoring Lugbauer and making it 3-1. Following back-to-back singles by sophomore designated hitter Nick Poirier and sophomore right fielder Jonathan Engelmann, the Wolverines’ lead increased to four before the end of the inning. After Sunday’s win, Michigan improved to 11-0 when leading after the first. “I think in any sport, at any level, you want to get ahead and stay ahead,” said Michigan coach Erik Bakich. “So it’s good that we’re getting ahead and staying ahead.”
In the third inning, Michigan extended its lead to 6-1 with a sacrifice fly off the bat of senior catcher Harrison Wenson. After tallying another run in the fourth, the Wolverines’ offense exploded again in the fifth, scoring six more runs. The inning was highlighted by a bases-loaded line drive to center by Lugbauer, which Nittany Lion centerfielder Jordan Bowersox bobbled. The ball proceeded to the wall, allowing all three base runners to score and Lugbauer to advance to third. And after a wild pitch scored Lugbauer, Michigan led 13-1. While the Wolverines’ offense received an all around effort – eight of nine starters scored a run and all nine reached base – Poirier stood out. The designated hitter went 3-for-3, with a walk, an RBI and three runs scored. “(I) was just sticking to the approach that (Bakich) gives us,” Poirier said. “Just being relaxed, seeing the pitches and pretty much trusting our plan as a team.” In a game that featured a large offensive output, Michigan’s pitching could have been easily overlooked. Nevertheless, the Wolverines’ starter, junior right-hander Michael Hendrickson, recorded a career-high eight strikeouts over six innings. Additionally, the junior allowed just one run, one walk and three hits. “Even in the run they scored, (Hendrickson) was making quality pitches,” Bakich said. “He was very efficient attacking the zone (and) he put the necessary zeroes up that we needed so we could separate offensively.” In Michigan’s five games last week, it went 5-0, scoring 64 runs. If the Wolverines continue to have that level of offense production, they will be hard to beat.
New batting stance aids Christner Wolverines’ offense comes alive MARK CALCAGNO Daily Sports Writer
Kelly Christner’s new stance at the plate takes some time to get used to. From the left-hander’s batter box, the senior outfielder starts with her bat out in front of the plate — almost as if she’s preparing to drop down a bunt. But then, just as the opposing pitcher is winding up, she pulls her hands back and waits for the pitch. That approach, which is meant to improve timing, has helped Christner climb out of a brutal 10-game stretch, one in which she hit 6-for-29 (.208) with just two runs batted-in and no extra base hits. “She went to it on her own,” said Michigan coach Carol Hutchins. “She went to it a little bit last year because timing is her issue. “I moved her down because she wasn’t hitting well. If she stays consistent then I’ll certainly consider (moving her up).” Despite a team-leading
batting average over .400, Christner was dropped down from the top of the order to the seventh spot in the lineup last Saturday against Penn State — a move that didn’t surprise the centerfielder even with the team’s triple crown in hand. “I had some games when I wasn’t really hitting well and other people were,” Christner said. “(Hutchins) is going to move it around by who is hot at that time, so I wasn’t really surprised by it.” But the relief of pressure that comes with hitting in the bottom third of the lineup didn’t help Christner immediately break out of her slump. In that series against the Nittany Lions, she was held to only one hit, finishing the trio of games 1-for-5. Then, in a trip to Central Michigan on Tuesday, Christner finally broke through her slump. Setting her hands in front of the plate, she pulled back and blasted a solo homerun off the top of the right field-wall — her first extrabase hit in over two weeks.
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Senior outfielder Kelly Christner is batting .636 in her last four contests.
Later in the game, she notched an RBI single to supply the entirety of the Wolverines’ run production in a 2-0 win. On Friday against Northwestern, her rebound continued, as Christner plated four baserunners via an RBI single and double. In her last four contests, Christner is batting .636 with six RBI and two extra-base hits — a stark contrast to her previous dismal stretch. “My main thing is getting in my legs and having rhythm, and (the batting stance) really helps me with that,” Christner said. Hitting close to .500 with power through the first month of the season, Christner anchored the top of the Wolverines’ batting order early on, driving in runs with consistency from the third and fourth spots. But with Christner in the seventh spot, Michigan has scored 50 runs in seven straight wins, proving her potency throughout the batting order. Her production, coupled with the emergences of junior designated player Amanda Vargas and sophomore second baseman Faith Canfield, made Hutchins comfortable with the current lineup. “This lineup has gotten us a lot of runs,” Hutchins. “She’s pretty comfortable down there — we’re hiding her. It’s nice to get in that part of the order and look who is up. “I count on Kelly Christner. If the seniors don’t have good weekends, we’re not going to have one. Your best players have to contribute regularly.” With the new mechanics at the plate, the consistency that Christner brought to the lineup early on seems to have emerged once again. And considering Michigan’s success with its current lineup, perhaps Christner is where she belongs. It might look odd, but her new stance is what might help to carry Christner and, in turn, the Michigan offense.
PAIGE VOEFFRAY Daily Sports Writer
In the last game of the series, the Nittany Lions put up a run in the first inning — attempting to salvage the weekend. Michigan had no need to worry, though, as it knocked in five runs in the first inning alone, and then nine more to take the game, 14-1, to clinch the sweep. The offensive burst was just more of the same from the Michigan baseball team as it scored a total of 39 runs this weekend against Penn State — not surprisingly the most the Wolverines have scored in a weekend series all season. While Michigan has been impressive on both sides of the ball all year, its bats have been steadily hot as of late. Entering the series against the Nittany Lions, the Wolverines were fresh off two high-scoring midweek games in which they decisively handled Toledo and Central Michigan, 12-0 and 13-4, respectively. “The more experience you can get, more reps, more live at-bats that you can get, the better you’ll be,” said sophomore right fielder Jonathan Engelmann. “If you take four, five games off, it’s hard to get back into a rhythm, so having those five-game weeks are really nice.” In the past, the Wolverines have struggled to remain consistent all game, but the depth of the lineup has proven that they can continue the momentum from inning to inning — having scored in 15 of 24 innings this weekend. And in all three contests against Penn State, every Michigan player that stepped in the batter’s box was a threat. In Friday’s 10-6 victory, the Wolverines tallied 11 hits. Engelmann, sophomore second baseman Ako Thomas and junior first baseman Jake Bivens were the most dangerous. All three had two hits on the day, batting eighth, first and sixth in the lineup, respectively.
Saturday saw three different Wolverines hit balls out of the park to contribute to a 15-2 triumph. Junior third baseman Drew Lugbauer hit two over the wall — one even landed in the outfield of Alumni Field — and he picked up four runs-batted in on the day. Engelmann also got in on the action, hitting his first career home run over the left-field wall in the seventh inning. But no home run was quite as exciting for Michigan fans than that of redshirt freshman infielder Joe Pace. Not only did he get his first hit in a Wolverine uniform, but he also sent it over the centerfield wall. He was swarmed by his teammates and met with wild cheers as he tried to re-enter the dugout. “He earned that moment,” said Michigan coach Erik Bakich. “That was everyone in the dugout genuinely excited for Joe Pace because he’s such a team guy. He doesn’t get to play much but he works just as hard as everybody else. He’s just a great kid, great person so for him to have a big hit like that.
“For his first career hit happens to be a two-run, twoout, two-strike home run, you can’t script that stuff out any better. I’m happy for him.” The bottom of the lineup impressed the most Sunday. Engelmann and sophomore designated hitter Nick Poirier each tallied three hits and one RBI. Even senior catcher Harrison Wenson, batting in the nine slot, singled through the gap between second and third base for his first hit of the series. “It’s just a matter of getting in every day and taking pride in the work that you do,” Engelmann said. “Luck favors the prepared mind and today we got to see that hard work come into formation and we’re happy that it came out that way.” It appears that the Wolverines bats have come alive, as they are about to enter the heart of their Big Ten season. For Michigan, the next test will be sustaining the production and proving it didn’t peak too early.
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Sophomore right fielder Jonathan Engelmann led Michigan’s offensive output.
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Wolverines finally get to cut down net Wolverines wrap up ICE HOCKEY
NATHANIEL CLARK Daily Sports Writer
DETROIT — The Michigan women’s basketball team has been in existence for 44 seasons. Prior to Saturday, the Wolverines — despite several NCAA Tournament and Women’s National Invitation Tournament appearances — did not have a banner in Crisler Center to show for those 44 years. Nor had they ever been able to cut down the net at an arena before. That all changed with Michigan’s 89-79, triple-overtime victory in the WNIT championship game against Georgia Tech. Starting next season, the Wolverines can look up in Crisler Center and see a banner of their very own, a tangible reward for over four decades of hard work. “I think we had a refuse to lose mentality,” said Michigan coach Kim Barnes Arico. “They refused to go away and it was just awesome to watch.” Though the Michigan players received trophies and exchanged hugs and autographs immediately after the game, the most exciting event for the Wolverines was cutting down the net at Calihan Hall. The Wolverines took turns in the first-ever net-cutting ceremony. First up with the scissors was sophomore center Hallie Thome, whose heroics played a huge role in putting Michigan in the WNIT championship game. Coming into Saturday’s game, Thome had netted at least 20 points in three of Michigan’s five WNIT games. Despite missing her first three shots, Thome once again proved indispensable for the Wolverines. She finished the game with 25 points, including eight in the third quarter, which allowed Michigan to take a 43-42 lead into the fourth frame. “I’m really proud of everyone, definitely going into all the overtimes and not giving up, and still giving the same amount of effort each time,” Thome said. “Coach Arico had talked about it, we ran so much during preseason and just how we can outrun them
and keep pushing. If it’s a battle on the run, we’ll be able to make it, so I think it definitely helped in our favor at the end of the game.” Yet if junior guard Katelynn Flaherty wasn’t mobbed by fans and reporters, perhaps she would have gotten first dibs at trimming the net. Flaherty was named the WNIT’s Most Valuable Player after scoring 21.3 points per game in the tournament and netting 27 against the Yellow Jackets. While Flaherty, like Thome, struggled early in the game, she came through when it mattered most for Michigan. As the Wolverines trailed Georgia Tech 67-61 with 1:06 remaining in regulation, Flaherty singlehandedly erased Michigan’s deficit with two 3-pointers to force overtime. She netted five more points in the overtime periods in order to ensure that she would have her turn with a pair of scissors. “This is great,” Flaherty said. “It’s awesome to be able to win a championship and put your school on the map. This is the result of all our hard work all year whether we
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The wheels on the No. 9 Michigan women’s tennis team just keep on rolling. The Wolverines defeated Wisconsin (0-7 Big Ten, 4-12 overall) on Friday and Minnesota (2-4, 10-9) on Sunday. With the wins, the Wolverines remain perfect in Big Ten play, and now have six consecutive wins (5-0, 13-3). The Golden Gophers saw a glimpse of hope after winning the doubles point in dramatic, tie-break fashion. But the Wolverines quickly thrashed any confidence that Minnesota may have had, winning every singles match to take the 6-1 victory. After beating Wisconsin on Friday, 4-0, Michigan impressively dropped only one match on the weekend. “We work on the doubles, and we take pride in our doubles,” said Michigan coach Ronni Bernstein. “But with the format, it’s tough to win every doubles point.” Singles play has been a strength for Michigan this year. With the wins this weekend it has improved to 20-1 in conference action. The team looks strong from top to bottom led by sophomore Brienne Minor in the No. 1 spot for the weekend. Minor appeared confident on the court and bounced back after losing the second set, to take the win 6-0, 3-6, 6-3. “I think we are solid all the way down,” Bernstein said. “We have a shot one through six, and I don’t know if we’ve had that all the time in years past, so I feel like we have a
Saturday, playing all 55 minutes and tallying 15 points, eight assists and four rebounds in the process. It was fitting, then, that she was the one dribbling the ball in the waning seconds of the game before tossing it in the air in celebration. “It was surreal,” Thompson said. “You dream about that when you’re a kid — winning a championship in college, it’s great. It’s a surreal feeling I’m so happy. I’m happy for myself and my teammates and my coaches.” Though Michigan is understandably proud of its WNIT championship, the Wolverines attention will now turn to the NCAA Tournament. Michigan made earning a bid in the tournament a top goal at the beginning of the season and was stunned when it found itself outside the 64-team field. Yet whatever happens from now on, everyone who walks into Crisler Center will see a new team represented in the rafters. And the Wolverines will always be able to say that they got to trim the net after a championship win.
Sophomore center Hallie Thome was the first to cut down the nets after Michigan won the WNIT on Saturday.
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made the NCAA Tournament or not. It’s a great moment.” Junior forward Jillian Dunston took her turn with the scissors between Thome and Flaherty. Although Dunston’s point totals in the WNIT were dwarfed by Thome’s and Flaherty’s, she led the Wolverines in rebounds through the first five games of the tournament with 41. Dunston played no small part in Michigan’s championship victory either. During the second overtime period, she pulled down four boards and made both of her free throws, which propelled the Wolverines into the decisive third extra frame. “I told myself my free-throw percentage this year was subpar,” Dunston said. “So I was like, ‘This is the last game. You have to go 2-for2.’ So I was locked and loaded at the line. Luckily they went in.” But the most emotional player after Michigan’s win may have been senior guard Siera Thompson, who is the Wolverines’ all-time leader in minutes played. She lived up to her no-rest reputation
really solid singles lineup.” Junior Alex Najarian proved her coach’s point, providing stability at the No. 3 spot. Najarian’s net play was flawless, and she used it to capitalize on two break-point opportunities, allowing her to take the first set, 6-3. After trading leads in the second set, Najarian broke serve to ignite a two-game swing, taking a 6-5 lead by winning a crucial deuce point. Najarian secured the victory for Michigan by winning her match in a tie break 6-3, 7-6(2). Najarian was conscious about the different weapons she used on the court in Sunday’s matchup, and although her serve was not up to her own standards, she managed to get the job done. “Usually (it’s) my serve, but today it wasn’t very on so then I rely somewhat on my backhand and my volleys, just not my forehand,” Najarian said with a chuckle. The Wolverines continue to improve as their season nears the heart of conference play. Taking one matchup at a time seems to be working, as they continue to ride their unbeaten streak. Yet Michigan will be on the road for three straight away matches, which could be a test of the strength of this talented team. Bernstein, though, doesn’t seem overly concerned. “We have a tough weekend coming up with three on the road, but I feel like we have played a really tough schedule,” Bernstein said. “The goal is obviously to get better and peak in May, so I think we are headed in the right direction for sure.”
“We work on the doubles, we take pride in our doubles.”
season with banquet LANEY BYLER
Daily Sports Editor
The Michigan hockey team had its final official meeting of the 2016-17 season at the Junge Family Center on Sunday. The Wolverines were honored with the program’s annual banquet at the Dekers Club. The banquet was an awards ceremony and a time to honor the roster’s six seniors — Evan Allen, Max Shuart, Alex Kile, Nolan De Jong, Kevin Lohan and Zach Nagelvoort — and reflect on the previous season. Michigan’s season ended in the first round of the Big Ten Tournament with a 13-19-3 overall record, and most speakers focused on the future of the program rather than reflecting on the past. Michigan coach Red Berenson did not fail to acknowledge the team’s record, though, highlighting the improvement that would be necessary next season. Berenson did not comment on whether or not he would be returning as the head coach for the 2017-18 season. He announced that a meeting with Michigan Athletic Director Warde Manuel would take place later this week to assess the coaching situation and determine the plan for next year. The honors were awarded as follows: Carl Isaacson Memorial Award for Academic Athlete of the Year — junior defenseman Sam Piazza Piazza, a mechanical engineering major at the University, received academic All-Big Ten honors for the second season in a row. Piazza received the award for his performances on the ice and in the classroom. Dekers Club Award for Most Colorful Rookie of the Year — freshman forward Will Lockwood The Most Colorful Rookie of the
Year award goes to the freshman on the team who has proven to have a prominent impact on the ice. Lockwood was chosen as the recipient out of the 11 freshmen on the roster. Alton D. Simmons Award for Most Improved Player — senior forward Evan Allen Allen received most improved honors after recording six goals and six assists in 28 games he played in this season. His 12 points tripled his output from last season, when he ended with four points in 24 games. Howard Colby Award for Sportsman of the Year — junior defenseman Sam Piazza Piazza was also named to the Big Ten Sportsmanship team. Piazza received a Big Ten Honorable Mention this season while also serving as an assistant captain in senior defenseman Kevin Lohan’s absence. Vic Heyliger Award for Most Outstanding Defenseman of the Year — sophomore Joe Cecconi Cecconi served on Team USA’s preliminary roster for the World Junior Champion team and won a gold medal in the championship. He also scored his first career goal against Wisconsin and recorded seven assists this season. Doc Losh Trophy for Scoring Leader of the Year — freshman forward Jake Slaker The freshman ended the season with seven goals and 14 assists over the course of 35 games to lead the team with 21 points. Hal Downes Trophy for Most Valuable Player — freshman forward Will Lockwood Lockwood tallied eight goals and 12 assists for 20 points across 30 games. Joseph E Barss Award for the True Team Player – senior goaltender Zach Nagelvoort Chosen for his dedication to his team, Nagelvoort was awarded the True Team Player award.
Flaherty named MVP of WNIT MAGGIE KOLCON Daily Sports Writer
DETROIT — With 1:09 left on the clock in the second quarter of the Women’s National Invitational Tournament championship game, junior guard Katelynn Flaherty laid on the baseline in the defensive zone wrestling to get Georgia Tech’s leading scorer, Zaire O’Neil, off of her. Then O’Neil elbowed her in the face. Flaherty’s jaw dropped in shock and she looked over at Michigan coach Kim Barnes Arico, who watched furiously from the sidelines. Flaherty pulled herself up and jogged down the court shaking her head to catch up with the play. As she cut across the top of the arc, O’Neil guarded her closely. Flaherty had enough. She lowered her shoulder and knocked into O’Neil, who let herself fall and skid back several feet. Flaherty earned her second foul, but didn’t look remorseful. She was having a tough time. The normally 20-point scorer
had just seven points, and missed every field goal attempt in the first quarter. By the second quarter, the Yellow Jackets’ pep band was chanting “airball” every time Flaherty was in a scoring position, after two of her first shots fell short of the net. “I was just frustrated at that point,” Flaherty said. “My shots really weren’t falling and then I had a stupid foul on the way back. After that my team talked to me and I kind of just settled down and that helped me get back into the flow of the game.” Still, Flaherty found a different way to contribute for the Wolverines in her work from the free-throw line. She drew as many fouls as she could, and her strategy started working. She shot 7-for-9 from the charity stripe, earning more attempts than anyone on either team. She avoided attempting 3-point tries in favor of driving down low and drawing fouls, and attempted just two field goals in the entire third quarter. But with 5:08 left on the clock in the fourth quarter, the Wolverines trailed by four
points and it was time to shoot again. Flaherty aimed from the arc and missed her first attempt, but after a hard-fought rebound by senior guard Danielle Williams, Flaherty was blessed with a second shot from the same location. This time it went in. Flaherty’s confidence was back, and when Michigan was back in offensive range 30 seconds later, she shot from beyond the arc and scored again. Despite her earlier shooting difficulties, Flaherty was tied with sophomore forward Hallie Thome for a team-high 19 points. Despite Flaherty’s success, the Wolverines still trailed by one. Georgia Tech seemed an unstoppable force in the paint, while Michigan struggled to finish its shots. The deficit grew to five with just over a minute left, and a win looked improbable. But Flaherty still had a few tricks up her sleeve. With 1:06 on the clock, she launched a shot from several feet outside the arc, and it sunk through the netting. Just three points differentiated the Wolverines and the Yellow
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Junior guard Katelynn Flaherty led the Wolverines to a title with a game-high 27 points against the Yellow Jackets.
Jackets. Then, with 10 seconds left, Flaherty did it again. “How crazy of Kate,” said sophomore guard Nicole Munger. “That one three was NBA range, amazing shot, hand in her face. And then it was just like, ‘Wow, we’re alive.’ She kept us afloat. She kept us alive. And all we kept saying was just get to overtime, just get to overtime.” Georgia Tech was not able to capitalize on its last-second free throws that could have given the Yellow Jackets a victory, and Flaherty found herself playing another five minutes. “It was a big relief,” said senior guard Siera Thompson. “(Flaherty) is a great player. She loves taking big shots and we want her to take all the big shots. She delivers every time. We have all the faith in Katelynn Flaherty, and I’m so happy she hit those shots tonight.” But in overtime, Flaherty missed her first 3-point attempt. Then she missed a layup, and then another. Yet sophomore forward Hallie Thome had picked up a layup, and senior Danielle Williams made a free throw, tying the single 3-pointer made by the Yellow Jackets. Flaherty had done her job and put her team in a position to take the game over. The Wolverines went into double overtime, where Flaherty earned her last 2 points, helping to keep the score tied and send Michigan into its third overtime. The tired Wolverines outlasted Georgia Tech, scoring 13 points in the final overtime to finally take home the WNIT championship. Without Flaherty, Michigan could not have earned it’s first ever banner — so it was no surprise when she was named tournament MVP. “It’s indescribable,” Flaherty said. “I can’t put it into words right now. … We just really wanted to be successful this season. We faced a lot of adversity and had so many setbacks, so it’s incredible to end the season on a win.”