October 15, 2013 - The Michigan Journal

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October 15, 2013
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Starbucks still shutdown
By AMANDA GHANNAM
Staff Writer
As many students may
have already noticed and
taken advantage of, the University Center has been giving out coffee free of charge
for several weeks now. While
this miniature coffee station
operates on the UC Stage, the
abandoned Starbucks coffee
counter sits a few feet away,
closed until further notice.
“There’s free coffee in the
UC. I mean, free coffee. What
could be better? I’m taking
advantage of this!” said Professor Gerry Moran, director of the Honors Program,
enjoying his complimentary
caffeine fix during a Western
Culture class on Thursday.
While he has a point, not
everyone is quite as happy
with the obstacle to the completion of the new UC dining
options.
The highly anticipated addition to McKinley Café’s
previous coffee selection
provided an alternative for
students who weren’t willing to sacrifice their parking
spots on campus to venture
all the way to the Starbucks
on Michigan Avenue for their
lattes and mochas.
“It’s sad that it had to
close,” said Natalie Farah,
psychology major and junior
at UM-Dearborn. “It would
have been nice for that to be
there so we could get good
coffee during breaks without
having to leave campus.”
So why did UM-Dearborn’s answer to the student
body’s collective coffee addiction have to close so soon?
The university’s new food
service provider, Sodexo, had
issues with the permits and
paperwork associated with
the new dining options. However, the rest of the food stations in McKinley Café, such
as Subway, the Grille, and
Slice of Life are still operating, indicating that only the
new Starbucks coffee area has
legal issues to work out.
“I heard it was a paperwork
issue,” said Mustapha Hammoud, engineering student
and independent investigator
into the Starbucks mystery.
Hammoud’s theory was later
verified by Sodexo workers:
“They couldn’t find their
building permits. That’s all
the managers told us,” said
Anna Shermak, student at
UM-Dearborn and worker
in the Starbucks department
at Sodexo. “They submitted
their paperwork, I want to say
today, and it will take 30 days
for them to go through that. It
could even take more than 30
days, depending on how the
department handles it.”
Managers at the Starbucks
department were unavailable
for comment, as was Sodexo General Manager Susan
Matheson.
While it will apparently be
a minimum of 30 days before
the paperwork can be processed and Starbucks can get
back in action, many students
and faculty seem to be enjoy-
ing the delay.
“I like that they’re giving
out free coffee though,” Hammoud added.
Perhaps the complimentary coffee station will turn out
to be an even better addition
to McKinley Café than the
Starbucks. UM-Dearborn will
undoubtedly welcome back
the Starbucks counter once
the Sodexo managers get all
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their paperwork in order, but
until those building permits
are processed, students and
faculty alike will be taking
advantage of the free coffee
in the UC.
Get your caffeine fix while
you can—Sodexo could have
their paperwork processed in
a month and start charging for
coffee again!
UM-Dearborn alumni awarded as Difference Makers
By FATIMA FAKHREDDINE
Staff Writer
The annual Difference
Makers Alumni Awards ceremony was Friday, October
4th at the University of Michigan-Dearborn’s
Fairlane
Center.
For over 3o years, UMDearborn has held the award
ceremony to honor alumni for
their contributions to the community and the university.
“We want to let our alumni
know we are proud of their
accomplishments and that we
recognize all the great things
they have done since calling
UM-Dearborn home,” said
Peggy Pattison, director of
alumni relations.
The awards are distributed
to an alumnus recognized
from each college.
“Each college recognizes
one award winner as their
Alumnus of the Year,” continues Pattison, “so we have the
COB (College of Business)
Alumnus of the Year, CEHHS (College of Education,
Health, and Human Services)
Alumnus of the Year, CECS
(College of Engineering and
Computer Science) Alumnus
of the Year and a CASL (College of Arts, Science, and Letters) Alumnus of the Year.”
There are three additional
alumni awards given besides
the ones from each college:
the Young Alumnus of the
Year, the Jeanette Schumacher Alumni Service Awards
and the Distinguished Alumnus of the Year.
“These winners have demonstrated remarkable achievements in their professional
careers and in their service
to the communities in which
they live,” Pattison continues, “They are people who
have been highly recognized
in their industries and by their
peers for remarkable leadership qualities, inspiring others
to also be better people.”
Veronica Grandison received the Young Alumus
of the Year award, Richard
Haddrill received the Distinguished Alumnus award, and
David Stephens received the
Schumacher Alumni Service
award.
Grandison graduated UMDearborn in 2011 with a
Bachelor’s degree in Communications.
“It was truly an honor to
be recognized by my alma
mater,” Grandison continues,
“I was really surprised that
I was selected as the young
alumnus especially after only
having graduated a couple
years ago.
The Young Alumnus Award
is given to a UM-Dearborn
graduate less than 35 years of
age who has graduated within
the last 10 years.
Grandison
helped
in
launching her own magazine
in which she is the editorial
director. She uses ColorBlind
Magazine to help women of
different backgrounds overcome adversity.
According to the UMDearborn website, “Though
Veronica leads a busy professional life, she still finds time
to give back to her alma mater.
As chair of UM-Dearborn’s
African American Alumni Affiliate, Veronica leads alumni
engagement efforts and also
organizes campus events, like
the Black Celebratory to honor graduating students.”
“I learned so much from
UM-Dearborn and met so
many great people, so it was
only right that I try my best to
give back once I graduated,”
said Grandison.
Pattison
believes
the
awards are a source of inspiration to other students. They
can “see how successful our
alumni have been and allows
them to visualize themselves
following the same type of
path and knowing they too
can make a difference.”
The awards ceremony is
a night in which the students
and the community are “reminded just how successful
we are at the University of
Michigan-Dearborn,”
said
Pattison. “There is no greater
night on campus.”
some students who were looking for support on campus.”
Larson continued: “…the
university has made a commitment and investment that this is
important.”
On Monday, the event began
with a history of LGBTQ symbols/flags on the UC stage. The
event served as an initiation to
the historical cultural significance of LGBTQ symbols like
the pink triangle and the rainbow and their corresponding
identifiers like “gay” and “bisexual.”
Monday afternoon also included the InCLUDE open
house, offering information
about the celebration and oncampus LGBTQ groups.
Tuesday saw two events that
sought to tackle the underside
of LGBTQ rights: the legislation that often prevents same
sex couples from receiving the
same rights as opposite sex
couples. Basic rights such as
visiting one’s spouse in the hospital and naming one’s spouse
as a dependent on health insurance forms are unavailable to
same sex couples in most states
including Michigan.
The State of LGBTQ Human Rights in the Nation Luncheon was an “intimate group
of 15-20 people” who, “…using gay marriage as one example,” said Larson, “…discussed
the plethora of rights same sex
couple do not get…inheritance,
property rights, adoption, medical decisions, filing taxes are all
unavailable to same sex couples.”
There was a LGBTQ art
exhibit last Thursday in the
Kochoff B/C that presented images of LGBTQ art throughout
history. From the Etruscans to
New York in the 1980’s, the
exhibit was “well received” according to Larson.
“We just wanted to get people thinking,” he added.
Marcia “Ma” Purdy also visited the campus Thursday as a
keynote speaker. With a Master’s in Education, Ma is an
“Out” Ally trainer and development presenter as well as an
instructor at Iowa State University. Traveling to college campuses across the nation, Purdy,
“seeks to activate a community
on campus of people who don’t
consider themselves ‘allies’ of
the LGBTQ community but
are supportive and looking for
ways to help them use their
voice to bring unity and inclusion on campus.” Purdy also
points to campuspride.org as a
rich resource for LGBTQ students and Allies.
The unprecedented event
concluded Friday with a celebration of Nation Coming
Out Day (NCOD) and a charity
drag show. Founded in 1988,
the date of October 11th was
chosen because it was the anniversary of the 1987 National
March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights and is a
celebration of support for LGBTQ individuals who struggle
with coming out.
Friday night the stages of
the Kochoff Halls were graced
with swagger and elegance as
the gals from GiGi’s on Warren Ave. in Detroit entertained
all with comedy and demure
aplomb. Proceeds from the
drag show went to Detroit’s
Ruth Ellis Center, “dedicated
to run away, homeless, and atrisk LGBTQ, (Lesbian, Gay,
Bi-atractional, Transgender and
The 2013 Alumni Difference Makers awards went to:
Distinguished Alumnus of
the Year - Richard Haddrill,
‘74 (COB)
Year - Veronica Grandison,
‘11 (CASL)
Jeanette
Schumacher
Alumni Service Award - David Stephens, ‘04 (CASL)
College of Arts, Sciences and
Letters Alumnus of the Year Eric Ham, ‘95
College of Business Alumnus
of the Year - Ceehl Phillips,
‘05
College of Engineering and
Computer Science Alumnus
of the Year - Mazen Hammoud, ‘93
School of Education Alumnus
of the Year - Donovan Rowe,
‘99 CASL, SOE, ‘04 SOE
Young Alumnus of the
LGBTQ Week strides into UM-Dearborn
By NICK BITONTI
Guest Writer
Last week, UM-Dearborn
hosted its first annual five-day
campus celebration of LGBTQ
culture on campus.
LGBTQ Celebration Week
featured a schedule packed
with events, speakers and a
charity drag show.
Organized and founded by
Jonathan Larson, Coordinator for LGBTQ and Inclusion
Initiatives/Student Organization Supervisor, LGBTQ week
was created not only as a celebration, but to inform students
about LGBTQ issues on campus and across the country and
build unity between LGBTQ
and “straight” communities.
“The main reason we did
this is visibility and to show our
campus is inclusive and welcoming,” said Larson. “There
were a lot of students who were
surprised that we did something
like this on campus and we were
also able to get the attention of
Questioning) youth.” Students
looking to support the center
should check out ruthelliscenter.org.
“On the whole, I am very
impressed and a little surprised
at how well received LGBTQ
week has been,” said Larson.
“I think that speaks to the quality and diversity of the students
here at UM-Dearborn.”
Photo Courtesy of InCLUDE
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What do you think about Starbucks being shutdown?
By DALIA SALLOUM
Guest Writer
One of the most popular coffee shops in the world has finally arrived to University of Michigan-Dearborn,
and just as fast as it came, it was gone much sooner. Walking into school for the first time this fall semester, students were excited to see that they had a Starbucks all to the themselves for the coming long nights, and an easy
access to the much needed caffeine to help with studying and staying alert in class.
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“I think that it’s ridiculous they shut down, and if they are
taking the Starbucks away, they should be giving us an
alternative in its place, like Tim Hortons,” said freshman
Billy Dakhlallah.
“My disappointment has not been noticed due to the free coffee,
which is a plus, and now the student government can have their
coffee hours again, which is also a plus. But the students were
so hyped about having our own Starbucks, and now we don’t.
A good alternative would be a Biggby or a Panera, or maybe a
Michigan based business,” said sophomore Eiman Hairston.
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“I am kind of surprised that they are closed down and
even though I am not a customer, I figured that the
demographic of students who are customers there would
help to keep it open,” said sophomore Fatima Rizk.
“Personally, when they closed I started going to the library
to get coffee and they seemed to know what they are doing,
whereas at the Starbucks, they didn’t. Starbucks coffee is
overrated and pricey for nothing,” said freshman Rachel
Lee. “A better alternative would maybe be a Panera.”
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News from
around the world
Teacher Prep program rated
‘Exemplory’ for the 5th year
By AARON YNCLAN
Staff Writer
Wi t h
a
u n i v ers i t y
s co re o f 6 3 o u t o f 7 0 ,
t h e M i ch i g an Dep art m en t
of
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E x em p l ary, t h e h i g h -
-Abu Anas al Libi, an alleged
al Qaeda operative, was transferred to the United States on
Monday after being captured
by U.S. soliders in Libya this
month.
-Three Americans won the Nobel Prize in economics on Monday.
-Texans have been battling
floods since Sunday after 5-12
inches fell in some areas.
-British police arrested a man
who tried to get into Buckingham Palace at the main gate on
Monday.
-India held its largest and
quickest evacuation on Sunday
moving about 80,000 people
before Cyclone Phailin hit the
east coast.
-Former Detroit police deputy
chief James Tolbert will head
Flint’s police department replacing Chief Alvern Lock.
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t h e co n t i nu e d s t r e n g t h
o f o u r edu c a t i o n p r o g ram s , ”
Silver
and
B ro wn el l a d d e d .
This is the fifth year
i n a ro w t h a t t h e U n i v ers i t y of M i c h i g a n Dearb o rn h a s a c h i e v e d
a s co re o f ‘ E x e m p l a r y, ’
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elementary or secondary
level to earn their bache l o r ’s d e g r e e a s w e l l
as recommendation for
state certification (sec-
“As we begin the process of adding
health related programs to the college, we are proud of the continued
strength of our education programs.”
-Dean Edward Silver and Professor
William Brownell
es t ran k i n g av ai l ab l e. It
p l aced s i x t h am o n g t h e
fi ft een p u b l i c u n i v ers i t i es i n M i ch i g an .
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ex t rem el y
p l eas ed t h at o u r p ro fes s i o n al t each er p rep arat i o n p ro g ram h as ag ai n
b een reco g n i zed as o n e
o f t h e b es t i n M i ch i g an , ”
s ai d E d ward A. S i l v er,
Dean o f t h e C o l l eg e o f
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Hu m an S erv i ces (C E HHS ), an d Wi l l i am A.
B ro wn el l ,
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P ro fes s o r o f E d u cat i o n .
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rel at ed p ro g ram s t o t h e
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Arb o r, M SU , a n d Wa y n e
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a fu l l s eve n y e a r s ( t h e
l o n g es t t i m e p e r i o d p o s s i b l e) t h rou g h F e b r u a r y,
2 0 1 9 , b y t h e Te a c h e r
E d u cat i o n A c c r e d i t a t i o n
C o u n ci l ( T E A C , n o w
p art o f t h e C A E P : C o u n ci l fo r t h e A c c r e d i t a t i o n
o f E d u ca t o r P r e p a r a t i o n ).
ondary level students
complete their bache l o r ’s a t t h e C o l l e g e
of Arts, Sciences, and
Letters, while fulfilling their professional
coursework at the CEHHS).
The program is then
issued a performance
score based on several
d i ff e r e n t c r i t e r i a , i n cluding but not limited to test scores from
t h e M i c h i g a n Te s t f o r
Te a c h e r
Certification
(MTTC), program completion rates, and preparation of teachers in
high-need subject areas
including special education, math, science and
world languages. More
than 30 programs are
ranked in the state each
y e a r, a n d a r e d i v i d e d
into
four
categories
(Low Performing, AtR i s k , S a t i s f a c t o r y, a n d
Exemplary) with scores
ranging from 33 to 70.
C u r r e n t l y, t h e r e a r e
eight available areas of
focus (called “endorsement” areas) at the elementary level (e.g.,
Integrated
Science,
Language Arts, Math)
a n d 2 1 e n d o r s e m e n t a reas at the secondary
l e v e l ( C h e m i s t r y, H i s t o r y, F r e n c h ) .
Dean Edward Silver
and Paul R. Hossum,
Associate Dean for Acad e m i c A ff a i r s , h a v e b o t h
expressed great desire
that the teacher preparation program remain
a core activity within
U M D ’s a c a d e m i c e d u c a tion as well as excitement for the prospect
of new changes within
it, the most notable of
which are the developments within the health
and human services programs.
For any students interested in the elementary or secondary
teacher prep programs,
contact either counselor Raechel Matyas Espinoza (313-593-5052)
or Associate Dean Paul
Hossum
(313-5930982).
UM-Dearborn faculty walks the
streets of Detroit for drug study
By JERRICE DONELSON
Staff Writer
When Detroit Public
Health wanted to investigate the lives and substance abuse recovery of
sex workers in Detroit,
the call went out to the
universities to lead the
research.
That’s when two of our
very own University of
Michigan-Dearborn faculty answered the call.
Julie Roddy, Associate
Professor of Public Policy and Paul Draus Associate Professor of Sociology conducted nearly
100 interviews with Detroit prostitutes over a
couple of years to determine what social factors
impacted their lifestyle..
Working closely with
law and community affiliates, Roddy and Draus
were able to observe
and interview convicted
sex workers at different
phases of prosecution
and recovery.
When
thinking
of
sex workers and public
health, one may ask what
would be the immediate
interest in pursuing such
a study outside of some
of the funding the university provides for community research.
The interest in wanting
to know more about what
drives or provokes these
women intrigued Roddy
and Draus.
“[The investigation/research provided a] mixture of coercion and compassion that we liked,”
Roddy explains when
asked why the interest in
the study.
The compassion that
gathering empirical data
was not met without it
challenges
as
Roddy
mentions how gathering
data had specificity.
“[There were] a lot of
guidelines when talking
to [the arrested] women
in jail with a recorder,”
Roddy said.
ery.
“The women made a
living and had to give it
all up in order to recover
from drugs,” says Roddy mentioning how the
change of the quality of
life these women led was
met with hope.
Research such as Rod-
“(The research provided
a) mixture of coercion and
compassion that we liked.”
-Juile Roddy
Roddy speaks of is seen
in being able to genuinely understand how these
women “adapted and
changed throughout the
treatment and recovery
process” as a method to
determine solutions.
But, as much as finding out how to help women who are sex workers,
She continues, “By far
getting into the jai and
talking to the women
who just got off the street
[was met with challenges
as well.]”
When asked what surprised her most during
the study, Roddy discusses how motivated the
women are to their recov-
dy and Draus’s brings
much needed information, not only for Detroit
Public Health but, for the
other health and community agencies as a tool towards aiding women who
are sex workers to recover and work towards obtaining a healthy quality
of life.
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Jason Singer, Asking the Hard Questions
How do we deal with
people who have hurt us?
Simple answer: nuke
shows their true colors - which is a mixture of magenta and
puke orange in case
you were curious. I
find myself hating
people just a little bit
more than before.
My intense wave
of pessimism only
lasts for about a day
or two, but nonetheless it is a force to
be reckoned with.
It’s sort of like a radioactive form of my own male
PMS but with a whole lot
more blood.
This incident was pro-
penny out of me.
Now before you jump
the gun and assume I am
just a cold person, one unable to see another
in need of help in
dire times, let me
tell you why you
are wrong. Was the
money she wanted
to borrow going to
pay for her mother’s funeral? Was
the money going to
be used to pay off
medical bills? Was
the money going to
be sent overseas to
a non-profit in Af-
‘em!
The good ole 1940s diplomacy approach seems
like a very black and
white way to deal with
wrongdoings. Fool me
once, shame on you. Fool
me twice, shame on your
mom for not aborting you.
But things aren’t so
black and white when the
person who hurt you is
a loved one. Every time
someone who I think is
there for me for a genuine
reason comes around and
voked when someone very
close to me who I have
known since the ripe age
of one asked to borrow
money. I was calling to
see how her dying mother
was doing. She used the
sadness of the moment to
try and prey on my gullible innocence. And while
I might be able to appreciate a heartfelt and emotional time, using your
dying mother is hardly a
creative way to wiggle a
rica?
No.
This person is afflicted
with a gambling addiction. And as soon as I said
no I was flung with irrational questions like why
don’t you love me? What
did I ever do to you?
Giving money to this
person was tantamount
to tying a rubber band
around a heroin addict’s
arm as he or she injected
themselves. If this were
By JASON SINGER
Opinion Editor
a stranger I’d easily tell
them to F Off! But this
person is practically a
second mother to me and
she asks to borrow money.
Toxicity has been introduced into the bloodstream of our relationship
is not so easy to toss to
the side.
This may be an extreme
example, but even lesser acts are still hurtful.
In this particular event
it made me question my
entire relationship. This
has happened before, too.
Now, if we see each other
again, I feel as though a
Doom’s Day Clock has
been set to the next time
and will now never go
away. But we must learn
to remove toxic people
from our lives, no matter
who they are before it kills
us. Whether it’s a friend, a
neighbor, your brother, or
even a parent, at the end
of the day people with ill
intentions are bad no matter how closely tied we
are to them genetically.
They say that blood is
“Fool me once, shame on you.
Fool me twice, shame on your
mom for not aborting you”
thicker than water. But
that’s only true because
blood contains a plethora
of cells, nutrients, ions,
and gases. And
l a s t
time
I
checked
w a t e r
didn’t
give you
AIDS.
A n d
d o n ’ t
c o m e
up with
d u m b
excuses
like giving people the
benefit
of
the
doubt.
People
g a v e
OJ the
benefit
of
the
doubt and look how that
turned out.
Grow a pair and confront people. If you are
afraid of being alone after
you tell the friend whole
stole your boyfriend to
go to hell, don’t worry.
That’s what Christian
Singles and strip clubs are
for.
They don’t call it sexual healing for nothing.
Sleep, the Delicious Villain
By LAURA SANCHEZ
Staff Writer
I love sleeping. I
love laying in bed after
waking up after a great
nap. But even though
I’m a huge fan, I’ve
recently come to the
conclusion that sleep
is a backstabbing diva.
Think about the experience of taking a nap.
Yo u t e l l y o u r s e l f t h a t
you’re going to take a
twenty-minute power
nap so you can wake
up and have enough
energy to finish studying for your Psycholo g y e x a m t h e n e x t d a y,
so you set your alarm,
and you instantly fall
asleep.
The
alarm
rings twenty minu t e s l a t e r. Yo u p r e s s
snooze. Then you set
another alarm for an
extra twenty minutes. Pretty soon,
your twenty-minute
nap turns into an
hour-long nap, and
it takes you an extra
fifteen minutes to
even get up from bed
because you wake up
totally disconcerted
a n d g r o g g y.
Then you’ve got the
case when you fall
asleep at nine o’clock
one night, and are ecstatic over the fact that
you’re going to get at
least eight hours of
sleep. When you wake
up the next morning,
h o w e v e r, y o u ’ r e e v e n
more tired than you
were the days that you
got less than five hours
o f s l e e p . Yo u s i l e n t l y
curse the fact that you
w e n t t o s l e e p e a r l y.
F i n a l l y, t h e r e a r e t h e
other days, usually Fridays, when you have
no classes, no huge
preoccupations for the
d a y, a n d w a k e u p t h r e e
hours later than usual.
Yo u w a n t t o s t a y i n
bed and watch Netfl i x a l l d a y, b u t t h e n
you realize that you…
actually have things
to do. If you stay in
All these are times
when sleep is a treacherous little devil that
make us regret having fallen asleep in the
f i r s t p l a c e . N o w, d o n ’ t
get me wrong. I’m not
a n d s l e e p a l l d a y, s u d d e n l y, a w h o l e d a y i s
wasted. And if there is
one thing that I have
learned
recently
is
that a wasted day is a
HUGE loss.
breaking up with sleep,
and we have a healthy
relationship most of
the time. I’d still rather sleep in than get
up to run at 8AM on a
S a t u r d a y, a n d I c o u l d
when I have to work at
8 A M t h e n e x t d a y, a n d
I t h i n k a g o o d n i g h t ’s
sleep can definitely
m a k e a b a d d a y b e t t e r.
But I would rather go
off on a late-night adventure
w i t h
friends
instead
o
f
sleeping. I’d
rather
forego
an afternoon
nap if it
meant
that
I
c o u l d
go
on
a
froyo run.
All I’m
saying
is that
m a y we
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out on life, and the lose more than we gain
when we take a nap or
more tired I get.
Despite
this,
I ’ m h a v e a l i e - i n a l l d a y.
not changing my sleep Sleep, you’re great,
routines
any
time but sometimes you can
s o o n . Yo u w o n ’ t f i n d b e a b i t o f a b a c k s t a b m e a w a k e a t 2 : 0 0 A M b e r.
never pull off three
all-nighters in a week
like several people I
k n o w. I n e e d s l e e p t o
s u r v i v e . B u t s o m e h o w,
I feel that the more I
sleep, the more I miss
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October 15, 2013
Vol XLIII, No.6
The Michigan Journal / 5
Death by Clinger
By AMANI BADRAN
Staff Writer
I was scrolling through my Twitter timeline one day only to see a tweet that read:
“The only thing worse than the one who
got away is the one who won’t go away.”
Let me tell you, I have not seen more accurate words. I will deal with whatever comes
with losing one before I even consider dealing with one who will not leave me alone.
If you have never had the pleasure of
dealing with a clinger, I feel bad for you, as
you probably do not know what it feels like
to be suffocated or live in fear of receiving
inated my bubble. Thanks.
It’s not always one of those things you
catch right away. At first, it could just seem
like you’re dealing with a really sweet person. You think they’re just friendly and you
put up with them because you don’t want
to be rude. However, I personally think it’s
rude that you won’t leave me alone.
I’m not sure what gave you the impression that I want to see your name in all of
my notifications, including my calls, texts
and social networking accounts. Honestly,
it’s weird and annoying and by all means a
complete turn off. These people, the stage
wasn’t for my job I would have put up with
the isolation a bit longer simply to avoid the
wrath of the clinger.
I know you think you’re giving me what I
want when you text me “goodmorning ” every day, even though I completely dodged
that same text the morning before, so clearly I don’t want it. I don’t think it is okay
for you to assume that I want to wake up
to you every morning. Oh but yes, because
a “good morning” text wasn’t enough, you
felt as though I needed a “goodnight” text
as well. Thank God for that because I would
have been up all night too worried about not
receiving a text I obviously did not want.
No thanks.
The
dreaded
“good morning” and
“goodnight”
texts
from this person are
only the start and end of the horrific conversation that lies in between, lasting throughout your whole day, threatening your sanity
and making you question if the beginning
of that human interaction was ever worth
it since it led you to this point. If only
avoiding this was easy; but, I assure you,
it is not always. I have tried sending one
“The only thing worse than the one who
got away is the one who won’t go away”
a text. Yes, I have feared receiving a text. I
know what you’re thinking: I’m being dramatic. But oh how I wish I was.
I can barely handle being hit on or approached by a man I’m not interested in and
that only lasts one moment. Imagine what
it’s like when he gets a hold of you and forgets the definition of personal space. Like
hello, yes you, you just completely contam-
five clingers, make it to where they have
you afraid of checking your phone. I had
been dealing with this type of person a
while ago, and a week into what felt like a
slow, painful death, my phone ended up getting ruined. I swear I don’t think I have ever
been so happy to be socially absent. I didn’t
even try to get it fixed for a week, and if it
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word responses, no responses at all, and I
have even resorted to trying to make myself
appear rude and unattractive. Somehow, the
point does not get across. They continue to
text you, and when you don’t reply, they’ll
make an attempt through one of your social
networks. Perhaps by replying to all your
tweets or messaging you on facebook.
Listen, just because you’re a clinger,
doesn’t mean you’re a bad person. I mean,
we all have crazy habits we can’t break.
Mine is picking at my mascara. Yours just
happens to be harassment.
Lessons in feminism from my dog
By ELIZABETH BASTIAN
Staff Writer
A s w ith m os t pets, my
d o g E lois e is es s entiall y o u r s eventh f amily
m e m b er. The per pe tual
b a b y i n the hous e, she is
c o n s t a ntly coddled and
c a t e re d to, and even her
b a d d e eds ar e f orgott e n a s s oon as s he does
so m e t hing els e cute .
O f c our s e, I am a lso
i n c re d ibly
guilty
of
sh o w e ring little Eloise
w i t h com plements and
t re a t s . I r ef er to h er a s
“ b a b y ” and “s w eetpe a”
a l m o st as m uch as I ca ll
h e r b y her name, a nd I
n e v e r mis s an opportun i t y t o tell her how cute
sh e i s. Becaus e, I mea n,
sh e i s legitimately the
c u t e s t thing ever.
H o wever, I have rec e n t l y begun to r ealiz e
so m e t hing. While I ca nn o t s e em to s top telling
E l o i s e how pr etty a nd
c u t e s he is , I ver y ra re ly
t e l l h e r anything else .
S o m e t imes I will te ll
h e r s h e is s illy whe n she
d o e s b izar r e dog things
(l i k e t r y to dig a hole
on some one’s bed ), o r
other times she g et s t h e
“ ya na sty” thrown at h er
for ea ting ra bbi t p o o p .
B ut normally s h e
just rec eive s c omments
c once rn ing her a dora b l e
looks.
I continue d t o
c atch myse lf d o ing this, a nd I began to sta rt thin k ing – wha t am I
tea ching he r?
What am I tel l ing he r is im porta nt to oth er
people, to me ? Is
she going to start
thinking that b eing c ute and sil l y
a re the only thin g s
tha t ma tter?
It’s a la ugh a ble predic ament ,
I know – but o n e
tha t is extremel y
relevant to mo d e rn c ulture .
F or pets oft en are
tre ated as fore v er ch i l dre n by the ir o wn ers ,
a nd a re talke d t o as
suc h. Te lling ch i l d ren
how pretty an d cu t e
an d h an d s o m e t h ey are
d o es n ’t real l y g et t h em
an y wh ere i n l i fe.
P rai s i n g t h ei r i n t el l i -
p eo p l e o nl y c a r e a b o u t
t h ei r l o o k s.
I’m n o t s a y i n g o n e
s h o u l d n ’t
complement
out these physical comments with ones of a less
tangible nature. Show
those whom you are ad-
g en ce, t h ei r creat i v i t y,
t h ei r co u rag e, an d t h ei r
ch aract er wo u l d d o way
m o re i n d ev el o p i n g t h ei r
s en s e o f a co n fi d en t s el f
t h an t each i n g t h em t h at
o t h ers ’ l o o k s ; o n t h e
co n t rary, s o m e o n e t e l l ing me they like my hair
s t y l e can t u r n a b a d d a y
i n t o a g r e a t o n e . I t ’s
m o re ab o u t b a l a n c i n g
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miring that you value often, just so that she
their whole person, not knows her brains are
j u s t w h a t ’s o u t s i d e .
more important than her
L i t t l e E l o i s e s t i l l r e - b e a u t y.
ceives an obnoxious
amount of complements
from myself and other
m e m b e r s o f m y f a m i l y.
But I make sure to tell
her how clever she is
For the story
By SAVANNAH RHEINHART
Managing Editor
Be i n g in my y oung
t w e n t i e s gives me the
o p p o rt unity
to
ha ve
h o p e s and dr eams a nd
st i l l h a ve f aith that they
w i l l wor k out. O n e of
t h e m any items on my
b u c k e t lis t is to ta ke a
sp o n t a neous tr ip to C hic a g o . Ever y night when
I d ri v e dow n Southfield
F re e w ay to get home, I
se e Exit 1 f or I - 94 tow a rd C hicago; and e ve ry
t i m e , I want to merge to
t h e ri g ht and never look
b a c k . T his pas t Wednesd a y, I f inally did it. Not
q u i t e as s pontaneo us a s
I h a d always thought,
b u t i mpuls ive none thel e s s.
W h i le out at the bar,
m y s e l f and tw o c lose
friends jokingl y m en tione d tha t we s h o u l d
just go to C hica g o s i n ce
the re is nothing t o d o
in De arborn. A ft er t en
minutes of bett i n g t h at
the othe r one s d i d n ’t
have the cube s t o d o i t ,
we left a nd we n t t o t h e
c ar. Eve ry ste p we t o o k ,
I wa s waiting fo r o n e
of them to spea k u p an d
say wha t a stupi d i d ea i t
was, or make up an ex c use a s to why w e can ’t
(or shouldn’t) go .
B efore I knew i t , we
were driving to C h i cag o
for no re ason ot h er t h an
“ for the story” .
B y the time we were
stopping at a M ei j er
for a phone charg er an d
a ba throom break , we
rea lize d tha t it wo u l d
NOT ta ke two a n d a h al f
h o u rs t o g et t o C h i cag o ,
as t h e co n d es cen d i n g
GP S wo m an h ad t o l d
u s . It was cl o s er t o fi v e.
Yet , we s t u ck i t o u t an d
m ad e i t t o t h e ci t y b y
2 : 3 0 AM . We ex p ect ed
t h e s t reet s t o b e fi l l ed ,
b ars s t i l l o p en , an d a
p art y o n ev ery co rn er,
j u s t l i k e ev ery t een ag e
ad v en t u re m o v i e.
T h e o n l y t h i n g we
fo u n d o n t h e co rn er was
a m an t ry i n g t o s el l h i s
d rawi n g s o f t h e Un ab o m b er. Or M i k e Di t k a.
We co u l d n ’t t el l wh i ch .
Aft er t h i s l o v el y m an
m ad e t h e p o i n t t h at I
l o o k t o o y o u n g t o d ri n k
an d t h at h e was v ery
o l d , h e p ro ceed ed t o u s e
h i s wi l es t o wi n o v er m y
h eart . S ad l y, o u r l o v e
co u l d n ev er b e.
We t h en e s c a p e d t o
M i l l en n i u m P a r k , h o p i n g fo r s o m e a f t e rh o u rs ru ck u s . T h e r e w a s
t h e g i an t b e a n - l o o k i n g
s t at u e, a f o u n t a i n t h a t
was n ’t o n , a n d a p a v i l i o n t h at l o o k e d l i k e t h e
b ab y o f D T E E n e rg y
T h eat er.
Ob v i o us l y, t h e o n l y
ch o i ce wa s t o t r e s p a s s
“fo r t h e s to r y ” . I t t o o k
ab o u t fi v e o r t e n m i n u t es b efor e S e c u r i t y
Gu ard C abr e r a m a d e h i s
way t o u s a n d s a i d t h a t
t h e p ark w a s c l o s e d .
Hi s t o n e c h a n g e d o n c e
h e n o t i ced t h a t o n e o f
u s was we a r i n g a D e t ro i t s h i rt . S u d d e n l y, h e
was v ery n i c e a n d s a i d
t h at we m u s t b e “ h a r d ”
b ecau s e D e t r o i t i s b a d .
“C h i cag o i s r o u g h , b u t
i t ’s n o D e t r o i t . ” N o rm a l l y, I w o u l d b e a n noyed with negative
comments about Det r o i t , b u t I t h i n k h i s p e rception of the city got
us out of trouble.
O u r l a s t d i t c h e ff o r t
was heading to the Rive r Wa l k o n t h e C h i c a g o
R i v e r. T h e r i v e r i s b e a u tiful, there are boats in
t h e w a t e r, a n d t h e c i t y
was quiet. Seemed like
a perfect plan. And
it was. Until I saw a
chipmunk next to me
that was actually a rat.
At this point, it was 5
a.m. and time to call it
a day and drive back to
Michigan.Although our
adventure to Chicago
w a s n ’t w h a t w e s e e o n
a terrible ABC Family
original series or ‘90s
high school drama flick,
i t w a s s t i l l a j o u r n e y.
We m a d e m e m o r i e s a n d
now have a story to tell.
This is what college
i s a b o u t . Ye s , i t ’s a b o u t
getting a diploma and
f i n d i n g a j o b . B u t i t ’s
also about making lifelong memories to go
with life-long friends.
No one wants their
memories of college to
be JUST books and papers. These are our last
years to make irresponsible choices with little
judgment.
So,make a story of
your own. Even if it
d o e s n ’t t u r n o u t h o w
you’d expect, I bet
you’ll at least get some
good car jam sessions
out of the deal.
ARTS &
ENTERTAInMENT
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Vol. XLIII, No. 6
October 15, 2013
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This Week in Gaming
United Front Games announces ‘Sleeping Dog Sequel’
By AARON YNCLAN
Staff Columnist
What began as True
Crime: Hong Kong before
being rechristened and sold
to another publisher soon became one of the best sleeper
hits of 2012.
Now, fans of the Hong
Kong crime thriller can rejoice as United Front Games
have announced a sequel to
their title Sleeping Dogs.
The announcement was
made October 7 on United
Front’s official website that
the game is currently in development:
“So, we’re making a new
game! We can’t say a lot
about it right now, but you
might have heard about a
trademark registration for
something
called
Triad
Wars?
Well, we’re super excited
that it’s another based in the
Sleeping Dogs universe, it’s
something we’ve wanted to
do for ages, and we’re very
happy to be working with
Square Enix again…but
that’s all we can give you
for the time being-we’ll have
more information about what
the game’s going to be in
2014”.
While this comes as good
news to fans of the openworld action game, it’s also
somewhat surprising.
Following its initial announcement, the game’s development cycle was well
publicized as tumultuous, as
it first started development
under the Activision banner before being cancelled,
sold to Square Enix, un-can-
celled, and renamed Sleeping
Dogs.
Then, despite selling 1.5
million copies following
its release, it was decried
as a failure by Square Enix
alongside fellow 2012 releases Hitman: Absolution
and Tomb Raider.
Despite its troubled history, however, critical reception for the game was still
generally positive.
The game currently holds
an 80 metacritic score, and its
initial release was met with
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praises for its Hong Kong
setting and well-acted and
finely crafted crime story.
The game’s ending also
left a rather significant cliffhanger for fans to enjoy,
meaning the developers have
a good starting point should
they decide to continue to
follow the title’s original
characters.
United Front has said that
more news shouldn’t be expected until next year, but for
the time being fans can rest
knowing that more Sleeping
Dogs is on the way.
My voice: As a huge fan
of Sleeping Dogs, I’m immensely pleased that Square
Enix has decided to continue
the series.
Despite suffering from
some technical issues, the
game greatly benefitted from
its solid gameplay, and the
Uncharted-esque presentation provided one of the best
action movie stories this side
of a cinema theatre. Here’s
hoping that ‘Triad Wars’
proves just as entertaining
and fun as its predecessor.
Vol. XLIII, No. 6
October 15, 2013
arts & entertainment
The Michigan Journal / 7
What’s topping the box office this week?
1. Gravity$44.3M (week two: $123.4M Gross)
2. captain phillips $26M (Week one)
3. cloudy with a chance of meatballs 2 $14.2M(Week
three: $78M gross)
Gwenyth Paltrow,
Michael Kors
team up for goop.com
By SAHAR DIKA
Arts & Entertainment Editor
@Sahar_Dika
The rumors are true.
Actress Gwyneth Paltrow
and Michael Kors will be
joining forces for a special Christmas collection
for her website, Goop.
com.
The actress and designer, who have been
long-time friends, will
be designing limited edition clothes that will be
sold exclusively on the
site.
“Michael’s clothes are
gorgeous, staple, American classics that never go
out of style,” says Gwen.
“I thought it would be
wonderful to reinvent
some of my favorite
vintage Michael Kors
looks that I have kept for
years, that I wear over
and over.”
The collection will
include many ready-towear pieces such as peacoats and capes along
with accessories from
Kors’s mainline that will
be selected by Paltrow
herself. It’s obvious that
the actress is really taking her role in fashion
seriously. Just a month
ago, she announced a dif-
ferent collaboration with
another long-time friend
and designer, Stella McCartney.
Kors
told
WWD,
“We’ve
always
said,
‘Wouldn’t it be great if
some time we could do
something together in
whatever way?’ We started talking about the idea
that when you buy something, you often don’t
know that it’s going to
turn out to be your favorite piece. Inevitably
designers don’t make it
again and, she said, ‘It
could drive you crazy.’”
New York Times Fiction
Best Sellers
1.Doctor Sleep
by Stephen King
2. The Longest Ride
by Nicholas Sparks
3.Gone
by James Patterson &Michael
Ledwidge
4. The Signature of All Things
by Elizabeth Gilbert
5. The Lowland
by Jhumpa Lahiri
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STUDENT LIFE
Student (is this real) Life
October 15, 2013
Vol. XLIII, No. 6
Highway to Hell
Photo courtesy of tumblr.com
By SARAH LEWIS
Editor-in-Chief
As I’ve grown older, I’ve
learned how to deal with
many sudden outburst of anger.
If you tell me I “look comfortable” in my outfit, I will
hold back my hateful comments and only let them spew
out when I’m safely at home
and away from your backhanded compliments. If you
backstab me, I’ll channel my
inner peace through exercise
consisting of a gossip filled
walk with my mom. If you
tell me I’m not good enough,
I’ll simply discover my inner
bad girl, thug while rapping
along to the new song Miley
Cyrus is featured in, 23. If
you attempt to insult me, I’ll
just smile because I could literally write a book about killing people with kindness. The
only time I’ll willingly let
my tempers flare is when I’m
watching a Red Wings game
because obviously the team
can hear me coaching them as
I scream at the television.
But, there is one time when
I have absolutely no control
over my temper. It doesn’t
matter how hard I try to remember to take deep breaths
or imagine a far off island escape, my anger will appear.
Feel my fury if you cut me
but think, “Is this real life?”
I do a lot of driving like
I imagine most commuters
at the University of Michigan-Dearborn do. I drive to
Dearborn three times a week,
Detroit twice a week, and various other places in between.
logic either, so don’t ask.
Recent events have caused
me to completely lose faith
in every person who drives a
motor vehicle. I was carrying
out my day the way I usually
do: going to class and sharpening up my piano skills,
car, Philip (yes, I named my
car), while I was parked.
My car is a frail, thirteenyear-old man, and most people wouldn’t consider him a
“nice” car, but I take care of
the possessions I have. I have
never been in an accident or
“Feel my fury if you cut me off on the freeway.
Regard my raving if you tailgate me. Behold my
blowup if you drive in my blind spot. Witness my
wrath if you drive 60 mph in the fast lane. Yes,
that’s right, I have the road rage.”
off on the freeway. Regard my
raving if you tailgate me. Behold my blowup if you drive
in my blind spot. Witness my
wrath if you drive 60 mph in
the fast lane.
Yes, that’s right, I have the
road rage.
Every time I lose my cool
on the roadways, I can’t help
You’d think that by now
I would be more accepting
of the idiocy I see on my
daily drives, but my experience does not stop me from
screaming at these morons. I
always turn down my music
while I yell at other drivers
with my windows all the way
up. I don’t understand my
working on biology online,
hanging out with friends in
my office for way too long,
and then leaving campus to
run some errands before I
headed home.
Some time during this average day, some oaf with a
below average IQ nailed the
back bumper of my precious
even gotten a ticket.
When I saw a chunk in the
dead center of my back bumper dented, I lost it. Not only
did I throw my fists into the
air in the middle of a parking
lot and scream with anguish,
but I took personal offense to
the dent. How dare some moron smash into my poor, inno-
cent Philip without even telling me? No note or anything.
I don’t have collision insurance on my car, so I couldn’t
get the smashed in bumper
fixed unless I paid for it out
of pocket, which is out of the
question.
I immediately decided to
have a vendetta with every ill
driver I encountered from that
day on, for they might have
been the one who dented my
car.
I believe that roughly 80
percent of licensed drivers
should not, in fact, be licensed
drivers. I now understand
why workers at the DMV hate
mostly everyone...they don’t
want to give you a license because they know chances are
you actually a danger to society while behind the wheel.
Bad drivers create bitter
drivers. I am one of the bitter.
Get out of my way and don’t
start anything, or else.
Vengeance will be mine
even if my dented bumper is
now hidden by a Red Wings
bumper sticker.
What’s going on around campus?
October 15-30
Tuesday, October 15
Saturday, October 19
Thursday, October 24
Native American Attitudes on
Wilderness: Sacred Spaces
2:30 p.m.-4:00 p.m.
The Union Theater
TEDxUM-Dearborn
9:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m.
IAVS
9th Annual Criminal Justice Exposition
9:00 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
Kochoff Hall
Thursday, October 17
An Evening With Academy Award Winner
Dustin Lance Black
7:00 p.m.
Kochoff Hall
Friday, October 18
Personal Statement Workshop
1:00 p.m.-2:30 p.m.
3035 CASL Building
Monday, October 21
Gender Justice and Social Change in
Metropolitan Detroit Speaker Series
4:35 p.m.-6:00 p.m.
1016 CASL Building
Tuesday, October 22
Overseas Opportunity Fair
2:00 p.m.-6:00 p.m.
Kochoff Hall
AIDS in Black and Brown
4:00 p.m.-7:00 p.m.
Kochoff Hall A
Wednesday, October 30
CEHHS Research Colloquium: Taking
a Look at State Social Emotional Early
Learning Standards
4:30 p.m.-6:00 p.m.
252 Fairlane Center South
STUDENT LIFE
Inclusion Office hosts Open House
October 15, 2013
Vol. XLIII, No. 6
The Michigan Journal/9
Tyesha Vinson/MJ
By TYESHA VINSON
Student Life Editor
O n M onday, Oc tob e r 7 the I nclus ion Off ic e h ad their Open
H o u se . Students c ame
i n t h ro ughout the da y to
e n j o y the f r ee f oo d a nd
f in d o ut what I nclusion
i s a l l a bout.
S t u d e nts got to know
o n e a nother , took pa rt
i n d i scus s ions , and got
a c q u a i nted w ith the Inc l u si o n O f f ice and a ll it
h a s t o of f er .
J o n a than Lar s on, the
C o o rd inator f or LGB T Q a nd I nclus ion Init i a t i v e s , is ver y exc ited
a b o u t having the Inclusi o n Of f ice open to a ll
st u d e n ts on campus.
Th e pur pos e of the Inc l u si o n Of f ice is to make
su re t hat each s tude nt
f e e l s a s though they are
a p a rt o f the U niversity
o f Michigan- Dearborn
c ommunity. All s t u d en t s
a re welcome in t h e In c lusion Office reg ard less of rac e, re lig i o n , o r
sexua l orie ntatio n .
La rson sa id, “ T h e In c lusion Offic e i s m ean t
to be a spac e tha t i s s afe
for a ll stude nts o f d i f-
k i n d o f fo cu s i n g o n t h at
y o u ’re m o re t h an j u s t
o n e i d en t i t y . ”
An In cl u s i o n Offi ce i s
n o t a co m m o n t h i n g o n
m o s t co l l eg e cam p u s es .
Wh i ch i s y et an o t h er
u n i q u e p art o f t h e UM Dearb o rn cam p u s .
y o n d an L G B T Q C e n t e r .
On s o m e c a m p u s e s t h e y
h av e m u l ti p l e c e n t e r s ,
t h i s wi l l b e m a n y i n
o n e. ”
L ars o n f e e l s t h a t t h e
In cl u s i o n O f f i c e s h o u l d
n o t b e l ab e l e d a s a n L G B T Q o ffi ce b e c a u s e i t ’ s
fear or judgment.
The Inclusion Office
also serves as a meeting
place for all student organizations. There have
already been seven organizations that have
used the office for meetings and Larson is very
“It’s going to be very student focused and a very
unique leadership opportunity that most college
campuses don’t have. It goes beyond an LGBTQ
Center. On some campuses they have multiple
centers,this will be many in one.”
ferent identities wh et h e r it’s LGB TQ, raci al ,
soc ioec onomic ,
t h at
kind of thing. L o o k i n g
a t the inte rsec t i o n al i t y
of identities a n d t h en
“It ’s g o i n g t o b e v ery
s t u d en t
fo cu s ed
an d
a v ery u n i q u e l ead ers h i p o p p o rt u n i t y t h at
m o s t co l l eg e cam p u s es
d o n ’t h av e. It g o es b e-
m o re t h an t h a t . T h e I n cl u s i o n Of f i c e i s m e a n t
t o al l o w a l l s t u d e n t s
t h e ch an ce t o d i v e r s i f y
t h em s el v es a n d g e t e v ery o n e i n vo l v e d w i t h o u t
confident
that
those
numbers will increase
as word of the Inclusion
Office spreads.
Larson
encourages
all students to make
the most of the resources available to them
through the Inclusion
Office. He said, “I’ve
sent out emails encouraging students to come,
so I think it will be very
active soon.”
Jamilah
Alhashidi said, “We used the
space recently for Delta
Phi Epsilon’s Bid Day.
It fit thirty-five people,
we had a lot of fun, and
we were able to decorate the chalkboard.”
Alhashidi continued,
“The purpose of this
space is to get more students involved in terms
of diversity, inclusion,
getting people here.”
Students interested in
a safe place where no
one is excluded should
definitely stop by the
Inclusion
Office
in
room 2122 in the University Center.
Equality Michigan & the state of LGBTQ human rights
Ghadeer Alaradi/MJ
By ASHLEY FELDER
Guest Writer
Monday, October 7
kicked off the start of
LGBTQ
Celebration
Week at the University
of Michigan-Dearborn,
and on Tuesday, October
8, together with Equality Michigan, the Office
of Student Engagement’s
Jonathan Larson put together a roundtable to
discuss LGBTQ rights in
regards to human rights.
Equality Michigan is
the statewide anti-violence and advocacy organization for the LGBTQ community. Yvonne
Siferd, Director of Victim Services at Equality
Michigan, was invited to
be the guest speaker for
the round table.
In recent years, the
LGBTQ community and
the rights of individuals
have been a big topic of
discussion nationwide.
While some states and
countries have given
their LGBTQ communities the right to marry,
as well as other benefits
- something that a lot of
people take for granted
- many more have continued to rally against
equality.
The United States is
built on the idea that
all people are created
equal and that everyone
has fundamental human rights. However, in
the case of the LGBTQ
community, things that
others consider a given
job security, living
facilities, marriage and
the benefits of being
married - are being denied them due to the way
they identify.
According to Karen
Holland,
Special
Events Coordinator for
the Chancellor ’s office,
“There are things that
are wonderful in theory,
but you add human beings to the mix and by
nature most of us are at
least a little bit selfish.”
She continued, “We
want what we want when
we want it. In some people’s world your civil
rights
infringe
upon
what I think are my
rights and my rights are
of course more important, and then you get
this clash.”
In the United States,
freedom,
peace,
and
equality are assumed to
be attainable by every-
one. However there are
those who are denied
these basic rights, like
people in the LGBTQ
community.
Equality Michigan is
working to give the LGBTQ community back
their fundamental human rights through work
with the government and
major corporations, and
in doing so giving those
who may feel hopeless a
voice.
The Michigan Journal/10
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Sports
Men’s soccer: Wolverines fail
to start winning streak, fall to
Concordia, Aquinas
By GEOFF MEHL
Staff Reporter
@GeoffMehl
T
he University of
Michigan-Dearborn men’s soccer team looked
to start their first winning
streak since August against
two conference foes.
The Wolverines fell to conference rival Concordia University, 2-1 on October 8 at
home.
The team got out to a hot
start scoring early in the game
with a goal from midfielder
Damjan Stamenkovic with an
assist from forward Iris Mesic. The goal from Stamenkovik tied Mesic for the team
leader in goals.
Though
UM-Dearborn
started the game hot, a few
mistakes by the Wolverines
let Concordia back into the
game. They would go on to
dominate the rest of the first
half and the second half with
ball possession and score
two goals on timely scoring
chances to propel them to a
victory.
After the game Mesic
wasn’t happy with the way
things shifted for Blue.
“The first 20 minutes we
got off to a great start, we had
the lead and dominated the
field in every aspect” he said.
“After that it all went downhill from there and simple errors cost us the game.”
The Wolverines seemed
like they couldn’t find a
groove and had problems creating scoring chances.
“We didn’t get many shots
on goal, and we were unable
to connect on passes together
to create a rhythm” Mesic
said.
The loss pushed Michigan
to a 5-6 record on the year and
2-2 in the Wolverine-Hoosier
Athletic Conference.
It is a tough loss for the
maize and blue and they are
feeling the pressure as the
playoffs rapidly approach.
“We are disappointed, we
should have done better”
Stamekovik said. “We’ve got
to look past it and focus on
the next game.”
UM-Dearborn has a big
week coming up ahead of
them. On Saturday October
12, they faced on Aquinas
College on the road. After
that, they come back home on
the 18 to play Northwestern
Ohio.
“(Aquinas) is a great team,
one of the top teams in our
conference, even though their
record doesn’t reflect that yet”
said Stamenkovik. “We will
have to defend very well, be
patient, and look for a counterattack to capitalize on.”
UM-Dearborn wound up
being shutout 5-0 by Aquinas.
Matt McCourt, Nate Szymkowicz, and Andy Slavin accounted for the Wolverines’
three shots on goal in the
game.
Volleyball: Shorthanded Wolverines
struggle in Panther invitational
By RYAN PETRAS
Staff Reporter
T
he University of
Michigan-Dearborn volleyball
team traveled off
to Davenport University for
their annual volleyball tournament, the Panther Invitational.
The team would go winless
in the invitational, finishing
0-4 on the weekend.
The team was without
Rebecca Carley and middleblocker Jessica Spiegelberg,
both regular starters. Their
absence would play a big role
on the team during the tournament.
In their first matchup
against the Ashford Saints,
(15-12) Michigan-Dearborn
would find themselves down
two sets to none, before fighting back in the third set, winning 26-24. The Saints would
pull away with the victory
winning the fourth set in convincing fashion, 25-16.
The team would then take
on the Grace College Lakers,
(17-8). Michigan-Dearborn
struggled against the Lakers
Ricky’s College
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Top 25 and Big Ten
Arkansas @ #1 Alabama
Alabama
Washington State @
#2 Oregon
#5 Florida State @ #3 Clemson
Oregon
Florida State
Iowa @ #4 Ohio State
Ohio State
#6 LSU @ Ole Miss
Ole Miss
#24 Auburn @ #7 Texas A&M
Texas A&M
UCF @ #8 Louisville
Louisville
#9 UCLA @ #13 Stanford
UCLA
#10 Miami @
North Carolina
#11 South Carolina @
Tennessee
Iowa State @ #12 Baylor
Miami
South Carolina
#22 Florida @ #14 Missouri
Missouri
#15 Georgia @ Vanderbilt
Georgia
#16 Texas Tech @ WestVirginia
Texas Tech
UNLV @ #17 Fresno State
Fresno State
#18 Oklahoma @ Kansas
Oklahoma
#20 Washington @
Arizona State
TCU @ #21 Oklahoma
State
#23 Northern Illinois @
Central Michigan
#25 Wisconsin @
Illinois
Indiana @ Michigan
Arizona State
Purdue @
Michigan State
Minnesota @
Northwestern
Baylor
Oklahoma State
Northern Illinois
Wisconsin
Indiana
Michigan State
Northwestern
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October 15, 2013
Vol. XLIII, No. 6
UM-Dearborn
Player of the week
Jase Paciocco
Hockey
4 goals, 3 assists
in two games
against Pittsburgh
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losing in three straight sets,
(14-25, 16-25, 11-25).
On Sunday morning, UMDearborn faced off against
familiar opponent the Rochester Warriors, (17-19) who
beat UM-Dearborn in five
sets on October 11. The two
teams would find themselves
in a five set match again, with
the Warriors being victorious
again, (25-21, 21-25, 16-25,
25-19, 15-11).
In the last match, UMDearborn played the Huntington University Foresters,
(7-17). Huntington has been
a team that struggled for the
better part of the season but
found a way to go 3-1 in the
Panther Invitational. Michigan-Dearborn kept the games
close, but the Foresters eventually pulled away with the
victory, (25-22,25-22,23-25,
25-19).
UM-Dearborn is now 7-22
for the season. They welcome
Madonna University to the
fieldhouse on October 16 for
a league match. The match
begins at 7:00 pm.
Hockey,
ed this win tonight and they
deserved it.”
“I thought we started out
real slow, that kind of kicked
us,” added Jase Paciocco, who
shared the same feeling as
coach Hatlinner, but was also
was thrilled with his two goal
and one assist performance.
“We came out in the second period, we had a chip on
our back and we really got in
there,” said Paciocco. “My
linemates really helped me out
with my two goals, they kept
me going they kept the speed
up and our team kind of built
momentum in the second period and we just got all over
them and felt real confident.”
UM-Dearborn would have
another home game against
Pittsburgh Saturday night in
which they turned up the heat
even more, scoring 7 goals for
7-4 victory and their very first
sweep of the season.
Despite getting swept by
Navy and Adrian to start the
season, the Wolverines have
now won four of their last six
games and are really beginning to show everyone just
how good they can be.
Next week features three
games in a row, starting Thursday at Adrian. They then host
Mercyhurst College Friday
night at the Fieldhouse and finally face Adrian again on Saturday night in Dearborn.
These three games could
be great opportunities for the
Wolverines to make their mark
and maybe even climb back
into the national rankings if
they win all three.
The Wolverines certainly
have a lot of work ahead of
them this week.
a memorial for the late Paterno with the numbers 409
was displayed, symbolizing
the amount of wins the coach
had before sanctions were imposed.
Twice was Paterno shown
in the pre-game video, each
time, a rowdy applause followed. The Berkey Creamery
on campus even has a popular
flavor of ice cream, Peachy
Paterno, named after the late
iconic coach.
It’s been two years since
the mammoth that was Penn
State fell.
The Nittany Lions are
slowly rising from the depths
of the NCAA’s graveyard in
their return to prominence.
While others bolted, Hackenberg stayed committed to the
Nittany Lions throughout the
darkness and unknown that
followed the program.
His
patience
finally
showed in his sixth college
start. Hackenberg remained
poised in a moment where
others falter. 141 of his 305
passing yards came in the
fourth quarter, including a
36-yard highlight reel lob to
complete Penn State’s gametying rally.
Though the sky was pitch
black, the brightness from
the “white-out” was shining
throughout Beaver Stadium.
Hackenberg, the promising recruit that decided to
stick with Penn State through
everything negative, leading
the Nittany Lions to a thrilling win over Michigan was
something out of a storybook.
Thanks to Hackenberg,
Penn State is back. The next
era in Happy Valley is just beginning.
struggled behind a young offensive line.
Gardner rushed for seven
yards to set Gibbons up with
a 40-yard field goal which he
would convert.
Michigan’s
defense
stopped Penn State to bring
up a fourth-and-one situation.
With yet another defensive
stop, the Wolverines would
win the marathon game and
survive the upset.
But that wasn’t the case.
With the game hanging in
the balance, O’Brien took the
risk and decided to go for the
win. Junior Bill Belton gave
the Nittany Lions new life after converting the gutsy call
with a three-yard rush.
“I thought at that point
and time, it was the fourth
overtime and i felt like it was
time for someone to win the
game,” O’Brien said. “We
could sit here and keep trading field goals back and forth,
but eventually it was time for
someone to win the game and
i had the opportunity to do it.
Three plays after his
fourth-down heroics, Belton
would end the game and send
Beaver Stadium into a frenzy.
A quick cut to the left was
enough for him to find the end
zone for a two-yard, gamewinning touchdown.
Though the Wolverines
faltered towards the end of
their quadruple overtime
marathon, they continued to
battle back after trailing by 11
points at halftime.
“I was happy with them,
I was happy how they kept
fighting,” Michigan head
coach Brady Hoke said. “You
can keep fighting, but you can
fight a little better. You gotta
make the punches count a
little more.”
Michigan had a legitimate
shot in the fourth quarter and
each overtime to seal their
victory. But the team ultimately fell short every time,
allowing Penn State to take
advantage and complete the
comeback.
“We fought, but sometimes you lose and we didn’t
take advantage of the opportunities we had,” redshirt junior Jake Ryan said. “We just
need to keep our heads up and
move onto next week, which
is Indiana.”
continued from page 11
“We’ve seem to find
ourselves down early in
games against opponents we
shouldn’t be, Haltinner said.
“We dominated the first five
minutes and I told the guys
to just keep your heads up,
just keep plugging away and
we need to get back and the
guys rallied. I told them the
next goal is huge and we got
the next goal and we just kept
going from there and the guys
worked really hard, they want-
Column,
continued from page 12
more than evident October
12.
The sanctions imposed by
the NCAA remain, as do the
loss of 112 wins from 1998 to
2011. No longer does the famous Paterno statue grace the
outside concourse of Beaver
Stadium.
The Nittany Lions were
down. But even with all the
negatives, Penn State was far
from being out for the count.
Outside Beaver Stadium,
Michigan football,
continued from page 12
field goals in the second
overtime were between the
uprights, making it a 37-37
tie.
The score would stand until the fourth overtime. Clark’s
fumble recovery on the opening play of the third overtime
appeared to doom Penn State.
But Gibbons was unable to hit
a 33-yard field goal to win the
game after making a seasonlong 47 yarder in the first
quarter.
After two consecutive incompletions and a delay of
game penalty, Michigan faced
a third-and-15 situation. As
they did the entire game, the
Wolverines rushing game
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Q&A with UM-Dearborn
College Football
Player of the Week
Top Ten Poll
Micah Collier
Each Monday, members of the Michigan Journal’s sports staff vote on college football’s
top ten teams. A first place vote counts for 10
points, with the number decreasing by one for
each rank lower.
#1 Alabama (4)
AJ McCarron’s Crimson
Tide were the favorite amongst pollsters,
edging Oregon by two
points.
#2 Oregon (2)
For the third consecutive
week, Jordan Konior and
Ricky Lindsay picked
the Ducks as the best
team in the nation.
#3 Clemson
The Tigers maintained
the No. 3 ranking for
the third consecutive
week. Michael Holzman
ranked them No. 5, a
poll low.
#4 Ohio State
Even after a bye week,
the Buckeyes were able
to hang with Clemson.
Ohio State was one point
short of a tie with the
Tigers.
#5 Florida State
Pollsters were indifferent with the Seminoles’
ranking this week. Holzman ranked them a pollhigh No. 4, while Geoff
Mehl and Konior went
with No. 7.
#6 LSU
The Tigers jumped
four spots after a big
win over Florida. Mehl
ranked them a poll-high
No. 5, while Lindsay
went with No. 8.
#7 Texas A&M
After a last-second win
against Ole Miss, Johnny
Manziel’s Aggies rose one
spot in the poll. Lindsay
ranked them No. 4, a poll
high.
#8 Louisville
The Cardinals were the
most inconsistent team
in the poll. Jenkins
ranked them No. 6, a
poll high, while Lindsay,
Mehl, and Petras ranked
them No. 9 or lower.
#9 UCLA
After getting a handful
of votes throughout the
season, the Bruins finally
made their 2013 debut in
the poll. Only Mehl left
them off his top ten.
#10 MIAMI
The Hurricanes made
their poll debut after
Georgia and Stanford
fell out of the top ten.
S
enior hockey player Micah Collier
was named the
Michigan
Journal’s University of MichiganDearborn Player of the Week
in Issue 5 for his performance
during last Saturday, saving
39-of-42 shots for a .929 save
percentage in net against Oakland. Staff reporter Danielle
Cowart had the opportunity to
talk with Collier in part of a
question and answers series.
Q: Where are you from?
A: Trenton, Mi
Q: Where did you go to
High School?
A: Riverview Gabriel
Richard Catholic
Q: What are you majoring in?
A: Social Studies and Secondary Education
Q: Expected year of
graduation?
A: Fall 2014
Q: When and why did
you start playing hockey?
A: When I was about five
years old.
Q: Have you ever won
any individual awards while
playing hockey?
A: Senior year High School
I was named most valuable
player and I was named to the
All Catholic Team
Q: What made you decide to go to the University
of Michigan-Dearborn?
A: Mostly to play hockey
but I also knew they had a
good education program, so
I killed two birds with one
stone.
Q: What motivates you
as an athlete?
A. Refusing to lose and
the brotherhood I have with
the boys. A lot of them have
pulled for me in the past, and
I can’t let them down.
Q: How has being a college athlete shape you as a
person?
A: It has taught me to work
twice as hard off the ice as
I do on. College is no cakewalk, taking full time credits,
working, and then having to
dedicate more than 12 hours
a week to hockey takes a real
toll on ya. It also has provided
me some of the best friendships in the world and I am so
blessed to have a group that I
do.
Q: Favorite team memory?
A: Every chance we get to
go on a roadie with the boys.
We have some good times
with the greatest group guys a
teammate could ask for.
Q: What are some of your
hobbies or things you like to
do off the ice?
A: Watching hockey and
spending time with the boys.
Q: Any other sports
you enjoy?
A: Playing baseball/softball, golfing (poorly), and
Michigan Football
Q: What do you see yourself doing in 5 years?
A: Playing on the best beer
league team around and working either as a U.S. History
teacher or appraising houses.
I would also like to coach either as an assistant or a team
of my own.
Q: Favorite place to celebrate after a victory?
A: Locker Room, with the
boys, and win song blaring.
Q: Goalies get blamed a
lot for wins and loses how
do you handle this?
A: I have always said, ‘a
goaltender can’t win you a
game, he can just help lose
one’. I don’t score the goals
Photo courtesy of Micah Collier
when we win, I just try my
best to give the boys the
greatest opportunity to get a
W. As for the losses, I always
take them, to heart. My defense and forwards don’t let
in goals, I do. The only thing
you can do after a loss is come
into the next skate, whether
game or practice, and work
ten times harder to improve
from your mistakes.
Q: Favorite hockey team
and player?
A: This one’s going to
get me in trouble. I have to
say the Chicago Blackhawks
even though I do love the Red
Wings. My favorite player
has always been Brendan
Shanahan.
Hockey: Wolverines down Pittsburgh
for first sweep of the year
By MICHAEL HOLZMAN
Staff Reporter
@MHolzman90
I
n front of a packed
house Friday night
with Athletic Director Dr. Ann LampkinWilliams as well as members
of Student Government on
hand, the University of Michigan-Dearborn Wolverines
were ready to prove that they
are far better than their 2-6 record says.
Friday’s showing against
the University of Pittsburgh
proved just that.
In the first period, despite
a few opportunities for the
Wolverines to score, the lone
goal came from Max Kilkuts
of the Panthers making it 1-0
at the intermission. Less than
two minutes into the second
period, the Panthers would
take a 2-0 lead with a shorthanded goal by Justin Delmaster who still made the
goal despite being hooked
by UM-Dearborn’s Jeremy
Klotz.
“They got a couple good
bounces, one was off a big
turnover in front of the goal,
led to a breakaway, goaltender Micah Collier said. “I
mean a bounce here, bounce
there, it’s a different game.”
After that, you could sense
that the Wolverines were disappointed with the way the
game had gone so far but they
quickly turned it around.
About three minutes later,
Ryan Kelly would get the
Wolverines on the board after
Derek Kessler’s shot trickled
behind Panthers’ goalie Rob
Behling. Kelly tapped it in on
the power play to make it 2-1.
53 seconds later, Jeremy
Klotz would tie it at 2-2 with
an assist from Jeff Kuhary.
The goals kept on coming for
UM-Dearborn, with 8:49 to
go in the second period Jase
Paciocco would beautifully
fake out Behling to give UMDearborn the lead.
The Wolverines celebrate a goal against Pittsburgh
With 4:05 to go, Paciocco
would add a little insurance
as well with a Wayne Gretzky-style wrap around goal to
put the Wolverines up 4-2 at
the end of two.
In the third period, the
Wolverines would just dominate the Panthers out on the
ice.
Just over a minute in Pittsburgh would be on a breakaway and Micah Collier, still
starting for the injured Max
Dutzy, slammed the door
shut. Collier did not allow
a single goal for almost two
whole periods.
Finally, the win would be
wrapped up by captain Anthony Olson on the power
play to put Dearborn up 5-2
and that would be the final.
After the game, Wolverines coach Chris Haltinner
was satisfied with the win but
certainly hoped for a much
faster start from his team.
Hockey,
continued on page 10
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Hackenberg leads Penn State over
Michigan in quadruple overtime thriller
By RICKY LINDSAY
Sports Editor
@RLindz35
A
freshman quarterback
that
played like a
savvy veteran
and refused to lose when it
mattered most.
That was the difference in
Penn State’s 43-40 comeback
win over Michigan in quadruple overtime.
With 50 seconds left in
regulation, true freshman
Christian Hackenberg led
the Nittany Lions down the
field with precision and poise,
throwing for 79 yards on
three pass attempts. A 36-yard
highlight-reel toss to junior
Allen Robinson set up a quarterback sneak, where Hackenberg rushed for a 1-yard
touchdown to tie the game at
34-34.
“I figured I’d give him
(Robinson) a shot,” Hackenberg said. “We went full verticals, I figured I’d give the guy
with a 38-inch vertical a shot
and he went up and got it.”
“I think Christian is, obviously, a very mature quarterback for being 18-years-old,”
Penn State head coach Bill
O’Brien said. “He’s fun guy
to coach. Some of that was
training too and that paid off.”
Hackenberg finished 23-of
44 passing with 305 yards and
three touchdowns. His rushing touchdown was the first
Michigan allowed all season.
In his sixth career start,
Hackenberg’s fourth quarter
heroics lifted Penn State for a
career-defining win. He threw
for 141 of his 305 yards in the
fourth quarter to lead the Nittany Lions to their fourth win
of the season.
After blowing a 10 point
fourth quarter lead and failing
to execute on three would-be
game winning field goals, the
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Michigan head coach Brady Hoke talks to his defense during a timeout in the first overtime against Penn State.
longest game in Big Ten history will sting the Wolverines
for quite some time.
“It hurts, but I’m so proud
of my teammates,” redshirt
junior quarterback Devin
Gardner said. “There was a
lot of adversity during the
game and we fell back, but it
wasn’t enough.”
“We started it off but we
couldn’t finish it,” junior
defensive end Frank Clark
added. “We had a to of opportunities to win the game. The
offense was good, the special teams did their jobs, but
the defense should have been
there. We missed tackles and
we missed a lot of good opportunities.”
Coming off their first turnover-free game in two years,
the Wolverines season-long
struggles continued Saturday
night. Penn State was able to
capitalize twice on Michigan
turnovers in the first half.
Hackenberg
connected
with senior Brandon Felder
for a 12-yard touchdown after Jordan Lucas intercepted
Gardner deep in Michigan’s
zone.
One quarter later, Hackenberg tossed a 20-yard touchdown to sophomore Jesse
James following Gardner’s
second interception of the
game.
Hackenberg continued to
shred Michigan’s weak passing defense. Just over four
minutes after his second
touchdown, he found Felder
for a 12-yard score to give
Penn State a 21-7 halftime
lead.
The Devin-to-Devin duo
continued to fuel the Wolverines offensively. Gardner
connected with sophomore
Devin Funchess on a 59-yard
passing touchdown for the
team’s first score of the game.
Gardner connected with
the newly-minted receiver for
a final time early in the fourth
quarter on a 37-yard touchdown pass.
Funchess finished with
four receptions for 112 yards
and two touchdowns, but
wasn’t targeted after his final
score.
Gardner went 15-of-28
passing for 240 yards and
three touchdowns. His season-long struggles with turnovers returned after throwing
two interceptions.
After failing to complete
only three of their third down
opportunities against Minnesota, another season-long
struggle returned in Happy
Valley.
Michigan converted 4-of18 third down chances against
Penn State. They now have a
47.06 conversion percentage,
good for 33 amongst FBS
teams.
Gardner led both teams
with 121 rushing yards on 24
carries. He out-rushed teammate Fitzgerald Toussaint by
94 yards. Toussaint, a fifthyear senior, finished with 27
yards on 27 carries, an average of one yard per rush.
The Wolverines offensive
line wasn’t able to provide
the team with running lanes.
Things worsened when fifthyear senior Taylor Lewan left
the game late in the second
quarter. But Gardner didn’t
notice a difference.
“I played like, ‘This is
Michigan,’” Gardner said.
“If a guy goes down, whether
it be Taylor or whoever, the
next guy has to step in and
perform, and I felt like they
did that. They did the best
they could and I’m really
happy and proud of the guys
who stepped in and got the
opportunity to play.
Adversity had been something the Wolverines dealt
with all season. Led defensively by Clark, the team was
able to overcome their firsthalf hardships on the first play
of the third quarter.
Clark recovered the first of
his two fumbles and returned
it 24 yards for a touchdown,
bringing the Wolverines within four points and silencing
the rowdy Beaver Stadium
crowd. His second fumble
came in the third overtime,
but the Wolverines’ offense
was unable to capitalize.
“I was just in the right position at the right time,” Clark
said. “My teammates did their
job and forced the fumble, so
I was in the right place doing
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my job, and I took it in.”
Brendan Gibbons and Sam
Ficken traded field goals in a
span of four minutes and 29
seconds. But Michigan was
able to retake the lead after
Gardner found fifth-year senior Jeremy Gallon for a 16yard touchdown.
After trailing 21-10 points
at halftime, Michigan outscored Penn State 17-3 in the
third quarter. The Wolverines
had a 10 point fourth quarter lead after Gardner’s third
passing touchdown of the
game.
Penn State was down, but
they weren’t out for the count.
The Nittany Lions chipped
away at Michigan’s lead with
a 45-yard field goal by Ficken. Hackenberg’s improbable
play ending with his lone
rushing touchdown on the
night completed a 10-0 run by
Penn State.
“We practice two-minute
situations every day, that one
that we had at the end of the
game, we practiced that just
the other day,” O’Brien said.
“We knew there were specific
plays we wanted to run there
and we just needed the line to
block well and they did. We
were able to come up with
some big plays.”
Michigan was forced to
make one last heave with 27
seconds remaining in regulation after failing to run out the
clock on their previous drive.
The Wolverines chipped away
on field position through the
passing game. But Gibbons
52-yard field goal was just
short, sending the game into
overtime.
Ficken and Gibbons both
attempted 40 yard field goals
in the first overtime. Ficken’s
missed his, while Gibbons’
was blocked. Both kicker’s
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Michigan’s knack for close games
finally catches up with them
By RYAN PETRAS
Staff Reporter
@RyanPetrasMJ
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The iconic Penn State gate separating the tunnel and the field in Beaver Stadium
Two years after scandal,
Penn State is alive and well
By RICKY LINDSAY
Sports Editor
@RLindz35
“We are.”
“Penn State.”
“We are.”
“Penn State.”
The iconic chant was about
the only thing that could be
heard from five minutes in
the fourth quarter until the
final play of the game in a
deafening Beaver Stadium.
Throughout the game, the
rickety press box would sway
back-and-forth
Welcome to Penn State
and the magical experience it
provides.
When Michigan tried to
close out the game by running
the clock down, a rain of boos
flowed throughout State College from the 107,844 crazy
fans in attendance.
But when true freshman
Christian Hackenberg played
like a veteran and led the Nittany Lions down the field to
tie the game up late in the
fourth quarter, thunderous
cheers rained down.
“We are.”
“Penn State.”
“We are.”
“Penn State.”
It was even louder when
Bill Belton made a sharp left
cut to the end zone in the
fourth overtime to give the
Nittany Lions a 43-40 win
over Michigan in a game, and
a comeback, for the ages.
“We are.”
“Penn State.”
“We are.”
“Penn State.”
Not even two years after the Joe Paterno and Jerry
Sandusky scandal, Penn State
is alive and well. That was
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hen
the
Michigan Wolverines
entered Beaver Stadium
Saturday, they brought an
undefeated record and a national ranking of 18.
They left with nothing.
Michigan lost to the Nittany Lions in an instant
classic: a quadruple overtime game that happened
to be the longest in Big Ten
history. But Michigan has
been playing with fire all
year.
The Wolverines had to
fight back home against Akron before stopping them on
the goal line on the last play.
They needed seventeen unanswered points against
Connecticut to sneak away
with a road victory.
Saturday night, they
would find themselves
down 21-10 in a hostile
Beaver Stadium environment.
The Wolverines fought
back and took a lead of 3424 with less than 10 minutes
to play in regulation.
It looked like the Wolverines were going to pull
out with a close victory
once again, but Penn State
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Michigan’s offense huddling up during a timeout
had something different in
mind.
Michigan had its chances,
several of them. But Penn
State had the final blow in
a 43-40 quadruple overtime
victory.
“We have got to execute
all positions better,” Michigan head coach Brady Hoke
said.
It’s only going to get
tougher for the Wolverines.
They play Indiana this
Saturday, who beat Penn
State handily at home last
week. Then, it’s the big ri-
valry game against Michigan State at Spartan Stadium.
Michigan has a lot to figure out in the next couple
weeks.
A team that started the
season with national title
aspirations has struggled
against low-tier competition. They even lost to one
of the lower level Big Ten
teams.
The Wolverines have a
lot of work that needs to
be done if they still hope to
compete for a Big Ten title
this season.