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NEWSHackathon Second ‘U’ event looks to be biggest in country, will occupy Big House.
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NEWSFlexible Electronics ‘U’ Engineering professor innovates electronics, medical implants.
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OPINIONFrom the Daily:Vote Kunselman, Higgins in upcoming City Council Elections.
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ARTSPitchfork 2013Daily photographer Katherine Pekala takes on the pit at Chicago festival.
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SPORTSAlumni RundownThe Daily catches up with former offensive tackle Jake Long.
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KATHERINE PEKALA/DailyZeta Phi Beta competes at the Diag Stroll Off for charity on Friday.
Students excluded from committee
Security raised after murder
Regents and faculty to conduct search for Coleman’s successor
By JENNIFER CALFAS and AMRUTHA SIVAKUMAR
Daily Staff Reporters
While the University’s presiden-tial search has officially begun, it is still uncertain whether students will be represented in the process.
The University’s Board of Regents announced the appoint-ment of the presidential search advisory committee — which will appoint University President Mary Sue Coleman’s successor — but it does not include students.
The 16-person advisory committee is comprised of eight regents and eight faculty members who will work alongside Russell Reynolds Associates, the executive
recruiting firm appointed to lead the search. The 16-member committee in 2002 included two students: University alum Matt Nolan, then Michigan Student Assembly president, and University alum Lisa Jackson, a doctoral student of psychology.
While Business senior Michael Proppe, Central Student Government president, advocated for similar student representation on the current committee, his requests went unfulfilled.
The regents plan to hold public meetings in September and October to receive feedback from students, but Proppe said without actual student representation on the committee, he is concerned that student input will not be as effective.
“We need some sort of way of knowing that the search committee, the consultants and the regents aren’t just going to sit there and listen politely and just nod
their heads and never really discuss it again,” he said.
Proppe said he is already in talks with regents about increas-ing student input and there is still a possibility of adding a student representative to the committee. He spoke briefly to Regent Andrew Richner (R— Grosse Pointe Park) on Tuesday and with E. Royster Harp-er, vice president for student affairs, on a separate occasion to create a plan to “ensure there is significant input still in the search process.”
Proppe said he hopes to have more conversations with regents in the future, and added that he’s “not going to close any doors” on advo-cating for a student representative.
In a statement to The Michigan Daily on behalf of the board, Regent Laurence Dietch (D — Bloomfield Hills) wrote that the committee aspires to seek input from a wide array of students.
AAPD, University Police increase patrols of area
By TUI RADEMAKER Daily News Editor
Following the homicide of medical student Paul DeWolf, whose body was found July 24 in his apartment in the Phi Rho Sigma medical fraternity, Uni-versity Police and the Ann Arbor Police Department are working to ease residents’ and students’ fears with increased police presence.
AAPD Lt. Ed Dreslinski said on-duty officers have been asked to make increased patrols in the area around North Ingalls Street, adding that crime is not common there.
Dreslinski said the increased police presence is two-fold — intended both to alleviate resi-dents’ fears and possibly aid in the investigation that has seen coop-eration between the AAPD, Uni-versity Police and the Air Force Office of Special Investigations.
“We also want to be in the area because we may run into something — somebody may see something or see a police officer and run up and (give a tip) … so it’s a couple of reasons,” He said. “We want to seek every option we can (to find information).”
Since the death occurred off-campus, AAPD is leading the investigation. University Police are cooperating with the process and, according to spokeswoman Diane Brown, have also increased their presence on Central Campus in order to ease students’ anxiety.
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STROLLING UP
Event to be held in Big House, anticipates
1,200 contestantsBy GIACOMO BOLOGNA
Daily Staff Reporter
In February, more than 500 students from across the country attended the first ever MHacks hackathon at the University, taking over Palmer Commons and setting a new college hackathon attendance record.
But when organizers sought a location for the September 20-22 event, they realized one of the only locations on campus big enough to hold the anticipated 1,000 hackers was the nation’s largest football venue — Michigan Stadium.
Hackathons are competitions where “hackers” develop apps and programs in a period that usually spans between 24 and 48 hours. Participants often forgo sleep to create the most polished product possible, and there are no limitations on what they can make. MHacks only asks that competitors don’t continue past work or use parts of past work.
Engineering junior Thomas Erdmann, the director of the hackathon, said given the expected scale of the event, housing it in Michigan Stadium isn’t a stretch. He said Palmer Commons was overflowing during February’s event and though the Ross School of Business was considered as a possible venue for the upcoming hackathon, it was deemed not large enough.
Though Oosterbaan Field House could have held the event, Erdmann said they settled on the Big House instead. The hacking will take place in indoor luxury suits overlooking the field.
“It’s going to be epic,” Erdmann said of the hackathon, which will give out about $30,000 in prize money, but will have no attendance cost and even reimburse some attendees for travel costs.
Within the first 24 hours after tickets were made available online Tuesday, Erdmann said 1,000 tickets were claimed.
While Erdmann said MHacks is renting Michigan Stadium for the event, he declined to comment on the rental fees as well as the total budget of MHacks.
He said, however, there is a tremendous financial interest in field of computer science.
“There’s an incredible demand right now for engineers,” he said. “There’s so much money going into technical companies and technical start-ups.”
The event has yet to announce this year’s slate of sponsors, but last year’s included Facebook, Groupon and Ann Arbor Spark.
“It’s not inexpensive,” Erdmann said. “What’s important is that we’re going to be able to provide an incredible experience for the people attending.”
Tom Zurbuchen, a professor and an associate dean of entrepreneurial programs in the College of Engineering, is the faculty advisor of MHacks. He said MHacks is one of several highly visible and student-led entrepreneurial events held at the University.
Zurbuchen said MHacks is a telling representation of what’s great about the University in the way the event facilitates a massive collaboration in which people of different disciplines work together. He added that Michigan Stadium is an ideal venue for the event.
“What speaks better about competition than being leaders and coming together as a team in The Big House?” he said. “This is what Michigan is about, these mega-solutions ... I’m really proud of the students.”
Erdmann said MHacks, together with PennApps at Pennsylvania State University and hackMIT at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, make up the three biggest college hackathons.
PennApps and hackMIT are aiming for 900 and 1,000 students, respectively, Erdmann said, but he remains confident that MHacks will hold onto to its title as the biggest college hackathon.
“I’m pretty confident that MHacks will still be the largest student hackathon in the world,” he said.
Still, Erdmann emphasized that the focus is on the experience, not the number.
“Being the biggest isn’t what’s most important,” he said. “Our number one goal … is to provide a really incredible experience for each and everyone of attendees.”
Tentatively, MHacks is
North Carolina site found containing
16th century Spanish artifacts and ruins
By STEPHANIE DILWORTHDaily Staff Reporter
A group of archaeologists have discovered the ancient remains of the oldest known European fort in the U.S. — Fort San Juan — near Morganton, North Carolina.
Assistant Anthropology Prof. Robin Beck, assistant curator of North American Archaeology, is collaborating with fellow archaeologists David Moore of Warren Wilson College and Christopher Rodning of Tulane University to excavate the site.
Though Beck and his team began work around the site in 2004 with help from the National Geographic Society and the National Science Foundation, it was not until last month that remains of Fort San Juan were discovered. The fort was hidden
beneath a mound of dirt that was built on top of the ruins as a result of the ancient mound-building culture in the Native American community of Joara from 800 to 1500 C.E.
Beck said he was excited to discover the fort, adding that these discoveries are what make his job worthwhile.
“It’s incredible,” he said. “It is the reason we do archaeology. In the moment that we realized we had found the fort after 20 years of looking for it, for all of us, there is this euphoria.”
The fort was built by Spanish captain Juan Pardo and men under his command in the Appalachian Mountains in 1567.
Joyce Marcus, Director of the University’s Museum of Anthropology and curator of Latin American Archaeology, wrote in an e-mail that Beck’s discovery is a significant archaeological finding.
“Our Museum and Department (of Anthropology) are filled with scholars who conduct fieldwork to obtain new and important data sets,” Marcus said. “As famous
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‘U’ archaeologist aids discoveryof oldest inland European fort
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Gold-polyurethane mix could generate
strong flexible currentBy ARIANA ASSAF
Daily Staff Reporter
University researchers have discovered that gold mixed with layers of polyurethane can con-duct 35 Siemens per centimeter of electricity and be flexible, opening up new applications for medical and commercial elec-tronics.
Roughly three years ago, Engineering Prof. Nicholas Kotov began to examine how to make conductors used in certain kinds of electronics and medi-cal implants more flexible. But when composites were created to make these conductors, Kotov and his team realized that they made strong flexible energy conductors.
Composite materials can combine the flexibility of a polymer and the conductivity of an inorganic component. In this case, Kotov combined gold
particles with polyurethane and found that the final material held both of these properties.
He said combined materi-als tend to change in some way and this case was no different: the gold particles self-assem-bled into extensive conductive bands as the polyurethane was stretched. Though such self-assembly had already been dis-covered in liquids, watching it occur in a solid state was unex-pected.
The process of self-assembly allows the material to remain both flexible and conductive, and may not be limited to just gold.
“That also could be a very use-ful property for other nanopar-ticles,” Kotov said.
Although this process is not yet officially accepted, he said he is continuing to study the reaction and believes that it may be the result of a general prop-erty of nanoparticles when they are placed inside a f lexible poly-meric substance.
Kotov said a practical appli-cation of these newfound flex-ible conductors is their use in
medical implants, which are currently fashioned out of rigid substances.
“Normally, implants are made from metals or silicone, which are hard materials,” he said.
For example, brain implants that are used to alleviate some symptoms of Alzheimer’s or Parkinson’s disease do not always work for extended peri-ods of time.
Kotov said these devices tend to lose their ability to stimulate the brain over time due to scar tissue formation around the device. Implants made of more flexible, tissue-like material would, in theory, not cause such scarring because they would be able to conform to the surface of an organ, and thus be able to operate for longer periods of time.
“These implants also need to be small in order to avoid inflammation,” he said. “But we need to retain their conductivity still when they’re small, so we need unique materials that com-bine mechanical and electrical properties.”
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offering 1,500 spots for hackers, with 1,200 already claimed as of Wednesday night, Erdmann said. He said even though more than 1,000 have signed up, it’s expected that not everyone will show up.
While the MHacks website says the event is for undergradu-ate students and only accepts high school and graduate students “on a case-by-case basis,” Erdmann said they have admitted every student that’s applied so far.
“(MHacks) never meant to be exclusive to undergraduates; that’s just our main target.”
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Vote Kunselman, HigginsThe Daily’s endorsements for City Council primary elections
With the Democratic primary for the Ann Arbor City Coun-cil occurring Aug. 6, it’s election season once again in Ann Arbor. Though the fact that this election is occurring almost
a month prior to when most students arrive for fall classes is extreme-ly regrettable, that shouldn’t make students any less important in the eyes of the candidates. Students are a large segment of the city’s popu-lation and inhabit every ward in the city, and our interests — such as affordable housing, public safety and a quality transportation system — deserve the council’s attention. The Michigan Daily’s endorsement has been granted to those candidates who we feel will best represent students’ concerns on city council and who possess the skills necessary to make their goals a reality.
Only the races in Wards 3 and 4 are contested Tuesday. In Ward 3, Julie Grand is running against incumbent Stephen Kunselman (D-Ward 3). Grand currently chairs the city’s Park Advisory Commission and is a lecturer at the University’s Dearborn cam-pus, having earned both a master’s degree and a PhD from the Uni-versity’s School of Public Health. In an interview with The Michi-gan Daily, Grand emphasized a communicative and procedural process for addressing challenges the city faces, as well as public service in her current capacity as the Park Commission chair. She also identified downtown devel-opment with an eye toward the long term as being important to students, envisioning that empty spaces will soon be developed. While she mentioned core city services as one of her priorities, her knowledge of city issues per-
taining to students — such as the provision requiring landlords to wait 70 days before showing their properties to people seeking a place to live next year — left some-thing to be desired.
Kunselman has served three terms on the council in Ward 3 and holds a master’s degree in urban planning from the University. When asked about what he per-ceived to be the most important issues for students, his immediate response was safety. Though he supported many of the student-focused apartment complexes and opposed height caps on the build-ings he does not support large developments, such as the 413 E. Huron development. He placed lit-tle emphasis on engaging the com-munity when making decisions.
While Grand clearly has a strong desire to serve the public and her communicative style is promis-ing, The Michigan Daily endorses
STEPHEN KUNSELMAN for Ward 3 because of his extensive experience in city government and grasp of student priorities — but strongly encourages him to reach out to his constituents for their input on city matters.
In Ward 4, incumbent Marcia Higgins (D- Ward 4) faces chal-lenger Jack Eaton. Higgins has served on the council for 14 years and has played a key role in the Ann Arbor Developing Down-town initiative. She wants to con-tinue developing the downtown area and sees increasing density there as a way to reduce housing prices citywide. While talking with The Daily, she placed much importance on building a public transit station linking Ann Arbor to surrounding cities on Fuller Road — despite the setbacks over the project in 2012 — stressing the availability of federal match-ing funds as a great opportunity
for the city. Such a project would greatly benefit students — as many don’t have access to cars — and her pro-fessed desire to con-nect Ann Arbor to both Detroit and Chicago deserves consider-able praise. She also acknowledged existing flaws in the city’s storm drain system — which has recently flooded streets in a significant portion of the city — and expressed her support for a careful overview of the system.
Eaton is a labor attorney who repre-sents many transit workers across the
state and has been quite active in the Ann Arbor communi-ty, starting the Neigh-borhood Alliance and helping other neigh-borhoods organize. While talking to The Daily he repeatedly lamented students’ lack of engagement in city politics and encouraged them to bring their concerns to him, rather than emphasizing a more proactive approach on his part. He displayed a strong grasp of pub-lic safety issues, and though supportive of improved public tran-sit he believes that
expanding the exist-ing train station on Depot Street would be a better idea than building a new sta-tion on Fuller Road. However, his idea for the scale of this proj-ect was mostly limited to linking suburbs to the city.
While Eaton’s desire for the student body to connect with him is admirable, The Michigan Daily endorses MARCIA HIGGINS for Ward 4 because of her attentiveness to the needs of students and young professionals in Ann Arbor.
Lack of student on Presidential Search Advisory Committee a mistakeTO THE DAILY:
I was serving as student body president in late 2001 when Presi-dent Lee C. Bollinger announced his departure for the presidency of Columbia University, and was proud to be appointed as a mem-ber of the Presidential Search Advisory Committee that recom-mended the hiring of President Mary Sue Coleman in 2002.
As a junior on campus, that experience was very personally fulfilling and contributed to my future success. To be in a room with approximately 15 other fac-ulty, alumni and staff — and to be treated as an equal member of that conversation both by them and the candidates we consid-ered — was an experience that has prepared me for counsel-ing and interacting with those much more senior than me, both during my time as M&A counsel with a law firm and now as Senior Counsel to Dow Corning Cor-
poration. That experience and lesson is what the University of Michigan — in a nutshell — is all about to me.
I was surprised to learn that the PSAC recently announced and charged with recommend-ing a replacement for President Coleman does not include a stu-dent similarly situated. What has changed between 2001 and today to make the students’ voice less important in the process this time? In an era when rising tuition, increasing revenue-gen-erating pressure and decreasing state funds are conspiring to make public universities about many more things than “just” student education, reminding the can-didates who will interview for the presidency of the University of Michigan that students are at least one of their stakeholders seems more important than ever.
This decision, unfortunately, sends the opposite message. I urge the Board of Regents (three of whom were on the board in 2001) to reconsider this decision and appoint a current student to the PSAC.
Matt Nolan 2003 LSA, 2006 Law School alum
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It seems like I can’t turn a corner these days with-out some baby boomer or
Generation X’er blaming “young people” for our coun-try’s current failures. “Kids these days aren’t as politi-cally active as when I was a student!” they’ll claim, fully deciding that apathy from young Americans is the most valid target for criticism — and definite-ly not just the easiest. “Just look at Ann Arbor,” they say, “students have no representation on city council and never get involved in local government.” Sure, this assertion fails to mention what I see as gerrymandering of council districts to effectively silence the 40,000-plus student voices when it comes to local elections (not to mention that baby boomers claim their involvement was mainly in national issues, like the Vietnam War) — but let’s not get caught up in semantics. The point is, college kids these days don’t care about important issues — at least not in the way our parents did.
But it’s not just baby boom-ers, for even the cool, young Joel Stein of Time magazine criticizes the Millennial generation for our apparent failure as a group, call-ing us the “Me me me” genera-tion. “You’re too selfish!” they yell. Unlike those before us, we don’t care about other people and are far too concerned with chasing mate-rial things , commitment-free sex and connecting to people through boxes and screens instead of in person. We need to learn how our parents lived, because it’s us dumb
kids ruining everything.If only there were some recent
University news story that could highlight the role of student politi-cal activism and empathy in our day and age proving those old gee-zers wrong. Alas, there is none, as our young, lazy generation’s impact on politics in general is at best minuscule.
My fellow Millennials — this is a call to action.
The truth of the matter is our lack of political activism is really about a lack of care for one anoth-er. Not only are we hurting each other with our focus on “me,” but we’re setting up the next genera-tion for an awful fate. Only a truly selfish and immoral group would pass on massive debts without even attempting to pay the bill, go to war and kill thousands of innocent peo-ple, imprison the poorest and most disadvantaged among us at mon-strous rates and bet on an economy of selfishness and inequality that breeds disaster after disaster — just like all of us Millennials have done.
For this is a “We the People” government, and it’s our awful decision-making that has led to the country’s many recent atroci-ties — and no, our elders are not being hypocritical when blaming our choices for societal problems while chastising our lack of politi-cal participation. The economic deregulation, the War on Drugs, the beginnings of our massive debt — sure, literally no one in our generation had even been born yet when this all started in the late 1970s, but that doesn’t mean it isn’t not our parents’ fault.
Please, wise elders, forgive my young naïveté in reelecting former President Bill Clinton — I was only three years old. His repeal of Glass-Steagall, signing of the Defense of Marriage Act and bombing and
sanctions against Iraq certainly were my doing, and I must — along with the whole generation that allowed for such atrocities to occur on their watch — apolo-gize. Similarly, we must all take our blame for the continued wars under former President George W. Bush. My generation was in so much fear from 9/11 — those of us who were actually old enough to comprehend what it meant when it happened, that is — that he seemed like a safe choice. We were such foolish middle schoolers when we put him back in office.
Thankfully, our parents came to the rescue and turned out en masse to elect President Barack Obama, a man whose administration has been criticized by many in our gen-eration for trying to protect our country, fight corruption and pro-mote freedom while we “Occupy Wall Street.” Will we ever learn?
My fellow Millennials — it’s time we man up and make a difference. Get a decent education. Try to do something other than smoke weed and go on Reddit. Make something of yourself. And most important of all, when we’re given the amazing gifts of hard work and opportunity from our parents, let’s not squander them with selfish, stupid decisions, ignoring our own role and blam-ing the next generation for our terrible mistakes.
—James Brennan can be reached at [email protected].
The lamest generation?
5Thursday, August 1, 2013The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com OPINION
Graduation day — the day we all look forward to our whole lives. After all,
it’s the time we finally receive our “golden ticket” that gets us into the workforce. I should be jumping for joy — no more exams, all-nighters and endless pages of reading to do that make me want to gouge my eyes out. I’m about to graduate from one of the most amazing universities in the world. I mean, I should be happy, right? The truth is, I’ve never been more scared in my life.
But before I get into all of that, I want to rewind back to the day that I got accepted as a transfer student from Grand Valley State University. I was on vacation in Florida with my friend Alex in March 2010 when my Mom called me. When I saw her name pop up on my caller ID, I was positive she was calling just to fulfill her paren-tal duty and make sure I was doing all right. But when I answered, she said something that caught me off guard. “Hello, Miss Wolverine,” she said. I thought she was getting me confused with my sister for a second — she also went to school here. Once I realized she really did mean to call me, I went screaming and running around like I had just won the lottery. I remember think-ing it was the best day of my life. And in hindsight, it still kind of is.
Being a transfer student as a sophomore was tough, though. Everyone had already made their friends as freshman, and I felt like a fish out of water. I joined club volleyball, WOLV-TV and the Lebanese Student Association. I quickly made friends, and I start-ed to feel a little more integrated into University life.
However, I wasn’t the typical college student — and with only a week left, I don’t think I ever will be. I didn’t go to my gradu-ation ceremony for any of my departments or walk in May with my class. I wasn’t a big partier, I hated going to football games and I went home a lot to see my family. I consistently complained about classes being stressful and always said things like, “Ugh, I’m so over school.” But now that that time is here and it actually is going to be
over, I feel entirely different.To be frank, all I want to do is
bundle up in my bed with Edy’s Cookies ‘N Cream ice cream while clicking through past Facebook photos of my college journey and bawl my eyes out. I can’t help but be upset that I’ll no longer be a Michigan student anymore and that Ann Arbor will no longer be my home.
For the first time in my life, I don’t have a plan. I don’t have a job lined up or any real agenda when it comes to the next few months. The non-structured life that I’m about to enter scares me more than the creepy little girl from “The Ring.”
Despite feeling all of that though, I’ll refrain from acting like the world is coming to an end. Instead, I’ll pick my head up and reminisce with elation that I was blessed to be a Michi-gan Wolverine. For I’m thankful for the wonderful friendships that were formed, the beautiful mem-ories that were made, the knowl-edge my professors provided me and for the person my University experience made me become.
I will miss Ann Arbor every day — it will always be one of my favorite cities on the planet. At the end of the day, it was essentially what raised me. I came here as a girl, and I’m leaving as a woman. I don’t know where I’m going, I don’t know what life has in store for me and I’m starting to come to the realization that that’s OK.
It’s true, what they say — you never really know what you’ve got until it’s gone. I’m not ready to say goodbye, but I don’t think I ever truly will be. It’s time to close this chapter of my life with no regrets, and smile about the fact that no matter what I’ll always be a Michigan Wolverine. I will end my final piece with a quote I have engraved on my bracelet that I wear everyday, “Wherever you go, go with all of your heart — and forever go blue.”
—Sara Shouhayib can be reached at [email protected].
Graduation day
At the end of the day, Ann Arbor
raised me.JAMESBRENNAN
SARASHOUHAYIB
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difference.
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“We approach this work with great care to involve every stake-holder in a process that encourages sharing ideas regarding potential candidates and the important char-acteristics of candidates for this position,” he said.
Dietch served as chairman of the 2002 presidential search, along with current Regents Andrea Fisher Newman (R — Ann Arbor) and Katherine White (D — Ann Arbor) and the two student representatives, among others.
Proppe compiled a file of recent presidential searches among the top 25 public universities and every committee formed included at least one student representative, besides Clemson University, whose 2013 search committee had no student representatives but held public forums.
While most committees had one or two student representatives, the University of California had a 12-member Student Advisory Committee comprised of student representatives from each of the University of California campuses to find a successor for current president Mark Yudof, who will step down Aug. 31.
Proppe said the lack of a student representative parallels the recent adoption of the football general admission policy by the Athletic Department, a decision which involved no student opinion.
Despite passing two resolutions, approaching regents with concerns and proposing solutions for compromise to Athletic Director Dave Brandon, no amendments were made to the policy.
“It’s important that they’re going to students and seeking their feedback before they make the decision,” Proppe said. “I think it’s really important that the regents are seeking a lot of feedback from students and a lot of input in their decision on who the next University president will be.”
Nolan, the then-MSA president who held one of two seats on the 2002 committee, said the inability to reach a compromise for student input with University administra-tion deserved an explanation.
“Whether you agree with the regents’ decision or not, I do think it is a fair question to ask the regents why it is different this time,” he said. “Explaining that rationale could go a long way in making more people (support) the decision.”
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Though it is hard to predict when these devices will be ready for use in the medical field, Kim wrote that he predicts it will take less than a decade.
In terms of using these conduc-
tors in flexible electronics, Kotov said there are many possibilities for consumer electronics that have not yet been realized.
“Once the materials become available, it will create a window of opportunity for consumer electronics,” he said.
Kotov and his team are in the process of developing and testing these flexible consumer
electronics. He expects them to be ready in about a year, but could not discuss them in detail.
“It would be not very smart of me to describe them (now) … China will know, Korea will know, Germany will know, and that will be a problem,” he said.
Kim wrote that f lexible electronics could be used in portable displays that can roll
up, or f lexible displays used in glasses, windshields and watches.
But this is all contigent on making these materials more affordable for widespread commercial usage.
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“All of the University Police officers who are on patrol — regardless of what area of campus they are assigned to for that shift — are also doing patrols in the North Ingalls area and then also in other areas of Central Campus due to some of the other incidents that have been reported,” Brown said.
She said while North Ingalls Street itself is not included with-in the jurisdiction of University Police, the University owns sev-eral properties in the area, which allows University Police to fre-
quent the off-campus streets as they go to and from the properties.
University properties include the 300 North Ingalls Building, the School of Nursing and the back of Rackham Graduate School. The unaffiliated Phi Rho Sigma house is located at 220 N. Ingalls St.
“It’s not uncommon for us when there are incidents that are par-ticularly noteworthy to our com-munity — our University campus community — (to) put addition-al patrol officers in that area,” Brown said. “We recognize that many students live off-campus … nearby and so we will assist Ann Arbor police in providing addi-tional police visibility in those particular neighborhoods.”
She added that the increased patrols in the northern Central Campus area do not detract from officer’s presence in other areas, saying that University Police will not “neglect” other parts of the community.
The increased presence began on July 26 when AAPD announced that it was investigating DeWolf’s death as a homicide, Brown said. While there is no end date to the heightened security, she said patrols would likely return to normal should AAPD investigators solve the case.
Dreslinski said though the investigation is ongoing, the fra-ternity house is still occupied.
There have been no arrests or leads as of July 31.
archaeologist, A. V. Kidder once said going on a dig was like deep-sea fishing — you don’t know whether you are going to come back with a little grouper or a great big marlin. Robin Beck caught a marlin.”
Among Beck’s findings is the defensive moat which once sur-
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Beck said he was disappoint-ed that, due to lack of interest, he was unable to set up a field school in which students could have been given the opportunity to help excavate the site. How-ever, he said he hopes that the discovery will boost interest in the program and possibly enable such a program to take root next
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He added that University students would have a hands-on experience if they participated in the potential field school next summer.
“If I get the field school next summer, students will be excavating inside the remains of this fort.”
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MARLENE LACASSE/DailyPhi Rho Sigma medical fraternity, the home of homicide victim Paul DeWolf, who was found in his room July 24.
Program gives relatives gene testing results
Toolkit connects mutation carriers
with extended familyBy WILL GREENBERG
Daily Staff Reporter
While genetic testing has long provided people with an idea about their susceptibility to certain diseases and conditions, there has been no specific way of sharing that information with genetic relatives until now.
A multi-departmental study at the University is piloting the use of the Family Gene Toolkit, a program in which patients who have mutations that increase the risk of cancer — as confirmed by genetic testing — are given assistance contacting family members who are also at risk.
Currently the study only focuses on two mutations — BRCA1 and BRCA2 — whose presence indicates an increased risk of breast and ovarian cancer for women, prostate cancer for men and other forms in both genders.
Associate Nursing Prof. Maria Katapodi, principal investigator for the Toolkit, said in the past she has often found patients who received genetic testing that exposed certain mutations would only share their news with their immediate family, if anyone, leaving distant and second degree relatives uninformed even when they are still at high risk of also having the mutation.
Katapodi said this creates a two-fold problem: first, more distant family members don’t get the information they need to prevent the disease and, second, having the patient pass the news is less reliable and can lead to further confusion or problems within the family.
“Genetic information is complicated information,” she said.
Katapodi said Family Gene Toolkit works by orchestrating the conversation between the patient and the family members;
the patient with the mutation meets with the high-risk relative twice over a webinar with Toolkit staff present and discusses the situation. Then the participant and family member have follow-up phone calls with a nurse.
Katapodi said they are focusing mostly on only contacting high-risk family members and only dealing with participants with BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutations.
Katapodi said the trial stage lasted for about a year starting last February and the program is now in the testing process.
“They have this trusted source where we explain what this means for them and help facilitate processing this information,” she said.
However, sharing possibly life-changing information to someone who did not seek testing remains relatively controversial.
But Katapodi said the mutations the Toolkit program examines are not deterministic, meaning having the mutation alone doesn’t confirm a person will get the disease.
She added that the Family Gene Toolkit does not conduct or advocate for genetic testing, only dealing with participants who have already received testing elsewhere.
“For people, it’s good to have the choice,” Katapodi said. “Once they hear the information they can choose, ‘Well what do I want to do with this information?’ And that is perfectly acceptable; we all respect an informed choice.”
Sofia Merajver, professor in the School of Medicine and School of Public Health, has worked along with Katapodi and others on the project as a clinician.
Merajver said family members were generally receptive to being sought out and getting the full information.
“Most humans are curious about their own destiny,” Merajver said. “We can give them information that hopefully powers them to utilize that risk information to act in their own lifestyle.”
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A photojournalist’s dream realized in
Chicago’s Union ParkBy KATHERINE PEKALA
Daily Photo Editor
It was just two years ago when I, a recent high school graduate, was blown away by the magic of Pitchfork Music Festival for the
first time. I still remember the chills that crept through my body as I witnessed those artists cre-ate brilliance. This time around — acting as a photographer and reporter rather than just a care-free fan — I had doubts about how the festival would pan out.
While I would be traveling back home to Chicago to attend Pitchfork, I wouldn’t have the luxury of wandering around wherever my heart desired. This
year, I would be lugging around my three cameras, a backpack full of lenses and a tag titled, “Press,” that ultimately felt the heaviest of them all. To all of the other attendees, I was no longer an “us,” but rather a “them” — a member of The Press. My job, first and foremost, was to cap-ture the essence of the festival through my cameras, not just my brain. Now, taking photographs is second nature to me, so I didn’t
really realize what this meant. Until I got there, that is.
Day One
After a train ride and a two-mile walk that tortured me with anxious anticipation, similar to that of Christmas morning, my whole body lit up as I was final-ly allowed to “walk down the stairs” to the festival entry. I do have to admit how satisfying it was walking past those painfully long lines to get in and stopping at the 10-person-long line at the press check in. Standing there, I tried hard to conceal my hard-core staring at the people I was in line with. Everyone seemed so official, so legitimate … and then there was me. I wasn’t going to let myself become intimidated, I told myself — though I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t already a little.
Finally I was all checked in, all credential-ized with this new pur-ple tag accessorizing my camera. Then I paused. Now what? I didn’t know what to do, where to begin, now that I was here, and by myself, and this was really happening. I checked the schedule and Frankie Rose had just begun her set, so I rushed over to the Blue Stage to start shooting. I approached the fence where the security guard stood and I tried to get through. All of a sudden, I was standing right in front of the stage with the whole gated-in crowd behind me. I was maybe five feet from Frankie Rose. As she belted “Night Swim,” a single off her latest album, I was in complete and utter awe. It was as if my motor skills had become disabled. It took me a minute to regain my consciousness and start actually doing what I was there to do.
I took a total of about 10 pic-tures before I was pushed out of the way and yelled at to leave by some (typically) huge and scary security guards. What’s going on? I just got here … and now I have to leave? I suppose my confusion was blatant; one of the other photogs explained to me that we could only be in the “pit” for the first three songs of each artist. Man, did I feel out of the loop.
I wanted to make sure that I was on time for the next show so that I could be there for the whole three songs and — who knows! — maybe take 11 photos instead of 10. Mac DeMarco came up next on the Green Stage, so I headed over to get in line. The day was only beginning, and I already felt overwhelmed, both mentally and physically. I was drenched in
sweat from the glaring sun, and I evidently had a lot to get the hang of.
But Mac DeMarco made none of that matter anymore. His goofy, free-spirited energy made me and the whole crowd so pumped up and excited to be there in this moment, and this whole week-end for that matter. Even while I was fighting my way through the crowded pit full of photographers to get the shots to do him justice, I caught myself smiling and laugh-ing and jamming out with him and his naturally great voice and stage persona. It was during this show that I encountered my first round of chills from P4K 2013. I walked out of that pit with literal “WOW”s spilling out of my mouth, even though I wasn’t really saying it to anyone in particular. He is awesome. This is awesome. Adren-aline rushed through my body as I reflected upon what had just hap-pened. Being a fan is a ton of fun, but being a photographer for the show — having a purpose, work-ing alongside all these artists, both the photographers in the pit and the ones performing onstage created for an energy — that was unexplainable.
The rest of my night followed in a similar fashion with more and more chills, albeit in a folksier way, as I attended Woods, Mikal Cronin and Joanna Newsom. Newsom’s ethereal serenades had everyone (especially me) under a spell. I photographed my three songs, got out and just lied down in the grass in the middle of all these people without knowing a soul. But I didn’t have to. Right there, in that moment, nothing else mattered. The peaceful tri-angle of intimacy between me and the crowd and Joanna New-som was pure magic. What I was doing was magic. Today was magic.
Day Two
I went into day two with a confidence that I had lacked the day before. I finally felt accus-tomed to the way things worked, where to go and when. The cool-est part was that this was actually starting to feel like the so-called “real world.” I wasn’t in some college fantasy land anymore; I was working alongside photo-journalists and reporters from all over the country from impor-tant publications. And yet we were all there, together, doing the same thing. For the first time ever, I felt like a real journalist, like what I was doing mattered
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too. Even cooler, the rapport between all of us “press people” finally started to incline. The quiet-keep-to-yourself attitude on Friday transformed into small talk in line for the pit, which led to some truly amazing conversa-tions and even some jokes in the pit. We started looking out for each other even when we were all tech-nically competing to get the best spot for photographs in the pit. And yet the only competition that existed was between us photog-raphers and those nasty security guards hounding us to get out of their space. We were all there for the same reason, and it felt like we were in it together.
My day began with White Lung, a hardcore punk rock band that fueled a mosh pit full of angst-fueled teens, followed by Julia Holter, who offered pretty much the polar opposite. Holter’s sooth-ing, experimental and ambient pop music left the crowd in a pleasant daze, especially being accompa-nied by a saxophonist that I found particularly intriguing —mean-ing I took a LOT of photos. Phos-phorescent came next, becoming a personal favorite of mine for its vibrant personalities and feel-good, deeply emotive tunes that made the band visually and audibly rich. While I was photographing during “Song for Zula,” my heart throbbed throughout the whole song.
Ryan Hemsworth, Solange, Belle & Sebastian and Rustie took up the rest of the day, which had honestly become a blur with the madness of rushing from show to show, and the complete state of awe I was in as a result of see-ing these people literally inches away from me. While I would have loved the opportunity to actually see these performances like the thousands of people watching with their plastic wine glasses in hand, I realized that I wouldn’t trade my three minutes of glory for any of it.
Day Three
Before I knew it, Sunday was already here. The big day. The day
jam packed with back-to-back huge acts. Well, huge to us Pitchforksi-ans, I suppose — you Lollapalooz-ers wouldn’t understand. From Foxygen to Lil B, Blood Orange to Glass Candy, Yo La Tengo to Sky Ferreira; from Toro Y Moi to M.I.A. and R. Kelly and finally TNGHT (deep breath) my mind was already blown before any of it even hap-pened. It was, however, also day three. The last day of Pitchfork for an entire year. I didn’t even want to think about it.
Luckily, I immediately spotted quite the distraction as I walked in. It was the beautiful Sky Fer-reira, standing outside the press tent getting interviewed. I. Needed. To. Take. Her. Picture. This was one opportunity that I could not pass up — so I waited anxiously for that damn interview to be done. After what seemed to be forever, Sky was finally free and I was quick to go over and introduce myself. As we started to talk, she was so down to earth that I almost forgot whom I was really talking to. She was just a normal person. She even sported a skirt that I own. Woah. Sky Fer-reira was just another person, like you and me. A person who also buys clothes from American Apparel — like me. I most definitely still had to take her picture. I didn’t want to be that annoying photographer/fan girl so I let her go after some time, but I couldn’t deny that she totally had made my day.
And then, my day was somehow made even better when Sam France and Jonathan Rado of Foxygen killed it on the Red Stage. France, with his zany expressiveness, had without a doubt the greatest stage presence I had seen at the festival yet. He climbed up the stage pillars, whipped his straggly hair around and danced until his pants nearly fell down. He was all over the place in the best way possible, and the band put on a show that was quite the workout to photograph, but incredibly fun nevertheless. As we left the pit, another photographer appropriately remarked, “Well that was something.”
With some time to spare before Blood Orange, I returned to the
Press Tent to charge some of my electronics when I noticed France and Rado just casually hanging out. Even though I was definitely over being starstruck, I couldn’t help but to go up and talk to them (and also take their picture). Sam’s crazy onstage energy was com-pletely switched off — he was just a laid back, chilled out dude. He, too, proved to me the ridiculousness of the word “famous” as we started talking about all the other cool acts occurring the rest of the day. Before leaving, I did get to snag some quirky photos of them doing the quirky things that they do. My smile couldn’t get any bigger at that point.
Next, Blood Orange at the Blue Stage was so groovy that, with all the happiness surging through my body at that moment, all I wanted to do was groove with them. The saxophonist from Julia Holter all of a sudden made a guest appear-ance, and we make immediately eye contact. He appeared again at Chairlift later in the day, fol-lowed by more eye contact. What was going on? This day was get-ting more bizarre by the minute.
Seeing Sky Ferreira passion-ately play next led me to gain even more respect for her. Later, standing next to the speakers, I’m pretty sure my eardrums ruptured during Lil B’s perfor-mance. The crowd was absolutely nuts, wilder than I had ever seen. People were getting thrown out left and right. It was definitely a sight to see, and definitely one to laugh at after we photographers were all out of the pit. Man, would I miss this
Time flew faster and faster. Toro Y Moi: Done. M.I.A.: Done. R. Kelly: Done. R. Kelly’s balloon birds released during “I Believe I Can Fly” flew away. Finally, the closing act of the night and weekend was here. TNGHT was finally here tonight. And we only got to photograph one single song before we were kicked out. So TNGHT was quickly checked off the list as well. Done. Along with the few photographers that were left during this final act,
I walked out of that pit for the last time, put my stuff down and just danced away all of the emo-tions I had at that moment. I was now done, too. Done with one of the most difficult weekends of my life. Done with one of the most inspiring weekends of my life. Done working side-by-side, minute-after-minute for the past three days. Done being inches away from the talented artists we got to photograph each day. Done with the music. Done with the heat. Done with the crowds. Done with the pit. Done with the smiles and laughter at things that only we photographers would under-stand. Done with the camaraderie. Done with the job. Done with this weekend. There were too many dones happening too fast. I was overwhelmed with feelings. I was already experiencing withdrawals before I had even left Union Park. I just didn’t want this all to end.
As I was walking out of TNGHT
in a daze, I ran into — who else? — the saxophonist that surfaced all weekend long, for whatever rea-son. He stopped me and we started talking. First, about the fact that he kept noticing me taking pic-tures of him. Oops. But it evolved into something much deeper — about life, and what we were doing with it, and why ... etc. He told me something that summed up the entire weekend for me: We can do great things if we do them together.
We can do great things if we do them together. This weekend was so meaningful to me because it was about just that: Collaborat-ing with others to create great-ness. Whether it was with the other photographers or the artists that we photographed or just any-one that I met. We were working together to create something tan-gible or intangible, a photograph, a feeling, a memory, a laugh, a song, a lesson — anything. All that matters is that we did it together.
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Exploring cultural differences in a
Chinese metropolisBy CARLINA DUAN
Daily Community Culture Editor
When I walk down Qingdao streets, skyscrapers shout down at me, regal in their red-capped roofs and earnest, glinting windows. In shopping centers, Chinese hip-hop blares. On my grandpa’s TV, an entertainment channel whirs with images of girls clunked in mascara and lipstick. Everywhere I turn: billboards of Chinese movie stars, glamorously dangling rolls of toilet paper; glamorously eating cans of peach yogurt; glamorously kissing one another on the cheek. This is Chinese pop culture at its finest. It is pop culture that has unmistakably filtered every public space, plas-tering itself on walls, on candy bar wrappers, on bathroom stalls.
I don’t know why I’m so sur-prised at finding reflections of the USA Hollywood scene everywhere in China. Perhaps it’s because my Western upbringing seems so out-of-place here. Whether I am in a potsticker restaurant, at the grocery store, or on the street, everybody stares, and I often get questioned whether or not I’m foreign. Over dinner the other night, my 25-year-old cousin scanned my face with hawkish eyes. “Are you wearing makeup?” she glared. “Yeah,” I said, a bit sheepishly. In high school in China, my cousins wore white slack-like uniforms to class everyday. No nail polish, jewelry, or makeup allowed. At some schools, a haircut was required for the girls — hair must be up to your chin, or shorter. When my sister and I hung out at the beach last week, nobody else wore bikinis. Girls don’t wear spaghetti straps here. Or show much skin.
Yet inside Chinese fashion magazines, I flip through pages of Chinese movie stars prancing on carpets with curled eyelashes, car-rying their lean, sharp frames with ease. It is eerie. Here, “beauty” in the Western sense — makeup, mas-sive amounts of jewelry, bare skin
— seems permitted only to the rich and the famous. Pop culture, then, resides very much on this exclu-sive right to be “beautiful,” to wear your hair down and loose across the shoulders, to walk with a sil-ver anklet jangling your every step, to wear lipstick with tones like, “Poppy” and “Criminal Red.”
Last week, my uncle and I took a walk to a park. “Would I be consid-ered fat in America?” he asked, half-jokingly, yet half-serious. “There’s not one person here who doesn’t call me fat,” he stepped on an aluminum can drifting in the dirt, “But I don’t think I’m that obese, am I?”
In China, body shape is a topic that is bluntly stated, rather than talked around, as I find it some-times is in the U.S. My aunts and uncles pinch my arms and tell me on a daily basis that I have thick legs. It is not an insult. Here, it is simple fact. An ordinary truth, true the way black cicadas here chirrup and chirrup endlessly at night. If a person is “fat,” they are called “fat.” If a person is “skin-ny,” they, too, are called “skinny.” Body shape is something that is remarked upon by relatives, acquaintances, close friends, co-workers. And not only body shape, but other bodily descriptors as well — skin tone, for example. A desire for tan skin is very, very rare. When I arrived to Qingdao, one of my aunts exclaimed at how “brown” I was. There is an enor-mous want for pure, “white” skin — so much so that men and women
alike carry umbrellas outside on a sunny day, to avoid getting tan and burnt.
It’s a different aesthetic appeal, and it makes me question how much of our conception of “beau-ty” is shaped by what culture we were raised by, and live in. I’m surprised by how much American influence has seeped into Chinese music, into fashion, into the street culture. English words and slang such as “party” and “swag” are incorporated into the everyday Chinese language, used primarily by 20-year-olds and high school-ers. Hipsters in hipster-glasses flock the Chinese coffee shops, which offer menu items such as “sweet red bean gelato,” and “vanilla ice cream waffle cakes.” Women wearing maxi dresses and glittery sandals swarm the 6-story malls, the forever-busy streets.
Yet, there’s still very much a Chinese element to “beauty” that inhabits its core. I am hyper-aware of the ways in which I dress and interact with the physical aes-thetic of the architecture and the people here. What I find “beauti-ful,” or lovable, or curious — is remotely different than what my Chinese cousins find. It’s not about reaching compromise, or settling for one version of beauty versus another. Rather, it’s about the cul-tural intricacies and history of a place, and what that place is teach-ing me about how I interact with my home, and with the new. It’s always, always about wonder.
By NATALIE GADBOISDaily Arts Writer
December 31, 2009: Oscar Grant hides a bag of marijuana down his pants before slipping a surprise pack of fruit snacks to his daughter at preschool. Oscar Grant snarls in the face of his former boss, demanding to be re-hired despite his history of lateness. Oscar Grant calls his mother to wish her a happy birthday, promising to buy the clams she wanted. Oscar is forced down on a train platform by two white cops and is fatally shot in the back. “Fruitvale Sta-tion”, directed by newcomer Ryan Coogler and starring Michael B. Jordan (“Hotel Noir”) as Oscar, gently follows this normal day for the passionate, mercurial and ultimately complex Oscar until his tragic finale.
The facts are straightforward and sadly prescient coming off the heels of the acquittal in the Trayvon Martin case: on New Years Day, 2009, Oscar Grant, an unarmed 22-year-old black man, was forced off a train for being involved in a fight and then shot in the back by white Bay Area cops.
This is the kind of story look-ing for a hero. A martyr to rally people of all races behind fighting racial prejudice. Instead, Jordan deftly portrays a complex man, caught between a family he loves and a beguiling lifestyle. The films meanders through Oscar’s last day as if no one knows the ending. The film simply shows a day in the life of an ordinary man, proving not that Oscar is defined by his death, but that his murder is so egregious because of it’s ran-domness, the lack of connection it has to who Oscar was and how he lived his life.
First-time writer and direc-tor Ryan Coogler, who grew up in the same area as Grant, uses commonplace dialogue and real-life locations to ground the film firmly in reality, avoiding setting Oscar up as a malleable symbol
for racial tension in the United States. Oscar is a young man — barely a man — who has a temper and listens to rap and spent time in jail and cheated on the mother of his daughter. He is imperfect. Jordan’s performance is not reve-latory; rather, you often forget that he is acting, that he is not really Oscar Grant going about his daily business.
The film is a misnomer as it is ostensibly about explosive race relations in America, but spends most of it’s time quietly exam-ining a mundane day in Oscar’s life. Unfortunately, the audience knows the catch. The emotional meat comes not from Oscar, but the women in his life. Melonie Diaz (“You, Me and the Circus”) and Octavia Spencer (“Smashed”) portray his longtime girlfriend Sophina and mother Wanda as they both fondly deal with erratic yet winsome Oscar and hours later react with tragic poise as they wade through the confusion and heartbreak that surrounds
his death. In movies, death is often
used as an opportunity to make speeches, to eulogize a person so much they become just a symbol. In “Fruitvale” Oscar’s death is not the death of an icon, a soon-to-be catalyst for racial change. His friends and family mourn him as a caring son, a jesting brother, a sincere friend, a playful father. The emotion is there, and it’s palpable the connection Coogler feels to this place and these char-acters, but the film let’s the story tell itself. No preachy narration or abstract artistry is necessary to create anger, because there is infuriating simplicity in a man killed for being the wrong race at the wrong time. “Fruitvale Sta-tion” allows us to get to know that man for who he was.
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11Thursday, August 1, 2013The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com SPORTS
Catching up with No. 1 overall pick Jake LongBy ALEXA DETTELBACH
Daily Sports Writer
In 133 years of Michigan football only two Wolverines have been selected with the No. 1 overall pick in the NFL Draft. There was running back Tom Harmon in the 1941 Draft, who was chosen by the Chicago Bears. Then a short 67 years later, left tackle Jake Long was selected No. 1 overall by the Miami Dolphins in 2008.
Long has had a successful NFL career thus far, having made four Pro Bowls in five seasons with the Dolphins. But the left tackle finds himself on a new team this season — the St. Louis Rams — after he left Miami in free agency this past offseason.
After being redshirted his first year on campus, Long took over the starting job at left tackle during his redshirt freshmen year and solidified the position for then-quarterback Chad Henne (now with the Jacksonville Jaguars) for four years. Long eventually became a two-time All-American, two-time Big Ten Offensive Lineman of the Year and a two-time First-Team All-Big Ten selection.
Long spoke with the Michigan Daily over the phone recently to talk about his time at school, reflecting on his five seasons with the Dolphins as well as transi-tioning to a new team and recov-ering from his offseason injury.
The Michigan Daily: You’ve had a hectic offseason with changing teams and recovering from injury, but what was it like to make the decision to move to
St. Louis? And what has the tran-sition been like after spending the first five years of your career with the Miami Dolphins?
Jake Long: The transition has been going great. I had an oppor-tunity to come up here and take a visit, meet with the Rams and coach (Jeff) Fisher. I really fell in love with his philosophy and really wanted to be a part of his team and part of the Rams organization because I felt like it was a team that was going somewhere, going to do something and I wanted that, so I picked here. It was a great fit for my wife and I, and I’m just really happy to be here.
TMD: What are your initial impressions of your new team and coach Fisher?
Long: It’s a team on the rise, you know, they did some great things last year and are only get-ting better. I think coach Fisher is a coach every player would love to play for. This team is young, energetic and hungry and made some moves in the offseason, and I think with a lot of work we can do some great things this year.
TMD: You have Ohio State-alum linebacker James Lau-rinaitis as a teammate on the Rams — and you used to play with wide receiver Brian Hartline on the Dolphins — what’s that like? Do the old college rivalries ever resurface in the locker room?
Long: Yeah we mess around and talk about it every now and then, especially when The Game comes on and we bring up some memo-ries. Brian Hartline was a great player, great teammate, and James — I went up against him when we were in college. He was a great
player and now with the Rams he’s a great leader and I’m excited to play with him.
TMD: You’re about to play in a tough NFC West division. What are your predictions for the Rams this season?
Long: It really is a tough division and that’s fun to be a part of because you can test yourself against the best players and the best teams, and that shows you what type of team you are. You want to go against the best in every single game and that’s lucky. People will come and play the best on your team and I think we can do some great things. I’m not a guy that predicts wins or losses, but I think we’re going to get better every single day, work hard in practice and I think we can do some great things this year.
TMD: How did the culture of Michigan Football prepare you for the NFL?
Long: Having (former Michi-gan) coach (Lloyd) Carr — he is a father figure to everyone. He turned boys into men and just
taught you to do the right thing. He taught you to practice hard and just carry yourself in the right way in everyday life and in the NFL. I learned a lot from him. I also learned a lot from the alumni at Michigan, but he really prepares you. If you listen to him and take
everything he told us to heart, that would make you a better person, better player and so I think that’s helped me out in the NFL.
FILE PHOTO/DailyFormer offensive tackle Jake Long discusses his NFL career and time at Michgan.
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12 Thursday, August 1, 2013The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.comSPORTS
Michigan alum, Nick Willis, to host Elite Mile for a chance at breaking state of Michgan record
By NATE SELL Daily Sports Writer
In 1954 Roger Bannister was the first man to run a mile in under four minutes — something that was thought to be impos-
sible. Four laps in four minutes was believed to be the absolute threshold for human fitness for many years, but that all changed with Bannister.
Now, running a mile in under four minutes is no longer elusive
— it’s become a benchmark for elite runners.
The question is no longer if faster than four minutes is possible, but how much faster than four minutes is possible.
On August 4, a collection of
elite runners — many of whom have broken that four-minute barrier — will gather just outside of Michigan’s campus at Saline High School’s track to participate in the Running Institute Mile. Former Wolverine track athlete Nick Willis is responsible for putting everything together and creating a race that has drawn world-class runners from Oregon and Colorado, to New York and Ann Arbor.
When the US is finished with track season in June, there are no more elite races for athletes to compete in without going over-seas to Europe. This was a prob-lem for Willis, who could not make it to Europe, but wanted to compete before heading into the World Championships. The solu-tion was simple — he would create an elite race right in his home-town of Ann Arbor and also take a shot at breaking the record for the fastest mile run in the state of Michigan. The record is cur-rently held by former Michigan track star Kevin Sullivan, with a time of 3.55. Willis admitted that Sullivan was one of his heroes growing up and was a big reason he chose to run for Michigan.
“Sullivan was a legend from U of M, so it would be nice to have a crack at that,” Willis said. “It gives the crowd something to look forward to. To say, ‘Wow, we just saw the fastest race ever run in the state of Michigan,’ espe-cially on a high school track, in a local town like Saline.”
When news spread that Willis would be hosting an elite race to prepare for the World Champion-ships and attempt to set a state record, there were plenty of run-ners interested.
“I know a lot of these runners and they respect my running, so they trust it will be a high-quality race if I’m in it as well,” Willis said.
The respect from his fellow runners is well earned. Willis has competed in three Olympic Games, winning silver in the 1,500-meter run in 2008 and bearing New Zealand’s flag for the opening ceremony in 2012. While competing for Michigan
from 2003-2005, he was a five-time NCAA All American, three-time Big Ten Champion and two-time NCAA Champion.
It also helps that the Running Institute in Ann Arbor will be sponsoring the race and providing prize money to the first five finishers.
The runners who make the trip to Ann Arbor will be treated well. Willis is hoping to show them just how great the city and Michigan’s campus is.
“We’re going to show them out to some restaurants the night before and the night after and give them a dose of what Ann Arbor is like in the summer,” Willis said. “It’s the best place in the world in my opinion, so hopefully they feel the same way.”
If there is enough community support and general interest, Willis has goals of making this the first of an annual competition. Having this race every year would be a huge advantage for American runners who would otherwise head into the World Championships without a tune-up race. It also has implications for recruiting and the future of Michigan track.
“It’s always good for recruiting when they know that this is a town that supports high-level completion in our sport,” Willis said. “It just gives a bit more credibility when high schoolers are thinking of where they want to go. Do they want to go to Tulsa, Oklahoma or Ann Arbor where a world-class mile was run?”
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