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QUESTIONS
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He finished with 32 completions
for 451 yards and four touch-
downs while running for another
score, his best game in more than
a month and a half despite suffer-
ing an undisclosed injury during
the game that required a boot on
his left foot.
This new offense - this new
team - should be a positive, but
it's not. More than anything, it's
maddening. Frustrating. Down-
right unacceptable for a program
that's supposed to hold itself to a
high standard.
This ingenuity on offense
should have happened two
months ago. The last game of
the season isn't when we should
be seeing potential. It's when
we should be seeing the finished
product, with a few added wrin-
kles here and there.
It's not when the entire offense
should be revamped.
After the game, fifth-year
senior offensive tackle Taylor
Lewan said, "We played our
hearts out. Every single one of us.
That's what this team is going to
do from now on."
FRAGMENTS
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centuries, five countries and
will include all types of objects,
from bowls to figurines. How-
ever, this exhibit seeks to give a
broader overview of Islamic art
than other temporary exhibitions
might.
"It's really just to give a taste of
some of the collections we have,
andyes, itisbroad,"Johnsonsaid.
Think of this exhibition an
introductory course in Islamic
art that prepares you for more
advanced classes. In January,
there will be a showcase of art
and architecture from the man-
sion, appropriately titled "Shan-
gri-La: Architecture, Landscape,
and Islamic Art," of famed art
collector Doris Duke.
Then, Christiane Gruber, asso-
ciate professor of Islamic art,
who recently organized a sympo-
sium onthe art of the Arab Spring
* uprisings, will be curating a more
in-depth exhibition of Islamic art
next fall. As part of her exhibi-
tion, Professor Gruber will show-
case pieces that cannot be shown
in the transparent Stenn Gallery.
"It's all glass, and it has very
high light levels, so any of our
wood objects, any of our textiles,
From now on? It's December.
There's one game - a mediocre,
bowl-everyone-forgets-in-five-years
type ofgame -leftintheseason.
It was initially encouraging
to see this Michigan team. Hav-s
ing the ball with a chance to win
the game with less than a minute
left is more than mostanyone was
expecting.
But where has this sense of
urgency been for the last two
months? This offense combined
for 501 total yards in three losses
to Michigan State, Nebraska and
Iowa. On Saturday, the Wolver-
ines had 603.
"We got ready to play," Hoke
said after the game. "Had a good
plan. We executed better, we
blocked better. There's a lot of
things we did better."
A reporter followed up and
askedifitwasreallyjustthatsim-
ple. Hoke said, "At the end of the
day, yeah," which is just not true.
He knowsit, I knowitandso does
anyone who has watched a Mich-
igan football game this season.
This wasn't the same offense.
It wasn't like the players execut-
ed the same game plan they've
been struggling with since being
demolished in East Lansing.
They executed better, yes, but
they executed a better offense,
one that had wrinkles that
weren't entirely predictable and
plays that Michigan hasn't run at
all this season. Borges called for a
throwback screen to a freshman
tight end, Jake Butt. We didn't
see anything remotely like that
before Ohio State.
That doesn't make any sense.
There's no point of saving your
best for the last game of the sea-
son when every foreseeable goal
is out of reach. There was no
more Big Ten to win, nor a10-win
plateau to reach. Whynotgo balls
to the wall and take some risks
before this game?
That'swhyit's hardto feelgood
aboutagame like Saturday, to pull
out some sliver of redemption on
this lost season, when so many
what-ifs come of it. That's why
Borges's job shouldn'tbe saved -
it should be more in question.,
What if Michigan had this
playbook forthe lasttwo months?
What if this offense pulls off
some close wins instead of los-
inginthe last minute to Nebraska
and Penn State?
What if this was the team
Michigan could have been all
along, but we didn't see it until
the last game of the year?
Political rally leaves
dozens injured in Kiev
the light levels are too high,"
Johnson said. "So we could only
show things that are metal, are
glass, are ceramics."
But with the only constraint
being a material one, Johnson
had a wide variety of pieces to
pick from while curating the
exhibit. She followed the inter-
ests of the family who originally
brought the pieces to the Univer-
sity. According to Johnson, much
of the collection was collected
by former University president
Alexander Grant Ruthven and
the Ruthven family. Ruthven
focused on the aesthetic - the
big, beautiful objects that had
very ornate details.
"That's kind of how we chose
some of our pieces, for their aes-
thetic quality, the beauty of the
objects even though they were
used for everyday use," Johnson
said.
The title of the exhibit -
"Fragments of the Past" - is
appropriate as many of the pieces
are literally fragments of larger
objects worn from use.
"There are a number of glass
shards that have very intricate
detail on them, but they still give
clues to the cultural background
of the pieces, the influence of cul-
ture," Johnson said.
It isn't that surprising that
somethinglike aglassbowlmight
beveryintricate and detailed. But
even objects used for more rigor-
ous tasks were endowed with
beautybytheir creators.
"There are these beautiful
ceramic filters, and there's very
ornate detail on them, but they
were used to filter the Nile,"
Johnson said. "The Nile is, and
always has been, very dirty, so
it's a very functional piece, but
you also see that the artisan gave
amazing attention to that."
The artisans of the Islamic
world endowed the mundane
objects of their daily lives with
beauty. Now, "Fragments of the
Past," will take these objects
and appreciate them for the art
that they are and always have
been.
At the very least, this exhibi-
tion will allow viewers to appre-
ciate Islamic art as it exists
beyond the mosques and mosaics.
But after appreciating the beauty
of a humble water filter, perhaps
viewers will appreciate the beau-
ty of the mundane objects of the
present.
"It's kind of this dialogue
that's happening from the past
to the present in response, and
I thinks that's something that's
really important at the Univer-
sity," Johnson said.
Police disperse
crowds with tear
gas and flash
grenades
KIEV, Ukraine (AP) - A
protest by about 300,000
Ukrainians angered by their
government's decision to
freeze integration with the
West turned violent Sunday,
when a group of demonstra-
tors besieged the presi-
dent's office and police
drove them back with trun-
cheons, tear gas and flash
grenades. Dozens of people
were injured.
The mass rally in central
Kiev defied a government ban
on protests on Independence
Square, in the biggest show
of anger over President Vik-
tor Yanukovych's refusal to
sign a political and economic
agreement with the European
Union.
The protesters also were
infuriated by the violent dis-
persal of a small, opposition
rally two nights before.
While opposition leaders
called for a nationwide strike
and prolonged peaceful street
protests to demand that the
government resign, several
thousand people broke away
and marched to Yanukovych's
nearby office.
A few hundred of them,
wearing masks, threw rocks
and other objects at police and
attempted to break through the
police lines with a front loader.
After several hours of clashes,
riot police used force to push
them back.
Dozens of people with what
appeared to be head injuries
were taken awayby ambulance.
Several journalists, including
some beaten by police, were
iijured in the clashes.
"Opposition leaders
denounced the clashes as a
provocation aimed at discredit-
ing the peaceful demonstration
and charged that the people
who incited the storming of the
presidential office were gov-
ernment-hired thugs.
Several opposition lead-
ers, including world boxing
champion Vitali Klitschko,
walked over to Yanukovych's
office to urge protesters
to return to Independence
Square. Order appeared to
have been restored by Sunday
night, with rows of riot police
standing guard behind metal
fences.
Some protesters then headed
to Yanukovych's residence out-
side Kiev, but their cars were
stopped by police.
Speaking before the vast
crowds on Independence
Square from the roof of a bus,
the opposition leaders demand-
ed that Yanukovych and his
government resign.
"Our plan is clear: It's not a
demonstration, it's not a reac-
tion. It's a revolution," said
Yuriy Lutsenko, a former inte-
rior minister who is now an
opposition leader.
Chants of "revolution"
resounded across a sea of yel-
low and blue Ukrainian and
EU flags on the square, where
the government had prohibited
rallies starting Sunday. Thou-
sands of protesters remained
late into the evening and some
were preparing to spend the
night on the square.
The demonstration was by
far the largest since the pro-
tests began more than a week
ago and it carried echoes of
the 2004 Orange Revolution,
when tens of thousands came
to the square nightly for weeks
and set up a tent camp along
the main street leading to the
square.
The opposition leaders urged
Ukrainians from all over the
country to join the protests in
the capital.
"Our future is being decid-
ed here in Kiev," Klitschko
said.
Ukrainian lawmakers meet
Monday for consultations and
planned to hold a parliament
session Tuesday. The opposi-
tion is hoping to muster enough
votes to oust Prime Minister
Mykola Azarov's Cabinet after
several lawmakers quit Yanu-
kovych's Party of Regions in
protest.
The U.S. Embassy issued a
joint statement from U.S. and
EU ambassadors encouraging
Ukrainians to resolve their
differences peacefully and
urging "all stakeholders in the
political process to establish
immediate dialogue to facili-
tate a mutually acceptable
resolution to the current dis-
cord."
Protests have been held
daily in Kiev since Yanu-
kovych backed away from an
agreement that would have
established free trade and
deepened political coopera-
tion between Ukraine and
the EU. He justified the deci-
sion by saying that Ukraine
couldn't afford to break trade
ties with Russia.
The EU agreement was to
have been signed Friday and
since then the protests have
gained strength.
"We are furious," said
62-year-old retired business-
man Mykola Sapronov, who
was among the protesters Sun-
day. "The leaders must resign.
We want Europe and freedom."
As the demonstrators
approached Independence
Square and swept away
metal barriers from around
a large Christmas tree set
up in the center, all police
left the square. About a
dozen people then climbed
the tree to hang EU and
Ukrainian flags from its
branches.
Several hundred demon-
strators never made it to the
square. Along the way they
burst into the Kiev city admin-
istration building and occu-
pied it, in defiance of police,
who tried unsuccessfully to
drive them away by using tear
gas.
The EU agreement had been
eagerly anticipated by Ukraini-
ans who want their country of
45 million people to break out
of Moscow's orbit. Opinion sur-
veys in recent months showed
about 45 percent of Ukrainians
supporting closer integration
with the EU and a third or less
favoring closer ties with Rus-
sia.
Moscow tried to block the
deal with the EU by banning
some Ukrainian imports and
threatening more trade sanc-
tions. A 2009 dispute between
Kiev and Moscow on gas prices
resulted in a three-week cutoff
of gas to Ukraine.
Yanukovych was traveling
to China for a state visit this
week. Afterward, the president
planned to visit Russia and
reach agreement on normaliz-
ing trade relations, Azarov said
Sunday.
For Yanukovych, memories
of the Orange Revolution are
still raw.
Those protests forced the
annulment of a fraud-tainted
presidential election in which
he was shown to have won the
most votes. A rerun of the elec-
tion was ordered, and he lost
to Western-leaning reformist
Viktor Yushchenko.
Yanukovych was elected
president five years later, nar-
rowly defeating then-Prime
Minister Yulia Tymoshen-
ko, the leading figure of the
Orange Revolution.
Tymoshenko was sentenced
to seven years imprisonment
in 2011 for abuse of office, a
case that the West has widely
criticized as political revenge.
The EU had set Tymoshenko's
release, or at least her free-
dom to go to Germany for
treatment of a severe back
problem, as a key criterion for
signing the association pact
with Ukraine.
The prospect of freeing his
archenemy was deeply unat-
tractive to Yanukovych, who
comes up for re-election in
early 2015.
DeWoif killed during
robbery, suspects say
Detroit Free Press
obtains statements
of arrested S.C. men
ANN ARBOR, Mich. (AP) -
Two suspects in the fatal shoot-
ing of a University of Michigan
medical student say they sneaked
into Paul DeWolf's basement
bedroom at his medical frater-
nity during a burglary attempt
and that his shooting was unin-
tended, according to police state-
ments.
The Detroit Free Press report-
ed Sunday that it obtained police
statements from two men jailed
on murder and home invasion
charges in the death of Paul
DeWolf, a 25-year-old prospec-
tive surgeon whose body was
found July 24.
According to the statements,
the suspects and a third man
not yet charged in the case broke
into Phi Rho Sigma medical fra-
ternity and entered DeWolf's
basement bedroom, startling
him.
DeWolf went to get some-
thing from his dresser and one
of the suspects tried to strike
him with the gun, but it fired
instead, according to the state-
ments. Ann Arbor police Detec-
tive Katie Nucci recounted the
statements at a Nov. 22 warrant
hearing for Joei Jordan, 20, and
Shaquille Jones, 21, the newspa-
per said.
Using data about astolen com-
puter, investigators tracked Jor-
dan to Sumter County, S.C., and
Jones to North Charleston, S.C.
A third suspect accused of fir-
ing the gun is jailed in Michigan
on a bond violation in another
case but hasn't been charged in
DeWolf's killing.
DeWolf was a native of School-
craft in southwestern Michigan
and a graduate of Grand Valley
State University. He was attend-
ing medical school on an Air
Force scholarship and held the
rank of second lieutenant.
In her testimony, Nucci said
Jordan entered through an
open rear window as Jones and
the third man remained out-
side. Jordan emerged a short
time later with a PlayStation
3, taken from a basement rec-
reation room in the house and
hidden in his backpack, the
detective said.
Jordan climbed back through
the window and let the other
two in through a rear door,
Jones told detectives. Eventu-
ally, they ended up in the base-
ment, where they hid ina utility
closet when they heard two stu-
dents coming down a hallway,
Nucci testified.
The three of them then made
their way to the room where
DeWolf lived and entered.
Jones said DeWolf got out of
bed "and was asking what was
going on," the detective testified.
She said Jones told investigators
that the third suspect "pulled out
a handgun and pointed it" at the
medical student and "ordered
DeWolf not to move."
"At some point DeWolf
grabbed something off of his
desk and/or drawer" and started
to move toward the third sus-
pect, at which time the man
"raised the gun and attempted to
strike DeWolf with the gun, and
the gun at that time fired."
DeWolf screamed, and the
suspects ran off, Nucci testified.
The next court dates are
Thursday for Jones and Dec. 12
for Jordan.
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