Monday, July 23,2012 io ~~~~Monday, July 23, 2012 Te e _N v w&rmihgnalco The Michigan Daily - michigandailycom Novartis MS Education Link Hear Evanthia Bernitsas, MD discuss information about multiple sclerosis (MS) and a prescription treatment option. July 26, 2012 6:00pm Zingermans Roadhouse 2501 Jackson Road Ann Arbor, MI 48103 Please RSVP by July 25, 2012 by calling 800-973-0362. Light food and beverages served. 6NOV ARTIS Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation © 2011 Novartis 9/11 T-XMG-1099611 Monday, 23, 2012 The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.com 13 Stunning 'Dark' excels Students place the battery pack into Quantum on Day 3 of the race. 'U' solar car team takes 4th consecutive national win WARNER BROS. 'Pimp My Ride' hooked me up. 'Knight Rises' to new heights in Nolan's final installment ByKAYLA UPADHYAYA Senior Arts Editor h To say that the final install- ment of Christopher Nolan's ("Inception") Batman trilogy goes out with a bang would be ***** misleading. Yes, things go boom. The Dark Yes, Hans Zim- M mer's score - more frenetic At Qual"y16 than ever - bor- and Rave ders on manic, reaching deaf- Hater Bros ening levels. But it's at its quietest when "The Dark Knight Rises" truly astounds. It's in whispered monologues that the characters make their most indel- ible, potent utterances. "A storm is coming," Anne Hathaway's Selina Kyle purrs. Before that stormarrives,we're shown a post-Batman Gotham. Organized crime is down, and the caped crusader once hailed the city's hero has been made the enemy, blamed for the death of the man Gotham remembers as their white knight. Eccentric bil- lionaire Bruce Wayne (Christian Bale, "The Fighter") has taken to the shadows to nurse his physi- cal and metaphysical wounds, as his batsuit gathers dust. But Kyle awakens Mr. Wayne to the gath- ering storm. A calculating, cool catburglar, she poses somewhat of a threat, but is nothing stacked up against the behemoth Bane (Tom Hardy, "Warrior"). Despite ever-loyal manservant Alfred Pennyworth's (Michael Caine, "Inception") deepest pleas, Bat- man gets back in the game. There's nothing sleek or intri- cate about Batman and Bane's encounters. They brawl with brutish, bone-crunching feroc- ity. Hardy's sheer immensity is astounding, and Nolan's liberal interpretation of the character makes for one hell of a movie vil- lain. While Heath Ledger's won- derfully twisted Joker was an agent of chaos, Badie is something entirely different. He's pure evil, a terrorist dead set on unleashing America's worst nightmare upon itself. See DARK KNIGHT, Page 11 Poor weather much more complex than sim- ply driving a car. In total, the conditions caused race involves seven University vehicles - lead car, chase car, a difficulties, not semi-trailer, media car, scout car, -r e a weather car and, of course, the detrimental solar car. Frantz said all of these cars By GIACOMO BOLOGNA and work in a concerted effort to pro- KAITLYN BYRNE duce the most efficient driving ManagingEditor andFor the Daily possible by sending information to a computerized control center The University's solar car in the chase car. Recommenda- team set a new record in the tions based on these results are American Solar Challenge on then radioed to the driver of the Saturday, crossing the finish line solar car. in St. Paul, Minn. 10 hours and 18 Engineering sophomore minutes before any other com- Rohan Shah drove the car to its. petitor. last stop in St. Paul, where he The team delivered the said he and the rest of the team University's seventh national ran out of their cars to celebrate championship in the event, the University's seventh national which has been held 11 times championship. since 1990. "It was an amazing experi- Engineering senior Jordan ence," Shah said. "It felt awe- Feight, the team's race manager, some." said he communicated between Shah said the race was not all divisions throughout the race fun and games. He said there to make sure they were hitting were five and a half hours of dif- their time marks and credited a ficult driving through turbulent team effort for the victory. weather with strategists advis- "Near Erie, there were tor- ing drivers by earpiece. rential downpours where a few He added that even though teams got stuck, and we pow- he's practiced driving the car in ered through when essentially the rain before, the low visibility no other team was able to do it," caused by the hour and a half of Feight said. "This was a huge heavy rain they drove through advantage for the rest of the race Saturday made parts of the ride as well." particularly difficult. Engineering senior Aaron "I have to take more precau- Frantz, the team's opera- tion to make sure the tires are on tions director, said the race is the road at all times, take turns slowly and think about a lot more things when driving in the rain (as opposed to) driving on dry roads," Shah said. With no windshield wipers on the car, Shah said he had to almost totally rely on his chase car to tell him to turn slightly left or right or to slow down for oncoming traffic. "They're talking to me every couple of minutes - sending status checks and asking how everything is going," Shah said. "I owe them a lot because they're the ones that protected me on the road and made sure that I drove properly throughout." Shah said staying on the road throughout the race was the trade-off he faced for not driving as fast as he would've liked Sat- urday, while a lot of teams were trying to go, or break, the speed limit. By Saturday morning, though, speed was hardly a concern for the University's team. "We knew we would win the race today," Shah said. "We just did what we usually do - just get to the finish line first." He said the team is now look- ing forward to the World Solar Challenge in Australia, where Shah recalled that they've only managed to come in third place in the past. "Next year we want to' make sure we actually win it," he said. "We are a capable team - capa- ble of being the best." '