sday, July 3,2014 Thur 101 The P N 1 NEW YORK - What Nstarted as a table of six was down to one. For more than four hours, John Beilein sat there. With Nik Stauskas, his parents, his brother and his agent, Beilein sat there, waiting, hoping for each of his former D 'I players to hear DANIEL their names. FELDMAN He knew Stauskas would hear his first. And when he did, when the Sacramento Kings selected him eighth overall, Beilein stood and applauded. "It was great," Beilein said. "We started that recruiting process . four years ago with them. And to have them be in this situation, none of us could have ever dreamed it would have gone this well for him. It's a little bit of a fairytale for him." With one player down, he collected a Kings hat and waited for his next player to be selected. Throughout the night, if you were followingthe draft on Twitter, you were expecting Yahoo Sports' Adrian Wojnarowski to reveal the next draft pick before it happened. John Beilein wasn't aware of that. Minutes before the Oklahoma City Thunder picked Mitch McGary with the 21st pick, Beilein took to Twitter to warn the Michigan faithful to prepare for another Wolverines to appear on rsday, July 3, 2014 Michigan Daily - michigandaily.com - -s eiems re us to ea ve Thursday, July 3, 2014 The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.com 13 University museum opens exhibit 'U' research suggests new on passenger pigeon extinction approach to treatment of diabetes for older patients _I the board. Was Beilein just being hopeful? Was he trolling Twitter? Or did he know something we didn't? "We talk to a lot of people in the process, so I made the bold prediction there that it was coming up pretty soon," Beilein said after the fact. "When you talk to different people, you find out different things. It was great." With another Wolverine on the board, Beilein collected another hat. The count was at two. By this point, the attendance at the table started to fall. With Stauskas done with interviews, he departed the Barclays Center. Soon after, Nik's father and brother were gone too. Nik's agent soon followed. Eventually, Nik's mother "W het left as well. All that was these ti left was Beilein. With Glenn Up ... 'it Robinson III suddenly falling day at th deeper and deeper into the second round, Beilein remained. Finally, with the 10th pick in the second round, Robinson's name was announced. As the lone representative of Michigan and for Robinson in the building, Beilein was given a Minnesota Timberwolves' hat as he smiled into an ESPN camera, saying "Go Blue" to the audience at home. With now three hats to his name, Beilein remained in his seat. While all the Michigan players expected to be drafted off the Ln h 'i e board, Beilein was still holding out for one more pick. One more hat. And so Beilein sat, hoping to hear Jordan Morgan's name resonate throughout the arena and out of televisions across the world. It was suddenly 11:45 p.m., and the last 10 or so picks remained. Beilein finally got up. So did I. Around the Barclays Center bowels I walked, hoping to run into this true Michigan Man that was finally leaving his post for the night. At 11:50 p.m. I found him. "Do you have any time for an interview?" I would have understood if he didn't. He had been supporting his __ players all day, and I'm sure I hold the last thing he wanted to ree hats do was hash over what had s a good unfolded. But instead, office.' " Beilein wanted to talk. "How are you?" he asked. We walked around the basement level of the Barclays Center with his arm over my shoulder. In my opposite hand, I held a recorder. In his, the three hats. Beilein knew there were still 10 picks to go, but none of the teams left had worked Morgan out. "I tried to stay as long as I could with Jordan," he said. We continued to walk, reflecting on the night's events and the selection of the trio of sophomores. "These youngmen have worked really hard to work to get to this point," Beilein said. "Our staff has done a great job of developing them. And when I hold these three hats up, (I can say) 'it's a good day at the office - a really good day at the office."' As we rounded the corner of the floor, Beilein decided he finally had to leave. "I have to go," he said. "Where's the exit?" It was nearly midnight. John Beilein finally left the building. Feldman can be reached atdanieljf@umich.edu or on Twittradanfoldeman NBA Draft picks outof Michiganthe past twn amr "nl i" irCaiircAir 2 2013 Michigan draft picks who madethe NBA's All-Rookie first team this season. ALLISON FARRAND/Daily A passenger pigeon specimen on display in the University's Museum of Natural History Once abundant, demise tells story of human impact on the environment By IAN DILLINGHAM Editor in Chief In 1800, the world's human population had yet to hit one bil- lion. However, in North America, it was estimated that there were between three and five billion passenger pigeons. Now extinct, the species is making its post- humous resurgence at museums around the country this year, including one in Ann Arbor. September 1 will mark the hun- dredth anniversary ofthe death of the passenger pigeon Martha, the last known living member of her species. In remembrance of the event, the University's Museum of Natural History is opening a new exhibit chronicling the life and demise of the species. The exhibit will focus on the species' presence and subsequent extinction, as well as its impact specifically in the state of Michi- gan. However, the ornitholo- gists and environmentalists who pushed for its development also wanted to demonstrate a broad- er theme about the historically destructive tendencies of human behavior in North America. Eugene Dillenburg, assistant director for exhibits at the Muse- um of Natural History, said the story of the bird could serve as a lesson - and a warning - of the potential for humans to drastical- ly impact the environment around them. Starting in the 1800s, settlers in the eastern United States began hunting the pigeons, primarily for their meat. While the birds had previously been hunted by Native Americans, the increased strain on the population from the set- tlers led to their rapid demise. "It was an abundant and cheap source of protein," Dillenburg said. "Free food from the sky - so in the space of about 40 years it was hunted to extinction." By about 1880, the pigeon, which by many accounts was the most abundant bird on the planet at the beginning of the century, was hunted to virtual extinction. The few living specimens were primarily confined to zoos and private sanctuaries as individu- als began to realize the lasting impact of such hunting practices. However, efforts to revitalize the population proved fruitless. Martha, who was believed to be the last living member of the spe- cies, died at the Cincinnati Zoo on September 1, 1914. Dillenburg compared the rapid extinction to "waking up one morning and finding that all the trees in Michigan were gone." "A lot of animals have gone extinct over time," Dillenburg said. "What's unique about the pigeon - other than going from the most numerous animal to extinction - is that we know the date. So often an animal becomes rarer and rarer and, at some point, people say, 'We haven't seen one in a while; it must have gone extinct.' Here we know the exact date that the last one died." The exhibit features artistic panels by Art and Design alum Kaisa Ryding. She got involved with the project during her stud- ies at the University and worked on the design over the course of several months. "My experience with the proj- ect allowed me to truly under- stand the impact of human development on wildlife and the environment, and how important conservation of native wildlife is to local ecologies," Ryding wrote in a statement. "Humans really did have a direct and harmful impact on the passenger pigeon, and did so out of ignorance of how much they could decimate its population." Though a small contingent of conservationists attempted to stop hunting efforts as the pigeon's population began to drop, scientists now believe the abundance of the specices was key to its survival. Once its num- bers began to fall, the birds may have been doomed to their inevi- table demise. "The passenger pigeons relied on their large populations so much that when their population was reduced to the thousands, they could not function as a flock, and very quickly died out after that," Ryding wrote. Despite this theory, some sci- entists are exploring radical new measures to resurrect the species dubbed "de-extinction" projects. Using genetic sequences acquired through samples taken from pre- served passenger pigeon speci- mens, these researchers believe they can, over time, reintroduce See PIGEONS, Page 8 A r researc health( the tre diagno The soredt erans . Center Resear side ef outwei for pat The Monda ican M Medici nal pr researc Inte eep Vi the Ce ment Arbor as the Vijan s was to tial be side ef and to are lea in thei ment. "Th tion us cal tri a mod( develo in indi factors els, blo ne( tra Study reveals levels. 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