LSA junior Heather Martin
was just 17 when her older
sister Angie fatally overdosed in
their family home, following a
seven-year struggle with opiate
addiction.
Martin
said
her
sister,
throughout her life, was always
a bubbly, amiable person. As
The captains of the Michigan
football team and women’s
basketball team, as well as
former men’s basketball Fab
Five member Jimmy King, were
among those present at the first-
ever Maizefest Homecoming
Pep Rally Friday evening on the
Diag.
The crowd, made up of
alumni, students and athletic
staff, cheered and celebrated
before the homecoming game
against
the
University
of
Illinois, and went wild when
the parents of head football
coach Jim Harbaugh appeared
on stage.
Celebrating their Wolverine
pride, they chanted, “Who’s got
it better than us? Nobody!”
The festivities, which also
featured
appearances
by
student performance groups,
fraternities,
athletes
and
famous alumni, were hosted by
the Michigan Spirit Association
and
sponsored
by
Central
Student
Government,
the
Alumni Association and the
Athletic Department, among
others.
Featured
performances
included the percussion group
Groove, the a cappella groups
G-Men
and
Amazin’
Blue,
the diabolo team Revolution
Chinese Yoyo and a presentation
by the Bicentennial Advisory
Committee.
MSA vice president Cameron
Dotson, a Kinesiology senior,
said the idea for the pep rally
came after meeting with various
students during last year’s CSG
election, when he ran as the vice
presidential nominee for the
Your Michigan party.
During the campaign, Dotson
said he discovered how aspects
of campus like a new football
coach and a revitalized athletic
program helped instill a great
deal of school spirit among
students, making him want to
create a way for students from
diverse student organizations
and
backgrounds
to
come
together in their passion for the
University.
“I really wanted to bring
something to the University,
to get people excited and bring
something that would last on
campus for years to come,”
Dotson said.
Many alumni present at the
pep rally, such as alum John
Varterasian,
a
Birmingham
resident,
said
they
were
surprised by the increase in
different
types
of
student
organizations.
“They have a lot of different
groups,
different
variety
and lot of groups as alumni I
really didn’t know existed,”
Varterasian said. “So I thought
it was pretty informative and
Halfway through the fourth
quarter,
sophomore
Karan
Higdon broke loose down the
right sideline and cut inward
at Illinois’ 10-yard line while
dodging
defenders,
leaping
into the end zone for the No. 3
Michigan football team’s final
score of the game.
It was just one highlight
on a successful day for the
Wolverines
(4-0
Big
Ten,
7-0
overall).
Two
weeks
after crushing Rutgers 78-0,
Michigan picked up where it left
off, holding the Fighting Illini
(1-3, 2-5) to just 172 yards to win
41-8 on Saturday at Michigan
Stadium.
Redshirt
sophomore
quarterback
Wilton
Speight
had one of his best games of
the season, going 16-for-23 for
253 yards and two touchdowns.
Higdon
impressed
as
well,
leading the running backs with
106 yards, 45 of which came on
his touchdown run.
“The entire game, I thought
Wilton Speight may have had
one of his best games,” said
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NEWS......................... 2A
OPINION.....................4A
A R T S . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 A
SUDOKU..................... 2A
CL ASSIFIEDS...............6A
SPORTSMONDAY. . . . . . . . .1B
See OPIOIDS, Page 3A
AMANDA ALLEN/Daily
Members of the Michigan Mudbowl Club and Pi Kappa Phi participate in the 83rd annual Mudbowl, held at the former Sigma Alpha Epsilon house Saturday.
More
than
1,500
people
crammed into the confines of the
front yard of the former Sigma
Alpha Epsilon fraternity house
on Saturday morning to watch
one of the most time-honored
fall traditions, for what could be
the last time, at the University
of Michigan: the 83rd annual
Mudbowl.
The annual tradition, meant
to raise money for C.S. Mott
Children’s Hospital, used to be
organized by the fraternity SAE.
The
University
of
Michigan
banned SAE in 2015 over hazing
allegations so SAE no longer
officially hosts the event, but the
Mudbowl is now organized by the
Michigan Mudbowl Club, which
is comprised largely of former
SAE members.
The crowd standing alongside
the former SAE house Saturday
was watching what may have
been the last time members of
now-former SAE play in this
event, at this location, due to
impending
graduations
and
the closure of the fraternity on
campus. The house will be rented
out by Alpha Omicron Pi, a new
sorority coming to campus, for
the next few years.
This year, more than $47,000
See FOOTBALL, Page 2A
MAX KUANG/Daily
Jack Harbaugh, father of Michigan Football Coach Jim Harbaugh, speaks at the Michigan Homecoming Pep Rally on
the Diag Friday.
michigandaily.com
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See RALLY, Page 3A
See MUDBOWL, Page 3A
The University of Michigan
has received a fair amount of
attention from the Democratic
party this election season, with
visits
from
Democratic
vice
presidential nominee Tim Kaine
and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I–Vt.).
However, there have been no
surrogate or candidate visits from
any other party.
The
greater
presence
of
Democratic campaigns may have
a simple explanation — the high
levels of support they find here.
70 percent of students sampled
backed Democratic presidential
nominee Hillary Clinton in a
recent Michigan Daily election
survey.
Additionally, the University’s
chapter of College Democrats,
Students for Hillary and the
Michigan branch of the Hillary
for America campaign all have
active ongoing efforts on campus.
Prior to the deadline earlier in
October, the groups focused on
voter registration, often working
together on drives. Now they will
begin switching gears to get out
See CANDIDATES, Page 3A
President of
Planned Parenthood
campaigns for Clinton
Women canvas for the
presidential candidate in
Ann Arbor
» michigandaily.com
Total Opioid and Heroin Overdose
Deaths in Washtenaw
County
2011
2012
2013
2014
2015
Source: Washtenaw County Medical Examiner and Washtenaw County Public Health
29
32
46
65
49
Opioid crisis
strikes close
to home in
Ann Arbor
Mudbowl raises over $47,000 for
children’s hospital in annual game
LOCAL
Researchers and students work to
end epidemic of overdoses
ALEXA ST. JOHN
Daily Staff Reporter
Event could be last with now-former Sigma Alpha Epsilon members
TYLER COADY
Daily Staff Reporter
Michigan
moves to
7-0, routs
Illini, 41-8
FOOTBALL
Wolverines race out to
31-0 lead for easy win
in Homecoming game
KELLY HALL
Daily Sports Editor
Students and alumni gather in Diag
for first-ever homecoming pep rally
Members of football team, basketball team attend to interact with fans
ISHI MORI
Daily Staff Reporter
Support for
third party
candidates
low at ‘U’
ELECTIONS
No formal student
groups for Stein or
Johnson in Ann Arbor
LYDIA MURRAY
Daily Staff Reporter
Taking off
Michigan blitzed Illinois on
the first drive, pulled ahead
31-0 at halftime and rolled to
an easy win, moving to No. 2
in the country this week
» Page 1B