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

For more stories and coverage, visit

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

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