With the clock winding down
in the final minute of the first half,
senior guard Derrick Walton
Jr. got the ball in transition. He
drew two defenders at midcourt
before dishing the ball to Zak
Irvin, who finished a wide-open
layup with ease.
The senior guard’s basket
marked the Michigan basketball
team’s last points of the half and
capped off a 13-0 run for the
Wolverines over the final 3:47.
After
stringing
together
those points, Michigan carried a
43-32 lead into halftime Sunday
at Crisler Center. And the
Wolverines wouldn’t relinquish
their lead in the second half,
keeping their foot on the pedal
the rest of the way en route to
a 77-65 victory against IUPUI
in the 2K Classic’s Ann Arbor
regional.
Early in the half, there weren’t
many defensive stops to go
around, as both teams traded
baskets for the first five minutes.
In
the
five
that
followed,
though, Michigan (2-0) looked
vulnerable.
The
Wolverines’
offense
sputtered, as they were forced
to settle for shots from the
perimeter with the shot clock
winding down. The Jaguars
(0-2), on the other hand, kept
building an early lead.
Then,
redshirt
sophomore
forward
DJ
Wilson
gave
Michigan its wake-up call. With
roughly nine minutes left in the
half, Walton’s transition layup
clanged off the rim.
But
Wilson
was
there,
grabbing the rebound with two
hands and throwing it down for a
put-back dunk. The slam brought
the Wolverines within one after
they trailed by as much as seven
during the stretch.
The Wolverines’ offense came
out of its funk from there — going
on a 14-point barrage catalyzed
by four 3-pointers — kick-
starting their run that would end
the half.
The
dunk
was
just
a
microcosm of Wilson’s impact
for Michigan. Though he scored
just 7 points, Wilson cleaned up
on the boards, finishing with 14
rebounds in 30 minutes.
In the second half, Michigan
went into cruise control, and
it was a decision it could have
ended
up
regretting.
The
Wolverines led by as many as 19
points, but their smallest lead of
the half was by a margin of just
nine.
Still, they let IUPUI hang
around. And with the way
Darrell Combs was playing, that
wasn’t a good idea. The Jaguars’
guard finished with a game-high
22 points — pouring in 15 in the
first half — and shot 10-for-16
from the field.
Combs looked like a man
on a mission. But fortunately
for Michigan, it had plenty of
firepower of its own. Four players
— junior guard Muhammad-Ali
Abdur-Rahkman,
sophomore
forward Moritz Wagner, Walton
and Irvin — finished with
double-digit scoring.
Walton and Irvin combined
for
28
points
on
9-for-21
shooting, while Wagner added 13
of his own.
The
Wolverines
may
not
always be able to outscore teams,
though. Allowing IUPUI to hang
around didn’t matter. But against
any other team, it could prove
costly.
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again with just less than four
minutes to play.
Speight threw a bullet to
Chesson, who was streaking
along the right sideline, but the
ball was snatched away by Iowa
cornerback Manny Rugamba for a
momentum-shifting interception.
Stribling matched the pick
soon after, but with the Wolverine
offense unable to find a rhythm, it
was not enough to carry Michigan
to victory. Michigan went three-
and-out, and Iowa got the ball
back with 1:23 on the clock.
“We didn’t make enough plays
to extend drives and convert first
downs, and we missed some deep
throws,” Harbaugh said. “Give
Iowa credit, they tackled, they
blocked, they played a very good
football game, so congratulate
them and move on.”
Michigan managed only a
field goal in the first 20 minutes
of play, but Iowa couldn’t even
muster that. On a drive that
stayed alive after punter Ron
Coluzzi improbably drew two
straight running-into-the-kicker
penalties on fourth down, kicker
Miguel Recinos missed a 46-yard
field goal attempt.
With both teams struggling
as the first half progressed, it
seemed
like
the
Wolverines
might escape. On Michigan’s
third drive of the game, fifth-
year senior wide receiver Jehu
Chesson caught a 29-yard pass
down the center of the field to
Iowa’s 20-yard line. It set up for
redshirt junior Ty Isaac’s seven-
yard touchdown run that made it
10-0, Michigan.
The
Hawkeyes
finally did
get on the board, though, after
Coluzzi pinned the Wolverines
on their own 2-yard line with
a 54-yard punt. Iowa defensive
lineman Jaleel Johnson hit senior
running back De’Veon Smith in
the end zone for a safety on the
second play of the ensuing drive.
An
unnecessary
roughing
call
on
redshirt
sophomore
defensive tackle Bryan Mone
gave the Hawkeyes a first down
on Michigan’s 9-yard line with
just under three minutes until
the break. It proved to be a costly
error, as running back Akrum
Wadley found open space to catch
a 3-yard touchdown pass.
The second half didn’t start
any better than the first for the
Wolverines. On the punt return,
fifth-year senior tight end Khalid
Hill fumbled the ball on the
15-yard line right in front of the
Iowa sideline, and the Hawkeyes
were able to take the lead off of a
25-yard field goal.
For the first time all season,
Michigan trailed in the fourth
quarter.
“One of the things we had
to do was make sure that they
didn’t score,” said senior safety
Dymonte
Thomas
about
the
second half’s defense. “If they
don’t score, we win.”
The Hawkeyes handed the
Wolverines their first loss of the
season,
damaging
Michigan’s
hopes of a College Football Playoff
appearance. It may have taken
until mid-November, but the
Wolverines proved to be mortal.
After the game, Harbaugh
was asked how hard it was to go
undefeated.
“It’s difficult,” he said. “But not
insurmountable.”
With just two undefeated FBS
teams left in the nation, Saturday
proved just how difficult it is.
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control over both chambers of
the legislature and the White
Housefor the first time since 1928.
“It’s really scary to know now
that Republicans have everything.
I think that’s really scary to
Democrats — and all of us —
because now he can get stuff done
we didn’t think would be able
to happen,” she said. “It’s really
scary to see the policies that would
happen since it would affect all of
us.”
Climate change
Under
President
Barack
Obama, the U.S. played a large
role in the Paris Agreement, the
most comprehensive international
climate change agreement, passed
in Paris in December 2015. If the
deal is adhered to by 174 nations
and the European Union that
signed, temperature rises should
be limited to 2 degrees Celsius.
While Trump could not reverse
the deal, he could still undermine
the agreement by failing to meet
the goals set for carbon limitations
in the U.S.
Trump has previously stated
during the campaign that he does
not believe climate change is a real
phenomenon, and that he would
end U.S. participation in the Paris
agreement.
LSA freshman Corey Lipton
said early Wednesday morning
that he fears Trump’s actions will
negatively impact generations to
come if he fails to fight to lower
carbon emissions.
“What’s more important is the
long-term outcomes that Trump
will cause,” he said. “First and
foremost, the worst impact of this
is going to be climate change. The
damage that will be done in the
next four years for the climate
will be irreversible and will be
noticed for the next hundreds of
thousands of years. That’s just the
tip of the iceberg of the damage
that has been done tonight.”
Mark
Barteau,
director
of
the UM Energy Institute and
professor of advanced energy
research, said Trump’s election is
a step backward from the progress
made over the past several decades
toward
combatting
climate
change.
“I think it is a huge setback,”
he said. “This level of cooperation
that we saw in Paris was 40 years
in the making. That potentially
can be disrupted overnight. We
are running out of time. Even with
the track we are on, it would be
difficult to stay below 2 degrees,
so I would say it’s a tragedy.”
Women’s issues
Throughout
the
campaign,
Trump’s daughter Ivanka Trump
highlighted her commitment to
improving access to childcare
and promoting women’s rights.
However, Trump himself has
contrasted some of those stances
by suggesting abortion should be
illegal and making lewd comments
about touching women without
their consent on a tape released in
October.
Many
women
have
also
said they are concerned about
access to birth control due to
the stances both Trump and his
Vice President-elect Mike Pence
have taken during the campaign.
During his tenure as governor of
Indiana, Pence worked to defund
Planned Parenthood and restrict
access to abortions.
LSA
freshman
Marianne
Drysdale said she is afraid the
progress Planned Parenthood has
made will be undone under the
Trump administration.
“I am a woman and I have
worked for Planned Parenthood
for two years, and I am really
worried that all of that is going to go
down the drain,” she said. “Trump
is nominating a Supreme Court
justice, and I’m disappointed that
this percentage of the country
is OK with a president who is
outwardly bigoted.”
Cutbacks
on
Planned
Parenthood
would
severely
impact women of lower economic
status, Social Work Prof. Kristin
Seefeldt said, by restricting access
to their services such as breast and
cervical cancer screenings.
“It’s pretty likely that in the
near future we will see dramatic
cuts in the federal funding that
Planned Parenthood receives,”
she said. “I think that would have
devastating
effects
on
young
women and women of lower
socioeconomic status who really
depend on the organization not
just for birth control but for basic
health services.”
The economy
According to data from The
Michigan Daily’s election survey,
the nation’s economy was one
of the most important issues to
students during the campaign.
However, it is currently unclear
Trump’s economic plan would
entail.
The
idea
of
trickle-down
economics,
which
was
popularized during the Reagan
administration and is part of
Trump’s plan, revolves around
the theory that higher tax cuts for
the wealthy will benefit the lower
classes as that money is reinvested
in the economy.
According to Donald Grimes,
economist at the University’s
Institute for Research on Labor,
Employment, and the Economy,
there is no strong evidence that
trickle-down economics works
better than social programs to
stimulate the middle class, a key
directive in the plan outlined by
Democratic presidential nominee
Hillary Clinton.
“There is not really strong
evidence at the national level,”
he said. “On average the low tax
states do a little bit better, but not
a lot. It’s not going to move the
needle a great deal either way.”
Grimes also noted that because of
the lack of very wealthy individuals
in Michigan will mean the state
won’t see many benefits from this
policy, aside from a marginal boost
to the auto industry.
“Michigan doesn’t have a lot of
the rich,” he said. “So it would be
a little bit below the U.S. average,
but that would maybe provide
some money for people to buy cars,
so that might benefit Michigan.”
On the other hand, Seefeldt
said the high chance of cutbacks
on
social
welfare
programs
will be detrimental to lower
socioeconomic status Americans.
“I worry a lot about what the
consequences of Trump’s victory
and both houses of Congress being
controlled by Republicans will be
for lower income families,” she
said. “We are going to see cutbacks
in the public safety net that is
already pretty frayed as it is.”
LSA junior Lauren Gallagher,
president
of
the
University’s
chapter of Students for Hillary,
wrote in an email interview that
the most important economic
issue for students is debt, noting
that Trump has not outlined a
comprehensive plan addressing
higher education reform, leaving
many students concerned.
“The most pressing economic
issue for most college graduates
is college loan debt, an issue that
Trump never mentioned or took
a stance on during his campaign,
so I have little hope that high
rates will refinanced and that
skyrocketing tuition prices will be
addressed,” she wrote.
Immigration
One of the most prominent
rallying
cries
of
Trump’s
campaign was the promise for
tighter immigration laws, notably
including his plan to build a
wall on the border between the
United States and Mexico. Trump
has additionally called for mass
deportations of undocumented
immigrants,
an
end
to
the
acceptance
of
refugees
from
countries like Syria and a ban on
all Muslim immigration.
Silvia Pedraza, professor of
sociology and American culture,
said the worst-case scenario on
immigration would be if Trump
followed through on all of his
campaign promises, which she
believes he is likely to attempt to
do.
“The
worst-case
scenario
is if Trump does fulfill all his
campaign promises,” she said. “If
he makes good on all of them the
next four years will be terrible …
and he has said he will make good
on all of them.”
Pedraza also charged that
Trump’s penchant for blaming
the misfortunes of the working
class on minorities fueled his rise
to power.
“He has scapegoated some
people that are very vulnerable,”
she said. “He has demonized them
and put his finger on them and
has told these people that what is
wrong with your life is because of
them. That’s what Hitler did with
the Jews in Nazi Germany … once
you do that it seems that a lot of
people either believe it or do not
oppose it.”
Gallagher
wrote
Trump’s
plans do not reflect the values of
students
who
overwhelmingly
supported Clinton throughout the
election season.
“As we saw with the high
number
of
millennials
who
supported Hillary Clinton in
the polls on Tuesday, we are a
generation that values diversity
and believes that a diverse country
that supports all peoples is
strongest,” she wrote. “President-
elect Trump’s immigration plan
stands in stark contrast to these
ideals. Trump wants to deport
large numbers of undocumented
immigrants who call America
home, he wants to severely restrict
refugee resettlement and he wants
to seal our Southern border in an
unrealistic fashion.”
This lack of support, Pedraza
noted, could lead to backlash if
these policies take effect, given
the protests against Trump that
have already taken place.
“I think we are already seeing
a backlash, young students and
people in cities saying ‘this is not
our president,’ ” she said. “I think
there will be genuine protests
from the part of many people in
this country.”
Nonetheless, not all students
are concerned about the abilities
of the Trump administration. LSA
junior Enrique Zalamea, president
of the University’s chapter of
College Republicans, wrote in an
email interview with the Daily he
believes Trump will work to pass
legislation to benefit the country.
Considering policies moving
forward, Zalamea wrote he hopes
Trump will act on a number of
issues, including a bipartisan
effort on gun control.
“Recently, Trump proposed
new gun control policies, which
were incredibly conciliatory and
bipartisan,” he wrote. “If this
brand of sensible diplomacy is
any indication of Trump’s policy
record going forward, then the
only thing stopping us from
achieving progress is the ignorant
stigma behind supporting Donald
Trump — of which we have
unfortunately seen in spades on
this campus.”
Zalamea
added
that
he
thinks the presidency will be a
successful one.
“Right now the Republican
establishment is extending the
olive branch to the American
people, and if we continue down
this track I expect great things
from Mr. Trump’s presidency,”
he wrote. “That’s the kind of
president we need after the
political gridlock in Washington
and the slow economic grind
we’ve been having for the past
eight years.”
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data graphs of grades for specific
classes and compare the grade
distribution of one class to
another.
However,
according
to
Economics
Prof.
Dmitriy
Stolyarov, it is hard to attribute
departmental grading policies to
any overarching policies since
grading is almost entirely at
the discretion of the individual
professor.
“Generally,
the
grading
methodology
is
up
to
the
instructor — this is one of the
principles underlying academic
freedom,”
Stolyarov
said.
“Accordingly, there may be as
many grading methodologies as
there are teachers. These data
are no big secret — every syllabus
has a detailed description of how
grades are determined.”
Grading
practices,
because
they are decided by professors,
are best evaluated by review of
historical syllabi. However, based
off the FOIA data, there are some
macro-level conclusions that can
be made about the difficulty or
typical grades in a specific class.
STEM classes compared with
humanities and social science
classes
Students taking classes in
STEM fields tend to receive
lower grades, on average, than
those majoring in social science
and humanities fields, according
to the data obtained by the Daily,
which shows the historic grade
distribution for all LSA courses
for Fall 2014-Fall 2015.
As shown by the data, the
average grades given to students
in math, physics, chemistry and
biology classes equates to a 3.1578
GPA. These STEM departments
are among the most popular
math and science departments
offered by LSA.
In
these
departments,
according to a 2009 study on
grade inflation at the University
of Michigan by former University
Ph.D. student Alexandra Achen
and Paul Courant, a professor
of public policy and economics,
the average GPAs are, in part,
a reflection on the number of
prerequisite courses.
“Strikingly, all of the low-
grading departments at Michigan
have large required courses,”
Achen
and
Courant
wrote.
“Math,
physics,
economics,
biology,
and
chemistry
are
consistently among the lowest-
grading departments, and each
has courses that are required
for courses of study necessary
for the professional ambitions of
large numbers of students.”
In
comparison,
the
class
data also showed the average
grades
earned
by
students
taking
economics,
political
science,
psychology,
English,
communications and philosophy
courses — all humanities and
social sciences departments —
were equal to a GPA of 3.3793.
This
range
between
STEM
and
humanities
and
social
sciences averages of 0.2215 is the
difference between a B and a B+
average.
However, in the study, Achen
and
Courant
were
hesitant
to attribute this solely to the
quantitative nature of STEM
courses.
They also noted that students
enrolled
in
English
125,
a
large
introductory
English
composition course, averaged
lower than other English level
classes. This, they argued, is
because of the types of students
enrolled in this class — which,
according to Achen and Courant,
is because there is a large number
of students enrolled who will not
go on to become English majors.
Another possible factor for
the apparent difficulty of STEM
classes is the commonly used
factors that determine grades in
these classes.
Biology Prof. Trisha Wittkopp
who taught the popular pre-
med course Biology 171, Intro to
Ecology and Evolution, said she
used a formulaic grading method
for students determined through
points
earned
from
exams,
discussion section preparation
and participation, quizzes and
iClicker scores, and does not
round up.
For classes like Wittkopp’s,
she said, grades are determined
by performance on largely non-
subjective
examinations
and
are reflections on test taking
acumen,
rather
than
more
qualitative
assessments
like
argumentative essays she said
are
common
to
non-STEM
classes.
Introductory
level
classes
compared
with
upper
level
classes
The class data also suggests
upper-level classes have higher
grades
in
comparison
with
introductory level classes.
The trend holds true across
most departments and academic
disciplines. Among 10 popular
and
academically
diverse
departments at the University,
the average GPA of 100-level
courses is 3.2613.
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