Richard
Spencer,
a
prominent white nationalist
who coined the term “alt-
right,” a movement promoting
white
supremacist
ideals,
announced public speaking
engagements at the University
of Michigan and Texas A&M
University in a Washington
Post profile last Tuesday,
though
the
University
confirmed he has not been
formally
invited
by
the
University or student groups.
“I think there’s going to
be a huge crowd,” Spencer
said in the article about the
appearance.
Throughout
October
and
November,
anti-Black,
anti-Muslim,
anti-women
and
anti-LGBTQ
posters
were found around campus
featuring symbols associated
with the alt-right movement,
such as images of Pepe the
Frog garbed in KKK robes
and blackface. The meme
was
officially
designated
as a hate symbol by the
Anti-Defamation
League
in
late
September.
The
posters
spurred
numerous
protests,
faculty-sponsored
discussions
on
campus
climate and a campus-wide
anti-hate speech campaign,
but the University was unable
to locate anyone who put up
the flyers.
Spencer — who heads a
right-wing think tank called
the National Policy Institute
— told the Post he watched a
video of about 1,000 students
staging a walkout at the
University two weeks ago and
chanting, “No alt-right! No
KKK! No racist USA!”
“We’re getting under their
skin,” Spencer said. “I take a
sadistic pleasure in that.”
University
spokeswoman
Kim Broekhuizen denied any
invitation
extended
from
University-affiliated
groups
to Spencer.
“We
do
not
have
any
confirmation of a student
group (or groups) inviting Mr.
Spencer to U-M,” she wrote in
an email statement.
Texas
A&M,
the
other
school Spencer claimed to
be visiting, also released a
statement
last
Wednesday
clarifying the appearance had
not been cleared by university
officials and distancing the
school from any connection to
Spencer.
“There
has
been
deep
concern expressed by our
Aggie community about an
individual planning to speak
at our campus,” the statement
reads. “Our leadership finds
his views as expressed to date
in direct conflict with our
core values.”
Spencer
made
headlines
the week after the election
for
hosting
an
alt-right
gathering
in
Washington,
D.C. celebrating President-
elect
Donald
Trump’s
victory
with
neo-Nazi
salutes of “Hail Trump” and
“Hail victory,” the English
translation of the Nazi slogan
“Sieg Heil.” Spencer’s speech
at the gathering promoted
refrains about white people
“awakening
to
their
own
identity.”
Students on all ends of
the
political
spectrum
at
the
University
similarly
expressed
concerns
about
the possibility of Spencer
appearing on campus. LSA
junior Grant Strobl, founding
chairman of the University of
Michigan chapter of Young
Americans for Freedom, a
student
organization
that
has
invited
provocative
conservative
speakers
to campus, such as Milo
Yiannopoulos,
stressed
in
an email interview that YAF
was “obviously not” affiliated
with alt-right figures like
Spencer.
“Conservative
ideas
undermine
and
are
not
compatible with the alt-right,”
he wrote. “Conservatism has
no place for racism.”
Rackham student Austin
McCoy
linked
the
racist
posters repeatedly discovered
on
campus
to
white
supremacists reaching out to
disgruntled white students
in the wake of University
President
Mark
Schissel’s
Diversity,
Equity
and
Last
week
the
Detroit
Pistons,
who
have
been
playing
at
The
Palace
of
Auburn Hills for the past 28
years, announced that they’d
be coming back to the city to
play in the newly minted Little
Caesars stadium next season.
The move was announced by
Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan,
Detroit Pistons owner Tom
Gores
and
Christopher
Ilitch, president and CEO of
Ilitch Holdings, Inc. Little
Caesars
Arena,
which
is
already slated to house the
Red Wings, is owned by
Olympia Development, part of
Illitch Holdings of Michigan.
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NEWS......................... 2A
OPINION.....................4A
CL A S S I FI E DS . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5A
SUDOKU..................... 2A
A R T S . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 A
SPORTSMONDAY. . . . . . . . .1B
COLUMBUS — A couple of
minutes after 4 p.m. Saturday,
with a sea of gleeful Ohio State
fans forming around him and
chanting his name, Urban Meyer
was doubled over. After defeating
the Michigan football team for
the fifth time in five years, the
Buckeyes’ coach collapsed in
relief, stood back up and paused
for a moment amid the delirium.
He walked slowly from the
northwest corner of the field at
Ohio Stadium to just outside the
southeast tunnel, with a police
officer on either side of him,
each holding his back in support.
Meyer, who took the Ohio State
job after taking the 2011 season
off due to health concerns, waited
to do a postgame interview with
ABC. “Shelley,” he whispered
to the police officers, asking for
his wife. They echoed her name,
trying to find her in the chaos.
Meyer
looked
exhausted.
Everyone did. The second-ranked
Wolverines pushed the Buckeyes
to the brink in a four-hour war
Saturday afternoon. And yet Ohio
State escaped in double overtime,
30-27, on a 15-yard touchdown
run by Curtis Samuel on the final
play.
“I thought our guys have
worked incredibly hard,” said
a dejected Michigan coach Jim
Harbaugh.
“They
have
done
everything that they could, and
they’ve done it so very well. I’m
really proud of our players, yes.”
Michigan, with its best team
since 2006, lost for the 12th time
in 13 editions of this rivalry. Few
of those, if any, will hurt more
than this one.
The Wolverines’ last and best
chance to put away a monumental
win came on the penultimate play
of the game. Ohio State took the
ball second in double overtime,
after Michigan scored on a Kenny
Allen field goal to take a 27-24
lead. The Wolverines forced a
4th-and-1, a down and distance
that has rescued them before.
This time, Barrett faked a
handoff and kept the ball, taking
a hit from Michigan safety
Delano Hill and running into
a block at the 15-yard line. The
officials reviewed the play, one of
many on Saturday that will live in
the memories of those who saw
the game. But the call stood. On
the next play, Samuel scampered
in untouched for the win.
Michigan
and
Ohio
State
traded touchdowns on the first
possession of overtime, with the
Buckeyes needing just two plays
to reach the end zone. But only
late in the game did they begin
to show that firepower, after the
Wolverines controlled most of
the game.
As it has for most of Harbaugh’s
tenure, Michigan relied on its
defense. Even against the electric
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Findings released last week
from
the
annual
University
of
Michigan’s
Sustainability
Cultural
Indicators
Program
survey show that faculty, staff
and students are making progress
with
sustainability
activities,
though some students doubt the
commitment and ability of the
University to maintain an ongoing
sustainability plan.
The
Sustainability
Cultural
Indicators
Program,
launched
in 2012, is a joint effort between
the Graham Institute and the
Institute
of
Social
Research.
The survey part of the program,
is given to a random sample of
students, staff and faculty from
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LEFT: Michigan football coach Jim Harbaugh said he was “bitterly disappointed” with the officiating of Saturday’s game between the Wolverines and Ohio State. CENTER: Buckeyes running back Curtis Samuel runs toward the end zone on the final
play of the game; Samuel scored. RIGHT: Michigan safety Dymonte Thomas and Ohio State receiver Noah Brown go at it during the game. Ohio State won, 30-27, in a double-overtime clash at Ohio Stadium in Columbus.
Ohio State escapes Wolverines in double overtime
Michigan pushes archrival to brink in Columbus, but Buckeyes mount two fourth-quarter scoring drives, win on final play
JAKE LOURIM
Managing Sports Editor
Detroit to
be home to
Pistons in
Sept. 2017
STATE
NBA team will relocate
to Little Caesars Arena
along with Red Wings
JACKIE CHARNIGA
Daily News Editor
‘U’ says white nationalist leader hasn’t
received invitation to speak on campus
In Washington Post profile, Richard Spencer says he plans to give speech at UM, other colleges
RIYAH BASHA
Daily Staff Reporter
University
sees slow
progress on
green goal
ENVIRONMENT
In ‘U’ survey, awareness
about sustainability
stays largely the same
MAYA GOLDMAN
Daily Staff Reporter
‘The Game’ of inches
After an Ohio State
comeback, the Michigan
football team lost a double-
overtime heartbreaker that
will live on in rivalry lore
for years
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