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 

See SUSTAINABILITY, Page 3A

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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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