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trifecta of Barrett, Samuel and 
running back Mike Weber, 
coordinator Don Brown’s unit 
dominated. The Wolverines 
gave up just 206 yards on 50 
carries. They sacked Barrett 
eight 
times, 
piled 
up 
13 

tackles for loss and added an 
interception.

But 
the 
offense 
could 

never deliver the clinching 
blow. Down 3-0 in the second 
quarter, having gained 26 total 
yards on its past four drives, 
Ohio State intercepted a pass 
from 
redshirt 
sophomore 

quarterback Wilton Speight 
and 
returned 
it 
four 
a 

touchdown. Early in the third 
quarter, the Wolverines had a 
chance to take a 17-7 lead when 
Speight fumbled the snap on 
the Buckeyes’ 1-yard line. And 
after Michigan did take a 17-7 

lead, it gained just 30 yards on 
its last four possessions when 
it could have put the game 
away.

The Wolverines led for more 

than 56 minutes of regulation, 
sent 
the 
game 
to 
double 

overtime 
and 
could 
have 

ended the game on multiple 
occasions. If they had, they 
would be heading to the Big 
Ten Championship Game next 
Saturday night with a chance 
to advance to the College 
Football Playoff from there. 
Now, Michigan’s playoff hopes 
are all but gone.

“We make our case on the 

field, if you’re going to make 
any 
arguments 
or 
cases,” 

Harbaugh said. “We feel like 
they’ve done everything they 
can possibly do, and they’ve 
done it very well.”

Harbaugh’s team shuffled 

off the field after the game, 
trying to elude the masses as 
the 
opponent’s fans 

rushed the field for the second 
time in three weeks. In the 
postgame 
mayhem, 
Meyer 

couldn’t meet up with his wife, 
though he did embrace his 
son in a long hug. Then, when 
he took the podium at his 
postgame press conference, 
his wife called him. “She said, 
bring a gallon of milk home on 
the way home,” he quipped.

He said he did not remember 

what happened after the game, 
only the Samuel touchdown, 
one few will ever forget: “We 
motioned the tight end across, 
two backs in the backfield. We 
expected them to be bear, bear 
defense, and pressure. And the 
left tackle, Jamarco (Jones), 
did a nice job sealing it. 
Tailback led, Mike Weber, and 
Curtis scored, and we won.”

Curtis scored, and Ohio 

State won. Michigan was as 
close as it has been in a while. 
But the Buckeyes’ dominance 
lives.

FOOTBALL
From Page 1A

University 
Regent 
Denise 

Ilitch (D) is a co-president of 
Ilitch Holdings alongside her 
brother Christopher.

In a press release, Gores 

championed the project, noting 
the 
family’s 
longstanding 

relationship with the city.

“I am so impressed by the 

vision of Chris Ilitch and his 
parents,” 
Gores 
said. 
“We 

admire 
everything 
Mike 

and Marian Ilitch have done 
in Detroit and the passion 
they have for the city. Their 
dedication 
has 
served 

as a catalyst for so much 
investment and we are proud 
to join them in this effort.”

However, some University 

students, 
including 
LSA 

freshman Claire Westerlund, 
believe the Palace is a bit too 
far to go for a basketball game. 
Westerlund wrote in an email 
interview that growing up 
in Oakland County between 
Southfield and Birmingham is 
why she has only been to one 
Pistons game.

“I definitely will go to 

the new stadium to watch a 
basketball game,” Westerlund 
wrote. “I am by no means a 

basketball fan but it seems like 
a fun activity. With the new 
location, it will be much easier 
to make a day of it.”

She added that in the new 

location the Pistons will be 
closer to other attractions in 
Detroit where she can go with 
friends before a game, such 
as the Eastern Market or the 
Detroit Institute of Arts. 

“I always thought it was 

weird that the Detroit Pistons 

didn’t actually play in Detroit,” 
Westerlund wrote. “If you live 
somewhere downriver, even 
if you were a huge fan, it’s 
not worth the trek, especially 
on a weeknight. Having the 
stadium right downtown will 
give the team a greater draw 

of 
fans. 
An 
out-of-towner 

wouldn’t 
be 
as 
motivated 

to come to a game and tour 
Auburn Hills versus getting 
to see Detroit and their team 
play.”

The arena, which is being 

lauded for its potential to 
attract capital to the area, 
has received some backlash 
in the community. In October, 
contractors 
of 
the 
project 

faced fines of nearly half a 
million 
dollars, 
according 

to Crain’s Detroit, for not 
hiring enough local workers. 
According to a city ordinance, 
local labor must make up at 
least 51 percent of the total 
work.

To 
ensure 
the 
Pistons’ 

relocation would be profitable, 
Gores had a sports expert 
research 
the 
venture, 
the 

Free Press reported. Mark 
Rosentraub, 
professor 
of 

kinesiology at the University, 
determined the move would 
bring with it construction 
jobs, increased value of ticket 
sales for games and concerts 
and jobs both at the site and 
potential spin-off locations. 
The total impact is projected 
to be $596.2 million relocated 
to the Detroit area.

According to the company, 

the stadium will open Sept. 17 
2017.

PISTONS
From Page 1A

Inclusion plan, which aims to 
improve campus climate.

“The 
goal 
of 
white 

nationalists has been to appeal 
to disaffected white students 
who may be unhappy with 
the 
University’s 
diversity 

initiatives,” he wrote in an 
email interview. “This is one 

of the reasons why the first 
set of racist posters appeared 
on Monday, September 26, the 
week before President Schlissel 
formally released the Diversity, 
Equity and Inclusion (plan).”

McCoy 
wrote 
he 
also 

frequently undergoes severe 
Twitter backlash from alt-
right 
accounts, 
highlighting 

a pattern of intense, often 
faceless, online harassment by 
alt-right social media bots. LSA 
freshman Kori Thomas, who 

tweeted of racist posters she 
discovered outside South Quad 
Residence Hall last month, 
faced dozens of tweets riddled 
with racial epithets and insults.

“White nationalists not only 

seek to create a safe space for 
themselves … but to provoke a 
backlash that may prove their 
claims that those opposed to 
racism and white supremacy 
oppose 
their 
free 
speech 

rights,” McCoy wrote.

SPEECH
From Page 1A

across the University.

Though the survey has been 

given annually since 2012, Robert 
Marans, one of the co-principal 
investigators 
of 
SCIP 
and 
a 

research professor at the ISR, said 
SCIP data will not be collected this 
year.

“It’s partly (because of) budget, 

but also we’re not seeing the kind 
of changes we were hoping to see,” 
Marans said. “And the general 
feeling is that trying to change 
people’s behavior is a slow process. 
The annual survey shows small 
changes here and there, but for the 
most part, no changes.”

The survey will resume in 

the fall of 2017 and will then be 
administered every other year, 
with hopes that more significant 
changes will be observed in the 

data with a larger gap between 
surveys.

There are currently four long-

term 
sustainability 
goals 
for 

the 
University, 
created 
under 

University 
President 
emeritus 

Mary Sue Coleman in 2011. These 
goals, which are implemented by 
the same program that distributes 
the survey, outline University 
initiatives 
on 
climate 
action, 

waste 
prevention, 
a 
healthy 

environment 
and 
community 

awareness. SCIP was created as 
part of the community awareness 
goal and tracks the “culture of 
sustainability” on campus.

The data showed an increase 

in 
community 
awareness 
of 

areas of sustainability, such as 
travel, transportation and food. 
The full report also shows the 
campus community has become 
more knowledgeable about waste 
prevention, and has increased 
recycling and reusing of materials 
both on campus and at home.

Beyond the survey, SCIP is 

currently piloting several projects 
on campus to increase awareness 
of sustainability.

In Bursley Residence Hall, 

an 
experiment 
to 
increase 

composting opportunities beyond 
the dining hall is currently in 
place. Marans said the experiment 
began last January and will be 
extended to other residence halls 
if successful.

“If you want to order pizza, 

what do you do with the leftover 
pizza and the box and all that stuff 
in the room?” Marans said. “If 
Bursley residents know more about 
 

composting(after this experiment), 
do more composting, than students 
in other residence halls, then we 
can say, ‘Hey, that experiment was 
worthwhile; we should take it to 
other residence halls.’ ”

Students around campus are also 

getting involved in sustainability 
in various other ways on their 
own. LSA senior Jayson Toweh, 

a Program in the Environment 
major, is the president of Students 
for Clean Energy, the chair of 
Central 
Student 
Government 

Sustainability Commission and 
an 
administrative 
liaison 
for 

the Students for Sustainability 
Initiative. He said students are 
becoming increasingly involved 
in part because they see a lack of 
interest from the administration.

“One 
reason 
that 
we’re 

really active is because a lot of 
people involved in sustainability 
organizations do not believe that 
the University itself is making any 
large commitment towards being 
more sustainable,” Toweh said.

Other 
students 
said 
they 

wanted to University support on 
sustainability, such as in Greek 
Life. LSA sophomore Aliza Sitrin, 
a member of Delta Phi Epsilon 
sorority, 
wanted 
to 
introduce 

composting to her house but ran 
into barriers due to potential cost 
and smell. Eventually, she and the 

friend she was collaborating with 
decided to drop the project.

Currently, the sorority house 

has recycling bins but Sitrin says 
she doesn’t know of any other plans 
to increase sustainability efforts.

Marans 
acknowledged 

that the SCIP survey shows 
that communication from the 
University about sustainability is an 
area that could use improvement.

“There are signs up in the 

Fishbowl and all over, but no 
one reads them,” Marans said. 
“We need to do a better job 
communicating.”

Toweh 
said 
based 
on 
his 

experiences, he would like to see 
the University launch an online 
educational program similar to 
AlcoholEdu could help students 
learn more about practices like 
conserving energy and washing 
clothes in a sustainable way. 

“Currently you have a lot of 

people who are really informed 
and really invested, and a lot 

of people who would be more 
invested if they knew what the 
impact was,” Toweh said. “The 
whole concept is just staying alive. 
If people care about sustaining life 
as it is, caring about sustainability 
is a key thing.”

Though the survey has been 

given annually since 2012, Marans 
said SCIP data will not be collected 
this year.

“It’s partly (because of) budget, 

but also we’re not seeing the kind 
of changes we were hoping to see,” 
Marans said. “And the general 
feeling is that trying to change 
people’s behavior is a slow process. 
The annual survey shows small 
changes here and there, but for the 
most part, no changes.”

The survey will resume in 

the fall of 2017 and will then be 
administered every other year, 
with hopes that more significant 
changes will be observed in the 
data with a larger gap between 
surveys.

SUSTAINABILITY
From Page 1A

“I always 

thought it was 
weird that the 
Detroit Pistons 
didn’t actually 
play in Detroit.”

COLUMBUS — When the 

Michigan football team loses to 
Ohio State, especially in games 
decided by just a few points, 
there are often plays that haunt 
Wolverine fans for decades.

The 2006 game, possibly 

the biggest in the rivalry’s 
history, brought Shawn Crable’s 
momentum-changing, helmet-
to-helmet 
hit 
on 
Buckeye 

quarterback Troy Smith. The 
2013 game ended with an 
attempted 2-point conversion 
by Michigan, where Devin 
Gardner’s 
potential 
game-

winning pass was picked off 
and denied the Wolverines a 
monumental upset.

The 2016 version of “The 

Game” — the teams’ most 
important showdown in 10 
years — ended in heartbreak 
again for No. 3 Michigan, which 
fell to No. 2 Ohio State, 30-27, in 
double overtime.

Yet again, there will be 

plays Wolverine fans will have 
ingrained in their minds for a 
while. But this time, Michigan 
coach Jim Harbaugh directed 
the blame elsewhere.

“I am bitterly disappointed 

with the officiating today,” he 
said. “That spot … the graphic 
display 
is 
the 
interference 

penalties. The one not called 
on us on Grant Perry, (who) 
clearly was being hooked before 
the ball got there. The previous 
penalty they called on Delano 
Hill — the ball is uncatchable 
and by the receiver.”

There was a third-down pass 

from Ohio State quarterback J.T. 
Barrett that sailed incomplete 
well beyond his receiver’s reach, 
only for Michigan senior safety 
Delano Hill to get whistled for 
pass interference. There was 
another third-down pass, this 
time from the Wolverines in 
the second overtime, where 
sophomore 
receiver 
Grant 

Perry received no call from 
the officials despite appearing 
to have his arm hooked by a 
defender.

And, most crucially, there 

was a 4th-and-1 conversion by 
Barrett in double overtime, 
which the referees ruled a first 
down and upheld after review 
— if he had been ruled short, 
the game would have been over, 
and the Wolverines would have 
escaped with a 27-24 victory.

Those 
final 
controversial 

plays were the decisive ones, 
but they weren’t the first times 
the 
officiating 
crew 
drew 

Harbaugh’s ire. Late in the third 
quarter, he was incensed after a 
potential Ohio State false start 
was ruled an offside penalty by 
the Wolverines.

Harbaugh tossed his play 

card into the air and spiked 
his headset into the ground, 
drawing an unsportsmanlike 
conduct penalty that further 
baffled him.

“(The referees) could have 

been watching the game rather 
than being concerned about 
(me),” Harbaugh said. “If you 
throw a hat, you throw your 
script toward your sideline, 
that’s a penalty? I asked (the 
referee) that, and he said, ‘Well, 

it is in basketball.’

“I 
go, 
‘Well, 
this 
isn’t 

basketball.’ ”

Harbaugh 
reiterated 
his 

disappointment several times 
in a heated, eight-minute post-
game press conference, but he 
wasn’t the only one feeling it.

Redshirt 
sophomore 

quarterback 
Wilton 
Speight 

chose his words carefully after 
the game, physically stopping 
himself from criticizing the 
officials’ calls in the overtime 
periods. 
Fifth-year 
senior 

defensive end Chris Wormley 
made his thoughts a little 
clearer — he was a part of 
Barrett’s decisive conversion, 
shoving 
the 
quarterback 

backward with his right arm as 
Hill hit him low.

“I think he was short,” 

Wormley said. “But I guess the 
refs saw something different. 
You’ve gotta play through those 
types of calls, those types of 
adversity.”

Michigan made plenty of 

other mistakes — a stagnant 
fourth quarter offense and a 
few costly turnovers let the 
Buckeyes back in the game in 
the first place, and running 
back Curtis Samuel ran 15 yards 
to the end zone untouched on 
the game’s final play.

But in the end — like some 

fans might for decades to 
come 
— 
Harbaugh 
found 

himself unable get past the 
controversial calls.

“We’re probably just going 

to keep beating a dead horse 
here,” he said to end his press 
conference. “You know how I 
feel.”

Harbaugh ‘bitterly disappointed’ 
by officiating after nail-biting loss

Michigan’s coach cites late spot, ‘gift interference’ penalty after defeat

JACOB GASE

Daily Sports Editor

