…statement THE MICHIGAN DAILY | FEBRUARY 5, 2020 From behind the screen “Everyone is entitled to all the rights and freedoms set forth in this Declaration, without distinction of any kind, such as race, colour, sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, property, birth or other status. Furthermore, no distinction shall be made on the basis of the political, jurisdictional or international status of t...…
…Wednesday, February 5, 2020 // The Statement 2B Managing Statement Editor Magdalena Mihaylova Deputy Editors Emily Stillman Marisa Wright Associate Editor Reece Meyhoefer Designers Liz Bigham Kate Glad Copy Editors Madison Gagne Sadia Jiban Photo Editor Keemya Esmael Editor in Chief Elizabeth Lawrence Managing Editor Erin White N o good college seduction routine would be complete without a pre-coital ideologic...…
…I t was Friday, Jan. 24. I was laying in my bed, only awake because of the sunlight streaming in through my dorm window. After a while, I decided it was time to finally get up, so I rolled over and reached for my phone sitting atop my desk. A calendar event notification topped the screen. It read: “Tomorrow, Lunar New Year.” My family has always loosely followed typical Lunar New Year traditions. We have a straightforward way...…
…I n the 1970s and ’80s, most major United States orchestras changed their audition policies in an attempt to eliminate their bias toward hiring male candidates. The new procedures included advertising the positions more widely, restructuring admissions committees to also include members of the orchestra and most importantly, the introduction of “blind” or “screen” auditions in which the identity of the player was hidden from the ju...…
…Wednesday, February 5, 2020 // The Statement 6B The girl with the plant tattoo A s I enter the second semester of my senior year of college, I’ve found that one of the most wonderful parts of this era of life is the evenings spent on friends’ couches drinking wine, surrounded by people I’ve grown close to over the past years. As the chaos, deadlines, anxiety of forming new bonds and all the noise of the first few years of college die ...…
…Wednesday, January 16, 2019 // The Statement 7B Wednesday, February 5, 2020 // The Statement 7B I finished the book “Make Trouble” by Planned Parenthood president Cecile Richards on a flight back to Ann Arbor from my hometown in New Jersey. As I closed the back cover of a memoir following Richards’s rise in the ranks from seven-year-old daughter of politician Ann Richards to president of Planned Parenthood, I began to cry. I was...…
…Wednesday, February 5, 2020 // The Statement 8B VISUAL STATEMENT: THE TIBETAN TRADITION OF BASKETBALL PHOTOS BY EMMA MATI READ MORE ABOUT THE TRADITION ONLINE AT MICHIGANDAILY.COM …
