…michigandaily.com Ann Arbor, Michigan Wednesday, December 9, 2020 ONE HUNDRED AND THIRTY YEARS OF EDITORIAL FREEDOM GOT A NEWS TIP? Call 734-418-4115 or e-mail news@michigandaily.com and let us know. INDEX Vol. CXXX, No. 10 ©2020 The Michigan Daily N E WS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 M I C . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 O PI N I O N . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 STATEMENT....…
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…Phase 2 is set to begin in the late winter or early spring and will extend to the broader University community. A start date for Phase 3 has not been announced. General students will likely be in the second phase of the vaccine’s distribution, unless they are high risk, which could move them to the first phase, Cinti said. He expects the University to vaccinate about 80,000 U-M community members in the coming months. Two dos...…
…When my mother emphatically woke me up at 1 a.m. and claimed that I might die from a pulmonary embolism, I didn’t know how to react. Moreover, I didn’t know what I could do. I was laying on my bed with my right leg elevat- ed over almost every pillow we owned to combat the swelling that came with a torn ACL. At first, I rolled my eyes at what seemed to be the classic WebMD diagnosis. However, there was a confidence and fear in her...…
…7-Opinion Wednesday, December 9, 2020 — 5 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Michigan in Color Why Writing? Think of all the things you’ve ever written. Essay. Journal entry. TikTok comment. What did you write it for? To inform whoever reads it? To release your emotions? To complete the essay that you’ve put off all of Thanksgiving Break? There has to be some mean- ing or reason behind every- thing that is written because if ...…
…7-Opinion Opinion K ing George III probably assumed that George Washington would go the way of Oliver Cromwell. To be fair to America’s colonial monarch, it was a reasonable assumption. Across history, such astronomic victories in the field were rarely followed by voluntary concessions. Many Europeans — and even Americans — suspected that in the event of a Franco-American victory, Washington would retain his power, perhap...…
…I n just under two months, former Vice President Joe Biden will assume the Oval Office after defeating incumbent President Donald Trump during the election in November. President-elect Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris will seek to quickly make changes from the executive branch that will alter the nature of American leadership at home and abroad and create significant daylight between their policies and those put...…
…Opinion A s many begin to head home for the holidays, it has become clear that this year will look different. If you are planning to safely reconnect with family this holiday season, there is bound to be tension regarding any discussion from a year that is seemingly a simulation gone rogue. Despite the largely-acknowledged principle of avoiding controversial talk at the Thanksgiving table, complicated conversations are essen...…
…the the sex sex issue issue the statement the statement …
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com 10 — Wednesday, December 9, 2020 statement P eople love listening to other peo- ple talk about sex. The fear is actually talking about it themselves. Aside from the awkward sit-down discussions some parents force upon their adolescent children and the inad- equate sex education classes most students are subjected to, talking about sex is gener- ally considered taboo — most especially for women. ...…
…Quarantine Quarantine means time to means time to make use of make use of our hands our hands The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com statement BY GRACE TUCKER, STATEMENT COLUMNIST Wednesday, December 9, 2020 — 11 C an anyone else, like, not stop jerk- ing off?” Our respective Zoom boxes lit up in a staggered glow as my group of friends and I erupted into laughter. It was April, and we were enduring what would be the second mo...…
…12 — Wednesday, December 9, 2020 I t’s that time of year again, Michigan Daily readers. The leaves are chang- ing, holiday music is playing, snow is falling and you guessed it — The Statement Magazine is analyzing campus sex culture. Welcome to our annual sex edition, where we dive deep into the topic’s nuances and in- tricacies through narratives and investigative pieces. But first, in order to get quantitative data about what sex ...…
…T he survey posed two questions to gauge how students’ perceptions of their peers’ sexual behavior dif- fered from reality. Indeed, our findings show that while the majority of students think that students on campus are having sex once or twice a week or less, the reality involves less frequent sex. Of the respondents, 39.8% indicated not having sex at all this semes- ter, while 25.1% indicated once or twice per month or less and 23....…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com 14 — Wednesday, December 9, 2020 statement T his September, Netflix announced that it would start streaming the film “Cuties,” a French film directed by Senagalese-French director Maïmouna Dou- couré, and the Internet went wild. “Cuties” is a coming of age film following an eleven-year- old girl who uses dance to explore her identity, against the ideals of her conservative family. The film has b...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Wednesday, December 9, 2020 — 15 statement Sex on the Sex on the internet internet BY ALIX CURNOW, STATEMENT COLUMNIST P lease, no, not on social media. I *heart emoji* you so much and really no. Sa- vor it for the personal and unique, not the masses,” read the comment my aunt had left on a photo I posted on Instagram last week. The photo was of me, with my back to the cam- era, wearing a bra a...…
…2-News 16 — Wednesday, December 9, 2020 The B-Side The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com The B-Side: Harry Potter and the Canceled Author It’s time that we talk about ‘The Fault in Our Stars’ I grew up in a house in the middle of the woods, surrounded by deer and trees and friendly small-town neighbors, but I spent a lot of my childhood immersed in books instead. Something about the allure of a different world enthralled me; magica...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com The B-Side Wednesday, December 9, 2020 — 17 The B-Side: How has ‘South Park’ not been canceled? Should “South Park” be canceled? With debates spawned by controversial episodes raging across Twitter and echoing on Reddit subthreads, “South Park” remains as scandalous as it was back in 1997. Mocking Clinton’s sex scandals, Scientology and the Virgin Mary with equal vigor, the show has ...…
…Arts michigandaily.com — The Michigan Daily 18 — Wednesday, December 9, 2020 This article is a part of the Daily Arts “Canceled” b-side. For a full look at our b-side pieces exploring this theme, visit our site. Season four of Netflix’s “The Crown” opens with a lunchtime conversation at Buckingham Palace. Queen Elizabeth II (Olivia Colman, “The Favourite”) sits at the end of a long table stacked with food and flower arrangemen...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Sports Wednesday, December 9, 2020 — 19 This season, the Michigan hockey team’s penalty kill has been crucial in shutting down high ranked opponents. But on Thursday, it was a major factor in the Wolverines’ downfall. Before its second matchup against Penn State, Michigan had killed 19 of its 22 penalties. “We have faith in our players,” sophomore forward Nick Granowicz said on Nov. 2...…
…20 — Wednesday, December 9, 2020 Sports The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Oftentimes in practice, the Michigan men’s basketball team plays exhibitions between its first and second units. Normally, the result is exactly what you’d expect it to be. “We may beat them a few times but most of the time (the starters are) beating up on us,” senior forward Chaundee Brown said. In Sunday’s 80-58 victory over Central Florida, thou...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Sports Wednesday, December 9, 2020 — 21 Michigan’s reaction to Ohio State game cancelation Jim Harbaugh protested and marched, released statements and said publicly at every turn that he wanted this football season to happen. And when he told the Michigan football team that the biggest game of their season was canceled — marking the first time in over a century that the Wolverines won’t p...…
…It’s not how you start, it’s how you finish. That refrain certainly rang true for the Michigan men’s basketball team (4-0) during Sunday’s 80-58 rout of Central Florida (1-1). After surviving three tune-up games against low mid-major opponents, the Wolverines came out flat against the Knights, who had beaten Auburn in their only game of the season. Not only was Michigan’s defense incapable of preventing UCF’s guards from getti...…
…michigandaily.com Ann Arbor, Michigan Monday, December 9, 2019 ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY-NINE YEARS OF EDITORIAL FREEDOM Four in a row Michigan comes back against Syracuse Thursday, tops Oakland Sunday on its way to 8-1 start to season. » Page 1B Members of the Climate Action Movement and the One University Campaign released a joint statement Friday after staging a series of protests and blockading the exits of the University ...…
…“The classes were ungraded, and by that I don’t mean A, B, C, D, I mean that you heard the same lectures, two years in a row,” Howell said. “Presumably you got more out of it the second time around.” Howell also said the University used to run two separate hospitals: one for homeopathic medicine and one for allopathic medicine. Howell explained operations were performed in the medical school amphitheater prior to the developmen...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Michigan in Color Monday, December 9, 2019 — 3A This is now one of the best times of the year in my opinion. Even if you don’t celebrate a particular holiday, it is great to acknowledge the power of love, offering and being surrounded by others. I personally celebrate Thanksgiving and Christmas — growing up in a Christian family has made this time very important to me. When I think about the ho...…
…Opinion The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com 4A — Monday, December 9, 2019 Alanna Berger Zack Blumberg Emily Considine Joel Danilewitz Cheryn Hong Krystal Hur Ethan Kessler Magdalena Mihaylova Mary Rolfes Michael Russo Timothy Spurlin Miles Stephenson Joel Weiner Erin White Lola Yang FINNTAN STORER Managing Editor Stanford Lipsey Student Publications Building 420 Maynard St. Ann Arbor, MI 48109 tothedaily@michigandaily.com Edited an...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Arts Monday, December 9, 2019 — 5A Midway through Paul Yoon’s “Run Me to Earth,” a woman quietly mends shirts in her hut in the mountains. Within the next few pages, she finds herself tangled in a stand- off between a hysterical father and the other people in her camp, a stand-off that involves weeping, strangulation and a stabbing. Extraordinarily, this moment of violence and what should be excitem...…
…By Kurt Mengel and Jan-Michele Gianette ©2019 Tribune Content Agency, LLC 12/09/19 Los Angeles Times Daily Crossword Puzzle Edited by Rich Norris and Joyce Nichols Lewis 12/09/19 ANSWER TO PREVIOUS PUZZLE: Release Date: Monday, December 9, 2019 ACROSS 1 “Georgia on My Mind” singer Charles 4 Party music mix, briefly 9 Keep from having kittens, say 13 “Big Band” and “Jazz” periods 15 Easily fooled 16 __-in-one: golfer’s ace 17 Caree...…
…Emma Mati & Olivia Cell / Daily Design by Jack Silberman ‘M’ TOPS OAKLAND DAYS AFTER BEATING ‘CUSE IN OT Monday, December 9, 2019 | michigandaily.com A grueling, late-night victory against one of the country’s most consistent powerhouses can leave a team limping unsuspectingly into a game two days later against a weaker in-state opponent, ripe to be upset. Instead, Michigan’s momentum from the end of Thursday’s electric victory ov...…
…2B — December 9, 2019 SportsMonday The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com T he bowl game has become an annual meta- phorical zombie for the Michigan football team. The team traverses to some warm, southern city, still wal- lowing from the letdown weeks prior, patently unmotivated to face off against an SEC opponent. For the last three years, the Wol- verines have taken their lumps, underperformed, then haphaz- ardly spewed th...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com SportsMonday December 9, 2019 — 3B All game, the No. 4 Michigan men’s basketball team had one roadblock to an otherwise easy win: Iowa big man Luka Garza. On his way to an astounding 44 points, Garza was a force to be reckoned with in the low post, dominating in his back-to-the- basket play. The Wolverines (8-1 overall, 1-0 Big Ten) saw early that Iowa’s (6-3, 0-1) offense started and stopped wi...…
…4B — December 9, 2019 SportsMonday The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Wolverines fall to Nittany Lions, 3-1 Almost. The Michigan hockey team (6-10-2 overall, 2-7-1-0 Big Ten) almost completed a comeback against No. 6 Penn State (12- 5-0, 7-3-0-0). And if it had, the comeback would’ve marked the first time this season the Wolverines were able to do so, amid their first Big Ten sweep. Instead, the game followed the same trajecto...…
…On a Thursday night in September, a LSA freshman named Hannah — who asked that only her first name be used because she is discussing underage drinking — had a few mixed drinks with her friends in her dorm room before going out. It was an 18+ night at BTB Cantina — a bar located on South University Avenue. At the time, Hannah was just old enough to get through the door. She was careful not drink at the bar — the bouncers h...…
…TAKIN’ SHORTCUTS. puzzle by sudokusyndication.com 2 — Friday, December 9, 2016 News The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Tweets Follow @michigandaily UniversityofMichigan @UMich CAPS and IGR invite you to come “RECHARGE.” Relax, reflect and learn sustainable self-care strategies. the Other Vigo @alejovigo That Michigan Winter never knows what’s happening... @ University of Michigan Susan Arceneaux @susan_arceneaux According...…
…3-News The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com News Friday, December 9, 2016 — 3 building,” he said. “The condition of the Fleming building is one of the worst on this campus … the building continues to deteriorate and now requires an annual inspection to ensure its safety.” Faculty and staff currently working in the Ruthven Building will move to the planned Biological Sciences Building, which is slated to be completed in the summ...…
…” I ’m not sure if any word has been used as frequently as “populism” in regard to politics this year. Politicians, experts, media outlets and everyone in between hasve been using “populism” to describe the recent and frequently unnerving political volatility around the world. I know the Oxford Dictionary has already chosen “post-truth” as its word of the year, but I think “populism” is a worthy runner-up. The United S...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Arts Friday, December 9, 2016 — 5 At the end of my penultimate semester at the University of Michigan, and in the final days of my editing career at The Daily, I’ve found myself turning to songs that I used to hate — the kind of tearjerking, stereotypical goodbye songs that always seem tailormade for these moments in life so that anybody who even mildly connects with the sentiment can feel un...…
…Classifieds Call: #734-418-4115 Email: dailydisplay@gmail.com ACROSS 1 Photoshop maker 6 Late __ 9 Average Joes, e.g. 14 Fishing needs 15 Bill’s future, maybe 16 Troy story 17 Dutch vodka brand 19 Coin receivers 20 Round orders 21 Extraction target 22 Hide in a crowd 23 Piano part 24 End of an Ernie Banks catchphrase about doubleheaders 27 State bordering six others and the Canadian mainland 29 Beam 30 Beats Electronics co-founder 31 Rebuke ...…
…Sports The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Friday, December 9, 2016 — 7 Season Review: Offensive Line With the Michigan football team’s 2016 regular season in the books, the Daily looks back at the performance of each unit this year and looks ahead to the future in 2017. In this edition: offensive line. It was the same story in 2016 as in 2015 for the Michigan football team’s offensive line, and that was good news for the Wolve...…
…8 — Friday, December 9, 2016 Sports The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Wolverines head west to visit high-scoring UCLA The Michigan men’s basketball team’s defense had to dig deep to come away with a win against Texas on Tuesday because the offense scored just 53 points. While the Wolverines struggled to find anything consistent on offense, the Longhorns were just as poor attacking, and Michigan was able to fall ...…
…michigandaily.com Ann Arbor, Michigan Wednesday, December 9, 2015 ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY-FIVE YEARS OF EDITORIAL FREEDOM Ethics committee recommendation generates debate during meeting By JACKIE CHARNIGA Daily Staff Reporter Calls to remove a Central Student Government representative after members of Students Allied for Freedom and Democracy questioned his conduct at their Diag demonstration continued to generate d...…
…2A — Wednesday, December 9, 2015 News The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com RITA MORRIS/Daily Doug Freeman, chief operating officer of Patagonia, discusses the ideals and expectations of running an environmentally conscious business at the Ross School of Business on Tuesday. The Supreme Court will hear oral arguments Wednesday in Fisher v. Texas, which will consider the use of affirmative action in college admissions, The...…
…Michigan and professional football player and the current medical director at a hospital in Reno, Nev. Hackett will remain in office until the University finds a permanent replacement, which Schlissel said will be an asset during the search process. “Interim Director Hackett continues to do a great job with the department,” Schlissel said. “He’s flexible enough to stay on as long as necessary to allow us to conduct a very th...…
…Opinion JENNIFER CALFAS EDITOR IN CHIEF AARICA MARSH and DEREK WOLFE EDITORIAL PAGE EDITORS LEV FACHER MANAGING EDITOR 420 Maynard St. Ann Arbor, MI 48109 tothedaily@michigandaily.com Edited and managed by students at the University of Michigan since 1890. Unsigned editorials reflect the official position of the Daily’s editorial board. All other signed articles and illustrations represent solely the views of their authors....…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Arts Wednesday, December 9, 2015 — 5A Although the setting of the play has not been tampered with, the cast and crew have taken some liberties with the production. Lindsay, the director, decided to keep the play in its original 15th century time period. “I’ve managed to work a number of women into the show,” she said. “One of the big things we did was change the Duke of Worcester to the...…
…Classifieds Call: #734-418-4115 Email: dailydisplay@gmail.com STAYING IN ANN ARBOR THIS SUMMER? APPLY TO WORK FOR THE MICHIGAN DAILY BUSINESS TEAM! DESIGNERS! LAYOUT! RANDOS! CONTACT TMD.ADDESIGN@GMAIL.COM IF YOU ARE INTERSTED! ACROSS 1 Under the weather 7 Like cotton candy 11 Fund-raising org. 14 Provoke 15 Subtle glow 16 Trip segment 17 Utopian 18 WWI aircraft 20 They may coordinate with floor mats 22 Quarterback’s target 23 Payro...…
…Sports The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Wednesday, December 9, 2015 — 7A Michigan’s inevitable loss I t seemed easy for the Michigan women’s basketball team to roll to a 7-0 start to the season — maybe too easy. Before Sunday’s loss to Princeton, the Wolverines had averaged 87.9 points per game, making them the third- best scoring offense in the country. They surpassed 100 points against South Carolina Upstate, wip...…
…8A — Wednesday December 9, 2015 Sports The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com LUNA ANNA ARCHEY/Daily When Harbaugh doesn’t want to watch the game anymore. THE M ANY FACES OF HARBAUGH ALLISON FARRAND/Daily It’s safe to say Harbaugh doesn’t agree with the referee’s call here. ALLISON FARRAND/Daily Just kidding, we know this is John Harbaugh. Don’t worry. Wolverines prepare for unknown Michigan readies for first bowl under Harbaugh B...…
…statement THE MICHIGAN DAILY DECEMBER 9, 2015 …
…2B Magazine Editor: Ian DIllingham Deputy Editor: Natalie Gadbois Design Editor: Jake Wellins Photo Editor: Luna Anna Archey Creative Director: Cheryll Victuelles Editor in Chief: Jennifer Calfas Managing Editor: Lev Facher Copy Editors: Hannah Bates Laura Schinagle Emma Sutherland THE statement “I feel like (my family members) would judge me or look at me differently (if they knew). Like ‘Hey mom, what’s going on? Is i...…
