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…COMMUNITY CULTURE COLUMN ‘Caroline, or Change’ and the beauty in ambiguity SAMMY SUSSMAN Daily Community Culture Columnist COMMUNITY CULTURE NOTEBOOK E-boys and E-girls: a new, nonchalant counterculture GRACE TUCKER Daily Arts Writer 6 — Thursday, February 20, 2020 Arts The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com WHISPER SUBMIT A WHISPER By Bruce Haight ©2020 Tribune Content Agency, LLC 02/20/20 Los Angeles Times Daily Crossword Puzzle ...…

…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Sports Thursday, February 20, 2020 — 7 As it entered the locker room at halftime Wednesday, the Michigan women’s basketball team had to catch its breath. The Wolverines just watched Illinois guard Brandi Beasley drive the length of the Crisler Center floor in five seconds, sinking a layup to give the Fighting Illini — the No. 13 team in the Big Ten — a one-point lead entering the break. I...…

…8 — Thursday, February 20, 2020 Sports The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com WITH LIVERS OUT, MICHIGAN RIDES ZAVIER SIMPSON’s 16-6-5 TO 60-52 WIN OVER SCARLET KNIGHTS ALEC COHEN / Daily RAC ATTACK Design by Jack Silberman ‘M’ tops Rutgers, 60-52, on the road PISCATAWAY — Prior to Wednesday’s night-matchup, the Michigan men’s basketball team had never lost to Rutgers — 12-0, to be exact. The Scarlet Knights meanwhile, currently ti...…

…michigandaily.com Ann Arbor, Michigan Wednesday, February 19, 2020 ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY-NINE YEARS OF EDITORIAL FREEDOM GOT A NEWS TIP? Call 734-418-4115 or e-mail news@michigandaily.com and let us know. INDEX Vol. CXXIX, No. 72 ©2020 The Michigan Daily NE WS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 A OPINION.....................4A CL ASSIFIEDS................6A S TAT E M E N T. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1 B A R T S . ...…

…The University of Michigan Central Student Government convened in the Michigan Union Tuesday night to discuss allocations of Legislative Discretionary funding, to confirm new roles and to amend the election code. The Assembly began with deliberations on allocating a fund of $5,645 for performing Macbeth in the Union courtyard. Music, Theatre & Dance representative Zion Jackson advocated for the resolution. “The re...…

…The panel then discussed college affordability and its impact on students at the University. Benji Timpf, regional coordinator for U.S. Sen. Gary Peters, stressed the senator’s focus on college affordability. “The Senator has been doing work to hold the Department of Ed accountable to ensure that the loans students are receiving, they know the conditions of those loans,” Tim said. “The Senator has been pushing ...…

…A common sentiment shared by people of color is that it’s exhausting to constantly have to explain your identities, your culture and whether or not a particular comment is appropriate to say when a simple Google search likely would have provided the inquirer with the answer to the question. What is often even more frustrating is that it is obvious when you’re not actively trying to diversify what you know about social identitie...…

…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Arts Wednesday, February 19, 2020 — 5A “Music Talks” is a series where Daily Music Writers give their takes on the biggest releases in new music. From picking best and worst tracks to asking what makes a record tick, the Music beat is here to give praise and give shit to music worth talking about. For better or for worse, Kevin Parker (the tie-dyed mastermind behind Tame Impala) is back. After ...…

…WHISPER By Roland Huget ©2020 Tribune Content Agency, LLC 02/19/20 Los Angeles Times Daily Crossword Puzzle Edited by Rich Norris and Joyce Nichols Lewis 02/19/20 ANSWER TO PREVIOUS PUZZLE: Release Date: Wednesday, February 19, 2020 ACROSS 1 Low poker pair 5 Mus. key with three sharps 9 Nigerian seaport 14 Greet with fanfare 15 Pizza Quick sauce brand 16 “You’ve got a friend” 17 First name in scat 18 Region where broadcast recepti...…

…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Sports Wednesday, February 19, 2020 — 7A Fatigue catching up to Michigan Prior to Sunday, the Michigan women’s basketball team had lost just two of its six games without senior forward Kayla Robbins — both to No. 18 Northwestern, both by single digits. Without sophomore guard Danielle Rauch, who suffered a hand injury in practice three games after Robbins went down, the Wolverines had won two...…

…8A — Wednesday, February 19, 2020 Sports The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Mann thrives in sweep of Spartans Monday night at Little Caesars Arena, Michigan coach Mel Pearson took his seat at the podium of the media room and got right to it. Not long before, the Michigan hockey team raised a trophy in celebration of a three-goal victory over Michigan State at the Duel in the D. But with the red carpet rolled and put awa...…

…statement THE MICHIGAN DAILY | FEBRUARY 19, 2020 Was Michigan an answer to the ‘Jewish Problem’? HUGH GRANNUM/Bentley Historical Library Hill Passover seder on April 1, 1942 …

…Wednesday, February 19, 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 I n March 2019, I found a YouTube video titled “How to Remember Your Life” that pro...…

…3B Wednesday, February 19, 2020 // The Statement 3B Content warning: This piece contains graphic descriptions of gender-based and sexual violence. H er mother said she was sorry that she hadn’t been there to protect her daughter, and that, of all the places she had warned her about, the post office wasn’t one of them,” read a news report of her death. On Sept. 4, 2019, about 2,000 people dressed in black were gathered in the U...…

…T he words poured over the crowd gathered on the Diag like a warm blanket, our collective voices growing in volume and conviction: Bless those in need of healing with re’fuah shlemah the renewal of body, the renewal of spirit and let us say, amen. The Mi Sheberach — a Jewish prayer — pleads for complete physical and spiritual healing. It is sung to help those we know and those we don’t. It is sung for Jews and non- Jews. My aunt ...…

…Wednesday, February 19, 2020 // The Statement 6B I t was early February, and a woman with short brown hair was leading me through a long, twisting hallway in the Student Activities Building. I held my coat in my arms, feeling stunned until we arrived at an empty office with just a chair and a sad, barren desk. Once inside, the woman directed me to sit at a small, round table as she took her place in the chair at the desk behind me, ...…

…Wednesday, January 16, 2019 // The Statement 7B Wednesday, February 19, 2020 // The Statement 7B I t was recital day, and all of my stu- dents were lined up backstage; these girls formed a perfectly straight line, no taller than my knee. I had been teaching dance since I was an adolescent so I knew what I was doing. My ballet teacher — whom I so badly wanted to impress, even though no matter how hard I tried, she would never complime...…

…Wednesday, February 20, 2020 // The Statement COLORS OF INDIA EXPLORED THE BEAUTIFUL COLORS, CULTURE AND NATURE OF GUJARAT, INDIA IN DECEMBER OF 2019 WITH THE BLUELAB INDIA PROJECT TEAM PHOTOS BY PAULINA RAJSKI Read more online at michigandaily.com …

…The co-founder and former CEO of Clinc, an Ann Arbor artificial intelligence startup with ties to the University of Michigan’s College of Engineering, is facing claims of sexual harassment. Jason Mars’s behavior was investigated after Clinc received two official complaints from employees in December. He stepped down as CEO Feb. 10 in response to the investigation. An article published in The Verge Thursday morning detailed rep...…

…2 — Tuesday, February 18, 2020 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com News The Michigan Daily (ISSN 0745-967) is published Monday through Friday during the fall and winter terms by students at the University OF Michigan. One copy is available free of charge to all readers. Additional copies may be picked up at the Daily’s office for $2. Subscriptions for September-April are $250 and year long subscriptions are $275. University affiliates ...…

…“Even though just inherently in this mock trial room, learning that cases weren’t finite and outcomes were creative and many different things could happen inside them — after this long observation, I knew as an artist I must turn to some kind of action,” McClellan said. McClellan also explored the role of storytelling in a courtroom and how it contributes to the infinite uncertainty of truth. She said she sees ...…

…T he Saline School District was recently dealt a blow when racist incidents within the community made local and national headlines. The first was the discovery of a student Snapchat group that contained racial slurs and epithets like “White Power” and “The South Will Rise Again.” Students of color within that group chat reportedly felt marginalized, “unsafe” and “frustrated.” The second occurred at the community response to ...…

…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Arts Tuesday, February 18, 2020 — 5 One of the many pleasures of Andrea Lawlor’s 2017 novel “Paul Takes The Form Of A Mortal Girl” is the realization I came to that this novel is more or less unreadable by a straight person. It’s saturated with vivid, unsparing depictions of not only gay sex but also the ecosystem that surrounds it — glances and recognitions and guesswork, a whole network o...…

…6 — Tuesday, February 18, 2020 Arts The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com WHISPER SUBMIT A WHISPER By Craig Stowe ©2020 Tribune Content Agency, LLC 02/18/20 Los Angeles Times Daily Crossword Puzzle Edited by Rich Norris and Joyce Nichols Lewis 02/18/20 ANSWER TO PREVIOUS PUZZLE: Release Date: Tuesday, February 18, 2020 ACROSS 1 Govt.-backed investment 6 Travelocity recommendations 10 Comprehends 14 Commandment verb involving par...…

…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Sports Tuesday, February 18, 2020 — 7 Breaking down the Wolverines’ recent revival Two days before the Michigan men’s basketball team’s thrashing of Indiana, Eli Brooks leaned against the blue curtains of the Crisler Center media room, his blue mesh practice pinnie almost blending in. The junior guard fielded questions, most of which had nothing to do with the Hoosiers. Instead, he was ask...…

…8 — Tuesday, February 18, 2020 Sports The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com BEHIND TWO POWER PLAY GOALS, MICHIGAN CRUSHES SPARTANS, 4-1, MOVING TO THIRD IN BIG TEN BEHIND 8-1-1 RECORD IN 2020 KEEMYA ESMAEL / Daily POWERING FORWARD Design by Jack Silberman Wolverines win Duel in the D, 4-1 DETROIT — Nick Blankenburg extended his two hands out and wagged them up and down like paws. At first glance, it seemed like an innocent gestur...…

…GOT A NEWS TIP? Call 734-418-4115 or e-mail news@michigandaily.com and let us know. INDEX Vol. CXXIX, No. 71 ©2020 The Michigan Daily N E WS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 A OPINION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4A CROSSWORD................6A M I C . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 A A R T S . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 A S P O R T S . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 B michigandail...…

…2A — Monday, February 17, 2020 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com News The Michigan Daily (ISSN 0745-967) is published Monday through Friday during the fall and winter terms by students at the University OF Michigan. One copy is available free of charge to all readers. Additional copies may be picked up at the Daily’s office for $2. Subscriptions for September-April are $250 and year long subscriptions are $275. University affiliates ...…

…This past November, voters in the U.S. made history by electing not one, but two incredible Muslim women into our 116th House of Representatives. They are Ilhan Omar, a Black, Somali Immigrant from Minnesota’s 5th Congressional district who frequently and unabashedly calls out deeply problematic white men in power, and Rashida Tlaib, an incredible Palestinian-American woman who coined the phrase “Impeach the Motherf*cker” o...…

…C oming out of the Iowa caucus victorious, Democratic candidate and Mayor of South Bend, Ind., Pete Buttigieg has seen a recent surge in popularity. Because he is the first openly gay person to make a serious bid for the presidency, Buttigieg’s success is undoubtedly a big moment for LGBTQ+ Americans, especially in a state like Iowa that voted for Donald Trump four years ago. However, that hasn’t made him the community’s c...…

…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Arts Monday, February 17, 2020 — 5A Anne Carson can come across as a writer with no clear lineage or influences — even as she references the work of other authors, her poetry and prose seem to float relatively free of clear affiliation to any contemporary literary trend. Her career as a classicist (with a generalist’s flair: she’s written about film and modernism extensively) might ...…

…6 — Monday, February 17, 2020 Arts The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com WHISPER SUBMIT A WHISPER By John R. O’Brien ©2020 Tribune Content Agency, LLC 02/17/20 Los Angeles Times Daily Crossword Puzzle Edited by Rich Norris and Joyce Nichols Lewis 02/17/20 ANSWER TO PREVIOUS PUZZLE: Release Date: Monday, February 17, 2020 ACROSS 1 Weed whackers 5 Annoy 9 Macbeth, by birth 13 Saintly glows 15 Impressionist 16 Lola’s nightclub, in son...…

… What started as an average loose ball became anything but. Jon Teske might’ve just missed a point-blank layup attempt, but he wasn’t going to give up on the play. As the rebound evaded the grasp of the Hoosiers, the senior center dove on it and had the wherewithal to find Franz Wagner alone under the basket for two. Teske’s effort, apart from send- ing the Crisler Center crowd into an uproar, capped off an offensive onslaught th...…

…2B — February 17, 2020 SportsMonday The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com In 2017, just after Mel Pearson was hired as the Michigan hockey coach, he went to Red Berenson’s house and had what he called the best conversation of his life. The two sat on the deck in Beren- son’s backyard and talked for two hours, about anything and everything. It was a beauti- ful night, Pearson recalled, and they sipped drinks. A weight appeared to be ...…

…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com SportsMonday February 17, 2020 — 3B Simpson stars as ‘M’ beats Indiana Zavier Simpson took the ball up the court to kick things off against Indiana on Sunday. But, fairly uncharacteristically, Simpson attempted to find his man on the right side only to see the ball land squarely in the hands of a Hoosier. Rather than follow up Indiana’s opening bucket with a couple points of his own, Simpson...…

…4B — February 17, 2020 SportsMonday The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com The 2020 season started the way the No. 8 Michigan baseball team (3-1) hoped the 2019 season would end. Trailing by one run in the top of the ninth inning, first baseman Matt Schmidt stepped up to the plate. For the fifth- year senior, this opportunity had been a long time coming. In the first game of the season in a rematch against the defending national cha...…

…The University of Michigan School of Public Health and Healthy Policy Student Association hosted a panel discussion focusing on the importance of health care policy in the context of the election year on Thursday afternoon. About 50 students and community members attended the event. The panelists included Jonathan Cohn, senior national correspondent at HuffPost; Charles Gaba, health care analyst and founder of A...…

…Andrea Turpin, associate professor of history at Baylor University, presented a lecture on changes in views on the admission of women into institutions for higher education. Organized by the Bentley Historical Library, about 30 students and professors attended the event on Wednesday night in honor of the 150th anniversary of the admission of women to the University of Michigan. Turpin, author of the award-winning book “...…

…“The first time I walked into Wieden+Kennedy, that was when I understood passion,” White said. “That was when I understood a place that everything they do is about creativity. Everything they do is about enabling incredible creatives to do incredible creative things in the world.” White told students he worked as the managing director for Nike’s Shanghai office during the 2008 Beijing Olympics. White and his team work...…

…A s President Donald Trump took to the House of Representatives dais, grinned in encouragement along with his Republican colleagues’ “four more years” chant and refused a handshake from Speaker Nancy Pelosi, it became readily apparent that this year’s State of the Union address was going to be unlike any in recent history. Customary to tradition, President Trump made frequent appeals to his administration’s achievements t...…

…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Arts Friday, February 14, 2020 — 5A Valentine’s Day has some claim on sentimentality. It launches love into the spotlight, or at least into your peripheral; it pits love and loneliness against each other, these umbrella terms used as placeholders to describe the diversity of feeling that actually overcomes us. These albums claim that sentimentality back. They let your love, heartbreak, or anything in...…

…Read more at MichiganDaily.com 6A — Friday, February 14, 2020 Arts The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com puzzle by sudokusnydictation.com By Garry Morse ©2020 Tribune Content Agency, LLC 02/14/20 Los Angeles Times Daily Crossword Puzzle Edited by Rich Norris and Joyce Nichols Lewis 02/14/20 ANSWER TO PREVIOUS PUZZLE: Release Date: Friday, February 14, 2020 ACROSS 1 Penthouses, e.g.: Abbr. 5 Smartphone downloads 9 Metaphor for resp...…

…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Sports Friday, February 14, 2020 — 7A Michigan, down to essentially six players, was still in it. Sophomore forward Naz Hillmon was out with an upper body injury suffered in the first quarter. Freshman guard Maddie Nolan tallied her fifth foul early in the fourth quarter. Senior guard Akienreh Johnson was battered and bruised. Freshman center Izabel Varejão hopped on one foot to the bench bef...…

…Photos courtesy of the Pearson Family Design by Jack Silberman Mel Pearson holds court every day after practice in his office at Yost Ice Arena. Usually he talks about hockey. But on Nov. 6, he was asked about his high school years, and another thought resurfaced: Susie, his wife, and how they met. As he finished up his story about her, he got up from his couch and headed to the exit. While he put his hand on the door, anot...…

…Ty and I were never supposed to meet. He grew up homeless in New Jersey, while my Michigan suburb bubble-wrapped me in privilege. He’s Afro-Latino and I’m white. We met studying abroad in Costa Rica, where he taught me to dance bachata, and I taught him to play ukulele. Having escaped the social structures keeping us apart in the U.S., we quickly fell in love. Six months, two countries and three states later, learning is still ...…

…Friday, February 14, 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 I n Hebrew, the word for “to love” has the same root as the word “to give.” I’ve alwa...…

…I have a box that has followed me from one childhood room to the next. When I was seven, it rested under my bed. At 10, it moved into a room upstairs with me and onto a closet shelf. When I was 17, it wedged itself into a corner between my dresser and the wall. Now, it just sits on my desk in my apartment. Sometimes I’ll run my hand over it in the morning, or I’ll open it up when hit by a wave of nostalgia. Inside it are love lett...…

…Friday, February 14, 2020 // The Statement 4B 5B Friday, February 14, 2020 // The Statement ILLUSTRATION BY MAGGIE WIEBE Tiny Love Stories Jacob threatens to order a pizza nearly every night but almost never follows through. We rarely share a meal that doesn’t send him into some vague gastrointestinal pain, except the sushi we once ate in a Toledo, Ohio bathtub (“I didn’t know sushi could be, like, a meal”). He once mused on the concep...…

…Friday, February 14, 2020 // The Statement 6B “Love Island”: The Walden Pond of reality TV T V has always moved too fast for me. I was too busy running track and selling books in high school to participate in my nuclear family’s “Breaking Bad” bonding routine, I gave up on “Twin Peaks” after distractedly missing too many plot points and I figured that everyone else knew enough about “The Office” and “Game of Thrones” for me to ride ...…

…Wednesday, January 16, 2019 // The Statement 7B Friday, February 14, 2020 // The Statement 7B O ver Winter Break, my mother and I drove 90 minutes to visit the gravesite of my paternal grandmother Gail, a place neither of us had seen. We drove around the cemetery in dizzy circles and tra- versed plots of well-kept grass to find it, searching the site with only a rough draft of a map found online. I’d always wanted to visit the site and...…