… Reflections on Gen Z’s image When I typed “Why is Generation Z…” into Google, the first autofill suggestion was “so soft.” The second was “so sensitive.” Next was “entitled,” followed by “different,” “anxious” and “stressed.” It feels like Gen Z — which is largely agreed to include anyone born from 1997-2012 — is quickly surpassing Millennials as the least- liked generation. Article after article details how damag...…
…12 Thursday, June 10, 2021 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily. Nine Wolverines receive all-conference recognition Baseball Beat predicts Michigan’s fate The Michigan baseball team is well represented on this year’s all-Big Ten teams, which were chosen by conference coaches and announced Sunday. Nine Wolverines — five position players and four pitchers — received recognition. Sophomore second baseman Ted Burton and...…
…Thursday, June 10, 2021 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com SPORTS After taking a strike, sophomore designated hitter Ted Burton stepped back into the batter’s box and pulled the second pitch of his fourth- inning at-bat over the left- field wall for a solo home run. The homer, and junior second baseman Riley Bertram’s third- inning double, looked like signs that the Michigan baseball team had figured out Connecticut starter ...…
…14 Thursday, June 10, 2021 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com SPORTS Fifth-year outfielder Christian Bullock slapped a ground ball up the middle, where the shortstop fumbled it. The bases were loaded with no one out for the top of the Wolverine order in the seventh, with sophomore outfielders Clark Elliott and Tito Flores coming to plate. After Elliott worked the count to 3-and-0, Michigan finally looked like it might get back...…
…Dr. Jeanice Swift, superintendent of Ann Arbor Public Schools (AAPS), announced on May 13 that the School Age Child Care program (SACC) will not be offered during the 2021- 2022 school year. According to AAPS, SACC is a state-licensed child care program designed to meet the needs of working parents by offering planned and supervised activities before and after school . This decision stunned AAPS parents and was met with...…
…The University of Michigan is planning to hold a fall semester mostly featuring a return to normalcy, including in-person instruction for small and medium size classes, on-campus housing and large crowds at sports games. This is largely due to the state of Michigan’s and the University’s progress in COVID-19 vaccinations. In a previous interview with The Michigan Daily, University President Mark Schlissel said vaccin...…
…University of Michigan President Mark Schlissel is facing backlash from U-M faculty and campus organizations after portraying expanded tuition assistance for UM-Flint and UM-Dearborn students as a financial and academic burden on the UM-Ann Arbor campus. In a survey sent to over 4,000 faculty, Schlissel asked faculty to rate their agreement with the statement: “UM-Ann Arbor should provide funding for students a...…
…4 Thursday, June 3, 2021 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com OPINION T ikTok’s explosion in popularity in recent years marks a new era in Generation Z-dominated internet culture, and the trend doesn’t seem to be slowing down. TikTok had amassed over 689 million active users as of January 2021, and over 60% of them were people under 30 — including many Gen Z kids creating comedy, fashion, dance and beauty videos. TikTok is...…
…define ourselves by the institutions we occupied when we interacted with them constantly. I’m sure that if a ran- dom person asked me, “Tell me about yourself,” during a regular year, I might mention the university which I attend, but since I live at home, and all of my classes have been online, the fact that I attend the University of Michi- gan barely crosses my mind. Since we’ve been so removed from personal connection, the idea ...…
…6 Thursday, June 3, 2021 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com How Can I Extend an Olive Branch? MICHIGAN IN COLOR Palestine. The Holy Land. An ancient motherland, where every nook and cranny possesses a piece of sacred history. Home of the olive tree — a renowned symbol of peace and tranquility yet trampled in the face of oppression. A centuries old fruit bearer, ripped from its roots, as though it holds no weight, no meaning. ...…
…7 Thursday, June 3 2021 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com MICHIGAN IN COLOR There we sat in her childhood bedroom. Except it was no longer purple like mine. In fact, it felt like her entire house changed. New pictures on the walls, new appliances in her kitchen. I felt like a stranger in the house I grew up going to every day. You never realize you start to drift away from someone you love until you reconnect and rekindle t...…
…8 Thursday, June 3, 2021 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com MULTIMEDIA A few hundred Dearborn resi- dents came together outside of the Dearborn Police Department on Fri- day evening for a candlelight vigil to show their support and mourning for the people of Palestine. Organized by Dearborn resident and activist Laila Abunab-Elabed, the event called for peace and liberation in Palestine. As the crowd formed, children were invi...…
…9 Thursday, June 3 2021 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com MULTIMEDIA Community members march to remember George Floyd One year after the murder of George Floyd, community members gathered in Ann Arbor to protest against police brutality and system- ic racism Wednesday afternoon. Protesters marched down Washtenaw Avenue to the Washt- enaw County Sheriff’s Office where they joined hands in solidarity and sang in memory of Geo...…
…10 Thursday, June 3, 2021 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com ARTS “A Quiet Place Part II” struggles in comparison to its predecessor Album Review: Bruiser Brigade - TV62 After over a year-long break from movie theaters, I went to see “A Quiet Place Part II,” thoroughly expecting my first foray back into the theater to be an enjoyable experience. Unfortunately, “A Quiet Place Part II” disappointed. To be fair, I had high expect...…
…11 Thursday, June 3, 2021 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com ARTS Humans have told stories since we invented language and art, but the history of storytelling has reached new heights in the last forty years thanks to a complex, marvelous technological invention: video games. Video games combine art, music, performance, science, and perhaps most important of all, writing. There is an endless list of video games that have been ...…
…12 Thursday, June 3, 2021 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com STATEMENT “The COVID transition: Summer travel, social activities and masks Over late night cups of tea during finals season, one of my housemates and I discussed our hopes and plans for the summer. She would be vacationing in Florida with her boyfriend and going on a trip home to Seattle. The talk of travel and social activities was exciting; however, there was a l...…
…A faith of my own The pages of the frayed old children’s book peek out of my nightstand, begging to be read once again. Prepared for the overflow of emotions and tears that I know are on their way, I wipe my eyes, put on my glasses and open the little white drawer. Inscribed on the inside of the book — written in my grandpa’s curly, comforting cursive — is a short poem: Dearest Emily, May the wind be at your back, Let no grass gr...…
…14 Thursday, June 3, 2021 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily. Dickinson declares for NBA Draft while retaining eligibility Paul Nasr: The NCAA failed Michigan, and softball as a whole After an accolade-filled freshman season, Hunter Dickinson is testing the NBA waters. Wednesday afternoon, Dickinson announced that he will enter the NBA Draft while signing with an NCAA- certified agent in order to retain his college ...…
…When Michigan’s biggest strength became its Achilles’ heel Bats go quiet, come up short against Nebraska SEATTLE — All year, there were two people Michigan could count on. Pitchers Alex Storako and Meghan Beaubien. One was the Big Ten pitcher of the year, and the other, a senior who came into the weekend ranked 12th in the country with her ERA of 1.08. No other team in the field of 64 in the NCAA softball tournament had a pa...…
…16 Thursday, June 3, 2021 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com SPORTS Pitching and defense. Those were the themes for both teams throughout the series as the Michigan baseball team (27-17 Big Ten) went 1-2 to close the regular season at Nebraska (31-12). In game one, redshirt sophomore left-hander Steven Hajjar took the hill for the Wolverines. Hajjar tossed a complete game, giving up just one run on four hits. Hajjar p...…
…michigandaily.com Thursday, June 25, 2020 INDEX Vol. CXXIX, No. 119 © 2020 The Michigan Daily NEWS .................................... OPINION ............................... ARTS/NEWS.......................... MiC......................................... SPORTS................................ MICHIGAN IN COLOR Avatar: The Last Airbender Looking towards Avatar as a call to cultural unity and effective uprising in a time of national...…
…Over 2,000 people crowded the Diag on Friday to celebrate June- teenth, the day when African slaves in Texas were told they were free –– two years after the Emancipation Proclamation. This event, hosted by Survivors Speak and other local organizers, aimed to incorporate awareness for police brutality into a day of celebration. Event organizer Trische’ Duck- worth, Survivors Speak founder, told The Daily even though June- teenth is a d...…
…Alec Gallimore, University of Michigan dean of engineering, and Laura Blake Jones, dean of students, held a town hall with various student groups involved in plans for the upcoming school year on Monday afternoon following University President Mark Schlis- sel’s announcement regarding fall semester earlier in the day. After walking through informa- tion presented in Schlissel’s email and the new website, Gallimore and Jones answered ...…
…there is a physical difference between the white and black races which I believe will forever forbid the two races living together on terms of social and political equality. And inasmuch as they cannot so live, while they do remain together there must be the position of superior and infe- rior, and I as much as any other man am in favor of having the superior position assigned to the white race.” Simply put, Lincoln was never anti- ra...…
…I f someone ever asked me to describe my experience with sexual assault at the University of Michigan, I would tell them being a female student on a college campus has become a position of anxiety, fear and emotional distress. I would tell them that I have seen countless friends’ lives altered because of sexual assault. I would tell them I have had strangers grab my hips and pull me in close at tailgates in broad daylight. I would t...…
…6 Thursday, June 25 , 2020 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com ARTS ALBUM REVIEW ALBUM REVIEW Bob Dylan reckons with the apocalypse On Dec. 13, 1963, Bob Dylan was given the “Tom Paine Award” by the Emergency Civil Liberties Committee for his political activism. A visibly shaken, and likely drunk, Dylan said he accepted the award on behalf of “everybody that went down to Cuba,” then unleashed a doozy: “I got to admit that the man...…
…The New York City Ballet cancelled its famous five-week run of “The Nutcrack- er” Thursday, citing advice from govern- ment officials and medical professionals regarding dangers of the coronavirus. The nixed Christmas spectacle means the company won’t return to the stage until 2021. The news comes with a certain sense of domino-tipping: Who will be next? The Joffrey Ballet in Chicago already can- celled their version of the show, and Sa...…
…8 Thursday, June 25, 2020 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com MICHIGAN IN COLOR South Asians need to be heldaccountablefortheir Anti-Blackness NITHA ARUN & SUBARNA BHATTACHA- RYA MiC Guest Writers The cold didn’t stop anyone from going out during syllabus week. We went to an event hosted by Sigma Beta Rho, a multi- cultural fraternity mainly made up of South Asian males. The DJ was playing a song and the n-word dropped. Without he...…
…9 Thursday, June 25, 2020 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com MICHIGAN IN COLOR Colonial indoctrination and colorism in India SUNITHA PALAT MiC Staff Writer As the Black liberation move- ment gained traction over the past month, I, like many others, have taken time to learn, understand and reflect on the systemic racial prejudice ingrained in this country against Black Americans. However, from a broader perspective, I’ve also tak...…
…10 Thursday, June 25, 2020 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com SPORTS Michigan reports two positive COVID-19 tests from student athletes Of the 221 COVID-19 tests performed on student- athletes as Michigan began its reintroduction of athletes on campus, two came back positive. The univeristy did not reveal which sport those athletes play, but for now only men’s basketball, women’s basketball and football athletes are allowe...…
…11 Thursday, June 25, 2020 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com SPORTS Joe Donovan and Matt Schmidt sign minor league contracts Junior catcher Joe Donovan and redshirt-senior infielder Matthew Schmidt became the fifth and sixth players from Michigan baseball to join the professional ranks, signing with Cleveland Tuesday and Kansas City Wednesday, respectively, as undrafted free agents. Donovan and Schmidt join the other four Wolve...…
…12 Thursday, June 25, 2020 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com MULTIMEDIA Experiencing my small town’s Black Lives Matter protests I grew up in Chelsea Michigan, a small town 20 minutes away from Ann Arbor. Chelsea is a racially homogenous community, and has very few minorities, so when protests for Black Lives Matter started happening in the end of May, I never thought they would happen in my community. Sure, I expected a few...…
…Chinese students in the U.S. have faced a unique set of challenges amid the pandemic, several of which exceed those of their domestic peers: from dealing with hate speech that wrongfully places blame on Chinese immigrants for the pandemic, to the threat of deportation in light of disruptions to their in-person research and academic pursuits. For Chinese graduate students in STEM fields, they face additional concerns from t...…
…Metro-Detroiters march against police brutality Last weekend, The Michigan Daily reporters went to 11 differ- ent protests, driving 269 miles and speaking to almost 100 people in 10 cities about why they came out. Some said it was their first time protesting. Many more said they were used to protests in big cities, but they never expected protests of this magnitude — or even pro- tests in general — in their subur- ban hometowns. Wh...…
…After temporarily closing all locations for almost two months in light of the COVID-19 pandemic, Espresso Royale Coffee has announced all business will permanently cease, including branch operations, catering and online sales. “Some would say that a company that goes out of business has failed; we don’t think so,” their website said. “Since 1987, Espresso Royale has served excellent coffee to millions of customers...…
…now are nothing new. From many past demonstrations — including the 2014 Ferguson protests in Missouri that ush- ered in the Black Lives Matter move- ment to the 1992 Los Angeles riots to the 1965 Watts riots — we are reminded that the stringent acts of racial profil- ing, oppression and violence enacted by police officers on the Black community is a centuries-old problem. As discussed in a recent editorial, modern policing agencies in ...…
…“ When do you think the protests will stop?” My mother asked me this when we were both sitting in the kitchen a few days ago. “Didn’t they arrest the cop who killed that guy? I don’t understand why there are all these violent protests still. And how does it benefit any- one to vandalize a building?” My mother is the daughter of two Cuban immigrants. My father is the proud son of two Cubans who also came to the United States decad...…
…6 Thursday, June 18 , 2020 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com ARTS Confronting a legacy of racism in country Black squares. Thoughts and prayers. “Love,” heart emojis and hashtags. That about sums up the country music communi- ty’s response to the recent uprisings for racial justice that were sparked by the murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery and so many others. Instead of using their platforms to advocate for...…
…Fourteen-year-old Jalaiah Harmon cho- reographed the famous “Renegade” dance in September 2019. She posted it on the social video app Funimate and by October the bouncy set of moves had been recreated on TikTok. It was quickly popularized by influencer Charli D’Amelio and by early 2020 the dance had reached unprecedent- ed stardom. The choreography floated into seemingly every corner of the internet and many offline dance parties. But...…
…8 Thursday, June 18, 2020 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com MICHIGAN IN COLOR Resentment: the politiciation of emotion to liberate the colonied GABRIJELA SKOKO MiC Managing Edtior The revolutionary nature of Glen Sean Coulthard’s book, “Red Skin, White Masks: Rejecting the Colonial Politics of Recogni- tion,” serves as a salute to radical scholar Frantz Fanon’s postcolonial work through its exposure of Canada’s systematic mar-...…
…9 Thursday, June 18, 2020 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com MICHIGAN IN COLOR A brief history of Black Muslims in America NOOR MOUGHNI MiC Staff Writer The American stigma around Islam often recognizes Muslim Americans as a recent addition to the nation, failing to recognize Black Muslims arrived with the first slave ship to reach Virginia’s coast in 1619. The first large influx of Muslim Americans were Black Muslims ca...…
…10 Thursday, June 18, 2020 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com SPORTS Eastern transfer halted by admissions For the Michigan men’s basketball team, Wednesday delivered yet another hiccup in an already bumpy offseason. Just a month after his surprise commitment to the Wolverines, Purdue transfer guard Nojel Eastern announced that he will no longer be heading to Ann Arbor. “I was not admitted to the University because o...…
…11 Thursday, June 18, 2020 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com SPORTS Jackson fronts dynamic special teams When considering Giles Jackson’s game-breaking speed, a few plays come to mind. Sure, there’s the reverse handoff he took 22 yards for a touchdown against Ohio State. Or the 40-yard reception off a wheel route against Alabama in the Citrus Bowl. But when examining Jackson’s full body of work as a freshman last fall, one ...…
…12 Thursday, June 18, 2020 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com SPORTS Rockies draft Blomgren In the fourth round of the 2020 MLB Draft Thursday, the Colorado Rockies selected junior shortstop Jack Blomgren with the 140th overall pick. The Rockies acquired a two- way shortstop with a knack for getting on-base and dynamic infielding capabilities. Blomgren started almost as soon as his freshman campaign began and though he strug...…
…Thursday, June 11, 2020 INDEX Vol. CXXIX, No. 117 © 2020 The Michigan Daily NEWS .................................... OPINION ............................... ARTS/NEWS.......................... MiC......................................... SPORTS................................ MICHIGAN IN COLOR Mass incarceration and Black American health Analysis of U.S. prisons & detriments to the Black community. >> SEE PAGE 8 NEWS Internatio...…
…The University of Michigan hosted a virtual town hall titled “Constructive Conversations for Societal Change” on Friday, in soli- darity with the protests that have erupted across the nation against racism and police brutality. The town hall was moderated by Rob- ert M. Sellers, vice provost of equity and inclusion and chief diversity officer, and focused on providing a platform for the University of Mich- igan community to come toget...…
…Rackham student Aya M. Waller- Bey was sitting in her room in Munger Graduate Residences when she heard someone else moving around in her suite. She got up to find a maintenance man, who told her that work would be done on two rooms inside her suite. Two new residents were expected to move in in a few weeks. “He’s like, ‘Oh, there’s two rooms here we’re going to work on today and also tomorrow,’” Waller- Bey said. “‘We might be getti...…
…W e all know Karen. She is the minority of 30 to 40-year-old white women whose voice is loud despite how misguided and misinformed she is. She exudes entitlement and a superior “Can I speak to the manager?” attitude. She is unafraid to use her privilege as a weapon. In today’s context, she is audibly doubtful of any new COVID-19 research and public-health protocols, especially when her long-overdue salon appointment is at stake....…
…F ollowing George Floyd’s kill- ing late last month, the news that former police officer Derek Chauvin had been arrested and recently charged with second-degree murder was no doubt a positive development. Many prominent national figures, including former presidential candidate Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., have seen it as a sign of progress and a “first step towards justice.” Even though many, including Mr. Floyd’s family, believe th...…
…6 Thursday, June 11 , 2020 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com ARTS On ‘Creole Giselle’, a re- imagined classic ballet Many ballet stories are weird. Swans falling in love, dolls being mis- taken for humans and the Christmas- time obsession with a nut-cracking device all pass as normal. We accept their quirks because their music and choreography are about more than their stories. Adolphe Adam’s “Giselle” is different. “Giselle” has...…
