…Every Saturday morning since September 2003, members of Witnesses For Peace — an anti- Israel protest group — have stood outside the Beth Israel Congregation on Washtenaw Avenue in Ann Arbor. Members of the group hold signs reading “Resist Jewish Power,” “Jewish Power Corrupts,” “Boycott Israel,” “Stop U.S. Aid to Israel” and “End the Palestinian holocaust.” Their demonstrations last from about 9:30 to 11:30 a.m., taking p...…
…The Ann Arbor City Council met for the first time in 2020 on Monday night to discuss a federal lawsuit filed over anti- Israel protests at Beth Israel Congregation and increasing regulations for short-term rental properties. Anti-Israel protester Henry Herskovitz spoke during public comment about the political demonstrations. Herskovitz, who leads the groups Deir Yassin Remembered and Jewish Witnesses for Peace and Friends, i...…
…“The First Amendment … is subject to appropriate limitations on its continued and repeated usage.” Defendants named in the lawsuit include Henry Herskovitz, Gloria Harb, Tom Saffold, Rudy List and Chris Mark. The lawsuit also lists the groups Deir Yassin Remembered and Jewish Witnesses for Peace and Friends — both led by Herskovitz, a former member of the congregation — as defendants. The Southern Poverty Law Center ...…
…Opinion The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com 4A — Wednesday, January 8, 2020 Alanna Berger Brittany Bowman Zack Blumberg Emily Considine Cheryn Hong Krystal Hur Ethan Kessler Mary Rolfes Michael Russo Timothy Spurlin Miles Stephenson Joel Weiner Erin White Lola Yang ERIN WHITE Managing Editor Stanford Lipsey Student Publications Building 420 Maynard St. Ann Arbor, MI 48109 tothedaily@michigandaily.com Edited and managed by students ...…
…Kiley Reid is interested in what makes us cringe. “As a writer I’m really drawn toward hyper-realistic, almost awkward dialogue and inner monologue,” said Reid in a recent phone interview with The Michigan Daily. “And I’m very drawn to characters who find themselves in positions of power and don’t really know what to do with it.” Accordingly, Reid situates her debut novel, “Such A Fun Age,” at the nexus of multiple tricky relatio...…
…Let’s get this out of the way: I write negative reviews about music because I hate music, and you should hate it too. After all, what is music if it isn’t something to dump on? Taking what people love, analyzing it piece by piece and ripping it to shreds to invalidate their enjoyment is what I thrive on. I just want to take your favorite album and show you why it’s so terrible until you hate it yourself. What, you thought I list...…
…SPORTSWEDNESDAY Wednesday, January 8, 2020 | michigandaily.com 32 pts, 9 asts, 11-19 fg CASSIUS Alec Cohen / Daily Design by Jack Silberman Wolverines fall to Spartans, 87-69, in East Lansing ABBY SNYDER Daily Sports Writer MEN’S BASKETBALL EAST LANSING – This game was almost exactly as advertised. Cassius Winston and Xavier Tillman: stifling on defense and prolific on offense. As advertised. Tom Izzo: calculating game manager, p...…
…2B — January 8, 2020 SportsWednesday The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Shooting troubles plague Michigan EAST LANSING — Brick by brick, Michigan laid the foundation of its own downfall. Whether it was beyond the arc, from the elbow or along the baseline, the Wolverines struggled to knock down shots for three-quarters of Sunday’s 18-point, 87-69 drubbing at the hands of No. 14 Michigan State. A fairly even contest through the ...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com SportsWednesday January 8, 2020 — 3B Pearson increasing focus on details going into second half of the season After Michigan’s loss to Michigan Tech last Tuesday, coach Mel Pearson — as he always does — went back to look at the tape from the game. This time, he noticed something he thought may have been the key factor in his team’s 4-2 loss to the Huskies. The Wolverines had 37 shots on goa...…
…4B — January 8, 2020 SportsWednesday The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com O RLANDO, Fla. — Camer- on McGrone mentioned the big plays first, taking the blame for his unit without explicitly saying it. Michigan gave up too many, he said, and that was the key. McGrone wasn’t wrong — the defense did give up six plays of 20 or more yards — but Alabama will do that to you. Loaded with a set of skill-position players just as goo...…
…statement THE MICHIGAN DAILY | JANUARY 8, 2020 PHOTO BY ANNE KLUSENDORF Redemption in dialouge …
…Wednesday, January 8, 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 statement THE MICHIGAN DAILY | JANUARY 8, 2020 I thought I’d aged out of this years ag...…
…D uring the winter holidays, Augie’s Coffee Roasters of Claremont, California is overflowing with recent college graduates reuniting, families stopping for a moment with babies in strollers and young couples chatting over matcha, oat milk lattes. The customers spill out to the tables of the Packing House, a relic of the ancient Californian citrus empire that’s been repurposed into a village attraction, complete with artists’ lofts...…
…E njoy your meal!” said the waiter. “You too!” I responded thoughtlessly. The dialogue which shapes our lives is often a fumble. We stutter, misspeak, offend, reveal too much or not enough. Once we say what we do, it cannot be unsaid. In a technological world, what we type is forever imprinted somewhere. Contemporary “cancel culture” ensures that what we say and write is not only permanent, but unforgivable. Similarly, what is unsaid in...…
…Wednesday, January 8, 2020 // The Statement 6B A little faith I n the August before my junior year, I scrambled to rearrange my schedule. I cold-emailed professors, begging them to let me into their classes and hopping on the waitlist of any possible course. Then I came across one called “The Catholic Novel.” The course description read: “All are welcome: religious, agnostic, atheist, non- Christian, just reading, Catholic curious, and ...…
…Wednesday, January 16, 2019 // The Statement 7B Wednesday, January 8, 2020 // The Statement 7B I thought I’d aged out of this years ago. I’m sitting criss-cross applesauce in my apartment while my roommate straightens my hair. The brush catches my hair knots and pulls my head back like the boys in my elementary school used to do, though it wasn’t because they liked me. The hair situation isn’t going as planned. My curls are begin...…
…VISUAL STATEMENT: HUES OF HUMMINGBIRDS Wednesday, January 8, 2020 // The Statement 8B COSTA RICA HAS ONE OF THE MOST DIVERSE POPULA- TIONS OF HUMMINGBIRD SPECIES IN THE WORLD. HERE ARE A FEW PHOTOS OF SOME THAT I WAS ABLE TO SEE ON MY TRIP TO COSTA RICA OVER WINTER BREAK. BY JULIA SCHACHINGER …
…michigandaily.com Ann Arbor, Michigan Thursday, January 9, 2020 ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY-NINE YEARS OF EDITORIAL FREEDOM The Regional Transit Authority of Southeast Michigan (RTA) is looking to make travel between Ann Arbor and Detroit less of a hassle. The RTA held a public hearing about a potential new bus service, in collaboration with TheRide, connecting the two cities on Wednesday evening at the Ann Arbor District Librar...…
…After the legalization After the legalization of adult-use recreational of adult-use recreational marijuana in 2018 and the first marijuana in 2018 and the first day of sales last month, both day of sales last month, both students and the Ann Arbor students and the Ann Arbor community have demonstrated community have demonstrated high demand for cannabis high demand for cannabis products. products. On the first ...…
…demonstration, University professor Juan Cole said Soleimani’s death was highly unwarranted and that the U.S. should not go to war with Iran. “We have to make a stand against unjust war,” Cole said. “The killing of General Soleimani was not the killing just of a bad guy. It was an assassination … We have a rogue government. It’s a government we cannot trust with our security or our lives, and the way forward with ...…
…Opinion The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com 4 — Thursday, January 9, 2020 Alanna Berger Brittany Bowman Zack Blumberg Emily Considine Cheryn Hong Krystal Hur Ethan Kessler Mary Rolfes Michael Russo Timothy Spurlin Miles Stephenson Joel Weiner Erin White Lola Yang ERIN WHITE Managing Editor Stanford Lipsey Student Publications Building 420 Maynard St. Ann Arbor, MI 48109 tothedaily@michigandaily.com Edited and managed by students at...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Thursday, January 9, 2020 — 5 Daily Arts Writer Emily Yang delves into her winter break reads in five capsule reviews. *** n+1, issue 35 This is the only literary magazine I subscribe to in print, in part because it’s relatively inexpensive and in part because the writing it publishes tends to be both sophisticated and politically astute. It’s slightly under the radar, but occasionally individu...…
…6 — Thursday, Janurary 9, 2020 Arts The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com By Christopher Adams ©2019 Tribune Content Agency, LLC 01/09/20 Los Angeles Times Daily Crossword Puzzle Edited by Rich Norris and Joyce Nichols Lewis 01/09/20 ANSWER TO PREVIOUS PUZZLE: Release Date: Thursday, January 9, 2020 ACROSS 1 Coffee holder 4 “Top Chef” host Lakshmi 9 Droop 12 Tapped-off remnant 13 Thread holder 14 T’ai __ 15 Club condiment 17 “Fiddler...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Sports Thursday, January 9, 2020 — 7 Haarms could pose problems for ‘M’ There are few big men in the Big Ten — and possibly even the country — that can match the physically-imposing frame of Michigan’s 7-foot-1, 265-lb, senior center Jon Teske. On more than one occasion so far this season, Teske has looked and played like a man amongst boys. While dominant performances against Appalachian St...…
…8 — Thursday, January 9, 2020 michigandaily.com The first phone call was from a former athlete to the coach she loved. Elise Ray was at a crossroads. After finishing her career as a gymnast at Michigan, she’d performed for Cirque du Soleil for three years, then worked briefly as a trainer and broadcaster. Like many athletes whose careers had come to an end, Ray wasn’t sure what was next. So she called Bev Plocki, her co...…
…Last winter, LSA student Alexandra Ellard had to miss 10 days of class. Due to extreme weather, many Metro Detroit area public schools and facilities were closed. This meant Ellard couldn’t take her almost 2-year-old son, Oliver, to day care, and the road conditions were too dangerous to bring him along on the 40-minute drive to campus. She had no choice but to stay home. Ellard, who will be graduating this May with a Gener...…
…2 — Friday, January 10, 2020 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com News GIVE IT A SHOT RYAN puzzle by sudokusyndication.com TUESDAY: By Design THURSDAY: Twitter Talk FRIDAY: Behind the Story WEDNESDAY: This Week in History MONDAY: Looking at the Numbers B E HIND THE STORY Every Friday, one Daily staffer will give a behind the scenes look at one of this week’s stories. This week, LSA sophomore Parnia Mazhar on her story “Hundreds gat...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com News Friday, January 10, 2020 — 3 school, and I’m looking at that website, I’m not thinking that me having a child is an emergency.” In general, Ellard said it was challenging to find sources of financial aid through the University when she returned to school as a student parent. “It was damn near impossible to get financial aid without making an unbelievable amount of phone calls and...…
…Opinion The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com 4 — Friday, January 10, 2020 Alanna Berger Brittany Bowman Zack Blumberg Emily Considine Cheryn Hong Krystal Hur Ethan Kessler Mary Rolfes Michael Russo Timothy Spurlin Miles Stephenson Joel Weiner Erin White Lola Yang ERIN WHITE Managing Editor Stanford Lipsey Student Publications Building 420 Maynard St. Ann Arbor, MI 48109 tothedaily@michigandaily.com Edited and managed by students at ...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Arts Friday, January 10, 2020 — 5 In my memory, Winter Break 2019 will always be defined by “Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker.” While I watched some (far superior) movies like “Little Women” and “Knives Out” during this holiday season, my brain still can’t let “Skywalker” go. It’s a beautifully crafted, wonderfully performed, roller coaster ride of a waste of time. While there are imaginative pla...…
…6 — Friday, Janurary 10, 2020 Arts The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com CLASSIFIEDS 734-418-4115 dailydisplay@gmail.com FALL 2020 HOUSES # Beds Location Rent 6 511 Linden $4650 6 722 E. Kingsley $4650 6 1119 S. Forest $4000 5 910 Greenwood $3900 4 809 Sybil $3200 2 221 N. First $1900 Tenants pay all utilities. Lease Term 8/30/20 - 8/16/21 Showings M-F 10-3; 24 hr notice required DEINCO PROPERTIES 734-996-1991 By Joe Deeney ©...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Sports Friday, January 10, 2020 — 7 Tru Wilson announces decision to grad transfer Redshirt junior running back Tru Wilson announced Thursday that he will pursue a graduate transfer. “I appreciate everything the University of Michigan has done for me these last 4 years,” Wilson said in a tweet. “I will graduate in the spring and will transfer to finish my last year of college football. God ble...…
…Sports 8 — Friday, January 10, 2020 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com ‘M’ prevails in double overtime It was a boring game. Then it wasn’t. It was a game in which senior guard Zavier Simpson couldn’t hit a dart board with a shotgun. Then he was leading the offense in double overtime. In a back-and-forth slugfest character- ized by sloppy basketball, a tense second half and two thrilling overtime periods, the Michigan men’s ba...…
…michigandaily.com Ann Arbor, Michigan Monday, January 13, 2020 ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY-NINE YEARS OF EDITORIAL FREEDOM New life In need of wins after poor start, Michigan sweeps No. 14 Notre Dame in South Bend to start second half of season. » Page 1B Eli Savit, the Democratic candidate for Washtenaw County Prosecutor, met with students at the Ford School of Public Policy Sunday afternoon to discuss his campaign and ways stude...…
…2A — Monday, January 13, 2020 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com News TUESDAY: By Design THURSDAY: Twitter Talk FRIDAY: Behind the Story WEDNESDAY: This Week in History MONDAY: Looking at the Numbers DESIGN BY CHRISTINE JEGARL “The entire process has been designed to be iterative, failure- positive, because we’re not going to get this right. No one has figured out exactly how to do this,” Stults said. “There isn’t a handbook. W...…
…“No hats allowed in class!” “Why? She’s got one on.” The whole class laughs. Hearing this remark in a Chicago Public School classroom is not uncommon let alone malicious. No matter where you came from or what you wore, thick skin in the classroom meant laughing along and moving on. But when I asked myself why I wanted to write for a publication that is made for people of color, this instance of a white boy making a “harmless” ...…
…Opinion The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com 4A — Monday, January 13, 2020 Alanna Berger Brittany Bowman Zack Blumberg Emily Considine Cheryn Hong Krystal Hur Ethan Kessler Mary Rolfes Michael Russo Timothy Spurlin Miles Stephenson Joel Weiner Erin White Lola Yang ERIN WHITE Managing Editor Stanford Lipsey Student Publications Building 420 Maynard St. Ann Arbor, MI 48109 tothedaily@michigandaily.com Edited and managed by students at...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Arts Monday, January 13, 2020 — 5A If a show tells the same story as the one that it rebooted, then one might rightly ask why reboot it at all. By now, 1994 was 26 years ago. It’s often not the case that what was relevant in 1994 still holds up in 2020. Thankfully, “Party of Five” left 1994 in the past and caught up with 2020 in a solid, if somewhat bland, reboot. Instead of the white, middle clas...…
…6A — Monday Janurary 13, 2020 Arts The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com puzzle by sudokusnydictation.com By Matt McKinley ©2020 Tribune Content Agency, LLC 01/13/20 Los Angeles Times Daily Crossword Puzzle Edited by Rich Norris and Joyce Nichols Lewis 01/13/20 ANSWER TO PREVIOUS PUZZLE: Release Date: Monday, January 13, 2020 ACROSS 1 Hanks who plays Mr. Rogers 4 Spanish houses 9 Watched secretly 14 Dr.’s group 15 Scarlett of fiction...…
…Alexis Rankin / Daily Design by Jack Silberman INSIDE SPORTSMONDAY COLUMN: HOWARD HAS ‘M’ ON THE BRINK OF ANOTHER FAB FIVE SEE PAGE 2B SPORTSMONDAY Monday, January 13, 2020 | michigandaily.com NICK in the of time Nick Granowicz, Nick Pastujov and Nick Blankenburg all score as Michigan earns a sweep against No.14 Notre Dame Alexis Rankin / Daily | Design by Jack Silberman …
…I ’ll preface this by saying: I hate writing about recruit- ing. I hate the specula- tory, veiled insinuations. I hate the underlying transactional tomfoolery that is so abundant it’s best left unsaid. Grown adults begging (and paying) teenagers to come play for them. Other grown men and women living and dying with the choices of 17-year-old kids. Some people know things, but aren’t allowed to say. Others know nothing, but ...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com SportsMonday January 13, 2020 — 3B Loss shows lack of progress In the Michigan women’s basketball team’s first game against Maryland, the Wolverines turned the ball over 23 times, shot 1-of-12 from 3-point range and got no points from their bench — three issues that have plagued them all season and cost them a huge road win. Entering Michigan’s second game against Maryland, sophomore ...…
…Monday, January 13, 2020 | michigandaily.com Oturu scores 30 as Michigan falls below .500 in Big Ten play MINNEAPOLIS — A Big Ten center had a huge game against the Michigan men’s basketball team. Again. Early in the season, this story wrote itself in nearly every Big Ten matchup the Wolverines played. Michigan plays a team with a dominant big man. Big man has a career night in the points column. Questions arise about the Wolverines’ in...…
…michigandaily.com Ann Arbor, Michigan Tuesday, January 14, 2020 ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY-NINE YEARS OF EDITORIAL FREEDOM The University of Michigan Senate Assembly met Monday afternoon at the Michigan League to discuss the structure of faculty governance, changes to policy regarding faculty pay during University misconduct trials, the status of U-M Flint and the purpose of University Ombuds. The Ombuds is an independent body workin...…
…Nearly five years ago, University of Michigan faculty and students and the Grace Girls’ Home in Trincomalee, Sri Lanka teamed up to tackle diabetes care in low and middle- income communities. Now, organizers reflect on the new mentorship programs taking place within the initiative. Grace Girls’ Home is a shelter for “at-risk” girls and the elderly displaced by the 2004 tsunami in Sri Lanka that claimed 40,000 lives, as well...…
…“We would need to have expertise from a private developer, but we’d like to have some certainty going into that process, in advance, where we would pre-entitle the basic footprint of what the site would look like,” Hall said. The council discussed a variety of topics, ranging from the process of building new properties to parking difficulties in Ann Arbor. The two are closely related, as many of the sites that may be developed are...…
…Opinion The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com 4 — Tuesday, January 14, 2020 Alanna Berger Brittany Bowman Zack Blumberg Emily Considine Cheryn Hong Krystal Hur Ethan Kessler Mary Rolfes Michael Russo Timothy Spurlin Miles Stephenson Joel Weiner Erin White Lola Yang ERIN WHITE Managing Editor Stanford Lipsey Student Publications Building 420 Maynard St. Ann Arbor, MI 48109 tothedaily@michigandaily.com Edited and managed by students at...…
…Amid the revival of the movie musical, NBC’s new pilot “Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist” seeks to capture the camp of Broadway classics along with modern millennial cynicism. A slightly magical premise and some genuinely funny moments make this show stand out from more formulaic sitcoms. Zoey (Jane Levy, “Don’t Breathe”), owner of the titular “Extraordinary Playlist,” works as a coder at a San Francisco start-up and struggles ...…
…6 — Tuesday Janurary 14, 2020 Arts The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com puzzle by sudokusnydictation.com By Roland Huget ©2020 Tribune Content Agency, LLC 01/14/20 Los Angeles Times Daily Crossword Puzzle Edited by Rich Norris and Joyce Nichols Lewis 01/14/20 ANSWER TO PREVIOUS PUZZLE: Release Date: Tuesday, January 14, 2020 ACROSS 1 Watering hole 4 African language group 9 Suddenly took interest 14 Québec street 15 Future oak 16 W...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Sports Tuesday, January 14, 2020— 7 Parris plays hero against Spartans Sean Bormet saw the look on Mason Parris’ face and knew what was going to happen. The Michigan wrestling team may have lost its last four bouts. It may have nearly blown a 16-point lead to Michigan State. But the Wolverines knew that in the moment, none of that mattered, because they had a cheat code the Spartans didn’t: ...…
