…Arts 4 — Wednesday, April 13, 2022 “QUEER” IS A powerful word, and to be Queer is a powerful thing. For so many, art and Queerness are inextricably linked. The art we were exposed to growing up informed the way we came into our Queer- ness, and now our Queerness informs the way we consume and make art. In almost everything I watch, read and listen to, I look for refractions of this part of myself in order to understand myself better ...…
…Wednesday, April 13, 2022 — 5 Arts The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com ‘Bend It Like Beckham’ isn’t a queer story, but it’s part of mine Nothing is really ‘Straight Up’ OKAY, TIME FOR a confession. Long before I began to unpack my internalized misogyny and unchecked ego, I was just another girl who clung to wearing weird clothes and an inter- est in sports in the name of being “not like other girls.” Since then, I’ve embraced how b...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Michigan in Color 6 — Wednesday, April 13, 2022 A recent article published in The Michi- gan Review left many Michigan students appalled yet unsurprised. After digesting the manipulative and hateful content of the piece, we felt that it was necessary to address the author’s poor interpretation of Ameri- can racial dynamics and recycled conserva- tive talking points in order to debunk some fundament...…
…Wednesday, April 13, 2022 — 7 Michigan in Color The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com I’ve always loved birthdays, whether they were mine or somebody else’s. The thought of gathering to celebrate the life of somebody you love has always been an exciting part of every year. But when my own birthday creeps its way around the calendar, I always find myself reflecting on my life experiences. When I realized that on March 22, 2022, I wou...…
… The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com The Michigan Daily 8 — Wednesday, April 13, 2022 CONGRATULATIONS TO THE UM PHI BETA KAPPA CLASSES OF 2020 and 2021 CONGRATULATIONS TO THE UM PHI BETA KAPPA CLASSES OF 2020 and 2021 Phi Beta Kappa Phi Beta Kappa is the oldest and most widely recognized scholarly honorary society in America. Founded in 1776 at the College of William and Mary, it celebrates excel- lence in the liberal arts and sciences...…
… The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Opinion Wednesday, April 13, 2022 — 9 PAIGE HODDER Managing Editor Stanford Lipsey Student Publications Building 420 Maynard St. Ann Arbor, MI 48109 tothedaily@michigandaily.com Edited and managed by students at the University of Michigan since 1890. JASMIN LEE Editor in Chief JULIAN BARNARD AND SHUBHUM GIROTI Editorial Page Editors ficial position of The Daily’s Editorial Board. All o...…
…W ith its 2022 release, the satirical horror movie “Fresh” follows a young woman, Noa, through her newfound relationship with a supposed plastic surgeon, Steve. The relationship turns into a nightmare when Steve takes Noa to a remote house he owns, drugs her and locks her in a cell with other women who have fallen victim to Steve’s alluring nature. He proceeds to surgically remove her body parts piece by piece in ...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Wednesday, April 13, 2022 — 11 Michigan cruises to 4-0 victory over Purdue COLE MARTIN Daily Sports Writer Since 2000, the Michigan men’s tennis team has posted a 20-4 record against Purdue. And on Saturday, the Wolverines’ winning ways over the Boilermakers con- tinued: They dominated. For over a month, that word has described the Wolverines who entered Saturday having won 11 straight mat...…
…Michigan falls to Denver in Frozen Four overtime thriller SPORTSWEDNESDAY B OSTON — As the Michigan hockey team’s skaters lined up along the goal line prior to the game, each one exuded a calm about themselves. Standing side by side, their relaxed auras made it seem as though they were about to play any other game. And just as throughout the season, one-by-one, the starters were called to skate forward. ...…
…x Photo Immersion Edition In this special edition, we’ve challenged the Statement writers to ‘dive’ in and immerse them- selves in new experiences on campus. The result: a collection of testimonials shedding light on the campus’s less-explored marvels, from pole dancing to fencing to architecture hunting. And the Daily’s Photo team was there to capture it all. …
…PHOTOS BY SARAH BOEKE/DAILY Wednesday, April 13, 2022 // The Statement — 2 Content warning: Restrictive eating habits “Now let’s get acquainted with that pole.” After completing several warm-up exercises — wide-leg squats, downward dog, plank shoulder- taps, anything to bring our heart rates up — we had arrived at the long-awaited activity, the reason we were all in that room on a dark Wednesday evening. We were there to dance. At the ...…
…3 — Wednesday, April 13, 2022 // The Statement PHOTOS BY LILA TURNER/DAILY PAGE LAYOUT BY SARAH CHUNG Lookout mom, I’m a pirate now My mother has been bugging me lately about finding an activity to get my blood pumping and my endorphins flowing. She says it will be “good for my mental health” and will “help me sleep better” or whatever. She works as a full-time nurse and part-time teaching Zumba and Group Fight at four different gyms...…
…Wednesday, April 13, 2022 // The Statement — 4 BY OSCAR NOLLETTE-PATULSKI, STATEMENT COLUMNIST Mixed strategies at Scorekeepers BY TAYLOR SCHOTT, STATEMENT DEPUTY EDITOR However lame it makes me to say so, I don’t like going out. It is, to put it simply, a lot of work. It’s physi- cal work — the walking to, the dancing at. Constant- ly adjusting my bad posture. It’s mental work — the middling conversation, if it could be called conver...…
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…Spring commencement is one of the busiest times of the year in Ann Arbor as large crowds visit town to celebrate with the year’s graduating class. For the past two years, commencement has looked a little different: the commencement was canceled in 2020 and was closed to guests in 2021. This year, however, there will be two commencement ceremonies, one for the class of 2022 on April 30 and a special “Comeback Ceremony” for...…
…Content Warning: This arti- cle contains mentions of sexual assault. The University of Michigan’s Sexual Assault Prevention and Awareness Center’s (SAPAC) 37th annual survivor speak- out began with a moment of silence Sunday night. About 70 U-M community members came together at the Michigan Union’s Pendleton Room to share and listen to stories from sexual assault survivors. The crowd fell quiet as attendees paid respect to those i...…
…Arts 4 — Wednesday, April 20, 2022 WHEN I WAS approximately 13 years old I wrote a “The Lord of the Rings” fan- fiction. It never got past three chapters, mostly encompassing the moment Merry and Pippin are captured by Orcs until the rest of the Fellowship find them after The Battle of Isengard. It also never saw the light of day, and now collects dust in a 42 page document on my computer titled “Old Stories” that makes me sick to my ...…
…Arts The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Meet Annie Rauwerda, the U-M student behind Depths of Wikipedia Why I can’t (and won’t) shut up about season 2 of ‘Bridgerton’ MAYBE YOU’VE SCROLLED through your timeline on your favorite social media app and come across a post about odd Canadian traditions, animal-shaped breads or ancient Sumerian jokes — but did you know that the creator of these posts could’ve been in your discussion sec...…
…The sweet, warm scent of pollen is not the only thing that fills the air on campus during April. Along with its arrival comes end-of-school- year stress, fears over what to do after the semester ends and the dreaded backpacking season. After reflecting on the fall semester during course selection, I realized that I felt empty from a lack of music in my life. While I enjoyed the one-credit chamber music class I was taking and felt g...…
…I first encountered the Kerrytown neighborhood when I came to Ann Arbor for freshman orientation in July of 2018. My partner had driven me up to Michigan, and we found a current student to stay with for the night. The house was a mustard color with large curvy windows, as if it were inspired by a funhouse. It had a huge attic and was shaped like no other home I’d ever seen. Many of the rooms looked like they were closets or huge st...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Michigan in Color 8 — Wednesday, April 20, 2022 I’ve been thinking a lot lately on what constitutes a friend. The qualifiers and the levels all associated with it. What distinguishes someone as a true friend versus someone you spend time with? An issue I had in the past (and still suf- fer from) is failure to define, creating the boundaries between different categories of friendship. I consider my...…
… The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Opinion Wednesday, April 20, 2022 — 9 PAIGE HODDER Managing Editor Stanford Lipsey Student Publications Building 420 Maynard St. Ann Arbor, MI 48109 tothedaily@michigandaily.com Edited and managed by students at the University of Michigan since 1890. JASMIN LEE Editor in Chief JULIAN BARNARD AND SHUBHUM GIROTI Editorial Page Editors Unsigned editorials reflect the official position of The Daily’...…
…E veryone needs it, but no one wants to ask for it. “Help” has become a sort of dirty word, implying weakness and neediness, that we can’t handle our problems on our own. Using the word “help” has come to mean that you have given in to the obstacles plaguing your life and that you don’t have the strength to carry on by yourself. These implications are commonplace, and they are not only false, but harmful. I will openly admit tha...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Wednesday, April 20, 2022 — 11 Big moments lift Michigan to 2-1 weekend against Maryland JOEY GOODSIR Daily Sports Writer As fifth-year third baseman Tay- lor Bump stepped into the batter’s box on Friday, it was clear a break- through was necessary. In extra innings, bleeding only one run would result in another conference loss. So the No. 22 Mich- igan softball team could not afford to strand r...…
…“And after that, we knew we had a lot of ground to make up, and it was improbable that we were going to be able to do it.” Julia Schachinger/Daily | Design by Sophie Grand F ORT WORTH, Texas — The No. 3 Michigan women’s gymnastics team entered the NCAA National Semifinal as the Raleigh Regional Champion and a favorite to advance to the final. There were high expectations for the Wolverines, who have rightfully earned high praise a...…
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…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com News 2 — Graduation Edition 2022 ARTS over the YEARS Bis etum il ius eliquam usaerum eium velicti comnit dunt, tota que consequo is essunture dolor molesti beriore, il ea ne plab ipsae excero te volorep tation re videndunt omnihil ipienda veliqui nobites et laboriame lantiossunt hil ius arumqui dentibus, qui aliat pa qui simolessit, nes escilit harum que volorit eicia con plis everum fugitatur...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com News Graduation Edition 2022 — 3 NEWS 24 hours with the Robert Anderson survivor protesters outside Schlissel’s house 10 :00 a.m. By 7:00 p.m. on Nov. 5, Jonathan Vaughn, the Anderson survivor and former Michigan football player who has been leading the protest, will have been camping out in front of President Schlissel’s house for 28 days. On a normal day during the protest, Vaughn wakes up ...…
…4 — Graduation Edition 2022 Opinion The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com S ince I started studying at the University of Michigan, I have become more and more familiar with Washtenaw County’s primarily rural character: its winding gravel roads, bucolic red farmhouses and wide-open spaces. Just beyond Ann Arbor’s city limits in almost every direction lies a spectacular expanse of greenery, mimicking the rural escapes of Northern...…
… Graduation Edition 2022 — 5 Opinion The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com D ear President Schlissel, If you’re reading this message, walk outside your door and talk to Jonathan Vaughn. In case, President Schlissel, you don’t know who that is, you may want to check out the student, local, statewide and national press coverage that his courageous statement has attracted. He is one of more than 2,000 students and athletes who su...…
…Arts 6 — Graduation Edition 2022 When we think of what defines good art, nationality and language are generally not the first factors that come to mind. Yet, in reality, the cel- ebration of the arts is often heavily influenced by outdated ideas dictat- ing what stories are deserving of rec- ognition. The British-Japanese pop singer Rina Sawayama stands as one of the clearest examples of this phenom- enon. When BRITs and the Mercury p...…
…Reading has always been a solitary activity for me. When I checked out books at the public library as a child, I knew that those books were mine alone for the next two weeks. I read for hours while curled up on the couch, oblivious to everything except the words on the page. When my mother called me for dinner, I scrambled to reach a good stopping point in my book before joining my family. As a child, I’d never thought of books as a ...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Michigan in Color 8 — Graduation Edition 2022 Perhaps family is a set of rela- tionships characterized by DNA or “blood,” as age-old proverbs may indicate. But this definition may not be so all-encompassing; for one, it would render adoption illegitimate and negates what some of us consider our “chosen families.” When we shift our lens to Southeastern Asia, specif- ically Tibet, this rigidity surr...…
…Graduation Edition 2022 — 9 Michigan in Color The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com As a person of color, any type of application, whether it be college, job or internship applications are always equipped with stress, self-doubt and insecurity. I feel alone in academic and social settings at the University of Michigan, with about 55% of the student population being white and the median family income being a staggering $154,000 for t...…
…ARTS over the YEARS Bis etum il ius eliquam usaerum eium velicti comnit dunt, tota que consequo is essunture dolor molesti beriore, il ea ne plab ipsae excero te volorep tation re videndunt omnihil ipienda veliqui nobites et laboriame lantiossunt hil ius arumqui dentibus, qui aliat pa qui simolessit, nes escilit harum que volorit eicia con plis everum fugitatur si quiae esto blaturem labo. Itatas mos venis arumnihilla ntentotatem a...…
…Graduation Edition 2022 — 11 Sports The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Michigan clinches first National Championship title in school history SAMI RUUD 2021 Daily Sports Writer The 2021 gymnastics National Championship came down to the very last routine of the meet. Junior Abby Heiskell stared down the beam as she mounted it. As she performed her routine, she completed each skill with an intention to do it perfectly, a lesson Mich...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Business 12 — Graduation Edition 2022 SALES. SERVICE. SUPPORT. Now & Forever After graduation, no matter where life takes you, we are always your tech store! Campus Locations: Michigan Union & Pierpont Commons University owned and operated since 1988 techshop.umich.edu You’re off to great places. Grab all the tech you need to get there. TRADE IN BONUS through Saturday, May 7 Get an e...…
…michigandaily.com Ann Arbor, Michigan Wednesday, May 4, 2022 - Weekly Summer Edition ONE HUNDRED AND THIRTY ONE 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. 75 ©2022 The Michigan Daily N E W S . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 A R T S . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 STATEMENT. . . . . . . . . . . . 4 M I C . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....…
…Stanford Lipsey Student Publications Building 420 Maynard St. Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1327 www.michigandaily.com VANESSA KIEFER Editor-in-Chief eic@michigandaily.com ANGIE YU Business Manager business@michigan- daily.com EDITORIAL STAFF Brandon Cowit Managing Editor cowitb@michigandaily.com Tess Crowley Digital Managing Editor crowlete@michigandaily.com CONTACT INFORMATION The Michigan Daily (ISSN 0745-967) is publishing weekly on...…
…Wednesday, May 4, 2022 — 3 Arts The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Lizzy McAlpine crafts an honest narrative of love and heartbreak on ‘five seconds flat’ In the world of TikTok and playlists, many artists trying to break into music are ditching big projects like albums and EPs and opting for more frequent single releases to increase their chances of being heard. Despite these arguments surrounding algorithms and playlisting, Li...…
…11 Do we ever lose what was once ours? I don’t know why I thought writing this would be easy, or why I thought it would resemble the same process of all my past Daily pieces. I thought I would make my short trek to the Law Quad, bask in solitude with a carefully curated, mood-setting playlist and dedicate two hours to pouring my heart onto paper. In my head, it should have been that seamless. Automatic almost, or at the very least...…
…Wednesday, May 4, 2022 — 5 Michigan in Color The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com The cartoonishly-evil women characters of Asian entertainment One-dimensional is an understatement when it comes to the majority of female characters in East and Southeast Asians movies and TV — if they are even present at all. Of course, we are all too familiar with the doe-eyed damsel in distress with her dyed caramel locs getting scooped up...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Opinion 6 — Wednesday, May 4, 2022 BRANDON COWIT Managing Editor Stanford Lipsey Student Publications Building 420 Maynard St. Ann Arbor, MI 48109 tothedaily@michigandaily.com Edited and managed by students at the University of Michigan since 1890. VANESSA KIEFER Editor in Chief Change in labor rights is brewing D ec. 9, 2021 marked a historic day for union organizers, labor activists and caffe...…
…Wednesday, May 4, 2022 — 7 Sports The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Michigan stays on top, claims CWPA Championship KELSEY RUFF Daily Sports Writer The No. 7 Michigan water polo team has not lost a conference championship since 2015. Over the past seven years, the Wolverines have gone unmatched against the Collegiate Water Polo Association. With six championships, the only time they didn’t win a title was due to COVID-19. On Sun...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Sports 8 — Wednesday, May 4, 2022 Michigan wins first Big Ten Championship since 1996 ABHIJAI SINGH Daily Sports Writer Following on his serve, graduate student Nick Beaty rushed forward, volleyed the ball toward a Buckeye deep in his backcourt and screamed in bliss as his opponent failed to deliver a return shot over the net. His victory gave the No. 7 Michigan men’s tennis team a 3-1 lead an...…
…michigandaily.com Ann Arbor, Michigan Wednesday, May 11, 2022 - Weekly Summer Edition ONE HUNDRED AND THIRTY ONE 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. 76 ©2022 The Michigan Daily N E W S . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 A R T S . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 M I C . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 O PIN IO N . . ....…
…Stanford Lipsey Student Publications Building 420 Maynard St. Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1327 www.michigandaily.com VANESSA KIEFER Editor-in-Chief eic@michigandaily.com ANGIE YU Business Manager business@michigan- daily.com EDITORIAL STAFF Brandon Cowit Managing Editor cowitb@michigandaily.com Tess Crowley Digital Managing Editor crowlete@michigandaily.com CONTACT INFORMATION The Michigan Daily (ISSN 0745-967) is publishing weekly on...…
…Wednesday, May 11, 2022 — 3 Arts The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Plotlessness paradoxically drives ‘The Candy House’ Upon reading the words “a novel” on the cover of Jennifer Egan’s latest book “The Candy House,” one wonders whether this is true. When “novel” seems nearly synonymous with “story,” can this semi-plotless book be considered a story? When does a story stop being a story? The book’s opening pages take us to an a...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily. com Arts 4 — Wednesday, May 11, 2022 Haley Heynderickx talks music, honesty and change Seeing Haley Heynderickx perform live will change your conception of her music. You will realize that, all this time, she has not been trying to give you the answers: she is trying to ask the right questions. Even her tone — lilting, light, turning the ends of her phrases up in a comedic manner — often implies u...…
…Wednesday, May 11, 2022 — 5 Michigan in Color The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com I’m not ready to graduate VICTORIA TAN MiC Contributor Author’s note: I started writing for the Daily the winter of my sophomore year because I love to write — plain and simple. My main intention was never for my friends or family to read my work but instead to give myself a creative outlet and space where I could grow as a writer and collaborate wit...…
