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August 10, 2022 (vol. 130, iss. 89) • Page Image 1

…michigandaily.com Ann Arbor, Michigan Wednesday, August 10, 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. 89 ©2022 The Michigan Daily N E W S . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 A R T S . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 STATEMENT... . . . . . . . . . . .4 MIC ........................ 5...…

August 10, 2022 (vol. 130, iss. 89) • Page Image 2

…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...…

August 10, 2022 (vol. 130, iss. 89) • Page Image 3

…Wednesday, August 10, 2022 — 3 Arts The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com One of the best things about reading romance novels or watching romance movies is that you can almost always count on the presence of a trope. Whether it’s enemies to lovers (think Darcy and Lizzy in “Pride and Prejudice” or, more recently, Season 2 of “Bridgerton”), fake relationships (a #BookTok favorite), good girl/bad boy (which always reminds me of that 5...…

August 10, 2022 (vol. 130, iss. 89) • Page Image 4

…4 Tales from a Ragstock dressing room Content warning: Mentions of disordered eating A week before my first class at the University of Michigan, I wandered around Ann Arbor as a college student for the very first time. With friends who were already familiar with the city, I was given a grand tour of which buildings I’d enjoy, which are widely beloved and which to avoid altogether. We all swooned for the smells of Frita Batidos, ...…

August 10, 2022 (vol. 130, iss. 89) • Page Image 5

… Wednesday, August 10, 2022 — 5 Michigan in Color The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Ghosts are real. Maybe not in the ways you’ve heard, but I assure you, they’re very real. I’ve seen ghosts nearly everywhere in my hometown all my life — in every corner of my house, in every school I’ve attended, in every nook and cranny of my neighborhood. Every so often, I take it upon myself to collect these ghosts from their spots — not with...…

August 10, 2022 (vol. 130, iss. 89) • Page Image 6

…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Opinion 6 — Wednesday, August 10, 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 Pay attention to your local elections E very four years, we are hounded with constant reminders to vote i...…

August 10, 2022 (vol. 130, iss. 89) • Page Image 7

…Wednesday, August 10, 2022 — 7 Sports The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com After learning and overcoming, Jess Mruzik readies to lead Michigan LINDSAY BUDIN Summer Managing Sports Editor CHICAGO — When Michigan junior outside hitter Jess Mruzik arrived at Michigan after graduating high school a semester early in January 2020, she finally got the opportunity to take her talents to the collegiate level. But when she contracted mono a...…

August 10, 2022 (vol. 130, iss. 89) • Page Image 8

…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Sports 8 — Wednesday, August 10, 2022 Brandon Naurato named interim hockey coach This article was updated to include statements from Michigan athletic director Warde Manuel and interim Michigan hockey coach Brandon Naurato. Mel Pearson’s firing left the Michigan hockey team without a head coach, and with its first exhibition game just under two months away, it desperately needs a lea...…

November 10, 2021 (vol. 130, iss. 58) • Page Image 1

…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 in his tent around 6:30 or 7:00 a.m. and heads to the Michigan Union, where he orders a coffee and breakfast sandwich from Sweetwaters Coffee & Tea. One ...…

November 10, 2021 (vol. 130, iss. 58) • Page Image 2

…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com News 2 — Wednesday, November 10, 2021 The Michigan Daily (ISSN 0745-967) is publishing weekly on Wednesdays for the Winter 2021 semester 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. If you would like a current copy of the paper mailed to you, please visit store. pub.umich.edu/michigan-...…

November 10, 2021 (vol. 130, iss. 58) • Page Image 3

…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Arts Wednesday, November 10, 2021 — 3 “You’re not like other girls,” he says. You are supposed to take this as a compliment. But what he really means when he says this is that he looks down on women and girls as a whole and you do not fit the degrading image of women he has in his mind. And of course you don’t! Because (like all other women), you’re unique and a powerhouse; these are two things...…

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…4 — Wednesday, November 10, 2021 Michigan in Color The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Every time I think society may be making progress when it comes to protecting, respect- ing and standing in solidarity with women as we fight systemic abuse, I am gravely mis- taken once again. As a Drake fan, it pains me to write this article, but we must talk about this issue. In his highly anticipated album, Certi- fied Lover Boy (CLB), Drake cr...…

November 10, 2021 (vol. 130, iss. 58) • Page Image 5

…5-Opinion O ver the last few weeks, the United States has had one of the biggest waves of labor strikes that it’s seen in recent history. Thousands of workers across different industries have been striking with demands including better pay, safer working conditions and more. This parallels a large worker shortage, as well as issues across the supply chain that have been happening this year. While these strikes may seem to have c...…

November 10, 2021 (vol. 130, iss. 58) • Page Image 6

…P refatory Monday, Oct. 25, 2021: Julia Verklan Maloney The building is compact with soft red bricks lined in stone filigree trim. Its beauty lies in the reflective dormer and casement windows, sprawling alcoves and wooden rails. Charm and feminine austere is within the patterned tiling, fanciful garden-scape and coffered ceilings. Imaginative and luxurious, exclusive and emancipating. As a female student on campus, the Michigan Lea...…

November 10, 2021 (vol. 130, iss. 58) • Page Image 7

…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Sports Wednesday, November 10, 2021 — 7 SO WE CAN STAY TOGETHER STAY SAFE MASK UP STAY WELL *Social distancing is recommended for individuals who are not fully vaccinated. When I watch Michigan football games, here’s how I set it up: The game goes on my TV, I have my laptop open to watch another game and toggle through Twitter, then I have my phone to occupy the inevitable simulta- neous c...…

November 10, 2021 (vol. 130, iss. 58) • Page Image 8

…Sports The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com 8 — Wednesday, November 10, 2021 Val Nainima brings strong basketball foundation as new assistant coach Val Nainima is a stickler for basketball basics. Passing, dribbling, shooting. As most do, she understands them to be the foundations of basketball, and having a solid foundation is key to being successful on and off the court. Throughout Nainima’s entire basketball career, she’s conti...…

June 10, 2021 (vol. 129, iss. 112) • Page Image 1

…Matt Schembechler, the son of former Michigan football coach Bo Schembechler, will be speaking at a press conference on Thursday afternoon about “his own abuse by Dr. Anderson and his father’s failure to protect him and other athletes,” per a release from the Anderson Survivors Legal Team. Last month, the University of Michigan released a report from legal firm WilmerHale regarding the investigation into allegations of decades o...…

June 10, 2021 (vol. 129, iss. 112) • Page Image 2

…2 Thursday, June 10, 2021 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com NEWS 420 Maynard St. Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1327 www.michigandaily.com CALDER LEWIS Editor in Chief eic@michigandaily.com KATIE LYNGKLIP Business Manager business@michigandaily.com EDITORIAL STAFF Madison Gagne Managing Editor mbgagne@umich.edu Allison Engkvist Digital Managing Editor engkvist@umich.edu Christian Juliano and Shannon Stocking Managing News Edi...…

June 10, 2021 (vol. 129, iss. 112) • Page Image 3

…3 Thursday, June 10, 2021 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com NEWS The University of Michigan’s Central Student Government (CSG) gathered on Tuesday to vote on various resolutions pertaining to tri-campus equality, scholarship distribution to U-M personal care assistants and a student health and wellness task force, as well as to confirm CSG cabinet positions. The Assembly discussed and passed a proposal, LDF 11-002, reques...…

June 10, 2021 (vol. 129, iss. 112) • Page Image 4

…4 Thursday, June 10, 2021 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com OPINION I n the age of digital media, emojis have become commonplace as supplements for standard text, and their use has exploded since their conception. Whether coinciding with or replacing texting lingo such as LOL, the visual aspect that sets emojis apart from script is part of their popularity. Emojis allow for emotion and other cues used during face-to-face ...…

June 10, 2021 (vol. 129, iss. 112) • Page Image 5

…so many others lacked was a set of parentheses and a sense of ambiguity. Specifically, the parentheses encom- passing the “s” in parents were part of the educational revolution toward inclusive language that only came relatively recently. That letter encom- passed by two curved brackets made having two parents optional — an option that this generation is the first to realize. Finally, being “incomplete” is an option rather than a burd...…

June 10, 2021 (vol. 129, iss. 112) • Page Image 6

…The first solar eclipse of the year lands on June 10, while the new moon is in Gemini. The new moon heralds a new beginning for the signs, and the eclipse magnifies its effects. The moon in Gemini indicates an examination of how we communicate with others and learn new information. The sun’s conjunction with Mercury on the same day adds an extra emphasis on communication. Mercury still lingers in its retrograde orbit, but perhaps ...…

June 10, 2021 (vol. 129, iss. 112) • Page Image 7

…7 Thursday, June 10 2021 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com MICHIGAN IN COLOR The scorching summer heat blasted my entire body as I opened the door to my childhood bedroom that had been frozen in time. After I froze in single-digit temperatures for the first time ever during my first semester of college, the uncomfortable, sweltering, Hawaiian air was comforting due to its familiarity; it felt like home. My family had added ne...…

June 10, 2021 (vol. 129, iss. 112) • Page Image 8

…For the past few days, social media has been awash in reactions to Bo Burnham’s new special, “Inside.” My Twitter and Instagram feeds are a constant barrage of glowing reactions to Burnham’s introspective, 90-minute performance art piece. As I scroll through my Tiktok For You Page, songs from “Inside” play on endless fifteen second loops, worming themselves deeper into the app’s notorious algorithm the longer I listen to the lyric...…

June 10, 2021 (vol. 129, iss. 112) • Page Image 9

…9 Thursday, June 10, 2021 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com The existence of black midi as a band should be used as primary evidence that reality is simply a simulation whose source code has been written by either Kurt Vonnegut or David Mitchell. This is not because of how strange its aesthetic is, although there aren’t many acts out there that can claim to rival it, but because of how it’s managed to captivate such a large ...…

June 10, 2021 (vol. 129, iss. 112) • Page Image 10

…10 Thursday, June 10, 2021 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com STATEMENT Macklemore and his contradictions: the unruly mess he has made In my middle-school world of Little League softball and sleepovers, I found myself listening to Macklemore’s (and Ryan Lewis’s) discussion of addiction, greed and failure throughout the album “The Heist.” Tuning out my parents’ car ride conversations and team chatter on the bus r...…

June 10, 2021 (vol. 129, iss. 112) • Page Image 11

… 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...…

June 10, 2021 (vol. 129, iss. 112) • Page Image 12

…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...…

June 10, 2021 (vol. 129, iss. 112) • Page Image 13

…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 ...…

June 10, 2021 (vol. 129, iss. 112) • Page Image 14

…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...…

March 10, 2021 (vol. 130, iss. 24) • Page Image 1

…Big Ten university leaders — including University of Michigan President Mark Schlissel — used a private network exempt from public record laws to communicate about fall COVID-19 outbreaks on campus and the 2020 football season, the Washington Post reported Friday. Through public records requests, The Washington Post accessed emails between the chancellors and presidents of Big Ten universities. In these emails univer...…

March 10, 2021 (vol. 130, iss. 24) • Page Image 2

…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com News 2 — Wednesday, March 10, 2021 MEGAN OCELNIK/Daily Cherished thrift finds, such as this Canon film camera, allow visitors to hold on to the past while creating something new with the present. The Michigan Daily (ISSN 0745-967) is publishing weekly on Wednesdays for the Winter 2021 semester by students at the University of Michigan. One copy is available free of charge to all readers. Additional ...…

March 10, 2021 (vol. 130, iss. 24) • Page Image 3

…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com News Wednesday, March 10, 2021 — 3 Civil rights lawyer Bryan Stevenson announced as Spring 2021 commencement speaker Author of ‘Just Mercy’ will address graduates during virtual ceremony ALEC COHEN/Daily The University of Michigan announces civil rights lawyer Bryan Stevenson as this year’s commencement speaker (NOTE: This photo was taken at the 2018 Spring Commencement, before the COVID-19 pandemic...…

March 10, 2021 (vol. 130, iss. 24) • Page Image 4

…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Michigan in Color 4 — Wednesday, March 10, 2021 The next step The scent of my mother I have always been waiting. When I was too young to be in school, I envied my older siblings for having math homework. When I was in elementary school, I woke up at the same time as my older siblings, who were in middle school and high school, because I wanted to make sure I was ready to be on the “big kid” sc...…

March 10, 2021 (vol. 130, iss. 24) • Page Image 5

…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Michigan in Color Wednesday, March 10, 2021 — 5 Raise the federal minimum wage This past summer, I worked at an Amazon fulfillment center. With an “appealing” starting wage of $15 an hour, I forced myself to work 10-hour days beginning at 7 a.m. for four days straight, every week. This was an attempt to make as much money as possible before heading back to college in the fall. I worked with hund...…

March 10, 2021 (vol. 130, iss. 24) • Page Image 6

…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Arts 6 — Wednesday, March 10, 2021 When asked about the future of the newly-formed Michigan Music Business Club, Business junior Jonathan Hayman, co-founder and president of the club, did not shy from divulging all that the club has accomplished in its two years of existence. “This semester, we will have had (executives from) Amazon Music and Spotify, two of the most popular digital stream...…

March 10, 2021 (vol. 130, iss. 24) • Page Image 7

…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Arts Wednesday, March 10, 2021 — 7 It is always exciting to get a look behind the curtain. In R.J. Cutler’s (“Belushi”) new documentary, “Billie Eilish: The World’s a Little Blurry,” he lifts the veil on the pop icon, who turns out to be just another teenager. In 140 minutes, Cutler mixes concert videography, home video and backstage footage of Eilish’s life to tell the story of superstardo...…

March 10, 2021 (vol. 130, iss. 24) • Page Image 8

…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Arts 8 — Wednesday, March 10, 2021 Working as a stage manager is intense. Like studying for a final or bingeing the entirety of Grey’s Anatomy in a week, stage management is mentally, physically and emotionally draining. But that is what students working toward a Bachelor of Fine Arts in stage management at the School of Music, Theatre & Dance sign up for — or is it? The eternal question lies...…

March 10, 2021 (vol. 130, iss. 24) • Page Image 9

…7-Opinion S ept. 25, 2015. One day after achieving his dream of listening to Pope Francis’s address to a joint session of Congress, the embattled Speaker of the House, former U.S. Rep. John Boehner, R-Ohio, gathered reporters for a surprise press conference. While he initially performed as a strident reformer for government accountability when he first was elected in the 1990s, Boehner grew into an establishment Republi...…

March 10, 2021 (vol. 130, iss. 24) • Page Image 10

…2-News Editor’s Note: This statement was previously provided by Phoenix to the News section last week and was partially quoted in this news story. The Michigan Daily is now reprinting Phoenix’s statement regarding the discontinuation of their organization in full so that it is on the public record. I n 1979, Adara, later renamed Phoenix, was founded as a senior-only female secret honor society at the University of Michigan. A...…

March 10, 2021 (vol. 130, iss. 24) • Page Image 11

…K inesiology senior Alexander Phillips began working as an EMT in December 2019, just months before the COVID-19 pan- demic swept the United States and altered our lives forever. As part of the typical testing protocol for new EMTs, he was fitted with personal protective equipment, including a respirator. At the time, it was business as usual. “I was tested with (the respirator) to make sure it functions and every- thing,” Phillip...…

March 10, 2021 (vol. 130, iss. 24) • Page Image 12

…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com 12 — Wednesday, March 10, 2021 statement Nostalgia in the time of COVID BY EMILY BLUMBERG, STATEMENT COLUMNIST I t was yet another lonely, end- less night in the spring of 2020 spent mindlessly rewatching “Parks and Recreation” for the third time. The painfully familiar feeling of restlessness washed over me — my glossy eyes began to burn from countless hours of screen time and my brain’s i...…

March 10, 2021 (vol. 130, iss. 24) • Page Image 13

…O f all the unnecessary wor- ries I had going into my freshman year at the Uni- versity of Michigan (and there were a lot), the one I now laugh at most is that I wouldn’t like Ann Arbor. Having grown up in a major metropolitan area, I was hesitant about going to school in a college town. As if it’s possible to not like Ann Arbor. This place means something dif- ferent for all of us who’ve lived here, certainly, but something I ...…

March 10, 2021 (vol. 130, iss. 24) • Page Image 14

…Wolfe’s double overtime goal lifts Michigan over Nebraska Raleigh Loughman carried the ball up the right wing with pace. The junior midfielder cut to her left on the edge of the box and looped in a cross that was knocked down by a Nebraska defender. Freshman forward Sammi Woods scooped up the loose ball and — without looking — tapped the ball with the back of her heel over towards a lurking Danielle Wolfe. The s...…

March 10, 2021 (vol. 130, iss. 24) • Page Image 15

…Through Saddi Washington, Michigan bridges past to future Michigan unable to overcome injury to Brooks Saddi Washington rolled out of bed and into basketball purgatory. On the morning of May 13, 2019, John Beilein, Michigan’s all-time winningest coach, accepted the head-coaching position with the NBA’s Cleveland Cavaliers. In his wake, a stunned program pondered its suddenly precarious future. Washington, an ...…

March 10, 2021 (vol. 130, iss. 24) • Page Image 16

…On March 4, 2021, the final seconds ticked off the clock as the Michigan men’s basketball team swarmed together at center court following a win over Michigan State. With the opening notes of Drake’s “Trophies” blaring over the PA system, a mass exodus of Wolverine players, coaches and managers alike ran out from the sidelines and began dancing, jumping and hugging as they celebrated a Big Ten regular season title on their home fl...…

February 10, 2021 (vol. 130, iss. 19) • Page Image 1

…michigandaily.com Ann Arbor, Michigan Wednesday, February 10, 2021 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. 19 ©2021 The Michigan Daily N E W S . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1 ARTS............................ 5 MIC...............................9 OPINION.......................11 SP O RTS . . . . . . . . ...…

February 10, 2021 (vol. 130, iss. 19) • Page Image 2

…The Michigan Daily (ISSN 0745-967) is publishing weekly on Wednesdays for the Winter 2021 semester 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. If you would like a current copy of the paper mailed to you, please visit store. pub.umich.edu/michigan-daily-buy-this-edition to place your order. BRITTANY BOWMAN Managing Editor ba...…

February 10, 2021 (vol. 130, iss. 19) • Page Image 3

…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com News Wednesday, February 10, 2021 — 3 Activist, scholar LaTosha Brown hosts Black History Month kickoff event Speaker encourages students to “reimagine how we can better our world” To begin this month’s Black History Month celebrations, LaTosha Brown, co-founder of the Black Voters Matter Fund and a 2020-2021 American Democracy Fellow at Harvard University, discussed civic engagement, voter ...…

February 10, 2021 (vol. 130, iss. 19) • Page Image 4

…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com News 4 — Wednesday, February 10, 2021 Study shows Black researchers about 55% less likely to receive NIH funding than white peers RESEARCH University of Michigan biomedical engineering professor Omolola Eniola- Adefeso, along with 19 other women in biomedical engineering across the country, published a paper last month calling for an end to racial disparity in funding by the Natio...…

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