…Pop culture would have us believe that the Venn diagram between sports fans and art nerds is more or less two separate circles. As a humble representative of the tiny sliver in the middle, I want to introduce my friends on both sides to the world of their culturally prescribed adver- sary. There are some similarities between the two that few would expect to find — similarities that, I argue, allow us to view sport as art. Let’s set the...…
…8 Thursday, June 11, 2020 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com MICHIGAN IN COLOR Mass incarceration and Black American health The criminal justice system is one of the chief systems affect- ing Black American health. The country’s prison system and over- policing strategy is not just a way to keep criminals off the streets, it is a large, for-profit institution that gains strength by perpetuating an endless cycle that is almost imp...…
…9 Thursday, June 11, 2020 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com MICHIGAN IN COLOR A letter to our South Asian community SUNITHA PALAT & PRISHA GROVER MiC Staff Writers Black Lives Matter is a peaceful organiza- tion — created after the killing of Trayvon Martin in 2013 — that fights to support Black innovation and excellence and combat acts of violence, which are the result of systemic racism. While the recent protests are cer- tainl...…
…10 Thursday, June 11, 2020 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com SPORTS ‘We were going to win a national championship. That’s what we were gonna do’: An oral history of the 2005 Michigan softball championship The Michigan softball team was tired of simply making it. Entering 2005, the program had been to the Women’s College World Series seven times in the last 10 seasons, yet never finished above fifth place. In a West Coast-domina...…
…11 Thursday, June 11, 2020 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com SPORTS ORAL HISTORY From Page 10A Ritter: We were all exhausted. Marx: I remember being pretty crushed. I cried on the way back to the hotel. Leutele: We were like there’s no way that can happen again. Leutele: I just remember the grit in Jenny Ritter’s face. We were all like, “If she’s gonna do that, who can stop her?” I really think we rallied around that belief. M...…
…12 Thursday, June 11, 2020 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com SPORTS Another year, same result against OSU November. In college football, it’s the month where opportunities are missed, heroes are made and hearts are broken. Two months of success are nullified by catastrophic late-season failures. A season of mediocrity can be forgotten by a Rivalry Week upset. Or, in those rare and special years, a great team can be immortalize...…
…“No Justice. No Peace. No Racist Police.” Over a thousand people gathered around the Detroit Public Safety Headquarters for the March Against the Police on Friday in response to incidents of police brutality across the nation. As they were social distancing and wearing masks, people chanted “No Justice. No Peace. No Racist Police.” People of all ages, races and backgrounds were present to support the Black Lives Matter movem...…
…With the luxury shopping mall Somerset Collection as a back- drop and across the street from a boarded-up Saks Fifth Avenue establishment, approximately 500 predominantly young protesters of all races broke the typical calm of a Monday afternoon in the Metro Detroit suburb of Troy, Mich., chanting, “No justice, no peace, no racist police.” Almost all donning face masks, they joined hundreds of thousands of people in major cities acr...…
…The University reported that emergency student funding from the federal Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security Act has been awarded to approxi- mately 5 percent of eligible stu- dents as of Tuesday. The CARES Act, which offered emergency grants to institutions of higher education to counteract the effects of the pandemic, pro- vided $25.2 million to the Univer- sity of Michigan-Ann Arbor with the condition that at least half ...…
…DESIGN BY JULIA SCHACHINGER Ann Arbor, Detroit, Grand Rapids, Kalamazoo and Troy Thousands gather across Michigan to protest police brutality 4B Thursday, June 4, 2020 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com PHOTO PHOTO 4A Thursday, June 4, 2020 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com PHOTOS BY MICHIGAN DAILY STAFF PHOTOGRAPHERS …
…protesters. This disparity forces the finan- cial hypocrisy of this country to light. In response to the jarring lack of PPE for healthcare workers, President Donald Trump stated, “the Federal government is not supposed to be out there buying vast amounts of items and then shipping … we’re not a shipping clerk.” However, he quickly changed tune when Ameri- can citizens took to the streets to protest, mobilizing nearly a dozen federal a...…
…6 OPINION Thursday, June 4, 2020 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com OPINION A s you consider joining the ranks of the leaders and the best, I can’t, in good conscience, allow you to make the decision to come to the University of Michigan without taking the time to share this with you. As someone who chose to come to the University, I know how exciting it is to envision yourself here. Scrolling through the websites and social me...…
…It’s said that every theater is inhab- ited by at least one ghost, and contrary to legends propagated by Halloween, these ghosts do not like the dark. Thus, when the curtain falls and a theater’s house empties, an employee will leave a light — a ghost light — to burn onstage until the performers return. Across the world, ghost lights have remained on and untouched for months. But the lives of performers continue offstage, each day add...…
…8 Thursday, June 4 , 2020 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com ARTS Kip Moore’s earthy, varied ‘Wild World’ Kip Moore entered my life the way most country singers did in 2011 — by singing about a truck. More precisely, “Somethin’ ‘Bout a Truck.” For months on end the cheeky, feel-good track was playing every time I turned on the radio. Successful follow-up singles “Beer Money” and “Hey Pretty Girl” ostensibly signalled Kip’s com- i...…
…9 MICHIGAN IN COLOR Ok, America. Prove me wrong. At the turn of the 2010s, the ingenious use of social media by young activists during the Arab Spring set the world ablaze. In the blink of an eye, young people transformed social media from a prom picture party hub to an outlet of revolutionary information. Via fledgling platforms like Facebook and Twitter, users shared demonstration sites, tear gas remedies and even tips to...…
…10 Thursday, June , 2020 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com MICHIGAN IN COLOR The Arab/Muslim role in dismantling Anti- Black racism MAYA MOKH MiC Staff Writer I address my community not from a place of guilt, as I, too, have been there and found it to be unproductive and paralyzing. I address my community from a place of love and urgency. We non-Black Arabs, especially those of us with proximity to whiteness, have played an im...…
…Dear , it’s time to address our anti-black racism JENNY CHONG MiC Staff Writer A statement from the Black Student Union “Are you sure you want to go to school there? Isn’t it near Detroit, which is full of dangerous black people?” said my Chinese dad after I had gotten accepted to the Uni- versity of Michigan last spring. My dad was not supportive of my decision to enroll at the University for a few reasons — one of them being his ...…
…1 Thursday, June 4, 2020 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com SPORTS Red Berenson appointed special adviser to Big Ten commissioner When new Big Ten commissioner Kevin Warren visited Yost Ice Arena in February, he was on a mission. Warren set a goal to see every team at every Big Ten institution play at least once in the first year of his tenure, so watching the Michigan hockey team take on Wisconsin on Feb. 7 was just a step alon...…
…1 Thursday, June 4, 2020 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com SPORTS Amidst crisis, ‘M’ adjusts its recruiting As the Michigan football team adjusted to a new norm in early March, coach Jim Harbaugh and director of recruiting Matt Dudek found themselves working on a new playbook. With the Wolverines’ spring practice slate wiped out due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Harbaugh and Dudek turned their attention toward preventing Michiga...…
…Thursday, June 27, 2019 INDEX Vol. CXXVIII, No. 115 © 2019 The Michigan Daily NEWS .................................... OPINION ............................... ARTS...................................... MiC......................................... SPORTS................................ MICHIGAN IN COLOR Guava Island Devak Nanua writes about the significance of the Donald Glover’s Film, writes to his brother >> SEE PAGE 9 NEW...…
…2 Thursday, June 27, 2019 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com NEWS BLOOMING puzzle by sudokusyndication.com Company opens A2 research space ‘Keep Moving Forward’ looks for engineering talent from ‘U’ students On June 11, Silicon Valley- based company Keep Looking Ahead opened a temporary Research and Development site in Ann Arbor. The global capital equipment company specializes in artificial intelligence, sensor technolo...…
…3 Thursday, June 27, 2019 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com NEWS For the past three weeks, Ann Arbor has been using a more unorthodox landscap- ing method: goatscaping. Ten goats placed on two of Gallup Park’s islands have been conducting brush management to prevent invasive species from entering the area. According to a press release from the city of Ann Arbor, using goats for brush management is an alternative...…
…4 Thursday, June 27, 2019 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com OPINION 420 Maynard St. Ann Arbor, MI 48109 tothedaily@michigandaily.com Edited and managed by students at the University of Michigan since 1890. ERIN WHITE Editorial Page Editor Zack Blumberg Emma Chang Joel Danilewitz Emily Huhman Tara Jayaram Jeremy Kaplan Magdalena Mihaylova Ellery Rosenzweig Jason Rowland Anu Roy-Chaudhury Alex Satola Timothy Spurlin Nicholas Toma...…
…5 OPINION Thursday, June 27, 2019 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com OPINION M edia has the power to teach. Sometimes what it teaches us is dangerous — our bod- ies are disgusting, our love is invalid — but sometimes what we learn from media has a positive impact. I wrote about this power in my last column, and the sentiment rings true in today’s piece. Today, media is teaching us to stop for- getting history, and instead allowin...…
…6 Thursday, June 27, 2019 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com ARTS Childish Gambino announced in early 2018 that his next project would be his last. Not the last for the musi- cian, but for the online, Wu-Tang Clan generated moniker that he had been producing music under for over a decade. I imagine then, a new, more mature Donald Glover will rise from those ashes and continue to make Grammy-worthy records. But until that day com...…
…7 Thursday, June 27, 2019 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com ARTS The temperature in subur- ban, seaside New Jersey has climbed to exactly rosé degrees Fahrenheit, which is just a few degrees warmer than springtime Chardonnay and a full 360 from musing autumn Cabernet. Sum- mertime near the shore means one thing: Everyone is grabbing for a glass of that chilled, light, millennial pink wine and toast- ing “cheers” as early as 11 a...…
…NEWS 8 Thursday, June 27, 2019 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Classifieds Call: #734-418-4115 Email: dailydisplay@gmail.com CENTRAL CAMPUS, FURNISHED rooms for students, shared kitch., laun dry., bath., internet, rent from $700 and up. Call 734‑276‑0886. By Bruce Haight ©2019 Tribune Content Agency, LLC 06/27/19 Los Angeles Times Daily Crossword Puzzle Edited by Rich Norris and Joyce Nichols Lewis 06/27/19 ANSWER TO PREVI...…
…9 Thursday, June 27, 2019 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com MICHIGAN IN COLOR To Shimla, through Guava Island, with love The artists that find a way to reinvent themselves with every project they put out are some of the most exciting to watch. After a while, it’s quite easy to get bored listening to the same song repeatedly or to music that you can’t relate to at all. This is what I enjoy about Donald Glover as an artist. He a...…
…10 Thursday, June 27, 2019 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com SPORTS Jordan Poole selected in first round by Golden State Warriors BROOKLYN, N.Y. — When Jordan Poole declared for the NBA Draft after just two seasons, he had his fair share of detractors. People said Poole was being rash. That he was leaving too early. That he would benefit from another year in college, that he was dooming himself to a career in Europe or the G...…
…SPORTS 11 Thursday, June 27, 2019 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com OMAHA, Neb — In February, no one thought Michigan’s season would end on June 26th. No one thought it would get its first 50-win season since 1987 and beat the No. 1 team in the country twice on the road to go to its first College World Series since 1984. And most of all, no one thought that the feeling of losing in game three of the College World Ser...…
…OMAHA, Neb — Michigan would not win the national championship. Instead, its run will be earmarked as another remarkable underdog run ruined by a perennial power. In game three on Wednesday, the Wolverines (50-22 overall) lost to No. 2 Vanderbilt (59-12) 8-2. But the game seemed over by the fourth inning. On short rest, Bakich went to junior right-hander Karl Kauffmann to bring home the championship. Early on, he was himself. B...…
…Thursday, June 20, 2019 INDEX Vol. CXXVIII, No. 114 © 2019 The Michigan Daily NEWS .................................... OPINION ............................... ARTS...................................... MiC......................................... SPORTS................................ MICHIGAN IN COLOR My name Subarna Bhattacharya shares sentiments behind her Bengali name, which trans- lates to “the color of gold” >> SEE PAGE ...…
…2 Thursday, June 20, 2019 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com NEWS 2 8 3 7 3 1 4 2 4 3 5 7 9 5 6 4 7 1 9 5 6 1 6 9 4 7 3 2 8 5 3 1 7 4 Sudoku Syndication http://sudokusyndication.com/sudoku/generator/print/ 1 of 1 3/5/09 12:14 PM STRAWBERRIES puzzle by sudokusyndication.com NEWS ‘U’ hosts STEM diversity plenary SEISMIC conference holds first annual summer meeting SEISMIC, a coalition of American researc...…
…3 Thursday, June 20, 2019 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Earlier this month, a team of scientists published a study in Nature Medi- cine journal that could lead researchers closer to a uni- versal vaccine for influenza, commonly known as the flu. Principal investigators include Aubree Gordon, Uni- versity of Michigan assistant professor of epidemiology at the School of Public Health, and Florian Krammer, pro- fessor of micro...…
…4 Thursday, June 20, 2019 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com OPINION 420 Maynard St. Ann Arbor, MI 48109 tothedaily@michigandaily.com Edited and managed by students at the University of Michigan since 1890. ERIN WHITE Editorial Page Editor Zack Blumberg Emma Chang Joel Danilewitz Emily Huhman Tara Jayaram Jeremy Kaplan Magdalena Mihaylova Ellery Rosenzweig Jason Rowland Anu Roy-Chaudhury Alex Satola Timothy Spurlin Nicholas Toma...…
…5 OPINION Thursday, June 20, 2019 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com 5 OPINION I n Costa Rica, there is a relaxed pace in both wild life and human nature. It is a place to truly take in the untouched world around you. When I visit, my favorite spots to explore are the empty miles of coast line, water- falls or jungle pathways. Beaches are stripped away of human presence and footprints through the circuitous cycle of washing wave...…
…6 Thursday, June 20, 2019 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com ARTS Hippo Campus opened Bonna- roo’s Saturday evening sets with an energetic performance that prevailed over the scorching heat. The Minnesota band played hits from both of their last two albums — Landmark which dropped in the winter of 2017 and Bambi that followed a year later — the sixty- minute set showing their range as a collective, while giving a taste of their ...…
…7 Thursday, June 20, 2019 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com ARTS As the old saying goes, the most qualified person is not always the best for the job. We’ve heard this for much of our lives, whether it be in ref- erence to getting an internship, a job, a seat in a graduate program or, hell, even a significant other. Someone can have every accolade to their name, but that doesn’t mean they’ll be the right fit. Sometimes, it takes...…
…8 Thursday, June 20, 2019 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com ARTS Classifieds Call: #734-418-4115 Email: dailydisplay@gmail.com CENTRAL CAMPUS, FURNISHED rooms for students, shared kitch., laun dry., bath., in‑ ternet, rent from $700 and up. Call 734‑276‑0886. SMG GROUP HAS sold WFHD‑LPTV in Ann Arbor, MI., to Max Henry & Associates. This deal is awaiting FCC approval along with Max Henry & Associates’ petition to modify the ...…
…9 Thursday, June 20, 2019 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com MICHIGAN IN COLOR My name: the color of gold ; the color of gold. In Bengali, my mother tongue, pronounced: shoo-born- ah. The name given to me by my parents, recent immigrants to the Western Hemi- sphere, lovingly gazing down at their first- born child in this new world. The color of gold. My memories of the first three years of my life are backlit in a warm light, creat...…
…10 Thursday, June 20, 2019 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com SPORTS Trio of Wolverines projected as potential second-round picks On June 20, Jordan Poole, Ignas Brazdeikis and Charles Matthews will have a new home — that is, assuming all three are drafted on draft night. With none of them expected to come off the draft board in the first round, the former Wolverines figure to be available in the second round and even after the...…
…SPORTS 11 Thursday, June 20, 2019 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Christan Bullock showing he belongs in the starting lineup OMAHA, Neb. – The Michigan baseball team is having a good time. They’re having so much fun, in fact, that sophomore center fielder Jesse Franklin has dubbed the ballpark where they’ve been playing their games “TD AmeriPlayground.” No other Wolverine, perhaps, is having more fun than Christan Bullock. The...…
…12 Thursday, June 20, 2019 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com SPORTS Henry untouchable in complete-game shutout against FSU OMAHA, Neb. – Nine innings. 100 pitches. Most starting pitchers reach that number in five, maybe six innings. Seven or even eight, on a really good night. Not Tommy Henry. And not in Omaha. In the biggest game of the Michigan baseball team’s season, the junior left-hander pitched a complete game of three-h...…
…Thursday, June 13, 2019 INDEX Vol. CXXVIII, No. 11 © 2019 The Michigan Daily NEWS .................................... OPINION ............................... ARTS...................................... MiC......................................... SPORTS................................ MICHIGAN IN COLOR Discovery Cultural and culinary dis- covery in “Always be my Maybe” and poetry by Nada Eldawy >> SEE PAGE 9 NEWS Diversity in...…
…2 Thursday, June 13, 2019 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com NEWS SUDOKU MEDIUM 5 8 7 1 1 2 9 5 7 6 8 5 1 3 7 3 9 1 4 6 6 2 8 7 3 5 3 7 8 © sudokusolver.com. For personal use only. Generate and solve Sudoku, Super Sudoku and Godoku puzzles at sudokusyndication.com! Sudoku Syndication http://sudokusyndication.com/sudoku/generator/print/ 1 of 1 2/12/09 12:08 PM CHOCOLATE puzzle by sudokusyndication.com Scientists...…
…3 NEWS Thursday, June 13, 2019 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Though the future of affirmative action remains in question, pre-med students are decisive: According to a Kaplan survey of over 245 pre-med students, 80 per- cent agreed it is important for the American medical profession to be demograph- ically representative of the general patient population. Kaplan’s survey comes in the wake of an April deci- sion by Texas Tec...…
…4 Thursday, June 13, 2019 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com OPINION 420 Maynard St. Ann Arbor, MI 48109 tothedaily@michigandaily.com Edited and managed by students at the University of Michigan since 1890. ERIN WHITE Editorial Page Editor Zack Blumberg Emma Chang Joel Danilewitz Emily Huhman Tara Jayaram Jeremy Kaplan Magdalena Mihaylova Ellery Rosenzweig Jason Rowland Anu Roy-Chaudhury Alex Satola Timothy Spurlin Nicholas Toma...…
…5 OPINION Thursday, June 13, 2019 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com 5 OPINION I sn’t that headline so ironic, given that our president gained so much immediate coverage and support because he is, in fact, a celebrity? I know that we have had celebrity-politicians before, including but not limited to Arnold Schwarzenegger and Ronald Rea- gan. If Donald Trump and Ronald Reagan aren’t two great examples of why we shouldn’t put ...…
…No TV show addresses pain in all its forms quite like HBO’s “Big Lit- tle Lies.” In fact, deep physical and emotional distress plays such a large part in the show that it’s almost its own character. In Monterey, Cali- fornia, pain permeates. It lingers. It digs deep into the skin of the women it afflicts, making itself known in every aspect of their lives. As we come to understand in Season 1, our five main characters, Madeline (Ree...…
…7 Thursday, June 13, 2019 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com ARTS Songs with a political bent seem to skew one of two ways: satirical or serious. As for satirical, think “Elected” by Alice Cooper (“I’m your Yankee doodle dandy in a gold Rolls Royce, I want to be elected”) or Prince’s “Ronnie, Talk to Russia” (“You can go to the zoo, but you can’t feed guerrillas”). More earnest songs, like Bright Eyes’s “When the Presi- dent Tal...…
