…Wednesday, June 29, 2022 — 5 Michigan in Color The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Watch more Telugu movies (and listen to ThyGap!) SMARANI KOMANDURI MiC Columnist Maybe I’m biased, but Telugu films never get the recognition they deserve. Only recently have Telugu films become more readily available in their original language via streaming platforms and screened in theaters worldwide, increasing accessibility. Out of the top 87 hi...…
…5 — Wednesday, June 15, 2022 // The Statement When I was younger, I was adamant that when my family took trips, we were not tourists — we were travelers. In my brain, “tourist” was a dirty word, conjuring up the kind of ignorant, America-centric sightseer who goes into another country expecting everything to work exactly the same as it does at home. They don Hawaiian shirts, oversized hats, fanny packs, socks and sandals, or clo...…
…Wednesday, June 1, 2022 — 5 Michigan in Color The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Not made for your consumption When I was younger, I would draw on the walls and furniture in my bedroom. One of my first memories was taking my mom’s bright red lipstick and smearing it on my dresser to replicate the dressers that I saw on HGTV. While I definitely got into trouble with my parents, the memory marks the first of many creative end...…
…This review contains spoilers for “Downton Abbey: A New Era.” I watched “Downton Abbey” for the first time during the summer of 2020. It was the summer after my freshman year of college and we had all just been sent home from the University of Michigan due to the COVID- 19 pandemic. My mom and I were sitting in the basement one night, as we did most nights during those six months of isolation, looking for something to watch...…
…Wednesday, June 8, 2022 — 5 Michigan in Color The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Call me Tavo: Working-class salience, nicknames and parents Over the past several weeks, I’ve experienced elevated, irregular bursts of imposter syndrome and survivor guilt. As a first-generation college student, I have been submerged in a grueling and expedited process of upward mobility and assimilation. It feels like I have been worlds apart f...…
…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...…
…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...…
…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...…
…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 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 ...…
…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. ...…
… The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Opinion 6 — Wednesday, June 29, 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 Think about a time when you’ve heard a comment about college athletes not going to school “for school.” Maybe, in...…
…Content warning: This article contains mention of gun violence. I was in the fourth grade when Sandy Hook happened. There are some memories that remain vivid even as the days, months and years of your life start to mush together. Sandy Hook is a vivid memory for me, despite being a 10-year-old living 800 miles away. There are no words to describe the pain and horror you feel when your fourth grade teacher tells you that a group o...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Opinion 6 — Wednesday, June 1, 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 A fter spending seven hours in the C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital emergency room, I am embarrassed on the University ...…
…Reading between the lines Each night at 7:45 p.m. (my unwilling and adult-dictated bedtime) my mom would read my favorite book to coax my 4-year-old brain to sleep. Red and blue fish circled my head and matching letters swirled around as she read … “Did you ever fly a kite in bed? Did you ever walk with ten cats on your head? Did you ever milk this kind of cow? Well, we can do it. We know how. If you never did, you should. These ...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Opinion 6 — Wednesday, June 8, 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 W e seem to be living in an era where “memes” are becoming reality. When Kanye West announced in 2015 his plan to r...…
…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...…
…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...…
…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...…
…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...…
…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...…
…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...…
…Wednesday, June 29, 2022 — 7 Sports The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Absence of female athletic directors in the NCAA stands out TAYLOR DANIELS Daily Sports Writer The concept of women in sports often centers around the idea of female athletes. But there are so many roles beyond athletes that are crucial to the functioning of a team behind the scenes. For every school and for every sport, the athletic director is a role that i...…
…Wednesday, June 15, 2022 — 7 Opinion The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com 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 T here are hundreds of thousands of words in the English language. Each word, no matter how commonplace, pack...…
…Wednesday, June 1, 2022 — 7 Sports The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Willie Weiss ejected and suspended for use of foreign substances IAN PAYNE Daily Sports Writer In the Michigan baseball team’s Big Ten Tournament victory over Iowa, senior right-hander Willie Weiss was caught with an illegal substance on his glove and ejected. His actions earned him a four- game suspension from the Big Ten, right in the heart of the Wolverines’ ...…
…Growing up as a latchkey kid, I’d often squirm my way out of revealing where I lived to others. Instead, I’d lie. I’d tell friends I already had a ride or that it was no big deal for me to walk back home. I’d do or say anything to obfuscate details of where I lived and divert people away from seeing my dilapidated house. The faded blue paint that coated the wooden panels was slowly chipping away, just like my self-esteem. Needless ...…
…Wednesday, June 8, 2022 — 7 Sports The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Wolverines come up short against Louisville, end season DAVID WOELKERS Daily Sports Writer On Sunday night, things looked bleak for the Michigan baseball team. After winning the first two games of the Louisville Regional, the Wolverines were blown out by Louisville to force a third and final game between the two teams. In a back and forth affair on Monday, Mich...…
…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...…
…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...…
…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-...…
…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...…
…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...…
…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...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Sports 8 — Wednesday, June 29, 2022 Task Force on Women in Sports shows that Title IX isn’t enough in Michigan In 2019, Governor Gretchen Whitmer created the Task Force on Women in Sports in the leadup to the 50th anniversary of Title IX with the goal of creating “opportunities in Michigan for girls and women in sports” and increasing the presence of women in leadership positions in the larg...…
…Noah West wasn’t supposed to play at Michigan. In the tumultuous past few seasons of college hockey, program growth and collapse remains a constant headline. But when those programs expand and contract, the pool of players does too. The Wolverines’ sophomore goaltender understands that reality well. In the middle of an offseason workout last summer — after backstopping the Robert Morris University men’s hockey team to an Atla...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Sports 8 — Wednesday, June 1, 2022 FILE PHOTO/Daily The Wolverines fell to UCF, ending their season. Michigan defeats Rutgers, wins the Big Ten Championship JOSEPH ZAIN RODGER Daily Sports Writer Two weeks ago, anyone outside of the Michigan baseball team would’ve called you crazy if you said the Wolverines could win the Big Ten Championship. After getting demolished by Maryland in three st...…
…A s a young and impressionable child, the concept of gender and what it meant to be a “proper” girl were enshrined into seemingly every fabric of the world that surrounded me. When I visited Target to spend my carefully accrued Tooth Fairy money, the segregated blue and pink aisles quickly indicated which section I should browse. The girls section was filled with gendered stereotypes to carefully cultivate a new generation o...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Sports 8 — Wednesday, June 8, 2022 Charlie Pappalardo: Sports and politics are inseparable, especially right now TW: Gun violence In professional wrestling, there’s a principle known as kayfabe that governs the act playing out onstage. Kayfabe is a relatively simple distortion of reality that boils down to three essential points: One: Professional wrestling is fake. Two: Everyone watc...…
…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...…
…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...…
…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...…
…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...…
…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 ...…
…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 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...…
…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...…
…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...…
…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...…
…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...…
…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...…
