…An audience of 3,500 in Hill Auditorium burst into applause at the sight of The New York Times best-selling author Daniel Pink’s “Fear the Khaki” T-shirt on Tuesday evening. Pink donned the shirt as part of the first anecdote during his presentation, “The Mind of the Future: How to Survive an Outsourced, Automated Age.” Pink’s talk highlighted useful lessons on what it takes to be successful in the workplace as society shifts f...…
…2A — Wednesday, September 13, 2017 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com News 420 Maynard St. Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1327 www.michigandaily.com ARTS SECTION arts@michigandaily.com SPORTS SECTION sports@michigandaily.com ADVERTISING dailydisplay@gmail.com NEWS TIPS news@michigandaily.com LETTERS TO THE EDITOR tothedaily@michigandaily.com EDITORIAL PAGE opinion@michigandaily.com NATHAN GUPTA Business Manager 734-418-4115 ext. 124...…
…News The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Wednesday, September 13, 2017 — 3A The idea of autonomous travel discussed by speakers highlighted current issues with automotive transportation and the goals that the Department of Transportation hopes to achieve with the release of their new federal guidance. Bainwol explained that more than 90 percent of crashes are related to human error and the use of driverless cars will primarily ...…
…Opinion The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com 4A— Wednesday, September 13, 2017 REBECCA LERNER Managing Editor 420 Maynard St. Ann Arbor, MI 48109 tothedaily@michigandaily.com Edited and managed by students at the University of Michigan since 1890. EMMA KINERY Editor in Chief ANNA POLUMBO-LEVY and REBECCA TARNOPOL Editorial Page Editors Unsigned editorials reflect the official position of the Daily’s Editorial Board. All oth...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Wednesday, September 13, 2017 — 5 Arts FXX ‘You’re the Worst’ returns for it’s fourth season ‘You’re the Worst’ deals with post-breakup woes FXX show returns for its fourth season with its signature dark comedy delivering laughs with a few stumbles along the way One of the defining characteristics of “You’re the Worst,” Stephen Falk’s brilliantly underrated anti- rom-com, is that it emb...…
…HELP WANTED EARLY CHILDHOOD LICENSED center seeking part-time help for infant toddler room. Playful, experienced, re sponsible person with references needed. Email kozyheart@gmail.com ACROSS 1 Green Angry Birds animals 5 Salon style 9 “Jabberwocky” opener 13 Les __-Unis 15 Eye layer 16 “For __ jolly ... ” 17 Name on a two- liter bottle (and what’s inside) 19 Double-crossers 20 Like microwavable meals 21 Valued caches 23 Independe...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Sports Wednesday, September 13, 2017 — 7 The case for Wilton Speight W hen Wilton Speight steps up to the podium, he exudes a quality few college athletes — let alone students — possess in the face of intense criticism: professionalism. Saturday was no different. Michigan coach Jim Harbaugh described the natural butterflies this youthful team must overcome. Speight is one of a fe...…
…Pulitzer Prize-winning alumni of The Michigan Daily in an afternoon of panel discussions Friday, September 15th 1 pm in Rackham Auditorium Free and open to the public Featured are Eugene Robinson, Ann Marie Lipinski, Dan Biddle, Amy Harmon, Stephen Henderson, Lisa Pollak, Rebecca Blumenstein and Neil Chase Prize-winning journalists are joined by other distinguished Daily alumni and student staff in discussions of newsroom diversity, ...…
…statement THE MICHIGAN DAILY | SEPTEMBER 13, 2017 …
…2B Managaing Statement Editor: Lara Moehlman Deputy Editors: Yoshiko Iwai Brian Kuang Photo Editor: Alexis Rankin Editor in Chief: Emma Kinery Design Staff: Michelle Phillips Emily Hardie Erin Tolar Nicole Doctoroff Managing Editor: Rebecca Lerner Copy Editors: Elizabeth Dokas Taylor Grandinetti Wednesday, September 13, 2017 // The Statement Personal Statement: Four Months at the Helm of the News Desk F or four months...…
…“ Love you and miss you loads! Can’t wait to hear more adventures next week! XOXO...” When was the last time you sent someone a letter? I don’t mean birthday cards or thank you notes. When was the last time you sent a loved one a handwritten letter and kept a correspondence going through snail mail? I would imagine only a few people still communicate through this outdated medium, but letter-writing remains a timeless m...…
…Wednesday, September 13, 2017 // The Statement 4B Wednesday, September 13, 2017 // The Statement 5B Lessons in Silence Navigating our digital world b y R e b e c c a Ta r n o p o l, Editorial Page Editor S ome dreary November day my junior year of high school, I plugged away at a calculus test. As I calculated how quickly the height of water was changing in a tank drain- ing at some fixed rate, I felt it emanating from my right...…
…Wednesday, September 13, 2017 // The Statement 6B Let’s Talk About It: Do you speak English? E nglish is the language my tongue commands with the most power and versa- tility, yet it is the one from which I feel the most estranged — or almost unwelcome. I perform spoken-word poetry in English, I write articles for The Michigan Daily and I plan to teach English in secondary schools. Despite that English is my first and most fluent l...…
…Wednesday, September 13, 2017 // The Statement 7B The Picture Stays in the Kid: Days Off T he last time someone asked me where I was from, the response itself was long enough to be nominated for a writing award (it certainly wouldn’t win, if anything for lack of lucidity). “I’m from the North Shore suburbs of Chi- cago, about 30 minutes on the 94, sort of near Northwestern University in Evanston, in John Hughes territory: You kno...…
…Wednesday, September 13, 2017 // The Statement 8B V I S U A L S T A T E M E N T F O O T B A L L : B E H I N D T H E S C E N E S Photos by Amelia Cacchione Last Saturday, I photographed the Michigan football game against Cincinnati. I left my apartment at 9:30 a.m. and did not get home until 5:30 p.m. In between, I found myself on the field of the Big House, dodging footballs as they flew off the field and snapping over 1000 photos...…
