…Wednesday, September 4, 2019// The Statement 6B I fall in love three times a day. Perhaps it’s because I’m a cancer sun and a cancer moon; perhaps it’s because I’m a writer. Perhaps it’s because I exclusively seek out experiences that make my heart race (in a good way). But with everything I’ve fallen blindly head over heels for in 21 years –– boys in glasses, coffee shops that sell newspapers, banana muffins, redheaded best friends...…
…Wednesday,September 4, 2019 // The Statement 7B E very year in early August, our mother would haul my siblings and me into our car in the stifling heat. The four of us would wait for hours in long lines at the international bridge, waiting to cross the border from Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua into El Paso. We lived on the Mexican side of our sprawling binational metropolitan area and crossed often for groceries and shopping, so this wa...…
…VISUAL STATEMENT NATURE & SOLITUDE THE JOY OF A GOOD BOOK, SUNLIGHT & YOURSELF AS COMPANY. PHOTOS BY DANYEL THARAKAN/ THE MICHIGAN DAILY Wednesday, September 4th, 2019 // The Statement 8B …
…University of Michigan student tuition will no longer cover testing for sexually transmitted infections at University Health Services. This update is part of UHS and Michigan Medicine’s new policy of billing students’ personal insurance for “laboratory testing, radiology x-rays and ultrasounds and allergy injections,” as announced in a policy memo on July 15. Previously, these services were covered by the Health...…
…Perch, an online research platform created by a team of mostly University of Michigan students, launched Monday. The startup aims to connect more students and graduates across the country with research positions. Engineering and LSA senior Akira Nishii came up with the idea for Perch after having trouble finding research opportunities when he entered the University. He found that outside of the Undergraduate ...…
…There were also complaints regarding lengthy and inefficient OIE reporting processes. One of OIE’s main goals is handling complaints as equitably as possible, Seney said in a sit-down interview with The Daily in April. “I would say the overarching mission really is to make sure that the University is responding fairly and appropriately to concerns that exist,” Seney said. “Then, of course, we also have a role in preven...…
…Opinion The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com 4A — Tuesday, September 3, 2019 Zack Blumberg Emily Considine Emma Chang Joel Danilewitz Emily Huhman Krystal Hur Ethan Kessler Magdalena Mihaylova Max Mittleman Timothy Spurlin Miles Stephenson Finn Storer Nicholas Tomaino Joel Weiner Erin White FINNTAN STORER Managing Editor Stanford Lipsey Student Publications Building 420 Maynard St. Ann Arbor, MI 48109 tothedaily@michigandaily.com Ed...…
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…6A — Tuesday, Septemberw 3, 2019 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com MAKE THE GRADE THE RUNWELL BACKPACK BROCKHAMPTON has been in turmoil since former vocalist Ameer Vann’s departure from the group in May 2018. Kevin Abstract has been the most public in wrangling his emotions: From melancholic voicemails cryptically released on his website to running on a treadmill for 10 hours on livestream in front of his childhood ho...…
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…OFF & SPORTSTUESDAY First look at Gattis’ offense offers mixed bag Two Michigan offensive staffers paced briskly back and forth from the sideline to the edge of the field. There were hand motions and wild gesticulations, some yelling and al- ternative forms of communication. Behind him, another dutiful staffer held signs — a Nike swoosh coating one side. From the press box, Josh Gattis looked on, stoic, conducting his orchestra fro...…
…SportsTuesday SportsTuesday Column: At QB, quantity isn’t quality T here’s an old football plati- tude that if you have two quarterbacks, you actually have none. It’s one of those folksy cliches you hear when the Miami Dolphins are sifting through the pile of rub- ble to decide whether Gus Frerotte or Sage Rosenfels should be the one to lead them to a 4-12 season. As it pertains to this Michigan football team and its quarterb...…
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…Abdul El-Sayed, Democratic runner-up in the Michigan gubernatorial primary last month, announced Monday the launch of his new political action committee, Southpaw Michigan. Southpaw Michigan PAC aims to continue the progressive movement ignited by El-Sayed’s campaign for governor and seeks to promote progressive candidates in local Michigan races. On its website, Southpaw pledges support to six main issues: ethical cam...…
…2A — Thursday, September 27, 2018 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com News Sudoku Syndication http://sudokusyndication.com/sudoku/generator/print/ 1 of 1 9/8/08 2:06 PM 1 7 1 2 8 7 9 5 1 2 4 9 8 7 2 2 6 5 1 6 8 3 6 2 4 3 8 2 1 © sudokusolver.com. For personal use only. Generate and solve Sudoku, Super Sudoku and Godoku puzzles at sudokusyndication.com! FALLTIME SADNESS puzzle by sudokusyndication.com TUESDAY: By Desig...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com News Thursday, September 27, 2018 — 3A the council to preserve the chimney as a free-standing structure for the protected species. Cathy Theisen, conservation chair at the Washtenaw Audubon Society, explained chimney swifts roost during the fall and spring to keep warm before migrating back to South America. Chimney swifts used to roost in trees until they were cut down. “They usually wo...…
…W ith the midterms coming up, Republicans have an important question to ask themselves: Am I ok with President Donald Trump becoming the next Ronald Reagan? Reagan reshaped the Republican Party’s policies, strategies and style for generations to come. Trump is on course to do the same. This should be a scary thought for everyone, especially Republicans. Trump enjoys a 93 percent approval rating among voters wh...…
…Apart from soberly functioning every day, introspecting into the quirks and the charms that we hold informs how we respond to the pressure campus culture puts on defining who we are. Our campus is filled with millennials, and it’s no wonder that one of our privileges over previous generations lies in the formation of self-identity. We’re caught between a wealth of human and internet resources and the impressiona...…
…6A — Thursday, September 27, 2018 Sports The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Aidan Hutchinson hype train gaining steam Get anyone in the Michigan football program going on freshman defensive end Aidan Hutchinson, and it soon becomes clear how high they are on him. Ask fifth-year senior defensive lineman Lawrence Marshall. “Oh my god, Aidan, from the first day until now, making a huge jump. That kid will be an All-Americ...…
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…straight without using any other chemicals. You’re almost a preferred, VIP Black person, and that’s unfortunate,” Hopkins said. The same is true in many other cultures and communities, but all art will have its critics. In the same way artists learn to love what spills from their hearts onto the canvas, women of color learn to embrace their “preferred” hair type. Liznel Ferreira, a former stylist, also had to ...…
…age, becoming the first skinheads. Later, the name “skinhead” would become associated with ugly nationalist rhetoric groups, but initially, it was just a descriptor for those who chose to buzz their hair in search of a bare-bones, stripped look. Using appearance to solidify their identity, English youth began wearing ripped and distressed clothes, black, leather and, of course, spiking and cutting their hair. London punks...…
…2-BSide 4B —Thursday, September 27, 2018 b-side The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Breanna Cross is an LSA Junior double majoring in Communications and Spanish. Originally from Southfield, Mich., Cross has been doing hair ever since she was a young girl. She loved the creative agency that braiding gave her in how she chose to present herself. Presently, Cross has made a name for herself as one of the key stylists speci...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com b-side Thursday, September 27, 2018 — 5B Bangs are a telltale sign that something is wrong. Nobody just wakes up one morning and thinks, “I should get bangs today.” No, bangs are premeditated. They take planning and plotting and panicking. And when judgment day comes, the verdict is most definitely going to be guilty. I have spent hours — nay, nights — searching through the depths of Pintere...…
…2-BSide Our culture is one saturated by antiquated, sexist and Eurocentric perceptions of female beauty. Intertwined with this conception of physical perfection is hair, more specifically straight hair, which has prompted generations of African-American women to alter their unique frizz and curl patterns to fit the mold of silky locks. With its well-constructed protagonist, engaging character re...…
…Defying stereotypes about college students’ preference for loungewear, one can find students sporting suits at any given day at the Ross School of Business Building. With a sleek, modern exterior and an interior that hosts a private gym, cafeteria and frequent visists from top recruiters, some students have remarked that the building itself resembles a traditional business atmosphere. Belying the Business School’s tra...…
…of the new Little Caesars world headquarters. The Detroit location may also host autograph signing events with professional athletes, some of whom played for the University and currently live in the city. Travis Arbogast, vice president of development at Olympia Development of Michigan, said The M Den opening will be a fresh addition to diversify the stores at the Columbia Street shopping center. “As an athletics...…
…will help improve programs for future graduate students. “The goal is really for us to try to better understand the doctoral student experience,” Gonzalez said. “We have lots of kinds of dry data (gender, race, and ethnicity information) about these students, but we don’t know, at least on a large scale, the details about their experience and how that changes over time.” For the 2017 MDES survey, all participants were fi...…
…T he day I told my mom that I was gay, she cried. The day I told my mom that I was gay, she cried. She wept not because of who I was, but because of what I was losing. “Life is hard enough as it is, and I want things to be as easy as they can be for you.” she said. “I just don’t want you to lose that innocence any earlier than you have to.” I nodded half-heartedly, trying to fully understand what she had meant. After seeing my ...…
…The album cover that graces the front of The Cat Breathes the Fresh Water is a barely discernible cacophony of red. “The Cat,” it declares in messy scrawl in the upper left-hand corner, before getting cut off by what can only be described as a vague approximation of a human face. On either side, two stars hang at a lopsided angle and a miniature cat hides in the empty circle of the left eye. Its whiskers are askew; its sole...…
…ACROSS 1 Muslim pilgrimage 5 Made docile 10 Valley with a Wine Train 14 Melville’s “Typee” sequel 15 Limber 16 Malicious 17 Bandit band 18 Jackrabbits, e.g. 19 Minimum __ 20 *Niacin and riboflavin 23 7UP competitor since 1961 25 Harbinger 28 *Twenty Questions question 29 “I could be wrong” 33 Knocks firmly 34 Pseudonym 35 Part of LACMA 36 *Earth, Wind & Fire hit album whose title means “everything considered” 38 “Nothing to shout ...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Sports Wednesday, September 26, 2018 — 7A Back from heart surgery, Beilein looks for normalcy John Beilein nearly didn’t get a stress test. He skipped it the first time — he had to go recruiting. He didn’t want to get on the treadmill, and he certainly didn’t intend to come back to the doctor’s office after leaving that day. “Sort of the way I live my life,” Beilein said. “I was in the middle o...…
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…statement THE MICHIGAN DAILY | SEPTEMBER 26, 2018 Mark Schlissel gave me writer’s block P resident Mark Schlissel apparently lives in a beautiful white house on South University and I was going to see it. I was going to see it because I emailed a professor that I needed a building to write about, and of the hundreds in Ann Arbor, not a single one felt curious enough for a story. “Break into Mark Schlissel’s house!” he ...…
…W hen me found out I’d been hired to work at The Daily I wuz so excited, I screemed. If you cringed while reading this sentence, then I highly recommend you consider working as a copy editor for The Michigan Daily. My interest in joining Copy can be attributed to one of the reasons I similarly decided to become an English teacher: I enjoy working with the mechanics of writing — pulling a sentence apart one word at a time, decid...…
…3B Wednesday, September 26, 2018 // The Statement Cancun the Promised Land of American Plight T here are certain places I tend to avoid when I return to my hometown after a year away at college. The notorious town watering holes: June graduation parties, the grocery store on Sunday evenings, Starbucks. These three places can all be classified by their likelihood of neighborhood small talk, typically conversations that o...…
…Wednesday, September 26, 2018 // The Statement 4B Wednesday, September 26, 2018 // The Statement 5B Mark Schlissel gave me writer’s block by Matt Gallatin, Statement Correspondent U niversity of Michigan Presi- dent Mark Schlissel appar- ently lives in a beautiful white house on South Uni- versity Avenue and I was going to see it. I was going to see it because I emailed a professor that I needed a building to write about, and of the ...…
…Wednesday, September 26, 2018 // The Statement 6B Student athetes’ silent struggle with eating disorders A mong student athletes, there’s a fine line between being mindful of your health and becoming obsessed with it. “Take care of your body,” motivational speaker Jim Rohn writes. “It is the only place you have to live.” Despite the changes wrought by puberty, aging and disease, the body is singularly constant. To some extent, ...…
…T he internship searches have morphed into job searches, the sought-after executive board positions are now ours and our points have gotten us up to the front rows at the football games; after three short years, we’ve become seniors. And in eight much shorter months, we’ll be alumni. Most of us, myself included, can probably remember — as much as we might try to forget it — our freshman orientation, the day we moved into our f...…
…Sonja is from Pinckney, Michigan and has been driv- ing for the University since April. Prior to working for the University, she has also been a transit operator for Dexter and Pinckney in the last three years. She says that despite it’s high stress nature, she loves the job: “All the students make it very fun, but also a great learning experience and the people I work with are great and it’s been a great experience and I want to stay he...…
…Krzysztof Smiszek, a Polish human rights lawyer, activist, and managing editor of The Anti- Discrimination Law Review, spoke Monday at Weiser Hall to University of Michigan students and faculty about the obstacles and successes with modern LGBTQ rights in Poland. Smiszek’s lecture was broken up into four key parts: the legal system of Poland, the lack of transgender rights, how the European Union influences Poland...…
…best way forward with the goal of reducing this to as low a level as possible, if not zero.” Schlissel also spoke about the recent ruling by the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals stating, in cases of sexual misconduct, universities must give the accused student or an attorney an opportunity to cross-examine the accuser in a hearing. Court filings obtained by the Detroit Free Press show the University argued for a third pa...…
…and that they can be very triggering and disruptive to survivors’ healing,” Saks- Fithian said. “Trauma tends to hover close to the surface, and it can be very triggering when survivors are bombarded by stimuli related to their experiences. As a survivor myself, I know that I become more emotionally vulnerable when I‘m continually exposed to stories of sexual violence, especially in such highly publicized cases like Kav...…
…W hen my parents started feeding me music, they treated love songs like alcohol. Little tastes from their cups — sips of wine, accosting them if they guzzle down more beer than they’re allowed. And never any hard alcohol, because who gives a 10-year-old a shot of vodka? They played love songs that were fluffy and light, interspersed on mixed CDs that rotated in the car stereos on rides lasting no more than 10 or 15 minutes. One of...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Arts Tuesday, September 25, 2018 — 5 You know the old platitude that someone is (insert compliment) for a (typically disparaged group)? To get an accurate review of Facebook Watch’s newest offering, “Sorry For Your Loss,” I’m going to have to dust it off. So yes, “Sorry For Your Loss” is good. For a Facebook Watch show. “Sorry for Your Loss” boasts a thought- provoking premise not easily ...…
…ACROSS 1 The one here 5 Group of cronies 9 Natural wound protection 13 Discard 14 Prohibited activity 15 “What a shame!” 16 Player getting paid 18 Sound from a snout 19 Counsel 20 “Am I the only one?” 22 Move stealthily 23 “Wait just a minute!” 26 “Told you” 27 Rogers Centre city 29 Oil field sight 30 Cartographer’s dot, maybe 31 Food truck snack 32 Unfulfilled campaign pledge ... and a hint to what 16-, 23-, 46- and 53-Across all ...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Sports Tuesday, September 25, 2018 — 7 Rashan Gary sharpening his leadership skills in his junior season Rashan Gary could have argued with his coaches on Saturday when they opted to hold him out for the second half of the No. 14 Michigan football team’s blowout win against Nebraska. Part of the reason for Gary’s rest could have been a possible shoulder injury he suffered in the first half. The ...…
…8 — Tuesday, September 25, 2018 Sports The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com With real tests still on the horizon, offensive line showing improvement Junior defensive end Rashan Gary has noticed a trend with the opposing offensive line in practice. If Gary and his crew of All- America-level defensive line talent win a rep, the offensive group wants another. “ ‘Let me get that rep back,’ ” Gary recalls hearing. “ ‘We’ll do it ag...…
