…Dr. Robert Ernst, University Health Services executive director and associate vice president for Health and Wellness, addressed student concerns about the University’s recent policy change to UHS coverage for sexually transmitted infection testing at Tuesday’s Central Student Government meeting. Ernst explained the reasoning behind removing STI testing from the Health and Wellness fee was to allocate funding toward ...…
…GOT A NEWS TIP? Call 734-418-4115 or e-mail news@michigandaily.com and let us know. INDEX Vol. CXXVIII, No. 101 ©2019 The Michigan Daily N E WS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 O PI N I O N . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 S P O R T S . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 S U D O K U . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 CL A S S I F I E DS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 A R T S . . . . . . ...…
…On Saturday afternoon, more than 50 high school students, residents and local politicians gathered in Liberty Plaza in downtown Ann Arbor to demand legislative action against gun violence. The Washtenaw Youth Initiative, a local group led by and composed of high school students, organized the rally. They invited U.S. Rep. Debbie Dingell, D-Mich., and state Rep. Yousef Rabhi, D-Ann Arbor, to speak at the event, as well as activi...…
…This semester, LSA sophomore Grace Miller is enrolled in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science 281, a higher- level computer science class that introduces students to data structures and algorithms. This course is the fourth EECS class Miller has taken at the University and has a much smaller enrollment than the other introductory computer science class, EECS 183. Like many students in project- based computer science ...…
…The last few winters have not been favorable for deer in Ann Arbor. Since City Council approved a deer management program in 2015 to reduce the size of the local population, 274 have been killed and 78 surgically sterilized. The city’s fourth deer cull began Jan. 2, closing parks across Ann Arbor with the aim of killing up to 150 deer by the end of the month. Sharpshooters from White Buffalo Inc., the Connecticut-base...…
…Thursday, July 11, 2019 INDEX Vol. CXXVIII, No. 117 © 2019 The Michigan Daily NEWS .................................... OPINION ............................... ARTS...................................... MiC......................................... SPORTS................................ MICHIGAN IN COLOR ‘ggone’ MiC contributor Ashley Kim creates a piece of visual art using only pencils and paper >> SEE PAGE 9 NEWS ‘Dearborn ...…
…Engineering sophomore Conner Hein, who studies Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, went into backpacking for next semester’s classes with a plan. When his registration period rolled around, however, Hein realized the classes he wanted had already been filled to capacity. He found himself number 40 and number 60 on two waitlists, which as of Tuesday night are both around a hundred students long. Because of leng...…
…michigandaily.com Ann Arbor, Michigan Monday, November 11, 2019 ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY-NINE YEARS OF EDITORIAL FREEDOM Blanked Michigan takes just one of six points against Minnesota on the weekend as offensive struggles come to a head. » Page 1B Michigan Movement, a University of Michigan student organization, held their annual Project Connect event this Sunday. Project Connect is a six-hour long event modeled after Tent City i...…
…Hillary Clinton, former U.S. Secretary of State and 2016 Democratic presidential nominee, spoke at Rackham Auditorium Thursday afternoon to an audience of more than 1,000 students and community members, including U.S. Rep. Debbie Dingell, D-Mich., and Michigan state Rep. Rebekah Warren, D-Ann Arbor. Clinton has spent decades in public service, serving as first lady from 1993 to 2001, U.S. senator from 2001 to 2009 and sec...…
…In the midst of an ongoing discussion over immigration policy, the Washtenaw County Board of Commissioners unanimously voted in favor of supporting a Michigan House of Representatives bill extending immigrants’ civil rights protection Wednesday. As one of the largest counties in the state of Michigan, state Rep. Yousef Rabhi, D-Ann Arbor, emphasized how significant it is that the county advocates in favor of the legislation in orde...…
…2A — Thursday, April 11, 2019 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com News Margo Beth Flemming @wordnerdmargo Guys, Ann Arbor is college town heaven The Black Sheep Michigan @blacksheepmichigan Umich students are more dedicated to standing 45 min in line for free ice cream than literally anything else Terra Schroeder @tschroe10 Also for the record, I’m not mad anyone is leaving Umich for the NBA I just get sad when they leave earl...…
…University spokeswoman Kim Broekhuizen said the commission sought to include diverse perspectives from various fields of expertise in its mission to achieve carbon neutrality, noting DTE and Consumers’ pledge to incorporate more renewable energy sources into their portfolios. “It is absolutely critical for the energy industry to be a part of U-M’s exploration of scalable and transferable solutions given the fact that these compa...…
…DR AWING IN THE GALLE RIES 2A — Monday, February 11, 2019 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com News CARTER FOX/Daily Engineering sophomore Taylor Murray, who is also a Student Docent at the University of Michigan Museum of Art, sketches a sculpture during a Drawing in the Galleries event at the UMMA Saturday afternoon. DESIGN BY VIVIAN HARBER Sudoku Syndication http://sudokusyndication.com/sudoku/generator/print/ 1 of 1 9/15/08 9:40 A...…
…a million dollars over the last several years. Mayor Christopher Taylor was the sole vote against the cull when it was originally passed in 2015. He said while he remains opposed to the killing, he does not dispute the ecological impact of deer overabundance. “I recognize that there are costs that are associated with a deer population in an urban area like Ann Arbor,” Taylor said. “At the same time, however, I believe that ...…
…2 Thursday, July 11, 2019 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com NEWS Sudoku Syndication http://sudokusyndication.com/sudoku/generator/print/ 1 of 1 5/26/09 3:34 PM SUDOKU HARD 2 1 4 9 1 3 8 3 5 8 1 8 3 4 2 6 5 2 9 8 5 1 8 4 7 © sudokusolver.com. For personal use only. Generate and solve Sudoku, Super Sudoku and Godoku puzzles at sudokusyndication.com! SWEETNER puzzle by sudokusyndication.com A2 siblings create sig...…
…In early December, Gov. Gretchen Whitmer announced the “Governor’s FAFSA Challenge” for high schools across the state to increase their Free Application for Federal Student Aid completion rate among graduating seniors. The challenge is supported by the College Cash Campaign initiative under Michigan College Access Network, which will provide the necessary resources, such as an implementation guide and toolbox of tips, ...…
…2A — Monday, November 11, 2019 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com News TUESDAY: By Design THURSDAY: Twitter Talk FRIDAY: Behind the Story WEDNESDAY: This Week in History MONDAY: Looking at the Numbers SHANAHAN :) puzzle by sudokusyndication.com FIND ME EMMA MATI/Daily André Aciman reflects on his past works nd discusses his new book “Find Me” at an event held by Literati Bookstore at Rackham Auditorium Saturday evening. DESIGN BY TA...…
…College students go nuts for squirrels, but at the University of Michigan researchers have taken an interest as well. U-M is one of several schools participating in a research project called the Kluane Red Squirrel Project. Ben Dantzer, an assistant professor of Psychology and Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University, leads the research project based in Yukon, Canada. The study has been going on for 30 years, making i...…
…Ernst said UHS continues to work toward a long term solution to satisfy student needs. “Going forward, carving out the billing for STI testing is going to have us rethink the budget in the near term, and that’s okay — we can still do that with prioritization,” Ernst said. “The plan moving forward would be to work to actually bring the analyzers into our UHS lab. That’s going to take some time, but once we’re able to do that, then...…
…Bouman explained the research team’s process to CNN. “We developed ways to generate synthetic data and used different algorithms and tested blindly to see if we can recover an image,” Bouman said. “We didn’t want to just develop one algorithm. We wanted to develop many different algorithms that all have different assumptions built into them. If all of them recover the same general structure, then that builds your confidenc...…
…I come from an Indian family with lovingly obsessive parents who will continue to baby me even when I’m living on my own. One day over Thanksgiving Break, my mom drove me to my ophthalmologist’s office for an annual check-up. She sat with me before the doctor walked in, and interestingly enough, found that it was the perfect time for my daily career counseling session. We sat there having a ten- minute tête-à-tête. She con...…
…Sometime last year, my friends and I were chatting, and somehow—I don’t remember how—I had mentioned that my name, Monica, is not the name I was born with. A (white) friend asked me what it was, and I responded that the name I was born with—my Korean name—is Yejoo. He opened his mouth, tried to pronounce it, and asked me what it meant. I shrugged and said I didn’t know and that it probably meant a grassy field, or something. ...…
…Communications Director of the Research Office, cited these statistics, noting how helpful the federal funding has been to the University. “We’re the number one public research university in the country in terms of research expenditures, at 1.55 billion dollars a year,” Piazza said. “About 55% of that stems from the federal government, so the partnerships we’ve created with the federal government have really bee...…
…3 Thursday, July 11, 2019 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com NEWS In early June, the Humane Society of Huron Valley noticed “strange” behavior starting to occur frequently among the raccoons and skunks of Washtenaw County. The group said they received numerous calls from con- cerned residents and docu- mented a 45 percent increase in sick wildlife being treated by their facilities since the beginning of the year. On June ...…
…Enticed by the potential of a six-figure salary out of college in a booming job market, more students nationally are interested in studying computer science, including the University. In under a decade, the number of students who have declared a CSE major has more than quadrupled, from 317 students in fall 2010 to 1,320 students in fall 2019. In that same time-frame, enrollment in the LSA computer science major has incre...…
…In the era of Megan Thee Stallion and Cardi B, it can be easy to assume that Black women want to learn how to dance like them. I’ll admit, it can be fun learning the newest dance to a hit song in the comfort and privacy of your home with your friends. However, the situation that I am about to describe serves a reminder of how stereotyping that all Black women can dance a certain way can be debilitating. Recently I attended a part...…
…Pointing to pictures of her childhood displayed on the screen behind her, Katayama talked about how she struggled with the physical differences between her and other children her age. “I thought once I amputated my legs, I could wear the same shoes other people wore,” Katayama said through a translator. “Once my legs were amputated, what I had was a reality that was different from what I thought. So, there was a gap betwe...…
…Opinion The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com 4A — Wednesday, September 11, 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 ...…
…Opinion The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com 4A — Thursday, April 11, 2019 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 Tomaino Erin White Ashley Zhang FINNTAN STORER Managing Editor Stanford Lipsey Student Publications Building 420 Maynard St. Ann Arbor, MI 48109 tothedaily@michigandaily.com ...…
…Opinion The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com 4A — Monday, March 11, 2019 Emma Chang Joel Danilewitz Samantha Goldstein Emily Huhman Tara Jayaram Jeremy Kaplan Elias Khoury Magdalena Mihaylova Ellery Rosenzweig Jason Rowland Anu Roy-Chaudhury Alex Satola Ashley Zhang Erin White FINNTAN STORER Managing Editor Stanford Lipsey Student Publications Building 420 Maynard St. Ann Arbor, MI 48109 tothedaily@michigandaily.com Edi...…
…Opinion The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com 4A — Monday, February 11, 2019 Emma Chang Joel Danilewitz Samantha Goldstein Elena Hubbell Emily Huhman Tara Jayaram Jeremy Kaplan Sarah Khan Lucas Maiman Magdalena Mihaylova Ellery Rosenzweig Jason Rowland Anu Roy-Chaudhury Alex Satola Ali Safawi Ashley Zhang Sam Weinberger Erin White FINNTAN STORER Managing Editor Stanford Lipsey Student Publications Building 420 Maynard St. ...…
…Opinion The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com 4A — Friday, January 11, 2019 F or a state known as the “Great Lakes State,” the current state of water in Michigan is terribly concerning. Growing up in Grand Rapids, some of my favorite memories are from when my family and I would pack up chairs, snacks, books and toys. We would drive west until we reached towns like Holland or Grand Haven and spend the whole day on the...…
…4 Thursday, July 11, 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 Emily Considine Joel Danilewitz Emily Huhman Tara Jayaram Jeremy Kaplan Magdalena Mihaylova Ellery Rosenzweig Jason Rowland Anu Roy-Chaudhury Alex Satola Timothy Spurl...…
…Opinion The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com 4A — Wednesday, December 11, 2019 Alanna Berger Zack Blumberg Emily Considine Joel Danilewitz Cheryn Hong Krystal Hur Ethan Kessler Magdalena Mihaylova Mary Rolfes Michael Russo Timothy Spurlin Miles Stephenson Joel Weiner Erin White Lola Yang FINNTAN STORER Managing Editor Stanford Lipsey Student Publications Building 420 Maynard St. Ann Arbor, MI 48109 tothedaily@michigandaily.com Edite...…
…Opinion The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com 4A — Monday, November 11, 2019 Alanna Berger Zack Blumberg Emily Considine Emma Chang Joel Danilewitz Emily Huhman Krystal Hur Ethan Kessler Magdalena Mihaylova Mary Rolfes Michael Russo Timothy Spurlin Miles Stephenson Joel Weiner Erin White FINNTAN STORER Managing Editor Stanford Lipsey Student Publications Building 420 Maynard St. Ann Arbor, MI 48109 tothedaily@michigandaily.com Edited...…
…Opinion The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com 4 — Friday, October 11, 2019 Alanna Berger Zack Blumberg Emily Considine Emma Chang Joel Danilewitz Emily Huhman Krystal Hur Ethan Kessler Magdalena Mihaylova 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 Edite...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Arts Wednesday, September 11, 2019 — 5A More than 25 years after the release of their debut album Enter the Wu-Tang: 36 Chambers, the Staten Island hip-hop group Wu-Tang Clan still occupies a prominent place in the genre’s (and popular culture’s) collective memory. Backed by RZA’s diverse, lo-fi production, the original members of the Wu-Tang Clan helped create the dark, gritty sound...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Sports Thursday, April 11, 2019 — 5A Classifieds Call: #734-418-4115 Email: dailydisplay@gmail.com EFFICIENCY ‑ 1 & 2 Bdrm Apts Fall 2019/20 Rents range $875 ‑ $1850 most include heat and water. Showings scheduled M‑F 10‑3 734‑996‑1991 STUDENT SUMMER STORAGE Closest to campus, Indoor, Clean, Safe Reserve now at annarborstorage. com or (734) 663‑0690 COMEDIC WRITER needed to write funny captions....…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Arts Monday, March 11, 2019 — 5A MUSIC REVIEW RUBYWORKS Remember Hozier? It’s hard not to. For the past five years, his has been one of the names most often brought up in conversations along the lines of, When on Earth is that artist’s next album going to be here? Five years isn’t the most extreme gap in the grand scheme of things, but the eponymous debut album of the Irish singer-songwrit...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Arts Monday, February 11, 2019 — 5A Classifieds Call: #734-418-4115 Email: dailydisplay@gmail.com By Joe Deeney ©2019 Tribune Content Agency, LLC 02/11/19 Los Angeles Times Daily Crossword Puzzle Edited by Rich Norris and Joyce Nichols Lewis 02/11/19 ANSWER TO PREVIOUS PUZZLE: Release Date: Monday, February 11, 2019 ACROSS 1 Org. whose product is measured in barrels 5 Pillar of Islam involvin...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Arts Friday, January 11, 2019 — 5 MUSIC NOTEBOOK “It’s not worth being a partial person or worth having an identity that’s incomplete.” — Sam Melo of Rainbow Kitten Surprise Google will tell you identity is “the fact of being who or what a person or thing is.” Deceptively simple? You bet. Identity is one of the most complicated concepts we face every day, especially if we consider ourselves to hol...…
…5 OPINION Thursday, July 11, 2019 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com OPINION AKAASH TUMULURI | COLUMN H appy July, everyone. Hot take: the Fourth of July sucks. Before the comments section swells with beer-drunk, barbecue- stained American spirit to chastise me, I am a patriot. I love pigging out on burgers and lathering on suntan lotion to celebrate the soldiers that fought in the dead cold with little to no food for ou...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Arts Wednesday, December 11, 2019— 5A “There’s no place like home for the holidays.” This lyric from the popular song “Home for the Holidays” has become a staple of the holiday season. However, while rampant global consumerism and capitalism wants us to believe the holidays are filled with gingerbread houses and smiling grandmas, that is simply not the case for many Americans. Many of us (especia...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Arts Monday, November 11, 2019 — 5A “There may be trouble ahead,” Sharon Van Etten warns us — and certainly when it comes to Jeff Goldblum, one can always expect a spark of mischief. Right off the bat, his new album makes a bold promise to secrecy and playful roguishness. Between Van Etten’s ominous vocal opening, and the title of his new album, I Shouldn’t Be Telling You This, there certainly see...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Arts Friday, October 11, 2019 — 5 For countless women, there aren’t many things in everyday life scarier than walking home alone at night. Fear of the dark and the evil that lurks there is built into us from the moment we become conscious of what it really means to be a woman. “Night” is synonymous with violence, assault, crimes that go undetected, the menacing power of the uninhibited male gaze....…
…6A — Wednesday, September 11, 2019 Arts The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com By Ed Sessa ©2019 Tribune Content Agency, LLC 09/11/19 Los Angeles Times Daily Crossword Puzzle Edited by Rich Norris and Joyce Nichols Lewis 09/11/19 ANSWER TO PREVIOUS PUZZLE: Release Date: Wednesday, September 11, 2019 ACROSS 1 Braying beast 4 “Diamonds & Rust” folk singer Joan 8 Hop, skip and jump 14 Where lowers lie 15 Ready and willing partner 16 “B...…
…In a rarity for baseball, both teams were racing against the clock. With a five-and-a-half hour drive back to Terre Haute, Ind. ahead of Indiana State on Wednesday evening, even the possibility of a shortened seven-inning game wasn’t enough to risk pushing up against their prearranged 7:30 travel curfew. Coming off yesterday’s hard-fought 8-7 loss — only its second home loss of the year — the Michigan baseball team manage...…
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…At this point I’m convinced that everyone who took French in high school knows the lyrics to a Stromae song by heart. Maybe I’m way off the mark, but my anecdotal evidence suggests that “Papaoutai” and “Tous Les Mêmes” are universally known and beloved. Whether or not that’s true, Belgian artist Stromae’s 2013 album Racine Carrée (Square Root) is a great choice for budding Francophones. Stromae had already broken through the wo...…
…6-Arts By Jeffrey Wechsler ©2019 Tribune Content Agency, LLC 01/11/19 Los Angeles Times Daily Crossword Puzzle Edited by Rich Norris and Joyce Nichols Lewis 01/11/19 ANSWER TO PREVIOUS PUZZLE: Release Date: Friday, January 11, 2019 ACROSS 1 Old gas station freebie 4 One holding all the cards? 10 “__ run!” 15 Texter’s cautioning letters 16 Take to the skies 17 “The Phantom of the Opera” setting 18 Indigent ones hiding among bales?...…
