…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com b-side Thursday, January 10, 2019 — 3B 1. Voting as an aesthetic While a plethora of trends emerged on the runway in 2018, some of the most notable statements took the shape of a less wearable form. A year of political turmoil and tension, the push to vote became a major theme of this past year. With primary elections in Aug. and midterms in Nov., combined with an emphasis on change, voting became...…
…The TV beat has a problem: 2018 was a great year in television. On one hand, as the television addicts we claim ourselves to be, this “problem” has provided us with a myriad of excuses to avoid social contact and stay in. On the other hand, the consistent stream of quality television makes any effort to choose definitive favorites all the more difficult. The selection process itself was strenuous: on what criterion should we base our ...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com b-side Thursday, January 10, 2019 — 5B 2018 was yet another whirlwind year in the hurricane that has been the last half-decade, but luckily books, new and old, kept writers from all beats on Daily Arts sane. The Book Review asked a handful of them to write about their favorite moments with a book, literature or even reading itself this past year. “Just Kids” by Patti Smith My exposure to Pat...…
…6. Black Panther In a year that saw dozens of heroes uniting to stop a universe-spanning calamity, “Black Panther” still became not just the best MCU movie of the year, but the best film Marvel Studios has put out to date. At its best, Coogler’s latest plays like a Shakespearean epic crossed with the visual panache of “The Matrix” with a little bit of James Bond thrown in for good measure. That’s a diverse set of influences for anyone t...…
…City Council voted down a resolution Monday that would have directed the city attorney to investigate the actions of the protesters who sought to disrupt Ann Arbor’s annual deer cull. The measure, which was defeated in a 6-5 vote, would have required the city attorney to “take any and all appropriate responsive actions, including issuance of citations and the filing of lawsuits seeking an injunction or such other relief th...…
…diverse community and they need to be very understanding … we want somebody who is compassionate as well as authoritative.” On Jan. 14, City Council will hold a work session outlining the goals for this hire. Hayner said the current police climate has taken a toll on the department and their hiring prospects. “We are having a heck of a time trying to fill our ranks because no one wants to be a police officer right now,” ...…
…as safe storage of guns and how to work with families with high-risk teenagers, without taking away guns. In addition, given that 2018 was the worst year for gun violence in schools on record, Cunningham expressed the need for further inquiry into whether existing safety measures in schools are effective. For Cunningham, working as a doctor in the emergency department only further highlights the need to focus on firea...…
…Opinion The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com 4A — Wednesday, January 9, 2019 T hough we are basking in the light of the new year, we cannot forget an utterly devastating realization that the world came to after the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released a special report regarding global warming near the end of 2018: Continued human activity causing greenhouse gas emissions will raise the global temperature by 1.5 d...…
…5— Wednesday, January 9, 2019 Arts The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com It takes only a page or two of reading to realize that the cover of “Milkman” is deceptive. The binding of the 2018 winner of the Man Booker Prize depicts an innocuous, fluorescent-pink sunset — one of those once a year, stop-and-snap-a-photo sunsets that makes “Milkman” stands out among its fellow books. The sedative lightness of the cover seems to admit i...…
…The world is familiar with the professional killer trope: “Star Wars,” the James Bond novels and even Pulp Fiction all include some reiteration of the same type of character. And for the right reason: Readers devour these stories. The remorseless, accessible killers exist in realms where the borders of reality are difficult to identify, and excitingly easy to contort. Un-Su Kim takes this trope to a new level in his first book tran...…
…ILLUSTRATION BY CASEY TIN statement THE MICHIGAN DAILY | JANUARY 9, 2019 Annie Klus /Daily This must be the place “ ” …
…I n terms of an introduction, this is a column about nothing in particular. But it’s also a column about anything under the sun. I don’t know if this affords me unmeasurable literary freedom or if it cages me in, wandering aimlessly around the halls of banality. But as a circus manager in charge of transporting the big top from town to town has probably said at least once, “Let’s get this show on the road.” If you’re my mom, you might ...…
…Wednesday, January 9, 2019 // The Statement 3B M y expectations of love and romance were doomed from the start. As a child, I lived and breathed Disney movies. The story was always the same: A beautiful princess was in trou- ble and — shocker — a beauti- ful prince came to save her. The perfect pair fall in love as soon as they look at one another, and BOOM! They’re set for life. To me, this cliché was reality. It was December 20...…
…Wednesday, January 9, 2019 // The Statement 4B Wednesday, January 9, 2019 // The Statement 5B Annie Klus /Daily The Good News Accapella group performing. I t’s a Saturday night in mid-December, and despite the freezing temperatures and the impending tempest of finals, Angell Hall Auditorium A at the University of Michigan is packed. Students and families have crowded into the rows of cramped seats, and there’s a folding table along ...…
…“It seems both especially easy and especially hard to have open hearts in college. We want to be known for who we are, but we also wonder: Who are we?” Wednesday, January 9, 2019// The Statement 6B “I’m just an animal looking for a home and / share the same space for a minute or two.” I think the most tender, supreme pleasures of friend- ship and community come when we acknowledge the shared things (God, the Talking Heads...…
…Wednesday, January 9, 2019 // The Statement 7B I grew up in the arid valley where the moonlight was muffled by the smoke of thousands of coal-burning stoves. It was cold and scary at night and the day came, only to reveal the night’s crimes. Every morning, the newspaper delivered headlines of the number of peo- ple, my people, who didn’t make it through. Dozens every month. Hundreds every year. It was an eye for an eye among my peo...…
…V I S U A L S T A T E M E N T : W i n te r B r e a k a s s e e n by t h e D a i l y p h o to s ta f f Allison Engkvist/Daily Alec Cohen/Daily Alexis Rankin /Daily Amelia Cacchione/Daily Wednesday, January 9, 2019 // The Statement 8B …
…MICHIGAN STAYS UNBEATEN, TAKES CARE OF IU As Zavier Simpson converted a hook shot, extending the Wolverines’ lead to 16 with 14:35 to go in the game, Indiana coach Archie Miller shouted and punched the air in anger, frustration spilling into body language. Miller spent most of Sunday’s game standing on the visiting sideline with his hands on his hips, shaking his head after missed shots, exasperation open — putting on display j...…
…2B — January 9, 2019 SportsWednesday The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Unlikely veteran Matthews dominates Langford In the waning seconds of Sunday’s game, it was Charles Matthews who stood at center court, dribbling the clock out on the Michigan men’s basketball team’s win over Indiana. It was appropriate, for a game where, for much of it, the redshirt junior wing had been a focal point. Coming into the contest, a lot of t...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com SportsWednesday January 9, 2019 — 3B Michigan falls to Merrimack, 4-2 After 40 minutes of play, Michigan (7-8-6) and Merrimack (6-15-1) were deadlocked at one goal apiece. Forward Derek Petti was able to break the stalemate with a goal just seconds into the third period that allowed the Warriors to take the lead and eventually the victory, 4-2. Entering the final period, Merrimack was on the...…
…4B — January 9, 2019 SportsWednesday The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Bucking the norm Greg Mattison, Al Washington accept jobs to join Ohio State defensive staff, leaving Harbaugh in the dust Michigan linebackers coach Al Washington will be accepting an assistant coaching position with Ohio State, according to Rivals on Tuesday. The move comes one day after the Wolverines’ defensive line coach, Greg Mattison, was named the Bu...…
…In the first hours of the University of Michigan’s West Quad Residence Hall’s armed robbery in early December, residents and staff grew concerned with the sudden unexplained presence of police vehicles outside of the dorm and officers in the building. Many residents turned to social media and their friends to make sense of the situation, and very rapidly, a rumor about an active shooter spread through campus. Fortunately for...…
…APPLE SAUCE puzzle by sudokusyndication.com 420 Maynard St. Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1327 www.michigandaily.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. 1241 nathankg@michigandaily.com ALEXA ST. JOHN Editor in Chief 734-418-4115 ext. 1251 alexastj@michigandaily.com The Michigan Daily (ISSN 0745-967) i...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com News Monday, January 31, 2018 — 3A DOR AK ON THE DIAG LSA junior Rachyl Lyons and LSA sophomore Kelly Bertoni, members of the Do Random Acts of Kindness Club, hold signs for “free thumbs up” and more on the Diag Tuesday. HALEY MCLAUGHLIN/Daily website about what to do in an emergency, such as the “Run, Hide, Fight” strategy if an active attacker enters campus. DPSS also launched a new smartphone...…
…L ast week, I attended a town hall meeting hosted by Stop Spencer at the University of Michigan, which was set up in order to discuss Richard Spencer’s impending visit to campus. I wanted to catch myself up on the current situation, the likelihood he would actually come and to understand the University’s response to this saga. I want to respond to two different things that I learned. First, according to the organize...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Arts Wednesday, January 31, 2018 — 5A On Friday, Jan. 26, Ann Arbor locals and residents from the far corners of the mitten state alike flocked to the University’s own Hill Auditorium for the 41st Annual Ann Arbor Folk Festival. Being so close to the festival, in geographical terms, might make University students write the event off as a minor happening, but the festival is, in reality, centra...…
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…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Sports Wednesday, January 31, 2018 — 7A Lockwood out for year after shoulder surgery Three weeks ago, Will Lockwood faced a choice: He could attempt to play through his latest shoulder injury and have surgery once the Michigan hockey team’s season was over, or have surgery as soon as possible. Rather than delay the inevitable, Lockwood chose the latter. After Tuesday’s prac...…
…8A — Wednesday, January 31, 2018 Sports The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Three days to learn: Inside Michigan’s game preparation On average, a college basketball team gets three or four days between games. Three or four days to process the last game, get better, learn everything there is to know about the next opponent, teach it to the players, travel if the game is on the road, then go out and play. That’s a hefty order, es...…
…statement THE MICHIGAN DAILY | JANUARY 31, 2018 Tech takes a seat in Ann Arbor …
…I f I have one hope for 2018 — besides finishing school, graduating, figuring out life and finding my bigger purpose in this world — it’s to drink better coffee than I did last year. Since I am coming to the final pages of this chapter of my college career, it would make sense for me to try “adulting” in all corners of my life. This includes the music I listen to, the things I eat, the things I say, the books I read, but also, ...…
…3B Wednesday, January 31, 2018 // The Statement Soundtracking: A Voice Crack W hy? Why would you betray me like this? I trusted you. I gave you my everything, and you went and pulled this shitake mushrooms? We all know voice cracking isn’t incredibly uncommon. It happens to the best of us. Even the best voices to ever grace our ears hit speed bumps every now and then. I bet some nights when he’s unwinding and getting ready fo...…
…Wednesday, January 31, 2018 // The Statement 4B Wednesday, January 31, 2018 // The Statement 5B Tech takes a seat in Ann Arbor I n October 2017, Duo Security — an Ann Arbor-based com- pany, launched by two Uni- versity of Michigan alumni in 2009 — made national headlines when it secured a $70 million round of fund- ing that brought it to be valued at over $1 billion dollars; the information tech- nology startup is known for producing ...…
…I got a text from my mom on a hot, busy afternoon in July. Of course, all of your July afternoons are hot and busy when you spend so much time taking care of 7-year-olds that you almost have no time to take care of yourself. The text read, “Call Dad. It’s important.” My Nana had been sick for years. Ovarian cancer is a relentless battle, one that she had both lost and conquered gracefully. I braced myself for the news as I dial...…
…stages aren’t necessarily the same for everyone. I also learned that the anticipation of death doesn’t make it hurt any less. You can try to imagine what life will be like when someone is gone, in a morbid sort of attempt to prepare yourself. But when you get the call, when the finality sets in, it doesn’t matter how long you spent preparing, or how many times you said goodbye. It hits you hard and hurts all the same. I spent to...…
…Wednesday, January 31, 2018 // The Statement 8B V I S U A L S T A T E M E N T : I N S I D E T H E T E C H S P A C E Photos by Alec Cohen and Amelia Cacchione This week, the lead brought our photographers to Ann Arbor SPARK and Clinc, a local AI startup …
…On Monday, The Michigan Daily sat down for an interview with E. Royster Harper, the University of Michigan’s vice president of Student Life. During a time of national conversations surrounding many important and polarizing issues, we asked Harper for her take on current Greek life reforms, sexual assault and misconduct, and free speech in the context of white supremacist Richard Spencer’s possible visit to campus next sem...…
…we sometimes call residents or trainees,” Bradford said. “We’re also extremely committed to faculty development, so I think we’re all learners because we’re all striving to improve.” Strategic planning for the department has been a priority of Bradford’s since she took the position. She and her team created five “pillars”— education, people, discovery, care and service— that now guide the academic mission of the Medical Scho...…
…own self-monitoring in saying that we need to stop the social activities because of all this going on, and that also frightens me because my experience has been when we self- correct, things are sometimes more dangerous than we know.” In addition, Harper spoke on multicultural fraternities and sororities, specifically surrounding issues of police presence. In October, The Daily reported a disparity between the large amount ...…
…O ver the past year, I’ve seen a dramatic shift in reputable journalistic outlets’ — like The New York Times, the Wall Street Journal and The Washington Post — coverage of the presidency to what individuals might perceive as being more partisan than in the past. In many ways, this shift can be seen as a response to the pages of lies that PolitiFact has noted over the course of President Donald Trump’s presidency and h...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Arts Tuesday, January 30, 2018 — 5 Last year was the year of Migos. They began 2017 by releasing their tour de force, Culture, a project that catapulted them to international stardom. They maintained their public presence throughout the year: A series of well-placed features (e.g. “Slide” by Calvin Harris and “Congratulations” by Post Malone), the release of collaborative albums (Huncho Ja...…
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…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Sports Tuesday, January 30, 2018 — 7 Flaherty, Barnes Arico playing numbers game For the No. 13 Michigan women’s basketball team (8-2 Big Ten, 19-4 overall), this season has been all about numbers. Coach Kim Barnes Arico and senior guard Katelynn Flaherty have set the tone, trading statistical milestones. It all started in mid- November, when the Wolverines faced then-No. 5 Louis...…
…8 — Tuesday, January 30, 2018 Sports The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Three takeaways: ‘M’ reversing trends after being swept by Ohio State On a weekend when everything could go wrong against fifth- ranked Ohio State (10-5-1 Big Ten, 17-5-4 overall), it did. The No. 20 Michigan hockey team (7-9-2, 12-12-2) lost all momentum it had built up over the past two weeks in dramatic fashion. The Daily breaks down three takeaways from...…
…Reinventing Urban Transportation and Mobility aims to revolutionize public transit through an online app that turns transportation into an on-demand service. The app, which serves travelers on the University of Michigan’s North Campus, first launched this month on January 16. While no timeline is set in place yet, the developers hope to eventually expand the service to the University as a whole. RITMO, partnering with t...…
…the business and create its newest location. Referred to Rotche by a mutual friend, Knapp said her uneasiness toward franchising was immediately relieved after a phone conversation with Rotche. “I didn’t know anything about franchising — I just thought of McDonald’s or Subway,” Knapp said. “I talked to John Rotche, and by the end of the phone call I was hooked, because the way he talked about franchising was this luxury, rich ex...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Michigan in Color & News Monday, January 29, 2018 — 3A When I joined Michigan in Color over one year ago, I wrote about my excitement to contribute to a space that allows people from marginalized communities to finally have a voice at an institution like The Michigan Daily. To me, this was and is necessary because I recognize the immense power that stories can have. And only by showcas...…
…G rowing up, I was one of those weird kids from a weird family. In an attempt to shelter my siblings and me, my parents refused to have internet or cable television in the house. For a time, we had a hunky desktop plugged into the ethernet cable where we could spend 20 minutes a day playing games on Miniclip or Disney.com. But when our time ran up, we had nothing to connect us to the outside world. As a homeschool...…
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…On Saturday, Jan. 27, student organization EnspiRED hosted their 12th annual charity fashion show, entitled “RAW,” at the Alfred A. Taubman Biomedical Research Building. “Every year, the show is formed after some good theme that’s based upon social experience,” said Travis Jones, an LSA senior and model in the show. “This year’s theme is RAW, and I feel like that’s a big social experience that a lot of people can relate to.” Spoile...…
