…W hen I walk Down the streets of this College-town I see Hands smashing beer bottles Friends only of one-another Screaming chants alien To my covered ears I began my freshman year at the University of Michigan bright-eyed and ready to learn. As the years went on, however, I started to realize how diversity, equity and inclusion are just empty words in a University campaign slogan. This was also the first time I really felt unsafe...…
…3B Wednesday, March 21, 2018 // The Statement Brews Through: Shinola Cafe C harles Bradley’s “Slow Love” plays on a record through the chatter of coffee shop talk, clicking of keyboards and turning of pages. “Just you and me / Us against the world / Baby I love you / This a evil world we live in” It seeps into the brick walls, the black wall paint and plush leather couches. Shinola Cafe is a secret, both a mancave and l...…
…Wednesday, March 21, 2018 // The Statement 4B Wednesday, March 21, 2018 // The Statement 5B Purple Squirrel, but only human? by Yoshiko Iwai, Columnist I wake up to the fifth alarm of 12. It’s more out of irritation — to stop the droning, electronic waterfalls — than it is to open the door and let any ray of sun into my windowless room. I slowly put my head back down when the sixth alarm starts. I groan, mildly irritated, and turn...…
…I remember standing in the shade of an olive tree in Panathinaiko Stadium Square, sweat dripping down my face, trying to hail a cab. Classes had just gotten out for the day, and I was making my way to my cousin Zoe’s apartment. I was studying abroad at The Athens Centre in Athens, Greece, the summer after my freshman year at the University of Michigan. At this time, I felt left at odds about what I wanted to do, not only with ...…
…S o I’m not sure if all three of my readers are aware, but I’m kind of into music a little bit. I grew up listening to “The Free- wheelin’ Bob Dylan” in my living room while building cities out of alphabet blocks, Legos and a Thomas the Tank Engine wooden train track set. I like to ask people, “What was the first song you remember hearing in your entire life that wasn’t a children’s song?” cause you learn a lot about someone by wha...…
…Wednesday, March 21, 2018 // The Statement 8B V I S U A L S T A T E M E N T : N C A A to u r n a m e n t , b e h i n d-t h e - s c e n e s I spent the majority of last week in Wichita, Kansas, covering the Michigan Men’s Basketball team’s first and second round games of the NCAA tournament. In addition to the two thrilling games, I had close access to the players before and after the games during media availability in the l...…
…Dozens filed in and out of Seek Refuge’s first clothing line launch party held in the Michigan League’s Hussey Room on Tuesday evening. Seek Refuge is an organization, founded by Dearborn native Shazia Ijaz, committed to bringing awareness to aid refugees, empower women and represent Muslims through its clothing line. The organization currently gives a portion of its proceeds to a refugee aid program and was recently feature...…
…As students gear up for the Uni- versity of Michigan’s Central Student Government elections on March 21 and 22, The Daily sat down with ex- ecutive candidates to talk platforms, vision, and plans. In this installment, we profile the MomentUM party, headlined by presidential candidate AJ Ashman and vice presidential candidate Charlie Bingham. Engineering junior AJ Ashman said his inspiration to run for CSG President comes from three...…
…could.” Jones noted the University will save on classroom construction, which “dries up tuition,” by standardizing start times across all campuses. She also said “interdisciplinary” students will benefit from the switch. Jones explained under the current system, a student taking back-to-back LSA and nursing courses has no transition time between classes. University spokesman Rick Fitzgerald and Christine Gerdes, Specia...…
…E very time a classroom door opens in the middle of a class, I momentarily freeze. I look toward the door, no longer able to hear my professor’s words, only coming to a place of relaxation when a student or somebody else who’s meant to be there meets my eyes. I’m scared of it being someone who has come to shoot my peers and me. This has been true throughout my time at college, in all kinds of classrooms. Maybe you think this ...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Arts Wednesday, February 21, 2018 — 5A Maybe the strangest thing to come out of the rise of the television antihero was the writers’ room assumption that if viewers could root for the flawed and morally ambiguous — the Don Drapers and Tony Sopranos — surely we would find it in ourselves to extend that empathy to the downright insufferable. Sometimes, if executed well, we actually might; “Gi...…
…FOR RENT HELP WANTED DOMINICK’S NOW HIRING all positions FT/PT. Call 734‑834‑5021. READ THE MICHIGAN DAILY :) :) ACROSS 1 Your business is her business 6 Tiny cut 10 Jeans line 14 Spreadsheet program 15 Comes to the rescue of 16 “The Time Machine” race 17 Like a cowboy in denial? 20 Emotional wound 21 “At __, soldier!” 22 Quartet in “Whose woods these are I think I know” 23 Fodder for Forbes, initially 25 Play a part 26 Like an eag...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Sports Wednesday, February 21, 2018 — 7A A dad and his daughter: How Katelynn Flaherty became the face of Michigan Katelynn Flaherty’s back was acting up again. During the summer, she spent six weeks off the court recovering from a back injury, her only basketball activities consisting of dribbling a ball as she walked around the block and taking between 800 and 1,000 foul shots every day. She...…
…8A — Wednesday, Feburary 21, 2018 Sports The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Versatile players help Michigan In South Bend, Ind. on Friday, sophomore forward Adam Winborg notched the first goal of the Michigan hockey team’s series against Notre Dame, a goal that would catalyze the rest of the offense to rout the top team in the country. Winborg is just one example of an emerging category of Wolverine skaters who fill a ut...…
…statement THE MICHIGAN DAILY | FEBRUARY 21, 2018 An Afternoon Tea …
…M y relatives like to joke that Asians and Asian- Americans shouldn’t do hip-hop because we haven’t faced the same tribulations as other races. They especially ridicule certain rappers from their native Japan, who never suffered from racism, abject poverty, street violence or drug dealing but don expensive sneakers and talk about swag. I wonder what they would think of Rich Chigga. “And you don’t wanna f--k with a chi...…
…3B Wednesday, February 21 2018 // The Statement Let’s Bitch About It: Your study space is trash W hen not fawning over Reggie or tailgating before football games (both of which are overrated), most students spend their time outside of class studying for said classes. Students spend night after night in various study spaces cramming for exams, having mental breakdowns or procrastinating on Facebook. However, despite the...…
…The stark traditionalism of Martha Cook Wednesday, February 21, 2018 // The Statement 4B Wednesday, February 21, 2018 // The Statement 5B An Afternoon Tea A s I pass through the doors of Martha Cook Residence Hall at the University of Michigan, I enter a hallway clad in wooden panels whose austerity of color and design evokes past eras. Brightly lit by ostentatious chandeliers and archaic windows, the space draws the eye to the V...…
…I planned out everything I wanted to say and how much I wanted to reveal about myself in this personal statement the entire week prior to the moment I sat down to write. I would pretend to write it in my head during class, dictating telepathically to someone somewhere with a pad and paper. I expected to wake up and have all of my emotions and experiences laying on my lap typed, double-spaced and stapled with eloquent prose to bo...…
…I remember practice lockdowns to be some of the most awkward experiences of my early schooling. The entire class huddled into the corner of a dark classroom so we would be prepared if anyone potentially dangerous entered the school. I remember thinking it unlikely that turning the lights off would be enough to keep someone from trying to enter the room. I thought about what decisions my teacher would have to make if some...…
…Wednesday, February 21, 2018 // The Statement 8B V I S U A L S T A T E M E N T : L IVI N G S PACE S Betsy Barbour, Katelyn Mulcahy Mosher-Jordan, Alice Liu Martha Cook is one of many dorms on campus. Here, photo staff highlights their favorite dorm spots. Mosher-Jordan, Alice Liu Stockwell, Alexis Rankin …
