…9 Thursday, June 9, 2016 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com NEWS points. Morgan worked for the Clinton presidential campaign in 2008 and was a delegate for Clinton in that year’s Democratic National Convention. He said his experience working for a losing primary campaign makes him empathetic with present-day Sanders supporters. “I’m very confident that, in the fall, when any rational person looks at the race between Hilla...…
…10 Thursday, June 9, 2016 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com SPORTS Michigan exits from WCWS with 1-0 loss After World Series loss, a fitting goodbye for Michigan OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla. — Led by its coach, the Michigan softball team walked one-by-one, red- eyed, into the bowels of ASA Hall of Fame Stadium. It was all quiet but for the occasional sniffle as coach Carol Hutchins, senior second baseman Sierr...…
…End of season awards: Baseball By COLE ZINGAS Daily Sports Writer In Erik Bakich’s fourth year as the Michigan baseball coach, positivity was in the air. Over the last four years, Bakich has worked to build his program around a consistent mindset and a team-first mentality. According to Bakich, this was the most cohesive team he has had, and according to others across the country, it was his best. Michigan ev...…
…12 Thursday, June 9, 2016 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com ARTS Misterwives The energetic equivalent of the previous day’s Years & Years, Misterwives presented the piercing vocals of the female frontman Mandy Lee and her endless encouragement and positivity that prefaced every song. It’s nice to hear, every once in awhile, that I can accomplish my dreams, even if those dreams are only vaguely defined in the back of ...…
…One Hundred and TwenTy Five years OF ediTOrial FreedOm Thursday, June 2, 2016 Ann Arbor, MI Weekly Summer Edition MichiganDaily.com INDEX Vol. CXXVI, No. 118| © 2016 The Michigan Daily michigandaily.com NEWS .................................... OPINION ............................... ARTS ...................................... CLASSIFIEDS......................... SUDOKU................................ SPORTS.................................…
…420 Maynard St. Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1327 www.michigandaily.com LARA MOEHLMAN Editor in Chief 734-418-4115 ext. 1251 larakm@michigandaily.com EMILY RICHNER Business Manager 734-418-4115 ext. 1241 errich@michigandaily.com EDITORIAL STAFF Bradley Whipple Managing Editor bmwhip@michigandaily.com Lydia Murray Managing News Editor news@michigandaily.com SENIOR NEWS EDITORS: Brian Kuang , Irene Park, Riyah Basha Jeremy Kapla...…
…3 Thursday, June 2, 2016 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com NEWS Warrior Scholar project helps students returning from service By KEVIN LINDER Daily Staff Reporter For the third summer since 2014, the University of Michigan hosted the Warrior-Scholar Project, a week-long summer program that provides veterans with assistance during the transition from military life to higher education. Founded at Yale University...…
…T his election cycle has seen a carousel of hot topics ranging from whether we should accept Syrian refugees to which bathrooms individuals can and can’t use. In this series of debates, one thing that has become increasingly clearer is that the United States may be facing a polarization crisis. Though I would argue that polarization isn’t inherently bad, the real problem lies within our inability to understand opinions d...…
…I t seems that society has a sort of rule of thumb in which artists are forgiven by history for their “strange behavior” because of their ability to create celebrated pieces, such as movies, books, etc. By “strange behavior,” I don’t mean the unusual oddities exhibited by geniuses, such as Nikola Tesla’s supposed habit of flexing his toes one hundred times a day. I’m talking about the more heinous crimes that were eit...…
…6 Thursday, June 2, 2016 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com ARTS MUSIC REVIEW ‘Love’ is graceful By SOPHIA KAUFMAN Daily Arts Writer “Love and Friendship” is adapted from Jane Austen’s novella “Lady Susan.” Though not as well known or beloved as “Pride and Prejudice,” “Sense and Sensibility” or even “Emma,” this story is just as bright and funny, as it slyly pokes fun at several of its characters. It’s a ma...…
…7 Thursday, June 2, 2016 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com ARTS Highs, lows and stars of Boston Calling MUSIC FESTIVAL REVIEW Eclectic group of artists make their way to New England By KAREN HUA Daily Arts Writer BOSTON - Three days, 39 acts, smack in the middle of historic Beantown. Revealed in a press release Friday, 2016 is the final year that City Hall Plaza will host Boston Calling, as the music festival is slated t...…
…8 Thursday, June 2, 2016 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com NEWS ACROSS 1 Word with time or money 5 Greek cross 8 Cameo shape 12 It may be straight 14 Ostracize 15 Spy follower? 16 Expenditure 17 Home to Mykonos and Milos 19 Concocts 21 Broad panoramas 22 Anatomical pouch 23 Sanctioned 25 __ lab 26 Condensed, for short: Abbr. 27 Schooner part 31 Woman undercover 35 __ String 36 Vessels on carts 37 Tennis lob strategy 39 Made a bad call,...…
…9 Thursday, June 2, 2016 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com NEWS building’s capacity has stayed the same. Gautz pointed to increased heroin use and a higher rate of women’s incarceration around the country for the rising number of Huron Valley inmates. “Heroin usage has led to a lot of crimes women are committing to feed that drug habit, and all of our counties are sending more women to prison,” Gautz said. However, Shecter,...…
…10 Thursday, June 2, 2016 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com SPORTS Women’s College World Series Preview By AVI SHOLKOFF and BETELHEM ASHAME Daily Sports Writers After early-season contests, conference games and tournaments, Regionals and Super Regionals, just eight teams remain to compete in the Women’s College World Series in Oklahoma City. Notably absent is No. 1 Florida, which was upset by No. 16 Georgia in the Super ...…
…11 Thursday, June 2, 2016 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com SPORTS Five Wolverines qualify at NCAA Outdoor East Prelim They will head to Eugene, Ore., for the NCAA Outdoor Championships By MATTHEW KENNEDY Daily Sports Writer Competing for the first time since winning the Big Ten Outdoor Championship, the Michigan women’s track and field team had a simple goal in mind: get as many athletes to the NCAA Outdoor Cha...…
…12 Thursday, June 2, 2016 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Selection Committee passes on Wolverines, ends season abruptly By COLE ZINGAS Daily Sports Writer After a rocky finish to end its season, the Michigan baseball team was on the bubble entering Monday’s NCAA Tournament selection show. Baseball America listed Michigan as one of the “First Four Out” of the 64-team field before the selection show, leaving the Wolv...…
…Thursday, June 25, 2015 Ann Arbor, MI Weekly Summer Edition MichiganDaily.com INDEX Vol. CXXIV, No. 114 | © 2015 The Michigan Daily michigandaily.com NEWS .................................... OPINION ............................... ARTS ...................................... CLASSIFIEDS......................... CROSSWORD........................ SPORTS.................................. NEWS Graduation Gap Study shows discrepancy in co...…
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…coming weeks before the end of session, possibly as early as Thurs- day morning. Ann Arbor City Council approved the closure of Fourth Avenue from Catherine to Kings- ley on the day the court’s decision is released, per a request from the Jim Toy Community Center, an Ann Arbor based gay rights advo- cacy group. The street will remain closed from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. during which supporters are expected to rally along with plaintiffs...…
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…L ate last Saturday morn- ing, I went to a garage sale with my best friend/ sister-in- law, Caitlin. (We were best friends before she fell in love with, mar- ried and had a baby with my year- younger brother). They were renovating and trying to move into our childhood home. Caitlin was interested in a black, older but good condition table/shelf combo. After seeing it first, then walking around the small, unappeali...…
…‘True Detective’ re-up, ambitious yet uneventful TV REVIEW Season Two premiere offers exposition and little action By MATT BARNAUSKAS Daily Arts Writer Last year, “True Detective” premiered on HBO and became an instant phenomenon. View- ers followed detectives Rust Cohle (Matthew McConaughey, “Interstellar”) and Marty Hart (Woody Harrel- son, “The Hun- ger Games”) into the backwaters of Louisiana and a dark world of cr...…
…7 Thursday, June 25, 2015 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com ARTS ‘Dope’ sure to be classic MOVIE REVIEW Plot successfully balances the serious and lighthearted By LAUREN WOOD Daily Arts Writer Starting from the most major points, let’s at least try to catego- rize “Dope,” the Rick Famuyiwa (“The Wood”) pic- ture that came out this past week. First, there’s the main charac- ters — a group of geeky high school k...…
…ACROSS 1 The Olympic Australis and others 6 Sound detectors 10 Move lightly 14 Full range 15 Produce on a farm 16 Biked it 17 Video game brother 18 Hold ’em fee 19 “That makes sense” 20 2002 British Open champion 21 Patient care group 24 Pay 26 “Frasier” role 27 “Arabian Nights” name 28 Duties 32 Political convention announcement 37 Novelist Tolstoy 38 Rep on the street 39 Place for a small pet 40 Jag, e.g. 41 Had-at link 42 Casing filler 46 ...…
…9 Thursday, June 25, 2015 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com SPORTS Former greats, future stars join forces in all-QB camp at Big House By ZACH SHAW Summer Managing Sports Editor Jedd Fisch huddled his team up. With a bit of the game under its belt, Michigan’s passing game coordinator was ready to push his team to the next level. It wasn’t enough to just throw hard, he explained to the team. They needed to be s...…
…FILE PHOTO/Daily Former Michigan quarterback Denard Robinson is now a running back for Jacksonville. 10 Thursday, June 25, 2015 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com SPORTS Denard switches to RB for NFL career By KEVIN SANTO Daily Sports Writer At Jim Harbaugh’s Ann Arbor Aerial Assault camp Saturday, it was clear that I wasn’t the only person who remembered Denard Robinson. When Harbaugh split the quar- terback pool into grou...…
…11 Thursday, June 25, 2015 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com SPORTS Rudock, Morris ready to battle for starting QB job By KELLY HALL Daily Sports Writer A competition was brewing in Ann Arbor, and it wasn’t just between the high school quarter- backs pitted against one another at Michigan’s Aerial Assault quarter- back camp. Two camp counselors were bat- tling as well. Junior quarterback Shane Morris and Iowa graduate tran...…
…Over a dozen NFL players and coaches convene at Pioneer for free youth camp By ZACH SHAW Summer Managing Sports Editor Mighty Mike Martin has been a hit with Michigan fans for years. After winning state champi- onships in football, wrestling and shot put at Detroit Catholic Central, turning himself into an All-Big Ten defensive lineman at Michigan, then becoming a successful Tennessee Titan, it’s tempting to call Mighty Mar...…
…Warrior-Scholar academic bootcamp helps veterans adjust to University life By ALAINA WYGNAT Daily Staff Reporter “It’s kind of a long story,” Adam Pawlowski said, speak- ing about how he came to be one of 20 veterans at the Warrior- Scholar Project at the University. For the second year in a row, the University hosted the pro- gram, one-week academic boot camp designed to help service- men and women make the tran- sition from th...…
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…Kyle Piunti, who went through the boot camp in 2014 and subsequently attended Columbia University, is now a tutor in analytical reading. He said seeing the growth of his students has been rewarding. “A lot of students, when they first come in, are overwhelmed with a text,” Piunti said. “Then you start to see them develop as far as understanding the text and the direction in which we’re taking them.” People from every bran...…
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…I t all started, oddly enough, during the height of my French New Wave obsession. I was draining Godard and Truffaut films like diner cof- fee on a rough Sunday morn- ing. These are films that are compact, usually only an hour to an hour and 20 minutes long, and action-packed with a capital ACTION. High energy: car crash- es, shootouts, existential shout- ing matches about one’s place in society, infidelity and barely any plot...…
…Risk pays off in ‘OITNB’ TV REVIEW Villianless Season 3 fares well for Netflix original series By CHLOE GILKE Managing Arts Editor Season 3 of Netflix’s “Orange is the New Black” doesn’t designate a clear villain. Sure, every character has an adversary or two (“Orange is the New Black” is a drama series, and what’s drama without some good fights?), but character con- flicts are more isolated this year, and no feuds ...…
…7 Thursday, June 18, 2015 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com ARTS Capitalism trumps caution in ‘Jurassic’ Third sequel isn’t more than a decent action movie By CONRAD FOREMAN Daily Arts Writer Snapping necks and cashing checks. “Jurassic World” did a lot of both over its opening weekend, featur- ing dinosaur deaths by the dozen and eclips- ing domestic and inter- national box-office records for an opening weekend. Th...…
…Classifieds Call: #734-418-4115 Email: dailydisplay@gmail.com ACROSS 1 Military decoration 6 Supporting structure 11 Leading 14 Solitary 15 Silent brother of comedy 16 Valuable deposit 17 1996 Fox launch 19 NFL players, e.g. 20 Cozy lodge 21 Fail, in slang 22 Only city on California’s Catalina Island 24 As hidden in 17- Across, one of this puzzle’s 33- Down 26 Netherlands city near the Belgian border 27 Mork’s planet 28 Italian mathematician...…
…9 Thursday, June 18, 2015 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com SPORTS By TED JANES Daily Sports Writer It was mid-morning, and Sheryl Szady turned on the television in her Oklahoma City hotel. Footage of the Michigan baseball coach, Erik Bakich, was replaying from an earlier press conference. In the days before, the Michigan baseball team, notable underdogs, had won its first Big Ten Tourna- ment under Bakich’s watch but had...…
…10 Thursday, June 18, 2015 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com SPORTS They stayed outside because they were not given access to the com- fort of indoor locker rooms or any of the amenities the football team was pampered with. “We were just talking about this at dinner,” Szady said in Oklahoma. “Liz (Eagan) pulled out a picture of us at halftime of a field hockey game, and we were playing at Michigan Stadium. We’re all just sitt...…
…11 Thursday, June 18, 2015 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com SPORTS Ofili headlines strong NCAA Championship performances By SYLVANNA GROSS Daily Sports Editor When junior hurdler Cindy Ofili sprinted past the finish line, she knew she had done well. Michigan coach James Henry knew she had it in her. But before the race, neither knew just how impressive the finishing time would be. Ofili recorded a 12.60-second result — ...…
…12 Thursday, June 18, 2015 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com SPORTS Romero on to Team USA By TYLER SCOTT Daily Sports Writer It had been only one week since the end of the Women’s College World Series, but Sierra Romero already found herself back in Oklahoma City. In her junior season, the Michigan second baseman cemented herself as one of college softball’s top talents and a leader of the NCAA runner- up Michigan softball ...…
…Ann Arbor, MI Weekly Summer Edition MichiganDaily.com INDEX Vol. CXXI, No. 136 | © 2013 The Michigan Daily michigandaily.com NEWS .................................... OPINION ............................... ARTS ...................................... CLASSIFIEDS......................... CROSSWORD........................ SPORTS.................................. NEWS #MISafeCampus Sue Sndyer hosted summit discussing campus sexual ass...…
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…3 Thursday, June 11, 2015 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com NEWS Talent circus showcases artists, performers Showcase features performances from library staff, student employees By ALAINA WYGANT Daily Staff Reporter A drum team, a storyteller and a spinning artist, among other performers, wowed onlookers at the Duderstadt Center as part of the second annual Library Tal- ent Circus Wednesday. The circus, according to...…
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…F orgive me for being late to the game, but I start- ed “Entourage” a couple of weeks ago. It only took a few minutes (and several hand- fuls of tortilla chips) before I was sucked into the world of Vinny Chase and Ari Gold. And I admit, I’ve loved every second of it. I finished Sea- son 4 on Tues- day and am trying to finish as soon as possible so I can see the movie. It’s funny. It’s witty. It’s enter- taining. And b...…
…Indie-folk Accidentals rock the Ark with guests CONCERT REVIEW By KIM BATCHELOR Daily Arts Writer Last Sunday, The Ark was filled for the indie-folk-rock styling of The Accidentals and, opening act, Abigail Stauffer. And these girls can seriously rock. Abigail Stauffer, an Ann Arbor icon most well-known for her dreadlocks, opened the show with the title track of her new album, Where I’m Going. She explained that the last time...…
…7 Thursday, June 11, 2015 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com ARTS ‘Aloha’ A-no-ha FILM REVIEW By REBECCA LERNER Daily Arts Writer Perhaps we should have heed- ed Amy Pascal’s warning about “Aloha” during the Sony e-mail leak last December — “I don’t care how much I love the director and the actors — it never, not even once, ever works.” A harsh assessment by someone who is deeply financially invested in it, but ...…
…Classifieds Call: #734-418-4115 Email: dailydisplay@gmail.com ACROSS 1 Protective garment 6 Nothing like wetlands 10 New car stat 13 One of four men who managed both the Mets and Yankees 14 “Eva __”: Isabel Allende novel 15 JFK datum 16 *”Finds Print of Man’s Foot on the Sand” 19 __ were 20 Excited exclamation 21 Actress Katey 23 *“Wendy’s Story” 25 Jai alai ball 26 Arena sounds 27 Foretells 28 “Psych” finale? 30 Is for more than one? 31 Mon...…
…Summit condemns sexual assault, fosters dialogue Conference features remarks from Michigan politicians By ALYSSA BRANDON Summer Managing News Editor Amid Department of Educa- tion investigations of various Michigan institutions’ sexual misconduct policies, including that of the University, state first lady Sue Snyder collaborated with Michigan politicians and educators in an effort to address issues of sexual assault on cam- ...…
…By ZACH SHAW Summer Managing Sports Editor As Kelis’ 2003 hit song “Milk- shake” blared throughout Elbel Field, Wilton Speight, nicknamed “Grande,” strode to the plate. This isn’t a Mad Lib, I promise. The hip-hop singer confident- ly discussed how her milkshake brought all the boys to the yard, and on the first pitch, the sopho- more quarterback nearly sent the ball out of it. It didn’t clear the fence, but was high enough and dee...…
