…I have a box that has followed me from one childhood room to the next. When I was seven, it rested under my bed. At 10, it moved into a room upstairs with me and onto a closet shelf. When I was 17, it wedged itself into a corner between my dresser and the wall. Now, it just sits on my desk in my apartment. Sometimes I’ll run my hand over it in the morning, or I’ll open it up when hit by a wave of nostalgia. Inside it are love lett...…
…Friday, February 14, 2020 // The Statement 4B 5B Friday, February 14, 2020 // The Statement ILLUSTRATION BY MAGGIE WIEBE Tiny Love Stories Jacob threatens to order a pizza nearly every night but almost never follows through. We rarely share a meal that doesn’t send him into some vague gastrointestinal pain, except the sushi we once ate in a Toledo, Ohio bathtub (“I didn’t know sushi could be, like, a meal”). He once mused on the concep...…
…Friday, February 14, 2020 // The Statement 6B “Love Island”: The Walden Pond of reality TV T V has always moved too fast for me. I was too busy running track and selling books in high school to participate in my nuclear family’s “Breaking Bad” bonding routine, I gave up on “Twin Peaks” after distractedly missing too many plot points and I figured that everyone else knew enough about “The Office” and “Game of Thrones” for me to ride ...…
…Wednesday, January 16, 2019 // The Statement 7B Friday, February 14, 2020 // The Statement 7B O ver Winter Break, my mother and I drove 90 minutes to visit the gravesite of my paternal grandmother Gail, a place neither of us had seen. We drove around the cemetery in dizzy circles and tra- versed plots of well-kept grass to find it, searching the site with only a rough draft of a map found online. I’d always wanted to visit the site and...…
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…Anita Michaud is the best business manager in the whole world. Anna Deluca and Becky To are the coolest ladies in the county To Mingi, my true sunshine, the light of my life and the mayonnaise to my Kevin To my Michigan Daily fam—love you guys! Thanks for the best semester yet <3 To the best roommates ever—205 is live!! You guys are the absolute best <3 There’s no one else I’d want to be my personal Rav. Thank you for being you, Rav L...…
…^______^” Hey Mingi, this is your anonymous lover, Kevin. Just stopping by to say I love you. “To my twin, Everyone says that we appear the same, but I would argue that the similar kindness seen in us is me attempting to match yours. Hey Avery :) Thought you’d like to see a Love Note for you in your favorite paper!! Journalism! Happy Valentines Day <3 Love, Liam Doofensmirtz, Pugs, and more. Here’s to a year of trials and tribulations...…
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…michigandaily.com Ann Arbor, Michigan Tuesday, January 14, 2020 ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY-NINE YEARS OF EDITORIAL FREEDOM The University of Michigan Senate Assembly met Monday afternoon at the Michigan League to discuss the structure of faculty governance, changes to policy regarding faculty pay during University misconduct trials, the status of U-M Flint and the purpose of University Ombuds. The Ombuds is an independent body workin...…
…Nearly five years ago, University of Michigan faculty and students and the Grace Girls’ Home in Trincomalee, Sri Lanka teamed up to tackle diabetes care in low and middle- income communities. Now, organizers reflect on the new mentorship programs taking place within the initiative. Grace Girls’ Home is a shelter for “at-risk” girls and the elderly displaced by the 2004 tsunami in Sri Lanka that claimed 40,000 lives, as well...…
…“We would need to have expertise from a private developer, but we’d like to have some certainty going into that process, in advance, where we would pre-entitle the basic footprint of what the site would look like,” Hall said. The council discussed a variety of topics, ranging from the process of building new properties to parking difficulties in Ann Arbor. The two are closely related, as many of the sites that may be developed are...…
…Opinion The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com 4 — Tuesday, January 14, 2020 Alanna Berger Brittany Bowman Zack Blumberg Emily Considine Cheryn Hong Krystal Hur Ethan Kessler Mary Rolfes Michael Russo Timothy Spurlin Miles Stephenson Joel Weiner Erin White Lola Yang ERIN WHITE Managing Editor Stanford Lipsey Student Publications Building 420 Maynard St. Ann Arbor, MI 48109 tothedaily@michigandaily.com Edited and managed by students at...…
…Amid the revival of the movie musical, NBC’s new pilot “Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist” seeks to capture the camp of Broadway classics along with modern millennial cynicism. A slightly magical premise and some genuinely funny moments make this show stand out from more formulaic sitcoms. Zoey (Jane Levy, “Don’t Breathe”), owner of the titular “Extraordinary Playlist,” works as a coder at a San Francisco start-up and struggles ...…
…6 — Tuesday Janurary 14, 2020 Arts The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com puzzle by sudokusnydictation.com By Roland Huget ©2020 Tribune Content Agency, LLC 01/14/20 Los Angeles Times Daily Crossword Puzzle Edited by Rich Norris and Joyce Nichols Lewis 01/14/20 ANSWER TO PREVIOUS PUZZLE: Release Date: Tuesday, January 14, 2020 ACROSS 1 Watering hole 4 African language group 9 Suddenly took interest 14 Québec street 15 Future oak 16 W...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Sports Tuesday, January 14, 2020— 7 Parris plays hero against Spartans Sean Bormet saw the look on Mason Parris’ face and knew what was going to happen. The Michigan wrestling team may have lost its last four bouts. It may have nearly blown a 16-point lead to Michigan State. But the Wolverines knew that in the moment, none of that mattered, because they had a cheat code the Spartans didn’t: ...…
…8 — Tuesday, January 14, 2020 Sports The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Assessing the state of Michigan’s frontcourt After the Michigan men’s basketball team lost to Minnesota on Sunday, Juwan Howard fielded the same questions that surfaced after Thursday’s double-overtime win over Purdue. On each occasion, the questions were rooted in the consistent success opposing Big Ten post players have sustained against the Wolverines’...…
