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…COLUMBUS — The No. 4 Michigan football team was just hanging on. Even when the Wolverines went down two touchdowns in the first half, and even when momentum favored Ohio State to begin the second half, they hung perilously within reaching distance. But with just under five minutes left in the third quarter, the floodgates broke open. It came on a punt, just after Michigan had gone down, 27-19, on a Buckeye field goal. Ohio S...…

…information and digest it and disseminate it to the public, and this is that kind of circumstance,” Eaton said. “This particular Freedom of Information Act request asked for the location of everywhere in the city that the city has removed lead gooseneck connections from the water main to the home’s supply line, and it also asks for the location of every home that has galvanized pipe from the water main at the street to the...…

…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Michigan in Color Monday, November 26, 2018— 3A Nestled in the dirt, under the roots of a date tree Half of my heart waits Calling out to me desperately I’m walking, earbuds in Down the streets of a city I don’t think wants me My feet hit the pavement to the rhythm of music In words that aren’t my mother tongue While my mother’s tongue struggles to pronounce the words that make up this new ...…

…A s the University of Michigan football season comes to an end, students begin to worry about where to keep their school spirit — leaving behind boxes of maize and blue apparel and enthusiasm. In the wake of last weekend’s final football game of the regular season, mourning is permitted, but only until our next hockey game. If you frequent the hockey games, you know the student section’s unique dance moves, unparalleled vo...…

…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Arts Monday, November 26, 2018 — 5A WALT DISNEY PICTURES Making a good sequel is an art that few movie franchises have mastered. The success of “The Incredibles” hinged on the fact that the original audience had grown up and would pay to see it simply for the nostalgic feeling it invoked. “Harry Potter” had a built-in sequel, though flops like “Percy Jackson and the Olympians” have shown th...…

…I am going to start off by saying that this review will be written in a rather unconventional way. I usually try to remove myself from the performance and the artist when critiquing, try to paint a picture of the audience and the atmosphere of the place — I try to connect the performance to something that everyone can relate to. I saw the incredible Audra McDonald perform on the eve of my 19th birthday and the performance easily...…

…Expectations met After another loss to Ohio State, it’s time to recalibrate expectations for a successful season » Page 2B Series split The Wolverines moved to 6-5-1-1 after their fourth straight series split, this one including two double- overtime games » Page 3B Design by Jack Silberman Evan Aaron & Katelyn Mulcahy/ Daily SPORTSMONDAY The Michigan Daily | michigandaily.com | November 26, 2018 62 - 39 …

…2B — November 26, 2018 SportsMonday The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com What makes a successful season C OLUMBUS — Shea Pat- terson walked into the room, every camera focused on him, and sat down. The junior quarter- back sighed. Loudly. Then he sighed again. Michigan’s starting quarterback didn’t have much to say about what hap- pened at Ohio Stadium on Sat- urday afternoon. Neither did his coach, nor his other team- mates w...…

…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com SportsMonday November 26, 2018 — 3B Offensive gameplan leaves lingering questions Standing at the podium, hat fixed, mood stoic, there wasn’t much Michigan coach Jim Harbaugh could say. A reporter asked broadly about his offensive gameplan. Harbaugh’s response was terse. “Wanted to run our best plays,” he said. “Throwing, moving the ball, outside zone, inside power. We had basically everythi...…

…4B — Monday, November 26, 2018 Sports The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Offensive miscues stall Michigan in 62-39 loss COLUMBUS — Shea Patterson took a few steps back, cocked his arm and let the football roll off his fingers. It was a dime of a pass, flying directly through the air towards senior tight end Zach Gentry, who was open for the catch in the endzone. He outstretched his arms, just barely grabbing the ball. But there ...…

…The Michigan Daily Administration News Beat will be conducting interviews with the incumbent and challenging candidates for University of Michigan Board of Regents prior to the November midterm elections. Our second interview is with incumbent Regent Andrea Fischer Newman (R). Newman is an alum of the University and has served on the board for the last 24 years. Recently retired, Newman was senior vice president of Govern...…

…Linguists gathered Thursday for the International Institute Conference to discuss the endangerment and revitalization of Indigenous languages. The day- long conference worked to build a stronger relationship between the University of Michigan and the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues by reporting policy recommendation discussions from the conference to the forum. Panelists discussed the relationship betwe...…

…a finance-dominated field,” Kaplan said. “We really want the students to be able to engage with the panelists and create those relationships so that they feel more comfortable and empowered when they choose to enter the field.” Panelists discussed the importance of diversity in finding innovative solutions to problems and the struggles many women face when balancing work and childcare. Though all panelists sai...…

…E verybody’s talking about firearms. “Gun control” peaked in Google’s search bar this year, and metal detectors are popping up faster than the October leaves are turning red. Implementation of strong security measures seems to be contagious among big cities, yet Ann Arbor still lacks the infrastructure and sense of urgency needed to make significant change. A greater number of states, cities and municipalities — including ...…

…This is it. It’s really happening. The never-before-accomplished think piece about the massive impact the “Harry Potter” series has had on basically every millennial to ever pick up a book — with the exception of the middle schoolers “too cool for magic.” Jokes aside, “Harry Potter”’s cultural impact is essentially unparalleled in today’s world; millions upon millions of children have had the same exact experience I did...…

…Just as NBC’s ’90s “Must See TV” era was defined by an array of nearly identical shows about young singles, ABC’s comedy programming in the 2010s is on track to be remembered as a gaggle of nearly identical sitcoms about families. Since the massive success of “Modern Family” in 2009, ABC has consistently added more family-centric shows to their lineup, to the point where they are abundant enough to fill their own programming bloc...…

…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Sports & Michigan in Color Friday, October 26, 2018 — 7 Originating from the African Gumboot dance that was performed in the mines of South Africa during apartheid, stepping has served as a form of self- expression and liberation for years. Now seen in National Pan-Hellenic Council fraternities and sororities, stepping is a dynamic art form to display history and tradition through stomping, c...…

…8 — Friday, October 26, 2018 Sports The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Michigan gearing up for St. Lawrence The pieces are slowly starting to come together. Despite the No. 12 Michigan hockey team’s 1-2 record, there’s been visible improvement in each game. Sometimes the defense will show flashes of a lockdown group of blueliners. Sometimes, the offense looks like it has found its rhythm. But with St. Lawrence (1-3) ...…

…Defying stereotypes about college students’ preference for loungewear, one can find students sporting suits at any given day at the Ross School of Business Building. With a sleek, modern exterior and an interior that hosts a private gym, cafeteria and frequent visists from top recruiters, some students have remarked that the building itself resembles a traditional business atmosphere. Belying the Business School’s tra...…

…of the new Little Caesars world headquarters. The Detroit location may also host autograph signing events with professional athletes, some of whom played for the University and currently live in the city. Travis Arbogast, vice president of development at Olympia Development of Michigan, said The M Den opening will be a fresh addition to diversify the stores at the Columbia Street shopping center. “As an athletics...…

…will help improve programs for future graduate students. “The goal is really for us to try to better understand the doctoral student experience,” Gonzalez said. “We have lots of kinds of dry data (gender, race, and ethnicity information) about these students, but we don’t know, at least on a large scale, the details about their experience and how that changes over time.” For the 2017 MDES survey, all participants were fi...…

…T he day I told my mom that I was gay, she cried. The day I told my mom that I was gay, she cried. She wept not because of who I was, but because of what I was losing. “Life is hard enough as it is, and I want things to be as easy as they can be for you.” she said. “I just don’t want you to lose that innocence any earlier than you have to.” I nodded half-heartedly, trying to fully understand what she had meant. After seeing my ...…

…The album cover that graces the front of The Cat Breathes the Fresh Water is a barely discernible cacophony of red. “The Cat,” it declares in messy scrawl in the upper left-hand corner, before getting cut off by what can only be described as a vague approximation of a human face. On either side, two stars hang at a lopsided angle and a miniature cat hides in the empty circle of the left eye. Its whiskers are askew; its sole...…

…ACROSS 1 Muslim pilgrimage 5 Made docile 10 Valley with a Wine Train 14 Melville’s “Typee” sequel 15 Limber 16 Malicious 17 Bandit band 18 Jackrabbits, e.g. 19 Minimum __ 20 *Niacin and riboflavin 23 7UP competitor since 1961 25 Harbinger 28 *Twenty Questions question 29 “I could be wrong” 33 Knocks firmly 34 Pseudonym 35 Part of LACMA 36 *Earth, Wind & Fire hit album whose title means “everything considered” 38 “Nothing to shout ...…

…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Sports Wednesday, September 26, 2018 — 7A Back from heart surgery, Beilein looks for normalcy John Beilein nearly didn’t get a stress test. He skipped it the first time — he had to go recruiting. He didn’t want to get on the treadmill, and he certainly didn’t intend to come back to the doctor’s office after leaving that day. “Sort of the way I live my life,” Beilein said. “I was in the middle o...…

…8 — Wednesday, September 26, 2018 Arts The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com …

…statement THE MICHIGAN DAILY | SEPTEMBER 26, 2018 Mark Schlissel gave me writer’s block P resident Mark Schlissel apparently lives in a beautiful white house on South University and I was going to see it. I was going to see it because I emailed a professor that I needed a building to write about, and of the hundreds in Ann Arbor, not a single one felt curious enough for a story. “Break into Mark Schlissel’s house!” he ...…

…W hen me found out I’d been hired to work at The Daily I wuz so excited, I screemed. If you cringed while reading this sentence, then I highly recommend you consider working as a copy editor for The Michigan Daily. My interest in joining Copy can be attributed to one of the reasons I similarly decided to become an English teacher: I enjoy working with the mechanics of writing — pulling a sentence apart one word at a time, decid...…

…3B Wednesday, September 26, 2018 // The Statement Cancun the Promised Land of American Plight T here are certain places I tend to avoid when I return to my hometown after a year away at college. The notorious town watering holes: June graduation parties, the grocery store on Sunday evenings, Starbucks. These three places can all be classified by their likelihood of neighborhood small talk, typically conversations that o...…

…Wednesday, September 26, 2018 // The Statement 4B Wednesday, September 26, 2018 // The Statement 5B Mark Schlissel gave me writer’s block by Matt Gallatin, Statement Correspondent U niversity of Michigan Presi- dent Mark Schlissel appar- ently lives in a beautiful white house on South Uni- versity Avenue and I was going to see it. I was going to see it because I emailed a professor that I needed a building to write about, and of the ...…

…Wednesday, September 26, 2018 // The Statement 6B Student athetes’ silent struggle with eating disorders A mong student athletes, there’s a fine line between being mindful of your health and becoming obsessed with it. “Take care of your body,” motivational speaker Jim Rohn writes. “It is the only place you have to live.” Despite the changes wrought by puberty, aging and disease, the body is singularly constant. To some extent, ...…

…T he internship searches have morphed into job searches, the sought-after executive board positions are now ours and our points have gotten us up to the front rows at the football games; after three short years, we’ve become seniors. And in eight much shorter months, we’ll be alumni. Most of us, myself included, can probably remember — as much as we might try to forget it — our freshman orientation, the day we moved into our f...…

…Sonja is from Pinckney, Michigan and has been driv- ing for the University since April. Prior to working for the University, she has also been a transit operator for Dexter and Pinckney in the last three years. She says that despite it’s high stress nature, she loves the job: “All the students make it very fun, but also a great learning experience and the people I work with are great and it’s been a great experience and I want to stay he...…

…michigandaily.com Thursday, July 26, 2018 INDEX Vol. CXXVII, No. 125 © 2018 The Michigan Daily michigandaily.com NEWS .................................... OPINION ............................... ARTS...................................... MiC......................................... SPORTS................................ MICHIGAN IN COLOR The joys of eat- ing Discovering history, culture and family through food >> SEE PAGE 9 NEWS...…

…2 Thursday, July 26, 2018 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com NEWS Phishing scam goes after U-M Weblogin credentials Fake payroll emails link to fraudulent Weblogin page By ALICE TRACEY Summer Daily News Editor A string of fraudulent payroll emails, distributed among University of Michigan community members on July 13, scammed some recipients into revealing their U-M online credentials. The messages directed recipients to ...…

…3 NEWS Thursday, July 26, 2018 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Admissions drops ACT and SAT writing U-M seeks to reduce costs for applicants By GRACE KAY Summer Managing News Editor Following the lead of uni- versities such as Harvard, Yale, Princeton and Stanford, the Uni- versity of Michigan will no longer require students to complete the optional writing component of the SAT or ACT when the Univer- sity’s application goe...…

…With regard to June’s widely publicized and widely criticized, summit with North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un, President Donald Trump had this to say about his totalitarian counterpart: “I made a deal with him; I shook hands with him. I really believe he means it.” Beyond the narcissistic bluster of such a statement, made in the aftermath of a “deal” that saw the United States trade regional military presence for nothing more...…

…AUDREY GILMOUR | COLUMN D uring October of my freshman year of college, my father bought me a pink can of pepper spray to keep with me at all times. Starting college in 2015, everyone was talking about sexual assault. The statistics were circling, nearly a quarter of women attending college would be sexually assaulted. Across the country, young women were stepping up and sharing stories about the ways their bodies had be...…

…6 Thursday, July 26, 2018 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com ARTS Cloudy, ominous weather wel- comed me to Pitchfork Music Fes- tival this year, and bracing myself for the worst I strapped up in a raincoat and boots for the first day of the fest. But what was originally daunting proved simply unreliable. The weather circled through cloud, rain and shine all weekend while artists dealt with wet equipment and herds of fans waiting ...…

…7 Thursday, July 26, 2018 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com ARTS “Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again” Rave Cinemas, Quality 16 Legendary Entertainment If it were possible to distill joy into liquid form and inject it directly into the vein, it still wouldn’t be as potent or infec- tious a high as “Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again.” Stuffed to the brim with beau- tiful people, colors, happy songs and bright emotions, the sequel to t...…

…8 Thursday, July 26, 2018 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com ARTS ROBERT MANSUETTI Summer Senior Arts Editor The Internet is the hardest band to be a fan of for one simple reason. Not because their music is problematic, not because they make questionable career choices, but because of two simple words: their name. What’s in a name? A lot of social faux pas apparently. On more than one occasion I have mindlessly asked a friend “...…

…9 Thursday July 26, 2018 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com MICHIGAN IN COLOR Eating goes beyond taste Summertime, when the livin’ is easy. The perfect description of my time in Trinidad for a week of warm air, freshly picked mangoes and curried chicken. Adding in the wedding festivities with steel drums beating in the background of a barbeque where the twinkle lights hung low from the pink house whose warm yellow lig...…

…10 Thursday, July 26, 2018 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com SPORTS In the wake of the International Champions Cup showdown between Manchester United and Liverpool, the casual American sports fan may be at a loss as to what to look for. As familiar as the venue might be — Michigan Stadium — the unfolding events may not be as welcoming. To make you seem like you know what you’re talking about on Saturday, the Dai...…

…11 Thursday, July 26, 2018 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com SPORTS Two soccer titans matchup at ‘M’ Manchester United and Liverpool, the two most successful English football clubs, are set to play each other this Saturday at Michigan Stadium. With a combined 38 league titles and eight Champions League crowns between them, the significance of the derby can’t be understated. It’s only fitting that America’s largest sta...…

…John Beilein’s contract extension, announced by the University on Wednesday, will see the men’s basketball coach paid $3.8 million annually. The extension, which will keep Beilein in Ann Arbor through the 2022-23 season, amounts to a raise of roughly $400,000 per season. This maintains Beilein as the second-highest-paid coach based on annual salary in the Big Ten behind Michigan State’s Tom Izzo. It comes just weeks after Beil...…

…Morgan McCaul entered Michigan State’s medicine clinic at the age of 12. At the time, McCaul — now an LSA freshman at the University of Michigan — was an aspiring ballerina with tears in both hip flexors. She went to East Lansing in search of world-renowned doctor Larry Nassar with hopes he could provide her with the help she needed to return to dance. Nearly five years later, McCaul realized she had been sexually a...…

…even include statements from survivors’ family members and support systems. McCaul delivered her impact statement Friday afternoon with her dance instructor by her side. “This past year and a half has been, without a doubt, the most difficult and traumatic period of my life,” McCaul said in her statement. During the first week of sentencing, an investigation from The Detroit News revealed MSU President Lou Anna Simon...…

…steady income can make all the difference for low-income and financially insecure students,” Schandevel wrote in an email interview. “Having information about job opportunities on and off campus, work-study, need- and merit-based scholarships and paid internships would be incredibly useful. The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com News Friday, January 26, 2018 — 3 The University of Michigan’s Central Student Government release...…

…Opinion The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com 4 — Friday, January 26, 2018 DAYTON HARE Managing Editor 420 Maynard St. Ann Arbor, MI 48109 tothedaily@michigandaily.com Edited and managed by students at the University of Michigan since 1890. ALEXA ST. JOHN Editor in Chief ANU ROY-CHAUDHURY AND ASHLEY ZHANG Editorial Page Editors Unsigned editorials reflect the official position of the Daily’s Editorial Board. All other signed a...…

…The best sci-fi, or rather, the most effective sci-fi, walks the line between the fantastical and real. It shows that the most horrifying parts of our collective future aren’t necessarily aliens or other supernatural phenomena, but rather humanity itself and its relationship with its creations. The new Amazon series “Philip K. Dick’s Electric Dreams” is a flawed but intriguing addition to the canon of works such as “Black Mirro...…