…michigandaily.com Ann Arbor, Michigan Friday, February 23, 2018 ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY-SEVEN YEARS OF EDITORIAL FREEDOM After 25 years with the Ann Arbor Police Department — the last two as the head of the department — Police Chief Jim Baird will be relocating to Breckenridge, Colo., according to the Summit Daily of Summit County, Colo. Howard Lazarus, Ann Arbor city administrator announced Baird’s retirement from the AAPD Tue...…
…2— Friday, February 23, 2018 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com News TUESDAY: By Design THURSDAY: Twitter Talk FRIDAY: Behind the Story WEDNESDAY: This Week in History MONDAY: Looking at the Numbers 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 734-41...…
…something I’ve written and even then I’ve edited it many times so nobody can ever tell.” At the University, students with learning disabilities make up the largest portion of students with registered disabilities. According to the 2016-2017 Annual Report from Services for Students with Disabilities, 38 percent of the students registered with SSD are students with learning disabilities, about 1,021 students in total. SSD D...…
…Opinion The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com 4 — Friday, February 23, 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 ...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Arts Friday, February 23, 2018 — 5 Aaron Maine, the frontman and creative genius behind Porches, is a man who definitely knows how to move his hips. With each groovy pop hit (whether he was donning a guitar or not), more often than not Maine would be swaying with each syncopated beat. Entrancing and enticing, Maine captivates a crowd with little more than his rhythmic movements and a tempting...…
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…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Sports Friday, February 23, 2018 — 7 ‘M’ strategizes for Arizona State September 15 was a day of firsts for the Michigan hockey team. It was the opening practice for the 2017-18 campaign. It was the beginning of Mel Pearson’s tenure at the helm. And it was the first look at a group determined to rebound after a lackluster season and restore prestige to one of college hockey’s most storied p...…
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…michigandaily.com Ann Arbor, Michigan Thursday, February 22, 2018 ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY-SEVEN YEARS OF EDITORIAL FREEDOM GOT A NEWS TIP? Call 734-418-4115 or e-mail news@michigandaily.com and let us know. Check out the Daily’s News podcast, The Daily Weekly INDEX Vol. CXXVII, No. 82 ©2018 The Michigan Daily N E WS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 O PI N I O N . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 A R T S ....…
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…people can’t give it back to you in the wrong form,” French said. Lecturer Anne Berg explained how the Nazi party used fabricated scientific claims to promote and encourage racism in Germany and compared this to the current eugenics argument. In this respect, she admitted society today is not too different from Nazi Germany. This past fall, protests broke out across campus as students groups called on the Uni...…
…I f you haven’t yet seen the eye-opening documentary “What the Health,” I highly recommend you watch it. My mouth was gaping wide open as I watched the entire film. The directors, Kip Andersen and Keegan Kuhn, reveal that consuming meat and dairy can promote chronic illnesses like cancer, heart disease and diabetes. They cite the 2015 World Health Organization report, which declared processed meats (think: bacon, hot dogs...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Arts Thursday, February 22, 2018 — 5 “Sometimes we just look at each other and ask, ‘What would Big Bird do?’” This is the question Pete Holmes, creator and star of HBO’s comedy show “Crashing,” and his writers ask themselves when they don’t know where to go with his character — a clean and somewhat naïve version of his younger self, navigating life and laughter in the brutal world of show b...…
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…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Sports Thursday, February 22, 2018 — 7 Grounds crew makes impact for ‘M’ After every game, Michigan men’s lacrosse coach Kevin Conry gives “The Hammer” to the player who he deems made the most impact. But after the Wolverines’ win against Cleveland State on February 10, the honor was given to Josh Fryd — the head of the grounds crew. “We wouldn’t have had this game if it wasn’t for the ...…
…8 — Thursday, February 22, 2018 Sports The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Michigan fends off early second-half run, takes down Penn State, 72-63 Jordan Poole cocked his arm back and the Bryce Jordan Center crowd gasped. The freshman guard finished the fastbreak dunk with a flush, putting Penn State forward Julian Moore on a poster and sending the Michigan men’s basketball team well on its way to a statement win, as the 17...…
…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...…
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…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 …
…Gov. Rick Snyder recently sparked controversy by appointing Bishop Ira Combs Jr. to the Michigan Civil Rights Commission. Combs, a Republican and Pentecostal minister in Jackson, is well- known for condemning pro- LGBT legislation. However, Snyder said he appointed Combs because of his background in fighting for racial justice and people with disabilities. In February 2017, Combs outwardly opposed an ordinance th...…
…2A — Monday, February 19, 2018 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com TUESDAY: By Design FRIDAY: Behind the Story WEDNESDAY: This Week in History News THURSDAY: Twitter Talk MONDAY: Looking at the Numbers ROSEANNE CHAO/Daily 420 Maynard St. Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1327 www.michigandaily.com ARTS SECTION arts@michigandaily.com SPORTS SECTION sports@michigandaily.com ADVERTISING dailydisplay@gmail.com NEWS TIPS news@michiganda...…
…It is Feb. 16 at the time I am writing this. To some of you, today will have been just another Friday. To me and others, however, today is New Year’s Day, a time not only for festivities, but also reflection. Recently, the political correctness of “Chinese New Year” has been called into question, and I wanted to take this opportunity to share my thoughts on the issue and explore its relation to my own identities. Let us travel b...…
…I hope I speak for a lot of people somewhat left of center when I say that the Republican Party’s capability for hypocrisy can be amazing — we’ve spent years listening to Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-KY., grumble about spendthrift Democrats, and those of us from the South and Midwest have heard a thousand different ways the communist, Muslim, socialist, President Barack Obama was going to waste our tax money. And then — just ...…
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…TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 4-5:30 PM Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre 911 N. University Avenue WALLACE HOUSE PRESENTS BRET STEPHENS NEW YORK TIMES COLUMNIST Co-sponsored by U-M College of Literature, Science, and the Arts wallacehouse.umich.edu FREE SPEECH AND THE NECESSITY OF DISCOMFORT “I don’t really know, actually,” said Aaron Maine, the mastermind behind Porches, taking a long, patient pause. “I don’t even know how to describe i...…
…MIKE PERSAK Managing Sports Editor B1G upsets No. 18 Michigan swept No. 1 Notre Dame, bolstering its resume for the NCAA Tournament. » Page 4B Sweet Senior Day Michigan’s senior class showed just how special it is in the team’s 74-62 win over Ohio State. » Page 2B Poole’s hot shooting helps Michigan pull away from OSU Jordan Poole has had big performances before. The freshman guard scored 19 against Indiana,...…
…June 19, 2016 May 25, 2017 March 5, 2018 A basketball game was played Sunday. Some guys shot baskets — some went in, others didn’t. The team wearing maize jerseys scored more points than the guys donning scarlet and left Crisler Center significantly more pleased. But for Austin Hatch and John Beilein, Sunday — Senior Day — was about so much more than basketball. Sunday was emblematic of the true meaning of sports, a foundati...…
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…4B — Monday, February 19, 2018 SportsMonday The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Quick starts power Wolverines to sweep of Fighting Irish Michigan sweeps No. 1 Notre Dame with 1-0 win If Friday night’s pregame theatrics at Compton Family Ice Arena counted for anything, Notre Dame would have been up a goal before the puck even dropped. The Fighting Irish’s home venue is the smallest in the Big Ten, but what it lacks in size,...…
…michigandaily.com Ann Arbor, Michigan Friday, February 16, 2018 ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY-SEVEN YEARS OF EDITORIAL FREEDOM Joshua Johnson — host of NPR’s “1A” — navigated the issue of free speech on college campuses, and how to encourage free dialogue while also maintaining a comfortable and safe environment for students, at a live taping of his show Thursday night. The panel discussion “Speak Freely: Debating the First Amend...…
…Grand Rapids community leaders Mike and Sue Jandernoa are donating $4.3 million to expand scholarships at the Ross School of Business, contribute to fellowships at the Ford School of Public Policy and assist the University of Michigan School of Education’s TeachingWorks organization, the University announced Thursday. The statement said $3 million of the couple’s donation would be dedicated to a TeachingWorks parternship w...…
…improvement of job security for lecturers at the University. Currently, full-time lecturers receive a minimum salary of $34,500 at the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, $28,30 at the University of Michigan-Dearborn and $27,300 at the University of Michigan-Flint. Frustrated with low salaries and pay rates for lecturers across the University’s campuses, LEO has continued to meet with University officials since October demanding ...…
…T his past week, White House Staff Secretary Rob Porter resigned after a scandal emerged regarding allegations of domestic abuse from his two ex-wives. An article by The New York Times reported Chief of Staff John F. Kelly and Joe Hagin, deputy chief of staff for operations, knew about the accusations in late fall. In response to the resignation, President Donald Trump tweeted, “Peoples (sic) lives are being shattered ...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Arts Friday, February 16, 2018 — 5 In retrospect, there was little that would have predicted the enormous reach of MGMT. The American duo exploded onto the scene in 2007 with Oracular Spectacular, an electropop tour de force that artists have continued to bite from a decade later. Oracular paved the way for the cheerful indie bands of later years, like Grouplove and Passion Pit, and that so...…
…I was a huge band nerd in high school. I spent my summers going to band camps, playing in wind ensembles, learning about the repertoire, playing under various conductors and just enjoying the music. I’ve been playing in wind ensemble for the past 10 years of my life, and it’s a type of ensemble that I truly believe is underappreciated. Largely overshadowed by orchestras, I think that — unless someone ever played in a wind ensemb...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Sports Friday, February 16, 2018— 7 Report: ‘M’ adding coach Jim Harbaugh is closing in on a 10th assistant for Michigan’s coaching staff. As reported by The Michigan Insider’s Sam Webb and FootballScoop, former Florida head coach Jim McElwain is expected to join the Michigan coaching staff, replacing Dan Enos, who left for Alabama shortly after being hired by Harbaugh. McElwain and Flo...…
…TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 4-5:30 PM Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre 911 N. University Avenue WALLACE HOUSE PRESENTS BRET STEPHENS NEW YORK TIMES COLUMNIST Co-sponsored by U-M College of Literature, Science, and the Arts wallacehouse.umich.edu FREE SPEECH AND THE NECESSITY OF DISCOMFORT This is snow joke. Save up to $1,800 on select floor plans! Rates/installments are subject to change. Rates/installments do not represent a monthly rental a...…
…Philip J. Deloria, former University of Michigan professor, became Harvard University’s first tenured Native-American studies professor last week after having taught in the History and American Culture Department at the University for over ten years. Deloria specialized in Native- American history and also served as the associate dean for Undergraduate and Graduate Education in LSA, director of the Progra...…
