…Pop culture would have us believe that the Venn diagram between sports fans and art nerds is more or less two separate circles. As a humble representative of the tiny sliver in the middle, I want to introduce my friends on both sides to the world of their culturally prescribed adver- sary. There are some similarities between the two that few would expect to find — similarities that, I argue, allow us to view sport as art. Let’s set the...…
…8 Thursday, June 11, 2020 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com MICHIGAN IN COLOR Mass incarceration and Black American health The criminal justice system is one of the chief systems affect- ing Black American health. The country’s prison system and over- policing strategy is not just a way to keep criminals off the streets, it is a large, for-profit institution that gains strength by perpetuating an endless cycle that is almost imp...…
…9 Thursday, June 11, 2020 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com MICHIGAN IN COLOR A letter to our South Asian community SUNITHA PALAT & PRISHA GROVER MiC Staff Writers Black Lives Matter is a peaceful organiza- tion — created after the killing of Trayvon Martin in 2013 — that fights to support Black innovation and excellence and combat acts of violence, which are the result of systemic racism. While the recent protests are cer- tainl...…
…10 Thursday, June 11, 2020 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com SPORTS ‘We were going to win a national championship. That’s what we were gonna do’: An oral history of the 2005 Michigan softball championship The Michigan softball team was tired of simply making it. Entering 2005, the program had been to the Women’s College World Series seven times in the last 10 seasons, yet never finished above fifth place. In a West Coast-domina...…
…11 Thursday, June 11, 2020 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com SPORTS ORAL HISTORY From Page 10A Ritter: We were all exhausted. Marx: I remember being pretty crushed. I cried on the way back to the hotel. Leutele: We were like there’s no way that can happen again. Leutele: I just remember the grit in Jenny Ritter’s face. We were all like, “If she’s gonna do that, who can stop her?” I really think we rallied around that belief. M...…
…12 Thursday, June 11, 2020 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com SPORTS Another year, same result against OSU November. In college football, it’s the month where opportunities are missed, heroes are made and hearts are broken. Two months of success are nullified by catastrophic late-season failures. A season of mediocrity can be forgotten by a Rivalry Week upset. Or, in those rare and special years, a great team can be immortalize...…
…“No Justice. No Peace. No Racist Police.” Over a thousand people gathered around the Detroit Public Safety Headquarters for the March Against the Police on Friday in response to incidents of police brutality across the nation. As they were social distancing and wearing masks, people chanted “No Justice. No Peace. No Racist Police.” People of all ages, races and backgrounds were present to support the Black Lives Matter movem...…
…With the luxury shopping mall Somerset Collection as a back- drop and across the street from a boarded-up Saks Fifth Avenue establishment, approximately 500 predominantly young protesters of all races broke the typical calm of a Monday afternoon in the Metro Detroit suburb of Troy, Mich., chanting, “No justice, no peace, no racist police.” Almost all donning face masks, they joined hundreds of thousands of people in major cities acr...…
…The University reported that emergency student funding from the federal Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security Act has been awarded to approxi- mately 5 percent of eligible stu- dents as of Tuesday. The CARES Act, which offered emergency grants to institutions of higher education to counteract the effects of the pandemic, pro- vided $25.2 million to the Univer- sity of Michigan-Ann Arbor with the condition that at least half ...…
…DESIGN BY JULIA SCHACHINGER Ann Arbor, Detroit, Grand Rapids, Kalamazoo and Troy Thousands gather across Michigan to protest police brutality 4B Thursday, June 4, 2020 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com PHOTO PHOTO 4A Thursday, June 4, 2020 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com PHOTOS BY MICHIGAN DAILY STAFF PHOTOGRAPHERS …
…protesters. This disparity forces the finan- cial hypocrisy of this country to light. In response to the jarring lack of PPE for healthcare workers, President Donald Trump stated, “the Federal government is not supposed to be out there buying vast amounts of items and then shipping … we’re not a shipping clerk.” However, he quickly changed tune when Ameri- can citizens took to the streets to protest, mobilizing nearly a dozen federal a...…
…6 OPINION Thursday, June 4, 2020 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com OPINION A s you consider joining the ranks of the leaders and the best, I can’t, in good conscience, allow you to make the decision to come to the University of Michigan without taking the time to share this with you. As someone who chose to come to the University, I know how exciting it is to envision yourself here. Scrolling through the websites and social me...…
…It’s said that every theater is inhab- ited by at least one ghost, and contrary to legends propagated by Halloween, these ghosts do not like the dark. Thus, when the curtain falls and a theater’s house empties, an employee will leave a light — a ghost light — to burn onstage until the performers return. Across the world, ghost lights have remained on and untouched for months. But the lives of performers continue offstage, each day add...…
…8 Thursday, June 4 , 2020 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com ARTS Kip Moore’s earthy, varied ‘Wild World’ Kip Moore entered my life the way most country singers did in 2011 — by singing about a truck. More precisely, “Somethin’ ‘Bout a Truck.” For months on end the cheeky, feel-good track was playing every time I turned on the radio. Successful follow-up singles “Beer Money” and “Hey Pretty Girl” ostensibly signalled Kip’s com- i...…
…9 MICHIGAN IN COLOR Ok, America. Prove me wrong. At the turn of the 2010s, the ingenious use of social media by young activists during the Arab Spring set the world ablaze. In the blink of an eye, young people transformed social media from a prom picture party hub to an outlet of revolutionary information. Via fledgling platforms like Facebook and Twitter, users shared demonstration sites, tear gas remedies and even tips to...…
…10 Thursday, June , 2020 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com MICHIGAN IN COLOR The Arab/Muslim role in dismantling Anti- Black racism MAYA MOKH MiC Staff Writer I address my community not from a place of guilt, as I, too, have been there and found it to be unproductive and paralyzing. I address my community from a place of love and urgency. We non-Black Arabs, especially those of us with proximity to whiteness, have played an im...…
…Dear , it’s time to address our anti-black racism JENNY CHONG MiC Staff Writer A statement from the Black Student Union “Are you sure you want to go to school there? Isn’t it near Detroit, which is full of dangerous black people?” said my Chinese dad after I had gotten accepted to the Uni- versity of Michigan last spring. My dad was not supportive of my decision to enroll at the University for a few reasons — one of them being his ...…
…1 Thursday, June 4, 2020 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com SPORTS Red Berenson appointed special adviser to Big Ten commissioner When new Big Ten commissioner Kevin Warren visited Yost Ice Arena in February, he was on a mission. Warren set a goal to see every team at every Big Ten institution play at least once in the first year of his tenure, so watching the Michigan hockey team take on Wisconsin on Feb. 7 was just a step alon...…
…1 Thursday, June 4, 2020 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com SPORTS Amidst crisis, ‘M’ adjusts its recruiting As the Michigan football team adjusted to a new norm in early March, coach Jim Harbaugh and director of recruiting Matt Dudek found themselves working on a new playbook. With the Wolverines’ spring practice slate wiped out due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Harbaugh and Dudek turned their attention toward preventing Michiga...…
