…David Moran, clinical pro- fessor of law at the University of Michigan and co-founder of the Michigan Innocence Clinic, delivered a webinar to almost 200 law students and community members Tuesday morning. He discussed the goals of the Michi- gan Innocence Clinic as well as recent exonerations the clinic has achieved. The Michigan Innocence Clinic, founded in 2009, aims to investigate cases where there was no relevant DNA evidenc...…
…M ore than seven weeks have passed since Gov. Gretchen Whitmer issued Executive Order 2020-21, urging all Michigan resi- dents, except essential workers, to stay home to combat the spread of COVID- 19. Life on campus had already been uprooted, with classes being moved online and University President Mark Schlissel urging students to return home if they were able. All non-essential businesses were closed, jobs were lost and some loca...…
…5 Thursday, May 14, 2020 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com 5 OP OPINION ON A s the semester winds down while the weather warms up across the state, it’s easy to for- get that we are in the midst of a global pandemic. But while the pandemic may have slipped our minds, it certainly hasn’t escaped that of Gov. Gretchen Whit- mer, who announced the extension of her stay-at-home order through May 28. This decision has garnered severe...…
…If you listened to country radio any time in the last six months, there’s a good chance you heard one of Justin Bieber’s latest singles. Alarming, I know, but thanks to country duo Dan + Shay, Bieber can claim a hit country song with their collaboration “10,000 Hours.” A mushy-gushy, country lite ballad dedicated to their wives, “10,000 Hours” epitomizes the latest trend to sweep mainstream country music — “boyfriend country.” Coine...…
…7 Thursday, May 14, 2020 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com ARTS It’s said that every theater is inhab- ited by at least one ghost and contrary to legends propagated by Hallow- een, 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 f...…
…8 Thursday, May 14, 2020 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com MICHIGAN IN COLOR GRAPHIC BY CARA JHANG An Idealistic, Outdated America On March 14, an Asian-American family of three was stabbed by Jose Gomez at a Sam’s Club. On February 23, Ahmaud Arbery was shot dead after being followed by Gregory and Travis McMichael, who had grabbed their shotguns and pursued Arbery in their truck. On September 17, 2019 Harris County Sheriff...…
…9 Thursday, May 14, 2020 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com MICHIGAN IN COLOR A Mother’s Day Reflection: My Amma, A life journey from India to New York SUNITHA PALAT MiC Staff Writer PROVIDED BY SUNITHA PALAT A Lebanese Breakfast MAYA KADOUH MiC Staff Writer Read more at michigandaily.com It’s 1996. The door of the ‘88 Volvo closes with the gentle push of a chestnut-brown, smooth hand. The discounted Macy’s black leather left...…
…Thursday, May 14, 2020 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com ‘Alla familia’: Ben Cirella’s family’s restaurants spread the love Two weeks ago, Ben Cirella pulled his silver Volvo up to the entrance of Elmhurst Hospital in Queens, N.Y. Elmhurst has been at the epicenter of New York City’s disastrous COVID-19 outbreak. Queens has 56,719 confirmed cases of coronavirus, the most of any city borough, and has recorded nearly 6,000 deaths...…
…NICHOLAS STOLL Daily Sports Writer Thursday, May 14, 2020 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com On September 14, 1998, Janine Smith gave birth to her second child, Natalie. Three days later, she was back on the bench coaching, with Natalie at her side. Right off the bat, the pair’s relationship and the game of volleyball were intertwined. It had to be. At the time, Janine was a Division I coach at the University of Texas at Arlingto...…
…Ambry Thomas wasn’t Ambry Thomas wasn’t supposed to be at Detroit King supposed to be at Detroit King that day, lacing up his cleats for that day, lacing up his cleats for a 7-on-7 scrimmage, feeling the a 7-on-7 scrimmage, feeling the summer heat blistering up from summer heat blistering up from the field. If it weren’t for a call the field. If it weren’t for a call from his coach, Dale Harvel, the from his coach, Dale Harve...…
…Washtenaw County has more than 700 cases of COVID-19 as of this week. While residents who identify as African American or Black make up 12.4 percent of the county population, 48 percent of hospitalized cases are residents who identify as African American or Black. This pattern is consistent in coronavirus cases across that state and the nation. Detroit has almost 7,000 cases of COVID-19 and close to 400 deaths. Of th...…
…2 — Tuesday, April 14, 2020 News The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com The Senate Advisory Committee on University Affairs met Monday afternoon via BlueJeans to discuss a meeting SACUA had with University of Michigan President Mark Schlissel earlier that morning. Members also heard statements from SACUA members running for chair and vice chair. During the meeting with Schlissel, SACUA members said they asked the president ...…
…Tuesday, April 14, 2020 — 3 News The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com ESSENTIAL From Page 1 Read more at MichiganDaily.com COVID-19 From Page 1 Some are our dining hall staff, making sure students who remain in the residence halls can still depend on takeout meals. And some are our bus drivers, ensuring no matter how disorienting the world may get, you can still miss the bus to North Campus. Here are some of the many Univers...…
…4 — Tuesday, April 14, 2020 Opinion The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Alanna Berger Zack Blumberg Brittany Bowman Emily Considine Jess D’Agostino Jenny Gurung Cheryn Hong Krystal Hur Ethan Kessler Zoe Phillips Mary Rolfes Michael Russo Timothy Spurlin Miles Stephenson Joel Weiner Erin White ERIN WHITE Managing Editor Stanford Lipsey Student Publications Building 420 Maynard St. Ann Arbor, MI 48109 tothedaily@michigandaily.com...…
…Opinion The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com 5 — Tuesday, April 14, 2020 ANIK JOSHI | COLUMN EMILY ULRICH | COLUMN S en. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., will not be the Democratic nominee for president in 2020, just as he wasn’t the nominee in 2016. The 2016 run was the first time a number of left-wing ideas were reintroduced in the public square and they (and Sanders) consistently polled well. Though Hillary Clinton won t...…
…“Tigertail” is a triumph. As in the best movies, its characters leap off the screen and will be remembered like old friends. The story in “Tigertail” is so fleshed out, so filled with emotion, that it feels like a memoir, not a fictional narrative. The film tells the life story of Pin-Jui, a Taiwanese immigrant to the US. It flashes between Pin-Jui’s elderly self, played excellently by Tzi Ma (“Arrival”) and his memories — ch...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com 7 — Tuesday, April 14, 2020 Sports ‘One of those classic races’: Kevin Sullivan and the 2000 Olympics Kevin Sullivan stood at the line and took it all in. It was the Canadian’s first Olympic games, and it was electric. 110,000 people filled Stadium Australia on the night of Sept. 29, 2000. They were anxiously waiting to see one of the deepest fields in Olympic history try to capture glo...…
…8 — Tuesday, April 14, 2020 Sports The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Quinten Johnson preparing for bigger role in sophomore year Quinten Johnson knew that he didn’t go to Michigan to star as a freshman. Recruited as a multi-dimensional four- star defensive back in the Wolverines’ 2019 class, he knew he wouldn’t immediately usurp their crop of established starters. What he didn’t know is that he would spend h...…
…The University of Michigan School of Public Health and Healthy Policy Student Association hosted a panel discussion focusing on the importance of health care policy in the context of the election year on Thursday afternoon. About 50 students and community members attended the event. The panelists included Jonathan Cohn, senior national correspondent at HuffPost; Charles Gaba, health care analyst and founder of A...…
…Andrea Turpin, associate professor of history at Baylor University, presented a lecture on changes in views on the admission of women into institutions for higher education. Organized by the Bentley Historical Library, about 30 students and professors attended the event on Wednesday night in honor of the 150th anniversary of the admission of women to the University of Michigan. Turpin, author of the award-winning book “...…
…“The first time I walked into Wieden+Kennedy, that was when I understood passion,” White said. “That was when I understood a place that everything they do is about creativity. Everything they do is about enabling incredible creatives to do incredible creative things in the world.” White told students he worked as the managing director for Nike’s Shanghai office during the 2008 Beijing Olympics. White and his team work...…
…A s President Donald Trump took to the House of Representatives dais, grinned in encouragement along with his Republican colleagues’ “four more years” chant and refused a handshake from Speaker Nancy Pelosi, it became readily apparent that this year’s State of the Union address was going to be unlike any in recent history. Customary to tradition, President Trump made frequent appeals to his administration’s achievements t...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Arts Friday, February 14, 2020 — 5A Valentine’s Day has some claim on sentimentality. It launches love into the spotlight, or at least into your peripheral; it pits love and loneliness against each other, these umbrella terms used as placeholders to describe the diversity of feeling that actually overcomes us. These albums claim that sentimentality back. They let your love, heartbreak, or anything in...…
…Read more at MichiganDaily.com 6A — Friday, February 14, 2020 Arts The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com puzzle by sudokusnydictation.com By Garry Morse ©2020 Tribune Content Agency, LLC 02/14/20 Los Angeles Times Daily Crossword Puzzle Edited by Rich Norris and Joyce Nichols Lewis 02/14/20 ANSWER TO PREVIOUS PUZZLE: Release Date: Friday, February 14, 2020 ACROSS 1 Penthouses, e.g.: Abbr. 5 Smartphone downloads 9 Metaphor for resp...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Sports Friday, February 14, 2020 — 7A Michigan, down to essentially six players, was still in it. Sophomore forward Naz Hillmon was out with an upper body injury suffered in the first quarter. Freshman guard Maddie Nolan tallied her fifth foul early in the fourth quarter. Senior guard Akienreh Johnson was battered and bruised. Freshman center Izabel Varejão hopped on one foot to the bench bef...…
…Photos courtesy of the Pearson Family Design by Jack Silberman Mel Pearson holds court every day after practice in his office at Yost Ice Arena. Usually he talks about hockey. But on Nov. 6, he was asked about his high school years, and another thought resurfaced: Susie, his wife, and how they met. As he finished up his story about her, he got up from his couch and headed to the exit. While he put his hand on the door, anot...…
…Ty and I were never supposed to meet. He grew up homeless in New Jersey, while my Michigan suburb bubble-wrapped me in privilege. He’s Afro-Latino and I’m white. We met studying abroad in Costa Rica, where he taught me to dance bachata, and I taught him to play ukulele. Having escaped the social structures keeping us apart in the U.S., we quickly fell in love. Six months, two countries and three states later, learning is still ...…
…Friday, February 14, 2020 // The Statement 2B Managing Statement Editor Magdalena Mihaylova Deputy Editors Emily Stillman Marisa Wright Associate Editor Reece Meyhoefer Designers Liz Bigham Kate Glad Copy Editors Madison Gagne Sadia Jiban Photo Editor Keemya Esmael Editor in Chief Elizabeth Lawrence Managing Editor Erin White I n Hebrew, the word for “to love” has the same root as the word “to give.” I’ve alwa...…
…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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…^______^” 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’...…
…Ahead of the start of contract negotiations between the Graduate Employees’ Organization and the University of Michigan, approximately 200 GEO members and supporters convened on the Diag for a rally Wednesday morning. Demonstrators marched to the Michigan League, where contract negotiations began. GEO president Emily Gauld, a Rackham student, said GEO is taking part in a nationwide campaign to improve the accessibili...…
…CARBON NEUTR ALIT Y 2 — Thursday, November 14, 2019 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com News MICHAEL BAGAZINSKI/Daily Regina Strong discusses the role of the new department and meeting carbon neutrality goals at Cobblestone Farm Wednesday evening. EASY © sudokugenerator.com. For personal use only. Generate and solve Sudoku, Super Sudoku, Godoku, Samurai Sudoku and Killer Sudoku puzzles at sudokugenerator.com! Sudo...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com News Thursday, November 14, 2019 — 3 Center of the city task force focuses on community feedback Ann Arbor opens online survey to hear residents’ concerns on transition process AYSE ELDES For The Daily After a week of soliciting community feedback through a pop-up DecaDome in Ann Arbor’s Library Lot, the Center of the City Task Force met at Larcom City Hall on Wednesday to discuss residents’ ...…
…Opinion The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com 4 — Thursday, November 14, 2019 Alanna Berger Zack Blumberg Emily Considine Emma Chang Joel Danilewitz Emily Huhman Krystal Hur Ethan Kessler Magdalena Mihaylova Michael Russo Timothy Spurlin Miles Stephenson Joel Weiner Erin White Lola Yang FINNTAN STORER Managing Editor Stanford Lipsey Student Publications Building 420 Maynard St. Ann Arbor, MI 48109 tothedaily@michigandaily.com Edited ...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Arts Thursday, November 14, 2019 — 5 Earlier in the year, the animators of one of Netflix’s long-running originals, “Bojack Horseman,” ratified a contract with The Animation Guild (TAG) to formally unionize and benefit from the protections that their colleagues in the writing and acting areas of the show were already receiving. It’s worth taking a deeper dive into just why such a move was important...…
