…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Arts 4 — Wednesday, February 17, 2021 Kota the Friend moves toward closure on ‘Lyrics to GO, Vol. 2’ The title is accurate — Lyrics to GO, Vol. 2 is all about the message indie rapper Kota the Friend wants to leave you with. The flow of words — words of gratefulness, sadness and love — seems to tumble out of Kota on this mixtape. Lyrics to GO, Vol. 2 is not as carefully thought out as his pre...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Arts Wednesday, February 17, 2021 — 5 ‘Judas and the Black Messiah’ says screw the neoliberals There’s a quote from a 1964 speech by Malcolm X that Fred Hampton, played by Daniel Kaluuya (“Get Out”), recounts to the future mother of his child, Deborah (Dominique Fishback, “The Hate You Give”): “Sometimes, when a person’s house is on fire and someone comes in yelling fire, instead of the person...…
…“You can murder a liberator, but you can’t murder a liberation.” - Fred Hampton. On Friday, Feb. 12, the long- awaited biopic, “Judas and the Black Messiah,” will be released. The film is a historical portrayal of the Illinois chapter of the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense. The Black Panther Party championed countless community programs, including the Free Breakfast Program and the People’s Free Ambulance Service, as we...…
…YOUR WEEKLY ARIES Focus on your values this week. Only when you know what truly matters to you can you make some difficult decisions. AQUARIUS GEMINI The truth turns out to be a flexible thing this week – be careful not to assume that your truth is the same as anyone else’s. SAGITTARIUS CAPRICORN SCORPIO CANCER Pay your debts – financial or otherwise – so that you can move forwards with a clean slate as the future beckons....…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com 8 — Wednesday, February 17, 2021 statement What is digital studies? BY ALEXANDER SATOLA, STATEMENT CORRESPONDENT I n January 2019, LSA announced the creation of a new Digital Studies In- stitute that would support the study of digital technologies from a humanities and social science perspective. The establishment of a formal academic institute followed the cre- ation of the LSA Digital St...…
…M y sister and I were born one minute apart. Whenever I tell people this, questions inevitably follow: “What’s it like having a twin?” “Are you best friends?” “Can you read each other’s minds?” Over the years, I’ve formed a sort of automatic response: I laugh, acknowl- edging the curiosity surrounding a con- cept that is foreign and fascinating to someone else yet normal and casual to me. I then reply with a simple yet in- tention...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com 10 — Wednesday, February 17, 2021 statement I n early April, I screenshotted a picture I saw on Wikipedia of a cow lying on the ground captioned “a sleeping cow laying on her side is not immobilized; she can rise whenever she chooses.” It epitomized early-quarantine lethargy, and I thought it was really funny. I kept collecting ob- scure and amusing Wikipedia excerpts and posting screenshots o...…
…7-Opinion W hen I turned 13, like many Jews around the United States and the rest of the world, I was bar mitzvahed. Upon the conclusion of my service, after reciting blessings and reading from the Torah, I was rushed to an unmarked back room. The room was small and consisted of just a single chair facing a video monitor. It was there where I received a call from the Rothschild family. I was finally old enough to be given my ver...…
…2-News I t’s incredibly odd to be a freshman right now. Instead of having animated discussions sitting on lawns and benches around campus, we occasionally send necessary texts through GroupMes and Discords. Instead of exploring and getting used to a new campus, we navigate our university online. Newcomers don’t have a place, a community or an understanding of the University of Michigan in its regular workings. Instead, we t...…
…As the Michigan volleyball team clawed back from an early deficit in the first set of Sunday’s match, freshman setter Scottee Johnson tracked down and dug a speedy attack from Purdue. Seemingly coming out of nowhere, freshman outside hitter Jess Mruzik emerged from the back row and launched a kill into the face of Purdue defensive specialist Jena Otec. The Boilermakers instantly called timeout, as the Wolverines’ new...…
…14 — Wednesday, February 17, 2021 Sports The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Michigan bests Nebraska in first meet after pause Livers at forefront of Michigan’s success The instant that junior Natalie Wojcik powerfully stuck the landing of her dismount from the balance beam, Michigan gymnastics coach Bev Plocki’s arms both shot like rockets into the air with palms open and fingers spread. A perfect 10, she visually p...…
…Entering his fourth season as the head coach of the Michigan men’s lacrosse team, Kevin Conry is gradu- ally building off the foundation laid by his predecessor, John Paul. After reeling in the No. 4 and No. 3 recruiting classes in 2020 and 2021, respectively, Conry is hungry to shake up the Big Ten with a Wolverine squad that is quietly yet quickly ascending. Finding a replacement for Paul, the human embodiment of Michigan...…
…16 — Wednesday, February 17, 2021 Business The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Try Prime for 6 months, no cost to you amazon.com/uofmichigan College students: …
…The Michigan Fashion Media Summit held its annual conference on Thursday via Zoom webinar. MFMS had rescheduled their original in-person event as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. The student-run group was set to host more than 650 people at the Ross School of Business featuring 16 speakers on March 20. Thursday afternoon’s webinar hosted Caroline Gogolak, vice president of retail at SoulCycle and co-founder of Carb...…
…studies departments at the University. Linh Song, board president of the Ann Arbor District Library, is the sole candidate for Ward 2, the seat currently held by Jane Lumm, I-Ward 2. In Ward 3, Travis Radina, an LGBTQ+ activist, Anthony Brown, the digital distribution manager at WDET and Evan Redmond, a targeting analyst are running for the seat currently held by Zachary Ackerman, D-Ward 3. Ackerman is not running for re-...…
…Friday, April 17, 2020 — 3 News The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com LAB From Page 1 CITY From Page 2 FASHION From Page 1 “It’s been an incredibly wild ride, especially during these crazy times the world is going through,” Gogolak said. “But I’m very grateful to be a part of their leadership team and to help the company through this.” Gogolak said adapting the company to the current situation is about communication. She sa...…
…A fter four hours of driving from my overnight stop in Des Moines, Iowa, I crossed the Big Muddy into my home state of Nebraska. The leafless gray trees paired with the overcast sky made the usually lush riverbank appear strikingly different from how I had always seen it driving to and from my mom’s apartment in Denver. The view was yet another change brought on by the coronavirus’s dizzyingly rapid transformation...…
…Friday, April 17, 2020 — 5 Arts The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com MUSIC BOX FILMS MUSIC REVIEW Given the current circumstances, the future for small music scenes like hardcore is uncertain. Gigs can’t be played and bands can’t be paid, so what are bands to do? Recorded releases give a band an audience, but records are expensive and don’t pay the bills; performances pay the bills, and now bands can’t perform, leaving them...…
…Friday, April 17, 2020 — 6 Arts The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Peter Kispert’s debut collection of short stories is linked together by characters who, in one way or another, lie to their loved ones. These lies are sometimes huge and elaborately maintained for months. The title story, for instance, is about a narrator who makes up a friend so that his boyfriend doesn’t think he’s lonely. When the narrator’s boyf...…
…7 — Friday, April 17, 2020 Sports The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Hold Manuel accountable for mishandling allegations Former Michigan wrestler Tad Deluca wanted a listening ear. He wanted to tell someone what had happened to him, and he wanted accountability. His coach at the time didn’t listen. His athletic director didn’t, either. Deluca was forced to watch as then-wrestling coach Bill Johan...…
…8 — Friday, April 17, 2020 Sports The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com ‘It doesn’t feel real’: ‘M’ Olympians adapting after postponement Maddy Steere was somewhere over the Indian Ocean when her world began to change. She thought she knew what the next five months would hold. For Steere and the rest of the Australian water polo team, those five months were carefully curated years in advance, every action and every ca...…
…Gov. Gretchen Whitmer issued an executive order on Monday morning closing all Michigan restaurants, bars and entertainment venues in an effort to slow the spread of the novel coronavirus. The order goes into effect at 3 p.m. on Monday and the restrictions will last until March 30. The restrictions apply to bars, restaurants, coffee shops, movie theaters, clubs, gyms, recreation centers, spas and casinos, amon...…
…2 — Tuesday, March 17, 2020 News The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com With the rapidly evolving coronavirus outbreak in the United States and Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s executive order, many local businesses are to remain temporarily closed. As of Monday night, there are 54 confirmed cases of COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus, in Michigan. A case at the Vic Village-North student apartment...…
…In an email to students sent Monday night, Simone Himbeault Taylor, interim vice president for student life, and Robert Ernst, University Health Service executive director, noted that UHS will remain open in addition to a modified version of housing and dining, consisting of boxed take-out meals served during specific hours. Jeff Donofrio, the director of the Department of Labor and Economic Opportunity, said ...…
…I used to be exceedingly hopeful about politics and policy matters. I was known by my friends in high school as the “fire- breathing conservative” because I’d come to school lunch ready to debate them about our contrasting politics. In my free time, I binge-read the news and tweeted about national political drama. I regularly put down schoolwork in favor of a fresh copy of “National Review,” my favorite conservative...…
…Tuesday, March 17, 2020 — 5 Arts The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com New Orleans rapper Jay Electronica is one of the greatest enigmas in the history of hip hop. He first came up in the mid-2000s with hits on MySpace. He then started dating singer Erykah Badu; the eccentricity of her partners after dating her has been the subject of memes in the hip-hop community. In 2009, he dropped “Exhibit C,” a not-so-cult classic of sort...…
…Tuesday, March 17, 2020 — 6 Arts The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Two-and-a-half months in, and 2020 has given the world a lot of things to consider. An impeachment. The rumblings of war with Iran. A whack-as-hell primary season. An online- school-inducing, business-closing, all-around- scary pandemic that maybe makes reviewing theater-exclusive movies a public health hazard? But never mind all that. The first quarter of 2...…
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…2A — Monday, February 17, 2020 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com News The Michigan Daily (ISSN 0745-967) is published Monday through Friday during the fall and winter terms by students at the University OF Michigan. One copy is available free of charge to all readers. Additional copies may be picked up at the Daily’s office for $2. Subscriptions for September-April are $250 and year long subscriptions are $275. University affiliates ...…
…This past November, voters in the U.S. made history by electing not one, but two incredible Muslim women into our 116th House of Representatives. They are Ilhan Omar, a Black, Somali Immigrant from Minnesota’s 5th Congressional district who frequently and unabashedly calls out deeply problematic white men in power, and Rashida Tlaib, an incredible Palestinian-American woman who coined the phrase “Impeach the Motherf*cker” o...…
…C oming out of the Iowa caucus victorious, Democratic candidate and Mayor of South Bend, Ind., Pete Buttigieg has seen a recent surge in popularity. Because he is the first openly gay person to make a serious bid for the presidency, Buttigieg’s success is undoubtedly a big moment for LGBTQ+ Americans, especially in a state like Iowa that voted for Donald Trump four years ago. However, that hasn’t made him the community’s c...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Arts Monday, February 17, 2020 — 5A Anne Carson can come across as a writer with no clear lineage or influences — even as she references the work of other authors, her poetry and prose seem to float relatively free of clear affiliation to any contemporary literary trend. Her career as a classicist (with a generalist’s flair: she’s written about film and modernism extensively) might ...…
…6 — Monday, February 17, 2020 Arts The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com WHISPER SUBMIT A WHISPER By John R. O’Brien ©2020 Tribune Content Agency, LLC 02/17/20 Los Angeles Times Daily Crossword Puzzle Edited by Rich Norris and Joyce Nichols Lewis 02/17/20 ANSWER TO PREVIOUS PUZZLE: Release Date: Monday, February 17, 2020 ACROSS 1 Weed whackers 5 Annoy 9 Macbeth, by birth 13 Saintly glows 15 Impressionist 16 Lola’s nightclub, in son...…
… What started as an average loose ball became anything but. Jon Teske might’ve just missed a point-blank layup attempt, but he wasn’t going to give up on the play. As the rebound evaded the grasp of the Hoosiers, the senior center dove on it and had the wherewithal to find Franz Wagner alone under the basket for two. Teske’s effort, apart from send- ing the Crisler Center crowd into an uproar, capped off an offensive onslaught th...…
…2B — February 17, 2020 SportsMonday The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com In 2017, just after Mel Pearson was hired as the Michigan hockey coach, he went to Red Berenson’s house and had what he called the best conversation of his life. The two sat on the deck in Beren- son’s backyard and talked for two hours, about anything and everything. It was a beauti- ful night, Pearson recalled, and they sipped drinks. A weight appeared to be ...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com SportsMonday February 17, 2020 — 3B Simpson stars as ‘M’ beats Indiana Zavier Simpson took the ball up the court to kick things off against Indiana on Sunday. But, fairly uncharacteristically, Simpson attempted to find his man on the right side only to see the ball land squarely in the hands of a Hoosier. Rather than follow up Indiana’s opening bucket with a couple points of his own, Simpson...…
…4B — February 17, 2020 SportsMonday The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com The 2020 season started the way the No. 8 Michigan baseball team (3-1) hoped the 2019 season would end. Trailing by one run in the top of the ninth inning, first baseman Matt Schmidt stepped up to the plate. For the fifth- year senior, this opportunity had been a long time coming. In the first game of the season in a rematch against the defending national cha...…
…U.S. Rep. Debbie Dingell, D-Mich., held a community meeting Thursday evening at Washtenaw County Learning Resource Center to discuss potential action to stop the spread of the Gelman Plume, a plume of toxic chemical pollution currently running through Ann Arbor’s groundwater. Dingell spoke at the event alongside officials from the Environmental Protection Agency, Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes & Ene...…
…2 — Friday, January 17, 2020 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 B E HIND THE STORY Every Friday, Daily staffers will give a behind the scenes look at one of this week’s stories. This week, LSA freshman Jasmin Lee and sophomore Calder Lewis on their three-part series about University mental health ...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com News Friday, January 17, 2020 — 3 CAPS From Page 2 country to do this — (is) we have a care manager,” Sevig said. “So we developed one person, and now we have two full- time people, to help with referrals that take a little work.” Emphasis on referring to East Lansing professionals also impacts the goal of students visiting MSU CAPS. According to The State News, MSU CAPS only offers students thre...…
…Opinion The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com 4 — Friday, January 17, 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 ...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Arts Friday, January 17, 2020 — 5 We all want to be remembered — there’s no doubt about that. If we didn’t, fame wouldn’t be so coveted and patent lawyers would be out of a job. But when it comes to making history, few of us are ever able to achieve anything “noteworthy.” Or are we? Terrence Malick’s (“Song to Song”) newest film, “A Hidden Life,” challenges the idea that, in order to leave a m...…
…6 — Friday, January 17, 2020 Arts The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com WHISPER SUBMIT A WHISPER puzzle by sudokusnydictation.com By David Van Houten ©2020 Tribune Content Agency, LLC 01/17/20 Los Angeles Times Daily Crossword Puzzle Edited by Rich Norris and Joyce Nichols Lewis 01/17/20 ANSWER TO PREVIOUS PUZZLE: Release Date: Friday, January 17, 2020 ACROSS 1 “__ Is Betta Than Evvah!”: 1976 R&B album 5 “Disgusting!” 8 “The Real...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Sports Friday, January 17, 2020 — 7 ‘M’ snaps skid, beats Badgers 68-56 After Sunday’s blowout loss to Maryland, the Michigan women’s basketball team needed to bounce back strong. Thursday night against Wisconsin, the Wolverines did just that. Michigan (12-5 overall, 3-3 Big Ten) came out fast, scoring nine points in the first two minutes and jumping out to an early seven-point lead as the B...…
… There is no shortage of tangible measures by which Michigan football’s offense improved drastically over the course of the season. It turned the ball over less, scored more points, won more games and did so more convincingly. That’s the what. Offensive coordinator Josh Gattis’ growth, though, can be seen in the how. None more so than the usage of Giles Jackson. Jackson, a receiver who just finished his freshman season, possesses a skills...…
…The Michigan Union celebrated its centennial on Wednesday with cupcakes and a birthday card on the Diag. The Union has been a gathering space for students on campus since its creation in 1919, but the building has been under construction and closed to visitors since April 2018. The Center for Campus Involvement hosted the event. LSA senior Sarah Hussain works as a program coordinator team lead with the Center for Campus Inv...…
…In response to growing concern regarding per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Michigan’s Department of Health and Human Services announced in September they will begin working together to determine the harmful health effects of PFAS in drinking water on Michigan residents. PFAS are a wide variety of chemicals produced by manufacturing, industrial and agricultura...…
…“We’re trying to avoid a situation in which the same group of people tend to get invited or quoted in all of the different pieces and make it easier to erase the excuse of, ‘I didn’t know any women to appear on this panel or this conference, or to consult for this particular project,’” Litman said. While the database is still being created, the Twitter account has been in use since Oct. 1. Prifogle said the account is used to sh...…
…Opinion The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com 4A — Thursday, October 17, 2019 Alanna Berger Zack Blumberg Emily Considine Emma Chang Joel Danilewitz Emily Huhman Krystal Hur Ethan Kessler Magdalena Mihaylova Timothy Spurlin Miles Stephenson Finn Storer Nicholas Tomaino Joel Weiner Erin White FINNTAN STORER Managing Editor Stanford Lipsey Student Publications Building 420 Maynard St. Ann Arbor, MI 48109 tothedaily@michigandaily.com Ed...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Sports Thursday, October 17, 2019 — 5A Blankenburg embracing physicality despite size Last January, when Penn State came to Ann Arbor, then- freshman defenseman Nick Blankenburg was on the ice for his first shift just under five minutes into the game. Within moments of taking the ice, he laid a hit that Michigan coach Mel Pearson can’t forget. Forward Liam Folkes came up through the neutral zo...…
