…Movie theaters and performance venues can reopen Oct. 9 in accordance with public health guidelines, Gov. Gretchen Whitmer announced in a Friday press release. Whitmer also altered limits on indoor and outdoor gatherings, putting a formula in place to determine capacity at different locations. In a statement, Whitmer said the state’s early steps to combat the virus made it possible to loosen restrictions. “Michigan took...…
…Gov. Gretchen Whitmer aims to make Michigan completely carbon neutral by the year 2050, her office announced in a press release Wednesday. “The science is clear – climate change is directly impacting our public health, environment, our economy and our families,” Whitmer said in a statement. “This dangerous reality is already causing harm throughout Michigan, with communities of color and low-income Michiganders sufferi...…
…In May, protests erupted in Ypsilanti after a video showed the officer repeatedly hitting Grady El in the head. Elected officials, candidates and community members spoke out against racial injustice in education, the criminal justice system and the economy during Saturday’s event. Eli Savit, Democratic candidate for Washtenaw County prosecutor, said the charge for wanton endangerment — but not for Taylor’s murder — proved t...…
…About 50 people and public officials attended a virtual public hearing with the Washtenaw County Board of Commissioners, Ann Arbor City Council, Scio Township Board of Trustees and the Huron Watershed Council regarding the Gelman Plume Litigation Settlement on Thursday evening. U.S. Rep. Debbie Dingell, D-Mich., moderated the hearing. The Gelman Plume is the spread of the chemical 1,4-dioxane into soil and groun...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com News Wednesday, September 30, 2020 — 5 Students and faculty work to adapt to hybrid courses With 22 percent of LSA classes being taught in the hybrid or in-person format, the disconnect between students in the classroom and students on Zoom coupled with the technological learning curve has proved challenging for hybrid courses. LSA sophomore Michelle Ascrizzi is enrolled in a hybrid ...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Michigan In Color 6 — Wednesday, September 30, 2020 As a first-year living on campus during a widespread pandemic, my concerns about daily life at the Univeringly continue to increase. The administration does not seem to be taking the struggles of students into consideration, evident from the increase in our tuition, prevalence of lab fees and blatant lack of student testing. When I sit ...…
…Wednesday, September 30, 2020 — 7 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Michigan In Color 7500 miles from our native Ann Arbor campus lies the Pakistani city of Karachi, a metropolis renowned for its linguistic, ethnic and reli- gious diversity. Just 750 miles from Karachi exists Lahore, the next largest Pakistani city notable for its social liberal- ism, high level of educational quality and literary works. Despite these positive ...…
…Opinion T hough it is good that social media sites, particularly Twitter, are finally working to prevent the rampant spread of misinformation on their platforms, this alone is not enough. These fact-checking provisions are limited in scope, and thus do not absolve social media users of responsibility for verifying that content they consume or amplify is factually accurate, especially when it relates to topics as paramount as...…
…I ’m sure you’ve all heard by now, but the long-seated Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg died. She passed away on Sept. 18 and immediately reinvigorated a partisan conflict that’s been brewing for the past four years. Her body hadn’t even been cold, and people were already in an uproar about what the proceeding replacement would look like. Sentiments over former President Barack Obama’s appointee, Justice Merric...…
…7-Opinion Opinion The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com I f I asked you what are cars for, there are a few answers I might expect you to give me. Cars expand our horizons by letting us travel farther. They save time by letting us travel faster. Or, maybe you would simply say that we need cars: We need them to get to our places of work, to get to the store and buy food, to visit our families — in short, to live our lives. If car...…
…In the United States there has long been a strange fascination with stories of the American backwoods — gritty tales of brazen crime, graphic murder, religious fanaticism and twisted mentalities. They fixate on the post-war rural South and glorify the violence that erupts among the backwoods folk. And there’s never a person of color in sight. This is the vein of “The Devil All the Time,” a stark tale of rural Ohio and West V...…
…Last week, Mickey Guyton made history as the first Black woman to perform solo at the Academy of Country Music Awards. She sang to an empty Grand Ole Opry house where lights lined the pews instead of people. The audience watching from home was largely unfamiliar with Guyton or her music — her debut “Better Than You Left Me” peaked at #34 on the Billboard Country Airplay Chart in 2015, her highest-charting single to date. Nonethel...…
…Arts Wednesday, September 30, 2020 — 13 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com “extremely online” to my friends, they usually agree — they too love memes and spend hours on Twitter. gets messy. It usually turns into some form of me reciting my own version of Bane’s quote from “The Dark Knight Rises”: “You merely adopted the internet; I was born in it, molded by it.” Like all great horror movies, “Antebellum” is barely fiction. ...…
…I n his article for Geo- graphical Review, geog- rapher Blake Gumprecht posits the American college town as “a place apart, a unique type of urban community shaped by the sometimes conflicting forces of youth, intellect and idealism that have been a critical but underap- preciated part of American life.” I have a hard time agreeing with the second part; the image of a youthful, crafty, idealistic American is practically a ste- re...…
…L ate in the evening of the Jewish New Year Rosh Hashanah on Sept. 18, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg passed away from complications related to pancreatic cancer. Upon hearing the news of her passing, it is understandable why so many responded with punditry on the upcoming battle over her replacement on the Supreme Court of the United States and its intersection with the upcoming election on Nov. 3. Recognizing the possibil...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com statement Wednesday, September 30, 2020 — 16 A lesson from past pandemics BY WILLA HART, STATEMENT COLUMNIST L ast week, in one of my history classes, Sick- ness and Health Since 1492, I was assigned the reading “The Cholera Years” by Charles E. Rosenberg. The book is a dense, nearly 300-page account of the United States cholera epidemics of the 1800s; the syllabus had us reading all but on...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Sports Wednesday, September 30, 2020 — 17 Will Tschetter leads a simple life. He lives on his family farm in the rural outskirts of Stewartville, Minn., a community of roughly 6,000 people. He doesn’t have social media. Basketball is his passion, but farm work comes first; he once instructed Juwan Howard to call him back so he could finish hauling the day’s load of rocks. Perhaps it’s fitting...…
…Jaylen Jones and Tyler Fullman are two supremely talented student athletes from Georgia and Chicago, respectively. They both have athletic accolades under their belts, and they both have their sights set on professional ball. Jones and Fullman are two Black pitchers who will join Michigan’s baseball team next year. They will find themselves under the tutelage of coach Erik Bakich, who has gained national attention in ...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Sports Wednesday, September 30, 2020 — 19 Undersized and overlooked, Ronnie Bell set to anchor young receiver corps Ronnie Bell had been exiled from campus amid the pandemic. Gyms were closed. So were local football fields. But the junior wide receiver had to find a way to train. So on his second day home, his dad came up with the ultimate workout. That’s how Bell ended up pushing a Ch...…
…20 — Wednesday, September 30, 2020 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Vote March 10 …
…Housing is an ongoing issue that continues to affect stakeholders in the Ann Arbor community. For students, it means pressure to sign leases in early fall, perhaps without a full understanding of their responsibilities as a tenant. The steady growth of student enrollment, an average 2.21 percent in the past two years, exacerbates the issue. Individuals such as Peter Allen, professor at the Ross School of Business and Taubman...…
…Then you make a decision about which one needs to prevail, and we do the same thing. We’re trying to balance the best interest of students, faculty, staff, and as a public institution, you’re weighing all those things. The points of view are valid, and the job is to weigh them and figure out in the long run, what’s best. What I love about the University is that we do respond when issues are raised. TMD: International students began...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Michigan in Color Monday, September 30, 2019 — 3A ILLUSTRATION COURTESY OF THE AUTHOR ILLUSTRATION COURTESY OF THE AUTHOR I used this print for a collaboration with a local apparel brand. I was excited when a friend reached out to me asking if he could print the design onto hoodies to sell, especially because it had a message behind it that was important to me. He later got back to me, sa...…
…Opinion The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com 4A — Monday, September 30, 2019 Zack Blumberg Emily Considine Emma Chang Joel Danilewitz Emily Huhman Krystal Hur Ethan Kessler Magdalena Mihaylova Max Mittleman 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 Arts Monday, September 30, 2019 — 5A Though most of us would have to agree that every quality game day ends in food, I’m not sure most of us recognize that some of the most important culinary triumphs of the day lie in the most unassuming of places: the stadium. Perhaps because making it to the game is such a feat among students who prefer the tailgate to the the actual kick- off, we don’t often r...…
…By Roland Huget ©2019 Tribune Content Agency, LLC 09/30/19 Los Angeles Times Daily Crossword Puzzle Edited by Rich Norris and Joyce Nichols Lewis 09/30/19 ANSWER TO PREVIOUS PUZZLE: Release Date: Monday, September 30, 2019 ACROSS 1 Gull relatives 6 Spots to fast- forward through 11 Cleopatra’s killer 14 Sharply inclined 15 Trip odometer function 16 Chinese steamed bun 17 *Realtor’s client 19 Category 20 Rural stopover 21 __ d’Alene, I...…
…The Michigan Daily | michigandaily.com | September 30, 2019 Michigan destroys Rutgers, Knights fire coach in aftermath In the fourth quarter, up 38 points, Michigan went for it on fourth down. The Wolverines’ latest scoring drive had been courtesy of third- string quarterback Joe Milton and fourth-string running back Hassan Haskins. Facing fourth-and-goal at the one-yard line with the game all but over, Michigan could’ve ...…
…SportsMonday Brown’s blueprint comes into focus In year four of Don Brown running Michigan’s defense, there’s little question as to what he wants his unit to be. He’s going to play man-to-man. He’s going to blitz. He’s going to tell his team to swarm the ball carrier with abandon. They’re going to do all that, and dare the offense to beat them. When Brown coached at UMass, UConn and Boston College, the first pages of his play...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com SportsMonday September 30, 2019 — 3B Forward depth creates line challenges for Pearson Filling in the lineup each night will be quite the task for Mel Pearson this season. The Michigan coach will be forced to narrow down the 17 forwards on the roster to just 12 for each game, possibly 13 if he chooses to dress an extra forward as opposed to an extra defenseman. And when you look down the list, ...…
…4B — September 30, 2019 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com SportsMonday For offensive coordinator Josh Gattis, a necessary step forward Josh Gattis paced near the 30-yard line shortly before kickoff, embracing players scattered about. He walked up to midfield, then back again. Safeties coach Chris Partridge approached and offered an emphatic hug. As Gattis walked toward the middle of the offensive huddle, ready to addres...…
…Jewish Family Services of Washtenaw County expects to have resettled about 163 refugees in the county by the conclusion of its fiscal year this fall, nearly doubling its previous year’s caseload, and plans to do so again in the coming year. In a March interview with the Daily, JFS administrators said their resettlement target was still in the 80-person range. However, an uptick in the number of refugees the Obama admin...…
…2A — Friday September 30, 2016 News The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com GETTING A BULLSEYE. puzzle by sudokusyndication.com Tweets Follow @michigandaily CAMPUS EVENTS & NOTES 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...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com News Friday, September 30, 2016 — 3A implemented, the Republican- controlled State Senate passed a bill in May that would, if passed by the House, bar local governments from passing such fees on packaging containers. This legislation represents the first attempt by any local government in Michigan to adopt such an “eco-tax;” however, it faces great uncertainty in the hands of state legislatu...…
…O ver the last decade, a major issue in Detroit politics has been rapid population loss that has plagued the city. While it can be easy to look at the decreasing numbers as a sign of despair, I look at the population numbers in a positive light. According to the 2010 census, there are more than 700,000 residents in Detroit, making it the 18th largest city in America, by population. But the greater Detroit metropolitan area, w...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Arts Friday, September 30, 2016 — 5A Classifieds Call: #734-418-4115 Email: dailydisplay@gmail.com HEY. YOU'RE DOING GREAT AND WE know you can do it. Don't give up! ACROSS 1 __ salad 5 Maddux who won four consecutive Cy Young Awards 9 Prominent feature of toondom’s Droopy Dog 14 Efficient 15 Dunkirk dream 16 2003 LPGA Rookie of the Year 17 Sight 20 Cuttlefish pigment 21 “Homeland” org. 22 Wyo. ...…
…6A — Friday, September 30, 2016 Arts The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Since the concept of fear and the transfiguration of fear into films such as “Nosferatu,” it has become well-known that horror movies draw on the inherent, natural fears that are already pres- ent in the minds of its viewers. How- ever, it’s not only the adrenaline rush that draws us to watch a spooky flick, but also the anticipation of a final en...…
…October 1, 2016: Wisconsin …
…FootballSaturday, October 1, 2016 2 STAFF PICKS The Daily football writers pick against the spread to predict scores for the top 25 and Big Ten in the 2016 football season. Max Bultman Jacob Gase Kelly Hall Jake Lourim No. 4 Michigan (-10) vs. No. 8 Wisconsin Michigan Wisconsin Wisconsin Wisconsin Michigan No. 1 Alabama (-35.5) vs. Kentucky Alabama Alabama Alabama Alabama Alabama No. 2 Ohio State (-38) vs. Rutgers Ohio State Ohio...…
…3 TheMichiganDaily, www.michigandaily.com Wisconsin at Michigan Matchup: Wisconsin 4-0; Michigan 4-0 When: Saturday 3:30 P.M. Where: Michigan Stadium TV/Radio: ABC Wisconsin arrives for Big Ten showdown The non-conference season is over, and so are most of the up-tempo spread attacks. The Michigan football team’s game against No. 8 Wisconsin on Saturday will feature lots of rushing, lots of physicality ...…
…FootballSaturday, October 1, 2016 4 Sitting in the stands just before Michigan kicked off its 2015 season and ushered in the Jim Harbaugh era, Joe Allen was frantically trying to get a hold of his wife. He was in Utah for the beginning of his son’s redshirt junior season, and he could tell from the way Kenny was warming up that he would be starting for the first time. Joe’s phone had just broken that morning, so there was no way ...…
…snow now and then, but it was worth it to keep up with their obsession. On the days they couldn’t quite make it outside, they still found a way. “We had an indoor net in the basement,” Joe said. “I think our ceiling was about eight or nine feet, and every time they kicked, it would hit the ceiling tile. It was like non- stop.” Part of the football infatuation may have evolved from the lack of things to do in a small Michigan to...…
…FootballSaturday, October 1, 2016 6 about his duties as kicker. The only time he said he was only worried about kicking a field goal was his very first attempt as a starter at Utah. Last season, his level-headed approach showed on the field when he made 18 of his 22 field goal attempts and completed 100 percent of his extra point attempts. According to Sailer, kickers need to enjoy being in the spotlight while learning to take cr...…
…7 TheMichiganDaily, www.michigandaily.com Breakdown: Michigan vs. Wisconsin After four weeks of having a clear advantage over its opponents in nearly every phase of the game, the No. 4 Michigan football team will finally face a challenge this weekend when No. 8 Wisconsin comes to Ann Arbor. Not much was expected from the Badgers before the season — especially considering their current stretch features four straight games aga...…
…FootballSaturday, October 1, 2016 8 What to Watch For: Wisconsin When the Wisconsin football team knocked off then-No. 5 Louisiana State to open the 2016 season, it was only natural to start looking ahead toward its Week 5 visit to Ann Arbor. And after the Badgers routed Michigan State in East Lansing last week, that game is now here, and it could be Michigan’s first game of Big Ten play with major conference title implications....…
…michigandaily.com Ann Arbor, Michigan Wednesday, September 30, 2015 ONE-HUNDRED AND TWENTY-FIVE YEARS OF EDITORIAL FREEDOM CAMPUS CONTEXT President slated to roll out strategic initiative on inclusion by spring 2016 By EMMA KINERY Daily Staff Reporter University President Mark Schlissel and his administration have spent the last academic year working to roll out new policy initiatives regarding several campus is...…
…2A — Wednesday, September 30, 2015 News The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com The history of yoga WHAT: Instructor Lakshminarayanan Venkat of the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute will discuss the modern day evolution of yoga. WHO: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute WHEN: 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. WHERE: Genesis of Ann Arbor, 2309 Packard Street Addiction recovery WHAT: A conference with the U.S. Drug Czar and people in recovery fr...…
…something like this, we’re really able to engage with the student body.” Public Health student Amaal Haimout, president of MGSA, said she was inspired to collaborate with El-Halwagi after one of her friends told her that 200 refugee families were relocating to Grand Rapids. “Now, it’s definitely a personal issue because it’s a car ride away,” Haimout said. Haimout said many University students are unaware of the crisis, and ...…
…Opinion JENNIFER CALFAS EDITOR IN CHIEF AARICA MARSH and DEREK WOLFE EDITORIAL PAGE EDITORS LEV FACHER MANAGING EDITOR 420 Maynard St. Ann Arbor, MI 48109 tothedaily@michigandaily.com Edited and managed by students at the University of Michigan since 1890. Unsigned editorials reflect the official position of the Daily’s editorial board. All other signed articles and illustrations represent solely the views of their authors....…
…5A — Wednesday, September 30, 2015 Arts The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Nothing new in dull ‘Grinder’ premiere By DREW MARON Daily Arts Writer In “The Grinder,” Rob Lowe (“Parks and Recreation”) stars as Dean Sanderson, a fictional tele- vision actor known for his role as a dashing law- yer on the eponymous show-within- a show. At the beginning of the episode, Dean watches the series finale with his ...…
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