…Former HUD secretary talks diversity and equity Obama appointee stresses importance of teaching in speech By JENNIFER MEER Summer Managing News Editor On Wednesday afternoon, Julián Castro, former Secretary of Housing and Urban Development under President Barack Obama from 2014 to 2017, addressed a crowd of approximately 100 at the Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre in the Michigan League. The talk, titled “Leadership in a Changing...…
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…3 NEWS Thursday, June 15, 2017 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com University researchers study bilingualism in Argentina from both a linguistic and sociocultural perspective Study explores bicultural practices and languages By JENNIFER MEER Summer Managing News Editor A research project conducted through the University of Michigan is bringing together linguists and cultural analysts to better under- stand bicultural communi...…
…4 Thursday, June 15, 2017 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com OPINION W hen I was six years old, my eager parents signed me up for private violin lessons to my absolute dismay. Under their pressure, I would trudge through my early musical career for the next four years or so – tears and tantrums included – until one day in the fifth grade, it wasn’t my parents pushing me anymore. That day was instrument- sampling d...…
…5 OPINION Thursday, June 15, 2017 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com “ Did you see the fight between Hunter Strickland and uh, what’s his name?” my dad asked me a few weeks ago. I hadn’t, so when I hung up the phone, I did a Google search and the results were instantaneous. During the game, the San Francisco Giants’ pitcher, Hunter Strickland, hit Bryce Harper, a batter for the Washington Nationals, with the ball. A fight ...…
…6 Thursday, June 15, 2017 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com ARTS Tigers Jaw talks new album and Detroit show By DOM POLSINELLI Summer Senior Arts Editor It’s all too easy for modern pop- punk/emo bands to throw a couple chords together with some relatable lyrics to garner millennial atten- tion. We see it happen all the time. However, after nearly a decade of songwriting, Scranton’s Tigers Jaw has never shown the scars of this...…
…7 Thursday, June 15, 2017 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com ARTS By WILL STEWART Summer Managing Arts Editor Phoenix was nearly a decade ahead of the curve when they were releasing synthy, ’80s-inspired hits like “If I Ever Feel Better” and “Too Young” off their first album Unit- ed in 2000. Now, almost 20 years later, their style has been replicated countless times by other musi- cians of varying popularity. They were undou...…
…8 Thursday, June 15, 2017 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com NEWS ACROSS 1 Port initials 4 Fallon’s predecessor 8 Negative quality 13 Late July arrival 14 No longer hung up on 15 Composed 16 Going rate? 18 Younger daughter of Hi and Lois, in comics 19 Admission of defeat 20 Petal pusher? 22 Baseball’s Wills and TV’s Povich 24 __ zone: shallowest oceanic region that sunlight doesn’t reach 27 Co. once led by Baryshnikov 28 Sap sucker 31 Gr...…
…9 Thursday, June 15, 2017 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com NEWS ed Belize and Panama) for the first time in years. And, of course, aca- demic collections like U.S. Central Americans Reconstructing Mem- ories, Struggles, and Communities of Resistance allow for new voices to re-center conversations around what Central American identity means in the context of the States. These are far from the only people doing this work, but in...…
…10 Thursday, June 15, 2017 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com SPORTS Michigan well-represented in draft The Michigan baseball team had 11 players selected in the 2017 MLB Draft, which ran this week from Monday to Wednesday. The 11 selections mark the highest the Wolverines have seen in program history. The selections also bring the total number of Michigan draftees up to 23 during Erik Bakich’s five- year tenure as head coach...…
…11 Thursday, June 15, 2017 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com SPORTS Wolverines compete at national meet The Michigan track and field teams sent eight athletes in total — five men and three women — to compete at the NCAA Outdoor Championships last week in Eugene, Ore. from Wednesday to Saturday. While the Wolverines weren’t as well-represented as they were last year, when six men and five women qualified for the national mee...…
…Phelan wins national championship Last November at the NCAA Cross Country Championships, Michigan’s Jaimie Phelan was barely edged at the finish line by Oregon’s Maggie Schmaedick, who claimed 64th place by 0.1 seconds over the Wolverine junior. Neither runner had any way of knowing it as they crossed the line, but that tenth-of-a-second difference between Schmaedick and Phelan gave the Ducks the team title, with a score...…
