…Four years ago, the Black Student Union launched the online campaign #BBUM, or Being Black at the University of Michigan, and gave the University seven days to respond to seven demands. Some of the demands included more affordable campus housing, an increase in Black representation on campus and a digitization of documents in the University’s Bentley Historical Library. Now, four years after BSU put forward its initi...…
…administration informed her if she taught a course on the history of photography, she would not be allowed to show images of sex, children, violence, drugs or “complicated emotional imagery.” Poor scheduled a meeting with the prison warden and another department secretary and, after describing her curriculum, was granted permission to teach the class as she originally intended. The men in the facility were not allo...…
…know where I was from,” Offendum said. “When I’d tell them I was from Syria, I’d get a weird joke about breakfast cereal or something. Now you can’t turn on the news without hearing about it at least once a day.” Rackham student Yahya Alami Hafez, a graduate student instructor for Introduction to Arab-American Studies, said Offendum’s presentation showed how current artistic mediums such as rap actually trace back to a ...…
…W hen I arrived at the University of Michigan at the beginning of freshman year, my friends and I discovered Bird electric scooters on the Diag. I’d never ridden e-scooters since they had not yet made it to my native New York City, where Citi Bike and Uber reign supreme. “Pick up and drop off anywhere,” the app promised, for only 15 cents per minute. We took them for a spin. Soon we were hooked. We used Bird to get to class on...…
…From enigmatic plot to disconcerting characters, normality is but a common thread in Katya Apekina’s debut novel, “The Deeper the Water the Uglier the Fish.” Coming from a mother who swallows her loved ones whole and a narcissistic father, two daughters are torn between the chaotic obsessions and depressions of their parents. After Edith and Mae’s mother, Marianne, attempts to hang herself they are taken under the wing of thei...…
…The Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre was buzzing with excitement, as the audience was antsy to see another spectacular performance put on by the University’s School of Music, Theatre & Dance (SMTD). The energy in the room bounced off the bright red curtain that fell so elegantly, covering the floral, colorful, ’60s flower-power set of “Sweet Charity.” “Sweet Charity” is a musical based on an original screenplay by Frederico Fellini, writt...…
…OCTOBER 19, 2018 Preview of the 2018-2019 Michigan Hockey Team Photo by Katelyn Mulcahy …
…Friday, October 19, 2018 // FACEOFF 2018 2B Vermont Waterloo (ex.) U.S. NTDP (ex.) Western Michigan at Western Michigan St. Lawrence at Lake Superior State Notre Dame at Penn State Wisconsin at Michigan State Michigan State Minnesota Great Lakes Invitational Oct. 6 Oct. 7 Oct. 12 Oct. 19 Oct. 20 Oct. 26, 27 Nov. 2, 3 Nov. 9, 10 Nov. 16, 17 Nov. 23, 24 Nov. 30 Dec. 1 Dec. 7, 8 Dec. 30, 31 Jan. 5 Jan. 8 Jan. 11, 1...…
…Friday, October 19, 2018 // FACEOFF 2018 3B Let it go H opefully, by now, you’ve regained your senses after the Michigan hockey team’s roller-coaster of a season last year. The Wolverines started in the shadow of Red Berenson’s retirement and low expectations, struggled to escape the darkness until mid-January, then finished seconds away from a spot in the National Championship game. Not to mention this all happened in ...…
…OCTOBER 19, 2018 Preview of the 2018-2019 Michigan Hockey Team Photo by Katelyn Mulcahy …
…Friday, October 19, 2018 FACEOFF 2018 4B Hayden Lavigne: No longer a mystery Written by Tien Le H ayden Lavigne is currently reading a mys- tery book. It should come to no one’s sur- prise, though. After all, he’s a mys- tery himself. Talk to people around Lavigne and two common themes emerge. One is that he’s a serious, intense guy. Two is that no one can ever tell what he’s thinking — he’s just an e...…
…Friday, October 19, 2018 FACEOFF 2018 5B Hayden Lavigne: No longer a mystery Written by Tien Le Photo Credits: Top - Katelyn Mulcahy / Bottom - Alec Cohen through 16 games, Lavigne’s per- formance proved uninspiring, especially with his competition including the current Mike Rich- ter Award winner and Notre Dame goalie, Cale Morris, who posted a .937 through 28 games. “When I was in the USHL, I got cut from ...…
…Friday, October 19, 2018 // FACEOFF 2018 6B Big Ten Breakdown: Entire conference hoping to maintain success of last season, when three teams made Frozen Four When the No. 11 Michigan hockey team starts Big Ten play against Notre Dame three weeks from now, it will have a chance at redemption. In last year’s Frozen Four semifinal, a last-second Fighting Irish goal ended the Wolverines’ tournament run and their surprisingly succes...…
…Friday, October 19, 2018 // FACEOFF 2018 7B See ROSTER, Page 8B BY THE NUMBERS Big Ten Hockey 75 % Ohio State returned 75 percent of its production from last season’s Frozen Four team. 128 Ohio State forward Mason Jobst is the active leader in career points in the NCAA 8 Notre Dame won the regular season Big Ten Championship by eight points last season .001 Minnesota missed out on the NCAA Tournament last season by .001 points, fa...…
…Friday, October 19, 2018 // FACEOFF 2018 8B KATELYN MULCAHY/Daily Sophomore forward Will Lockwood was the second-highest scorer for Michigan in the 2016-17 season but suffered a season-ending shoulder injury last year. Now he has returned to the Wolverines’ lineup. pairing of Hughes and Cecconi is returning for this season. Both had the option of making the move to the NHL but chose to remain in Ann Arbor for another go-around. Hughe...…
