…Julia Schachinger/Daily | Tess Crowley/Daily | Design by Sophie Grand S P O R T S W E D N E S D AY F ollowing the regular season and conference tournaments, the NCAA deploys PairWise, a mathematical ranking system, to seed its postseason hockey tournament. Facing the defending NCAA National Champions, the No. 6 Michigan hockey team received a prime chance to boost its PairWise rankings entering the second half of the sea...…
…Monday night, the University of Michigan Diag was filled with over 100 voices chanting ‘Yes on three!’ as activists and Ann Arbor community members rallied for Proposal 3, also known as the Reproductive Freedom For All ballot initiative that will appear in the upcoming midterm election. The Reproductive Freedom For All proposal would amend the Michigan Constitution to enshrine the right to abortion, birth control and other forms...…
…In the wake of Hurricane Fiona, a Category 4 storm that hit the U.S. island territory of Puerto Rico on Sept. 18, approximately 233,000 individuals have been without power, dozens of communities were flooded and thousands of homes have been destroyed. Puerto Rico is over 1,900 miles away from Ann Arbor, but for many members of the University of Michigan community, the catastrophe is personal. Rackham student Daniela Crespo-Mi...…
…Wednesday, October 12, 2022 — 3 Arts michigandaily.com — The Michigan Daily A Michigan summer is difficult to hold in your hands. It is a season that slips into temperature extremes, turning increasingly novel each year — July and August heat are just almost unbearable at times — but more than that, summer is a season of universal renewal. Warmth is restored from the ground up in every living being, and the beating heart of ...…
…When I walked into my kitchen on the first day of September, I wished my roommate a Happy Christian Girl Autumn. It’s a holiday, folks. A holiday to celebrate the turning of the seasons and the return of the white woman’s fall aesthetic. My roommate and I are intimately familiar with the style that constitutes a Christian Girl Autumn: bouncy curls, skinny jeans, scarves larger than the girls rocking them, knee-high boots and, inev...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Wednesday, October 12, 2022 — 5 This is your sign to sign up for Prime Student. amazon.com/joinstudent Start your 6-month trial. The Michigan Daily …
…In 1969, you could be denied voter registration at the Ann Arbor Clerk’s Office if you weren’t “conservatively dressed.” Or if your answer to “Where did you spend your last vacation?” implied any sort of family connection or financial dependency. Or if you told the clerk that you would call your parents if you were seriously ill or had some sort of emergency. For the majority of the University of Michigan’s history, stud...…
…Wednesday, October 12, 2022 — 7 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com S T A T E M E N T CHEN LYU Statement Contributor Ethnic businesses transformed Ann Arbor strip malls into cultural meccas Rediscovering Ann Arbor HALEY JOHNSON Statement Correspondent (ABOVE) Aladdin’s Market sits on a corner of the Packard/Platt mall. KEITH MELONG/Daily RILEY NIEBOER/Daily (ABOVE) The Songbird Cafe at the Plymouth Road Mall. (ABOVE) The Golam Mea...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Michigan in Color 8 — Wednesday, October 12, 2022 Me and my mother tongue I don’t speak my mother tongue. I used to be regretful, upset and honestly a little bit ashamed that I never tried very hard to learn it. My parents first tried to teach me when I was a baby. Appar- ently, I used to flip flop between Tamil and English, which con- fused my white preschool teachers. And I guess my teach- ...…
…Opinion Wednesday, October 12, 2022 — 9 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Kyrsten cinema continues to be astoundinly terrible T his week, Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, D-Ariz., paid a trip to the McConnell Center, named after Republican Senate Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky. The move sparked righteous anger from many on the left, given the Republican senator’s legislative history that spans decades. Though it’s fair to take excep...…
…A s college students, we’ve all been in those situations where we’ve pulled desperate all-nighters before exams or had to work well past when we wanted to. If you’re a student at the University of Michigan, chances are that you’ve experienced at least one of these scenarios. More often than not, we take the practice of sleep and its necessity for granted. After all, roughly one-third of our lives seems like more than enough ...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Wednesday, October 12, 2022 — 11 Attack errors foil Michigan in loss to Minnesota JOSHUA BROWN For The Daily Beating a perennial contender is a difficult feat. It is even harder to do when attempting to over- come self-inflicted wounds. For the No. 24 Michigan vol- leyball team (12-3 overall, 3-2 Big Ten), Friday’s matchup against No. 11 Minnesota (9-5, 4-2) was a litmus test. Ultimately, the W...…
…JOSH TAUBMAN Daily Sports Editor B LOOMINGTON — Trap game is a term that gets tossed around a lot in college football. In a sport where one or two losses define the season for the upper echelon of teams, it can be detrimental to overlook certain opponents for more tantalizing matchups that loom beyond. It’s difficult to pinpoint exactly what defines a matchup as a trap game. But for the No. 4 Michigan football team, a bout wi...…
…The National Science Foundation, an independent federal agency which provides research grants for science and engineering, is conducting a review of the University of Michigan’s Department of Computer Science and Engineering compliance with Title IX regulations. The CSE department has seen allegations of sexual misconduct against several of its faculty members since 2020. NSF began conducting interviews with CSE f...…
…When the Graduate Employees’ Organization began their ongoing strike on March 29, some classes were temporarily canceled or modified across the University of Michigan, leaving many undergraduate students feeling uncertain about how the final weeks of the semester will unfold. Many U-M students have voiced their support for GEO’s demands for wage increases, though others voiced concern over additional proposals...…
…Crisler Center Michigan basketball sports its own dedicated and zealous student section — the Maize Rage. Though the Maize Rage also participates in various other sporting events, it’s primarily associated with Michigan basketball and is the only student section affiliated with the athletic department. Zach Linfield, Kinesiology senior and designated Maize Rage “Superfan,” which is an official representative o...…
…The intelligent inhabitants of the exoplanet Kepler-1084B — the only non-human intelligent beings in the universe, as they suspect — turn on their radio receivers and listen in on the signals originating from Earth, 193 lightyears away. For centuries, they have been searching for signs of life beyond their home planet. They want to believe that they aren’t alone in the universe. Their arduous, fruitless search for interplanetary l...…
…There’s a boxing match a-brewin’. Now, this is no hand- picked Apollo Creed versus The Italian Stallion, but it seems to be the new imminent climax to a conflict between male online influencers. KSI vs Logan Paul, KSI’s brother Deji vs FouseyTube, Logan Paul challenging boxing legend Floyd Mayweather — these influencer boxing incidents have become an industry, as millions upon millions of online followers fill sold-out seats. Th...…
…COLD OPEN INT. FAMILY ROOM – AFTERNOON LITTLE SISTER (7) hurries into the room, out of breath. Her aquamarine “The Little Mermaid” backpack unceremoniously plops to the ground as she kicks off her shoes and makes a beeline for the couch, GoGurt in hand. BIG SISTER (10) is already lying across the opposite couch. LITTLE SISTER Did I miss it? Did it start yet? Big Sister shakes her head NO in confirmation. LITTLE SISTER (sigh...…
…One. Two. Three. I closed my eyes as each number echoed in my head and my anxi- ety grew. I focused on my internal counting, hoping to prevent a shut down. However, it couldn’t mask the sound of my family circling around me as they spoke about a deportation in our local Mexican store. I shielded myself from real- ity, forcing my warm hands over each ear. Individually, my toes curled on the staircase’s steps as my body formed into a ...…
…F or the foreseeable future, The Daily does not plan to publish anonymous Op-Eds or Letters to the Editor, with a few clear-cut exceptions. In order for us to publish an anonymous Op-Ed or Letter to the Editor, three things must be true: The piece must be specifically relevant to those on campus, the story or argument can only be told or made by the writer requesting anonymity and there must be some reasonable expectation that...…
…T hink of every teacher you’ve ever had. Consider each of them, both your favorites and the ones you wish you could forget. Ponder all of the little moments that make up your childhood education, all the way up through high school, from the disappointed talks after the substitute teacher left a bad note to the oddly strict bathroom pass rules. Now think of the first time you heard a teacher swear. The first time a teacher spoke t...…
…W ith the semester nearing its end and the standoff between the Graduate Employees’ Organization and the University of Michigan raging on, there’s no better time than now to reflect back on how this school year has gone academically. For some, this year was filled with packed schedules, long study nights and never-ending amounts of work; for others, classes may have been an afterthought. Personally, I tried to find a middle ...…
…but going for the win.” In the second set, Styler faced some net errors but quickly fol- lowed up with a service winner and strong backhand to take the first game. Kingsley, also eager to take control, fought back to trade the hold with Styler, taking a game to make it 3-3. Eventually Styler’s discipline endured, Styler won the final game without dropping a point, taking the set and with it the match, 6-4. NILS G. WALTER Francis S...…
…SPORTSWEDNESDAY KATE HUA/Daily Design by Lys Goldman IN PLACE FROZEN Michigan stymied by Quinnipiac, 5-2, for second straight Frozen Four loss T AMPA, Fla. — There was no telling when the No. 2 Michigan hockey team would be back. After a puck jumped over the stick of then-freshman defenseman Luke Hughes, the ensuing year was anything but predictable for the Wolverines. In just 364 days, a head coach, innumerable NHL talent and a...…
…the the statement statement graduation edition Illustration by Abby Schreck Illustration by Abby Schreck Design by Leyla Dumke Design by Leyla Dumke …
…There’s something strange other students will do that I’ve be- gun to notice. Occasionally, I’ll mention my merit scholarship. This isn’t a frequent occurrence — while I believe financial transpar- ency is important, I generally think it’s in poor taste to go out of my way to mention my scholarship to other students. Still, it will come up from time to time in conversation. I can’t, I have to go to an event for my scholarship tonight...…
…Wednesday, April 12, 2023 // The Statement — 3 Author’s note: This piece is adapted from and inspired by Lydia Da- vis’ seminal short story, “Break It Down.” The story appears in, “The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis.” A senior in college is reclining on his front porch in the gray spring light of Ann Arbor. He’s trying to make sense of it all. He says: The tuition was $50,000 a year, frontloading on classes to wrap it up in three y...…
…4 — The Statement // Wednesday, April 12, 2023 Snip, snip, snip. I’ve always hated the sound of scissors snipping. The metallic snip, snip, snip reminds me of im- minent change, and it terrifies me. Ironically, though, as I sat on a spinning beauty salon chair last June and longingly stared back at my reflection, the sound of scissors snipping through my long, brown hair thrilled me. The thick brown locks that defined my identity for...…
…Wednesday, April 12, 2023 // The Statement — 5 Canopy Magazine, a U-M student organization, will be publishing a book-length anthology of the tiny desk and its contents. There are hundreds and hundreds of anon- ymous entries. This piece was written in collaboration with oth- er members of the Canopy team. The project started with an idea: include everyone. Since the beginning of this semester, when the weather was pleasant, we’d rand...…
…This article is continued from page 6 of this insert, “We put a lit- tle desk on the Diag. Here’s what we found”. Prompt #5. I see a glimpse of it every day Something about the little desk seems to bring out what people are really feeling. An ear to listen. The words come ear- nest, open and big-hearted when there’s no one watching. Gathered together in the liter- ary space of the page, people share their responses to the prompt: “I s...…
…Wednesday, April 12, 2023 // The Statement — 7 I have a confession to make: Despite my seemingly positive travel posts and a frenzied roulette of indulgent Instagram stories, I can find no other words to describe the last five months of my life beyond “utterly taxing.” The easy-going charade I like to do isn’t some- thing that can withstand the more stressful periods of my life — it’s a seam that frays and unravels in the presence o...…
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