…4 Thursday, July 20, 2017 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com OPINION NISA KHAN EDITOR IN CHIEF SARAH KHAN EDITORIAL PAGE EDITOR DAYTON HARE MANAGING EDITOR 420 Maynard St. Ann Arbor, MI 48109 tothedaily@michigandaily.com Edited and managed by students at the University of Michigan since 1890. Talley is special for her looks BRENNAN POPE | COLUMN STEPHANIE MULLINGS Unpopular opinion I pride myself on “keeping it rea...…
…H eadlining The New York Times, the morning of Nov. 9, 2016 read the unpredicted results of the presidential election: “Donald Trump Is Elected President in Stunning Repudiation of the Establishment.” For many U.S. citizens and pollsters, these results were shocking. How could someone who defied political correctness, who used abrasive language and who seemed so far away from a presidential standard be elected? Tho...…
…6 Thursday, July 20, 2017 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com ARTS 20th CENTURY FOX Maurice gazes with fear At first glance, “War for the Planet of the Apes” doesn’t resemble a modern war movie. Where most films of the genre trade in bloody action and bountiful shots of brawny men shouting at each other, the final chapter in the “Apes” reboot trilogy is quiet. Contemplative even. Entire sequences pass without a single word of...…
…7 Thursday, July 20, 2017 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com ARTS As children, the “entire world” can be a lot of things. For some, it’s the universe — every solar system in the galaxy. For others, it’s the planet Earth. For a few, it’s the small town, city or village in which they grew up. And for one, it’s a hermetically sealed bunker in the middle of a Californian desert. That one person is James Pope (Kyle Mooney, “Sa...…
…and by the end of his set, it was wholly apparent how he’s managed to remain so relevant — hit after hit, smile after smile, he is impossible not to appreciate. After “Move, Bitch” and “Get Back,” two of his rowdiest tracks, Ludacris left the stage for Tyler to claim. Finally, the crowd was ignited. With his new album Flower Boy (formerly Scum Fuck Flower Boy) due out later this week (it already leaked and had been heard by man...…
…The message of O.J. By JASON ROWLAND Michigan in Color Managing Editor I’m going to ask you three questions, and I need you to answer honestly. First, did you know that Black children are punished more often and more severe- ly than their white classmates? Second, that Black borrowers are much less likely to be granted a loan than their white counterparts with similar credit scores? And third, that employers prefer applicants with “white...…
…Thursday, July 20, 2017 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com NEWS Health care town hall in Plymouth gives voice to Michiganders’ fears over ramifications of possible repeal of Obamacare Nearly 200 people attended a town hall on health care Sunday morning in Plymouth, hoping to receive answers on how their care would change under the Better Care Reconciliation Act, the GOP plan to repeal and replace the Obama administrati...…
…11 Thursday, July 20, 2017 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com SPORTS Dakich to transfer to Ohio State The Michigan men’s basketball team has seen a graduate transfer to a rival Big Ten school in each of the last two seasons. Forward Max Bielfeldt transferred to Indiana in 2015, and guard Spike Albrecht played his final season of college basketball at Purdue last season. That streak will continue this season with ...…
…12 Thursday, July 20, 2017 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com SPORTS Harbaugh supportive of Malone-Hatcher’s decision The Wolverines experienced a recent — and unexpected — departure from the team when freshman defensive end Corey Malone-Hatcher announced July 4 that he would be medically retiring from football. In a statement posted to Twitter, Malone-Hatcher cited an arduous and longer- than-expected recovery fro...…
…Beginning as a collection of anecdotal interviews with more than 200 women in 1996, The Vagina Monologues has since evolved over time to include more diverse storylines, actors and sexualities in order to be representative of the full spectrum of the female experience. More than 100 students gathered Friday and Saturday night inside Rackham Auditorium to watch the University’s fifth-annual production ...…
…One hundred and seventy University of Michigan Medical School students, all in their senior year, received exciting news on Friday as they learned where they will spend the next part of their journeys to becoming doctors. Medical students spend much of their fourth year deciding which specialty they would like to focus on and then apply to residency programs in that field. Students rank their choices by preferences — thi...…
…His responsibilities grew: Batista prepared curriculum for the training of 40 members, oversaw mentorship programs, relations with alumni and corporate sponsors, and helped run the club. Batista has plans to improve student life both in the Business School and throughout campus, especially in regard to the DEI plan, the University’s long-term initiative to improve recognition of underrepresented groups on campus. He curre...…
…D emocracies need protections for political minorities; without them, society descends into mob rule. These protections are often formalized (e.g., the filibuster), but they’re also informally written into our legislatures’ codes of conduct. Compromise is essential to any functioning democracy. But with Trump, it’s a little bit different (just like everything with him is). The fundamental prob...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Arts Monday, March 20, 2017 — 5A Classifieds Call: #734-418-4115 Email: dailydisplay@gmail.com CHECK OUT OUR COOL www.michigandaily.com WEBSITE. ACROSS 1 Negative attention from the press, briefly 6 Deep-voiced opera singer 11 “I knew it!” 14 Blazing 15 Gossip spreader 16 Abu Dhabi is its cap. 17 Change one’s route to avoid heavy traffic, say 19 Org. for marksmen 20 “You __ here” 21 Pipe-cleaning br...…
…6A — Monday, March 20, 2017 Arts The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com “I’m taking far too many chances / On these less than idealistic romances.” Nobody would have picked the scrappy Welsh band with cutesy matching last names and gleefully overwrought song titles to secretly become one of the best bands of its generation, but I don’t think even Los Campesinos! themselves ever expected to survive their own brief moment. Their fi...…
…B The Michigan Daily | michigandaily.com | March 20, 2017 Enjoy this week Ann Arbor will experience a feeling this week that doesn’t come around very often in college basketball » SportsMonday Column, Page 2B Survive and advance The Michigan women’s basketball team staved off a late Wright State rally Saturday to move onto the third round of the WNIT » Page 4B EMOTION SWEET Michigan 73, Louisville 69 EVAN AARON/Daily …
…2B — March 20, 2017 SportsMonday The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com For Michigan fans, a week to savor W hatever you do, don’t waste this week. For the next three- plus days, Ann Arbor will be one of 16 cities across the United States that gets to experience the singular energy that accompanies a trip to the Sweet 16. At 7:09 p.m. Thursday, the Michigan men’s basketball team will tip off in Kansas City, Mo., against...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com SportsMonday March 20, 2017 — 3B Wolverines sweep Kent State Thirty strikeouts. Fourteen innings pitched. No runs and only one hit allowed. It was nothing short of a monumental weekend for Michigan’s senior right-hander, Megan Betsa. After earning her fourth career no-hitter Saturday, the ace showed no signs of slowing down in the circle Sunday afternoon, allowing a sole hit and underscori...…
…4B — March 20, 2017 SportsMonday The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Michigan’s big men take over in win INDIANAPOLIS — Seventeen agonizingly long seconds stood between the Michigan men’s basketball team and victory as DJ Wilson stepped to the line for two crucial free throws. A miss by the redshirt sophomore forward on the front end of the one-and-one would have given the Cardinals ample time to tie the game — or even win...…
…The University of Michigan Hillel, the Black Student Union and NOiR fashion runway hosted an open Shabbat dinner Friday evening, followed by a conversation about intersectionality and activism facilitated by Yavilah McCoy, an African-American Jewish activist and educator. This event was a follow up to Thursday evening’s event, where McCoy spoke on similar topics. Hillel’s weekly Shabbat dinners are normally attend...…
… CAMPUS EVENTS & NOTES Tweets Follow @michigandaily Local dessert lovers, “donut” miss out on Ann Arbor’s newest late-night delivery service. Washtenaw Dairy now delivers donuts between 9 p.m. and 2 a.m. on Friday and Saturday nights. The local business, which has been operating since 1934 and delivering dairy products to Washtenaw County for 75 years, launched the new service on Friday. According to a tweet from ...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com News Monday, February 20, 2017 — 3A 25-year project of interview- based performances. The five speakers of the event shared diverse experiences of being Muslim in the United States, with a common thread of coming to age after 9/11 in New York City. “I think the urgency of the xenophobia that is rampant in our president’s new administration makes it very important to have Muslim people speak fo...…
…D uring my senior year of high school, I went on an overnight Catholic retreat. The organizers of the retreat reached out to the attendees’ friends and families to collect letters about all sorts of things: what we meant to them, what their faith meant to them or even just offering general advice as we prepared to leave for college. Watching the response around the country and on campus to President Trump’...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Arts Monday, February 20, 2017 — 5A Classifieds Call: #734-418-4115 Email: dailydisplay@gmail.com ACROSS 1 Soothsayer 5 Quick fix for an elbow hole 10 Underwater vessel 13 Cuba libre fruit 14 Lorena of LPGA fame 15 Phony 16 Votes in favor 17 “My mistake” 18 Rice field draft animals 19 Panama Canal nickname 22 Robotic maid on “The Jetsons” 23 Inherently 27 Where to find Lima and llamas 30 Like farm coun...…
…6A — Monday, February 20, 2017 Arts The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com ‘August Snow’ presents lively testament to Detroit It’s always a weird feeling to be reading a story set in an area one knows. For this reason, “August Snow” feels like an eerie walk through well-known areas near Ann Arbor. Set in Detroit’s Mexicantown area, mentions of the University of Michigan and Traverse City abound. The way it paints Detroit is on...…
…B The Michigan Daily | michigandaily.com | February 20, 2017 Not good enough The Michigan hockey team traveled to Madison and showed improvement, but the Wolverines still returned to Ann Arbor carrying the burden of two losses. » Page 3B New expectations Kim Barnes Arico has helped turn around the Michigan women’s basketball program, simultaneously bringing new standards to the team. » SportsMonday Column Page 2B MINNEAPOL...…
…2B — February 20, 2017 Sports The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com A Sunday at a crossroads I t’s impossible to encapsulate a season in one game, and there’s been plenty of good news for the Michigan women’s basketball team this year. The 20th-ranked Wolverines are 21-7, one win shy of tying their all-time best mark. They’re a near-lock to secure their seventh NCAA Tournament bid. And on Sunday, against Michigan State a...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Sports February 20, 2017 — 3B Wolverines repeat as Big Ten champions As soon as it became official, 28 members of the Michigan women’s swimming and diving team — donning Big Ten Champion baseball caps and T-shirts — hurled themselves into the diving well at Boilermaker Aquatic Center on Saturday night. Coach Mike Bottom followed suit, entering the water emphatically with a victorious fro...…
…4B — February 20, 2017 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com SportsMonday Trouble at the line dooms Michigan MINNEAPOLIS — Uncharacteristic. That’s how Michigan coach John Beilein described the Wolverines’ performance from the free-throw line. It was also how both redshirt sophomore forward DJ Wilson and senior guard Derrick Walton Jr. described it. It was that kind of night for the Michigan basketball team (7-7 Big Ten,...…
…As a result of a new partnership between the Ross School of Business’s Center for Social Impact in Ann Arbor and the University of Michigan- Flint’s Office of University Outreach, the sixth annual Social Impact Challenge will take place in Flint this semester instead of Detroit. In previous years, the Center for Social Impact has held its Social Impact Challenges in Detroit, where teams partnered with different ...…
…NEW PREZ. puzzle by sudokusyndication.com 2 — Friday, January 20, 2017 News The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com The University of Michigan offers one of the best all-around sports experiences in the country, with Michigan Stadium, Yost Ice Arena and Crisler Center each listed in the “Top 100 Stadium Experiences of 2016,” according to website and magazine “Stadium Journey.” The list, which evaluated the fan experience at...…
…3-News The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com News Friday, January 20, 2017 — 3 students @ michigan median family income of a student is 1 in 10 students are from the top 1% of income distribution $154,000 UofM Students Social Mobility and Michigan was ranked last in overall social mobility among highly selective public colleges share of students from the top 1% #1 - Michigan 9.3% #2 - UT Austin 5.4% #3 - Georgia ...…
…I am pretty good at keeping my personal information private, so I tend not to think of my banking app as part of my online presence. Still, it somehow found a way to fit into how I present myself online. Namely, when I log in to my banking app, it prompts me with a phrase and image that I can confirm are indeed associated with my account — an account I made at age 16 and have not altered since. The image and phras...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Arts Friday, January 20, 2017 — 5 The Flaming Lips’ new album inventive, dreamy While the band’s latest offering is uneven relative to past releases, the psychedelic project shows a group still grounded in innovation If nothing else, The Flaming Lips are known for their experimental ventures into the world of psychedelic rock. Some of these leaps have turned out extremely well in the past...…
…Classifieds Call: #734-418-4115 Email: dailydisplay@gmail.com ACROSS 1 Quick 6 Zurich-based sports org. 10 Dis 13 Metaphorical title word in a McCartney- Wonder hit 14 Major composition 15 Dr Pepper Museum city 16 Played hooky from the office? 18 Journalist/author Larson 19 Telegram period 20 Long in the tooth 21 Texas-Louisiana border river 23 “Without further __ ... ” 25 Taco toppings 26 Was sorry to have set the alarm? 31 Random selectio...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Sports Friday, January 20, 2017 — 7 Wolverines drop first dual meet since 2010 The last time the Michigan men’s swimming and diving team lost a dual meet, Rich Rodriguez was still the coach of the Michigan football team, Tik Tok by Ke$ha was the No. 1 song in America, Snapchat had not been created yet and the unemployment rate was at 9.8 percent. But with their 167-133 loss at No. 4 Indiana...…
…8 — Friday, January 20, 2017 Sports The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com MEN’S BASKETBALL Behind Enemy Lines: Illinois’s John Groce After a narrow loss at Wisconsin on Tuesday, the Michigan men’s basketball team will come home to Ann Arbor to face Illinois once again Saturday. The last time the two teams faced off was back on Jan. 11, when the Wolverines fell to the Fighting Illini, 85-69, in Champaign. Senior guard De...…
…Wednesday afternoon, more than 40 people — the majority from the University of Michigan Romance Language and Literature Department — participated in a demonstration on the Diag as a part of the “Ni Una Menos” movement, with the aim of exposing violence toward women in Latin America and the United States. The event was one of many of its kind that took place Wednesday across the United States to commemorate the ...…
…2A — Thursday, October 20, 2016 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Tweets Corey Seeman @cseeman Red-Tailed Hawk swooping past a student at the Law Quad today at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor @ umich #flickr Follow @michigandaily UMich Energy @MichEnergy Dioxane discovered in shallow groundwater at Ann Arbor neighborhood park UMich Catholics @UmichCatholics Hope everyone’s travels back to Ann Arbor are safe and eve...…
…Thursday, October 20, 2016 — 3A News michigandaily.com — The Michigan Daily the Spanish phenomenon of “feminicide” — a concept, according to the Ferrari, that all too many Latina women are familiar with. Ferrari said the term is used to describe the unceasing deaths and acts of violence toward girls and women in Latin America. “It’s a global. It began in Argentina, but now it is everywhere,” she said. “And today, these ...…
…W hen most people throw something away, usually little attention is paid to what happens next. For most cities, the final resting spot of trash is a landfill, which is simply a large, coated hole in the ground for trash to sit for the rest of eternity. However, for Detroit residents, the final resting place of the most harmful elements of trash is in the lungs of the residents of Midtown and Poletown East. The city is ...…
…Classifieds Call: #734-418-4115 Email: dailydisplay@gmail.com ACROSS 1 One of a pair in “Waiting for Godot” 4 __ ray 10 Where rds. meet 14 Frat address 15 Iris ring 16 Obama’s birthplace 17 Basic resting place 18 Personal guide 20 Start of “A Visit From St. Nicholas” 22 Common base 23 “Joke’s on you!” 24 Shoe fastener 27 Animal’s gullet 30 “To see __ is a picture”: Dickinson 31 Make subservient 33 Nincompoop 35 “Biggest Little City in the Wo...…
…6A — Thursday, October 20, 2016 Sports The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com F O O T B A L L S T A T S MICH OPP Points/Game 50.0 10.3 First Downs/Game 23.0 11.3 Rush Yards/Game 255.0 99.2 Yards/Rush 5.7 2.9 Rushing TDs 25 2 Passing Yards/Game 215.0 113.7 Completion % 62.6% 42.2% Yards/Pass 7.4 4.6 Passing TDs 12 5 Interceptions 2 6 Offensive Plays/Game 74 59.5 Total Offense 470.0 212.8 3rd-down Conversions 48.2% 12.2% ...…
…B The Michigan Daily | michigandaily.com | Thursday, October 20, 2016 searching for by Matt Gallatin Daily Arts Writer SCARED DESIGN BY MICHELLE PHILLIPS & AVA WEINER …
…2B — Thursday, October 20, 2016 the b-side The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com EMI We’re gonna build a wall and Pink Floyd is gonna pay for it. Ten prominent rectangular windows, often coupled in twos or threes; a single, decorative glass eye in the center; two protruding columns announcing the porch; yes, yes indeed, this is, objectively speaking, relatively horrifying. I will give Wes Craven that. Choosing this house, as o...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com the b-side Thursday, October 20, 2016 — 3B Kerrytown’s Vintage to Vogue offers boho style V2V is the kind of store you want your closet to look like Walking into V2V’s Kerrytown location is like walking into a Bohemian dream. It’s the kind of store that you want your closet to look like, no matter what you normally wear. It’s cozy and impossibly cool, with exposed wood shelves boa...…
…W hen I was younger, I detested vegetables. My mom, always the overbearingly health-conscious cook (though I love her for it), incorporated a serving into every meal. I would hungrily await dinner, then remember that eating dinner also meant having to eat vegetables, and apprehension replaced my hunger. Broccoli with the night’s dinner? Couldn’t stand to look at it. A salad for lunch? I would rather lose TV privileges. Now, I...…
…While the population in Detroit has fallen over recent decades, the Muslim community in the Detroit area has grown, in part due to the influx of refugees. Sally Howell, director of the Center for Arab American studies and associate professor of history at the University of Michigan- Dearborn, spoke on the long, rooted history of Muslim communities in Detroit at her lecture Monday evening. “I noticed in 2010 that if you lo...…
…University of Michigan Theta Xi’s decision to host a concert with Detroit native rapper Big Sean in October has drawn criticism from a number of students on campus, as well as the UM Black Student Union. Students cited a prior incident of racial insensitivity from the fraternity in criticizing their decision to host Big Sean, one of the most widely popular Black artists. In 2013, Theta Xi planned a “Hood Ratchet” themed ...…
…3-News The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com News Tuesday, September 20, 2016 — 3 Recently, however, Wu and several of her neighbors — including the owners of Pita Pit and Mia Za’s — were compelled to sell their downtown lots to the Missouri-based Collegiate Development Group for a 13-story, 91-unit project targeted at student tenants. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the number of housing units in structures with a...…
