…Tuesday, November 5, 2019 // TIPOFF 2019 6B Roster breakdown Roster turnover — and adjusting to it — is an inherent part of college basketball. A top program’s best players tend to move on annually to the professional ranks as a new batch of heralded freshmen take over. Michigan, which can now be classified among the very elite programs in the sport, is no different. Jordan Poole, Charles Matthews and Ignas Brazdeikis all moved ...…
…Tuesday, November 5, 2019 // TIPOFF 2019 7B Every year for the Tipoff edition, The Daily’s basketball beat puts out a preview of the entire conference. Plenty of other outlets do similar pieces around the start of the season. They’re big, they’re unwieldy, and, honestly, they can get a little boring. Not this one. If I’m going to write this Big Ten preview, then I’m going to have some fun with it. And I’m not going to waste yo...…
…Tuesday, November 5, 2019 // TIPOFF 2019 8B No. 23 Purdue First order of business: Boilermakers? Really? I’ve just never understood it. Nobody mansplain it to me in the comments. I don’t care that much. Frankly, they’re probably going to be pretty good. KenPom puts them at No.7 overall. They’ve been a pretty consistent force in Big Ten basketball over the past few years. They busted up my junior-year homecoming date’s bracket p...…
…michigandaily.com Ann Arbor, Michigan Monday, November 4, 2019 ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY-NINE YEARS OF EDITORIAL FREEDOM Cruising into the bye Michigan dispatches a hapless Maryland team, 38-7, heads into the bye week brimming with confidence. » Page 1B Each month, The Michigan Daily’s Administration Beat sits down with University President Mark Schlissel to discuss important questions about University policy, commitments and c...…
…2A — Monday, November 4, 2019 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com News TUESDAY: By Design THURSDAY: Twitter Talk FRIDAY: Behind the Story WEDNESDAY: This Week in History MONDAY: Looking at the Numbers MY DOG TURNED 9 puzzle by sudokusyndication.com FRE E SCRE E NING SOPHIA AFENDOULIS/Daily Ann Arbir residents attend a free screening of Quentin Tarantino’s “Once Upon a Time In Hollywood” accompanied by a livestream of a Q&A with Brad P...…
…A few weeks ago, I had the pleasure of visiting the Pan-African Pulp exhibition at the University of Michigan Museum of Arts. This part of the museum showcases art by Meleko Mogosi, a South African painter. Now, his art was nowhere near mediocre. Each piece revealed a different layer of the nuanced topic that is the black experience. Some parts of the exhibit paid tribute to a magazine comic that shed light on the different oppress...…
…Opinion The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com 4A — Monday, November 4, 2019 Alanna Berger Zack Blumberg Emily Considine Emma Chang Joel Danilewitz Emily Huhman Krystal Hur Ethan Kessler Magdalena Mihaylova 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 Edit...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Arts Monday, November 4, 2019 — 5A In the modern movement of “wokeness,” it’s easy to forget all the issues and movements phasing in and out of social media. If you already forgot about the #MeToo movement, it found its way back into relevancy in “The Morning Show.” News anchorman Mitch Kessler (Steve Carell, “Welcome to Marwen”) gets fired from popular news show “The Morning Show” for sexual misc...…
…Halloween is one of the biggest and most festive holidays in Ann Arbor. One of the coolest parts of Halloween by far are the costumes — whether they’re made last minute or whether they‘ve been in the works for an entire year. We went out during Halloween festivities to document the goriest, cutest and most interesting costumes. Residential Ann Arbor Nostalgia sets in when seeing children prancing around in their costumes, buckets full o...…
…Alexis Rankin & Miles Macklin / Daily Design by Jack Silberman COLLEGE PARK — It took all of 11 seconds. That’s how much time elapsed while freshman Giles Jackson fielded the opening kickoff on Saturday, offered one juke, burst past the kicker’s diving grasp and into the end zone. If there was any doubt about whether the Michigan football team (7-2 overall, 4-2 Big Ten) would take care of a hapless Maryland squad; any dou...…
…2B — November 4, 2019 SportsMonday The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com C OLLEGE PARK — There is nothing about Satur- day’s Michigan football game that, when the season ends, will qualify as particularly memorable. A two-loss Wolverines played a Maryland team that likely won’t qualify for a bowl. Michigan won, 38-7, in a game it was supposed to win by something like that score. The outcome was never in doubt. A healthy pe...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com SportsMonday November 4, 2019 — 3B COLUMBUS — With a little over a minute remaining in Will Lockwood’s penalty for slashing, junior forward Dakota Raabe skated the puck into the offensive zone. He brought the puck up along the boards, but then he lost control of it. A few seconds later, the referee blew his whistle — Raabe was headed to the box for hooking and Michigan (3-4-1 overall, 0-2- 0-0 ...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com SportsMonday November 4, 2019 — 4B Metellus at the center of shutdown performance COLLEGE PARK — After the ball had found Josh Metellus and landed in his hands like a soft pop-up, after he had gotten up from the pile and turned toward the sideline and after Maryland’s hope of doing something had been extinguished as much as mathematically possible in the first quarter of a football game, he l...…
…michigandaily.com Ann Arbor, Michigan Friday, November 1, 2019 ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY-NINE YEARS OF EDITORIAL FREEDOM Residents are still struggling to clear their records for marijuana convictions nearly a year after a ballot measure legalizing the drug passed statewide, and Ann Arbor, despite its historically progressive stance on the issue, is no exception. In 1972, Ann Arbor City Council passed an ordinance that made the...…
…With the official signing date for Sept. 1 leases looming, many students on campus are searching for places to live. But the housing hunt looks different for transfer students at the University of Michigan. According to University Housing, 97 percent of first-year students choose to live on-campus for their first year. But transfer students are not guaranteed on-campus housing upon admission to the University due...…
…The websites were all published by Locality Labs, LLC on behalf of their client, the Metric Media Foundation, according to a Locality Labs employee who wished to remain anonymous. Locality Labs already operates its own networks of similar websites in Maryland and Florida. The Metric Media Foundation, a non-profit, 501(c)(3) organization registered in Missouri earlier this year, only lists a Kansas City-based attorney o...…
…Opinion The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com 4 — Friday, November 1, 2019 Alanna Berger Zack Blumberg Emily Considine Emma Chang Joel Danilewitz Emily Huhman Krystal Hur Ethan Kessler Magdalena Mihaylova 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 Edite...…
…6 — Friday, November 1, 2019 Arts The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Classifieds Call: #734-418-4115 Email: dailydisplay@gmail.com BIOCHEM 212 TUTOR WANTED Text Judy (312)‑678‑6736 By Ed Sessa ©2019 Tribune Content Agency, LLC 11/01/19 Los Angeles Times Daily Crossword Puzzle Edited by Rich Norris and Joyce Nichols Lewis 11/01/19 ANSWER TO PREVIOUS PUZZLE: Release Date: Friday, November 1, 2019 ACROSS 1 Kia sedan 7 Nincompoop ...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Sports Friday, November 1, 2019 — 7 How do you build a Division I athlete? Just ask the novice rowing team What makes a Division I athlete? Enthusiasm for improvement, a mindset for work, physiology — one thing is noticeably absent from Dan Harrison’s list: any skill in the sport. This year, the majority of the 36 novice rowers on the Wolverines’ team have no experience with an oar. While this...…
…8 — Friday, November 1, 2019 Sports The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com T he thoughts are scat- tered. Let’s get right to it. 1. I’m not sure I’d rush to anoint Hassan Haskins the bell- cow back just yet. Haskins’ 20-carry, 148-yard performance against Notre Dame was revela- tory — it was the highest rushing total by a Michi- gan back since Karan Higdon tallied 156 yards 419 days ago. But Zach Charbonnet continues to quiet...…
…Rear Admiral Michael Gior- gione, author of “Inside Camp David: The Private World of the Presidential Retreat,” spoke Wednesday night at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library to discuss his book and share personal anecdotes from his time at the camp. Giorgione was the com- manding officer of Camp David, a country retreat used by U.S. presidents and their families, from 1999 to 2001. During that time, he worked under Presi...…
… The University of Michigan announced the launch of the Michigan Education Research Institute and Michigan Education Data Center Tuesday morning, presenting a collaboration between the University, Michigan State University, Michigan Department of Education and Center for Educational Performance and Information. The new research collaboration and data center will conduct research projects in early ch...…
…Thanksgiving at Camp David, with Chelsea Clinton who gave her old stuffed dolls to Gior- gione’s kids to use, and with Laura Bush who loved to play in autumn leaves on the lawn. Jerri Jenista, a hospital worker at the Medical School, said she enjoyed hearing about the presidents’ everyday lives. “It was nice to hear that the presidents were real people, they have real lives, their fami- lies are real people,” she said. The ret...…
…T his past Monday, the White House Correspondents’ Association announced it would be departing from its usual tradition of inviting a comedian to roast the president and the press corps at next year’s annual White House Correspondents’ Dinner. Instead, in a controversial decision, the organization has invited renowned historian Ron Chernow to deliver a speech on First Amendment rights and freedom of the press. Though the...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Arts Thursday, November 29, 2018 — 5 WARNER BROS. CHANEL In Sept. of this year, Chanel released Boy de Chanel in Seoul, with plans to launch a global release in early 2019. Their inaugural line of men’s makeup is fairly pared down, with offerings of “tinted fluid” in (an abysmal) four different shades, an eyebrow pencil and a matte lip balm. Despite its humble catalogue, the announcement in...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Arts Thursday, November 29, 2018— 6 STORAGE FOR STUDENTS studying abroad. Indoor, clean, safe, closest to campus. AnnArborStor‑ age.com or (734)‑663‑0690. By C.C. Burnikel ©2018 Tribune Content Agency, LLC 11/29/18 Los Angeles Times Daily Crossword Puzzle Edited by Rich Norris and Joyce Nichols Lewis 11/29/18 ANSWER TO PREVIOUS PUZZLE: Release Date: Thursday, November 29, 2018 ACROSS 1 Goat quot...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Sports Thursday, November 29, 2018 — 7 Michigan dominant in 84-67 win over UNC Roy Williams stood in front of a crowd of media, castigating both his team and himself. It was about 11:40 on Wednesday night, and North Carolina had just met Michigan — the type of team that can drive coaches to this sort of frustration. “Guys, I got no positive things,” the Tar Heels’ coach said. “If you want some ...…
…8 — Thursday, November 29, 2018 Sports The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com A 4-part series of forums on accountability, transparency and powerholders in Ann Arbor Wednesday, Dec. 5 @ 7PM Ann Arbor District Library 343 S 5th Ave. Ann Arbor FEATURING PANELISTS Who Holds the Power in Ann Arbor? Speak Truth to Power: The Role of Journalism PRESENTS: ALEXA ST. JOHN 2018 Michigan Daily Editor in Chief and Moderator ROBERT YOON Politic...…
…Five speakers shared their research in regulating false information online to a crowd of approximately 50 students and faculty members Tuesday night at Rackham Assembly Hall. The panel, titled “Catching Fake News,” was part of the University of Michigan Dissonance Event Series, which focuses on the intersection of technology, privacy, policy, security and law. Panelists included Mark Ackerman, a School of Informa...…
…These findings come amid former Attorney General Jeff Sessions’s forced resignation, which has left the future of special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russian involvement in the 2016 election unclear. Trump has since appointed Matthew Whitaker as acting attorney general. According to the study, 35 percent of the respondents identified as Republicans or independents who lean Repub...…
…current moment, not a debate. The second part of the event featured a workshop for developing policy recommendations for the University. “This event is first and foremost a proactive, student- generated response to the administration’s call to gather input from stakeholders across the University, and its primary objective is to gain insights and recommendations from a diverse, multidisciplinary, intergenerationa...…
…T his year, I recently enrolled in the Ross School of Business from the College of Literature, Science and Arts to be on track for pursuing dual degrees in English and Business. Now that the first semester is nearly over, I’ve noticed some notable differences between the schools. More specifically, I’ve found that the Business School is very different from what I expected. One key difference is that the Business School f...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Arts Wednesday, November 28, 2018 — 5A ALEC COHEN / DAILY THEATRE REVIEW TV REVIEW “come out and play” Billie Eilish Interscope Records The night that Brett Kavanaugh was confirmed as an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court was bitterly cold outside. Early October — too early to dig out your winter jacket, but too late for thin windbreakers. As I was leaving a restaurant with m...…
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…T he No. 7 Michigan men’s basketball team enters Wednesday’s top-15 showdown with North Carolina ranked just four spots ahead of the Tar Heels. How they got there couldn’t be more dif- ferent. North Carolina’s high-pow- ered offense is averaging 96.6 points per game in its 6-1 start. The Wolverines, meanwhile, have ascended to their highest regular-season ranking in six years on the back of a defense that allows just 48.8 p...…
…8A — Wednesday, November 28, 2018 Sports The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com A 4-part series of forums on accountability, transparency and powerholders in Ann Arbor Wednesday, Dec. 5 @ 7PM Ann Arbor District Library 343 S 5th Ave. Ann Arbor FEATURING PANELISTS Who Holds the Power in Ann Arbor? Speak Truth to Power: The Role of Journalism PRESENTS: ALEXA ST. JOHN 2018 Michigan Daily Editor in Chief and Moderator ROBERT YOON Polit...…
…statement THE MICHIGAN DAILY | NOVEMBER 28, 2018 ILLUSTRATION BY CHRISTINE JEGARL “I didn’t realize academia was a career for me” …
…S ometimes I dim my computer screen and meander down the streets of my hometown via the panoramic lens of Google Street View. This is a pathetic confes- sion, I know, but also an unexpected remedy for the occasional pangs of nostalgia. In my head, I relate these virtual escapes to the same sort of self-reflection preached by Henry David Thoreau and his transcen- dentalist clique. I’ll pause for a second and admit that this analogy woul...…
…Wednesday, November 28, 2018// The Statement 3B O ne afternoon in late May 2017, my family and I pulled our Ford Escape into the drive- way — we’d just gotten back from a short Memorial Day weekend trip — to find a small, red chicken coop sitting on our lawn. I dashed over and lifted up the roof of the coop, exposing two anxiously clucking, rust-colored hens cowering in the sawdust-covered nesting box. The birds were afraid to let ...…
…Wednesday, November 28, 2018 // The Statement 4B Wednesday, November 28, 2018 // The Statement 5B I remember it vividly. It was summer of 2015 and I was receiving emails from the University of Michigan about something called the “Undergradu- ate Research Opportunity.” I had no idea what this meant, nor did I take the time to care. I was excited to be attending the University in just a few months, but was not one to open seemingly-...…
…Wednesday, November 28, 2018 // The Statement 6B E very semester starts with the same ice- breaker: Where are you from, what year are you and what is your major? I always got tripped up by the first question. I was born in Santiago de Chile but I left before my first birthday. I lived in in Pittsburgh for five years and by the time I was six I had already crossed into new state lines. I lived in Jonesboro, Ark., only to move...…
…Wednesday, November 28, 2018 // The Statement 7B The Comical Strangeness of Second-Hand Embarrassment BY SAM ROSENBERG, SENIOR ARTS EDITOR H eavy breathing, a rapid heartbeat, trem- bling knees, a tightened throat — these are typical symptoms for someone who expe- riences performance anxiety. You know, that noxious feeling you get when you’re about to go onstage and speak, dance or sing in front of a crowd of people. I’ve had that a...…
…V I S U A L S T A T E M E N T : A n n A r b o r Tr e e L i g h t i n g Fe s i t va l photos by Max Kuang Wednesday, November 28, 2018 // The Statement 8B …
…According to Public Policy professor Brendan Nyhan, fake news may have a more complex impact on the American public than experrts previously thought. For the last several years, Nyhan has been working on a comprehensive study of U.S. fake news consumption, aiming to determine the scope and influence of fake news on the political leanings of Americans. Nyhan presented the facts and implications of his research Mon...…
…White House photo editor, but I thought it would be a once in a lifetime opportunity to document a president for history, because that’s the primary function of that job is to create an archive that lives in perpetuity.” While many of the circumstances were different when he was working for the Reagan administration compared to when he was working for the Obama administration, Souza acknowledged how vital the expe...…
…ranking demonstrates how the University and its schools are deeply engaged with the world off campus. “The continued growth of the research productivity of our faculty is important evidence of the amazing strength of the University of Michigan,” Schlissel said. “I am proud that U-M research spans the breadth of our outstanding university and addresses many of society’s most pressing questions and challenges.” The federa...…
…T he Bird scooters that dropped in Ann Arbor this September and have continued to flock around campus are really akin to the common pigeon. They populate the sidewalks in droves and weave in and out of crowds of pedestrian students. They have their typical nesting areas, practically stacked on top of each other outside of the MLB, Ross and other places that are just a bit too far from the other side of campus. C...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Arts Tuesday, November 27, 2018 — 5 GODMODE The literary critic Jesse McCarthy’s essay “Notes On Trap” combines musical analysis with cultural history in a dizzying, nearly-encyclopedic account of a now-ubiquitous genre of music. He writes that, “Trap is the only music that sounds like what living in contemporary America feels like. It is the soundtrack to the dissocialized subject ...…
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…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Sports Tuesday, November 27, 2018 — 7 ‘M’ sends its seniors off with win over Spartans As the regular season came to a close, the Michigan women’s volleyball (22-9 overall, 11-9 Big Ten) managed to provide a bittersweet send-off for its senior players with a win over Michigan State (17-16, 5-15) at Crisler Center on Saturday night. Like true rivals, the Wolverines and the Spartans were nec...…
