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April 12, 2023 (vol. 132, iss. 109) • Page Image 1

…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...…

April 12, 2023 (vol. 132, iss. 109) • Page Image 2

…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...…

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…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...…

April 12, 2023 (vol. 132, iss. 109) • Page Image 4

…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...…

April 12, 2023 (vol. 132, iss. 109) • Page Image 5

…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...…

April 12, 2023 (vol. 132, iss. 109) • Page Image 6

…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...…

April 12, 2023 (vol. 132, iss. 109) • Page Image 7

…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 ...…

April 12, 2023 (vol. 132, iss. 109) • Page Image 8

…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...…

April 12, 2023 (vol. 132, iss. 109) • Page Image 9

…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...…

April 12, 2023 (vol. 132, iss. 109) • Page Image 10

…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 ...…

April 12, 2023 (vol. 132, iss. 109) • Page Image 11

…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...…

April 12, 2023 (vol. 132, iss. 109) • Page Image 12

…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...…

April 12, 2023 (vol. 132, iss. 109) • Page Image 14

…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...…

April 12, 2023 (vol. 132, iss. 109) • Page Image 15

…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...…

April 12, 2023 (vol. 132, iss. 109) • Page Image 16

…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...…

April 12, 2023 (vol. 132, iss. 109) • Page Image 17

…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...…

April 12, 2023 (vol. 132, iss. 109) • Page Image 18

…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...…

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…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...…

October 12, 2022 (vol. 132, iss. 95) • Page Image 1

…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...…

October 12, 2022 (vol. 132, iss. 95) • Page Image 2

…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...…

October 12, 2022 (vol. 132, iss. 95) • Page Image 3

…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 ...…

October 12, 2022 (vol. 132, iss. 95) • Page Image 4

…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...…

October 12, 2022 (vol. 132, iss. 95) • Page Image 6

…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...…

October 12, 2022 (vol. 132, iss. 95) • Page Image 7

…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...…

October 12, 2022 (vol. 132, iss. 95) • Page Image 8

…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- ...…

October 12, 2022 (vol. 132, iss. 95) • Page Image 9

…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...…

October 12, 2022 (vol. 132, iss. 95) • Page Image 10

…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 ...…

October 12, 2022 (vol. 132, iss. 95) • Page Image 11

…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...…

October 12, 2022 (vol. 132, iss. 95) • Page Image 12

…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...…

January 12, 2022 (vol. 130, iss. 62) • Page Image 1

…Update 1/8: The University of Michigan has updated its COVID-19 dashboard to reflect an increase in quarantine housing availability. University spokesperson Rick Fitzgerald wrote in an email to The Daily that the increase reflects the University’s plan to house two students in two-bedroom quarantine housing spaces. Previously, each apartment housed only one student, regardless of how many bedrooms it had. When LSA...…

January 12, 2022 (vol. 130, iss. 62) • Page Image 2

…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com News 2 — Wednesday, January 12, 2022 The Michigan Daily (ISSN 0745-967) is publishing weekly on Wednesdays for the Winter 2022 semester by students at the University of Michigan. One copy is available free of charge to all readers. Additional copies may be picked up at the Daily’s office for $2. If you would like a current copy of the paper mailed to you, please visit store. pub.umich.edu/michigan-dai...…

January 12, 2022 (vol. 130, iss. 62) • Page Image 3

…Content Warning: The follow- ing article depicts sexual miscon- duct At the Dec. 9 Board of Regents Meeting at the Postma Club- house, Chuck Christian, a for- mer University of Michigan football player and a survivor of former University doctor Robert Anderson, made an unsched- uled appearance. Christian spoke with the regents about his experience with Anderson and his resulting fear of doctors – to which he attributes his stage IV...…

January 12, 2022 (vol. 130, iss. 62) • Page Image 4

…“I would hope that they would realize that they have not been transparent,” Yeager said. “They have not considered anyone they say that they’re considering in these plans and … I would like to see (the University) reassess their insistence that everyone be in person because saying everything’s in person when we’re all (individually) switching to remote is just ridiculous.” At the start of the Fall 2020 semester, GEO went on strike for t...…

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…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Wednesday, January 12, 2022 — 5 Terms apply. Food delivery, entertainment, and more. EXCLUSIVELY WITH Student offers that will make your year. amazon.com/student The Michigan Daily …

January 12, 2022 (vol. 130, iss. 62) • Page Image 6

…“I just want to fast forward to the part of my life when everything is okay,” Issa says to her reflection in the mirror. It’s a statement that we can all get behind. Life has its trials and tribu- lations. Oftentimes, it feels like there’s no possible way to get through the storm. But the series finale of HBO’s “Inse- cure” is proof that things do eventually work out in the end; we just have to stop standing in our own way. Created ...…

January 12, 2022 (vol. 130, iss. 62) • Page Image 7

…Arts “I am a bad mother, but I am learning to be good.” Jessamine Chan’s dystopian novel “The School for Good Mothers” is not perfect by any means — neither is its heroine, Frida. However, Chan has constructed both a novel and a character that demonstrate the desperate yearning and burnout of motherhood with a level of depth that few other works of literature have achieved. “The School for Good Mothers” focuses on Frida Liu, a Chin...…

January 12, 2022 (vol. 130, iss. 62) • Page Image 8

…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Michigan in Color 8 — Wednesday, January 12, 2022 SO WE CAN STAY TOGETHER STAY SAFE MASK UP GET BOOSTED Learn more about getting a booster shot: campusblueprint.umich.edu/vaccine In high school when I was struggling with my sexuality, my future always looked blurry. Whenever I would think about my late 20s and 30s, I had no idea what my romantic life would look like. Everything was in the air. W...…

January 12, 2022 (vol. 130, iss. 62) • Page Image 9

… The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Opinion Wednesday, January 12, 2022 — 9 PAIGE HODDER Managing Editor Stanford Lipsey Student Publications Building 420 Maynard St. Ann Arbor, MI 48109 tothedaily@michigandaily.com Edited and managed by students at the University of Michigan since 1890. JASMIN LEE Editor in Chief JULIAN BARNARD AND SHUBHUM GIROTI Editorial Page Editors Unsigned editorials reflect the official position of The Dai...…

January 12, 2022 (vol. 130, iss. 62) • Page Image 10

…O n Nov. 30, a gunman walked into Oxford High School in Michigan and opened fire, killing four and injuring seven more. The gunman was only 15 years old. This shooting came at the end of one of the deadliest years for gun violence in U.S. history, with almost 45,000 gun deaths so far. Fighting against gun violence is not an easy task, yet shootings such as the one at Oxford High School show that the time for change is long overdu...…

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…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Sports 11— Wednesday, January 12, 2022 Early 3-point shooting crucial in dominating win over Rutgers Driving into the lane, senior forward Naz Hillmon kicked the ball out to senior guard Amy Dilk on the baseline. Catching, ready to shoot, Dilk fired up a 3-pointer, draining her first three since returning from a lower leg injury that she suffered in the first game of the season. In the No...…

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…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...…

March 12, 2020 (vol. 129, iss. 79) • Page Image 1

…The 2019 novel coronavirus (COVID-19) has spread to countries around the world and across the United States since its identification in Wuhan, China last December. Yesterday, two cases of COVID- 19 were confirmed in the state of Michigan, and Gov. Gretchen Whitmer declared a state of emergency. One of the two patients with COVID-19 in Michigan is an inpatient at Michigan Medicine. University President Mark Schlissel ann...…

March 12, 2020 (vol. 129, iss. 79) • Page Image 2

…PAULINE RAJSKI/Daily The University of Michigan club rowing team raises money for Mott’s Children’s Hospital on the Diag Wednesday afternoon. What is coronavirus? Where did it start? COVID-19 is the most recently discovered strain of coronavirus. It was first identified in humans in Wuhan, China in December of 2019. Coronaviruses, a large family of zoonotic viruses, cause infections that span a wide spectrum of severity, ...…

March 12, 2020 (vol. 129, iss. 79) • Page Image 3

…According to Eisenberg, “high-risk individuals should be more careful with social distancing. It is critical that they not be around big crowds.” For lower-risk people, Eisenberg said, they “probably won’t have a major illness but they can contribute to the transmission. Even though students aren’t high- risk they would be effective in its transmission. So for example, if you’re traveling a lot you might not want to visit...…

March 12, 2020 (vol. 129, iss. 79) • Page Image 4

…T he Oscars 2020 reminded me all too well of the feeling you have when your grandma gives you a strange scarf for your birthday. It’s not what you wanted, but the gesture was nice. All you can do is hope that next year gets better, right? While there have been a lot of loud, feminist moments, the Oscars ultimately continue to snuff women out of many categories, most notably “Best Director.” After 92 years, only five women h...…

March 12, 2020 (vol. 129, iss. 79) • Page Image 5

…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Arts Thursday, March 12, 2020 — 5 Badmouthed, banned and ultimately blacklisted for their unwavering antiwar sentiment in 2003, the Dixie Chicks are battle- tested. After a 14-year hiatus, the ex-country music superstars have proven they’re ready to go another round with the fiery single “Gaslighter.” A “gaslighter” describes a manipulative abuser. In the song “Gaslighter,” ...…

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…6 — Thursday, March 12, 2020 Arts The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com WHISPER SUBMIT A WHISPER By Michael Paleos ©2020 Tribune Content Agency, LLC 03/12/20 Los Angeles Times Daily Crossword Puzzle Edited by Rich Norris and Joyce Nichols Lewis 03/12/20 ANSWER TO PREVIOUS PUZZLE: Release Date: Thursday, March 12, 2020 ACROSS 1 Soft end of the Mohs scale 5 Old Toyota models 10 Order to go 14 Squiggly lines in the funnies, maybe 1...…

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