…Engineering sophomore Conner Hein, who studies Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, went into backpacking for next semester’s classes with a plan. When his registration period rolled around, however, Hein realized the classes he wanted had already been filled to capacity. He found himself number 40 and number 60 on two waitlists, which as of Tuesday night are both around a hundred students long. Because of leng...…
…In early December, Gov. Gretchen Whitmer announced the “Governor’s FAFSA Challenge” for high schools across the state to increase their Free Application for Federal Student Aid completion rate among graduating seniors. The challenge is supported by the College Cash Campaign initiative under Michigan College Access Network, which will provide the necessary resources, such as an implementation guide and toolbox of tips, ...…
…Enticed by the potential of a six-figure salary out of college in a booming job market, more students nationally are interested in studying computer science, including the University. In under a decade, the number of students who have declared a CSE major has more than quadrupled, from 317 students in fall 2010 to 1,320 students in fall 2019. In that same time-frame, enrollment in the LSA computer science major has incre...…
…Opinion The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com 4A — Wednesday, December 11, 2019 Alanna Berger Zack Blumberg Emily Considine Joel Danilewitz Cheryn Hong Krystal Hur Ethan Kessler Magdalena Mihaylova Mary Rolfes Michael Russo Timothy Spurlin Miles Stephenson Joel Weiner Erin White Lola Yang FINNTAN STORER Managing Editor Stanford Lipsey Student Publications Building 420 Maynard St. Ann Arbor, MI 48109 tothedaily@michigandaily.com Edite...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Arts Wednesday, December 11, 2019— 5A “There’s no place like home for the holidays.” This lyric from the popular song “Home for the Holidays” has become a staple of the holiday season. However, while rampant global consumerism and capitalism wants us to believe the holidays are filled with gingerbread houses and smiling grandmas, that is simply not the case for many Americans. Many of us (especia...…
…By Michael Schlossberg ©2019 Tribune Content Agency, LLC 12/11/19 Los Angeles Times Daily Crossword Puzzle Edited by Rich Norris and Joyce Nichols Lewis 12/11/19 ANSWER TO PREVIOUS PUZZLE: Release Date: Wednesday, December 11, 2019 ACROSS 1 Super silly 6 Gum balls, e.g. 10 Surgery memento 14 “Once more!” 15 MLB family name 16 Voice mail signal 17 Result of overexposure in the field? 19 “Yeah, that’ll never happen” 20 Actress Mendes 21...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Sports Wednesday, December 11, 2019 — 7A Birthdays and Santa: Quick hits with Jack Summers and Keaton Pehrson The Daily hockey beat used to run a video series during the 2011-12 season called “Quick Hits.” They were one-on-one interviews with players that covered everyday life and all of its funny moments. But now, for budget reasons, it’s in written format. For the last edition of the semester...…
…8A — Wednesday, December 11, 2019 Sports The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com …
…statement THE MICHIGAN DAILY | DECEMBER 11, 2019 PHOTO BY DANYEL THARAKAN / DESIGN BY KATE GLAD t h e sex issue …
…Wednesday, December 11, 2019 // The Statement 2B Managing Statement Editor Andrea Pérez Balderrama Deputy Editors Matthew Harmon Shannon Ors Associate Editor Eli Rallo Designers Liz Bigham Kate Glad Copy Editors Silas Lee Emily Stillman Photo Editor Danyel Tharakan Editor in Chief Maya Goldman Managing Editor Finntan Storer statement THE MICHIGAN DAILY | DECEMBER 11, 2019 E very woman in my life has had to ask ...…
…I n November, Victoria’s Secret announced the cancelation of their 2019 fashion show, citing increased competition, rapidly declining profits and a disconnect with their consumer base as reasons for the end of this decades long tradition. For a company that built an empire by selling sex, it seems as though sex has gone out of style. Victoria’s Secret’s downfall is a reflection of social and cultural change in the United States, which...…
…I came from a family where we were raised with the wait until marriage, none of that stuff, don’t even think about it,” LSA senior Emma Cheff began, responding to the question of why she sought out prescribed birth control. “And so, I didn’t really know how to get birth control. I didn’t know how it works — honestly, I didn’t know anything until I had to go through Relationship Remix, which was really sad.” Her junior year, Cheff bega...…
…Wednesday, December 11, 2019 // The Statement 6B “I knew that birth control was a thing, but I thought it was kind of frowned upon. It wasn’t something my mom encouraged.” After some research and consultation with her stepmom, she went to the Planned Parenthood on campus. She’s gone there ever since. “The only person who knows is my stepmom,” Hernandez said. “I would assume my mom knows that, obviously, I’m sexually active. It’s just ...…
…Wednesday, January 16, 2019 // The Statement 7B hours of sleep a night,” Student 2 said. “I was doing really poorly in a class that I shouldn’t have been just because my brain didn’t seem to work. And I was picking fights with my roommate and with my boyfriend. Something was wrong physically.” She called UHS and was told to give herself some more time to adjust. When symptoms hadn’t improved after a month, she called again and was gi...…
…VISUAL STATEMENT: BELLE ISLE BY CLAIRE MEINGAST THE BELLE ISLE CONSERVANCY IS LOCATED ON THE PEACEFUL ISLAND PARK OF BELLE ISLE IN THE DETROIT RIVER. CALLED “THE JEWEL OF DETROIT”, IT OFFERS ELEGANT ARCHITECTURE, HISTORY AND NATURE TO ITS VISITORS. TWO MAIN ATTRACTIONS ON THE ISLAND ARE ITS AQUARIUM AND THE PLANT CONSERVATORY. Wednesday, December 11, 2019 // The Statement 8B …
…On March 8, 2010, professor Edward P. St. John was removed from his teaching position in the School of Education. He had 24 hours to notify his students and no means to appeal his removal. St. John believed his removal stemmed from disagreements he had with the policy opinions of his dean, Deborah Ball, in the Provost’s Achievement Gap Task Force, a University-wide advisory panel on diversity in higher education. He had two optio...…
…“I haven’t really noticed it because I’m always focused on my things.” Cases of Engineering Honor Code violation are referred to the Engineering Honor Council, a group of 20 student volunteers who oversee Honor Code management and investigate all cases of violations. “(The Engineering Honor Council) really do serve as that peer-to-peer voice of accountability,” Sprague said. “They also serve as a great voice of advocacy, ...…
…experiences negotiating these agreements with the University and other entities. “Non-disparagement agreements prevent the public from knowing (of) all kinds of harassment and discrimination,” Prescott said. “These aren’t proved-in-court wrongs, but they are things that the two parties agree may have gone wrong. And usually they exist without the payer agreeing that something has gone wrong.” Fitzgerald confirmed that these...…
…Opinion The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com 4 — Tuesday, December 10, 2019 Alanna Berger Zack Blumberg Emily Considine Joel Danilewitz Cheryn Hong Krystal Hur Ethan Kessler Magdalena Mihaylova Mary Rolfes Michael Russo Timothy Spurlin Miles Stephenson Joel Weiner Erin White Lola Yang FINNTAN STORER Managing Editor Stanford Lipsey Student Publications Building 420 Maynard St. Ann Arbor, MI 48109 tothedaily@michigandaily.com Edited a...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Arts Tuesday, December 10, 2019 — 5 I don’t quite remember what I expected out of “Waves,” director Trey Edward Shults’s (“It Comes at Night”) latest A24 film. Its promotional material is frustratingly vague, describing the plot of the movie as nothing more than an African-American family in Florida coping with a “loss.” I realize now, though, the reason for this. To reveal anything more about ...…
…6 — Tuesday, December 10, 2019 Arts The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com “Arth” Definition: (noun) a piece of really, really bad art. Etymology: Early 21st century, a Kerrytown porch filled with exhausted artists who missed liking their art form. You are an artist. You are tired, and that cold you’ve had for about two months is still nestled in your nose and throat. It is December, and there are four collaborations due, two final...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Sports Tuesday, December 10, 2019 — 7 Exhibition of potential Four. The number of freshmen on the Michigan women’s gymnastics team. Three. The number of freshmen who competed in the Wolverines’ exhibition meet — the Michigan Quad in Crisler Center against Central Michigan, Western Michigan and Eastern Michigan. Two. The number of Michigan gymnasts who competed all- around, including ...…
…8 — Tuesday, December 10, 2019 Sports The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com The good, the bad and the ugly: Michigan hockey at the halfway point One game past the halfway point of this season, it’s no secret that the Michigan hockey team’s year hasn’t gone to plan. At 6-10-2 overall and 2-7-1 in the Big Ten, the Wolverines are nowhere close to what they expected of themselves entering the season. In the first half, Michigan suffere...…
…michigandaily.com Ann Arbor, Michigan Monday, December 9, 2019 ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY-NINE YEARS OF EDITORIAL FREEDOM Four in a row Michigan comes back against Syracuse Thursday, tops Oakland Sunday on its way to 8-1 start to season. » Page 1B Members of the Climate Action Movement and the One University Campaign released a joint statement Friday after staging a series of protests and blockading the exits of the University ...…
…“The classes were ungraded, and by that I don’t mean A, B, C, D, I mean that you heard the same lectures, two years in a row,” Howell said. “Presumably you got more out of it the second time around.” Howell also said the University used to run two separate hospitals: one for homeopathic medicine and one for allopathic medicine. Howell explained operations were performed in the medical school amphitheater prior to the developmen...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Michigan in Color Monday, December 9, 2019 — 3A This is now one of the best times of the year in my opinion. Even if you don’t celebrate a particular holiday, it is great to acknowledge the power of love, offering and being surrounded by others. I personally celebrate Thanksgiving and Christmas — growing up in a Christian family has made this time very important to me. When I think about the ho...…
…Opinion The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com 4A — Monday, December 9, 2019 Alanna Berger Zack Blumberg Emily Considine Joel Danilewitz Cheryn Hong Krystal Hur Ethan Kessler Magdalena Mihaylova Mary Rolfes Michael Russo Timothy Spurlin Miles Stephenson Joel Weiner Erin White Lola Yang FINNTAN STORER Managing Editor Stanford Lipsey Student Publications Building 420 Maynard St. Ann Arbor, MI 48109 tothedaily@michigandaily.com Edited an...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Arts Monday, December 9, 2019 — 5A Midway through Paul Yoon’s “Run Me to Earth,” a woman quietly mends shirts in her hut in the mountains. Within the next few pages, she finds herself tangled in a stand- off between a hysterical father and the other people in her camp, a stand-off that involves weeping, strangulation and a stabbing. Extraordinarily, this moment of violence and what should be excitem...…
…By Kurt Mengel and Jan-Michele Gianette ©2019 Tribune Content Agency, LLC 12/09/19 Los Angeles Times Daily Crossword Puzzle Edited by Rich Norris and Joyce Nichols Lewis 12/09/19 ANSWER TO PREVIOUS PUZZLE: Release Date: Monday, December 9, 2019 ACROSS 1 “Georgia on My Mind” singer Charles 4 Party music mix, briefly 9 Keep from having kittens, say 13 “Big Band” and “Jazz” periods 15 Easily fooled 16 __-in-one: golfer’s ace 17 Caree...…
…Emma Mati & Olivia Cell / Daily Design by Jack Silberman ‘M’ TOPS OAKLAND DAYS AFTER BEATING ‘CUSE IN OT Monday, December 9, 2019 | michigandaily.com A grueling, late-night victory against one of the country’s most consistent powerhouses can leave a team limping unsuspectingly into a game two days later against a weaker in-state opponent, ripe to be upset. Instead, Michigan’s momentum from the end of Thursday’s electric victory ov...…
…2B — December 9, 2019 SportsMonday The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com T he bowl game has become an annual meta- phorical zombie for the Michigan football team. The team traverses to some warm, southern city, still wal- lowing from the letdown weeks prior, patently unmotivated to face off against an SEC opponent. For the last three years, the Wol- verines have taken their lumps, underperformed, then haphaz- ardly spewed th...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com SportsMonday December 9, 2019 — 3B All game, the No. 4 Michigan men’s basketball team had one roadblock to an otherwise easy win: Iowa big man Luka Garza. On his way to an astounding 44 points, Garza was a force to be reckoned with in the low post, dominating in his back-to-the- basket play. The Wolverines (8-1 overall, 1-0 Big Ten) saw early that Iowa’s (6-3, 0-1) offense started and stopped wi...…
…4B — December 9, 2019 SportsMonday The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Wolverines fall to Nittany Lions, 3-1 Almost. The Michigan hockey team (6-10-2 overall, 2-7-1-0 Big Ten) almost completed a comeback against No. 6 Penn State (12- 5-0, 7-3-0-0). And if it had, the comeback would’ve marked the first time this season the Wolverines were able to do so, amid their first Big Ten sweep. Instead, the game followed the same trajecto...…
…About 20 Ann Arbor residents attended an affordable housing workshop in the Ann Arbor Downtown Development Authority building on Thursday night. As the first of a five-step series of workshops, the city of Ann Arbor and SmithGroup, an urban design firm, gauged the interest of Ann Arbor residents in a new affordable housing plan the group is developing. Affordable housing is defined as costing 30 percent or ...…
…Eastern Michigan University hosted a discussion panel about the impact of the legalization of recreational marijuana in Michigan on the Ypsilanti and Ann Arbor communities. About 40 community members attended the event Thursday night, which came less than a week after recreational marijuana sales began in the state. The discussion touched on plans for racial equity in the marijuana industry, new drug testing availabilities fo...…
…Members of the Ann Arbor community also attended the event. Ann Arbor resident and U-M Dearborn alum Elizabeth Cobb took this event as an opportunity to learn more about affordable housing for a social psychologist she is working with and to become more involved in her Ann Arbor community. “I went to University Michigan-Dearborn, and when I was an undergrad, I worked with a social psychology professor there,” Cobb sa...…
…Opinion The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com 4 — Friday, December 6, 2019 Alanna Berger Zack Blumberg Emily Considine Joel Danilewitz Cheryn Hong Krystal Hur Ethan Kessler Magdalena Mihaylova Mary Rolfes Michael Russo Timothy Spurlin Miles Stephenson Joel Weiner Erin White Lola Yang FINNTAN STORER Managing Editor Stanford Lipsey Student Publications Building 420 Maynard St. Ann Arbor, MI 48109 tothedaily@michigandaily.com Edited and...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Arts Friday, December 6, 2019 — 5 Noah Baumbach is no stranger to divorce. His 2005 film “The Squid and the Whale” chronicles the experiences of a Brooklyn family adjusting to the separation of two parents; it is hilarious and heartfelt, and I love it. However, there is admittedly something “off,” something unreal about the family it depicts. The way its characters speak and interact with ...…
…6 — Friday, December 6, 2019 Arts The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com What makes a good documentary? And why watch a documentary in the first place? By my own measure, if I can come out of watching one feeling a mixture of touched and hopeful, yet hopelessly enraged, I’d consider it pretty successful. Lynn Novick’s PBS documentary series “College Behind Bars” (produced by the legendary Ken Burns) is one of the few I’ve seen that acco...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Sports Friday, December 6, 2019 — 7 Breaking down Michigan’s bowl destination As much as it feels like Michigan’s season ended with that performance against Ohio State last Saturday, there’s still one more game — a consolation bowl, somewhere sunny and warm. Get hype! Until Sunday’s selection show (or rather, an hour or so before the selection show, when someone inevitably leaks the placements)...…
…8 — Friday, December 6, 2019 Sports The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Nick Blankenburg maintains connection to late grandfather There’s a railing on the left side of the second floor at Yost Ice Arena, overlooking the ice. It’s in the corner, tucked away just off the staircase and next to the stands on the short side. It’s where Nick Blankenburg stands before every practice and every home game. Every single one of Michigan’s ...…
…Design by Maggie Huang Thursday, December 5, 2019 University of Michigan students gathered at the University Spectrum Center Wednesday evening for a town hall discussion on creating a plan to implement an informed consent model for gender-affirming care at University Health Services. At the event, ten students worked to identify and address health care disparities for transgender students at U-M. The students explained that at U...…
…2A — Thursday, December 5, 2019 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com News EASY © sudokugenerator.com. For personal use only. Generate and solve Sudoku, Super Sudoku, Godoku, Samurai Sudoku and Killer Sudoku puzzles at sudokugenerator.com! Sudoku Generator http://sudokugenerator.com/sudoku/generator/print/ 1 of 1 10/1/2010 1:28 PM LA VIE EN ROSE puzzle by sudokusyndication.com TUESDAY: By Design FRIDAY: Behind the Story WEDNESDAY: Thi...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com News Thursday, December 5, 2019 — 3A Professors, students reflect on online voting registration system Electronic option will save costs on paper and mailing, increase accuracy of voter profiles MADELINE MCLAUGHLIN Daily Staff Reporter Michigan’s Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson announced Monday that Michigan residents can now register to vote and update their voter registration status ...…
…Opinion The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com 4A — Thursday, December 5, 2019 Alanna Berger Zack Blumberg Emily Considine Emma Chang Joel Danilewitz Cheryn Hong Krystal Hur Ethan Kessler Magdalena Mihaylova Mary Rolfes Michael Russo Timothy Spurlin Miles Stephenson Joel Weiner Erin White Lola Yang FINNTAN STORER Managing Editor Stanford Lipsey Student Publications Building 420 Maynard St. Ann Arbor, MI 48109 tothedaily@michigandaily.c...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Sports Thursday, December 5, 2019 — 5A Granowicz learning from emotion-driven error Nick Granowicz could only watch. The freshman forward saw Wisconsin forward Cole Caufield skate with the puck from the right side of the boards over to center ice. Caufield spun to face the net as senior forward Nick Pastujov slid on his knees to try and block the shot. A shot never came though — Pastujov fell...…
…6A — Thursday, December 5, 2019 Sports The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com After losing two All-Americans, Wolverines look toward their future Walking into the Donald R. Shepherd Gymnastics Center, it’s near impossible to miss the maize and blue championship banners that hang in rows all across the ceiling. The flags — 26 in total — create an imposing image against the white interior of the building, a constant reminder of the ...…
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…2B — Thursday, December 5, 2019 b-side The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com B-SIDE: MUSIC NOTEBOOK For better or for worse, black metal broke the mold in the 2010s. It was a long time coming, too. From its inception in the early ’80s until shortly before 2010, black metal, with regard to both its sound and its culture, had barely budged. In any other genre, this is a completely foreign idea — artists are supposed to live and breathe,...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com b-side Thursday, December 5, 2019 — 3B Television shows can be immortalized in a number of ways. Perhaps it’s a character like The Fonz from “Happy Days,” who haunts our lives and Henry Winkler’s to this day. Or maybe it’s a catchphrase like “You got it dude!” uttered in “Full House” by a much-less-terrifying Olsen twin. Even a setting, like the Central Perk coffee shop of “Friends,” can launch a TV...…
