…michigandaily.com Ann Arbor, Michigan Tuesday, April 3, 2018 ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY-SEVEN YEARS OF EDITORIAL FREEDOM GOT A NEWS TIP? Call 734-418-4115 or e-mail news@michigandaily.com and let us know. Check out the Daily’s News podcast, The Daily Weekly INDEX Vol. CXXVII, No. 70 ©2018 The Michigan Daily N E WS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 O PI N I O N . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 A R T S . . . ...…
…This November, Michigan voters will decide the fate of Proposal 2, a citizen-initiated proposition to move the power of creating legislative districts from the state House of Representatives to an Independent Citizens Redistricting Commission. The proposal aims to end the practice of “gerrymandering,” or strategically creating districts to GOT A NEWS TIP? Call 734-418-4115 or e-mail news@michigandaily.com and let us know....…
…Around 8:12 p.m. Friday, the Epsilon Alpha Sigma Sorority, is the University of Michigan’s first Arab sorority, dubbed the Empowered Arab Sisterhood, revealed its first class of new recruits. The seven girls recruited, the “Al-Afdal line,” marched into Auditorium D in Angell Hall, yelling “We’re the girls of Arab countries!” in Arabic. As the girls were revealed, a founding member of the sorority’s chapter at the Unive...…
…The second Democratic presidential debate will be hosted in Detroit on July 30 and 31. The Democratic National Convention approved 12 debates, which will start in June 2019. The DNC told the Detroit Free Press the primary debate will host approximately 20 candidates including Bernie Sanders, Kamala Harris, Beto O’Rourke, Cory Booker, Kirsten Gillibrand and Elizabeth Warren. DNC Chairman Tom Perez told the Detro...…
…University of Michigan student tuition will no longer cover testing for sexually transmitted infections at University Health Services. This update is part of UHS and Michigan Medicine’s new policy of billing students’ personal insurance for “laboratory testing, radiology x-rays and ultrasounds and allergy injections,” as announced in a policy memo on July 15. Previously, these services were covered by the Health...…
…Wednesday, July 3, 2019 INDEX Vol. CXXVIII, No. 116 © 2019 The Michigan Daily NEWS .................................... OPINION ............................... ARTS...................................... MiC......................................... SPORTS................................ MICHIGAN IN COLOR Identity abroad Lorna Brown reflects upon her cultural identity and ho er self-view has changed while abroad >> SEE PAGE 9 ...…
…After President Donald Trump signed an executive order last week to reverse carbon emission regulations on coal- fired power plants enacted by former President Barack Obama, members of the University of Michigan community reacted, on the whole, with criticism. University spokesman Rick Fitzgerald said University leaders are working to understand the full implications of Trump’s order, and are still working toward a 25 perc...…
…michigandaily.com Thursday, May 3, 2018 INDEX Vol. CXXVII, No. 115 | © 2018 The Michigan Daily michigandaily.com NEWS .................................... OPINION ............................... ARTS ...................................... MiC......................................... SPORTS................................ MICHIGAN IN COLOR MiC Contributor “Therse are all the things I would like to tell my moth- er someday.” >> SEE PA...…
…A recent study conducted by University of Michigan researchers has found 20 percent of adolescents and teenagers have sustained a concussion at least once. This research project was directed under the 2016 Monitoring the Future study, a broader project conducted under the University, which explores the behaviors of American students from kindergarten through university level. This study is funded by the National Insti...…
…Artists discuss the evolution of Warped Tour By DOMINIC POLSINELLI Summer Senior Arts Editor I’m sure a lot of you are wondering why the Daily is covering Warped Tour in 2017. As a college newspaper, our standard music coverage typically includes anything from indie rock to underground hip hop — anything but the Warped Tour scene. Yet in recent years, Warped has been actively marketing the festival toward older crowds, those wh...…
…The Ann Arbor Police Department is beginning 2018 with a new addition to its force. Tuesday, Jason Forsberg began his tenure as Deputy Chief of Police of the AAPD. Forsberg joins current Deputy Chief Robert Pfannes and will be in charge of the support services division, which includes the administrative services, professional standards and special services sections. The department typically has two deputy c...…
…The Center of the City Task Force met at Larcom City Hall Wednesday afternoon to advance their public engagement plan. It was the fifth task force meeting for the 10-person municipal committee, created after local voters approved Proposal A to designate the library lot between Fifth Avenue and Division Street for plans to become a park and civic center commons. Community member and Pioneer High School senior Miles Klapthor ...…
…Current faculty member Emily Lawsin and former faculty member Scott Kurashige filed a discrimination lawsuit in 2016 against the University of Michigan under the Elliott- Larsen Civil Rights Act. Their trial began yesterday at 9 a.m. at the Washtenaw County Court and it is scheduled to continue until December 23. Kurashige and Lawsin are seeking more than $25,000 in damages to compensate for emotional distress, loss of ...…
…The Michigan state legislature passed two bills to appropriate $150 million in response to the coronavirus pandemic. On March 17, the House unanimously passed House Bill 4729. The bill appropriated $50 million to the Health and Human Services Department, which requires the funds to be distributed to critical health care providers in order to expand the state’s response to the coronavirus. It also allocated $75 ...…
…New COVID-19 research from the Uni- versity of Michigan reveals little spread of the virus between the campus and the surround- ing community last fall. Lead researcher Dr. Adam Lauring, a virologist and infectious disease physician at Michigan Medicine, told The Michigan Daily the results of the study are important because previous work related to COVID-19 transmis- sion in college environments has been quite ambiguous in the past. Thi...…
…Dr. Jeanice Swift, superintendent of Ann Arbor Public Schools (AAPS), announced on May 13 that the School Age Child Care program (SACC) will not be offered during the 2021- 2022 school year. According to AAPS, SACC is a state-licensed child care program designed to meet the needs of working parents by offering planned and supervised activities before and after school . This decision stunned AAPS parents and was met with...…
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