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…Landlords in Ann Arbor are pushing ahead with fall leasing for the 2021-2022 school year, despite the ongoing COVID- 19 pandemic, while students question if they should sign leases as early as they have in prior years. The fall leasing period many Ann Arbor landlords observe — in which tenants whose leases start shortly before the academic year begins are asked to decide whether to renew less than three months into their lease ...…

…This year’s Latinx Heritage Month emphasized unity and diversity within the Latinx community through music, which was celebrated virtually at the University from mid- September until Tuesday. Javier Solorzano Parada, program manager of Multi- Ethnic Student Affairs, was one of the heads of Latinx Heritage Month. Solorzano said the ability to invite multiple speakers from outside of Michigan to the remote event made ...…

…Steingraber said she was jarred by how the police treated her colleague Hudson, a Black man. “We were just reporters who were going inside to cover something that we had every right to go into, and it wasn’t me who was grabbed and smashed into the ground,” Steingraber said. “It was the Black man standing next to me.” Steingraber remembers standing in front of the car as other students surrounded it, but from that point, sh...…

…The candidates discussed the University’s COVID-19 response, tuition increases, sexual misconduct investigations and systemic racism, among other issues. The election will fill two open seats on the board. Incumbent Regent Shauna Ryder Diggs (D) was joined by three-time candidate Carl Meyers (R) and first-time candidate Michael Mawilai (Green) at the forum. Each candidate gave a brief overview of their platform b...…

…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com News Wednesday, October 14, 2020 — 5 Seven men charged under state terrorism law plot Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel charged seven men under the state’s anti- terrorism law for their involvement in a plot to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer and violently overthrow the government. The charges, which Nessel announced Thursday, come after months of high-profile disputes ...…

…A growing trend has caught the attention of U.S. politicians and no, it’s not Qanon. It’s the rise in the number of Latinx vot- ers, which political pundits refer to as the Latino Vote. The Latino Vote is an elusive creature that many politicians have tried and failed to catch, insisting on trap- ping it, but failing to realize that it’s less like a fish and more like the Loch Ness Monster: It isn’t real. The Latino Vote is a gross ...…

…Wednesday, October 14, 2020 — 7 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Michigan In Color On Indigenous People’s Day, Michigan in Color would like to express our ongoing solidarity with Native Americans and the Indigenous struggle against the forces of settler-colonialism for their legitimate claim on this land. As a University situated on the land stewarded by the Niswi Ishkodewan Anishinaabeg (The Three Fires People of the Ojibwe, Oda...…

…Y ears, decades, centuries from now, students will take a constitutional law class like the one I teach with professor Pamela Brandwein. They may learn, as they do now, about slavery, eugenics, Japanese internment camps and the Guantanamo Bay detention camp. They may also learn about how American political history is a story of thoughtful, determined people repeatedly redeeming its promise of liberty, human dignity and e...…

…2-News I n the Middle East, the month of September was marked by the signing of deals for peace and diplomatic relations between two countries, a very rare occurrence. In a part of the world marked by an extensive history of bloodshed, two agreements brokered by the U.S. and President Donald Trump were reached, with both the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain establishing official ties with Israel. The deals have made quite a spl...…

…2-News A s institutions of higher learning begin to do the long-overdue work of examining structural racism within their communities, President Donald Trump’s administration is fighting hard to ensure it goes unacknowledged. On Sept. 2, Princeton University President Christopher Eisgruber wrote a statement to the Princeton community addressing systemic racism and acknowledging that “racist assumptions from the past also ...…

…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Arts Wednesday, October 14, 2020 — 11 COMMUNITY CULTURE REVIEW GENDER AND MEDIA COLUMN Mural lights up downtown alleyway ‘PEN15’ and an all-female puberty A smiling student stands with a backpack slung over her shoulder, books and notebooks held in hand, no mask in sight. A reminder of simpler times. Elsewhere, recent graduates throw their hats in the air and a father teaches his son how to s...…

…What do an R&B singer- songwriter, a genius playwright, a rock ‘n’ roll legend and a California hitmaker all have in common? To any practical person, they are all insane. But they’ve also come together as subjects for the four- part docuseries “Song Exploder,” hosted by Hrishikesh Hirway, which emerged from the popular podcast of the same name. Each episode focuses on one of these iconic musical artists and takes fans on a t...…

…Arts Wednesday, October 14, 2020 — 13 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com “extremely online” to my friends, they usually agree — they too love memes and spend hours on Twitter. gets messy. It usually turns into some form of me reciting my own version of Bane’s quote from “The Dark Knight Rises”: “You merely adopted the internet; I was born in it, molded by it.” In the world of “South Park,” the only cardinal sin is self- right...…

…T he nerves reminded me of the feel- ing you get before a job interview. With a light flutter in my stom- ach, I swung my backpack over my shoulder and walked into the East Quad dining hall. I spotted the girls almost immediately, the five of them giggling over half-eaten pizza and shredded brussels sprouts, their close friend- ship apparent. Approaching them, I jokingly thought to myself, Should I have brought a resumé? It was fall ...…

…O n the last Fri- day of August, Craig Te- schendorf passed the day wondering where he and his puppy Eleanor would go after his eviction from the Orion MainStreet apartment complex in Ann Arbor. In a touching act of unity and protest, about 20 members from the area showed up to successfully postpone the eviction of the elderly dis- abled retiree. Photos from the event show a diverse, masked community suc- cessfully coming t...…

…T he seemingly everlasting build-up to the Fall 2020 se- mester made me anxious about where I would live. My mind raced with questions as I was stuck in a state of limbo, full of unknowns. The hope that I would get to spend my senior year of col- lege on a pandemic-free campus quickly dwindled and instead morphed into wor- ry. Should I give up my lease? Is it safe to move back? What seemed to be the safest option was no...…

…On May 30, 2019, the former Fab Five team member, NBA All- Star, two-time NBA champion and veteran NBA assistant teared up in front of reporters, family and friends as he was announced as the 17th head coach of the Michigan men’s basketball team. His raw emotion revealed the magnitude of the situation. Juwan Howard joined a small group of Black coaches in college basketball, becoming one of 14 Black head coaches in basketball’s s...…

…With experience in athletics and medicine, Alex Sobczak understands both sides Former Michigan softball player Alex Sobczak used to devote hours upon hours every week to practice, games, conditioning and team activities. The rest of her waking hours were spent working on her Biopsychology, Cognition and Neuroscience degree to prepare her for medical school. Since graduating in 2019, Sobczak has spent the past year ...…

…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Sports Wednesday, October 14, 2020 — 19 As his senior season nears, Kwity Paye’s Michigan career comes into focus As the Big Ten’s 2020 football season hung in the balance leading up to this fall, senior defensive end Kwity Paye had “a million people” in his ear. Some told him he should hold out hope for a season and remain in Ann Arbor. Others thought opting out and declaring for the NFL Dra...…

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…Thursday, May 14, 2020 INDEX Vol. CXXIX, No. 113 © 2020 The Michigan Daily NEWS .................................... OPINION ............................... ARTS/NEWS.......................... MiC......................................... SPORTS................................ MICHIGAN IN COLOR Outdated America Aakash Ray analyzes the failed institution that has created the American system >> SEE PAGE 8 NEWS GEO petition GEO dema...…

…OptiMize aids groups responding to COVID-19 Last month, optiMize, a student organization offering funding and guidance to students leading self- directed projects, launched its Com- munity Aid Relief Fund. The $25,000 fund will provide students with sup- port for mutual aid and community- based projects responding to the COVID-19 crisis. Through the fund, students at the University of Michigan, Eastern Michigan University and Washten...…

…David Moran, clinical pro- fessor of law at the University of Michigan and co-founder of the Michigan Innocence Clinic, delivered a webinar to almost 200 law students and community members Tuesday morning. He discussed the goals of the Michi- gan Innocence Clinic as well as recent exonerations the clinic has achieved. The Michigan Innocence Clinic, founded in 2009, aims to investigate cases where there was no relevant DNA evidenc...…

…M ore than seven weeks have passed since Gov. Gretchen Whitmer issued Executive Order 2020-21, urging all Michigan resi- dents, except essential workers, to stay home to combat the spread of COVID- 19. Life on campus had already been uprooted, with classes being moved online and University President Mark Schlissel urging students to return home if they were able. All non-essential businesses were closed, jobs were lost and some loca...…

…5 Thursday, May 14, 2020 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com 5 OP OPINION ON A s the semester winds down while the weather warms up across the state, it’s easy to for- get that we are in the midst of a global pandemic. But while the pandemic may have slipped our minds, it certainly hasn’t escaped that of Gov. Gretchen Whit- mer, who announced the extension of her stay-at-home order through May 28. This decision has garnered severe...…

…If you listened to country radio any time in the last six months, there’s a good chance you heard one of Justin Bieber’s latest singles. Alarming, I know, but thanks to country duo Dan + Shay, Bieber can claim a hit country song with their collaboration “10,000 Hours.” A mushy-gushy, country lite ballad dedicated to their wives, “10,000 Hours” epitomizes the latest trend to sweep mainstream country music — “boyfriend country.” Coine...…

…7 Thursday, May 14, 2020 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com ARTS It’s said that every theater is inhab- ited by at least one ghost and contrary to legends propagated by Hallow- een, these ghosts do not like the dark. Thus, when the curtain falls and a theater’s house empties, an employee will leave a light — a ghost light — to burn onstage until the performers return. Across the world, ghost lights have remained on and untouched f...…

…8 Thursday, May 14, 2020 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com MICHIGAN IN COLOR GRAPHIC BY CARA JHANG An Idealistic, Outdated America On March 14, an Asian-American family of three was stabbed by Jose Gomez at a Sam’s Club. On February 23, Ahmaud Arbery was shot dead after being followed by Gregory and Travis McMichael, who had grabbed their shotguns and pursued Arbery in their truck. On September 17, 2019 Harris County Sheriff...…

…9 Thursday, May 14, 2020 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com MICHIGAN IN COLOR A Mother’s Day Reflection: My Amma, A life journey from India to New York SUNITHA PALAT MiC Staff Writer PROVIDED BY SUNITHA PALAT A Lebanese Breakfast MAYA KADOUH MiC Staff Writer Read more at michigandaily.com It’s 1996. The door of the ‘88 Volvo closes with the gentle push of a chestnut-brown, smooth hand. The discounted Macy’s black leather left...…

…Thursday, May 14, 2020 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com ‘Alla familia’: Ben Cirella’s family’s restaurants spread the love Two weeks ago, Ben Cirella pulled his silver Volvo up to the entrance of Elmhurst Hospital in Queens, N.Y. Elmhurst has been at the epicenter of New York City’s disastrous COVID-19 outbreak. Queens has 56,719 confirmed cases of coronavirus, the most of any city borough, and has recorded nearly 6,000 deaths...…

…NICHOLAS STOLL Daily Sports Writer Thursday, May 14, 2020 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com On September 14, 1998, Janine Smith gave birth to her second child, Natalie. Three days later, she was back on the bench coaching, with Natalie at her side. Right off the bat, the pair’s relationship and the game of volleyball were intertwined. It had to be. At the time, Janine was a Division I coach at the University of Texas at Arlingto...…

…Ambry Thomas wasn’t Ambry Thomas wasn’t supposed to be at Detroit King supposed to be at Detroit King that day, lacing up his cleats for that day, lacing up his cleats for a 7-on-7 scrimmage, feeling the a 7-on-7 scrimmage, feeling the summer heat blistering up from summer heat blistering up from the field. If it weren’t for a call the field. If it weren’t for a call from his coach, Dale Harvel, the from his coach, Dale Harve...…

…Washtenaw County has more than 700 cases of COVID-19 as of this week. While residents who identify as African American or Black make up 12.4 percent of the county population, 48 percent of hospitalized cases are residents who identify as African American or Black. This pattern is consistent in coronavirus cases across that state and the nation. Detroit has almost 7,000 cases of COVID-19 and close to 400 deaths. Of th...…

…2 — Tuesday, April 14, 2020 News The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com The Senate Advisory Committee on University Affairs met Monday afternoon via BlueJeans to discuss a meeting SACUA had with University of Michigan President Mark Schlissel earlier that morning. Members also heard statements from SACUA members running for chair and vice chair. During the meeting with Schlissel, SACUA members said they asked the president ...…

…Tuesday, April 14, 2020 — 3 News The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com ESSENTIAL From Page 1 Read more at MichiganDaily.com COVID-19 From Page 1 Some are our dining hall staff, making sure students who remain in the residence halls can still depend on takeout meals. And some are our bus drivers, ensuring no matter how disorienting the world may get, you can still miss the bus to North Campus. Here are some of the many Univers...…

…4 — Tuesday, April 14, 2020 Opinion The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Alanna Berger Zack Blumberg Brittany Bowman Emily Considine Jess D’Agostino Jenny Gurung Cheryn Hong Krystal Hur Ethan Kessler Zoe Phillips Mary Rolfes Michael Russo Timothy Spurlin Miles Stephenson Joel Weiner Erin White ERIN WHITE Managing Editor Stanford Lipsey Student Publications Building 420 Maynard St. Ann Arbor, MI 48109 tothedaily@michigandaily.com...…

…Opinion The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com 5 — Tuesday, April 14, 2020 ANIK JOSHI | COLUMN EMILY ULRICH | COLUMN S en. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., will not be the Democratic nominee for president in 2020, just as he wasn’t the nominee in 2016. The 2016 run was the first time a number of left-wing ideas were reintroduced in the public square and they (and Sanders) consistently polled well. Though Hillary Clinton won t...…

…“Tigertail” is a triumph. As in the best movies, its characters leap off the screen and will be remembered like old friends. The story in “Tigertail” is so fleshed out, so filled with emotion, that it feels like a memoir, not a fictional narrative. The film tells the life story of Pin-Jui, a Taiwanese immigrant to the US. It flashes between Pin-Jui’s elderly self, played excellently by Tzi Ma (“Arrival”) and his memories — ch...…

…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com 7 — Tuesday, April 14, 2020 Sports ‘One of those classic races’: Kevin Sullivan and the 2000 Olympics Kevin Sullivan stood at the line and took it all in. It was the Canadian’s first Olympic games, and it was electric. 110,000 people filled Stadium Australia on the night of Sept. 29, 2000. They were anxiously waiting to see one of the deepest fields in Olympic history try to capture glo...…

…8 — Tuesday, April 14, 2020 Sports The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Quinten Johnson preparing for bigger role in sophomore year Quinten Johnson knew that he didn’t go to Michigan to star as a freshman. Recruited as a multi-dimensional four- star defensive back in the Wolverines’ 2019 class, he knew he wouldn’t immediately usurp their crop of established starters. What he didn’t know is that he would spend h...…

…The University of Michigan School of Public Health and Healthy Policy Student Association hosted a panel discussion focusing on the importance of health care policy in the context of the election year on Thursday afternoon. About 50 students and community members attended the event. The panelists included Jonathan Cohn, senior national correspondent at HuffPost; Charles Gaba, health care analyst and founder of A...…

…Andrea Turpin, associate professor of history at Baylor University, presented a lecture on changes in views on the admission of women into institutions for higher education. Organized by the Bentley Historical Library, about 30 students and professors attended the event on Wednesday night in honor of the 150th anniversary of the admission of women to the University of Michigan. Turpin, author of the award-winning book “...…

…“The first time I walked into Wieden+Kennedy, that was when I understood passion,” White said. “That was when I understood a place that everything they do is about creativity. Everything they do is about enabling incredible creatives to do incredible creative things in the world.” White told students he worked as the managing director for Nike’s Shanghai office during the 2008 Beijing Olympics. White and his team work...…

…A s President Donald Trump took to the House of Representatives dais, grinned in encouragement along with his Republican colleagues’ “four more years” chant and refused a handshake from Speaker Nancy Pelosi, it became readily apparent that this year’s State of the Union address was going to be unlike any in recent history. Customary to tradition, President Trump made frequent appeals to his administration’s achievements t...…

…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Arts Friday, February 14, 2020 — 5A Valentine’s Day has some claim on sentimentality. It launches love into the spotlight, or at least into your peripheral; it pits love and loneliness against each other, these umbrella terms used as placeholders to describe the diversity of feeling that actually overcomes us. These albums claim that sentimentality back. They let your love, heartbreak, or anything in...…

…Read more at MichiganDaily.com 6A — Friday, February 14, 2020 Arts The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com puzzle by sudokusnydictation.com By Garry Morse ©2020 Tribune Content Agency, LLC 02/14/20 Los Angeles Times Daily Crossword Puzzle Edited by Rich Norris and Joyce Nichols Lewis 02/14/20 ANSWER TO PREVIOUS PUZZLE: Release Date: Friday, February 14, 2020 ACROSS 1 Penthouses, e.g.: Abbr. 5 Smartphone downloads 9 Metaphor for resp...…

…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Sports Friday, February 14, 2020 — 7A Michigan, down to essentially six players, was still in it. Sophomore forward Naz Hillmon was out with an upper body injury suffered in the first quarter. Freshman guard Maddie Nolan tallied her fifth foul early in the fourth quarter. Senior guard Akienreh Johnson was battered and bruised. Freshman center Izabel Varejão hopped on one foot to the bench bef...…

…Photos courtesy of the Pearson Family Design by Jack Silberman Mel Pearson holds court every day after practice in his office at Yost Ice Arena. Usually he talks about hockey. But on Nov. 6, he was asked about his high school years, and another thought resurfaced: Susie, his wife, and how they met. As he finished up his story about her, he got up from his couch and headed to the exit. While he put his hand on the door, anot...…

…Ty and I were never supposed to meet. He grew up homeless in New Jersey, while my Michigan suburb bubble-wrapped me in privilege. He’s Afro-Latino and I’m white. We met studying abroad in Costa Rica, where he taught me to dance bachata, and I taught him to play ukulele. Having escaped the social structures keeping us apart in the U.S., we quickly fell in love. Six months, two countries and three states later, learning is still ...…

…Friday, February 14, 2020 // The Statement 2B Managing Statement Editor Magdalena Mihaylova Deputy Editors Emily Stillman Marisa Wright Associate Editor Reece Meyhoefer Designers Liz Bigham Kate Glad Copy Editors Madison Gagne Sadia Jiban Photo Editor Keemya Esmael Editor in Chief Elizabeth Lawrence Managing Editor Erin White I n Hebrew, the word for “to love” has the same root as the word “to give.” I’ve alwa...…