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…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...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com News 2 — Wednesday, January 26, 2022 GOVERNMENT BUSINESS Over 20 members of the Ann Arbor for Public Power (A2P2) protested in front of Larcom City Hall Tuesday night ahead of an Ann Arbor City Council vote to implement a feasibility study in creating a municipal energy utility. The non- profit organization advocates for the city to municipalize its energy utilities, meaning ensuring energy ...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com News 2 — Wednesday, January 19, 2022 CAMPUS LIFE At the foot of the Harlan Hatcher Graduate Library, two microphones were set up. A group of students congregated around a small table, serving themselves hot chocolate, while clusters of families and students began to arrive. For the past 16 years, the Michigan Community Scholars Program has honored the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. o...…
…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...…
…University of Michigan stu- dents turned out in record num- bers for the November 2020 election, with 78.1% casting a ballot, according to a report by the Institute for Democracy & Higher Education at Tufts Uni- versity. This outpaces the 66% turnout across all of the campuses included in the report and mirrors the 79% turnout in Washtenaw County. Nevertheless, student voters at the University have historically demonstrated low t...…
…IRENA LI Daily Staff Reporter In August 2021, “the Yak was back.” Popular anonymous social media platform Yik Yak reappeared in the Apple App Store after being shut down in 2017 due to concerns about cyberbullying and a rapidly declining user base. When Yik Yak returned, college students across the country flocked back to the application, and students at the University of Michigan were no exception. Compared to other popular ...…
…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...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Arts 4 — Wednesday, January 26, 2022 Campus Culture is committed to serving the students of the University of Michigan and providing them with everything they need to know about stu- dent culture. Needless to say, we have opinions that need to be aired out like Necto at two a.m. (so damp…). An Ins and Outs list is a necessity for the culture — Campus Culture, that is. Yik Yak barely begins to fl...…
…4 — Wednesday, January 19, 2022 Arts The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com puzzle by sudokusnydictation.com By David Poole (c)2022 Tribune Content Agency, LLC 01/19/22 Los Angeles Times Daily Crossword Puzzle Edited by Rich Norris and Joyce Nichols Lewis 01/19/22 ANSWER TO PREVIOUS PUZZLE: Release Date: Wednesday, January 19, 2022 ACROSS 1 Breaks in relations 6 Update cartographically 11 Adorns with Charmin, for short 14 Ba...…
…“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...…
…Wednesday, January 26, 2022 — 5 Arts The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com 2021 was the year artists pulled out the big guns. Some of the industry’s heaviest hitters released albums that will undoubt- edly become classics in the years to come. In addition, many new and lesser-known artists exploded onto the scene last year with groundbreaking releases. While in no particular order, here is a short list of what The Michigan Daily’s ve...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Arts Wednesday, January 19, 2022 — 5 Several months ago, my answer seemed to be “no.” After witnessing the catastrophic fail- ure of “Dear Evan Hansen” — a film which I hated, adapted from a musical I liked (or at least used to like. It’s difficult to listen to Ben Platt since seeing the movie) — I began to wonder whether a musical could go fro...…
…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 …
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com 6 — Wednesday, January 26, 2022 The Orange Bowl game was playing on a television behind me, visible through a reflection on a picture frame. Though I couldn’t make out the details of the players, or their movements, I turned and looked back at the screen hanging over the bar periodically, watching with disappointment as Georgia’s score increased at an exponentially greate...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com 6 — Wednesday, January 19, 2022 S T A T E M E N T Read more at MichiganDaily.com The Sex Lives Of College Girls And Also Dani DANI CANAN Statement Correspondent So lately I’ve been thinking about sex; or rather, thinking about why I don’t think about sex. I started watching “Criminal Minds” for the plot, but stayed through all 15 seasons for actor Matthew Gray Guble...…
…“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 ...…
…S T A T E M E N T The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Wednesday, January 26, 2022 — 7 I’ll bite: Giving into the ‘Twilight’ renaissance RILEY HODDER Statement Correspondent Design by Francie Ahrens Page Design by Sarah Chung The day I moved into my dorm and my family left me, I felt completely and utterly alone. My roommate didn’t move in until the next day, and I had just been ab...…
…S T A T E M E N T The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Wednesday, January 19, 2022 — 7 Read more at MichiganDaily.com Click! This Moment Matters OSCAR NOLLETTE-PATUL- SKI Statement Columnist In the past few months, I have developed the habit of instinctually tapping my thumbs against my other fingers, as if I’m pantomiming a crab, or my hand is a pair of tongs grabbing at a piece of air. I think I adopted this mannerism a...…
…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...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Michigan in Color 8 — Wednesday, January 26, 2022 The normalization of President Biden’s necropolitics is as new as the sky is blue. Already, I can hear the neoliberal back–to–brunchers briskly brandishing their rational- izing remarks — their ostentatious retorts of “reform.” Yet what these prideful preachers fail to grasp is the sheer fact that the Biden abomination — sorry, administration...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Michigan in Color 8 — Wednesday, January 19, 2022 Several years ago as a new student, I was blessed with an “aha” moment in recognizing an extension of my personal identity. For me, the feel- ing of incorporating terms and labels that I was previously oblivious to, but click immediately upon hearing them, is unparalleled. A series of extensive personal information forms, frequent engagement wit...…
…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...…
…M y whole life I’ve struggled with mental health. As a child, sometimes I would start feeling really sad and I wouldn’t know why. When I was about 8 years old, my parents got me a royal blue iPod Nano. It had my Dad’s music library — mostly dad rock and some stuff from the 90s. Among the selection was U2’s 1988 hybrid live/studio album Rattle and Hum. The album’s final song, a ballad called “All I Want Is You,” is a...…
…2 022. As every new year does, 2022 presents the chance to start fresh. A little over a month ago, my favorite soccer team, Manchester United, replaced head coach and club legend Ole Gunnar Solskjaer with a German manager, a first in the club’s 143- year history. A fortnight before Christmas Eve, the Indian cricket team adopted split captaincy for the first time. This was uncharted territory for India, a country that loves cr...…
… 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...…
…W hen I returned from break, after three weeks of not seeing the people I had spent every second with for five months, you can imagine there was a lot to catch up on. Besides updates about life back home and the exchange of new schedules, there was one change that stood out amongst the other news: many of them had decided to change their major. I found it very strange to see so many of my friends returning to campus with...…
…A s we enter the new year of 2022, the common practice of New Year’s Resolutions may look a bit different. Undoubtedly, many will flock to the gym or cut carbs or begin writing their Great American Novel in an attempt to start the year off on what they believe to be “the right foot.” However, given the irrefutably overwhelming nature of the past few years, this year I believe the only goal should be to emphasize and pr...…
…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...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Sports Wednesday, January 26, 2022 — 11 At Indiana, Caleb Houstan’s role is finally realized LANE KIZZIAH DAVID WOELKERS Daily Sports Writer SportsWednesday: In Bloomington road win, Wolverines look like the team they could have been Penn State dominates Michigan, 29-6, as Michigan drops many tight bouts Holman, Women’s track team lead the day at Michigan Invitational As redshirt-sophomor...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Sports Wednesday, January 19, 2022 — 11 Hughes’s speed devastates Penn State Michigan blows past Ohio State, 29-8, in first Big Ten dual of the season With nine seconds left in the second quarter, a fast break for Maryland had begun to form. Terrapins forward Angel Reese looked to get a last second layup before the end of the half to trim the deficit. But Michigan senior forward Naz Hillmo...…
…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...…
…B LOOMINGTON — Capitalizing on momentum has been a difficult task for the Michigan men’s basketball team all season. On the heels of a blowout win against Maryland, the Wolverines looked to finally build some by going on the road and defeating an upstart Hwoosiers team to grab their first quadrant one win. Michigan (9-7 overall, 3-3 Big Ten) did just that, defeating Indiana (14-5, 5-4), 80-62, on Sunday afternoon. Showing a gus...…
…A s senior wing Leigha Brown dribbled down the floor after a block from senior forward Naz Hillmon on the other end, Brown looked up. Seeing junior guard Maddie Nolan ahead of her post up on the 3-point line, Brown fired a pass to Nolan. Taking the pass and squaring up the basket, Nolan unleashed her first 3-pointer of the game — of which seven more would follow. The No. 11 Michigan women’s basketball team faced off with No. ...…
…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...…
