…BY EMMA MATI VISUAL STATEMENT: GAP YEAR ABROAD MOUNT OF OLIVES JEWISH CEMETERY, JERUSALEM STREET VENDOR, VARANASI BAPTISM, QASR AL-YAHUD, JORDAN RIVER VALLEY TOUR GUIDE, DELPHI CHOUARA TANNERY, FEZ OLIVE HARVEST, GARDEN OF GETHSAME, JERUSALEM AT THE END OF MY SENIOR YEAR OF HIGH SCHOOL, I DECIDED THAT I WOULD NOT GO STRAIGHT TO COLLEGE. INSTEAD, I WOULD TAKE A GAP YEAR. MY GAP YEAR PROGRAM – KIVUNIM: NEW DIR...…
…City Council passed an affordable housing ordinance Monday evening that provided incentives for private developers to include affordable housing units and also passed a resolution for Ann Arbor to achieve carbon neutrality by the year 2030. More than 50 Ann Arbor residents packed the seats of Larcom City Hall for the first City Council meeting of the month. The Roosevelt Institute, a University of Michigan student progressive pub...…
…Gov. Gretchen Whitmer and other lawmakers in the Michigan House Democratic Caucus introduced the Reproductive Health Care Act, a plan to revoke existing laws which restrict or bar access to abortion, last Tuesday. Abortion is currently legal through the first 24 weeks of pregnancy in the state of Michigan, though there are a number of restrictions regarding access to abortion that the RHA aims to dissolve. Among the legislat...…
…concerned about issues of safety, physical safety and psychological safety. So, we’re going to work with students around there. And then the Ginsberg Center has been working since the last midterm elections to get students registered to vote and to think about what it means to be a part of a democracy. They’re going to lead out their efforts. We’re trying to think about what the academic offerings might be. I’m hoping when the medi...…
…Opinion The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com 4A — Tuesday, November 5, 2019 Alanna Berger Zack Blumberg Emily Considine Emma Chang Joel Danilewitz Emily Huhman Krystal Hur Ethan Kessler Magdalena Mihaylova Michael Russo Timothy Spurlin Miles Stephenson Nicholas Tomaino Joel Weiner Erin White FINNTAN STORER Managing Editor Stanford Lipsey Student Publications Building 420 Maynard St. Ann Arbor, MI 48109 tothedaily@michigandaily.com E...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Arts Tuesday, November 5, 2019 — 5A You walk into a bar on Halloween dressed as Margot Robbie dressed as Sharon Tate from Quentin Tarantino’s “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.” You spent 20 dollars and six hours trying to put on fake eyelashes and the bar is empty. The guy dressed as Austin Powers you flirted with at Rick’s on Tuesday isn’t there, your roommates who couldn’t decide on a trio costume...…
…6A — Tuesday, November 5, 2019 Arts The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com By C.C. Burnikel (c)2019 Tribune Content Agency, LLC 11/05/19 Los Angeles Times Daily Crossword Puzzle Edited by Rich Norris and Joyce Nichols Lewis 11/05/19 ANSWER TO PREVIOUS PUZZLE: Release Date: Tuesday, November 5, 2019 ACROSS 1 Works on a quilt 5 Team that won the Women’s World Cup in 2019 8 Winter skating sites 13 Yawn-inducing 15 Melancholy 16 Love to...…
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…Tuesday, November 5, 2019 // TIPOFF 2019 2B Appalachian State Creighton Elon Houston Baptist Battle 4 Atlantis at Louisville Iowa at Illinois Oregon Presbyterian College UMass Lowell at Michigan State Purdue at Minnesota at Iowa Nov. 5 Nov. 12 Nov. 15 Nov. 22 Nov. 27-29 Dec. 3 Dec. 6 Dec. 11 Dec. 14 Dec. 21 Dec. 29 Jan. 5 Jan. 9 Jan. 12 Jan. 17 Jan. 22 Jan. 25 Jan. 28 Feb. 1 Feb. 4 Feb. 8 Feb. 12 Feb. 16 ...…
…Only the jerseys Tuesday, November 5, 2019 // TIPOFF 2019 3B W hen Michigan’s sea- son tips off tonight, only the Wolverines’ jerseys will remind you of yesteryear. By now, most have grown numb to the fact that John Beilein is gone. The shock doesn’t register nearly as much as it did only a few months ago. But on Tuesday night, it will resonate more than ever before. The man who spent the last decade-plus building the Mic...…
…It was a practice just like any other for the Miami Heat. The starters were out on the floor running through their offensive schemes against the scout team. Among the latter, per usual, was then-assistant coach Juwan Howard. Howard, having played 19 years in the NBA, standing at 6-foot-9 and doing everything he can to keep in shape, almost always ran with the scout team in practice. In a typical pick-and-roll play, Howard ha...…
…was the perfect opportunity for the young coach — an ability to get his feet wet with the position without being completely thrown to the wolves. While he wasn’t reinventing the wheel or tasked with redesigning Heat concepts, Howard was able to learn some of the minutiae of the position — how to talk in timeouts, who to call on when games are getting close, how to scream on the sidelines. “He defined guys’ roles early, and I ...…
…Tuesday, November 5, 2019 // TIPOFF 2019 6B Roster breakdown Roster turnover — and adjusting to it — is an inherent part of college basketball. A top program’s best players tend to move on annually to the professional ranks as a new batch of heralded freshmen take over. Michigan, which can now be classified among the very elite programs in the sport, is no different. Jordan Poole, Charles Matthews and Ignas Brazdeikis all moved ...…
…Tuesday, November 5, 2019 // TIPOFF 2019 7B Every year for the Tipoff edition, The Daily’s basketball beat puts out a preview of the entire conference. Plenty of other outlets do similar pieces around the start of the season. They’re big, they’re unwieldy, and, honestly, they can get a little boring. Not this one. If I’m going to write this Big Ten preview, then I’m going to have some fun with it. And I’m not going to waste yo...…
…Tuesday, November 5, 2019 // TIPOFF 2019 8B No. 23 Purdue First order of business: Boilermakers? Really? I’ve just never understood it. Nobody mansplain it to me in the comments. I don’t care that much. Frankly, they’re probably going to be pretty good. KenPom puts them at No.7 overall. They’ve been a pretty consistent force in Big Ten basketball over the past few years. They busted up my junior-year homecoming date’s bracket p...…
…michigandaily.com Ann Arbor, Michigan Monday, November 4, 2019 ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY-NINE YEARS OF EDITORIAL FREEDOM Cruising into the bye Michigan dispatches a hapless Maryland team, 38-7, heads into the bye week brimming with confidence. » Page 1B Each month, The Michigan Daily’s Administration Beat sits down with University President Mark Schlissel to discuss important questions about University policy, commitments and c...…
…2A — Monday, November 4, 2019 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com News TUESDAY: By Design THURSDAY: Twitter Talk FRIDAY: Behind the Story WEDNESDAY: This Week in History MONDAY: Looking at the Numbers MY DOG TURNED 9 puzzle by sudokusyndication.com FRE E SCRE E NING SOPHIA AFENDOULIS/Daily Ann Arbir residents attend a free screening of Quentin Tarantino’s “Once Upon a Time In Hollywood” accompanied by a livestream of a Q&A with Brad P...…
…A few weeks ago, I had the pleasure of visiting the Pan-African Pulp exhibition at the University of Michigan Museum of Arts. This part of the museum showcases art by Meleko Mogosi, a South African painter. Now, his art was nowhere near mediocre. Each piece revealed a different layer of the nuanced topic that is the black experience. Some parts of the exhibit paid tribute to a magazine comic that shed light on the different oppress...…
…Opinion The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com 4A — Monday, November 4, 2019 Alanna Berger Zack Blumberg Emily Considine Emma Chang Joel Danilewitz Emily Huhman Krystal Hur Ethan Kessler Magdalena Mihaylova Timothy Spurlin Miles Stephenson Finn Storer Nicholas Tomaino Joel Weiner Erin White FINNTAN STORER Managing Editor Stanford Lipsey Student Publications Building 420 Maynard St. Ann Arbor, MI 48109 tothedaily@michigandaily.com Edit...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Arts Monday, November 4, 2019 — 5A In the modern movement of “wokeness,” it’s easy to forget all the issues and movements phasing in and out of social media. If you already forgot about the #MeToo movement, it found its way back into relevancy in “The Morning Show.” News anchorman Mitch Kessler (Steve Carell, “Welcome to Marwen”) gets fired from popular news show “The Morning Show” for sexual misc...…
…Halloween is one of the biggest and most festive holidays in Ann Arbor. One of the coolest parts of Halloween by far are the costumes — whether they’re made last minute or whether they‘ve been in the works for an entire year. We went out during Halloween festivities to document the goriest, cutest and most interesting costumes. Residential Ann Arbor Nostalgia sets in when seeing children prancing around in their costumes, buckets full o...…
…Alexis Rankin & Miles Macklin / Daily Design by Jack Silberman COLLEGE PARK — It took all of 11 seconds. That’s how much time elapsed while freshman Giles Jackson fielded the opening kickoff on Saturday, offered one juke, burst past the kicker’s diving grasp and into the end zone. If there was any doubt about whether the Michigan football team (7-2 overall, 4-2 Big Ten) would take care of a hapless Maryland squad; any dou...…
…2B — November 4, 2019 SportsMonday The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com C OLLEGE PARK — There is nothing about Satur- day’s Michigan football game that, when the season ends, will qualify as particularly memorable. A two-loss Wolverines played a Maryland team that likely won’t qualify for a bowl. Michigan won, 38-7, in a game it was supposed to win by something like that score. The outcome was never in doubt. A healthy pe...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com SportsMonday November 4, 2019 — 3B COLUMBUS — With a little over a minute remaining in Will Lockwood’s penalty for slashing, junior forward Dakota Raabe skated the puck into the offensive zone. He brought the puck up along the boards, but then he lost control of it. A few seconds later, the referee blew his whistle — Raabe was headed to the box for hooking and Michigan (3-4-1 overall, 0-2- 0-0 ...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com SportsMonday November 4, 2019 — 4B Metellus at the center of shutdown performance COLLEGE PARK — After the ball had found Josh Metellus and landed in his hands like a soft pop-up, after he had gotten up from the pile and turned toward the sideline and after Maryland’s hope of doing something had been extinguished as much as mathematically possible in the first quarter of a football game, he l...…
…michigandaily.com Ann Arbor, Michigan Friday, November 1, 2019 ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY-NINE YEARS OF EDITORIAL FREEDOM Residents are still struggling to clear their records for marijuana convictions nearly a year after a ballot measure legalizing the drug passed statewide, and Ann Arbor, despite its historically progressive stance on the issue, is no exception. In 1972, Ann Arbor City Council passed an ordinance that made the...…
…With the official signing date for Sept. 1 leases looming, many students on campus are searching for places to live. But the housing hunt looks different for transfer students at the University of Michigan. According to University Housing, 97 percent of first-year students choose to live on-campus for their first year. But transfer students are not guaranteed on-campus housing upon admission to the University due...…
…The websites were all published by Locality Labs, LLC on behalf of their client, the Metric Media Foundation, according to a Locality Labs employee who wished to remain anonymous. Locality Labs already operates its own networks of similar websites in Maryland and Florida. The Metric Media Foundation, a non-profit, 501(c)(3) organization registered in Missouri earlier this year, only lists a Kansas City-based attorney o...…
…Opinion The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com 4 — Friday, November 1, 2019 Alanna Berger Zack Blumberg Emily Considine Emma Chang Joel Danilewitz Emily Huhman Krystal Hur Ethan Kessler Magdalena Mihaylova Timothy Spurlin Miles Stephenson Finn Storer Nicholas Tomaino Joel Weiner Erin White FINNTAN STORER Managing Editor Stanford Lipsey Student Publications Building 420 Maynard St. Ann Arbor, MI 48109 tothedaily@michigandaily.com Edite...…
…6 — Friday, November 1, 2019 Arts The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Classifieds Call: #734-418-4115 Email: dailydisplay@gmail.com BIOCHEM 212 TUTOR WANTED Text Judy (312)‑678‑6736 By Ed Sessa ©2019 Tribune Content Agency, LLC 11/01/19 Los Angeles Times Daily Crossword Puzzle Edited by Rich Norris and Joyce Nichols Lewis 11/01/19 ANSWER TO PREVIOUS PUZZLE: Release Date: Friday, November 1, 2019 ACROSS 1 Kia sedan 7 Nincompoop ...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Sports Friday, November 1, 2019 — 7 How do you build a Division I athlete? Just ask the novice rowing team What makes a Division I athlete? Enthusiasm for improvement, a mindset for work, physiology — one thing is noticeably absent from Dan Harrison’s list: any skill in the sport. This year, the majority of the 36 novice rowers on the Wolverines’ team have no experience with an oar. While this...…
…8 — Friday, November 1, 2019 Sports The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com T he thoughts are scat- tered. Let’s get right to it. 1. I’m not sure I’d rush to anoint Hassan Haskins the bell- cow back just yet. Haskins’ 20-carry, 148-yard performance against Notre Dame was revela- tory — it was the highest rushing total by a Michi- gan back since Karan Higdon tallied 156 yards 419 days ago. But Zach Charbonnet continues to quiet...…
…The University of Michigan has accepted an invitation to collaborate with the city of Detroit in building the Detroit Center for Innovation, it announced Wednesday morning. The $300 million research and education center will provide new programs and courses of study for both undergraduate and graduate students. University President Mark Schlissel explained in an email statement the location of the Center is key to furthering ...…
…Last week, Michigan lawmakers, including state Sen. Jeff Irwin and state Rep. Yousef Rabhi, both Ann Arbor democrats, introduced a set of bills that would promote investment in solar energy across the state. The legislation would offer economic incentives for Michigan residents who install solar energy systems on their properties. The Powering Michigan Forward package would address statewide regulations on residential solar...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com News Thursday, October 31, 2019 — 3A In addition to the academic portion of the building, the 14-acre site will also feature residential units, a hotel, a conference center and a business collaboration and incubation space. Production is slated to begin in 2021. He went on to explain the center will provide degree programs through the University’s Ann Arbor campus tailored to the ...…
…Opinion The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com 4A — Thursday, October 31, 2019 Alanna Berger Zack Blumberg Emily Considine Emma Chang Joel Danilewitz Emily Huhman Krystal Hur Ethan Kessler Magdalena Mihaylova Timothy Spurlin Miles Stephenson Finn Storer Nicholas Tomaino Joel Weiner Erin White FINNTAN STORER Managing Editor Stanford Lipsey Student Publications Building 420 Maynard St. Ann Arbor, MI 48109 tothedaily@michigandaily.com Ed...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Sports Thursday, October 31, 2019 — 5A Stifling defense leads Michigan past MSU, 2-0, to claim Big Bear With about three minutes left to play, freshman goalkeeper Owen Finnerty dove out from his near post to cut off a low cross into the box. The crowd roared. The radio announcer’s voice grew excited as he finally got to commend the keeper on his first collegiate save. ...…
…6A — Thursday, October 31, 2019 Sports The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com ‘Cees in Space’: Ruiz hitting stride Cesar Ruiz sat atop the podium, smirking frequently and bantering with junior guard Michael Onwenu to his right. The confidence oozed — perhaps due to the 57-carry, 303-yard demolition his unit had just orchestrated, perhaps simply a product of his happy-go-lucky attitude. “We said in the locker room we knew what kin...…
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…2B — Thursday, October 31, 2019 b-side The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com There’s nothing quite like Halloween on a college campus. In most people’s minds, Halloween is one day, Oct. 31, where all the ghouls and black cats come out to play. But in a college town, the spirit of the season goes on for weeks, if not all year round. There’s a reason we all refer to the general timeline between Oct. 15 and Nov. 5 as “Halloweek.” This is e...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com b-side Thursday, October 31, 2019 — 3B We all have that pair of friends who, almost- siblings in forbidden love or not, decide to dress up as Margot and Richie Tenenbaum of Wes Anderson’s “The Royal Tenenbaums” for Halloween. She wears a pinstripe Lacoste tennis dress. He wears a shaggy-wig- headband combo that falls over shoulders in a Fila tee. Their costumes are a hit, though nobody at the ...…
…BBC AMERICA This past Friday, “Diseducated,” a musical I spent the past six months writing with my friend Allison Taylor, was premiered through the Blank Space Workshop. This was a show I had initially conceived of this past October but hadn’t started working on in earnest until late March/early April, when Allie joined the project. It was something we spent the summer writing, something that utterly consumed this past September for ...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com b-side Thursday, October 31, 2019 — 5B B-SIDE: SECONDARY It’s Halloween, and that means I have to find a costume. It’s not that I don’t have any ideas — I have plenty. There’s always Mulan, I’ve wanted to be a piece of sushi since freshman year and, quite honestly, Waldo doesn’t seem too bad right about now. But I have a few issues with Halloween costumes. First of all, Halloween is in the middle of ...…
…6B — Thursday, October 31, 2019 Arts The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com It’s hard to overstate the cultural significance of Bob Mackie. While his legacy is intractable from that of Cher (being responsible for her most iconic looks), his work spans from his sketch work for Edith Head and Jean Louis in the early ’60s (including the dress that Marilyn Monroe sang “Happy Birthday” to President John F. Kennedy in), to assisting his future...…
…Earlier this month, when California passed its Fair Pay to Play Act, allowing college athletes to profit off their name, image and likeness starting in 2023, mum was the word among Michigan’s football players. The would-be beneficiaries generally claimed ignorance. Some, like senior left tackle Jon Runyan Jr., were more forthcoming, saying they understand why some would benefit from the extra money that would come with the b...…
…On Tuesday night, the University of Michigan’s Central Student Government met to discuss candidate criteria for the new vice president of Student Life and updates on the renovation of the Michigan Union. Members of the Vice President for Student Life Search Advisory Committee attended the 12th CSG of the year meeting to hear comments and concerns about replacement candidates for E. Royster Harper, who will be reti...…
…Climate change could have dire impacts on Michigan farmers. As a result, local producers are taking matters into their own hands to cope with extreme temperatures and unpredictable weather patterns in the state. Earlier in October, Sen. Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich, released a report entitled “The Climate Crisis and Michigan” to address environmental issues surrounding the state and the implications of climate change on local comm...…
…Opinion The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com 4A — Wednesday, October 30, 2019 Alanna Berger Zack Blumberg Emily Considine Emma Chang Joel Danilewitz Emily Huhman Krystal Hur Ethan Kessler Magdalena Mihaylova Timothy Spurlin Miles Stephenson Finn Storer Nicholas Tomaino Joel Weiner Erin White FINNTAN STORER Managing Editor Stanford Lipsey Student Publications Building 420 Maynard St. Ann Arbor, MI 48109 tothedaily@michigandaily.com E...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Arts Wednesday, October 30, 2019 — 5A I’d never really seen a woman roar until I saw Big Thief in concert. It happened when the band performed “Not,” the fifth song of their set at Detroit’s Majestic Theatre on Thursday, Oct. 17. “Not” was the first single from their second release of 2019, Two Hands, which came out less than a week before the show. At that point in the set, the members of Big Thief ...…
