…A court case focusing on Harvard University’s consideration of race in their admissions process could impact the University of Michigan’s future admissions policy. On Oct. 1, U.S. District Court Judge Allison D. Burroughs ruled that Harvard University’s admissions policy, which accounts for race, did not discriminate against Asian American applications and would be allowed to stay in place. Students for Fair Admis...…
…The University of Michigan’s Institute for Social Research hosted Eric Hemenway, an Anishinaabe/ Odawa from Cross Village, Mich., on Thursday morning to speak about the history, culture and repatriation of the Anishinaabek Odawa tribe. About 35 students, faculty and staff attended the event. Hemenway is the director of Repatriation, Archives and Records for the Little Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa Indian, a federally rec...…
…For the state of Michigan, this would mean the University could resume its previous practice of affirmative action and the use of race in admissions decisions. The lawsuit was filed in November 2014, claiming that the practice of racial balancing, commonly known as affirmative action, in Harvard’s admissions process was discriminatory. In Burroughs’ conclusion, she described her belief that racial balance positively affects ...…
…Opinion The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com 4 — Friday, October 18, 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...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Arts Friday, October 18, 2019 — 5 The alias Blood Orange is etched in Dev Hynes’s discography. He does embrace other noms de plume, though, and assigns each to a signature style. But “Lightspeed Champion,” the spacy, genre-defying brand that carved a delicate niche in the R&B and soul game, never gained the traction that Blood Orange has. The latter’s dreamy, sometimes melancholic synth-pop has g...…
…6 — Friday, October 18, 2019 Arts The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com By David Alfred Bywaters ©2019 Tribune Content Agency, LLC 10/18/19 Los Angeles Times Daily Crossword Puzzle Edited by Rich Norris and Joyce Nichols Lewis 10/18/19 ANSWER TO PREVIOUS PUZZLE: Release Date: Friday, October 18, 2019 ACROSS 1 Show anxiety, in a way 5 No good 11 Prankster’s projectile 14 Excited response to a cue 15 Pressed 16 Also 17 Iranian vocal ...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Sports Friday, October 18, 2019 — 7 Behind Enemy Lines with Penn State writer (and friend) Mike Persak Ahead of No. 16 Michigan’s clash with No. 7 Penn State this weekend, The Daily called up an old friend. Mike Persak, former Michigan Daily Managing Sports Editor, now covers Penn State football for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. We dialed up his number, turned on the recorder and let the (half-ba...…
…As much as any single game in college football, the Penn State whiteout is a spectacle. This year’s edition — Penn State-Michigan on Saturday night — was announced way back in April, when college football is the last thing on most fans’ minds. The announcement wasn’t much of a surprise. The Nittany Lions have been holding whiteouts since 2004, and Saturday’s will be their sixth against Michigan, the most of any team. For home f...…
