…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...…
…Two prominent educational and professional institutions — the American Association of University Professors and the American Political Science Association — are urging the University of Michigan to reconsider sanctions imposed on American Culture professor John Cheney- Lippold. Cheney-Lippold recently became ineligible for a salary raise for one year and ineligible for sabbatical credits for two years after res...…
…the water we’re delivering to our customers is safe,” Steglitz said. “We’ve been piloting new technology, a new granular activated carbon media in our filters, and we’ve been finding it to be successful at removing two of the PFAS compounds, PFOS and PFOA, that are part of the EPA’s health advisory. Because we’ve been piloting it and it’s been successful, we decided to put it in all of our filters.” Laura Rubin, vice chair of t...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com News Thursday, October 18, 2018 — 3 computer science, including the invention of dynamic instruction scheduling, a method in which computer hardware can issue instructions out of order, as well as pioneering the revolution in very large- scale integration design. Many years prior to joining University faculty in 1985, Conway worked at IBM Research, where she was fired when she began h...…
…T he line “If voting could change anything it would be made illegal!” is often misattributed to Mark Twain, and disputably attributed to anarchist Emma Goldman. The first confirmed appearance, if it matters, was from The Lowell Sun in 1974. Regardless of who said it, the phrase carries a sentiment shared by many Americans: Why bother voting if it doesn’t seem to affect anything? Of course, one vote does have some effect ...…
…FILM NOTEBOOK Horror has always been a genre of extremes. It’s something of a self-fulfilling prophecy; it’s difficult to evoke fear from that which is familiar, so horror filmmakers find themselves locked in a never-ending search for the bloodiest, the goriest and the scariest. This proverbial arms race has led the genre to feel a bit oversaturated, with many horror films prioritizing shock value over quality and d...…
…By Roger and Kathy Wienberg ©2018 Tribune Content Agency, LLC 10/18/18 Los Angeles Times Daily Crossword Puzzle Edited by Rich Norris and Joyce Nichols Lewis 10/18/18 ANSWER TO PREVIOUS PUZZLE: Release Date: Thursday, October 18, 2018 ACROSS 1 Cartman on “South Park” 5 John follower 9 European farewell 14 Default takeback 15 Formal agreement 16 Two-time Argentine president 17 Famous __ 18 Keys for Elton 20 They may be added to soup...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Sports Thursday, October 18, 2018 — 7 Too skilled to sit, Brazdeikis to learn multiple positions Ignas Brazdeikis is officially listed as a forward. Don’t let that fool you. The top-40 prospect, who headlines the men’s basketball team’s 12th-ranked recruiting classes, per 247Sports’ compos- ite score, is firmly behind red- shirt junior Charles Matthews at small forward. That’s more a product of M...…
…8 — Thursday, October 18, 2018 Sports The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Warriner with different perspective on Saturday’s game Saturday will be nothing new for Ed Warriner. In fact, there’s not much anymore that is new for Warriner. Michigan’s offensive line coach remembers coaching as a graduate assistant in the Michigan-Michigan State rivalry “30-something years ago.” Now he’s on the other side coaching a much...…
…michigandaily.com Ann Arbor, Michigan Wednesday, October 18, 2017 ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY-SEVEN YEARS OF EDITORIAL FREEDOM Hans von Spakovsky, The Heritage Foundation’s manager on the election law reform initiative, and Bryan Caplan, economics professor at George Mason University, debated if President Donald Trump’s immigration platform harms the United States in an event hosted by The Michigan Review on Friday night. In ...…
…Outdoor enthusiasts in the Ann Arbor area now have two new miles of paved trail to blaze as of Saturday. The trail will connect hikers and bikers to the Matthaei Botanical Gardens northeast of Ann Arbor, Nicols Arboretum and Gallup Park’s Border-to- Border bike trails along the Huron River, offering a pathway to the Matthaei gardens that doesn’t require a car. Karen Sikkenga, associate director of the botanical gardens, sa...…
…misconceptions about precision medicine, an approach for protecting health and treating disease that considers other factors aside from an individual’s own health, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. “The idea is really to bring together multiple disciplines and expertise from across campus to address the issue of precision health,” Creguer said. “We specifically chose the name Precision Health ...…
…Opinion The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com 4A — Wednesday, October 18, 2017 REBECCA LERNER Managing Editor 420 Maynard St. Ann Arbor, MI 48109 tothedaily@michigandaily.com Edited and managed by students at the University of Michigan since 1890. EMMA KINERY Editor in Chief ANNA POLUMBO-LEVY and REBECCA TARNOPOL Editorial Page Editors Unsigned editorials reflect the official position of the Daily’s Editorial Board. All othe...…
…ACROSS 1 Back (out) 4 Go by 10 Peak in Thessaly 14 Can. neighbor 15 City on the Liffey 16 Performs like Kanye 17 Eastern seaboard, facetiously 19 Frantically 20 Out in the open 21 Open in the garden 22 Narrow opening 25 Unlikely to run 28 Insinuate 31 Kitchen gadgets brand 32 Sneak attack 33 Dryly amusing 34 “More info later”: Abbr. 37 Increase security twofold ... and what 17-, 25-, 46- and 58-Across literally do 41 Radical ’60s gp. 42 Beside...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Wednesday, October 18, 2017 — 6A Arts THE CW ‘Jane the Virgin’ becomes Adam the Virgo in S4 shift Ah, friends. We begin again with our Jane, or wait a second… our Adam? Season four of CW’s “Jane the Virgin” opens not with the show’s namesake, but with one Adam Eduardo Alvaro (Tyler Posey, “Teen Wolf”) instead — Jane’s teenage love, with his own sultry- speaking narrator in tow. View...…
…B Time for a change The 19th-ranked Wolverines already know what they have in John O’Korn. It’s time for them to find out the same thing about Brandon Peters. » Page 4B The blueprint In speaking to the media Monday, John O’Korn laid out what Michigan needs to do to upset No. 2 Penn State. » SportsMonday Column Page 2B BLOOMINGTON — The 10 yards could have made all the difference. With just over a minute left to play, the Wol...…
…2B — October 18, 2017 SportsWednesday The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com The 94-word blueprint for an upset I t was an honest, inward reflection. Asked to evalu- ate his play through the last two weeks — performances that have yielded 256 yards and three intercep- tions with a 47.3 percent completion rate — fifth- year senior quarter- back John O’Korn took accountabil- ity. “I need to pick it up, there’s no way around it...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com SportsWednesday October 18. 2017 — 3B Michigan should see what it has in Peters B LOOMINGTON — For those who thought Michigan would avoid any more quarterback controversy this year, I’m sorry to be the bearer of bad news. It may be time for Jim Harbaugh and the Wolverines to give redshirt freshman backup Brandon Peters a shot. They had a chance to do so in the second half against ...…
…4B — October 18, 2017 SportsWednesday The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Hill highlights strong showing from secondary BLOOMINGTON — As Lavert Hill sat in the bowels of Memorial Stadium, he was asked if his brother had texted him. The sophomore cornerback admitted he hadn’t checked his phone yet, but it’s easy to understand why a detail like that could peak curiosity. It was just two years ago, after all, that Michigan ...…
…statement THE MICHIGAN DAILY | OCTOBER 18, 2017 FITTING IN: Navigating campus culture as an international student …
…2C Managaing Statement Editor: Lara Moehlman Deputy Editors: Yoshiko Iwai Brian Kuang Photo Editor: Alexis Rankin Editor in Chief: Emma Kinery Design Staff: Michelle Phillips Hannah Myers Emily Hardie Erin Tolar Emily Koffsky Managing Editor: Rebecca Lerner Copy Editors: Elizabeth Dokas Taylor Grandinetti Wednesday, October 18, 2017 // The Statement Soundtracking: House hunting *Three weeks ago* L ying in my dorm ro...…
…W hen I think about it too much, I wonder why I even go into all the effort of zapping water with waves of energy just to soak some leaves in it so it turns a slight shade that water is not supposed to be, for me to then sweeten it with copious amounts of honey that will only make my sedentary body softer. I started drinking tea in high school. I’m not really sure why. Probably because tea is easier to make than coff...…
…Wednesday, October 18, 2017 // The Statement 4C Wednesday, October 18, 2017 // The Statement 5C FITTING IN: Navigating campus culture as an international student b y I s h i M o r i, Daily Staff Reporter A s a Japanese citizen who grew up in New Jersey, I know many Asian expatriates who never quite felt comfortable living here. Northern New Jersey is an area with a large Korean immigrant population. Many of my childhood frien...…
…Wednesday, October 18, 2017 // The Statement 6C Personal Statement: Puck I t’s March 1996. I’m only a few days old, and coming home for the first time. I was not old enough to remember anything, but I will always know this: my grandpa couldn’t be there for me when I was born, so he sent the next best thing — a giant, stuffed dog to hold his place as my companion until he could travel up from Chicago to visit me in Michigan. *** I’m...…
…Wednesday, October 18, 2017 // The Statement 7C Personal Statement: Bus #904 to Chelsea W hen I was a junior in high school, my sister moved away from our home in Michigan to pursue a career in the fashion industry in New York City. I was thrilled that my sis- ter was finally pursuing her dream of liv- ing in New York but saddened by the fact that I would no longer see her every day. After our initial trip to move her in, our co...…
…Wednesday, October 18, 2017 // The Statement 8C V I S U A L S T A T E M E N T C A M E R A M A L L P H O T O W A L K The colorful graffiti and the stark interor of the building provide an excellent opportunity to photograph contrast. While Andy was teaching, this man approached us and stuck around, intently listening to the workshop before finding a new group to talk to. I love how the three photographers all seem to be wearing the sam...…
…ONL,-II WNI IiI I I'AY 'I t}IINTY'1 YBS 1:H OPITO)IIIAL HILLEAOI Ann Arbor, Michigan Friday, October 18, 2013 michigandailycom ADMINISTR ATION Information dean, wife to give $2.5M VICKY LIU/Daily Ju'won Harris, a health educator at the Detroit-based Institute for Population Health, answers students' questions about the Teach for America program with first-year medical student Kimi Warlaumnot at the Ford School of Public Policy Thursday. T...…
…2A - Friday, October 18, 2013 The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.com 2A - Friday, October 18, 2013 The Michigan Daily - michigandailycom MONDAY: This Week in History LEFT Fifth year senior wide receiver Jeremy Gallon holds the ball after missing a pass during Saturday's game against Penn State at Beaver Stadium. Michigan lost 43-40 during quadruple overtime. (TERRA MOLENGRAFF/Daily) RIGHT LSA sophomore Pat McCloskey performs on the Diag as ...…
…The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.com Friday, October 18, 2013 - 3A The Michigan Daily - michigandailycom Friday, October18, 2013 - 3A NEWS BRIEFS DETROIT Woman found dead from gunshot Authorities have released the identity of a woman whose body was found on a front lawn near her west side Detroit home. The Wayne County medi- cal examiner's office tells The Detroit News that 19-year-old Kimberly Muse died of a gunshot wound to her chest. T...…
…4A - Friday, October 18, 2013 The Michigan Daily - michigandailycom ly idhiian 4 a130AW19 Edited and managed by students at the University of Michigan since 1890. One cryptic nerd 420 Maynard St. Ann Arbor, MI 48109 tothedaily@michigandaily.com MELANIE KRUVELIS and ADRIENNE ROBERTS MATT SLOVIN EDITORIAL PAGE EDITORS MANAGING EDITOR ANDREW WEINER EDITOR IN CHIEF Unsigned editorials reflect the official position of the Daily's editorial b...…
…T M g a ic n yFriday, October 18, 2013 - 5A The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.com FILM REVIEW 'Machete' suffers slow death by a dull edge Cooking up an epic facial expression. Cook talks1'Idol fame, Ark concert Famed reality show singer to perform new material By GRACE PROSNIEWSKI Daily Arts Writer In 2008, David Cook won the seventh season of "Ameri- can Idol," and this weekend, as Cook tours the United States with Gavin David Cook DeGr...…
…6A - Friday, October 18, 2013 The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.com 6A - Friday, October18, 2013 The Michigan Daily - michigandailycom A2CT to tackle challenging 'Lear' Art exhibit to explore nature's influence I Local theater to present classic tragedy By GRACE PROSNIEWSKI Daily Arts Writer Political intrigue, betrayal, power-hungry schemers. No, not talking about last week's episode of "Scandal;" rather William King Lear Shakespeare's...…
…The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.com Friday, October 18, 2013 - 7A The Michigan Daily - michigandailycom Friday, October18, 2013 - 7A 'M' looks for rebound Wolverines travel East By LIZ VUKELICH Daily Sports Editor A month and a half ago, the Indiana matchup was just another nondescript home game for the Michigan football team. The Hoo- siers aren't India at known as a football pow- Michigan erhouse, and Matchup: with the game Indiana 3...…
…8A - Friday, October 18, 2013 The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.com BA - Friday, October18, 2013 The Michigan Daily - michigandailycom a I 0) …
…AIL M& 0 a M a For Devin Funchess, a move out wide and into football's future By ZACH HELFAND Daily Sports Editor When Devin Funchess wasn't busy leading his high-school team to a Michigan Division II state title, he was driving his coaches crazy. On the field, Funchess was budding into the versatile, multi- purpose weapon that the Michi- gan football team began to see midway through the 2013 season. But when he got to the sideline, his...…
…a r r'". v w W- U, 9 Parents' Weekend: Where there is an abundance of food, a plethora of drunk middle-aged tailgaters trying to stumble back toward the glory days and way too many people who forgot how to drive a car in a college town. Hope everyone is ready for things to get real weird. Everett Cook, Zach Helfand, Matt Slovin and Liz Vukelich. TABLE OF CONTENTS This is the page where you chuckle (or giggle) and mock Everett for how ba...…
…Thursday, October 18, 2012 Ann Arbor, Michigan michigandaily.com ENCOURAGING COLLABORATION Faculty rush to apply for pilot phase of MCubed University Burns, the chair of the depart- ment of chemical engineering, program funds and Alec Gallimore and Thom- as Zurbuchen, associate deans interdisciplinary in the College of Engineering. reseach .Duringthe interaction phase, S research researchers will post their proj- ect ideas on the MCubed web...…
…2A- Thursday, October 18, 2012 The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.com 2A - Thursday, October18, 2012 The Michigan Daily - michigandailycom * FRiDAY: MONDAY: TUESDAY: In Other Ivory Towers This Week in History WEDNESDAY: Campus Clubs FRIDAY: Photos of the Week DR. SMILE 420 Maynard St. Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1327 www.michigandaily.com JOSEPH LICHTERMAN RACHEL GREJNETZ Editor in Chief Business Manager 734-418-4115 ext. 1252 734-418-4115 ext. ...…
…The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.com Thursday, October 18, 2012 - 3A NEWS BRIEFS LANSING State Senate OKs bills attacking child pornography The Michigan Senate has unanimously passed three Republican-introduced bills that supporters say would make it easier to prosecute people for child pornography. The bills approved Wednes- day go to the state House for con- sideration. Attorney General Bill Schuette says the bills help update laws wri...…
…4A- Thursday, October 18, 2012 The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.com 4A- Thursday, October 18, 2012 The Michigan Daily - michigandailycom bffidiigan &il Edited and managed by students at the University of Michigan since 1890. 420 Maynard St. Ann Arbor, MI 48109 tothedaily@michigandaily.com TIMOTHY RABB JOSEPH LICHTERMAN and ADRIENNE ROBERTS ANDREW WEINER EDITOR IN CHIEF EDITORIAL PAGE EDITORS MANAGING EDITOR Unsigned editorials reflect the...…
…The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.com Thursday, October 18, 2012 - 5A The Michigan Daily - michigandailycom Thursday, October18, 2012 - 5A From Page 1A ki, the chair of the University's chapter of College Republicans, said Snyder has displayed a will- ingness to cooperate with unions in a way that would make the proposed amendment an unnec- essary preventative measure. "In his first two years in office he's shown he's very willing to work ...…
…6A - Thursday, October 18, 2012 The Michigan Daily - michiganclaily.com 6A - Thursday, October18, 2012 The Michigan Daily - michigandailycom Syria's wealthy businesses feel impact of deadly civil war Pilot Felix Baumgartner of Austria jumps out of his capsule during the final mannedflightfor Red Bull Stratos. Skydiver's feat could influence spacesuit design for astronauts NASA engineers aim to improve survival rate of space travelers CAPE...…
….. s..._ - , 7, } l , r The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.com Thursday, October 18, 2012 -- 7A The Michigan Daily - michigandailycom Thursday, October18, 2012 - 7A VOLLEYBALL Blue rues lack of. discipline at home By RYAN KRASNOO too caught up in the moment and For the Daily failed to focus on fundamentals. "We're a young team and we Losing at home in straight sets need to learn how to handle those is never easy to accept, but losing thing...…
