…michigandaily.com Ann Arbor, Michigan Monday, November 18, 2019 ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY-NINE YEARS OF EDITORIAL FREEDOM Statement made Michigan runs away from its in-state rival, 44-10, sending Michigan State into further despair in a disastrous year. » Page 1B More than 100 Ann Arbor residents and students marched Sunday to raise awareness about affordable housing issues in the city. Gathering initially in Liberty Plaza, many m...…
…Winterfest, a tournament-style annual philanthropic event where different members of fraternities and sororities play broomball for charity, will be hosted on Feb 23 by the Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity (PIKE). Last year, Winterfest was hosted on the property of PIKE and sponsored by Alpha Sigma Phi, but after Alpha Sigma Phi was banned from campus, PIKE picked up the event. Fraternities who are members of the Interfraternity Council...…
…In partnership with the Detroit Community-Academic Urban Research Center, University of Michigan student organization Poverty Solutions took on nine, year-long projects in 2019 in an effort to combat the rising rates of poverty and evictions in Michigan using a cross-community collaborative approach. Numerous cities within the state of Michigan, including Muskegon, Saginaw, Battle Creek and Dearborn Heights, are among t...…
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…Thursday, July 18, 2019 INDEX Vol. CXXVIII, No. 118 © 2019 The Michigan Daily NEWS .................................... OPINION ............................... ARTS...................................... MiC......................................... SPORTS................................ MICHIGAN IN COLOR Language of love MiC editor Aly Charf writes a poem dedicated to her Nana and Tata, who both died in the last two years >...…
…For many students affiliated with Fraternity and Sorority Life across the U.S, a defining part of their experience is living in their chapter’s house. Many sororities even require members to live in their house for one year. However, with the University of Michigan’s decision to transition to winter recruitment this school year, many freshmen intending to join — and current members with obligations to fill their ch...…
…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...…
…2A — Monday, November 18, 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 Sudoku Syndication http://sudokusyndication.com/sudoku/generator/print/ 1 of 1 11/24/08 1:00 PM SUDOKU EASY 8 1 3 4 2 1 5 6 9 4 2 1 7 4 7 9 2 6 3 2 3 1 5 4 8 9 1 3 5 6 4 9 © sudokusolver.com. For personal use only. ...…
…OVERSIGHT From Page 1 “This is an issue that concerns me a lot and residents have told me that it concerns them. I think there’s a lot of disappointment among our community about how sort of this process has even happened up to now, so this is upsetting that we’re going further in this direction.” Lumm and the other liaison to the commission, Councilmember Zachary Ackerman, D-Ward 3, along with Councilmembers Julie Grand,...…
…The Graham Sustainability Institute at the University of Michigan awarded Catalyst Grants to four cross- disciplinary sustainability projects this January. Jennifer Haverkamp, director of the Graham Institute, said the winning projects embody the value of partnership and community involvement in research and will develop real-world applications over the course of the semester. “What we hope in each case is that faculty and s...…
…2 — Thursday, April 18, 2019 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com News Dr. Mark Schlissel @DrMarkSchlissel Thanks to @TheBSU student activists our @UMich Trotter Multicultural Center is a new home for unity, learning, reflection & hope. It shows the potential of what we can be as a great institution & what we must do together to advance excellence, diversity, equity, and inclusion. The Black Sheep Michigan @blacksheepmichigan it’...…
…2 Thursday, July 18, 2019 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com NEWS SUDOKU MEDIUM 7 9 1 5 4 5 3 7 7 9 1 5 8 6 7 3 2 1 5 4 2 6 7 3 7 2 FREE THOUGHT puzzle by sudokusyndication.com ‘U’ school creates health podcast School of Public Health looks to make research more accessible The University of Michigan School of Public Health released a new podcast titled “Population Healthy” to spread their work to the gener...…
…The Office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion and University Housing hosted a grand reopening of the Cesar Chavez, Vicky Barner and Cousins Active Multi Ethnic Organization (CAMEO) multicultural lounges on Tuesday. Each lounge featured three speakers, and the Chavez event in Mosher-Jordan Hall drew in a crowd of around 50 students. Diversity and Inclusion Director Amanda McLittle said the remodeling is part of a DEI...…
…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...…
…As I walk through campus, surrounded by people who look nothing like me, I can’t help but feel like I don’t belong. I try not to compare myself to anyone but it seems like everyone around me has their lives figured out, their friend groups established and their futures secured. And though these feelings may not mirror the truth, they still linger in my mind. In order to escape the confinements of my thoughts, I plug in my he...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Michigan in Color Monday, February 18, 2018— 3A Photo courtesy of the author When I was little, I used to be one of those girls who wished that they I were white. My parents immigrated to the States in the 90s, having previously lived under Communist rule in China. That being said, I never had the type of mom who would help out in the classroom or know how to bake cookies, and I was neve...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com News Friday, January 18, 2019 — 3 Read more online at michigandaily.com EMPLOYMENT From Page 1 LAW From Page 1 POVERTY From Page 1 INSTITUTIONALIZING EQUIT Y Michelle Bolofer, the Executive Director of Century Forward, a nonprofit focused on building community infrastructure, speaks at the Urban Planning Martin Luther King Jr. Symposium on “Institutionalizing Equity: Radically Restructuring Opport...…
…Ken Kollman, a professor of political science, is familiar with constitutional law and believes it’s best for free speech to be uninhibited until it becomes threatening. “I think like most faculty I’m generally in favor of free speech unless it’s dangerous and incites violence,” Kollman said. “When possible, when there’s no threat to the people or the public order, then it’s better to allow people to speak on campuses.” The second...…
…3 Thursday, July 18, 2019 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com NEWS ‘U’ community reflects on rising tuition, fees The University of Michigan Board of Regents approved a series of tuition and room-and-board increases at their June 20 meeting. The headline of the University’s press release emphasizes the 1.9 percent in-state undergraduate tuition increase is the lowest in six years, with a lower- division rate of $15,588...…
…“The movement is greater than those two men, and, at the same time, the movement needed those two men,” Suleiman said. “And we often do ourselves a disservice by trying to create the perfect hero … that rises victorious above the rest and had the perfect diagnosis and the perfect role to play. And so, this is the picture that we come to … This is the picture that deeply haunts America.” LSA freshman Salik Aslam attended Su...…
…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 4A — Monday, November 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 Edi...…
…Opinion The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com 4A — Monday, February 18, 2019 Emma Chang Joel Danilewitz Samantha Goldstein Elena Hubbell Emily Huhman Tara Jayaram Jeremy Kaplan Sarah Khan Lucas Maiman Magdalena Mihaylova Ellery Rosenzweig Jason Rowland Anu Roy-Chaudhury Alex Satola Ali Safawi Ashley Zhang Sam Weinberger Erin White FINNTAN STORER Managing Editor Stanford Lipsey Student Publications Building 420 Maynard St. ...…
…Opinion The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com 4 — Friday, January 18, 2019 J ames Burrill Angell, the longest serving president at the University of Michigan, described the University as a place that would provide “an uncommon education for the common man.” From its founding, the University was supposed to offer an elite education to people without the means to afford one in other parts of the country. The quote is sti...…
…Opinion The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com 4 — Thursday, April 18, 2019 Zack Blumberg Joel Danilewitz Emily Huhman Tara Jayaram Jeremy Kaplan Magdalena Mihaylova Ellery Rosenzweig Jason Rowland Anu Roy-Chaudhury Alex Satola Erin White Ashley Zhang Timothy Spurlin Nicholas Tomaino FINNTAN STORER Managing Editor Stanford Lipsey Student Publications Building 420 Maynard St. Ann Arbor, MI 48109 tothedaily@michigandaily.com Edited and ...…
…4 Thursday, July 18, 2019 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com OPINION 420 Maynard St. Ann Arbor, MI 48109 tothedaily@michigandaily.com Edited and managed by students at the University of Michigan since 1890. ERIN WHITE Editorial Page Editor Zack Blumberg Emma Chang Emily Considine Joel Danilewitz Emily Huhman Tara Jayaram Jeremy Kaplan Magdalena Mihaylova Ellery Rosenzweig Jason Rowland Anu Roy-Chaudhury Alex Satola Timothy Spurl...…
…Opinion The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com 4A — Wednesday, September 18, 2019 Zack Blumberg Emily Considine Emma Chang Joel Danilewitz Emily Huhman Krystal Hur Ethan Kessler Magdalena Mihaylova Max Mittleman 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 ...…
…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 Monday, November 18, 2019 — 5A Hailing from the metropolis of São Paulo, the Brazilian Tropicália band Os Mutantes’s (which translates to “The Mutants”) 1968 self-titled album somehow sounds as if The Beatles moved to South America and took even more psychedelics. One of the most creative groups to ever come out of the country with a rich musical history rivaling any others, their success was br...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Arts Monday, February 18, 2019 — 5A 3 & 4 Bedroom Apts Avail Fall 19/20 $1800 ‑ $2680 + Utilities Laundry On Site, Parking Avail 1015 Packard ‑ 734‑996‑1991 EFFICIENCY ‑ 1 & 2 Bdrm apartments Fall 2019/20 Rents range $875 ‑ $1850 most include heat and water Showings scheduled M‑F 10‑3 734‑996‑1991 LARGE 3 BDRM at 119 E Liberty. Free washer and dryer, central air. Heart of Ann Arbor, 5 min walk to ...…
…5 — Friday, January 18, 2019 Arts The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com It’s practically worn out in musical discourse to bemoan the “three-and-a-half-minute pop song,” usually in comparison (as a strawman) to a more complicated, underrated work. That concision and formalism are, in and of themselves, seen as worthy of disdain should seem strange to anyone who regularly listens to popular music — Irving Berlin’s acknowledged mastery w...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Arts Thrusday, April 18, 2019 — 5 In the short span of three years, Sally Rooney has evolved from essayist to fiction writer to “the first great millennial novelist.” Sally Rooney got a New Yorker interview in January, told The Guardian that she “do(esn’t) respond to authority very well” and has a 10-minute YouTube video on writing and Marxism. She’s a veritable cultural event, heralded...…
…5 OPINION Thursday, July 18, 2019 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com OPINION ANNE ELSE | COLUMN O n July 5, as tempera- tures rose and Ann Arborites flocked to the river to spend their day on the water, they were met with a disappointing development. A sanitary sewer main break occurred that morning causing sewage to enter a storm pipe and empty into the river. City officials managed to repair the pipe break relatively quickl...…
…I’ve spent a very small portion — albeit, the more blunderous part — of my life living in Ohio. (Please don’t punish me for that, the economy is hard.) When I was 16, I was with my father on the drive to school, listening to the early-morning talk radio program. They announced the “Thanksgiving Misery Index” in the news segment. The major news was that Ohio had been deemed the absolute worst state in which to spend Thanksgiving. This...…
…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...…
…6A — Monday, November 18, 2019 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Arts Classifieds Call: #734-418-4115 Email: dailydisplay@gmail.com By Kurt Krauss ©2019 Tribune Content Agency, LLC 11/18/19 Los Angeles Times Daily Crossword Puzzle Edited by Rich Norris and Joyce Nichols Lewis 11/18/19 ANSWER TO PREVIOUS PUZZLE: Release Date: Monday, November 18, 2019 ACROSS 1 Aquarium 5 Yeshiva teacher 10 Dance in a pit 14 Iranian money 15 For al...…
…6A — Monday, February 19, 2019 Arts The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com I recently got hooked on “You,” Netflix’s late-2018 thriller drama about a bookstore manager named Joe Goldberg (Penn Badgley, “Gossip Girl”) and his girlfriend, Guinevere Beck (Elizabeth Lail, “Once Upon a Time”). Joe seems like the perfect boyfriend, but is actually an obsessive stalker who murders those close to Beck in an effort to “protect” her from ...…
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…Classifieds Call: #734-418-4115 Email: dailydisplay@gmail.com STUDENT SUMMER STORAGE Closest to campus, Indoor, Clean, Safe Reserve now at annarborstorage. com or (734) 663‑0690 EFFICIENCY ‑ 1 & 2 Bdrm Apts Fall 2019/20 Rents range $875 ‑ $1850 most include heat and water. Showings scheduled M‑F 10‑3 734‑996‑1991 WORK ON MACKINAC ISLAND This Summer – Make lifelong friends. The Island House Hotel and Ryba’s Fudge Shops are seeking he...…
…ARTS 6 Thursday, July 18, 2019 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com When I find a song to share with my mom, I always wait until it’s the two of us in the car. It would be dif- ficult to trace how many of our shared obsessions began with this exact scene, but I imagine the fugitivity of the moment and ourselves on the road — minds and bodies alike — are somehow linked. It’s something to do with not hav- ing to watch her face if I...…
…6A — Wednesday, September 18, 2019 Arts The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com By Peter A. Collins ©2019 Tribune Content Agency, LLC 09/18/19 Los Angeles Times Daily Crossword Puzzle Edited by Rich Norris and Joyce Nichols Lewis 09/18/19 ANSWER TO PREVIOUS PUZZLE: Release Date: Wednesday, September 18, 2019 ACROSS 1 Starbucks orders, casually 6 Carnival staples 11 Chance 15 Perform better than 16 Scandal-plagued energy company 17 Wit...…
…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 ...…
…Lavert Hill bounced down the Michigan sideline, waiving his arms in jubilation with his helmet in hand. Behind him, the rest of the Wolverines did the same, spilling onto the field, toward the stands and everywhere in between. The celebration — set off by Hill’s fourth-quarter interception — had been brewing all game, as No. 15 Michigan (5-2 Big Ten, 8-2 overall) charged toward a 44-10 win. “When (Hill) got his pick, you ...…
…SPORTSMONDAY The Michigan Daily | michigandaily.com | February 18, 2019 Alexandria Pompei and Max Kuang / Daily Design by Jack Silberman TURTLE SOUP DECLAN MITCHELL AND THE JOY HE BRINGS INSIDE SPORTSMONDAY See Page 2B MICHIGAN TOPS TERRAPINS, 65-52 …
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Sports Friday, January 18, 2019 — 7 I mitation is the sincerest form of flattery, so goes the saying. The Michigan hockey team currently finds itself in the mid- dle of the pack. Five points from the top of the Big Ten and, likewise, five points from the bottom. Sit- ting at 27th in the Pairwise rankings, the Wolverines will need all hands on deck to make a postseason push. Last season, M...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Sports Thursday, April 18, 2019 — 7 Z avier Simpson started with a cliché. “It was tremendous,” the junior guard said. “I’m blessed to be a part of the season. A winning sea- son. Definite- ly extremely glad I was able to be in the position to help my team. Next year, hopefully we can make more noise. Get more success for the University, get more suc- cess for next year, winning some cha...…
…7 Thursday, July 18, 2019 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com ARTS In the truest sense of the word, a “mixtape” is a compilation of songs that come from multiple sources. This definition harkens back to the days before digital playlists. Mix- tapes were not endlessly augmented, so they were often made with a cer- tain vibe or theme in mind. In the mid to late 2000s hip-hop scene, though, the definition began to change. At this...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Sports Wednesday, September 18, 2019 — 7A In the 11th minute of the Michigan men’s soccer team’s match against Oakland, spectators saw graduate transfer forward Nebojsa Popovic fire a shot at Golden Grizzlies goalkeeper Sullivan Lauderdale. They saw senior forward Jack Hallahan bury the rebound in the back of the net, and they saw him run off celebrating. But the most important part of the ...…
…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...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com SportsMonday November 18, 2019 — 2B Ronnie Bell is ready to write his own story As the Michigan football team returned to the sideline with the end zone covered in towels, a stadium rocking and the game in hand, Ronnie Bell had his helmet off. He was talking to Josh Gattis. It was the start of the fourth quarter and the game was well in hand, the Wolverines leading by 24. Whatever advice was ...…
