…In a race that took until Wednesday morning to call, Democratic challengers Jordan Acker and Paul Brown have unseated Republican incumbents Andrea Fischer Newman and Andrew Richner on the University of Michigan Board of Regents. Acker’s main focus is on the affordability of attending the University, emphasizing the cost is not reflected accurately by tuition alone but also housing and other expenses. Specifically, Acker sa...…
…2A — Thursday, November 8, 2018 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com News Bryxter @BryxterNavalta I study in the medical library on campus with hopes that one of the med students will think I’m cute and fall in love with me gratefyl los @Los_LeeJr I voted because I matter. I voted because generations before me mattered, as well as the generations after me. My black vote will forever be flexed. William S. Currie @WilliamSCurrie ...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com News Thursday, November 8, 2018 — 3A VETE R ANS WE E K RUCHITA IYER/Daily Ahmed Hamadi, Marines Corp NROTC Senior Advisor, shares his experiences as an Arab American corpsman at the Veterans Week Annual Veterans of Color Symposium at Hatcher Wednesday afternoon. Though these individuals did not appear on the registration list, they were able to fill out provisional ballots. In order to submit the...…
…A s alumni of the University of Michigan, we were deeply disappointed by the recent actions of two instructors who refused to support students’ desire to study abroad in Israel. While we applaud the University for disciplining Prof. John Cheney-Lippold, we are concerned that the campus climate is undergoing a dangerous trend toward restricting academic freedom and unfairly singling out students who pursue educat...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Sports Thursday, November 8, 2018 — 5A Partridge shares mixed reviews of special teams There is plenty to be said about the Rutgers football team, but poor kickoff coverage is not one of them. Jim Harbaugh made sure to note that — unprompted — during his Monday press conference. And if a 39.5-point spread is any indication, we could see plenty of the Scarlet Knights’ special teams on the field ...…
…Amine dominates matches at NWCA All-Star Classic Myles Amine emerged from the tunnel and was met with a reception fit for the final bout at the NCAA Championships. The redshirt junior trotted out to the mat elevated by the cheers of the raucous crowd and the spirit of the event. Flames shot into the air on either side of him. He came prepared and ready to dominate. And on Friday at the NWCA All-Star Classic, that’s exactly what h...…
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…2B — Thursday, November 8, 2018 b-side The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Stories of life: Slices in the cake of human experience Consider something as short as a single tweet: 280 characters to express your most surreal, plain, intrusive or wholesome thoughts. Now take the 137,374 defined Unicode characters and permutate them with Twitter’s strict character limit and you get … well, a seemingly infinite number of possible t...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com b-side Thursday, November 8, 2018 — 3B Mixing it all together: The magic of musical mashups I didn’t know what song was playing when I stepped into Underground Sounds but I know, for a fact, that “Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey” by Paul and Linda McCartney was playing when I was talking with owner Matthew Bradish about guilty pleasures, a term we mutually concluded doesn’t really mean anything...…
…2-BSide 4B —Thursday, November 8, 2018 b-side The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com The musical interlude An interlude, at its most basic definition, is “an intervening or interruptive period, space, or event.” Technically speaking, an interlude is meant to disrupt, to draw attention or to provide something else to focus on. Albums are often judged on their cohesion and flow, on how well each song complements the entire album...…
…A plain white background, sometimes textured to look like parchment paper. Black text in Times New Roman font, or perhaps the typewriter-esque Courier. Sparse capitalization. As short as one line, and no more than 15. This is the aesthetic of Instagram poetry, a phenomenon in which users upload images of short, easily-digestible poems to their accounts with hashtags such as #poetryporn, #poetrycommunity and, simply...…
…They say good things come in small packages. A diamond ring in a Tiffany’s box, everlasting love and cuddles from a young puppy, unconditional friendship from the 5’1” fireball you call your best friend. We find so much wonder in grandeur and greatness that we often ignore the small things in life making every day a little better. This sentiment remains when it comes to the places we choose to spend our time. Call me crazy, but I...…
