…GOT A NEWS TIP? E-mail news@michigandaily.com and let us know. INDEX Vol. CXXXII, No. 110 ©2023 The Michigan Daily N E WS............................ 2 A R T S . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 S T A T E M E N T . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 M I C . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 O P I N I O N . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 S P O R T S . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .13 michigandaily.com F...…
…University of Michigan President Mark Schlissel has been fired effective immediately following an internal investigation revealing Schlissel’s inappropriate behavior with a subordinate at the University, according to a Saturday press release from the Board of Regents. The decision was made at a closed- door Board of Regents meeting Saturday morning without a public vote after the board hired a third party investi...…
…Since Oct. 8, survivors of late University of Michigan athletic doctor Robert Anderson have been camping outside of University President Mark Schlissel’s house in protest against the University’s handling of the nearly 1,000 indi- viduals who have come forward with sexual assault allegations against Anderson. Over the past few months, survivors have appeared in front of the Board of Regents, rallied students and community members a...…
…The basement in my childhood home was equipped with a Magnavox box TV, a GameCube and a PlayStation 2. The furniture was old, and the basement was prone to flooding, but it didn’t matter so long as my older brother and I had the TV and at least one console. Before the days of homework and exams, my brother and I would spend every day after school in the basement: He would sit on the ottoman in front of the television while I cu...…
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…I remember staring blankly at the ceiling and contemplating my emotions before falling asleep in middle school. Falling in love for the first time was overwhelming, especially with five popstars. As the months went by and my love grew stronger, my posters began to creep up my walls, mysteri- ously making their way into my line of vision. Eventually my ceil- ing was covered in One Direction posters. And I’m not ashamed one bit. Harry...…
…A senior in college is reclining on his front porch in the gray spring light of Ann Arbor. He’s trying to make sense of it all. He says: The tuition was $50,000 a year, frontloading on classes to wrap it up in three years, that’s $150,000. Plus food and housing, which totaled about $900 a month, that’s $180,000, but I’d have needed to eat regardless, so maybe only $170,000. Eighteen hours a week of classes, assuming I’d attended t...…
…The first time I ever had to carry grief that did not belong to me was the day I began to report on survivors of former University of Michigan Athletics doctor Robert Anderson. Over a span of 37 years, more than 950 victims reported thousands of incidents of sexual abuse and misconduct at the hands of Anderson, remaining as likely the most sexual abuse allegations against a single person in United States history. There is an untol...…
…The home my family and I have forged and nurtured is a remnant of our histories. When I was a kid, my parents chastised me when I spoke English in the house, told me the occasional ancient Korean myth during story time, fed me jjigae and banchan, and when I grew older, taught me about our past, especially Korea’s turbulent and oppressive 20th century (including the dictatorship, coup and military regime they grew up under). They e...…
…To whatever poor, tortured soul occupies this apartment next, You will earnestly swing open the heavy front door, gleaming with a streaky coat of clinical, blueish-purpleish-greyish paint, and you will smell mold. You’ll learn to grow accustomed to the scent — no obscene amount of Febreze or air freshener plugs will ever succeed in masking it — but it will make you flinch upon entry. Unfortunately, this will be only the beginning...…
…T he University of Michigan’s reopening has been fraught with challenges and has met much criticism from faculty, students and Ann Arbor residents alike. Messaging from upper administration and University President Mark Schlissel throughout the summer months leading up to reopening has been remarkably inconsistent. From saying that the assertion that students won’t follow safety protocol is “offensive” to analogizing stud...…
…L ast week’s shooting near Indianapolis marked the sixth straight week containing a mass shooting. We see the same cycle after every one. Thoughts and prayers are followed by Democrats generally calling for reform and Republicans generally accusing the former of politicizing personal injury. Then a few weeks later, we all stop talking about it and move on to something else we try and care about for a bit. It seems as though ever...…
…All University of Michigan athletics will be paused for two weeks starting Sunday, Jan. 24 in accordance with a recommendation from the state health department according to messages obtained by The Daily and confirmed by a source close to the athletic department. The order, which halts all athletic activity including practice, is limited exclusively to U-M athletics after a recent influx of positive cases within several Michigan...…
…For 3,653 days — long, arduous, hollow days — the Michigan football program lived in the shadows of its unremitting failures against Ohio State. There won’t be a 3,654th day. At long last, that futile streak is over. After eight consecutive bitter losses to the Buckeyes, the Wolverines emerged from The Game victorious. No. 5 Michigan (11-1 overall, 8-1 Big Ten) shocked No. 2 Ohio State (10-2, 8-1), 42-27, clinching the Big Ten...…
…INDIANAPOLIS — Nobody took Jim Harbaugh and Aidan Hutchinson seriously back in July. Yet there they were, sitting behind a podium at Lucas Oil Stadium during Big Ten Media Days, insisting the Michigan football team was ready to take the next step. Asked about beating Ohio State and reaching the Big Ten Championship Game, Harbaugh said the Wolverines would “get there or die trying.” Hutchinson, too, affirmed his willingness t...…
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…The University of Michigan’s Central Student Government held their annual executive debate Sunday evening to give the campus community an opportunity to hear from the presidential and vice presidential candidates for the 2023- 24 school year. Candidates were able to describe their campaign goals and the main issues they plan to address if elected. Student representatives from The Michigan Daily and The Michigan Review switched o...…
…University of Michigan students gathered at the W38 parking lot, located next to Elbel Field at Hill and South Division streets Sunday afternoon to celebrate Holi, the Hindu festival of colors. Organized by the Ahimsa Council, the Hindu Student Council, the Indian American Student Association and the Indian Student Association, the event was free and open to the public. Holi is celebrated annually to welcome the arr...…
…University of Michigan researchers found improvisational theater classes improve anxiety symptoms and lessen uncertainty intolerance in adolescents in a February study. The new study focused on students enrolled in improv classes through the Detroit Creativity Project, is the third installment of a series — including previous installments published in 2019 and 2020 — investigating the link between improv and impro...…
…The Ann Arbor Film Festival’s series of short film competitions showcases the beauty and unique nature of experimental film. The festival’s Films in Competition 2 session featured seven films ranging from five minutes to around half an hour. Each film was completely different in style and theme, requiring me to constantly readjust. From the pastels of “Roses, Pink and Blue” to the startling acoustics of “South Los Angeles Stree...…
…I visited the house I grew up in over Spring Break. My fam- ily moved a while back, but we haven’t been able to sell it yet, so it sits empty. The room that our Christmas tree would always light up was being painted, and I was taken back to when I was 12 years old — just about to leave primary school — when I got “Pokémon Black 2” for Christ- mas. I was about two years younger than its protagonist, but a year older than the origi- n...…
…S T A T E M E N T 6— Wednesday, March 29, 2023 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com “Breaks always come right when you need them”– a wise person once told me this. Over the course of my college career, I’ve heard this phrase time and time again, whether it be courtesy of similarly stressed university students counting down the days until winter break, or a chanting placation in my own head. Regardless, it seems as though the ...…
…S T A T E M E N T michigandaily.com — The Michigan Daily Wednesday, March 29, 2023— 7 At the age of 16, from 4 to 5 p.m. for the better part of two weeks, I sat on a damp towel in Franklin, Mass. reading aloud to some of my cabin mates at an Armenian summer camp. Like many summer camps, Camp Haiastan was relentlessly regimented. Part of that regimen consisted of an hour of free swim in the afternoons, a chlorine-coated repr...…
…The years spanning 1991 to 1993 are widely recognized as the peak of golden age Hip-Hop. This title has been rightfully earned due to the creativity and diversity pres- ent within the music produced at the time. But what about what came after? Hip-Hop’s evolution and growth in popularity during this period led to the dilution of its creative impact and what I would consider to be a stale placeholder of what once was. By no means do...…
…O n March 7, 2023, University President Santa Ono was inaugurated as the 15th President of the University of Michigan, and was immediately greeted with a crisis inherited from presidents past. Promptly after his inauguration ceremony, freshly minted President Ono was met by hundreds of students in front of Hill Auditorium. Among those present were members of the Graduate Employees’ Organization carrying signs with...…
…“ Call your mom,” he said, followed by a long, drawn-out pause. “Everybody.” Only after a raise of the eyebrows and direct eye contact with every individual in the audience did he continue. “I’ve told this (to) like a billion people or so. Call your mom, call your dad. If you’re lucky enough to have a parent or two alive on this planet, call them. Don’t text, don’t email, call them on the phone and tell them you love them ...…
…Just two games stand between the Michigan hockey team and ascendance. By no means should it be a sur- prise that the third-ranked team in the Pairwise is heading to Tampa and the Frozen Four with a shot at the title. That much, even with a nail-biting overtime clash against Penn State, could be expected. Up until now, in the NCAA Tourna- ment the Wolverines have simply been doing what they should have done — thrash a low-ranked team...…
…A LLENTOWN, Pa. — When Mackie Samoskevich ripped his patented wris- ter into the back of the net 52 seconds into overtime, it was a familiar sight. The sophomore forward beat an opposing goalie with his shot. The No. 1 seed Michigan hockey team pulled off overtime hero- ics. Another dramatic comeback victory. The Wolverines had seen this all before. But held scoreless for 52 min- utes by No. 2 seed Penn State, the highest scoring...…
…WOMEN’S MONTH In observance of Women’s History Month, The Daily’s sports section is launching its sixth annual series aimed at telling the stories of female athletes, coaches and teams at the University from the perspective of the female writers on staff. LILA TURNER/Daily ANNA FUDER/Daily ASHLEY GRAY/Daily GRACE BEAL/Daily …
…The newness of Erin Virtue’s tenure as Michigan’s new head volleyball coach is obvious. Just walk into her office in Weiden- bach Hall where a new name adorns the door. And that’s pretty much all that hangs on the walls. Blank walls, void of memo- ries, but with plenty of room to make new ones. Blank walls, save for one thing. One golden thing: her Olympic gold medal. That medal highlights Virtue’s pin- nacle. She’s summited the mountai...…
…Wednesday, March 29, 2023 / / Women’s Month — 3 Before Jen Klein took the reins as head coach of the Michigan women’s soccer team in 2018, the Wolverines had not won a Big Ten Tournament title in over 20 years. Beyond that, they hadn’t made it to the NCAA Tournament since 2016. With the introduction of Klein, however, the team hoped to reach new heights. And in the five years since she took the reins, they’ve done just that. In 2021...…
…After Naomi Morrison’s mother, JoAnn, learned that her daughter taught herself how to do a back handspring on the side of the house, she decided it was time to enroll Naomi in gymnastics. That decision began her lifelong love of the sport. Now a junior at Michigan currently ranked 17th in the nation on the floor, with first-team Big Ten honors for the second straight season, Morrison has had an impressive career so far at Mich- igan...…
…Wednesday, March 29, 2023 / / Women’s Month — 5 For senior gymnast Gabby Wilson, attending Michigan was just a matter of when. Born in Ann Arbor and raised in Ypsilanti, the University has always been on Wilson’s radar athletically and aca- demically. The athlete gene runs in the family. Her parents were All-Americans on the track and field teams of Illinois and East- ern Michigan. Her younger sister runs on the track and field team ...…
…Academics or athletics? Most top student athletes don’t need to choose between the two. But, for freshman women’s club hockey player Julia Lindahl, her journey started with that choice. “Honestly, I ultimately decided on Michigan because of the academics,” Lindahl said. “I never really looked into the hockey program in depth or con- tacted the coaching staff until getting accepted.” Lindahl chose Michigan because of its academic oppo...…
…Wednesday, March 29, 2023 / / Women’s Month — 7 It was six o’clock in the morning. The sun hadn’t even begun to rise and Ann Arbor was still bundled up under the covers. Most people hadn’t stepped out of bed, let alone started their day. But Abigail O’Connor isn’t most people. At 6 a.m., football practice was well underway, and she was doing what- ever it took to motivate her players. Even if that meant taking strength and conditioni...…
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…The word “showtime” evokes two images: first, a rising curtain, and second, a 12-year era (1979-1991) of entertaining Los Angeles Lakers basketball. “Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty” is a gritty HBO sports drama with Hollywood appeal beyond the Lakers fan base. Based on Jeff Pearlman’s nonfiction book, “Showtime: Magic, Kareem, Riley, and the Los Angeles Lakers Dynasty of the 1980s,” “Winning Time” is a fictionalizat...…
…4 Disney’s still too scared to say “gay” For decades, Disney has prided itself on creating magic. Disney’s products are designed to add some magic to life, to create an escape from the greater problems of the world. But all of that work promoting itself as a source of joy and happily-ever-after sometimes seems like a shiny coat of paint over a cluster of wider issues. The truth is, when you wish upon Disney’s star … well, it might ...…
…Wednesday, June 29, 2022 — 5 Michigan in Color The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Watch more Telugu movies (and listen to ThyGap!) SMARANI KOMANDURI MiC Columnist Maybe I’m biased, but Telugu films never get the recognition they deserve. Only recently have Telugu films become more readily available in their original language via streaming platforms and screened in theaters worldwide, increasing accessibility. Out of the top 87 hi...…
… The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Opinion 6 — Wednesday, June 29, 2022 BRANDON COWIT Managing Editor Stanford Lipsey Student Publications Building 420 Maynard St. Ann Arbor, MI 48109 tothedaily@michigandaily.com Edited and managed by students at the University of Michigan since 1890. VANESSA KIEFER Editor in Chief Think about a time when you’ve heard a comment about college athletes not going to school “for school.” Maybe, in...…
…Wednesday, June 29, 2022 — 7 Sports The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Absence of female athletic directors in the NCAA stands out TAYLOR DANIELS Daily Sports Writer The concept of women in sports often centers around the idea of female athletes. But there are so many roles beyond athletes that are crucial to the functioning of a team behind the scenes. For every school and for every sport, the athletic director is a role that i...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Sports 8 — Wednesday, June 29, 2022 Task Force on Women in Sports shows that Title IX isn’t enough in Michigan In 2019, Governor Gretchen Whitmer created the Task Force on Women in Sports in the leadup to the 50th anniversary of Title IX with the goal of creating “opportunities in Michigan for girls and women in sports” and increasing the presence of women in leadership positions in the larg...…
…Content warning: Sexual assault More than one hundred protesters gathered outside the Postma Family Clubhouse at the University of Michigan Golf Course Sept. 23, where the Board of Regents were meeting in person for the first time since March 2020. The crowd protested the University’s handling of allegations of sexual abuse against late University athletic doctor Robert Anderson and demanded stronger accountabil...…
…The President of Latvia, his Excel- lency Egils Levits, discussed several key issues regarding foreign and domestic policy at an event hosted by the Uni- versity of Michigan Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia and the University of Michigan Law School on Sept. 23. The talk included Geneviève Zubrzycki, WCEE director and profes- sor of sociology, and Daniel Halbers- tam, Eric Stein Collegiate Professor of Law and director of the ...…
…The University of Michigan announced a finalized sexual and gender-based misconduct policy on Thursday that includes more concrete definitions of misconduct, clarifies ways to report misconduct and out- lines procedures for addressing sexual and gender-based misconduct allega- tions. This policy replaces the interim umbrella policy, Standard Practice Guide and other related policies that were instituted in August 2020. The new po...…
…The pains of sharing a photo on Instagram are almost never ending. A pimple too big, a filter too “cheugy” and a smile too large can all be deemed a final flaw. Even after finding the right photo, there is still the aesthetic to consider — pulling and twisting a photo you love to fit into the dollhouse that is your profile page. This pre-post step is mandatory: You have to clean up the clutter in an image, so it can perfectly occupy...…
…Picture this: a lazy Monday afternoon. I’m sitting on my couch in the 100 degree weather of Mumbai, India, scrolling through Twitter. Now, every few days, I’ll see the occasional insightful Tweet, but none stuck with me quite like this one: “Gen Z will drink one medium caramel latte, not eat a single thing till 4 p.m., verbally abuse a racist, crack a joke about their mental health and pick up a tear gas canister with their b...…
…Over the course of the past year, local and state governments have urgently declared racism as a public health crisis. On Aug. 5, 2020, Gov. Gretchen Whitmer signed an executive directive to this end and created the Black Leadership Advisory Council as an advisory capacity to develop and direct racially equitable policies and actions in Michigan. These declarations were long overdue, and both the COVID-19 pandemic and the surge in ...…
