…ALMOST HOME Mike Persak, Managing Sports Editor TheMichiganDaily, www.michigandaily.com FootballSaturday, September 7, 2018 4B Formally a Wolverine, Drake Harris will return to Ann Arbor on Saturday a Bronco. Drake Harris will run through the Michigan Stadium tunnel Saturday. His band will play the fight song, and his team will take the field. Since arriving in Ann Arbor five years ago, it will be the last time Harris will pl...…
…hamstring injury, and it was legit, and he could never really rattle that. And I’ve never had a hamstring (injury), but he said it was the most painful thing ever and it kept coming back to him.” The season passed, but the hamstring injuries persisted. Harris left for Ann Arbor, joining a roster that was already packed with talent, still trying to return from his setback. Harris redshirted the 2014 season. That year, the Wolverin...…
…FootballSaturday, September 7, 2018 6B Breakdown: Michigan vs. WMU By ETHAN WOLFE Daily Sports Writer Six days after losing to No. 8 Notre Dame, the sky still isn’t falling and Michigan football is still playing in its home opener on Saturday against Western Michigan. But what happened in South Bend was more realization than revelation — the oft-praised Wolverines (0-1 overall) had problems to manage on both sides of the ball. T...…
…7B TheMichiganDaily, www.michigandaily.com given the pressure that Broncos’ quarterback Jon Wassink will face, but could see a different kind of battle on Saturday than they did the previous week. Western Michigan’s D’Wayne Eskridge, at 5-foot-9, put up video game numbers against Syracuse, hauling in eight catches for 240 yards and two scores. His counterpart, Jayden Reed, had a noteworthy seven receptions for 121 yards an...…
…FootballSaturday, September 7, 2018 8B What to Watch For: WMU By MARK CALCAGNO Daily Sports Editor Last week, the Michigan football team entered Notre Dame Stadium looking for a statement win. And as had been the case the previous 16 times the Wolverines played a ranked team on the road, they didn’t get one. On the surface, a 24-17 defeat at hands of the country’s twelfth-ranked team isn’t that concerning. But aspect...…
…michigandaily.com Thursday, June 7, 2018 INDEX Vol. CXXVII, No. 119 | © 2018 The Michigan Daily michigandaily.com NEWS .................................... OPINION ............................... ARTS/PHOTO ...................... MiC......................................... SPORTS................................ MICHIGAN IN COLOR Why ‘Dear White People’ is impor- tant “I loved every second of it.” >> SEE PAGE 9 NEWS U-M Abroad Ac...…
…2 Thursday, June 7, 2018 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com NEWS Council Discusses Game Day Condos Councilmembers review zoning laws By SAYALI AMIN Daily Staff Reporter On Monday June 4, Ann Arbor City Council convened to discuss a variety of issues, including the Unified Development Code as well as implications of zoning laws on the proposed construction of new game- day condos. The revision of the UDC was first brought up b...…
…3 NEWS Thursday, June 7, 2018 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Event honors community Downtown festival celebrates African American businesses By ROB DALKA Daily Staff Reporter On Saturday, the 23rd annual African American Downtown Festival was held in Kerrytown on the streets of East Ann and North Fourth. Started by Lucille Hall-Porter, the festival is a celebration of African Amer- ican culture and the local African...…
…4 Thursday, June 7, 2018 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. I spent this past weekend moving into a new house, “new” meaning not yet lived in by me, but old by all other standards. My father and I rolled up our sleeves and got to work, climbing up and down three stories, arms fille...…
…MARLEE BURRIDGE | COLUMN J ust as ticket prices appear to impact the public’s opinion of women’s sports, so does the sports media. There is little to no coverage of women’s athletics and that leads to a lack of investment, interest and education on the part of the public. It becomes extremely difficult to generate support when the big inf luencers in sports media disregard any important events that happen in the female ...…
…6 Thursday, June 7, 2018 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com ARTS I lingered in the Michigan Theater’s main auditorium last Thursday after the screening of Bo Burnham’s directorial debut, “Eighth Grade.” A crowd of teenagers, young adults and retirees had just finished giving Burnham a standing ovation after his short Q&A and were now streaming out the back of the theater while I fought to make my way to the front. Not a ...…
…7 Thursday, June 7, 2018 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com ARTS At risk of sounding nostalgic, I don’t know if there’s anything better in life than re-living a seemingly perfect memory. Your mind might wander to that familiar place, or the feeling is unwittingly triggered, or you consciously recall it. Either way, for several fleeting seconds, our brain is entirely consumed with the unmatched sights, sounds and emotions of ...…
…8 Thursday, June 7, 2018 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com PHOTO 1014 VAUGHN AVAIL Fall 2018 #1 is being rented by the room for $700/m including utilities If you have a group of 5, rent the whole unit for $3100 plus Electric to DTE #2 is a 6 Bdrm for $3720 plus Electric to DTE • 734‑996‑1991 1015 PACKARD 4 Bdrm Apt Avail Fall 2018 2 parking space, onsite laundry, 1st floor $2830 + Electric to DTE • 734‑996‑1991 422 HAMILTON 2 & 3...…
…9 Thursday June 7, 2018 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com MICHIGAN IN COLOR Voices of Hong Kong, Rise Up When I was younger, the modern history of China, or the People’s Republic of China, including the 1989 democracy movement and Tiananmen Square mas- sacre, was briefly taught in schools in Hong Kong. My curiosity about this taboo history of China was sparked, so I casu- ally brought it up in front of my parents. When I as...…
…10 Thursday, June 7, 2018 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com SPORTS To put it bluntly, the bookends of the Michigan baseball team’s season were a disaster. The Wolverines started their season 4-11, a mark they won’t soon forget, and ended it 2-7. However, in the middle portion, Michigan found itself successful in amassing a 20-game win streak. In a rebuilding season, the Wolverines faced almost everything you can experience in b...…
…11 Thursday, June 7, 2018 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com SPORTS KATELYN MULCHAY / DAILY The Michigan baseball team faced almost everything possible on a baseball field from walk-off wins to brutal losses this season Michigan baseball season in reivew Coming off the back of a second NCAA Tournament appearance in three years and their first 40-win season since 2008, head coach Erik Bakich and the Michigan baseball team were looki...…
…12 Thursday, June 7 2018 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com SPORTS After heavy speculation into his rumored departure, Michigan coach John Beilein unequivocally announced his plans to stay with the Wolverines for the foreseeable future. Rumors recently surfaced of Beilein’s potential move further east in the state of Michigan to undertake the head coaching job for the Detroit Pistons. After firing coach Stan Van Gun...…
…The University of Michigan’s Central Student Government met Tuesday evening to address topics including revisions to the Campus Affordability Guide, additional installations of water refill stations on campus, as well as the upcoming election for CSG representatives for the 2018-2019 academic year. The assembly also discussed the continued inclusion of free menstrual products in various locations across campus. The m...…
…plans to stay at the University for 10 years before moving on to other work. According to Lewis, the Center will pull students and faculty “across school and disciplinary lines” to research current problems and brainstorm concrete solutions. The Center for Social Solutions will channel the University’s brainpower and resources into direct action. “I came to realize that in the academy, in certain parts of the academy, we s...…
…“neck-down” problems. “Women’s sexual response is a lot more complicated than men’s,” Bruns said. The female sexual stimulant drug, often referred to as Addyi, was made available in 2015 to help address women with a low libido. However, to this point, no such therapy exists for improving the sexual response of women relating to their “neck-down” problems, or problems in their genitalia. In this published study, Bruns’s lab use...…
…Opinion The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com 4A— Wednesday, March 7, 2018 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 A beginner’s guide to effective gun control More than just a wall I n the wake of the latest horrific tragedy of the mass s...…
…5A — Wednesday, March 7, 2018 Arts The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Ypsilanti-born Fred Thomas has been making music since 1992. In addition to nine solo albums — his most recent, Changer, was released in Jan. 2017 — he has contributed to countless projects and played in a myriad of bands, including Tyvek, Hydropark, Saturday Looks Good To Me and so many others. Though a longtime fixture of the local scene, Thomas as a solo pe...…
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…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Sports Wednesday, March 7, 2018 — 7A After tournament championship, ‘M’ approaches uncommon off week So now what? After claiming the Big Ten Tournament Championship for a second year in a row, the Michigan men’s basketball team is riding high. It vaulted to No. 7 in the AP poll released on Monday, and continues to climb up bracket projections, now seemingly locked into a top- four seed — b...…
…8A — Wednesday, March 7, 2018 Sports The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com A look inside Michigan’s lifting program with strength coach Jamie Priess We see Michigan women’s basketball players knocking down shots, grabbing boards and drawing up plays. But the fans rarely get to witness the preparation that goes into the final spectacle. They don’t know about the daily lives consumed with practice, game planning and watching film...…
…East to West statement THE MICHIGAN DAILY | MARCH 7, 2018 …
…I n a fit of extreme agitation the night before our first class, I haphazardly threw together another three lesson plans. Anxiety meant that sleep was improbable and creating increasingly incoherent worksheets honestly seemed like the best option. The next day, I would meet my group of English as a Second language adult learners, the people I’d spend the next four months tutoring through a local non-profit called Washtenaw Lite...…
…3B Wednesday, March 7, 2018 // The Statement Brews Through: Panther Coffee, Dr. Smood, by Chloe I t’s not so surprising that the pale Michigander seeks sunshine and warmth from the dead cold. When winter lasts nine months of the year, we forget what it feels like to wear shorts and have sunscreen slathered in splotches on your face. I went to get some blood work done recently and it turns out I am suffering from a dangerous ...…
…My grandfather’s escape from East Germany Wednesday, March 7, 2018 // The Statement 4B Wednesday, March 7, 2018 // The Statement 5B East to West T he year was 1960, and tear- ing through the farmland on his motorcycle was my grandfather Helmut Krenz, age 20. A few hours later, he would be jailed in a cold East German prison cell, imprisoned because he tried to escape his authoritarian government. Without the risks he would underta...…
…Wednesday, March 7, 2018 // The Statement 6B Do UC me A t first, I thought my illness was the flu or maybe the dreaded norovirus—nothing out of the ordinary for a college student. But I was in for a rude awakening. Little did I know my symptoms were actually the beginning of an entirely new life challenge I was totally unprepared for. I found out one year ago these developing symptoms were actually ulcerative colitis, a chro...…
…I ’m back, facade up and ready to soundtrack once again. The Winter Olympics — the only time America is actually invested in sports like ski slalom and shuffleboard on ice. In an effort to declare our country the global champions of snow, millions of Americans gather around the TV for the month of February in their homes, libraries or respective newsrooms to witness heartbreaks and triumphs. We laugh, we cry, we stare in ...…
…Wednesday, March 7, 2018 // The Statement 8B V I S U A L S T A T E M E N T : A c r o s s r o a d o f p a s t , p r e s e n t a n d f u t u r e A week before Spring Break, one of the editors at Michigan in Color, Na’kia Channey, reached out to me spontaneously, “Hey. Would you like to come to D.C. with us to photograph?” “Uh … I guess.” I was told that the purpose of this trip to D.C. was to explore the forgotten history of marginalized c...…
…The University of Michigan’s Central Student Government met Tuesday evening to address issues regarding anti-Semitism on campus, University efforts to transfer to clean energy sources and further revisions to the CSG election code. Additionally, the assembly continued their discussion regarding improved sexual assault prevention training and appointed several new student representatives. Before agenda items were considered...…
…420 Maynard St. Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1327 www.michigandaily.com NEWS TIPS news@michigandaily.com LETTERS TO THE EDITOR tothedaily@michigandaily.com EDITORIAL PAGE opinion@michigandaily.com NATHAN GUPTA Business Manager 734-418-4115 ext. 1241 nathankg@michigandaily.com ALEXA ST. JOHN Editor in Chief 734-418-4115 ext. 1251 alexastj@michigandaily.com The Michigan Daily (ISSN 0745-967) is published Monday through Friday during the ...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com News Monday, February 7, 2018 — 3A E NTRE PRE NEUR SHIP AT ROSS Elmira Bayrasli, a professor and an entrepreneurship expert, discusses the impact entrepreneurship has on the economies of low and middle- income countries at the Ross School of Business Tuesday. BRIAN AUSTIN KOSASIH/Daily and for the most part everyone was galvanized to be like ‘Oh, we need to do something about this.’” In fact, not...…
…W hen Carl Sagan died in 1996, we lost one of the world’s greatest science communicators, leaving a vacancy that has yet to be filled by any modern scientist. He wrote essays to advocate for science education, published books and created one of the most popular science television programs, “Cosmos.” When I was a kid, my grandmother would record television programs so I would have something to ...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Arts Wednesday, February 7, 2018 — 5A It’s hard not to fall in love with Jessica Williams (“The Incredible Jessica James”) and Phoebe Robinson (“Broad City”). The two best friends — both outspoken New York- based comedians who host the aptly titled podcast “2 Dope Queens” — not only have infectious personalities and a magnetic rapport, but are also intensely attuned to almost everyt...…
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…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Sports Wednesday, February 7, 2018 — 7A Notebook: Michigan hoping to cut down on penalties, LaFontaine sees the ice Last weekend in the Michigan hockey team’s critical series with No. 17 Wisconsin, there was no shortage of punches thrown from either team. With rivalry games against in-state foe Michigan State on the horizon for the Wolverines, physicality and aggression are likely to play a ro...…
…8A —Wednesday, February 7, 2018 Sports The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Michigan falls to Northwestern on the road, 61-52 ROSEMONT, Ill. — One team made shots and the other one didn’t. It’s as simple as a basketball game can become. There are reasons for why the Michigan men’s basketball team shot 38.6 percent from the floor and Northwestern shot 50 percent from deep in the second half. But the reasons don’t matter. I...…
…statement THE MICHIGAN DAILY | FEBRUARY 7, 2018 Michigan in Color …
…Y ou can’t scroll through your news feed without encountering the latest Insider video highlighting some trendy restaurant with some weird food. The latest trends fall into several categories: lots of cheese, extra desserts, colorful combinations and fusion food. Now that millennials are killing chain restaurants, a successful business is all about avoiding uniformity, and with that has come a wave of ethnic cuisine...…
…3B Wednesday, February 7, 2018 // The Statement Critical Questions: Identity Politics A re Middle Eastern and Northern African people Caucasian, African or Asian? Last November, the group of students who identify as ME/ NA said no to all three and demanded to be recognized as a distinct category by the University of Michigan through their #WeExist campaign. It makes sense that ME/NA students would want their own identity in ...…
…Wednesday, February 7, 2018 // The Statement 4B An oral history of MiC F or Michigan in Color’s fourth anniversary, we sat down with two of our three co-founders — Kayla Upadhyaya and Rima Fadhallah — to discuss their lives after graduation, the challenges they faced and their hopes for the future of the section. Reflecting on their time at MiC, the two were confident in the platform they built. However, they were still ex...…
…E ach year, Michigan in Color invites graduating editors to write about their experience and advice for the incoming cohort. In honor of MiC’s fourth birthday, we extended the opportunity to all former editors to reflect on their time at MiC. Here’s what they had to say: Adam Brodnax, Business Senior, MiC ‘17 “Giving advice to a space I just left feels so hard to articulate. I miss this space so much and after meeting ...…
…Wednesday, February 7, 2018 // The Statement 6B Dear future Michigan in Color editors T he Michigan in Color of today is not the same as the one of yesterday, or even the one of tomorrow. From radical column to bona fide Daily section, MiC continues to grow to meet the needs of communities of color across campus. Along with sharing the narratives of the lives of students of color, we are expand- ing to focus on lighter content with...…
…Wednesday, February 7, 2018 // The Statement 7B could not get WA to apologize and had to, instead, apologize profusely on WA’s behalf. Andrew told Zeinab and I that he wanted to meet with us again in the coming weeks to discuss ways to make the Daily more inclusive to and repre- sentative of people of color on campus. Shortly after this incident, I approached Zeinab Khalil with her idea for the column and she helped me refine ...…
…Wednesday February 7, 2018 // The Statement 8B V I S U A L S T A T E M E N T : Đêm Viet Nam (A Night in Vietnam) Photos by Chun So whose three initiatives support the sustainable development of Vietnamese communities by combating human trafficking, enhancing children’s education, and empowering women to become leaders. The Đêm Viet Nam executive board of VSA was the organizer of this year’s Đêm Viet Nam. Executive members in...…
…If all had gone to plan on Thursday morning, student employees of the University Unions would be sitting in the Board of Regents meeting room in protest of white nationalist Richard Spencer’s potentially speaking on campus. After a meeting with Unions administrators earlier this week, the employees shifted their efforts to public spaces to avoid risk of termination. As the board convenes two weeks after the University...…
…WYA SNOW? puzzle by sudokusyndication.com 2A — Thursday, December 7, 2017 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com 420 Maynard St. Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1327 www.michigandaily.com ARTS SECTION arts@michigandaily.com SPORTS SECTION sports@michigandaily.com ADVERTISING dailydisplay@gmail.com NEWS TIPS news@michigandaily.com LETTERS TO THE EDITOR tothedaily@michigandaily.com EDITORIAL PAGE opinion@michigandaily.com NATHAN GUPTA Busi...…
