…michigandaily.com Ann Arbor, Michigan Wednesday, November 4, 2015 ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY-FIVE YEARS OF EDITORIAL FREEDOM INDEX Vol. CXXV, No. 24 ©2015 The Michigan Daily michigandaily.com NEWS......................... 2A OPINION.....................4A ARTS.......................... 5A SPORTS ......................7A CL ASSIFIEDS...............6A T H E S TAT E M E N T. . . . . . . .1 B NEW ON MICHIGANDAILY.COM No Filter: ‘Beasts of No ...…
…michigandaily.com Ann Arbor, Michigan Thursday, November 12, 2015 ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY-FIVE YEARS OF EDITORIAL FREEDOM INDEX Vol. CXXV, No. 28 ©2015 The Michigan Daily michigandaily.com NEWS......................... 2A OPINION.....................4A SPORTS...................... 5A SUDOKU..................... 2A CL ASSIFIEDS...............6A B - S I D E . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 B NEW ON MICHIGANDAILY.COM VIDEO: Stude...…
…michigandaily.com Ann Arbor, Michigan Wednesday, November 11, 2015 ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY-FIVE YEARS OF EDITORIAL FREEDOM GOVERNMENT Ford School hosts discussion with Rep. Dave Camp and Rep. Mike Rogers By LYDIA MURRAY Daily Staff Reporter Two alums of the U.S. House of Representatives — former Republican Congressmen Dave Camp and Mike Rogers — addressed a crowd of 120 people Tuesday night during the Ford School of Public Poli...…
…michigandaily.com Ann Arbor, Michigan Monday, November 9, 2015 ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY-FIVE YEARS OF EDITORIAL FREEDOM Michigan dismantles Rutgers in blowout victory » INSIDE SportsMonday Annual event showcases traditional forms of dance, music By TANYA MADHANI Daily Staff Reporter Fifteen minutes before the start of Michigan Sahana’s fall semester show, LSA senior Hamsini Rao, president of the organization, stood in ...…
…michigandaily.com Ann Arbor, Michigan Friday, November 6, 2015 ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY-FIVE YEARS OF EDITORIAL FREEDOM Sam McGuffie’s path from football to bobsledding » INSIDE Football Saturday MATT VAILLIENCOURT/Daily Black Lives Matter protesters gather in front of Ann Arbor City Hall on Thursday evening to honor the one year anniversary of the death of Ann Arbor resident Aura Rosser. Demonstrators held signs calling for the firing o...…
…michigandaily.com Ann Arbor, Michigan Thursday, November 5, 2015 ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY-FIVE YEARS OF EDITORIAL FREEDOM A look at the Blind Pig’s annual Halloween Band Masquerade » INSIDE the b-side Five additional school districts could offer tuition scholarships By EMMA KINERY Daily Staff Reporter Michigan state legislators are pushing to expand a program that currently provides free under- graduate college tuition to certai...…
…michigandaily.com Ann Arbor, Michigan Tuesday, November 10, 2015 ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY-FIVE YEARS OF EDITORIAL FREEDOM INDEX Vol. CXXV, No. 27 ©2015 The Michigan Daily michigandaily.com N E WS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 O PI N I O N . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 A RT S . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 S P O R T S . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .7 S U D O K U . . . ....…
…michigandaily.com Ann Arbor, Michigan Tuesday, November 3, 2015 ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY-FIVE YEARS OF EDITORIAL FREEDOM Discussion points to special interests as detriment to the collective good By DANIEL OH For the Daily Hundreds filled Rackham Auditorium on Monday to hear Naomi Klein, a noted Canadian author and social activist, discuss her new book, “This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate.” The book dis...…
…michigandaily.com Ann Arbor, Michigan Wednesday, November 25, 2015 ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY-FIVE YEARS OF EDITORIAL FREEDOM Scenes from the iconic shops that house literary treasures » INSIDE bookstores galore GOVERNMENT Surgeries resume after contamination caused cancellations, postponements By SAMANTHA WINTNER Daily Staff Reporter U.S. Rep. Debbie Dingell (D– Dearborn) sent an inquiry Mon- day to the director of tzxzhe VA Ann ...…
…michigandaily.com Ann Arbor, Michigan Friday, November 13, 2015 ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY-FIVE YEARS OF EDITORIAL FREEDOM The Michigan men’s basketball team embarks on its 100th season » INSIDE tip-off Institutional racism must be acknowledged By THE MICHIGAN DAILY Editorial Board The University community is no stranger to protests in recent years with several student groups calling for the administration to improve race relations ...…
…michigandaily.com Ann Arbor, Michigan Wednesday, November 18, 2015 ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY-FIVE YEARS OF EDITORIAL FREEDOM STUDENT GOVERNMENT Assembly hopes updates will increase student activity in the building By JACKIE CHARNIGA Daily Staff Reporter Renovation plans for the Michigan Union are moving forward. Loren Rullman, associate vice president for student life, spoke with Central Student Government at their weekl...…
…michigandaily.com Ann Arbor, Michigan Monday, November 16, 2015 ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY-FIVE YEARS OF EDITORIAL FREEDOM Michigan escaped Indiana to stay in the Big Ten title hunt » INSIDE Survive and dvance ‘U’ confirms safety of 14 students, faculty and staff in France By LARA MOEHLMAN Daily Staff Reporter With Paris still reeling after a series of terrorist attacks hit the city Friday night, about 80 students gathered on the ...…
…michigandaily.com Ann Arbor, Michigan Monday, November 23, 2015 ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY-FIVE YEARS OF EDITORIAL FREEDOM Michigan beat Penn State to set up a showdown with Ohio State » INSIDE One more GRANT HARDY /Daily SNOW MUCH FU N ‘M’ Big Ten title chances still alive ACADEMICS WORLD FOOTBALL Union sees room for pay growth but notes above average wages, conditions By LYDIA MURRAY Daily Staff Reporter Good — but not pe...…
…michigandaily.com Ann Arbor, Michigan Friday, November 20, 2015 ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY-FIVE YEARS OF EDITORIAL FREEDOM Students reflect on progress toward goals, current campus climate By ALYSSA BRANDON Daily Staff Reporter As the Black Student Union honors the second anniversary of its 2013 #BBUM Twitter campaign, dozens crowded into the Trotter House Multicultural Center on Thursday night for a candid conversation on the la...…
…By AMELIA ZAK Daily Music Editor Vanessa Carlton was a fading memory in the minds of ’90s kids everywhere, her name merely standing as an indication of the seminal classic, “A Thousand Miles.” From 2002 to 2005, Carlton’s sugary piano ballads filled the radio airwaves. These Billboard-topping hits, like “A Thousand Miles,” “White Houses,” and “Ordinary Day,” were a heavy load to bear for one so young. The fast fame swallowed...…
…michigandaily.com Ann Arbor, Michigan Thursday, November 19, 2015 ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY-FIVE YEARS OF EDITORIAL FREEDOM A look at a revamped version of your Thanksgiving favorites » INSIDE the thanksgiving b-side After pushback, ‘U’ continues to mull process for releasing data By CAMY METWALLY Daily Staff Reporter Over the past few months, the University’s course evaluations — and whether their results will be released to stud...…
…michigandaily.com Ann Arbor, Michigan Tuesday, November 24, 2015 ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY-FIVE YEARS OF EDITORIAL FREEDOM INDEX Vol. CXXV, No. 35 ©2015 The Michigan Daily michigandaily.com NEWS............................2 OPINION.......................4 ARTS............................. 5 SPORTS.........................7 SU DO K U. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 CL ASSIFIEDS.................6 NEW ON MICHIGANDAILY.COM Commu...…
…American Assoc. for Advancement of Science promotes research, innovation By ALEXA ST. JOHN Daily Staff Reporter Six University faculty members have been elected fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Faculty recently elected to the society are Internal Medicine Prof. John Carethers, chair of the department; James Dalton, dean of the College of Pharmacy; William Giannobile, professor of d...…
…michigandaily.com Ann Arbor, Michigan Monday, November 2, 2015 ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY-FIVE YEARS OF EDITORIAL FREEDOM Michigan brings the trophy back to Ann Arbor with win » INSIDE Little Brown Jug Michigan stops Minnesota at half- yard line on final play to win, 29-26 By MAX BULTMAN Daily Sports Editor MINNEAPOLIS — It came down to one play, a few inches and a lesson Jim Harbaugh hopes his players carry with them for the re...…
…Gessen argued that people need to take the repercussions of totalitarian regimes seriously, no matter how preposterous they seem, rather than risk the great tragedy that can occur if Western countries ignore them. “We’re so rational we don’t like to believe in things that are preposterous, and it gives us a lot of satisfaction to feel more intelligent and just sort of sniff at things,” she said. “But it is so much better to ha...…
…make up 13 percent of the U.S. population, they only make up 1.5 percent of the University’s student population. “We are a very underrepresented demographic,” Strup said. “What the University might want to consider is trying to recruit more military personnel to pursue a life here at Michigan after they get out.” Robert Kraynak is a first- year graduate student pursuing both an MBA from the School of Business and an M...…
…sharing, which involves real- time information sharing between the government and the private sector. “The amount of information that the private sector, a company like Google or Amazon, collects on you every day is staggering,” he said. “They know more about you than you could possibly imagine. The NSA would dream about having a database like that.” However, he noted efforts to allow cyber sharing, including a ...…
…petition to point out a hole in the CSG Election Code which allowed the creation of such an organization. To make his point, he founded LINPAC, which stands for Likeminded Individuals Networking to Passionately Advocate on Campus. He said under the current code, the organization could essentially operate like the PACs that fund state and federal elections. “The decision to create it was literally a joke,” Lin said in an i...…
…Police have identified the man who stabbed four people at the University of California’s Merced campus as 18-year- old freshman Faisal Mohamma, CNN reported. Mohamma used an 8 to 10 inch knife in the attack. 2A — Friday, November 6, 2015 News The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com THREE THINGS YOU SHOULD KNOW TODAY The Michigan football team will play host to Rutgers on Saturday. The Wolverines enter the game as heavy favorites c...…
…Immunotherapy, a type of therapy that has been researched extensively in recent years and aims to employ the body’s immune sys- tem to fight off some cancers, was a focus of the research led by Weiping Zou, the Univer- sity’s Charles B. de Nancrede professor of surgery, immunol- ogy and biology and the direc- tor of translational research. Zou said the fields in which the study was based — tumor biology and immunotherapy — ar...…
…2 — Tuesday, November 10, 2015 News The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com THREE THINGS YOU SHOULD KNOW TODAY The Michigan men’s tennis team competed in two tournaments over the weekend. Redshirt sophomore Davis Crocker won six straight matches to take the singles’ title. >>FOR MORE, SEE PG. 7 2 CAMPUS EVENTS & NOTES Greenhouse gases have surpassed 400 parts per million in most of the world, The Washington Post reported. A...…
…and evaluation experts — to determine whether the current course evaluation instrument is in line with best practices. If it is not, the committee will be charged with recommending a new instrument. According to Weineck, University Provost Martha Pollack wants the issue of how and when to release course evaluation data to be decided by faculty and students. “(Pollack) seemed very, very open to having students and facult...…
…2A — Wednesday, November 25, 2015 News The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com EMILIE FARRUGIA/Daily School of Music, Theatre & Dance graduate student Joseph Swift plays the bassoon during the SMTD performance at Hill Auditorium on Tuesday. At least 11 people have died in a bomb attack in Tunisia. The blast hit a bus transporting Tunisian presidential guards, and the government has declared a state of emergency, Reuters re...…
…2-News THREE THINGS YOU SHOULD KNOW TODAY Under-recruited and often overlooked, senior guard Spike Albrecht enters his final year with the Michigan men’s basketball team with his sights set high. >>SEE TIP-OFF, PAGE 1B 2 Webster reading series WHAT: Hannah Louise Poston and Helena Smith will present their work. WHO: Helen Zell Writers’ Program WHEN: Today from 7 p.m. to 8 p.m. WHERE: Museum of Art, Helmut Stern Auditoriu...…
…RITA MORRIS/Daily Third-year Pharmacy student Charlotte Buckley crafts a piggy bank during her ceramics class in the Art & Architecture Building on Tuesday. ZOEY HOLMSTROM/Daily Mock wage board speakers discuss the $15 minimum wage for student workers in Weill Hall on Tuesday. After droughts and floods throughout the country, North Korea is experiencing damage and shortage in cabbage crops, the Guardian reported. Cabbage ...…
…2A — Monday, November 16, 2015 News The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com THREE THINGS YOU SHOULD KNOW TODAY Michigan quarterback Jake Rudock set a school record with six passing touchdowns on Saturday in the Wolverines’ 48-41 win at Indiana. With the win, Michigan improved to 8-2. >>SEE SPORTS, PAGE 1B 2 CAMPUS EVENTS & NOTES North Korean film screening WHAT: The first North Korean film made purely for entertainment will ...…
…2A — Monday, November 23, 2015 News The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com News THREE THINGS YOU SHOULD KNOW TODAY The Michigan football team can clinch a berth in the Big Ten Championship with a win over Ohio State at Michigan Stadium and a Michigan State loss to Penn State in East Lansing on Saturday. 2 CAMPUS EVENTS & NOTES IT Symposium WHAT: Aiming to foster connections in the community, the event will showcase innovations...…
…2 — Friday, November 20, 2015 News The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com THREE THINGS YOU SHOULD KNOW TODAY The Michigan women’s basketball team cruised past Xavier, 92-54, on Thursday night to move to 3-0 on the season. Jillian Dunston had a double-double in the victory. >>SEE SPORTS, PAGE 7 2 CAMPUS EVENTS & NOTES Argriculture lunch panel WHAT: Three panelists will discuss the intersection of law, policy and ur...…
…2 — Tuesday, November 17, 2015 News The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com THREE THINGS YOU SHOULD KNOW TODAY The Michigan men’s basketball team overcame a slow start and rolled to an 88-68 rout of Elon at Crisler Center on Monday. Junior guard Derrick Walton Jr. led the Wolverines with 24 points. 2 CAMPUS EVENTS & NOTES Twenty-six U.S. states announced that they will not be accepting Syrian refugees following Friday’s attac...…
…University Affairs, said faculty members’ portfolios also include their teaching evaluation scores. These portfolios are reviewed by executive committees that make recommendations to the dean for performance-based salary increases. What the surveys themselves look like can differ, sometimes significantly, but each starts with four University-wide questions, commonly known as Q1 through Q4. These questions have been the focus ...…
…2 — Tuesday, November 24, 2015 News The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com THREE THINGS YOU SHOULD KNOW TODAY The Michigan women’s basketball team cruised to a 119-61 blowout of South Carolina Upstate at Crisler Center on Monday night, moving to 4-0 on the year. >>FOR MORE, SEE PG. 7 2 CAMPUS EVENTS & NOTES French police reportedly found an explosive vest in a suburb in southern Paris on Monday, The New York Times re...…
…“The Michigan Constitution vests the power to legislate with the state legislature, not with the state universities,” Dulan wrote. “It is clear that the Board of Regents is powerful within the governance of the University itself, but it has no authority to attempt to usurp the legislature’s constitutionally-delegated role in the state government.” Dulan told media outlets he intended to appeal the decision. A similar court cas...…
…2A — Monday, November 2, 2015 News The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com THREE THINGS YOU SHOULD KNOW TODAY The Michigan hockey team split a two-game series with Robert Morris this weekend at Yost Ice Arena. The Wolverines were shut out Saturday for the first time since Feb. 14 against Minnesota. 2 CAMPUS EVENTS & NOTES Author lecture WHAT: Naomi Klein will talk about her latest book, “Capitalism vs. the Climate” followed ...…
…venues for students to weigh in on several amendments, includ- ing the addition of an honor pledge, include statement edu- cation during new student orientation, specification of a consistent 3-year amendment cycle, specify the scope of viola- tions and formalize the Univer- sity president’s need to chose amendments before the end of the school year. CSG president Cooper Charl- ton, an LSA senior, said CSG General Counsel Jacob P...…
…the students expanded on the reasons that might be. “With the Affordable Care Act and the Healthy Michigan Plan, the number of uninsured patients in Michigan dropped significantly, but they found that they were still left with a steady flow of patients into the clinic for the uninsured,” Williams said. “They had a suspicion that there were reasons why some of those patients could be insured but were not and thought it was just t...…
…said there is more to be done. Earlier in the semester, Schlissel introduced the HAIL scholarship program to attract low-income students by giving them resources and information on financial aid prior to applying for college. In October, he announced a second scholarship — called Wolverine Pathways — which mentors middle and high school students from Southfield and Ypsilanti and gives them a full ride to the University upon ad...…
…research.” He added the experience differs for each student. Though students are technically required to complete research participation in many psychology and communication studies classes, Campbell said there are alternative written assignments for the minority of students who decide not to participate. “I think that’s an important component too; to provide students with a choice,” he said. “Students in ...…
…outlined the University’s plan to reduce carbon emissions. He said the University aims to cut emissions by 25 percent by 2025. One of the biggest contributors to that goal will be the new turbine, which uses natural gas to produce electricity. Once in place, Robben said, the turbine will increase Central Campus’ power plant efficiency significantly. The plant is currently fueled by both gas and oil. “The central power plant is ...…
…gram to “reduce human health and safety risks and property damage” caused by deer within city limits. If the moratorium is approved, the cull will be carried out largely by Wildlife Services, a program within the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service. A resolution authorizing the city’s involvement with Wildlife Services will also be presented at Thursday’s meeting. Amendment to Clean Energ...…
…such as the Black Panthers. “There’s been a profound shift, a historiographical shift, one might say, a political shift, that’s made it possible to write about radical anti-state orga- nizations that was absolutely not true when I was in graduate school,” she said. Murch was working on a book on the Black Panthers when she realized the history of incarcera- tion is central to research on race and marginalized groups. “It started ...…
…it is not uncommon for institutions with expertise on a certain issue to submit briefs to the Supreme Court. He said in this particular case, the University can draw on its own experience to help the court make a sensible decision. In 2006, Michigan voters approved an amendment to the state’s constitution, called Proposal 2, which banned colleges and universities from granting preferential treatment to any student based...…
…patient safety. “While recognizing you are can- celling and moving surgeries to ensure no veterans are being put at risk, this situation is still concern- ing and raises questions about the source of this particulate matter and what actions are being taken to correct the problem,” she wrote. Dingell told the Daily she does believe the hospital both cares about its patients and is trying to handle the situation appropriately, but a...…
…unnamed dystopian society with its main character, Katurian, as a short-story writer. After detectives discover an eerie similarity between the gruesome violence of Katurian’s stories and several recent child murders, he is brought in for questioning. When Katurian hears that his brother Michael has confessed to the murders, including sharing details on their twisted upbringing, Katurian suffocates him as a kind of mercy kil...…
…will come from student fees, but contributions were also made by the Office of Student Life, funds generated by parking permits and the University Athletic Department. “There’s about $80 million allocated to this project,” Rullman said. “I say somewhere in the neighborhood of half of that is going to fixing the plumbing which was put in in 1919.” Jan van den Kieboom, founder and principal of Workshop Architects, said th...…
…returning students incentives to live off campus. From 2009 to 2014, the University’s freshman enrollment remained well over 6,000 students. Part of the initial uptick in applications was attributed to the University’s 2010 decision to join the Common App, an online undergraduate college application which allows students to apply to any of the 622 member schools. Within the University’s first year as a Common App member, und...…
