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…Opinion The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com 4 — Friday, March 22, 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. Ann Arbor, MI 481...…

…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Arts Friday, March 22, 2019 — 5 “All things keep getting better,” goes the “Queer Eye” theme song, a pulsing, techno-dance anthem that always manages to get the dopamine factories churning. This is a show about striving toward self- improvement and recognizing betterment not as a stopping point, but as a way forward. And against the backdrop of a world decidedly not getting better, there’s...…

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…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Sports Friday, March 22, 2019 — 7 A Perfect 10: Natalie Wojcik and the joy of gymnastics In observance of Women’s History Month, The Daily’s sports section is launching its second annual series aimed at telling the stories of female athletes, coaches and teams at the University from the perspective of the female sports writers on staff. We continue the series with this story from Shira Zish...…

…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Sports Friday, March 22, 2019 — 8 For Charles Matthews, it’s back to normal DES MOINES, Iowa — Charles Matthews ran down the floor with some urgency, shooting the moment the ball came to him. He heard the buzzer sound, saw the basket light up red and the ball roll around the rim with the guise of a shooter’s bounce, before falling out. Then he smiled. There was no reason for frustration. M...…

…See DRIVING, Page 3A In 2007, a loose-knit group of skateboarders and skateboard enthusiasts in Ann Arbor decided it was time to create a skatepark in a city that has many other exceptional public amenities. In 2014, after a large community effort, Friends of the Ann Arbor Skatepark — a nonprofit public skatepark in Ann Arbor — was created. Twelve years after this initial push, the skatepark is a thriving nonprofit. And now,...…

…If we want our state to be amongst the most prosperous in the nation, we have to be amongst the most educated. Our students’ businesses and the residents deserve this opportunity to succeed.” Schlissel also expressed his gratitude and congratulations to several groups and members around campus. Referencing the extreme cold that led to the cancellation of two days of classes this January, Schlissel said he is grateful for th...…

…“Through my time organizing around affordability issues on the Ann Arbor campus, I have seen how many Michigan opportunities are still more difficult for low- income students and students of color to access,” St. Onge said. “As Ann Arbor students are increasingly likely to come from extreme wealth, I have learned how the University’s desire to provide an uncommon education for the common man has been complicated. This is why I, and...…

…Opinion The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com 4A — Friday, February 22, 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. ...…

…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Arts Friday, February 22, 2019 — 5 A few months ago, a friend sent me a quote by Sandra Cisneros: “I’m married to my writing, and he can be brutal but he never strays.” Writing was my first love. When my friend sent me this, though, I hadn’t written anything in months. Every time I sat down to write, there seemed to be a block. It was visceral — I could feel it in my chest. It was something c...…

…6 — Friday, February 22, 2019 Arts The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com By Patti Varol ©2019 Tribune Content Agency, LLC 02/22/19 Los Angeles Times Daily Crossword Puzzle Edited by Rich Norris and Joyce Nichols Lewis 02/22/19 ANSWER TO PREVIOUS PUZZLE: Release Date: Friday, February 22, 2019 ACROSS 1 Information desk sign 6 Sits in a cellar, say 10 Chuckleheads 14 Yuletide name 15 Philanthropist Wallace 16 Grammy-winning rapper 17...…

…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Sports Friday, February 22, 2019— 7A For Black History Month, a legacy For players slipping and sliding on the icy sidewalk outside Ray Fisher Stadium while leaving practice on Wednesday, the words “Branch Rickey Classroom” on the stadium wall might have been easy to miss. But inside the classroom — whose walls are adorned with murals documenting Rickey’s contributions to baseball — the team...…

…8A — Friday, February 22, 2019 Sports The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com MINNEAPOLIS — Williams Arena is as much airplane hangar as basketball arena. The home of the Minnesota men’s basketball team is capable of producing noise belying its cavernous interior, and its raised court and double-decker stands harken back to the vintage days of the sport. Opened in 1928, Williams is college basketball’s sixth- oldest arena and one ...…

…More than 1,000 students and Ann Arbor residents filled Hill Auditorium on Monday to hear keynote speakers principal and co-founder of the James and Grace Lee Boggs School in Detroit Julia Putnam and anti-racism activist and writer Tim Wise discuss issues of inequality and injustice in America. The keynote memorial lecture is just one event in a two-week series of discussions, forums and events honoring Martin Luther King Jr. and...…

…More than 200 people filled Angell Hall Auditorium B on Monday for “Fights about Language and Political Correctness: What’s at Stake?” The discussion, led by Anne Curzan, professor of English and associate dean for humanities, and linguistics professor Robin Queen, addressed the term “political correctness” and what it means in society today. The event was a part of the University of Michigan’s Reverend Dr. Martin Luthe...…

…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com News Tuesday, January 22, 2019 — 3A ACTIVISTS From Page 1A SAAN From Page 1A UNITY From Page 1A PROTEST From Page 1A A Michigan congressional delegation introduced a bipartisan bill to designate per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, known as PFAS, detected across the state as hazardous substances, allowing the Environmental Protection Agency to direct funds to cleaning up pollute...…

…Opinion The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com 4A — Tuesday, January 22, 2019 A s a born and raised Ann Arborite, I’ve always known climate change to be real. It’s not up for debate in our school system. It’s acknowledged by our political leaders. And it’s even acted upon by citizen and government alike. However, the sense of urgency I’ve felt in my 20 years on this planet is nowhere near an acceptable level of effort when ...…

…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 apart‑ ments Fall 2019/20 Rents range $875 ‑ $1850 most include heat and water Showings scheduled M‑F 10‑3 734‑996‑1991 By Paul Coulter ©2019 Tribune Content Agency, LLC 01/22/19 Los Angeles Times Daily Crossword Puzzle Edited by Rich Norris and Joyce Nichols Lewis 01/22/19 ANSWER TO PREVIOUS P...…

…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Arts Tuesday, January 22, 2019 — 6A I think I was in third grade when my mom received a call from the mother of one of my friends. This particular mom sounded nervous. “Do you think there’s any chance Joey might have, um, introduced Nick to ‘YouTube?’” Well, that was certainly possible, my mom replied. Joey laughed a lot at those online videos, after all, and had even showed his sister som...…

…WOLVERINES STUGGLE TO SCORE, UNRAVEL LATE IN MADISON INSIDE SPORTSTUESDAY See Page 4B B SPORTSTUESDAY Katelyn Mulcahy / Daily Design by Jack Silberman The Michigan Daily | michigandaily.com | January 22, 2019 It Happ-ens. WISCONSIN 64 - MICHIGAN 54 ETHAN HAPP puts up strong performance as U-M finally loses 26 points10 rebounds7 assists …

…2B — January 22, 2019 SportsTuesday The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com As Mel Pearson sat down in the offices at Yost Ice Arena on Monday, he admitted he was disappointed with his Michigan hockey team. Pearson had just walked in from the Wolverines’ practice, and coming off a bye week, Pearson’s team didn’t have a great Monday practice. It was clearly weighing on Pearson’s mind. At one point, he went off on a bit ...…

…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com SportsTuesday January 22, 2019 — 3B Punch to the Bucks! Michigan stages fourth-quarter comeback, beats Ohio State 62-58 to keep NCAA Tournament dreams afloat With 13 seconds remaining in Sunday’s matchup with Ohio State, Michigan women’s basketball freshman forward Naz Hillmon delivered a game- winning layup, completing a 12-point fourth quarter comeback in a 62- 58 victory. In their only r...…

…4B — January 22, 2019 SportsTuesday The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com ‘M’ offense flails in loss at Wisconsin MADISON — Thirty minutes after Michigan’s first loss of the season, John Beilein was asked about the Kohl Center. He started to give a stock answer, complimenting the crowd, the venue and so on. Then he stopped himself. “People don’t lose here because it’s the Kohl Center,” Beilein said. “They lose here because of the ...…

…LSA senior Kia Schwert was captivated by the research opportunities at the University when she attended the Michigan Community College Summer Research Fellowship as a fellow in 2017, inspiring her to transfer to the University to study sociology and women’s studies. She got involved as a research assistant in Profs. Elizabeth Armstrong and Sandra Levitsky’s Title IX lab in the Sociology Department, which involved LS...…

…students participated in the 2014 midterms. Initiatives like the Big 10 Voting Challenge and Turn Up Turnout have aimed to mitigate voter turnout gaps in hopes that more students will vote in the upcoming election. “I was a little worried after the Kavanaugh hearings that enthusiasm was going to die out,” Lounds said. “So I’m hoping this (event) will hype people up, get everybody ready and make these last 18 days of (Get Out t...…

…I am a dancer. I worry what you hear when I say that is I like dancing. Which to be fair, I do. I love going to Brown parties and busting out all the latest Bollywood moves, or trying to see if my muscles remember the motions from long ago ballet classes, or trying and failing to imitate those cool K-Pop routines. But that’s not what I said. I said, I am a dancer. Specifically, I am an Indian classical dancer trained in the North ...…

…S ome things are out of our control, like gas prices and traffic. You can’t control what others do or say, just like you can’t pick who’s in your family. Unfortunately, most of us assume we cannot control climate change. Eyebrows have furrowed and anxiety levels have risen since the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released a report earlier this month, outlining the treacherous path Earth is taking toward increased temper...…

…By Ed Sessa ©2018 Tribune Content Agency, LLC 10/22/18 Los Angeles Times Daily Crossword Puzzle Edited by Rich Norris and Joyce Nichols Lewis 10/22/18 ANSWER TO PREVIOUS PUZZLE: Release Date: Monday, October 22, 2018 ACROSS 1 Online auction venue 5 Waffle House competitors 10 Mine extracts 14 Wind-driven device 15 Complete extent 16 City founded by Pizarro 17 Simple __ of kindness 18 Cause of squinting 19 Sometimes-puffy I’s? 20 E...…

…After nearly a decade of E-commerce business, Jean Jean Vintage needed a physical space. The vintage and antique jewelry store had previously lived exclusively on Etsy, but owner Emily Duffelmeyer was constantly fielding requests for in-person appointments. In a phone interview with The Daily, Duffelmeyer opened up about her business. “I was getting more and more requests for appointments, especially from people who were ...…

…Bitter Rivalry is Better Michigan and Michigan State showed on Saturday why their rivalry is the best, most entertaining one either program has going. » Page 2B In-state Split The Wolverines beat Western Michigan on Friday then fell to the Broncos on Saturday. » Page 4B SPORTSMONDAY The Michigan Daily | michigandaily.com | October 22, 2018 Design by Jack Silberman Katelyn Mulcahy & Alexis Rankin/ Daily Michigan holds on for big...…

…2B — Monday, October 22, 2018 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com SportsMonday Saturday shows why Michigan, Michigan State rivalry is great During his weekly teleconference Sunday night, more than 24 hours after it happened, Michigan State coach Mark Dantonio was asked about Saturday’s pregame fracas between his team and Michigan. “I’m not gonna bother commenting on it,” Dantonio said. “The whole thing to me was so...…

…STUDY BREAK WEEK 12—4PM OCTOBER 23—24, 2018 Find us near the ENGINEERING ARCH to grab some food and take a break from exams! SPONSORED BY COMET COFFEE, AUM YOGA, ESPRESSO ROYALE, AND BARRY BAGELS! presents... The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com SportsMonday Monday October 22, 2018 — 3B It’s time to believe EAST LANSING — It was a scene not even Michigan State coach Mark Dantonio himself could have scripted. Rain ...…

…4B — Monday, October 22, 2018 Sports The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com The Michigan Daily Top 10 Poll Each week, Daily sports staffers fill out bal- lots, with first-place votes receiving 10 points, second-place votes receiving nine and so on. 1. Alabama: It’s hard to get Tua creative with this one. 2. Clemson: Are we really going to allow a team whose best win is at home against NC State to make the playoffs? 3. Notre Dame: Th...…

…When LSA sophomore Izzy Nakisher entered the University of Michigan, she didn’t know her major. She visited her adviser, who was assigned to her at orientation, once every few weeks her freshman year, trying to figure out a direction. Four major changes later, Nakisher is now ready to declare. Her adviser, she said, was key in making this happen. An academic adviser is assigned to students at the University during thei...…

…2A — Thursday, March 22, 2018 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com FRIDAY: Behind the Story MONDAY: Looking at the Numbers News TUESDAY: By Design WEDNESDAY: This Week in History 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@mic...…

…lifelong commitment, before making the decision to rush. Harper explained the expansions of learning communities and theme communities will help to compliment this improvement of the first-year experience. She hopes more students will have opportunities to take part in more extracurriculars and community service to feel more engaged and connected to the University. “When students have a chance to pause and to thi...…

…Opinion The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com 4A — Thursday, March 22, 2018 Confirm Pompeo, Deny Haspel BRETT GRAHAM | COLUMN C orporate America has a lot of work to do if it wants to achieve any form of gender equity. According to a 2014 fact sheet from the Center for American Progress, women earn almost 60 percent of all bachelor’s degrees and 60 percent of master’s degrees. Yet, somehow, they make up only 14.6 percent of exec...…

…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Sports Thursday, March 22, 2018 — 5A ACROSS 1 Fall face first while skiing, say 6 Mighty silly 11 Part of ROM: Abbr. 14 Longest-serving prime minister of India 15 Austrian actress Berger 16 Kanye West’s “I __ God” 17 Soda fountain come-on? 19 Monarch catcher 20 Brooklyn Dodgers legend Campanella 21 In questionable taste 22 All excited 24 Radiant glow 25 Italian cheese 26 Earthquake coverage? 31 Aids in ...…

…6A — Thursday, March 22, 2018 Sports The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Walk-ons take in March Madness LOS ANGELES, Calif. — C.J. Baird was enamored with his surroundings. The walk-on freshman continually scanned his locker up and down, jimmied his feet through his white Jordans and sent Snapchats of the covered nameplate beside his own name at the top — it belonged to Los Angeles Clippers forward Danilo Gallinari. The sce...…

…B The Michigan Daily | michigandaily.com | Thursday, March 22, 2018 Design by Casey Tin …

…technology and music. “It’s really hard to say, because every time I get exposed to something new in PAT, I gravitate towards it,” Cox said. “Every day, what I see myself doing in the future is different. It’s really hard to decide what you want to do, because every day music technology and performance arts technology is growing and its exponential. It’s not going to stop.” This year’s student showcase will be a single examp...…

…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com b-side Thursday, March 22, 2018 — 3B There’s no doubt we are living in an age of screens, and books have not been spared in the relentless transfer of text to electronic devices. Is this a bad thing? How have writers grappled with the impacts of technology on human connection, communication and interaction? Sweetland lecturer Simone Sessolo studies how technology shapes the way we write...…

…2-BSide begun to dabble in one of video game storytelling’s most unique aspects: The ability to give players a sense that their actions matter to the world of the story. The advent of modern video games, however, wouldn’t truly begin until the release of Hideo Kojima’s “Metal Gear Solid” in 1998. “Metal Gear” tells the story of Snake, a work that was so unmistakably different from other games being put out at the time because of ...…

…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com b-side Thursday, March 22, 2018 — 5B With feats in entertainment, technology and production, The Rogue Initiative is a true triple threat. The Rogue Initiative builds worlds with the aid of technology and immersive storytelling in a way that goes beyond the mediums they explore. Through film, television and video games, the tech-fueled, entertainment- driven and collaboration-based start-up...…

…2-BSide 6B —Thursday, March 22, 2018 b-side The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Courtesy of the DIA When people ask me what Performing Arts Technology is, I sometimes struggle to find the precise definition. For such a specific department, the vastness of its contents is pretty overwhelming, even for someone in the major. Everyone in the program has a different passion and a different area of the field that they’re pursui...…

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…people can’t give it back to you in the wrong form,” French said. Lecturer Anne Berg explained how the Nazi party used fabricated scientific claims to promote and encourage racism in Germany and compared this to the current eugenics argument. In this respect, she admitted society today is not too different from Nazi Germany. This past fall, protests broke out across campus as students groups called on the Uni...…

…I f you haven’t yet seen the eye-opening documentary “What the Health,” I highly recommend you watch it. My mouth was gaping wide open as I watched the entire film. The directors, Kip Andersen and Keegan Kuhn, reveal that consuming meat and dairy can promote chronic illnesses like cancer, heart disease and diabetes. They cite the 2015 World Health Organization report, which declared processed meats (think: bacon, hot dogs...…

…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Arts Thursday, February 22, 2018 — 5 “Sometimes we just look at each other and ask, ‘What would Big Bird do?’” This is the question Pete Holmes, creator and star of HBO’s comedy show “Crashing,” and his writers ask themselves when they don’t know where to go with his character — a clean and somewhat naïve version of his younger self, navigating life and laughter in the brutal world of show b...…