…I ’ll be honest — signing a lease next to one of the largest fraternities on campus was a massive mistake, especially as someone unaffiliated with social Greek life. Over the past year, I’ve learned to fall asleep to the thumping of the bass on Theta Chi’s speakers on ran- dom Tuesday nights and adjusted to rou- tinely throwing their trash back into their backyard from mine, only to watch squir- rels and other wildlife rummage through ...…
…Elizabeth Lim’s second novel in the Blood of Stars series, “Unravel the Dusk,” reaches deep into your prefrontal cortex and implants a strong desire to embroider and to create. She makes sewing exciting, infusing time consum- ing, mundane tasks with danger, dignity and purpose. In the world of “Unravel the Dusk,” embroi- dery and tailoring is regarded and honored as capital-A Art. The highest title of Master Tailor is reserved only for...…
…Every time I see someone tread off a beaten trail, crushing plants in their wake, my heart crumples inside. “They’re just plants,” is the usual response I’m met with, words that cut inside me further. Plants may seem insignificant, partly due to their size and their position below our eye level. Humans are fascinated with animals larger than themselves — ele- phants or killer whales, for example — but aren’t thrilled by a small shrub....…
…8 Thursday, July 2, 2020 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com MICHIGAN IN COLOR The overglorified Disney+ Hamilfilm On July 3, Disney+ will be exclusively streaming Lin-Manuel Miranda’s hit musi- cal, “Hamilton,” also known as #Hamilfilm. Ever since 2015, “Hamilton” has been highly praised because it features solely BIPOC singers and actors on the Broadway stage telling the tale of the American Revolution. I myself am a huge fan of...…
…9 Thursday, July 2, 2020 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com MICHIGAN IN COLOR Home is me / Kill me dirty country GABRIJELA SKOKO MiC Managing Editor home is me. stubborn. scared of your own soul. so the Soul maintains itself. unsure if home should be insan- ity or if you are insane. and so only the Soul is main- tained. I know I am insanity because you will not call me citizen. Finding my place: the power of change GRACE GARMO ...…
…10 Thursday, July 2, 2020 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com SPORTS Director of counseling Harden retires after 34 years After 34 years at Michigan, Greg Harden, who served as both executive associate athletic director and director of counseling has retired, Angelique Chengelis from the Detroit News reported Monday. Harden joined Michigan after being hired by Bo Schembechler 1986 and grew the prevalence of the mental well...…
…11 Thursday, July 2, 2020 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com SPORTS ‘The perfect storm’: Mbogo Mwangi speaks on race in America today, and how the lacrosse community needs to do better Growing up on Manhattan’s Upper East Side, Mbogo Mwangi never dealt with race as an issue. St. Stephen of Hungary, the private Catholic school that the junior defenseman attended, was a microcosm of New York City’s melting pot. Because Mwangi and...…
…12 Thursday, July 2, 2020 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com SPORTS Mwangi’s first wave was the product of COVID-19 and the disproportionate mortality rate between Black and white Americans exacerbated by disparities in healthcare access and employment opportunities. The second and third waves were based on the police’s double standard in managing its altercations with Black and white individuals: The absence of aggr...…
…PHOTOS BY MICHIGAN DAILY PHOTOSTAFF GOT A NEWS TIP? Call 734-418-4115 or e-mail news@michigandaily.com and let us know. INDEX Vol. CXXIX, No. 111 ©2020 The Michigan Daily COVER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1 N E WS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 N E W S . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 O PI N I O N . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 A R T S . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....…
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…In the middle of the Michigan League’s Maizie’s Kitchen & Market, a dozen undergraduate students huddled around a laptop to sign in for their canvassing shifts. The small group decided to brave the January blizzard and knock doors for Solomon Rajput, a 27-year-old Ann Arbor native who put his medical studies on hold for a year to challenge Rep. Debbie Dingell, D-Mich., for Michigan’s 12th congressional seat. Dingell has repre...…
…ARTS over the YEARS Bis etum il ius eliquam usaerum eium velicti comnit dunt, tota que consequo is essunture dolor molesti beriore, il ea ne plab ipsae excero te volorep tation re videndunt omnihil ipienda veliqui nobites et laboriame lantiossunt hil ius arumqui dentibus, qui aliat pa qui simolessit, nes escilit harum que volorit eicia con plis everum fugitatur si quiae esto blaturem labo. Itatas mos venis arumnihilla ntentotatem ...…
…November has come and gone, and Yandhi left with it. Despite enthusiastic words from Kim Kardashian, it was no surprise that Kanye West’s supposed ninth studio album did not appear on streaming services this Black Friday, a fact his legions had earlier been forced to come to terms with after Mr. West took to Twitter to go back on his wife’s promise. All signs point to Yandhi being a spiritual sequel of sorts to Kanye’s 2013 ...…
…6A — Saturday, May 2, 2020 Michigan in Color The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com The Neutral White Population CYDNEY GARDNER-BROWN 2017 MiC Contributor ‘The white rice was excellent. Followed the directions on the bag perfectly. Way to go.’ Courtesy of Hunter Zhao ARTS over the YEARS Bis etum il ius eliquam usaerum eium velicti comnit dunt, tota que consequo is essunture dolor molesti beriore, il ea ne plab ipsae excero te volor...…
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…8-Sports 8A — Saturday, May 2, 2020 Sports The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Beilein leaves ‘M’ for Cleveland with an unmistakable legacy The last time the Michigan had to replace its head coach, the program was unrecognizable to those familiar with the current Wolverines. Michigan in 2007 had barely scraped relevance since the breakup of the Fab Five in 1993. It hadn’t made the NCAA Tournament since 1998 — an appearance later ...…
…Michigan Medicine nurses at high risk of contracting the virus have had different experiences navigating the risk of caring for patients versus returning to work. Michigan Medicine began conducting in-house COVID-19 testing for employees and patients on March 19 and has created a COVID-19 hotline for employees and patients as well as curbside screening by referral. Meghan Clarke, a nurse at C.S. Mott Children’s on t...…
…News The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Gov. Gretchen Whitmer declared a state of disaster Wednesday night and signed an executive order expanding Michigan’s COVID-19 response. Whitmer previously declared a state of emergency on March 10 in hopes of helping local governments slow the spread of COVID-19 and persuading Michiganders to take preventative measures. In a press release Wednesday, Whitmer said the state of...…
…Roat said after reaching out to Oxford Companies, she was told they were not planning on providing rent assistance. “Essentially they said that they were a management company and the individual property owner of 425 Hill had chosen not to make any changes whatsoever.,” Roat wrote. “The person who emailed me recommended I apply for unemployment, and said I should consider subletting — I still live there, so that is not an...…
…S ince the first cases of COVID-19 — a respiratory disease caused by the coronavirus — were reported in the United States in January, American life has been turned upside down by an event few will ever forget. The coronavirus, which originated in Wuhan, China at the end of 2019, has spread to every continent except Antarctica and has claimed over 42,000 lives worldwide, with European countries like Italy a...…
…Thursday, April 2, 2020 — 5 Arts The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com PARAMOUNT FILM NOTEBOOK Movies are projections. Yes, literally, in the sense of filmstock and screens and projectors and bulbs. But movies can also be projections of ourselves — a momentary snapshot of the internal, the introspective, the metaphysical. And given the circumstances, we as the film beat are seeing less literal projections in movie theaters an...…
…Thursday, April 2, 2020 — 6 Arts The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com The other day I was cursorily perusing my housemate’s New York Times, and, amidst the portents of apocalypse, I came across an agitated letter to the editor in the book review. “Confirming a trend I’ve noticed with annoyance on bookstore shelves,” the man wrote, not one, and not two but “fully three” of the novels reviewed last week had writers as their ...…
