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…University of Michigan President Mark Schlissel announced the University is taking several steps to increase its testing capabilities during his weekly U-M Ann Arbor COVID-19 update email to the U-M community Feb. 5. Starting Feb. 16, the University will require weekly COVID-19 testing for graduate and professional program students living on campus. The University will also offer free testing to “Ann Arbor community members...…

…U.S. Rep. Debbie Dingell, D-Mich., held a community meeting Thursday evening at Washtenaw County Learning Resource Center to discuss potential action to stop the spread of the Gelman Plume, a plume of toxic chemical pollution currently running through Ann Arbor’s groundwater. Dingell spoke at the event alongside officials from the Environmental Protection Agency, Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes & Ene...…

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…Gov. Gretchen Whitmer issued an executive order on Monday morning closing all Michigan restaurants, bars and entertainment venues in an effort to slow the spread of the novel coronavirus. The order goes into effect at 3 p.m. on Monday and the restrictions will last until March 30. The restrictions apply to bars, restaurants, coffee shops, movie theaters, clubs, gyms, recreation centers, spas and casinos, amon...…

…The Michigan Fashion Media Summit held its annual conference on Thursday via Zoom webinar. MFMS had rescheduled their original in-person event as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. The student-run group was set to host more than 650 people at the Ross School of Business featuring 16 speakers on March 20. Thursday afternoon’s webinar hosted Caroline Gogolak, vice president of retail at SoulCycle and co-founder of Carb...…

…At a sexual assault survivors’ forum on Nov. 13, Maya Crosman, a 2016 University of Michigan alum and survivor of former U-M lecturer Bruce Conforth, questioned the University’s investigation process into Conforth, who retired without any punishment in 2017. “I cannot be sure what happened at (the Office of Institutional Equity) when Conforth was allowed to retire with his reputation intact, but it is clear that justice was not give...…

…The number of reported sexual assault, sexual harassment, dating violence and stalking cases at the University of Michigan increased from 2017 to 2019, according to two reports released in January, one by the University’s Division of Public Safety and Security and the other from the Office of Institutional Equity. In this article, the term “sexual misconduct” will refer to a grouping of sexual assault, sexual harassment, stalking ...…

…MICHIGAN STADIUM JIM HARBAUGH COACH MIKE MORRIS D. END BLAKE CORUM R. BACK RONNIE BELL WR ROMAN WILSON WR MAZI SMITH D. LINE MARCHING BAND J.J. MCCARTHY Q. BACK …

…The Michigan Daily (ISSN 0745-967) is publishing weekly on Wednesdays for the Winter 2021 semester by students at the University of Michigan. One copy is available free of charge to all readers. Additional copies may be picked up at the Daily’s office for $2. If you would like a current copy of the paper mailed to you, please visit store. pub.umich.edu/michigan-daily-buy-this-edition to place your order. BRITTANY BOWMAN Managing Editor ba...…

…2 — Friday, January 17, 2020 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com News TUESDAY: By Design THURSDAY: Twitter Talk FRIDAY: Behind the Story WEDNESDAY: This Week in History MONDAY: Looking at the Numbers B E HIND THE STORY Every Friday, Daily staffers will give a behind the scenes look at one of this week’s stories. This week, LSA freshman Jasmin Lee and sophomore Calder Lewis on their three-part series about University mental health ...…

…2A — Monday, February 17, 2020 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com News The Michigan Daily (ISSN 0745-967) is published Monday through Friday during the fall and winter terms by students at the University OF Michigan. One copy is available free of charge to all readers. Additional copies may be picked up at the Daily’s office for $2. Subscriptions for September-April are $250 and year long subscriptions are $275. University affiliates ...…

…2 — Tuesday, March 17, 2020 News The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com With the rapidly evolving coronavirus outbreak in the United States and Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s executive order, many local businesses are to remain temporarily closed. As of Monday night, there are 54 confirmed cases of COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus, in Michigan. A case at the Vic Village-North student apartment...…

…studies departments at the University. Linh Song, board president of the Ann Arbor District Library, is the sole candidate for Ward 2, the seat currently held by Jane Lumm, I-Ward 2. In Ward 3, Travis Radina, an LGBTQ+ activist, Anthony Brown, the digital distribution manager at WDET and Evan Redmond, a targeting analyst are running for the seat currently held by Zachary Ackerman, D-Ward 3. Ackerman is not running for re-...…

…I feel like Mr. Vaughn and others who are camped outside are not disrupting my ability to come and go from the house. I have guests at the house where I do the University’s business quite often — that’s why I live on campus. That hasn’t been disrupted. So I want to really shout them out for the respectful way that they’re persistently advocating their cause, and that’s the way change happens. I understand the passion, and I respect ...…

…The following article explains five bills that have been introduced, passed or signed into law by the Michigan state legislature or Gov. Gretchen Whitmer from Feb. 25 to March 11. On the second and fourth Fridays of each month, The Michigan Daily will publish a compilation of bills being floated around in the Michigan state legislature for students at the University of Michigan to know about. This is the first installment in t...…

…Rod Moore grew up in Clayton, OH — just an hour’s drive from Columbus — with many of his closest family and friends as Buckeyes fans. While they’ve always supported Michigan’s sophomore safety, they refused to shift their alle- giances in the rivalry for Moore’s first matchup against Ohio State last November. That’s why, in the aftermath of the Wolver- ines’ upset win, Moore couldn’t help but relish in the result. “I was goin...…

…The Michigan Daily spoke with Regent Sarah Hubbard (R), the University of Michigan’s newest member of the Board of Regents, Tuesday to discuss her time in office since first joining the Board in January. Hubbard is one of two Republicans on the Board, the other being Ron Weiser, who is currently in the midst of controversy after calls from some in the U-M community for his resignation. Hubbard was elected in November after na...…

…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com News Friday, January 17, 2020 — 3 CAPS From Page 2 country to do this — (is) we have a care manager,” Sevig said. “So we developed one person, and now we have two full- time people, to help with referrals that take a little work.” Emphasis on referring to East Lansing professionals also impacts the goal of students visiting MSU CAPS. According to The State News, MSU CAPS only offers students thre...…

…This past November, voters in the U.S. made history by electing not one, but two incredible Muslim women into our 116th House of Representatives. They are Ilhan Omar, a Black, Somali Immigrant from Minnesota’s 5th Congressional district who frequently and unabashedly calls out deeply problematic white men in power, and Rashida Tlaib, an incredible Palestinian-American woman who coined the phrase “Impeach the Motherf*cker” o...…

…In an email to students sent Monday night, Simone Himbeault Taylor, interim vice president for student life, and Robert Ernst, University Health Service executive director, noted that UHS will remain open in addition to a modified version of housing and dining, consisting of boxed take-out meals served during specific hours. Jeff Donofrio, the director of the Department of Labor and Economic Opportunity, said ...…

…Friday, April 17, 2020 — 3 News The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com LAB From Page 1 CITY From Page 2 FASHION From Page 1 “It’s been an incredibly wild ride, especially during these crazy times the world is going through,” Gogolak said. “But I’m very grateful to be a part of their leadership team and to help the company through this.” Gogolak said adapting the company to the current situation is about communication. She sa...…

…Two years ago, I embarked on a crusade: I removed every social media application from my phone save for Snapchat and YouTube. I got rid of TikTok, Instagram, Twitter, Face- book, Pinterest — all in an effort to improve my mental health and mitigate my growing phone addiction. During the pandemic, I would cycli- cally download and delete these apps, a bit like a toxic relationship. Of course, I still have full access to some sites like I...…

…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com News Wednesday, March 17, 2021 — 3 City Council discusses uses for marijuana excise tax CITY Councilmembers commit to investing in community services, officially recognize Transgendender Day of Visibility The Ann Arbor City Council met virtually Monday evening to discuss a resolution to acknowledge Ann Arbor resident Daniel Bicknell’s longstanding career in public service, the allocatio...…

…On National Signing Day, Brad Rob- bins didn’t have a scholarship. He wasn’t at a table putting on a hat, he wasn’t on the phone with a coach and he wasn’t taking the day off as some sort of athletic holiday. He was sitting in AP U.S. Government class when he got the news. It came as a text from his sister, Brooke Robbins: Hey, congrats on the scholarship to Michigan! That’s really cool! Surprised, Brad stepped out of clas...…

…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Arts 4 — Wednesday, February 17, 2021 Kota the Friend moves toward closure on ‘Lyrics to GO, Vol. 2’ The title is accurate — Lyrics to GO, Vol. 2 is all about the message indie rapper Kota the Friend wants to leave you with. The flow of words — words of gratefulness, sadness and love — seems to tumble out of Kota on this mixtape. Lyrics to GO, Vol. 2 is not as carefully thought out as his pre...…

…Opinion The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com 4 — Friday, January 17, 2020 Alanna Berger Brittany Bowman Zack Blumberg Emily Considine Cheryn Hong Krystal Hur Ethan Kessler Mary Rolfes Michael Russo Timothy Spurlin Miles Stephenson Joel Weiner Erin White Lola Yang ERIN WHITE Managing Editor Stanford Lipsey Student Publications Building 420 Maynard St. Ann Arbor, MI 48109 tothedaily@michigandaily.com Edited and managed by students at ...…

…C oming out of the Iowa caucus victorious, Democratic candidate and Mayor of South Bend, Ind., Pete Buttigieg has seen a recent surge in popularity. Because he is the first openly gay person to make a serious bid for the presidency, Buttigieg’s success is undoubtedly a big moment for LGBTQ+ Americans, especially in a state like Iowa that voted for Donald Trump four years ago. However, that hasn’t made him the community’s c...…

…I used to be exceedingly hopeful about politics and policy matters. I was known by my friends in high school as the “fire- breathing conservative” because I’d come to school lunch ready to debate them about our contrasting politics. In my free time, I binge-read the news and tweeted about national political drama. I regularly put down schoolwork in favor of a fresh copy of “National Review,” my favorite conservative...…

…A fter four hours of driving from my overnight stop in Des Moines, Iowa, I crossed the Big Muddy into my home state of Nebraska. The leafless gray trees paired with the overcast sky made the usually lush riverbank appear strikingly different from how I had always seen it driving to and from my mom’s apartment in Denver. The view was yet another change brought on by the coronavirus’s dizzyingly rapid transformation...…

…4 — Wednesday, November 17, 2021 Michigan in Color The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com The home screen of my Nintendo Switch lights up with the words “Animal Crossing: New Horizons” spread out across the screen. In the background, I can see my villagers Cherry, Punchy and Leopold running across the main plaza as the theme song for the game plays. All of my other villagers are somewhere fishing, running or in their homes creating a ...…

…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com News 4 — Wednesday, March 17, 2021 Isaiah Mayweather, who is incarcerated at Macomb Correctional Facility, returned to his normal cell Jan. 27 after serving 18 days in a mandatory quarantine as a result of coming into close contact with someone who contracted COVID-19. However, Mayweather, after being tested three times, never once tested positive for the virus that has infected more th...…

…The inherenT,, unrelenting work ethic spurring Blake Corum's stardom Even James Corum struggles to put his son’s success into words. He’s asked the question all the time: What’s it like watching Blake? Usually, he shuffles through a slate of buzzwords, calling it a “blessing,” a “joy” and a “dream.” Sometimes, though, he allows himself to think a little deeper. “At the end of the day, it makes me reflect on everything that he’...…

…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Arts Wednesday, February 17, 2021 — 5 ‘Judas and the Black Messiah’ says screw the neoliberals There’s a quote from a 1964 speech by Malcolm X that Fred Hampton, played by Daniel Kaluuya (“Get Out”), recounts to the future mother of his child, Deborah (Dominique Fishback, “The Hate You Give”): “Sometimes, when a person’s house is on fire and someone comes in yelling fire, instead of the person...…

…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Arts Friday, January 17, 2020 — 5 We all want to be remembered — there’s no doubt about that. If we didn’t, fame wouldn’t be so coveted and patent lawyers would be out of a job. But when it comes to making history, few of us are ever able to achieve anything “noteworthy.” Or are we? Terrence Malick’s (“Song to Song”) newest film, “A Hidden Life,” challenges the idea that, in order to leave a m...…

…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Arts Monday, February 17, 2020 — 5A Anne Carson can come across as a writer with no clear lineage or influences — even as she references the work of other authors, her poetry and prose seem to float relatively free of clear affiliation to any contemporary literary trend. Her career as a classicist (with a generalist’s flair: she’s written about film and modernism extensively) might ...…

…Tuesday, March 17, 2020 — 5 Arts The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com New Orleans rapper Jay Electronica is one of the greatest enigmas in the history of hip hop. He first came up in the mid-2000s with hits on MySpace. He then started dating singer Erykah Badu; the eccentricity of her partners after dating her has been the subject of memes in the hip-hop community. In 2009, he dropped “Exhibit C,” a not-so-cult classic of sort...…

…Friday, April 17, 2020 — 5 Arts The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com MUSIC BOX FILMS MUSIC REVIEW Given the current circumstances, the future for small music scenes like hardcore is uncertain. Gigs can’t be played and bands can’t be paid, so what are bands to do? Recorded releases give a band an audience, but records are expensive and don’t pay the bills; performances pay the bills, and now bands can’t perform, leaving them...…

…T he Ann Arbor Public Schools district is in trouble. Within the past few weeks, AAPS has canceled in-person school three times. On Oct. 22, three schools went remote. Five days later, it was one school. The most recent closure, on Nov. 1, affected every school in the district. Naturally, parents were upset. For working parents, the need to find emergency child care is an exceptional burden. AAPS discontinued their before and aft...…

…When I sat down with Moon Choe, owner and operator of Moon Cafe, a Korean restaurant and frozen yogurt shop on State Street, for a 40-minute interview, I’ll admit I expected something of a sob story: a few cliché sentiments about being down on his luck and needing students to stop by so he can pay the bills. What I got instead was a chance to gain new insights on laissez-faire parenting, the subtle racism that is a hallmark of the i...…

…The door swung open and Denard Robinson introduced himself, offered out his hand and sat down in a second-floor office inside Schem- bechler Hall. Robinson, 32, is dressed in all blue and working on a goatee, still rocking his vintage dreadlocks. Memorabilia spanning yearbooks to bobble- heads are scattered around the room, homages to Michigan football’s lore. Robinson, of course, is an integral part of the program’s rich histor...…

…“You can murder a liberator, but you can’t murder a liberation.” - Fred Hampton. On Friday, Feb. 12, the long- awaited biopic, “Judas and the Black Messiah,” will be released. The film is a historical portrayal of the Illinois chapter of the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense. The Black Panther Party championed countless community programs, including the Free Breakfast Program and the People’s Free Ambulance Service, as we...…

…6 — Friday, January 17, 2020 Arts The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com WHISPER SUBMIT A WHISPER puzzle by sudokusnydictation.com By David Van Houten ©2020 Tribune Content Agency, LLC 01/17/20 Los Angeles Times Daily Crossword Puzzle Edited by Rich Norris and Joyce Nichols Lewis 01/17/20 ANSWER TO PREVIOUS PUZZLE: Release Date: Friday, January 17, 2020 ACROSS 1 “__ Is Betta Than Evvah!”: 1976 R&B album 5 “Disgusting!” 8 “The Real...…

…6 — Monday, February 17, 2020 Arts The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com WHISPER SUBMIT A WHISPER By John R. O’Brien ©2020 Tribune Content Agency, LLC 02/17/20 Los Angeles Times Daily Crossword Puzzle Edited by Rich Norris and Joyce Nichols Lewis 02/17/20 ANSWER TO PREVIOUS PUZZLE: Release Date: Monday, February 17, 2020 ACROSS 1 Weed whackers 5 Annoy 9 Macbeth, by birth 13 Saintly glows 15 Impressionist 16 Lola’s nightclub, in son...…

…Tuesday, March 17, 2020 — 6 Arts The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Two-and-a-half months in, and 2020 has given the world a lot of things to consider. An impeachment. The rumblings of war with Iran. A whack-as-hell primary season. An online- school-inducing, business-closing, all-around- scary pandemic that maybe makes reviewing theater-exclusive movies a public health hazard? But never mind all that. The first quarter of 2...…

…Friday, April 17, 2020 — 6 Arts The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Peter Kispert’s debut collection of short stories is linked together by characters who, in one way or another, lie to their loved ones. These lies are sometimes huge and elaborately maintained for months. The title story, for instance, is about a narrator who makes up a friend so that his boyfriend doesn’t think he’s lonely. When the narrator’s boyf...…

…Now that Halloween has passed and the holiday season encroaches upon us, my anticipation for a relatively new “holiday” tradition has begun. Like many other Spotify users, early November is when I begin both eagerly awaiting and bracing myself for Spotify’s 2021 Wrapped. Launched by the music streaming giant in 2015 and originally called “Year in Music,” Spotify Wrapped gives listeners a summary of their streaming habits over the past...…

…Our next well-being day better not be disguised by the administration in the form of a break and exposed for what it actually is: a poor attempt by the University of Michigan to supposedly address the mental health needs of students and failing, miserably. Students receive email after email from University President Mark Schlissel, professors and Graduate Student Instructors, acknowledging that students are facing a stressful ...…

…6 — Thursday, November 17, 2022 As former Michigan defensive coordinator Don Brown once said: There are some football games, and then there are some football f***ing games. The 2016 Michigan-Ohio State game was cer- tainly the latter. “That was one of the coolest environments I ever played in, one of the best games I ever played in,” former Michigan defensive end Chris Worm- ley told The Daily. “... It just had all the makings ...…

…YOUR WEEKLY ARIES Focus on your values this week. Only when you know what truly matters to you can you make some difficult decisions. AQUARIUS GEMINI The truth turns out to be a flexible thing this week – be careful not to assume that your truth is the same as anyone else’s. SAGITTARIUS CAPRICORN SCORPIO CANCER Pay your debts – financial or otherwise – so that you can move forwards with a clean slate as the future beckons....…

…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Sports Friday, January 17, 2020 — 7 ‘M’ snaps skid, beats Badgers 68-56 After Sunday’s blowout loss to Maryland, the Michigan women’s basketball team needed to bounce back strong. Thursday night against Wisconsin, the Wolverines did just that. Michigan (12-5 overall, 3-3 Big Ten) came out fast, scoring nine points in the first two minutes and jumping out to an early seven-point lead as the B...…