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…The Washtenaw Housing Alliance and Shelter Association of Washtenaw County hosted the second-ever Voices of Homelessness event Friday evening in Ypsilanti, inviting community members to share their experiences with homelessness through art and storytelling. A Washtenaw Housing Alliance 2018 report found 256 people in the county live in shelters or transitional housing, while 28 people are completely unsheltered. The ...…

…have it, the students seem to be very passionate about these things and want to learn about. I’m happy we get to have it here.” The weekend’s event consisted of a series of talks and discussions from 13 speakers, many of whom represented various Syrian activist organizations. Activist Shiyam Galyon, former director of the Books Not Bombs campaign that captured campus attention in 2016, delievered the conference ...…

…You’re American but you’re too Black. You’re Black but you’re too African. You’re African but you’re too dark. I’m sick of being told what I am and what I am not. You say I’m too much of that but not enough of this. Just because my looks don’t fit your stereotyped definition of what I should be. Who are you to tell me who I should be. Whoever gave you the right to put me in a box anyway. You sort, prioritize, and fixa...…

…C ollege students love their themed parties — so when Halloweekend comes around, many pull out all the stops to dress in a multitude of dazzling costumes that will inevitably end up contributing to a never-ending stream of Halloween posts on Instagram. Some popular costumes I spotted this year were boxers, devils and, of course, all kinds of feline ceatures. While these costumes certainly were not very original, I thought they w...…

…I was recently asked who I consider to be my favorite writer. It’s always a difficult question for me to answer — everyone I look up to for their writing, I look up to for a different reason, and there are quite a lot of those people. A Bob Dylan quote about his influences always jumps into my mind: “Open your eyes and your ears and you’re influenced.” There is something to learn from everyone. But today I’m going to talk about an...…

…COMMUNITY CULTURE REVIEW Muse might be a British band, but they reached the height of their popularity in the States when George Bush’s presidency turned toward absolute contention. Without feeling too abstract or derivative, Absolution and Black Holes and Revelations played like soundtracks to “1984”; they spoke to our emotions, not just our politics. You might have even hated Muse, felt their political slant was a bit too “ho...…

…The Michigan Daily | michigandaily.com | November 12, 2018 SPORTSMONDAY MICHIGAN 42 RUTGERS 7 Design by Jack Silberman Alec Cohen / Daily Another Roadtrip The Daily took another long, arduous roadtrip this weekend — this time to Piscataway. There are good reasons. Page 2B Millenium Mark Karan Higdon eclipsed the 1,000-yard mark in Saturday’s win over Rutgers, reaching a goal he has coveted. Page 3B Comeback Michigan had to c...…

…2B — November 12, 2018 SportsMonday The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Another Daily road trip T he Daily’s sports sec- tion takes road trips. It’s oddly part of our identity. And they’re not normal road trips, where you stop at a hotel and take it easy. We’re talking through- the-night-for-10-hours-back- from-New-York road trips. The type of road trips where you get done writing after a game and immediately get in a car, ...…

…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com SportsMonday November 12, 2018 — 3B Teammates make Gary proud in homecoming PISCATAWAY — With a loosened brace draped over his right shoulder, Rashan Gary peered at the stat sheet on the podium in front of him. “Pssst,” Gary muttered to no one in particular. “It’s great to be a Michigan Wolverine.” The junior defensive end, in fact, repeated that phrase four times throughout his postgame press...…

…4B — November 12, 2018 Sports The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com ‘M’ topples Mount St. Mary’s, 88-40 On the first possession of the game, freshman guard Amy Dilk lobbed a pass from the right wing to senior forward Hallie Thome in the paint. Thome failed to convert, but it didn’t matter. Sophomore forward Hailey Brown was there to grab the rebound and get her team on the board. That opening play was a preview of how most of ...…

…Following the defeat of a citizen task force’s proposal for a police oversight commision at a City Council meeting on Oct. 1, legal questions remain regarding aspects of the citizens’ draft and changes in Ann Arbor Mayor Christopher Taylor’s counter- proposal. The citizen task force drafted a proposal that would create a citizen-led police oversight commission with the power to subpoena records and officer testimony, as well as t...…

…The seats of Regents Andrew Richner (R) and Andrea Newman (R) on the University of Michigan Board of Regents are up for reelec- tion this November. With Jordan Acker (D) and Paul Brown (D) chal- lenging the incumbent candidates for a position on the Board, citizens across the state will get the opportu- nity to cast their ballots for who they think should serve on the Univer- sity’s governing board for another eight years, as outlined ...…

…Goldenberg, professor of public policy and political science, founded Turn Up Turnout, a non-partisan student group which aims to increase voter registration and turnout among young people. Upon discovering the NSLVE data, Goldenberg said she felt motivated to develop a voting initiative. “We’re surprised both at how low everybody is, and we’re surprised Michigan isn’t leading rather than trailing,” Goldenberg said. “So we t...…

…As an editorial staff, we agree with the University that it is wrong for a student’s educational opportunities to be limited by the political stances of an instructor, rather than the merit of the student. The academic success of students should be a top priority for universities, and the denial of students’ recommendation letters on account of professors’ personal beliefs unfairly blocks students from academic opportunitie...…

…“This interview is so fire the alarms went off!” Kim Petras, pop’s newest “it girl,” was entirely unphased when interrupted by the fire alarms that went off during our conversation. Calm and confident, she perfectly mirrors the music she has been working on for years, and she never misses a beat both in conversation and in her work as an artist. “After working on music since I was like 13, 14 years old, I started writing, sta...…

…LOOKING FOR PROGRAMMER; HTML and Paypal. call (734) 717‑9534 or email dlexington808@ gmail.com ENJOY YOUR BREAK! AND READ THE DAILY DURING YOUR FREE TIME By Ed Sessa ©2018 Tribune Content Agency, LLC 10/12/18 Los Angeles Times Daily Crossword Puzzle Edited by Rich Norris and Joyce Nichols Lewis 10/12/18 ANSWER TO PREVIOUS PUZZLE: Release Date: Friday, October 12, 2018 ACROSS 1 “Ta-ta!” 6 Kaput 10 Musical ending 14 Ready for t...…

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…FootballSaturday, September 12, 2018 2B STAFF PICKS The Daily football writers pick against the spread for top-25 and Big Ten teams. Mark Calcagno Max Marcovitch Mike Persak Ethan Wolfe Missouri at No. 1 Alabama (-28) Alabama Alabama Alabama Alabama Missouri No. 2 Georgia (-7.5) at No. 13 LSU LSU Georgia LSU LSU Georgia Minnesota at No. 3 Ohio State (-29.5) Ohio State Ohio State Minnesota Ohio State Minnesota Pittsburgh at No. 5 Notr...…

…3B TheMichiganDaily, www.michigandaily.com Behind Enemy Lines: A conversation with Jonah Malkin, a Wisconsin broadcaster By ETHAN WOLFE Daily Sports Writer The No. 12 Michigan football team has as much confidence as it’s had in two seasons, riding a five-game win streak into Saturday. No. 15 Wisconsin is a team that’s looking to re-find that confidence. After a devastating home loss to BYU in Week Three, the Badgers have responded...…

…H eading into 2008, the Michigan football team hadn’t had a losing season since the 1960s. Under coaches Bo Schembechler, Gary Moeller and Lloyd Carr, the Wolverines developed into a perennial power in the Big Ten, always in the Rose Bowl conversation, and thus, the national spotlight. But when Carr retired at the end of the 2007 season and Rich Rodriguez took his place, there was perhaps more doubt around the program than there...…

…Mike Persak, Managing Sports Editor DESIGN BY KATE GLAD but it was a good play design, and I made the read. … Even the announcers think that Minor gets smacked in the background by, they had a really good defensive end at the time, and you know, he took off like a bat out of hell and went right for the running back, so really wish I had scored the touchdown, but I’ll take the 58 yards. You know, what I wasn’t gonna do is fumble. Afte...…

…FootballSaturday, October 12, 2018 6B Breakdown: ‘M’ vs. Wisconsin By MARK CALCAGNO Daily Sports Editor Here it is. After four blowout wins and one furious comeback in Evanston, the Michigan football team finally has its chance at another ranked opponent. The Wolverines’ last shot, of course, ended with a loss to Notre Dame to open their season. But since then, Michigan’s offense has added dynamism thanks to needed i...…

…7B TheMichiganDaily, www.michigandaily.com Michigan survived the Terrapins’ tricky, jet sweep- filled run game, but as secondary coach Michael Zordich explained Wednesday, the Badgers are a different animal. “These guys, they’re gonna hit and go north and south,” Zordich said. “For our corners and the safeties on the edges, they gotta fill the lanes. So it’s gonna be more of a challenge, big-time. “They’ll get in these sets, it’s ...…

…FootballSaturday, October 12, 2018 8B What to Watch For: Wisconsin By MAX MARCOVITCH Daily Sports Editor Seeking copious amounts of unnecessary stress with potential for gut-wrenching twists and turns? Boy, do I have the Saturday evening activity for you. No. 15 Wisconsin comes to Michigan Stadium to face off against No. 12 Michigan, in the first leg of a season-defining three-game stretch for the Wolverines. Chances ar...…

…The University Research Corridor — a partnership of the University of Michigan, Michigan State University and Wayne State University — released its 11th economic impact report last week. The report highlights the universities’ contributions to the state economy, which totaled $18.7 billion in 2017. This is a significant increase from 2015, when the URC added $16.5 billion to the state economy. Britany Affolter- Caine, e...…

…that affect the rank-and-file Michigander.” In the short term, students at URC universities contribute directly to the state and local economies by buying goods and services and boosting business. In the long-term, their presence is more important, according to Affolter-Caine. Students who attend these universities frequently find career paths in the state, often working on projects and jobs that can improve the lives of Michi...…

…by the Trump administration. The Trump administration’s announcement caused uncertainty in the markets as the tariffs go against years of precedence of free trade with China. Director Scott Jacobs said the program helps companies “step back and assess their business practices in order to become more competitive.” “The whole idea of the assistance model is to help companies invest in themselves by building their capabilitie...…

…These past few months, The Michigan Daily readers have probably become a bit more mindful when using Facebook. Following the Cambridge Analytica scandal, people were outraged. So, we started clicking away on our profiles’s privacy settings, congratulating ourselves on our newly found concern for the data collected on us and maybe even stopped liking things so that advertisers wouldn’t know our interests. Indeed, Facebook did ...…

…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Arts Wednesday, September 12, 2018 — 5A ‘Most Assasinated’ fails as dull murder mystery NETFLIX A sports article in an arts column. It feels perverse. Are there not enough articles written about sports already, both in this paper and in others around the world? Surely there are more important things to write about in the field of entertainment, the return of fall TV, the fall of a CBS mogul,...…

…ACROSS 1 Los Angeles player 4 Dancer Charisse 7 1938 “The War of the Worlds” radio broadcaster 10 Chewed-over material 13 The Obama years, e.g. 14 Cube that rolls 15 “The Murders in the __ Morgue” 16 Harlem Globetrotters promoter Saperstein 17 Feel out of sorts 18 Official reproach 20 Diamond, for one 21 Not of the clergy 23 Peaceful ’60s protest 24 Sandwich with tzatziki sauce 25 Vermeer, notably 28 Cold response? 31 Actor Pesci 32...…

…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Sports Wednesday, September 12, 2018 — 7A ‘M’ shuts out Marquette for fourth straight win On Monday night, the scoreboard read 3-0 at the half. For the coaches and players, though, the game was still scoreless. The Michigan men’s soccer team (4-1) did not want to not fall victim to the same fate as the previous game. The Wolverines found themselves in a familiar situation: a multi-goal lea...…

…8A — Wednesday, September 12, 2018 Sports The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Michigan lands three recruits in two days In the matter of just two days, the Michigan football team added two more commitments to next year’s already-solid recruiting class, as well as a commitment for the 2020 class. It started Sunday, when 4-star defensive end Mike Morris, who was previously committed to Florida State, announced via Twitter that ...…

…statement THE MICHIGAN DAILY | SEPTEMBER 12, 2018 When the city decides to take your home …

…I t was just last year that I was hurrying through the Diag, late for class, when I noticed hundreds of American flags staked on the lawns. It took me a few minutes to remember the day. Sept. 11 — a day whose significance bears the same weight on the American consciousness today as it did in 2001. But with a symbol that means vastly different things to different people, how could an event like Sept. 11 be reduced to the flyin...…

…3B Managing Editor: Dayton Hare Copy Editors: Elise Laarman Finntan Storer Wednesday, September 12, 2018 // The Statement Translating the Donald to Japanese P eople always complain about Donald Trump. I say, try to explain him to a foreign audience. This summer I had the privilege of working at the New York bureau of TV Tokyo, one of Japan’s major television stations. I was put on a morning news program that focuses on bus...…

…Wednesday, September 12, 2018 // The Statement 4B Wednesday, September 12, 2018 // The Statement 5B In a foreclosure crisis, Detroit residents fight to remain in their homes by Andrea Pérez, Statement Correspondent I n late August, Michael Andrews learned his Southwest Detroit home was in foreclosure. It came into his family’s possession in 1963, but falling on hard times during the 2007 recession made it difficult to keep up wit...…

…Wednesday, September 12, 2018 // The Statement 6B Re: Union I n late April, I walked up the stairs to the Michigan Union, as I’d done many times before. It was a warm day — warmer still with the winter semester finally over and the summer near. I’d walked up those stairs in every possible state: wet, hot, cold, disheveled, elated, disappointed, happy, tired, content, angry, heartbroken. Most of the time, though, I was just hun...…

…S ending contraceptives through the mail seems like a remnant of the early 20th century when methods of preventing pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases were largely relegated to legally- murky backchannels. But 86 years after Margaret Sanger’s shipment of diaphragms to a New York City doctor was confiscated, students at Catholic universities are using anonymous texting services and covertly mailed packages to circumvent the...…

…Wednesday, September 12, 2018 // The Statement 8B Dancing in the Streets an annual festival in downtown Ann Arbor hosted by the Ann Arbor Community for Traditional Music and Dance V I S U A L S T A T E M E N T : D a n ci n g i n th e St r e e t s Photos by Max Kuang …

…On Wednesday evening, the United Asian American Organizations at the University of Michigan hosted a panel to promote the Asian, Pacific Islander American studies program on campus and call attention to a 2017 lawsuit citing discrimination against program faculty. Panelists included graduate and undergraduate students, as well as Emily Lawsin, a lecturer in American culture and women’s studies, and Scott Kurashige, a f...…

…by President Donald Trump’s campaign, had access to the private data of 50 million Facebook users, scaring users who were apart of one of the network’s largest data breaches. That led to a two-day congressional hearing, which ended Tuesday, to gauge just how much control Facebook users have over their data. No consensus in terms of future legislation resulted from the hearings, though Zuckerberg agreed “some regulatio...…

…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com News Thursday, April 12, 2018 — 3 ODISSI DANCE Sreyashi Dey, founder and artistic director of Srishti Dances of India, hosts an Odissi dance workshop for Michigan Dance students in the Dance building Wednesday evening. RUCHITA IYER/Daily Walker said. “They would call a special dish ‘Indian food’ even though that food could be found throughout Southeast Asia. The RAs caught wind of this and comp...…

…Opinion The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com 4 — Thursday, April 12, 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 Sam Weinberger DAYTON HARE Managing Editor 420 Maynard St. Ann Arbor, MI 48109 tothedaily@michigandaily.com Edited and managed by st...…

…Doolittle, Pixies Doolittle by the Pixies stands as one of the most influential rock records since its release in 1989. It moves through poppy instrumentals with perfect bass lines that contrast its dark subject matter referencing biblical violence, surrealism and death. These things melt into one cohesive album that conjure up an unsettling feeling, and Doolittle’s iconic album cover gives those feelings a face. Frontman ...…

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…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Sports Thursday, April 12, 2018 — 7 Wagner, Matthews weigh the NBA It’s the age-old question The Clash famously put to music in 1982. Should I stay or should I go? That’s the predicament in front of Moritz Wagner, as he mulls leaving Michigan and entering the NBA Draft for the second straight season. As expected, though, the junior center was non-committal about his plans at the Wolverines’ ...…

…8 — Thursday, April 12, 2018 Sports The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Michigan infielders settling into their roles after tough start to season When the Michigan baseball team took the field eight weeks ago in Port St. Lucie, Florida, for its opening day matchup against Army, junior shortstop Ako Thomas was the only remaining starter from the star-studded infield that led the Wolverines to an NCAA tournament berth a year ago. ...…

…In a video released Sunday, white supremacist Richard Spencer announced a halt to his national college tour amid clashes between protesters and police at his scheduled speech at Michigan State University last Monday. “At least for the foreseeable future, I don’t think it’s a good idea for me to host an event that’s wide open to the public, in which we name the date and the time,” Spencer said in his video. “Because if we do ...…

…YONI KI BA AT MONOLOGUE 2A — Monday, March 12, 2018 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com TUESDAY: By Design FRIDAY: Behind the Story WEDNESDAY: This Week in History News AHAD BOOTWALA/Daily Ross sophomore Nithya Ramesh, SMTD sophomore Zoha Bharwani, and Public Policy senior Aditi Katti address the crowd at Yoni Ki Baat’s 11th annual monologue show in Rackham Saturday. THURSDAY: Twitter Talk MONDAY: Looking at the Numbers CASE...…

…If my experiences during college have taught me anything, it is that writing is a powerful means of expression. Somehow, even when I don’t know what to say, I always have something to write. Last semester, and this one, was really rough for me health- wise. I grew quite frustrated and could not seem to express how I was feeling. So I wrote it down. And even though “One Second” is a poetic rendering of my struggles, it still do...…