…Photos courtesy of the Pearson Family Design by Jack Silberman Mel Pearson holds court every day after practice in his office at Yost Ice Arena. Usually he talks about hockey. But on Nov. 6, he was asked about his high school years, and another thought resurfaced: Susie, his wife, and how they met. As he finished up his story about her, he got up from his couch and headed to the exit. While he put his hand on the door, anot...…
…8 — Tuesday, January 14, 2020 Sports The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Assessing the state of Michigan’s frontcourt After the Michigan men’s basketball team lost to Minnesota on Sunday, Juwan Howard fielded the same questions that surfaced after Thursday’s double-overtime win over Purdue. On each occasion, the questions were rooted in the consistent success opposing Big Ten post players have sustained against the Wolverines’...…
…8 Thursday, May 14, 2020 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com MICHIGAN IN COLOR GRAPHIC BY CARA JHANG An Idealistic, Outdated America On March 14, an Asian-American family of three was stabbed by Jose Gomez at a Sam’s Club. On February 23, Ahmaud Arbery was shot dead after being followed by Gregory and Travis McMichael, who had grabbed their shotguns and pursued Arbery in their truck. On September 17, 2019 Harris County Sheriff...…
…8 — Tuesday, April 14, 2020 Sports The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Quinten Johnson preparing for bigger role in sophomore year Quinten Johnson knew that he didn’t go to Michigan to star as a freshman. Recruited as a multi-dimensional four- star defensive back in the Wolverines’ 2019 class, he knew he wouldn’t immediately usurp their crop of established starters. What he didn’t know is that he would spend h...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Michigan in Color 8 — Wednesday, April 14, 2021 My own crown Even more than before, the pandemic has resulted in social media being a creative outlet, a way to pick up new talents or a place to experiment in hobbies you have never tried before. I tried to pick up new techniques when styling my type 4 coily hair, a thick hair texture that consists of tight curls or spring- like coils. Represent...…
…S T A T E M E N T 8 — Wednesday, September 14, 2022 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com CHARLIE PAPPALARDO Statement Columnist Read more at MichiganDaily.com I think I was 17 when I came to the realization that my relation- ships with God and Major League Baseball are very similar. I was half-born into both Catholicism and the San Francisco Giants because with each, only one parent really cared. My dad would lecture me about all ...…
…2-News I n the Middle East, the month of September was marked by the signing of deals for peace and diplomatic relations between two countries, a very rare occurrence. In a part of the world marked by an extensive history of bloodshed, two agreements brokered by the U.S. and President Donald Trump were reached, with both the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain establishing official ties with Israel. The deals have made quite a spl...…
…Ty and I were never supposed to meet. He grew up homeless in New Jersey, while my Michigan suburb bubble-wrapped me in privilege. He’s Afro-Latino and I’m white. We met studying abroad in Costa Rica, where he taught me to dance bachata, and I taught him to play ukulele. Having escaped the social structures keeping us apart in the U.S., we quickly fell in love. Six months, two countries and three states later, learning is still ...…
…9 Thursday, May 14, 2020 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com MICHIGAN IN COLOR A Mother’s Day Reflection: My Amma, A life journey from India to New York SUNITHA PALAT MiC Staff Writer PROVIDED BY SUNITHA PALAT A Lebanese Breakfast MAYA KADOUH MiC Staff Writer Read more at michigandaily.com It’s 1996. The door of the ‘88 Volvo closes with the gentle push of a chestnut-brown, smooth hand. The discounted Macy’s black leather left...…
…T his March, outcry arose during the NCAA March Madness tour- nament when Sedona Prince, a forward for the Oregon Ducks women’s basketball team, posted a TikTok compar- ing her team’s weight room to that of their male counterparts. The men’s weight room was an expansive gym full of machines, equipment and free weights. The women’s weight room was a single rack of dumbbells and yoga mats. The NCAA claimed it was a space issue, but th...…
…G rowing up, June was always a month of unbearable anticipation. As the weather got warmer and the final days of school dragged on, talk of summer plans bounced around the classroom at remarkable speed. Many would spend the time off on family vacations. Others would be at home, spending time with friends and relatives. For me, however, the imminent arrival of summer could only mean one thing: it was time to go to camp. From...…
…2-News A s institutions of higher learning begin to do the long-overdue work of examining structural racism within their communities, President Donald Trump’s administration is fighting hard to ensure it goes unacknowledged. On Sept. 2, Princeton University President Christopher Eisgruber wrote a statement to the Princeton community addressing systemic racism and acknowledging that “racist assumptions from the past also ...…
…Friday, February 14, 2020 // The Statement 2B Managing Statement Editor Magdalena Mihaylova Deputy Editors Emily Stillman Marisa Wright Associate Editor Reece Meyhoefer Designers Liz Bigham Kate Glad Copy Editors Madison Gagne Sadia Jiban Photo Editor Keemya Esmael Editor in Chief Elizabeth Lawrence Managing Editor Erin White I n Hebrew, the word for “to love” has the same root as the word “to give.” I’ve alwa...…
…Thursday, May 14, 2020 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com ‘Alla familia’: Ben Cirella’s family’s restaurants spread the love Two weeks ago, Ben Cirella pulled his silver Volvo up to the entrance of Elmhurst Hospital in Queens, N.Y. Elmhurst has been at the epicenter of New York City’s disastrous COVID-19 outbreak. Queens has 56,719 confirmed cases of coronavirus, the most of any city borough, and has recorded nearly 6,000 deaths...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com 10— Wednesday, April 14, 2021 ILLUSTRATION BY MAGGIE WIEBE statement Becoming Alice I like to joke that I-94 and I-80 are my second homes. I’ve spent thousands of miles on them, miles that trade scenery for ease — hop on and drive, no directions needed. The “check engine” light on the dashboard of my old car kept me company, a constant presence lingering in the corner of my vi- sion. It was a...…
…Opinion The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com 10 — Wednesday, September 14, 2022 T oday we live in a wearied America where tensions run high and trust in government runs low. With over three quarters of Americans convinced the country is headed in the wrong direction, the need for political stability is perhaps as high as it’s ever been. With inflation, the economy and poor leadership ranking among the top issues for American...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Arts Wednesday, October 14, 2020 — 11 COMMUNITY CULTURE REVIEW GENDER AND MEDIA COLUMN Mural lights up downtown alleyway ‘PEN15’ and an all-female puberty A smiling student stands with a backpack slung over her shoulder, books and notebooks held in hand, no mask in sight. A reminder of simpler times. Elsewhere, recent graduates throw their hats in the air and a father teaches his son how to s...…
…I have a box that has followed me from one childhood room to the next. When I was seven, it rested under my bed. At 10, it moved into a room upstairs with me and onto a closet shelf. When I was 17, it wedged itself into a corner between my dresser and the wall. Now, it just sits on my desk in my apartment. Sometimes I’ll run my hand over it in the morning, or I’ll open it up when hit by a wave of nostalgia. Inside it are love lett...…
…NICHOLAS STOLL Daily Sports Writer Thursday, May 14, 2020 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com On September 14, 1998, Janine Smith gave birth to her second child, Natalie. Three days later, she was back on the bench coaching, with Natalie at her side. Right off the bat, the pair’s relationship and the game of volleyball were intertwined. It had to be. At the time, Janine was a Division I coach at the University of Texas at Arlingto...…
…D ating tip: If you want to re- ally get to know someone, take a scroll through their TikTok “For You” page. From there, a stream of 15-second video and audio clips will teach you about the many little idiosyncrasies and bizarre interests you might need to know to move things along with that prospective special someone. I gave this a try recently, sheep- ishly offering my niche “For You” page tab for my date to peruse. Looking ov...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Wednesday, September 14, 2022 — 11 Michigan shows improved chemistry in draw to Colorado LYS GOLDMAN Daily Sports Writer After losing numerous key con- tributors in the offseason, the Michigan women’s soccer team faced struggles in replicating last year’s dominance throughout its early-season matchups. Its two losses came in a similar manner, stemming from difficulties with communication, con...…
…What do an R&B singer- songwriter, a genius playwright, a rock ‘n’ roll legend and a California hitmaker all have in common? To any practical person, they are all insane. But they’ve also come together as subjects for the four- part docuseries “Song Exploder,” hosted by Hrishikesh Hirway, which emerged from the popular podcast of the same name. Each episode focuses on one of these iconic musical artists and takes fans on a t...…
…Friday, February 14, 2020 // The Statement 4B 5B Friday, February 14, 2020 // The Statement ILLUSTRATION BY MAGGIE WIEBE Tiny Love Stories Jacob threatens to order a pizza nearly every night but almost never follows through. We rarely share a meal that doesn’t send him into some vague gastrointestinal pain, except the sushi we once ate in a Toledo, Ohio bathtub (“I didn’t know sushi could be, like, a meal”). He once mused on the concep...…
…Ambry Thomas wasn’t Ambry Thomas wasn’t supposed to be at Detroit King supposed to be at Detroit King that day, lacing up his cleats for that day, lacing up his cleats for a 7-on-7 scrimmage, feeling the a 7-on-7 scrimmage, feeling the summer heat blistering up from summer heat blistering up from the field. If it weren’t for a call the field. If it weren’t for a call from his coach, Dale Harvel, the from his coach, Dale Harve...…
…B ack in September, when the University of Michigan announced there would no longer be a spring break for students and faculty, I figured I would be fine. COVID-19 did not appear to be slowing down anytime soon and, with the semester concluding on April 30, I would benefit more from an extended summer than a week in March. All in all, it seemed to be a good deal. After the fall semester, I was drained. The transition fr...…
…JARED GREENSPAN Managing Sports Editor Michigan obliterates Hawaii in J.J. McCarthy’s first start J .J. McCarthy waited years to walk through the Big House tunnel as the starting quarterback of the Michigan football team. So perhaps it’s fitting that, on the day of his first collegiate start, he had to wait a little while longer. At 8:18 pm — 13 minutes after the originally scheduled kickoff time between the fourth- ranked Wolveri...…
…Arts Wednesday, October 14, 2020 — 13 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com “extremely online” to my friends, they usually agree — they too love memes and spend hours on Twitter. gets messy. It usually turns into some form of me reciting my own version of Bane’s quote from “The Dark Knight Rises”: “You merely adopted the internet; I was born in it, molded by it.” In the world of “South Park,” the only cardinal sin is self- right...…
…Friday, February 14, 2020 // The Statement 6B “Love Island”: The Walden Pond of reality TV T V has always moved too fast for me. I was too busy running track and selling books in high school to participate in my nuclear family’s “Breaking Bad” bonding routine, I gave up on “Twin Peaks” after distractedly missing too many plot points and I figured that everyone else knew enough about “The Office” and “Game of Thrones” for me to ride ...…
…7-Opinion A s a columnist for The Michigan Daily, I’m not supposed to discuss internal Daily issues in my work. However, the debate frequently reignited at our elections has arisen yet again, and I feel the dilemma is too important to keep from our readers. So, to our audience, I pose the question: Is it acceptable to urinate in the shower? Perhaps I will receive backlash for this position, but, nonetheless, I must remain loyal to...…
…T he nerves reminded me of the feel- ing you get before a job interview. With a light flutter in my stom- ach, I swung my backpack over my shoulder and walked into the East Quad dining hall. I spotted the girls almost immediately, the five of them giggling over half-eaten pizza and shredded brussels sprouts, their close friend- ship apparent. Approaching them, I jokingly thought to myself, Should I have brought a resumé? It was fall ...…
…Wednesday, January 16, 2019 // The Statement 7B Friday, February 14, 2020 // The Statement 7B O ver Winter Break, my mother and I drove 90 minutes to visit the gravesite of my paternal grandmother Gail, a place neither of us had seen. We drove around the cemetery in dizzy circles and tra- versed plots of well-kept grass to find it, searching the site with only a rough draft of a map found online. I’d always wanted to visit the site and...…
…For Isaiah Livers, time runs out Student-athletes continue to vie with the NCAA for rights Isaiah Livers stood on the bench in sweats, hands in his pockets and a long expression on his face. Michigan’s season was coming to its end and Livers could only watch helplessly as the waning moments of his collegiate career faded into the abyss. He dared to follow the arc of Franz Wagner’s last-second 3-point attempt, a heave that carri...…
…O n the last Fri- day of August, Craig Te- schendorf passed the day wondering where he and his puppy Eleanor would go after his eviction from the Orion MainStreet apartment complex in Ann Arbor. In a touching act of unity and protest, about 20 members from the area showed up to successfully postpone the eviction of the elderly dis- abled retiree. Photos from the event show a diverse, masked community suc- cessfully coming t...…
…Friday, February 14, 2020 // The Statement VISUAL STATEMENT: V-DAY PREPERATIONS ON CAMPUS PHOTOS BY OLIVIA CELL …
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Sports Wednesday, April 14, 2021 — 15 Gabby Wilson’s floor routine is an excellent encapsulation of who she is as both an athlete and an advocate. In her 90 seconds on the mat, Wilson dives into themes of race that would have been taboo to speak of, much less present in competition, as recently as a decade ago. And, all the while, she throws in powerful dance moves and athletically impressive ...…
…T he seemingly everlasting build-up to the Fall 2020 se- mester made me anxious about where I would live. My mind raced with questions as I was stuck in a state of limbo, full of unknowns. The hope that I would get to spend my senior year of col- lege on a pandemic-free campus quickly dwindled and instead morphed into wor- ry. Should I give up my lease? Is it safe to move back? What seemed to be the safest option was no...…
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…After eight innings, senior left-hander Meghan Beaubien stepped off the rubber. The biomedical engineering student walked off the field with her fifth collegiate complete game no-hitter, this time with an extra inning tacked on. The 2-1 credited win over Nebraska marked her 73rd as a Wolverine, surpassing Kelly Kovach for ninth-most in Michigan history. Beaubien’s work on the diamond was over for the day, but she still had work in t...…
…On May 30, 2019, the former Fab Five team member, NBA All- Star, two-time NBA champion and veteran NBA assistant teared up in front of reporters, family and friends as he was announced as the 17th head coach of the Michigan men’s basketball team. His raw emotion revealed the magnitude of the situation. Juwan Howard joined a small group of Black coaches in college basketball, becoming one of 14 Black head coaches in basketball’s s...…
…Anita Michaud is the best business manager in the whole world. Anna Deluca and Becky To are the coolest ladies in the county To Mingi, my true sunshine, the light of my life and the mayonnaise to my Kevin To my Michigan Daily fam—love you guys! Thanks for the best semester yet <3 To the best roommates ever—205 is live!! You guys are the absolute best <3 There’s no one else I’d want to be my personal Rav. Thank you for being you, Rav L...…
…With experience in athletics and medicine, Alex Sobczak understands both sides Former Michigan softball player Alex Sobczak used to devote hours upon hours every week to practice, games, conditioning and team activities. The rest of her waking hours were spent working on her Biopsychology, Cognition and Neuroscience degree to prepare her for medical school. Since graduating in 2019, Sobczak has spent the past year ...…
…^______^” Hey Mingi, this is your anonymous lover, Kevin. Just stopping by to say I love you. “To my twin, Everyone says that we appear the same, but I would argue that the similar kindness seen in us is me attempting to match yours. Hey Avery :) Thought you’d like to see a Love Note for you in your favorite paper!! Journalism! Happy Valentines Day <3 Love, Liam Doofensmirtz, Pugs, and more. Here’s to a year of trials and tribulations...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Sports Wednesday, October 14, 2020 — 19 As his senior season nears, Kwity Paye’s Michigan career comes into focus As the Big Ten’s 2020 football season hung in the balance leading up to this fall, senior defensive end Kwity Paye had “a million people” in his ear. Some told him he should hold out hope for a season and remain in Ann Arbor. Others thought opting out and declaring for the NFL Dra...…
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