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…For Highland Park, Illinois, or Anytown, USA LILLY DICKMAN Statement Associate Editor The morning after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, I awoke to the sound of rain. Instead of getting up to begin my day, I stayed in bed — a move foreign to my routine. I was sad and dejected, I lacked the motivation to leave the cocoon of my covers. So I lay and listened to the rain. I knew the universe was sad, too; its tears were rollin...…
…4 — Wednesday, July 20, 2022 Michigan in Color The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Photos contributed by Jonathan Vaughn …
…Jonathan Vaughn: a portrait of healing SARAH AKAABOUNE MiC Senior Editor The following story contains potentially triggering accounts and mentions of sexual assault. The University of Michigan made Jonathan Vaughn a man. And being a man is a complicated matter because manhood is the sort of thing that takes just as much as it gives. It can be unrelenting and unreasonable, hard to understand and discern, hard to tame and...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Opinion 6 — Wednesday, July 20, 2022 BRANDON COWIT Managing Editor Stanford Lipsey Student Publications Building 420 Maynard St. Ann Arbor, MI 48109 tothedaily@michigandaily.com Edited and managed by students at the University of Michigan since 1890. VANESSA KIEFER Editor in Chief From The Daily: Now, more than ever, we need to stand up for abortion rights *Content warning: rape, violence T he ...…
…Wednesday, July 20, 2022 — 7 Sports The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Michigan names Greenspan and Huntzinger as assistant coaches JAKE SINGER Daily Sports Writer Less than two weeks after Michigan Athletic Director Warde Manuel hired a new baseball coach in Tracy Smith, the Wolverines’ coaching staff is now complete with the hires of associate head coach Ben Greenspan and pitching coach Brock Huntzinger. Smith had a lot of...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Sports 8 — Wednesday, July 20, 2022 CONNOR EAREGOOD Summer Managing Sports Editor Michigan’s 27-year draft streak fed by recruiting success ICE HOCKEY For the Michigan hockey team, the success of last Thursday’s NHL Draft was something the Wolverines are accustomed to. With three players selected, a 27-year streak of at least one Michigan player being picked continued. It is tied with Boston ...…
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…Spring commencement is one of the busiest times of the year in Ann Arbor as large crowds visit town to celebrate with the year’s graduating class. For the past two years, commencement has looked a little different: the commencement was canceled in 2020 and was closed to guests in 2021. This year, however, there will be two commencement ceremonies, one for the class of 2022 on April 30 and a special “Comeback Ceremony” for...…
…Content Warning: This arti- cle contains mentions of sexual assault. The University of Michigan’s Sexual Assault Prevention and Awareness Center’s (SAPAC) 37th annual survivor speak- out began with a moment of silence Sunday night. About 70 U-M community members came together at the Michigan Union’s Pendleton Room to share and listen to stories from sexual assault survivors. The crowd fell quiet as attendees paid respect to those i...…
…Arts 4 — Wednesday, April 20, 2022 WHEN I WAS approximately 13 years old I wrote a “The Lord of the Rings” fan- fiction. It never got past three chapters, mostly encompassing the moment Merry and Pippin are captured by Orcs until the rest of the Fellowship find them after The Battle of Isengard. It also never saw the light of day, and now collects dust in a 42 page document on my computer titled “Old Stories” that makes me sick to my ...…
…Arts The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Meet Annie Rauwerda, the U-M student behind Depths of Wikipedia Why I can’t (and won’t) shut up about season 2 of ‘Bridgerton’ MAYBE YOU’VE SCROLLED through your timeline on your favorite social media app and come across a post about odd Canadian traditions, animal-shaped breads or ancient Sumerian jokes — but did you know that the creator of these posts could’ve been in your discussion sec...…
…The sweet, warm scent of pollen is not the only thing that fills the air on campus during April. Along with its arrival comes end-of-school- year stress, fears over what to do after the semester ends and the dreaded backpacking season. After reflecting on the fall semester during course selection, I realized that I felt empty from a lack of music in my life. While I enjoyed the one-credit chamber music class I was taking and felt g...…
…I first encountered the Kerrytown neighborhood when I came to Ann Arbor for freshman orientation in July of 2018. My partner had driven me up to Michigan, and we found a current student to stay with for the night. The house was a mustard color with large curvy windows, as if it were inspired by a funhouse. It had a huge attic and was shaped like no other home I’d ever seen. Many of the rooms looked like they were closets or huge st...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Michigan in Color 8 — Wednesday, April 20, 2022 I’ve been thinking a lot lately on what constitutes a friend. The qualifiers and the levels all associated with it. What distinguishes someone as a true friend versus someone you spend time with? An issue I had in the past (and still suf- fer from) is failure to define, creating the boundaries between different categories of friendship. I consider my...…
… The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Opinion Wednesday, April 20, 2022 — 9 PAIGE HODDER Managing Editor Stanford Lipsey Student Publications Building 420 Maynard St. Ann Arbor, MI 48109 tothedaily@michigandaily.com Edited and managed by students at the University of Michigan since 1890. JASMIN LEE Editor in Chief JULIAN BARNARD AND SHUBHUM GIROTI Editorial Page Editors Unsigned editorials reflect the official position of The Daily’...…
…E veryone needs it, but no one wants to ask for it. “Help” has become a sort of dirty word, implying weakness and neediness, that we can’t handle our problems on our own. Using the word “help” has come to mean that you have given in to the obstacles plaguing your life and that you don’t have the strength to carry on by yourself. These implications are commonplace, and they are not only false, but harmful. I will openly admit tha...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Wednesday, April 20, 2022 — 11 Big moments lift Michigan to 2-1 weekend against Maryland JOEY GOODSIR Daily Sports Writer As fifth-year third baseman Tay- lor Bump stepped into the batter’s box on Friday, it was clear a break- through was necessary. In extra innings, bleeding only one run would result in another conference loss. So the No. 22 Mich- igan softball team could not afford to strand r...…
…“And after that, we knew we had a lot of ground to make up, and it was improbable that we were going to be able to do it.” Julia Schachinger/Daily | Design by Sophie Grand F ORT WORTH, Texas — The No. 3 Michigan women’s gymnastics team entered the NCAA National Semifinal as the Raleigh Regional Champion and a favorite to advance to the final. There were high expectations for the Wolverines, who have rightfully earned high praise a...…
…Jonathan Vaughn, a former University of Michigan running back, has been camping in a tent outside of University President Mark Schlissel’s residence on South University Avenue for more than six days, as of Oct. 14. Vaughn, a survivor of late athletic doctor Robert Anderson, said he’ll stay there rain or shine until Schlissel and the regents commit to meet with him and other Anderson survivors. He is also spreading awarenes...…
…Instructors across campus are expressing concerns about COVID-19 protocols currently in place despite being told the classroom is “the safest place to be on campus” by University of Michigan administration. Among those concerned is Rackham student Ryan Glauser, co-chair of the Graduate Employ- ees’ Organization’s COVID-19 caucus, who told The Michigan Daily he felt no reassurance in returning to the classroom this semester. ...…
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…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Arts 4 — Wednesday, October 20, 2021 “Keep reading a little longer, not totally against your will.” So goes the Booker Prize-shortlisted “No One is Talking About This,” the debut novel from poet and memoirist Patricia Lockwood. I’ll cut to the chase: It’s a strange book. The form is stuttering and disjointed. The jokes don’t always land. The prose isn’t exactly prose. The fiction isn’t exactly...…
…Wednesday, October 20, 2021 — 5 Michigan in Color The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com In the Year of Our Lord 2014, I celebrated my golden birthday, turning 13 on March 13. And sure enough, the Pisces male, middle school version of myself was as emotionally charged, creatively centered and idiosyncrati- cally idealistic as I am now. Yet, a corrosive force, turning what...…
…E ach day, as I walk into the Ross School of Business, I face a similar scene. Upperclassmen, running around in suits like chickens with their heads cut off, trying to locate any source of a potential career gain: peers, faculty, recruiters or a “professional” cup of Starbucks coffee. For juniors, there is no better time than the present to start recruiting. For sophomores, they’re watching the clock gradually tick down to their ...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Sports Wednesday, October 20, 2021 — 7 Scraping for control, Michigan struggled with Minnesota-Duluth’s offense early on. The Bulldogs kept the puck all over the ice, and the Wolverines couldn’t force it away from them. That all changed with five minutes left in the first period. The puck nowhere in sight, senior defenseman Nick Blankenburg took a massive strike to the h...…
…Sports The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com 8 — Wednesday, October 20, 2021 During one of Michigan’s September home games, J.J. McCarthy glanced towards the student section and saw a group of fans with “I heart JJ” painted across their chests. For McCarthy, that level of devotion is almost ordinary. A five-star freshman quarterback, McCarthy stayed committed to Michigan last fall even amidst the throes of the Wolverines’ 2-4 ...…
…This article is the first part of a two- part investigation by The Michigan Daily’s Focal Point team into allegations of sexual misconduct against computer science professor Walter Lasecki and the University of Michigan’s handling of these allegations. It is based on emails, documents, notes and interviews with 12 individuals knowledgeable of these events. Content Warning: Sexual harassment and misconduct T wo investigations into ...…
…The Ann Arbor City Council will vote on the proposed city budget for fiscal year 2022 at the council meeting on Monday night. A meeting was held on May 3 for residents to express thoughts and concerns about the roughly $470 million proposed budget. Covering issues ranging from policing to deer population control, the proposed budget contains many hotly contested items. Police The budget includes $155,000 for the Ann Arbor Indep...…
…The Food and Drug Administration and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued a joint statement on April 13, recommending an immediate pause on administering the Johnson and Johnson/Janssen COVID-19 vaccine “out of an abundance of caution.” The ensuing 11-day pause was a result of six reported cases in which women ranging from 18 to 48 years of age experienced severe blood clots — a new condition known as thrombosis w...…
…4 Thursday, May 20, 2021 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com OPINION I once had an interaction with my high school physics teacher that has stuck with me ever since. During one of the weekly chats we’d have in her classroom after school, I wondered out loud why neither evolution nor the Big Bang theory were covered in the biology or physics curricula. My teacher explained to me that being in a town drenched in parochial ideo...…
…4.2% of men experience nonconsen- sual sexual touching on campus; 34.3% of undergraduate women remain most at risk for experiencing nonconsen- sual touching and penetration on cam- pus; 17% of undergraduates, 26.4% of women, experience unwanted kissing and sexual touching prior to coming to the University; 6.7% of undergraduates, 10.6% of women, experience unwanted penetration or oral sex prior to coming to the University. 5 Thursd...…
…The month of May brings warmer weather and millions of posts under the Asian American Pacific Islander hashtag across all social media platforms. It is AAPI Heritage Month, a time for every Asian American and Pacific Islander to celebrate their respective cultures. AAPI commemoration was first officially recognized in 1978 as just one week in May, and the celebration didn’t expand into a month and didn’t become annual until 1990. ...…
…7 Thursday, May 20, 2021 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com MICHIGAN IN COLOR Every so often I hear about Hazaras in Afghanistan. I just did last week — it was mostly children who died. I remember how Khaled Hosseini so beautifully and eloquently painted a heartbreaking picture of the recent history of Afghanistan. and how To this, students in classes at my predominantly white high school analyzed questions such as “why did H...…
…8 Thursday, May 20, 2021 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com ARTS It feels like the name Squid has been circulating around the music blogosphere for half a decade at this point. The band has maintained an almost elusive aura, only sparking further intrigue with every subsequent single and EP released. What’s more, the music they were trickling out to the public evaded any surefire categorization, to a point where critics and e...…
…9 Thursday, May 20, 2021 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Hundreds march in Dearborn in support of Palestinians A few thousand Detroit and Dearborn residents gathered to rally against Israeli airstrikes and evictions of Palestinians Saturday afternoon. Organized by the Palestinian Youth Movement and endorsed by the Party for Socialism and Liberation – Detroit, protesters of all ages marched through the streets of D...…
…The Show Must Go On The Michigan Theater and State Theatre, located in downtown Ann Arbor, have been home to countless movie screenings and performing arts events for the Ann Arbor and U-M communities in their respective 93 and 79 years of operation. The pair of historic theaters, operated by the Michigan Theater Foundation, have faced a year rife with challenges brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic. In early March 2020, as COVID- ...…
…What Macomb County can teach us about American politics B ack when blue and red were just Crayola colors to me, I remember sitting around the reading carpet at my elementary school in Macomb County, Michigan, as everyone went around and talked about what their parents did for a living. Almost everyone seemed to have at least one parent who worked for a car company. With my dad working at Chrysler for nearly three decades, I was p...…
…12 Thursday, May 20, 2021 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com STATEMENT The j word: journalism at Michigan T he debate of the college major is an endless uphill battle; you can ponder and argue and make all the decisions you want without ever truly knowing if you’re making the right choice. It is impossible for a major to guarantee personal success, yet choosing one can feel like closing yourself off to only a select few caree...…
…Michigan to travel to Seattle for NCAA regional Beaubien’s perfect game highlights doubleheader sweep The D-1 Softball Committee revealed on Sunday that the Michigan softball team will travel to Seattle in the NCAA regional. The Seattle regional is a double-elimination bracket consisting of the home team in No. 16 Washington, Michigan, Western Athletic Conference champion Seattle, and Big Sky Conference champion Po...…
…14 Thursday, May 20, 2021 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com SPORTS Redshirt sophomore left-hander Steven Hajjar and sophomore right- hander Cameron Weston have provided Michigan with a formidable 1-2 punch at the top of its rotation. Hajjar sports a 4-0 record with an impressive 3.02 ERA while Weston, the number two starter, has posted a 5-3 record and has an excellent 2.85 ERA. After those two, however, the Wolverines con...…
…Beniers, Power selected to play in World Championships Michigan falls to Pepperdine 4-0 in round of 16 Michigan will have the chance to see a couple of its young stars compete for their national teams later this month. On Thursday, it was announced that freshman forward Matty Beniers would be suiting up for Team USA at the 2021 International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF) World Championships — taking place in Riga, Latvia. Ben...…
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…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...…
…Tenured English professor Douglas Trevor, former director of the Helen Zell Writers’ Program and the Hopwood Awards Program, is not allowed to conduct office hours with his door closed or meet with students in off-campus spaces for the next two years. These sanctions were instituted in an April 30, 2020 letter from LSA Dean Anne Curzan. According to the confidential letter, addressed to Trevor and obtained by The ...…
…When this investigator first contacted her, Richter alleged that one of the first things he told her was that he was surprised she was reporting Trevor. The investigator allegedly said he had worked with Trevor after Trevor reported Richter and the other faculty member to OIE and — according to Richter — the investigator said Trevor was a “great guy.” One of the individuals contacted by The Daily confirmed that Richter shared th...…
…7-Opinion Wednesday, January 20, 2021 — 5 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Arts Artist Profile: SMTD senior Addison Tharp digitizes jazz Innovation in the performance community is not a new phenom- enon during the COVID-19 pan- demic, but what about here on campus? The School of Music, Theatre & Dance has a whole host of performers who have not stood by and waited for the pandemic to pass, and SMTD senior Addison Tharp is ...…
…I waited a few days after watch- ing “Pieces of a Woman” to write about it. I wasn’t even sure if I was going to be able to write anything more about it than the non sequi- turs I’d typed into the notes app on my phone: “milk but no baby,” “spit- ting out an appleseed,” “unfinished bridge.” I wasn’t sure if I wanted to get in the middle of the cultural conversation about the death of the artist, delve into the twisted feel- ing in my ...…
…Opinion S hould annual reports be published annually? For the University of Michigan’s Office of Institutional Equity, this is apparently a difficult question. OIE, the office that handles investigations of sexual misconduct within the University, estimates that their annual report for the fiscal year that ended on June 30 will be ready in mid-January 2021. The last report was published on Nov. 11, 2019. Spokesman Rick ...…
