…As the first day of fall semester approaches and students move into on-campus residence halls, freshmen have had to modify their expectations for what the semester will now look like. LSA freshman Elizabeth Wolfe, who lives in East Quad Residence Hall, said she has tried to make her first several days as normal as possible despite the semester’s clear differences. “Interactions have been limited but I’ve k...…
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…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com News Monday, August 31, 2020 — 3 In the main hallway of Markley Residence Hall is a selection of large blue move-in bins. Standing next to the bins is a portable whiteboard sign with a hand-written message: “Please wipe before & after use!” On the floor lies a tube of disinfectant wipes, empty. This week, thousands of students are moving into University of Michigan residence hal...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com News 4 — Monday, August 31, 2020 Thousands protest police brutality across Michigan CLAIRE HAO & CALDER LEWIS Daily News Editor and Summer News Editor Last weekend, The Michigan Daily reporters went to 11 different protests, driving 269 miles and speaking to almost 100 people in 10 cities about why they came out. Some said it was their first time protesting. Many more said they were use...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com News Monday, August 31, 2020 — 5 LSA senior Dylan Gilbert was sitting in a class discussion with the other 20-or-so members of her class, when her English professor Scott Lyons read out loud the N-word from a short story by American writer William Faulkner. Gilbert, uncomfortable with the situation, left the discussion that day. Though the class carried on, the professor’s choice ...…
…Pools of carmel swirling around a black hole abyss My eyes call themselves beautiful. Candied flakes swallowing influxes of light, I love this skeleton, Composed of bones proven durable From years of resisting wordly tarnish I love this skeleton, Despite the unevenness of my ribs The lopsided steel bars that Protect my fragile beating core I love my shoulders, Likened to soils drenched And weighed down heavy in the exhaust...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Michigan In Color Monday, August 31, 2020 — 7 Heard the ruckus for the new Netflix reality TV show “Indian Matchmaking,” but not sure if you want to watch it? Don’t fret the details, I won’t spoil any- thing, but I’ll help you navigate whether or not this is a show for you. If you come from a Desi fam- ily like me, you grew up hearing about how the numerous rela- tionships in your family were ...…
…2-News I have real problems with my city and my university. It’s legal in Ann Arbor to gather outside in groups of 25 and inside in groups of 10. But it isn’t safe. The city also requires that we wear masks when in groups, but even that’s not safe unless we are six feet apart. And how easy is it to wear a mask when you’re having a drink and a conversation? My city — the city I came home to 10 years after ...…
…O n Sunday, June 7, nine members of the Minneapolis City Council acknowledged that the current system of policing is not working and that they intend to “defund and dismantle” the city police department. Council President Lisa Bender stated, “(We need) to listen, especially to our Black leaders, to our communities of color, for whom policing is not working and to really let the solutions lie in our community.” While still in the process o...…
…2-News Monday, August 31, 2020 — 9 Opinion The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com T he time to act is now. While COVID-19 may feel like it is pulling focus away from the issues that we care about, making it harder to communicate and plan actions and exhausting us emotionally and intellectually, there has never been a time where student action at the University of Michigan, especially collective action, will be as effecti...…
…10 — Monday, August 31, 2020 Opinion The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com A s K-12 students across the country prepare for the 2020-2021 school year, mounting research suggests that school districts can welcome students back to the classroom safely. However, from here in Ann Arbor to large cities like Chicago and Los Angeles, a flurry of school leaders have signed off on plans to keep millions of students home for remote learn...…
…F rom the end of World War II through the pres- ent day, the United States has maintained a position as the world’s premier superpower. For decades, the American values of hard work, individualism, liber- alism and free-market capitalism appeared to lead to massive suc- cesses, including technological advancement, economic pros- perity and high standards of liv- ing. However, as COVID-19 has exposed, the values which people once ...…
…W hen I first learned Espresso Royale was closing all of its locations in early June, it felt like just another thing fighting for my attention. Amid the global COVID-19 pandemic and Black Lives Matter protests following the killings of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor — only two examples of white supremacy that have sparked recent uprisings — the news that the coffee chain was closing seemed rather insignificant. That’s not t...…
… Monday, August 31, 2020 — 13 Arts The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com ‘Trinkets’: A show made perfectly for Twitter ‘I Used to Go Here’ is a different campus return The Michigan Daily’s Albums of the Summer ‘The Best Parts of Us’ celebrates our ties to the Earth Photo provided by Netflix Photo provided by Taylor Swift It might seem that if a Netflix executive wanted to get a grasp on what the kids were up to these days, all t...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Arts 14 — Monday, August 31, 2020 Not a month before quarantine started, my Taylor Swift™ snake ring snapped in half. After anxiously twisting it on and off my finger for nearly two years, the silvery metal fittingly relented in therapy. Bulky, obnoxious and glittery green — I had come to think of it as a secret signal (“I knew you were a Swiftie!”) and a conversation starter. “Oh,” I be...…
…In April 2016, author, historian and professor Ibram X. Kendi published his National Book Award-winning “Stamped from the Beginning.” In what he subtitles “The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America,” Kendi’s exhaustive research chronicles the timeline of anti-Black racist ideas and their shifting power throughout American history. Kendi, one of America’s leading antiracist voices, was the youngest- ever winner o...…
…A common misconception about “coming out” is that it represents a clean break, where there is a de- finitive moment when you’re in the closet and when you’re fully out in public. Most queer people will tell you that coming out is instead something you have to do over and over — that the people you will meet will most likely assume you’re straight until you inform them otherwise. This conception of coming out might be more true f...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Sports Monday, August 31, 2020 — 17 Michigan men’s basketball coach Juwan Howard said that he will stay at Michigan in a statement responding to a report from ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski that Howard has been gaining traction in NBA front offices as a potential head coaching candidate. “While I am flattered, and know it will more than likely happen again, I am not exploring, seeking or listen...…
…Nancy Eubanks’s job isn’t one that lends itself to social distancing. She’s the catering director for Zingerman’s Delicatessen, a job that like so many in Ann Arbor, is made possible by large groups of people. Especially every other Saturday in the fall. Eubanks has a routine on those Saturdays. She wakes up to the sound of the 400-member marching band practicing at Elbel Field, a few blocks away from her house. She ...…
…There may finally be some clarity surrounding college football. After a meeting on Tuesday morning, Big Ten Presidents and Chancellors voted to postpone fall sports. “The mental and physical health and welfare of our student-athletes has been at the center of every decision we have made regarding the ability to proceed forward,” Big Ten Commissioner Kevin Warren said. “As time progressed and after hours of discussion with our ...…
…20 — Monday, August 31, 2020 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com techshop.umich.edu new name. new website. still your university owned and operated technology store. I N T R O D U C I N G formerly COMPUTER SHOWCASE University of Michigan owned and operated since 1988 | provided by Information and Technology Services …
…T here may finally be some clarity surrounding college football. After a meeting on Tuesday morning, Big Ten Presidents and Chancellors voted to postpone fall sports. “The mental and physical health and welfare of our student-athletes has been at the center of every decision we have made regarding the ability to proceed forward,” Big Ten Commissioner Kevin Warren said. “As time progressed and after hours of discussion with our Big...…
…In an email to students and fac- ulty Monday, University of Mich- igan President Mark Schlissel outlined the new interim policy on sexual and gender-based mis- conduct, which will go into effect Aug 14. The policy will apply to students, faculty, staff and third parties on all three campuses and Michigan Medicine. “Improving how we prevent and address sexual and gender- based misconduct in our com- munity must always remain a foremost ...…
…As the Michigan Union reopened Monday morning for the second time this calendar year, University of Michigan alumni Isabel Wil- liams, Amanda Wasserman and Lucy Rosenthal stopped to say goodbye. The trio, who met their freshman year, roamed the silent, empty halls, reminiscing on game days and late-night food runs together one last time before their senior year housing lease ends later this week. “It’s definitely very sad look- ing ...…
…The Daily spoke with Sen. Gary Peters, D-Mich., on July 24 about his re-election campaign to the U.S. Senate, the federal govern- ment’s COVID-19 response and racial inequality. John James is the Republican nominee running against Peters for the Senate seat in this November’s election. The James campaign declined multiple requests for an interview. This interview has been edited and condensed for clarity. TMD: Why should young peo- p...…
…A mid the global COVID-19 pan- demic, the American people are struggling to find a healthy rou- tine. Across the country, people are reck- lessly jumping the gun, looking to return to pre-pandemic life while their fellow American brothers and sisters die. Bars and restaurants are packed, parties rage and crowds gather with reckless aban- don, often without masks. Our immedi- ate future seems bleak and irredeemable. These pivotal times, ...…
…I n the past month, I have observed friends and peers drop their fraternity and soror- ity life memberships due to the his- toric and current racism embedded in the institution. Every year, there are more videos of historically white fraternities and sororities (HWFS) chanting racist slurs or being exposed for racist practices in their rush strategies. As a new member, there have been many mandatory educational trainings on not bein...…
…In the prologue of his 2019 memoir, cho- reographer Mark Morris wrote that “the live aspect of performance is what appeals: the dancers, the musicians, the audience — all living beings in the same room. People might say they’ve watched a dance on You- Tube and they have. But they haven’t. It isn’t live.” Morris is so passionate about this point that he reiterates it in almost every subsequent chapter. By the time the book is finished, ...…
…Imperial Triumphant’s newest album, Alphaville might be the most versatile album of the year. To call the black metal trio strange would be an understatement; their latest work is a raging, depraved inferno that combines brutal death metal, jazz and even doo-wop to disorient- ing effect. Despite Alphaville’s colossal battery and sheer weirdness, the album has its mellifluous moments. The constant variation in genre, tone and energy...…
…9 MICHIGAN IN COLOR A letter from the editors As the summer comes to a close, and our time as Managing Editors is now complete, we would like to close off with a letter and a hope for MiC — an ode to a summer of revolution, if you will. Neither of us could have predicted what we signed up for, but we are more than proud of what we were able to accomplish. Thanks to a group of brilliant and talented writers and staff, we were able ...…
…Because of you Thank you for changing my dia- pers when I was a baby to being my biggest cheerleader growing up. I never feel lonely because of you. For saving me from drown- ing in countless pools, fountains and other near-death experiences I’m sure I had. I always feel com- fortable testing my boundaries because of you. For downloading my first iPod with all your music and making me hip by introduc- ing me to artists like Maroon 5 a...…
…11 SPORTS What postponement means for college athletics, Michigan The Big Ten made it official on Tuesday, ending days of speculation and contradicting reports with a decision to postpone the fall season. In a perfect world, that would be the end of all the questions and things would be cut and dried. But it isn’t a perfect world, it’s the NCAA. And that means this decision opens up a whole lot of questions that Michigan’s athletic ...…
…12 SPORTS Reactions to a devastating day for sports Sitting on practice field behind Schembechler Hall, the Michigan football team learned what most already knew: Their season — like those of the MAC and Mountain West — would have to wait. The Big Ten, the first Power Five conference to do so, postponed their season, with hopes of playing in the Spring. They were in the middle of a break between practices when the news came down. ...…
…13 Thursday, August 13, 2020 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com SPORTS Kevin Warren talks about ‘uncertainties’ that led to Big Ten decision Big Ten commissioner Kevin Warren had a lot to say about the postponement of sports in the conference this fall — unfortunately a lot of it translates to ‘We don’t know.’ “This is a holistic decision,” Warren said in an interview with the Big Ten Network. “There are just too many uncertainti...…
…Thursday, June 11, 2020 INDEX Vol. CXXIX, No. 125 © 2020 The Michigan Daily NEWS .................................... OPINION ............................... ARTS/NEWS.......................... MiC......................................... SPORTS................................ MICHIGAN IN COLOR Lebanon: where suffering meets resilience Lebanon has another crisis and, like before, we have abandoned them. >> SEE PAGE 9 NEWS Philber...…
…LSA instructors prepare for a mostly virtual fall semester As the University of Michigan campus gears up for a “public health-informed in-residence semester” this fall, departments and instructors have had to decide how to hold their classes while aligning with University guidelines. For LSA, these guidelines means large classes over 45 will be fully online, and smaller classes have the option to be in-person, hybrid or fully on...…
…WilmerHale released its 88-page report of its independent investigation of allegations of sexual misconduct by former Uni- versity of Michigan Provost Mar- tin Philbert Friday. The report found “significant evidence” that Philbert violated the Universi- ty’s Sexual Harassment policy. It identified numerous times when University personnel and adminis- tration received information about Philbert’s sexual misconduct. “Two things are cle...…
…4 Thursday, August 6, 2020 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com OPINION 420 Maynard St. Ann Arbor, MI 48109 tothedaily@michigandaily.com Edited and managed by students at the University of Michigan since 1890. BRITTANY BOWMAN Editorial Page Editor Alanna Berger Zack Blumberg Brittany Bowman Emily Considine Elizabeth Cook Jess D’Agostino Jenny Gurung Cheryn Hong Zoe Phillips Mary Rolfes Michael Russo Gabrijela Skoko Timothy Spurlin...…
…T wo months into this year’s Black Lives Matter protests that call for the defunding of police departments across the country, Presi- dent Donald Trump has yet to respond in a way that isn’t thoroughly racist and problematic. Outrage swept through the nation in response to the first reports of unidentified federal agents arriving in Portland, Ore., — a hotspot for Black Lives Matter protests — in unmarked vans, kidnapping citizens o...…
…It’s said that every theatre is inhabited by at least one ghost, and contrary to legends propa- gated by Halloween, these ghosts do not like the dark. Thus, when the curtain falls and a theatre’s house empties, an employee will leave a light — a ghost light — to burn onstage until the perform- ers return. Across the world, ghost lights have remained on and untouched for months. But the lives of performers continue offstage, each day add...…
…Let it be known that Hozier, Irish singer-song- writer extraordinaire, receives poetry books as Christmas gifts. Yes, The man behind our favorite sleepy Sunday morning tunes with his poignant, dreamy voice reads poetry. And, most importantly: If you tune in to Instagram Live at the right time on Fridays, Hozier will read a selection of poetry to you. For the past four weeks, Hozier presented a kinder, gentler side of the internet. His p...…
…8 Thursday, August 6, 2020 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com MICHIGAN IN COLOR Cracking open the coconut: the reality of being a ‘white washed Indian’ “Are you even Indian?” “You’re so light-skinned, you must be half.” “Why do you listen to so much white music?” “He’s a coconut (brown on the outside, white on the inside).” “She’s barely brown, have you seen who she hangs out with?” To be honest, I’ve said some of these things be...…
…9 Thursday, August 6, 2020 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com MICHIGAN IN COLOR A satiric preview for Netflix’s ‘Indian Matchmaking’ Heard the ruckus for the new Netflix reality TV show “Indian Matchmaking,” but not sure if you want to watch it? Don’t fret the details, I won’t spoil anything, but I’ll help you navigate whether or not this is a show for you. If you come from a Desi family like me, you grew up hearing about how t...…
…10 Thursday, August 6, 2020 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com SPORTS KENT SCHWARTZ Summer Managing Sports Editor Big Ten releases testing procedures and protocol for fall sports As many student-athletes and parents are criticizing the lack of standardized testing procedures in the NCAA, the Big Ten on Wednesday announced its own testing standards for its schools to follow. Student-athletes must be tested at least once a week u...…
…11 Thursday, August 6, 2020 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com SPORTS From the rink to the Lake, Michigan defender Cam York’s passion goes far beyond just playing hockey Cam York is the picture of confidence with a hockey stick in his hand. It’s a quiet confidence, but it oozes from every move he makes. When he’s not on the ice as a Michigan defenseman, York swaps out his stick for a fishing pole, an Xbox controller or a baske...…
…12 Thursday, August 6, 2020 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com SPORTS Keith Cooley’s road to becoming Michigan’s first Black gymnast Keith Cooley didn’t go to Michigan to be an athlete. He didn’t grow up dreaming of performing in front of fans or going to the Olympics — he went to Michigan to be a physicist, and he left a physicist. Yet somewhere along that journey, he became Michigan’s first Black gymnast in 1966 as a tram...…
