…Last winter, LSA student Alexandra Ellard had to miss 10 days of class. Due to extreme weather, many Metro Detroit area public schools and facilities were closed. This meant Ellard couldn’t take her almost 2-year-old son, Oliver, to day care, and the road conditions were too dangerous to bring him along on the 40-minute drive to campus. She had no choice but to stay home. Ellard, who will be graduating this May with a Gener...…
…2 — Friday, January 10, 2020 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com News GIVE IT A SHOT RYAN puzzle by sudokusyndication.com 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, one Daily staffer will give a behind the scenes look at one of this week’s stories. This week, LSA sophomore Parnia Mazhar on her story “Hundreds gat...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com News Friday, January 10, 2020 — 3 school, and I’m looking at that website, I’m not thinking that me having a child is an emergency.” In general, Ellard said it was challenging to find sources of financial aid through the University when she returned to school as a student parent. “It was damn near impossible to get financial aid without making an unbelievable amount of phone calls and...…
…Opinion The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com 4 — Friday, January 10, 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 ...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Arts Friday, January 10, 2020 — 5 In my memory, Winter Break 2019 will always be defined by “Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker.” While I watched some (far superior) movies like “Little Women” and “Knives Out” during this holiday season, my brain still can’t let “Skywalker” go. It’s a beautifully crafted, wonderfully performed, roller coaster ride of a waste of time. While there are imaginative pla...…
…6 — Friday, Janurary 10, 2020 Arts The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com CLASSIFIEDS 734-418-4115 dailydisplay@gmail.com FALL 2020 HOUSES # Beds Location Rent 6 511 Linden $4650 6 722 E. Kingsley $4650 6 1119 S. Forest $4000 5 910 Greenwood $3900 4 809 Sybil $3200 2 221 N. First $1900 Tenants pay all utilities. Lease Term 8/30/20 - 8/16/21 Showings M-F 10-3; 24 hr notice required DEINCO PROPERTIES 734-996-1991 By Joe Deeney ©...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Sports Friday, January 10, 2020 — 7 Tru Wilson announces decision to grad transfer Redshirt junior running back Tru Wilson announced Thursday that he will pursue a graduate transfer. “I appreciate everything the University of Michigan has done for me these last 4 years,” Wilson said in a tweet. “I will graduate in the spring and will transfer to finish my last year of college football. God ble...…
…Sports 8 — Friday, January 10, 2020 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com ‘M’ prevails in double overtime It was a boring game. Then it wasn’t. It was a game in which senior guard Zavier Simpson couldn’t hit a dart board with a shotgun. Then he was leading the offense in double overtime. In a back-and-forth slugfest character- ized by sloppy basketball, a tense second half and two thrilling overtime periods, the Michigan men’s ba...…
…Three candidates for Washtenaw County prosecutor spoke to a group of about 60 community members regarding the upcoming election for county prosecutor at the Arrowwood Community Center in Ann Arbor on Sunday afternoon. Arrowwood Democratic Party hosted the event, which was moderated by Ann Arbor City Councilmembers Anne Bannister, D-Ward 1, and Jeff Hayner, D-Ward 1. The candidates — Arianne Slay, Hugo Mack and Eli Savit...…
…2A — Monday, February 10, 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 DESIGN BY HIBAH CHUGHTAI CHIEF From Page 1A SOPHIA AFENDOULIS/Daily Staff photographer Sophia Afendoulis explored Greece and visited the home of Nectarios of Aegina, the patron saint of cancer. The Michigan Daily (ISSN 0745-967) is pub...…
…During the television airing of the 2020 Grammy Awards Ceremony, Google released its new Black History Month advertisement. The 1-minute commercial titled, “The Most Searched: A Celebration of Black History Makers” demonstrates the amazing feats Black people have accomplished throughout history based on how many people have looked them up on the search engine. The Civil Rights Movement holds the spot of the “most searched...…
…Opinion The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com 4A — Monday, February 10, 2020 Alanna Berger Zack Blumberg Brittany Bowman 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 a...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Arts Monday, February 10, 2020 — 5A I didn’t know who Mac Miller was until he died. I knew he dated Ariana Grande. I knew he wrote a song about that one guy who hosted NBC’s “The Apprentice.” I knew I didn’t like Blue Slide Park when it came out. These were my thoughts as I read “RIP MAC MILLER” from a slab of ply-wood leaning on a frat house on my way back from a football game on Sept. 8...…
…WHISPER SUBMIT A WHISPER By Gail Grabowski and Bruce Venzke ©2020 Tribune Content Agency, LLC 02/10/20 Los Angeles Times Daily Crossword Puzzle Edited by Rich Norris and Joyce Nichols Lewis 02/10/20 ANSWER TO PREVIOUS PUZZLE: Release Date: Monday, February 10, 2020 ACROSS 1 Depletes, with “up” 5 Pod in Creole cuisine 9 Theme park that retired its IllumiNations show in 2019 14 Tall and skinny 15 Umpire’s call 16 Greek played by A...…
…Monday, February 10, 2020 | michigandaily.com Alexis Rankin / Daily | Design by Jack Silberman INSIDE: LIVERS GIVES ‘M’ BOOST AGAINST MSU - CONNOR BRENNAN MICHIGAN SETS TONE IN STATEMENT WIN - DANIEL DASH SIMPSON’S SHOOTING PROPELS WOLVERINES - JACOB KOPNICK LIVERS’ RETURN COULD CHANGE SEASON SPORTSMONDAY COLUMN READ MORE PAGE 2B …
…T urning points are often arbitrary. They are judged retroactively, fre- quently in an attempt to ascribe meaning to results rather than default to the randomness of sports. But if the Michigan men’s bas- ketball team finds itself and rounds into form here, we will look back on Saturday’s 77-68 win over Michigan State as a catalyst. Not just because the Wolverines beat the Spar- tans for the first time in nearly two years, n...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com SportsMonday February 10, 2020 — 3B ‘M’ holds off Michigan State, 77-68, in win When Michigan went to East Lansing in early January, it was ugly. The Wolverines didn’t seem to have answers for anything that Michigan State threw their way. They couldn’t contain the volatile Spartan offense, led by star senior point guard Cassius Winston and junior forward Xavier Tillman. Their own offense was ...…
…4B — February 10, 2020 SportsMonday The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com lsa.umich.edu/philosophy Lecture is free and open to the public CHARLES W. MILLS The City University of New York WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 2020 4–6pm | Rackham Auditorium 2020 TANNER LECTURE ON HUMAN VALUES Michigan earns sweep with 5-3 win Less than five minutes into the third period Saturday night, senior forward Jacob Hayhurst went hunting solo. He entered the ...…
… michigandaily.com Ann Arbor, Michigan Tuesday, March 10, 2020 ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY-NINE YEARS OF EDITORIAL FREEDOM As Michigan gears up for the March 10 Democratic primary, University of Michigan students are comparing the positions of front-runners former Vice President Joe Biden and Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt. on issues relating to higher education. Affordability of four-year colleges and universities has been an importa...…
…2 — Tuesday, March 10, 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 are...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com News Tuesday, March 10, 2020 — 3 BIDEN From Page 1 He also said Biden’s plan for loan forgiveness would affect many students, especially those hoping to work in public service. “I think on a broader scale, just having a president that’s focused on these things (is important),” Schaeffler said. “Having a president that will appoint a secretary of education that has been on the front line …...…
…4 — Tuesday, March 10, 2020 Opinion The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com W ith the Democratic primaries in full swing, the University of Michigan’s campus is becoming dense with political advocacy — fliers, voter registration drives, candidate offices opening and endorsements are present at every corner. As people begin to discuss the primaries online and on campus, students want to take part in the monumental 2020 ...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Arts Tuesday, March 10, 2020 — 5 Surrounded by Michigan paraphernalia in the Three Cats Cafe, Dan Scanlon looks comfortable and at home because he is. As someone born and raised in Clawson, MI, it’s no wonder Scanlon is eager to talk about “Onward,” Scanlon’s highly anticipated film based on his own childhood, in his real-life hometown. Scanlon has worked with Pixar for many years, tak...…
…WHISPER SUBMIT A WHISPER By Amanda Rafkin and Ross Trudeau ©2020 Tribune Content Agency, LLC 03/10/20 Los Angeles Times Daily Crossword Puzzle Edited by Rich Norris and Joyce Nichols Lewis 03/10/20 ANSWER TO PREVIOUS PUZZLE: Release Date: Tuesday, March 10, 2020 ACROSS 1 __-been: washed-up celeb 4 Shared again, as a story 10 Samantha Bee’s network 13 Frequently found in poetry? 14 One with a hunger 15 Go bad 16 Citrus drink in a...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Sports Tuesday March 10, 2020 — 7 Adversity shaping postseason for ‘M’ Juwan Howard’s first regular season as the Michigan men’s basketball coach featured no shortage of adversity. Bad news began trickling in before the Wolverines even took the court for the first time in November. Less than two weeks before the season tipped off, freshman wing Franz Wagner fractured his wrist in practice. The ...…
…Vote March 10 8 — Tuesday, March 10, 2020 Arts The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com …
…On March 23, University President Mark Schlissel notified the University of Michigan community that spring and summer terms classes would be conducted remotely. Despite the move to continue online instruction, tuition for the spring/summer terms will remain the same, University spokesman Rick Fitzgerald told The Daily. “There will be no changes in tuition and fees for the spring/summer terms,” Fitzgerald wrote in an ema...…
…2 — Friday, April 10, 2020 News The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com In a webinar delivered to more than 2,000 University of Michigan alumni and business professionals, Lindy Greer, associate professor and faculty director of the Sanger Leadership Center, explained how remote working can change a workspace for the better by allowing for productive team communication and organized leadership. In her discussion...…
…electric, and improving energy efficiency in homes, businesses, schools, places of worship, recreational sites and government facilities. Ann Arbor Mayor Christopher Taylor said the plan will be disruptive, but will create a community that better incorporates its values of sustainability and equity. “Ann Arbor 2030 will be materially different than Ann Arbor 2020,” Taylor said. “It’ll be a denser community, a more ...…
…B eing able to witness a pandemic like COVID-19 in our lifetime has been both a dream and a nightmare for me. For many public health students, a real-life pandemic is everything our education has been building toward. In every class, we are reminded of our predecessors who created the polio vaccine and eradicated the source of cholera way back when. We are constantly empowered to work for communities that are the most vu...…
…Friday, April 10, 2020 — 5 Arts The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com BOOKS NOTEBOOK “OK, Boomer,” I mutter, as I follow Laurence Cook, a senile Iowan farmer who foolishly attempts to divide his agricultural empire among his three daughters, with disastrous consequences. If this story sounds familiar, that’s because you’ve likely heard it before: It’s the plot of Jane Smiley’s 1991 novel “A Thousand Acres,” which in turn is an ...…
…Friday, April 10, 2020 — 6 Arts The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com There’s no better time to play “Animal Crossing: New Horizons” than when you’re trapped at home with little to do. The same can be said for most video games, but especially so for “New Horizons”; no better game could have been released on March 20, 2020. Animal Crossing is often called a “life-simulation” game, but calling it a “personalization” or “cu...…
…7 — Friday, April 10, 2020 Sports The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com The complications of playing football this fall Of all the people within college football, Chip Kelly provided a font of wisdom on Thursday. “The governors of the states and mayors are going to be the ones who tell you whether we can (come back),” the UCLA coach told reporters Thursday. “Because the NCAA can say, ‘Hey, you guys are all...…
…8 — Friday, April 10, 2020 Sports The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com What Michigan’s young corps learned from national team tryouts Three players from the 2019 Michigan volleyball roster were invited to the USA College National Team tryouts. In the fall, they accounted for a combined 56.8 percent of the Wolverines’ kills, 48.4 percent of their blocks and 44.6 percent of their serving aces. Another key fact about them: ...…
…michigandaily.com Ann Arbor, Michigan Wednesday, February 10, 2021 ONE HUNDRED AND THIRTY YEARS OF EDITORIAL FREEDOM GOT A NEWS TIP? Call 734-418-4115 or e-mail news@michigandaily.com and let us know. INDEX Vol. CXXX, No. 19 ©2021 The Michigan Daily N E W S . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1 ARTS............................ 5 MIC...............................9 OPINION.......................11 SP O RTS . . . . . . . . ...…
…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...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com News Wednesday, February 10, 2021 — 3 Activist, scholar LaTosha Brown hosts Black History Month kickoff event Speaker encourages students to “reimagine how we can better our world” To begin this month’s Black History Month celebrations, LaTosha Brown, co-founder of the Black Voters Matter Fund and a 2020-2021 American Democracy Fellow at Harvard University, discussed civic engagement, voter ...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com News 4 — Wednesday, February 10, 2021 Study shows Black researchers about 55% less likely to receive NIH funding than white peers RESEARCH University of Michigan biomedical engineering professor Omolola Eniola- Adefeso, along with 19 other women in biomedical engineering across the country, published a paper last month calling for an end to racial disparity in funding by the Natio...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Arts Wednesday, February 10, 2021 — 5 Arlo Parks Explores Light and Loss on ‘Collapsed in Sunbeams’ If you’ve ever dug up an old diary and leafed through its pages, it’s very likely you’ve stumbled upon some melodramatic vignettes of adolescence, both cringe- worthy to read yet strangely impossible to tear your eyes away from. There’s a certain appeal to re-living the most intimate momen...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Arts 6 — Wednesday, February 10, 2021 Like many conservationists, Enric Sala loved our world before he thought about saving it. “I loved the natural world before I could understand it. In fact, I was interested in understanding it because I loved it,” Sala writes in his book, “The Nature of Nature: Why We Need the Wild.” Sala is a scientist, conservationist and National Geographic explorer-...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Arts Wednesday, February 10, 2021 — 7 Every child of the 2000s can recall exactly where they were when Jerry Seinfield’s magnum opus “Bee Movie” first graced the big screen. Indeed, I would argue that the defining moment of my childhood occurred when the all-too-fateful “Do ya like jazz?” playfully escaped the intoxicatingly seductive lips of Barry B. Benson. As a seven-year- old, I lionized th...…
…“Ruby’s passion and talent are beautifully struck against the pressure that she feels to stay and help her family. Heder creates a vivid life for these characters, flawlessly demonstrating the role that Ruby has played in her family since she was a child. But the members of her family, particularly her parents, are given the same depth and compassion. They too are conflicted, bearing the same worries that any parent has about...…
…We’re already moving full steam into the new semester, but I don’t think I’ve fully recovered from the previous one. Part of me wants to forge ahead and never look back at any part of 2020, but things don’t suddenly change when the clock strikes midnight, and the debris from the catastrophic year still lingers everywhere. It lingers in the unease and the discomfort of upending my first year of college. It lingers in my detached co...…
…This past year has been a lot to deal with and having constant access to news about the traumas of our realities has only worsened our mental health. Especially in the Black community, it seems like every time we recover from one thing and find some happiness, another disastrous headline or tragic event surfaces to bring us back down. The Black community has lost many of our brothers and sisters since January 2020. Kobe Bryant, Geo...…
…T he news of how a group of people on Reddit used shares of GameStop to outmatch a Wall Street hedge fund has not only captured national attention but has also started an ethics conversation about hedge funds and the stock market. However, private citizens are not the only ones using questionable strategies to make money in stocks. Over the past few years, this issue has gained widespread attention due to a number of lawmake...…
…Opinion GEO’S 2020-2021 OFFICERS | CONTRIBUTORS JESSIE MITCHELL | COLUMNIST SAM WOITESHEK | COLUMNIST Wednesday, February 10, 2021 — 12 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com I n recent weeks, thousands of University of Michigan students, alumni and community members signed a petition demanding University Regent Ronald Weiser (R) be removed from his post for failing to unequivocally disavow the Capitol riot and the chain of ev...…
…2-News N ame one thing that Reddit users infatuated with Elon Musk and Twitter leftists have in common. Did you guess a hatred of Wall Street? If you did, I applaud you. Because we’ve witnessed something truly interesting this week. I don’t pay much attention to the stock market, but even I heard about the insane crowdfunded effort in short- squeezing to thwart the effort of the firms shorting GameStop stock. The stock fo...…
…14 — Wednesday, February 10, 2021 Sports The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com UMich Esports benefits from recreational sports status, virtual features The COVID-19 pandemic has sidelined most aspects of typical club sports, derailing practice schedules and throwing competitions out the window. The UMich Esports team, though, felt right at home with the switch to a virtual landscape. The impact of the pandemic on t...…
…After leading the Michigan men’s lacrosse team to three consecutive championships at the club level, John Paul was gearing up to prepare the Wolverines for their first season as a part of Division I varsity lacrosse. Now competing in the upper echelon of collegiate lacrosse would bring new challenges for Paul and his players, but they were committed to charging forward in hopes of build- ing a brighter future for the progr...…
…16 — Wednesday, February 10, 2021 Sports The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Maddie Nolan making strides with Leigha Brown still out The Michigan women’s basketball team had a hole to fill ever since junior wing Leigha Brown became ineligible for play due to COVID-19 protocols on Jan. 7, right before the Wolverine’s match-up with Nebraska. Brown was an integral part of Michigan’s early success that led to a 10-0 star...…
