…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 . . . . . . . . ...…
…Big Ten university leaders — including University of Michigan President Mark Schlissel — used a private network exempt from public record laws to communicate about fall COVID-19 outbreaks on campus and the 2020 football season, the Washington Post reported Friday. Through public records requests, The Washington Post accessed emails between the chancellors and presidents of Big Ten universities. In these emails univer...…
…The Senate Advisory Committee on University Affairs had their first meeting of the winter semester on Monday to discuss the Academic Affairs Advisory Committee resolution to protect faculty from unfair demotions. The committee discussed whether it should endorse the AAAC’s resolution regarding salary cuts and demotions of tenured and tenure-track professors. This resolution was written in response to a tenured pr...…
…Over 100 students and faculty members congregated on the Diag on Thursday to rally against President Donald Trump’s recent ban on immigration from seven predominantly Muslim countries. President Trump’s executive order has temporarily suspended the immigration of citizens and refugees from Iran, Iraq, Syria, Sudan, Libya, Yemen and Somalia from entering the United States. While a nationwide block has been placed on ...…
…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...…
…Ann Arbor rents are skyrocketing, according to recent reports. The city’s rent is the second fastest growing among college towns. Separate reports from rental and real estate websites Zumper and RENTCafé confirmed Ann Arbor’s increasing rental rates. Zumper examined the year-over- year rental growth rates of 50 college towns around the country, comparing the average rate for one bedroom in 2019 to the rate in 2018. With a year...…
… 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...…
…michigandaily.com Ann Arbor, Michigan Thursday, December 10, 2015 ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY-FIVE YEARS OF EDITORIAL FREEDOM Ann Arbor awaits release of new ‘Star Wars’ installment » INSIDE the b-side GOVERNMENT See LAB SAFETY, Page 3A See COMMISSION, Page 2A From deer cull to departure of key city officials, 2015 marked year of change By ISOBEL FUTTER Daily Staff Reporter For City Hall and the Ann Arbor City Council, the past yea...…
…michigandaily.com Ann Arbor, Michigan Wednesday, February 10, 2016 ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY-FIVE YEARS OF EDITORIAL FREEDOM INDEX Vol. CXXV, No. 70 ©2016 The Michigan Daily michigandaily.com GOT A NEWS TIP? Call 734-418-4115 or e-mail news@michigandaily.com and let us know. WEATHER TOMORROW Navigating homelessness in the Ann Arbor winter » INSIDE the statement SAM MOUSIGIAN/Daily Protestors demonstrate their frustrations with Gov. R...…
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…When LSA sophomore Aidan Sova transferred from Michigan State University this school year, he didn’t expect an increase in his cost of living. Sova, who self-identifies as a student of low socioeconomic status, said upon his arrival to campus, the major economic disparities between students at University of Michigan became abundantly clear to him. Sova is an associate director of the Association of Big Ten Students, a forum for ...…
…The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals struck down the University of Michigan’s sexual assault investigation model Friday, saying that universities “must give the accused student or his agent an opportunity to cross-examine the accuser.” The current U-M sexual misconduct policy does not require a hearing or cross-examination of the student making the accusation. This decision is an appeal of U.S. District Judge David Laws...…
…Georgetown University faculty Sherry Lee Linkon, English and American Studies professor, and John Russo, visiting scholar at the Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and Working Poor. Linkon and Russo focused on patterns of voting among the working class with an eye on the 2018 midterm elections. The lecture, “Don’t Blame the Working-Class: Understanding Working- Class Politics and Culture in the Trump Era,” ste...…
…Dean of Students Laura Blake Jones called out the Alpha Sigma Phi fraternity at the University of Michi- gan in a message to MLive published Dec. 17. Blake Jones said “several gen- erations” took part in haz- ing activities at the Theta chapter and the fraterni- ty’s national headquarters turned a “blind eye” to haz- ing. On. Nov. 7, the University terminated the fraternity for hazing infractions with opportunity for recoloni- zat...…
…At the intersection of Washtenaw Avenue and Hill Street, where the University of Michigan’s iconic painted Rock resides, residents have reported many dangerous car accidents that put drivers and pedestrians at risk. Michigan Traffic Crash Facts, a tool developed by the University, compiles queries of accident information across the state of Michigan. According to MTCF, there were 245 crashes within 150 feet of the inte...…
…Top health professionals with different backgrounds and areas of expertise, including University of Michigan alumni, delivered lectures and participated in a panel Friday afternoon regarding infectious diseases and moderated by Dr. Sanjay Gupta, CNN Chief Medical Correspondent and neurosurgeon. University of Michigan President Mark Schlissel delivered the opening remarks for the convention to over 300 people. Schlissel,...…
…In response to recent racist events on campus such as the racist graffiti in West Quad Residence Hall and the “Make America White Again” posters found near Stockwell Residence Hall last week, the Senate Advisory Committee on University Affairs and University of Michigan President Mark Schlissel met Monday to discuss how administration and faculty can respond to discrimination on campus afternoon. Schlissel also updated...…
…michigandaily.com Ann Arbor, Michigan Tuesday, April 10, 2018 ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY-SEVEN YEARS OF EDITORIAL FREEDOM GOT A NEWS TIP? Call 734-418-4115 or e-mail news@michigandaily.com and let us know. Check out the Daily’s News podcast, The Daily Weekly INDEX Vol. CXXVII, No.108 ©2018 The Michigan Daily N E WS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 O PI N I O N . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 A R T S . . ....…
…michigandaily.com Thursday, May 10, 2018 INDEX Vol. CXXVII, No. 116 | © 2018 The Michigan Daily michigandaily.com NEWS .................................... OPINION ............................... ARTS ...................................... MiC......................................... SPORTS................................ MICHIGAN IN COLOR Defend DACA Immigrant protections are at risk under Donald Trump >> SEE PAGE 9 NEWS Racist list...…
…Presidents of several University of Michigan fraternities convened at a meeting Thursday night to discuss the future of the Interfraternity Council — the governing body of National Interfraternity Conference fraternity chapters at the University. Those in attendance at the meeting voted to suspend all social activities and new member pledge terms pending investigation of several incidents in Greek life. In the meeting,...…
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…Around 50 people gathered in the Vandenberg Room of the Michigan League on Thursday for the Communication Studies Department’s annual Howard R. Marsh Lecture in Journalism, delivered this year by investigative journalist Will Potter. Potter’s talk, titled “From Protester to Terrorist: The Mechanisms of State Repression,” highlighted his own career as a journalist and the ways he discovered the United States government...…
…Zeta Beta Tau’s International Headquarters voted to remove recognition of the University of Michigan’s Eta chapter on Tuesday. According to an official statement from the organization, ZBT staff, along with the University’s Office of Greek Life and Division for Student Life, conducted an extensive membership review to determine the future of the chapter. “Through the course of this investigation it became clear that m...…
…On March 8, 2010, professor Edward P. St. John was removed from his teaching position in the School of Education. He had 24 hours to notify his students and no means to appeal his removal. St. John believed his removal stemmed from disagreements he had with the policy opinions of his dean, Deborah Ball, in the Provost’s Achievement Gap Task Force, a University-wide advisory panel on diversity in higher education. He had two optio...…
…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...…
…Garden City resident Aimee Stephens became a funeral director for one reason: to help people. Despite facing hardship in her personal life, Stephens found comfort in the knowledge she enabled individuals to memorialize those they loved. Stephens, a transgender woman, said she knew she was a woman from the age of five. After a lifetime of suppressing her identity, Stephens began to live as a woman, dressing as a man only wh...…
…10 : 00 a.m. By 7:00 p.m. on Nov. 5, Jonathan Vaughn, the Anderson survivor and former Michigan football player who has been leading the protest, will have been camping out in front of President Schlissel’s house for 28 days. On a normal day during the protest, Vaughn wakes up in his tent around 6:30 or 7:00 a.m. and heads to the Michigan Union, where he orders a coffee and breakfast sandwich from Sweetwaters Coffee & Tea. One ...…
…Matt Schembechler, the son of former Michigan football coach Bo Schembechler, will be speaking at a press conference on Thursday afternoon about “his own abuse by Dr. Anderson and his father’s failure to protect him and other athletes,” per a release from the Anderson Survivors Legal Team. Last month, the University of Michigan released a report from legal firm WilmerHale regarding the investigation into allegations of decades o...…
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