…The University Research Corridor — a partnership of the University of Michigan, Michigan State University and Wayne State University — released its 11th economic impact report last week. The report highlights the universities’ contributions to the state economy, which totaled $18.7 billion in 2017. This is a significant increase from 2015, when the URC added $16.5 billion to the state economy. Britany Affolter- Caine, e...…
…that affect the rank-and-file Michigander.” In the short term, students at URC universities contribute directly to the state and local economies by buying goods and services and boosting business. In the long-term, their presence is more important, according to Affolter-Caine. Students who attend these universities frequently find career paths in the state, often working on projects and jobs that can improve the lives of Michi...…
…by the Trump administration. The Trump administration’s announcement caused uncertainty in the markets as the tariffs go against years of precedence of free trade with China. Director Scott Jacobs said the program helps companies “step back and assess their business practices in order to become more competitive.” “The whole idea of the assistance model is to help companies invest in themselves by building their capabilitie...…
…These past few months, The Michigan Daily readers have probably become a bit more mindful when using Facebook. Following the Cambridge Analytica scandal, people were outraged. So, we started clicking away on our profiles’s privacy settings, congratulating ourselves on our newly found concern for the data collected on us and maybe even stopped liking things so that advertisers wouldn’t know our interests. Indeed, Facebook did ...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Arts Wednesday, September 12, 2018 — 5A ‘Most Assasinated’ fails as dull murder mystery NETFLIX A sports article in an arts column. It feels perverse. Are there not enough articles written about sports already, both in this paper and in others around the world? Surely there are more important things to write about in the field of entertainment, the return of fall TV, the fall of a CBS mogul,...…
…ACROSS 1 Los Angeles player 4 Dancer Charisse 7 1938 “The War of the Worlds” radio broadcaster 10 Chewed-over material 13 The Obama years, e.g. 14 Cube that rolls 15 “The Murders in the __ Morgue” 16 Harlem Globetrotters promoter Saperstein 17 Feel out of sorts 18 Official reproach 20 Diamond, for one 21 Not of the clergy 23 Peaceful ’60s protest 24 Sandwich with tzatziki sauce 25 Vermeer, notably 28 Cold response? 31 Actor Pesci 32...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Sports Wednesday, September 12, 2018 — 7A ‘M’ shuts out Marquette for fourth straight win On Monday night, the scoreboard read 3-0 at the half. For the coaches and players, though, the game was still scoreless. The Michigan men’s soccer team (4-1) did not want to not fall victim to the same fate as the previous game. The Wolverines found themselves in a familiar situation: a multi-goal lea...…
…8A — Wednesday, September 12, 2018 Sports The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Michigan lands three recruits in two days In the matter of just two days, the Michigan football team added two more commitments to next year’s already-solid recruiting class, as well as a commitment for the 2020 class. It started Sunday, when 4-star defensive end Mike Morris, who was previously committed to Florida State, announced via Twitter that ...…
…statement THE MICHIGAN DAILY | SEPTEMBER 12, 2018 When the city decides to take your home …
…I t was just last year that I was hurrying through the Diag, late for class, when I noticed hundreds of American flags staked on the lawns. It took me a few minutes to remember the day. Sept. 11 — a day whose significance bears the same weight on the American consciousness today as it did in 2001. But with a symbol that means vastly different things to different people, how could an event like Sept. 11 be reduced to the flyin...…
…3B Managing Editor: Dayton Hare Copy Editors: Elise Laarman Finntan Storer Wednesday, September 12, 2018 // The Statement Translating the Donald to Japanese P eople always complain about Donald Trump. I say, try to explain him to a foreign audience. This summer I had the privilege of working at the New York bureau of TV Tokyo, one of Japan’s major television stations. I was put on a morning news program that focuses on bus...…
…Wednesday, September 12, 2018 // The Statement 4B Wednesday, September 12, 2018 // The Statement 5B In a foreclosure crisis, Detroit residents fight to remain in their homes by Andrea Pérez, Statement Correspondent I n late August, Michael Andrews learned his Southwest Detroit home was in foreclosure. It came into his family’s possession in 1963, but falling on hard times during the 2007 recession made it difficult to keep up wit...…
…Wednesday, September 12, 2018 // The Statement 6B Re: Union I n late April, I walked up the stairs to the Michigan Union, as I’d done many times before. It was a warm day — warmer still with the winter semester finally over and the summer near. I’d walked up those stairs in every possible state: wet, hot, cold, disheveled, elated, disappointed, happy, tired, content, angry, heartbroken. Most of the time, though, I was just hun...…
…S ending contraceptives through the mail seems like a remnant of the early 20th century when methods of preventing pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases were largely relegated to legally- murky backchannels. But 86 years after Margaret Sanger’s shipment of diaphragms to a New York City doctor was confiscated, students at Catholic universities are using anonymous texting services and covertly mailed packages to circumvent the...…
…Wednesday, September 12, 2018 // The Statement 8B Dancing in the Streets an annual festival in downtown Ann Arbor hosted by the Ann Arbor Community for Traditional Music and Dance V I S U A L S T A T E M E N T : D a n ci n g i n th e St r e e t s Photos by Max Kuang …
