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…Following the defeat of a citizen task force’s proposal for a police oversight commision at a City Council meeting on Oct. 1, legal questions remain regarding aspects of the citizens’ draft and changes in Ann Arbor Mayor Christopher Taylor’s counter- proposal. The citizen task force drafted a proposal that would create a citizen-led police oversight commission with the power to subpoena records and officer testimony, as well as t...…

…The seats of Regents Andrew Richner (R) and Andrea Newman (R) on the University of Michigan Board of Regents are up for reelec- tion this November. With Jordan Acker (D) and Paul Brown (D) chal- lenging the incumbent candidates for a position on the Board, citizens across the state will get the opportu- nity to cast their ballots for who they think should serve on the Univer- sity’s governing board for another eight years, as outlined ...…

…Goldenberg, professor of public policy and political science, founded Turn Up Turnout, a non-partisan student group which aims to increase voter registration and turnout among young people. Upon discovering the NSLVE data, Goldenberg said she felt motivated to develop a voting initiative. “We’re surprised both at how low everybody is, and we’re surprised Michigan isn’t leading rather than trailing,” Goldenberg said. “So we t...…

…As an editorial staff, we agree with the University that it is wrong for a student’s educational opportunities to be limited by the political stances of an instructor, rather than the merit of the student. The academic success of students should be a top priority for universities, and the denial of students’ recommendation letters on account of professors’ personal beliefs unfairly blocks students from academic opportunitie...…

…“This interview is so fire the alarms went off!” Kim Petras, pop’s newest “it girl,” was entirely unphased when interrupted by the fire alarms that went off during our conversation. Calm and confident, she perfectly mirrors the music she has been working on for years, and she never misses a beat both in conversation and in her work as an artist. “After working on music since I was like 13, 14 years old, I started writing, sta...…

…LOOKING FOR PROGRAMMER; HTML and Paypal. call (734) 717‑9534 or email dlexington808@ gmail.com ENJOY YOUR BREAK! AND READ THE DAILY DURING YOUR FREE TIME By Ed Sessa ©2018 Tribune Content Agency, LLC 10/12/18 Los Angeles Times Daily Crossword Puzzle Edited by Rich Norris and Joyce Nichols Lewis 10/12/18 ANSWER TO PREVIOUS PUZZLE: Release Date: Friday, October 12, 2018 ACROSS 1 “Ta-ta!” 6 Kaput 10 Musical ending 14 Ready for t...…

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…FootballSaturday, September 12, 2018 2B STAFF PICKS The Daily football writers pick against the spread for top-25 and Big Ten teams. Mark Calcagno Max Marcovitch Mike Persak Ethan Wolfe Missouri at No. 1 Alabama (-28) Alabama Alabama Alabama Alabama Missouri No. 2 Georgia (-7.5) at No. 13 LSU LSU Georgia LSU LSU Georgia Minnesota at No. 3 Ohio State (-29.5) Ohio State Ohio State Minnesota Ohio State Minnesota Pittsburgh at No. 5 Notr...…

…3B TheMichiganDaily, www.michigandaily.com Behind Enemy Lines: A conversation with Jonah Malkin, a Wisconsin broadcaster By ETHAN WOLFE Daily Sports Writer The No. 12 Michigan football team has as much confidence as it’s had in two seasons, riding a five-game win streak into Saturday. No. 15 Wisconsin is a team that’s looking to re-find that confidence. After a devastating home loss to BYU in Week Three, the Badgers have responded...…

…H eading into 2008, the Michigan football team hadn’t had a losing season since the 1960s. Under coaches Bo Schembechler, Gary Moeller and Lloyd Carr, the Wolverines developed into a perennial power in the Big Ten, always in the Rose Bowl conversation, and thus, the national spotlight. But when Carr retired at the end of the 2007 season and Rich Rodriguez took his place, there was perhaps more doubt around the program than there...…

…Mike Persak, Managing Sports Editor DESIGN BY KATE GLAD but it was a good play design, and I made the read. … Even the announcers think that Minor gets smacked in the background by, they had a really good defensive end at the time, and you know, he took off like a bat out of hell and went right for the running back, so really wish I had scored the touchdown, but I’ll take the 58 yards. You know, what I wasn’t gonna do is fumble. Afte...…

…FootballSaturday, October 12, 2018 6B Breakdown: ‘M’ vs. Wisconsin By MARK CALCAGNO Daily Sports Editor Here it is. After four blowout wins and one furious comeback in Evanston, the Michigan football team finally has its chance at another ranked opponent. The Wolverines’ last shot, of course, ended with a loss to Notre Dame to open their season. But since then, Michigan’s offense has added dynamism thanks to needed i...…

…7B TheMichiganDaily, www.michigandaily.com Michigan survived the Terrapins’ tricky, jet sweep- filled run game, but as secondary coach Michael Zordich explained Wednesday, the Badgers are a different animal. “These guys, they’re gonna hit and go north and south,” Zordich said. “For our corners and the safeties on the edges, they gotta fill the lanes. So it’s gonna be more of a challenge, big-time. “They’ll get in these sets, it’s ...…

…FootballSaturday, October 12, 2018 8B What to Watch For: Wisconsin By MAX MARCOVITCH Daily Sports Editor Seeking copious amounts of unnecessary stress with potential for gut-wrenching twists and turns? Boy, do I have the Saturday evening activity for you. No. 15 Wisconsin comes to Michigan Stadium to face off against No. 12 Michigan, in the first leg of a season-defining three-game stretch for the Wolverines. Chances ar...…

…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 …

…On Wednesday evening, the United Asian American Organizations at the University of Michigan hosted a panel to promote the Asian, Pacific Islander American studies program on campus and call attention to a 2017 lawsuit citing discrimination against program faculty. Panelists included graduate and undergraduate students, as well as Emily Lawsin, a lecturer in American culture and women’s studies, and Scott Kurashige, a f...…

…by President Donald Trump’s campaign, had access to the private data of 50 million Facebook users, scaring users who were apart of one of the network’s largest data breaches. That led to a two-day congressional hearing, which ended Tuesday, to gauge just how much control Facebook users have over their data. No consensus in terms of future legislation resulted from the hearings, though Zuckerberg agreed “some regulatio...…

…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com News Thursday, April 12, 2018 — 3 ODISSI DANCE Sreyashi Dey, founder and artistic director of Srishti Dances of India, hosts an Odissi dance workshop for Michigan Dance students in the Dance building Wednesday evening. RUCHITA IYER/Daily Walker said. “They would call a special dish ‘Indian food’ even though that food could be found throughout Southeast Asia. The RAs caught wind of this and comp...…

…Opinion The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com 4 — Thursday, April 12, 2018 Emma Chang Joel Danilewitz Samantha Goldstein Elena Hubbell Emily Huhman Tara Jayaram Jeremy Kaplan Sarah Khan Lucas Maiman Magdalena Mihaylova Ellery Rosenzweig Jason Rowland Anu Roy-Chaudhury Alex Satola Ali Safawi Ashley Zhang Sam Weinberger DAYTON HARE Managing Editor 420 Maynard St. Ann Arbor, MI 48109 tothedaily@michigandaily.com Edited and managed by st...…

…Doolittle, Pixies Doolittle by the Pixies stands as one of the most influential rock records since its release in 1989. It moves through poppy instrumentals with perfect bass lines that contrast its dark subject matter referencing biblical violence, surrealism and death. These things melt into one cohesive album that conjure up an unsettling feeling, and Doolittle’s iconic album cover gives those feelings a face. Frontman ...…

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…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Sports Thursday, April 12, 2018 — 7 Wagner, Matthews weigh the NBA It’s the age-old question The Clash famously put to music in 1982. Should I stay or should I go? That’s the predicament in front of Moritz Wagner, as he mulls leaving Michigan and entering the NBA Draft for the second straight season. As expected, though, the junior center was non-committal about his plans at the Wolverines’ ...…

…8 — Thursday, April 12, 2018 Sports The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Michigan infielders settling into their roles after tough start to season When the Michigan baseball team took the field eight weeks ago in Port St. Lucie, Florida, for its opening day matchup against Army, junior shortstop Ako Thomas was the only remaining starter from the star-studded infield that led the Wolverines to an NCAA tournament berth a year ago. ...…

…In a video released Sunday, white supremacist Richard Spencer announced a halt to his national college tour amid clashes between protesters and police at his scheduled speech at Michigan State University last Monday. “At least for the foreseeable future, I don’t think it’s a good idea for me to host an event that’s wide open to the public, in which we name the date and the time,” Spencer said in his video. “Because if we do ...…

…YONI KI BA AT MONOLOGUE 2A — Monday, March 12, 2018 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com TUESDAY: By Design FRIDAY: Behind the Story WEDNESDAY: This Week in History News AHAD BOOTWALA/Daily Ross sophomore Nithya Ramesh, SMTD sophomore Zoha Bharwani, and Public Policy senior Aditi Katti address the crowd at Yoni Ki Baat’s 11th annual monologue show in Rackham Saturday. THURSDAY: Twitter Talk MONDAY: Looking at the Numbers CASE...…

…If my experiences during college have taught me anything, it is that writing is a powerful means of expression. Somehow, even when I don’t know what to say, I always have something to write. Last semester, and this one, was really rough for me health- wise. I grew quite frustrated and could not seem to express how I was feeling. So I wrote it down. And even though “One Second” is a poetic rendering of my struggles, it still do...…

…Opinion The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com 4A— Monday, March 12, 2018 Emma Chang Joel Danilewitz Samantha Goldstein Elena Hubbell Emily Huhman Tara Jayaram Jeremy Kaplan Sarah Khan Lucas Maiman Magdalena Mihaylova Ellery Rosenzweig Jason Rowland Anu Roy-Chaudhury Alex Satola Ali Safawi Ashley Zhang The responsibility of the endowment The FBI Man MATTHEW FRIEND | COLUMN HANK MINOR | COLUMN T he unusually persistent nati...…

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…The first Ed Sheeran song I ever heard was “Lego House,” way back in 2012 at the peak of the piece’s radio fame. Before high school, I wasn’t really one for music; I listened to the radio, sure, but because I didn’t have an iPod — I didn’t have the easy portability that most kids my age did. In regards to music, I was a late bloomer. Sheeran’s voice enthralled me. It was smoother than the pop music I was used to hearing on 98.7 (t...…

…Streaking Carol Hutchins and the Michigan softball team are off to a quick start with a 12-game win streak » Page 3B Bowed out The Michigan men’s hockey team was eliminated from the Big Ten Tournament with a loss to Ohio State » Page 4B Before Sunday’s NCAA Tournament selection show, John Beilein stood up from his chair and addressed a crowd of Maize Rage students. “In 2008-09, we broke the streak,” Beilein said. “There...…

…2B — Monday, March 12, 2018 SportsMonday The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com I t began with the obvious. Michigan was the 17th team to have its name called, but everyone in the room knew that would happen eight days ago. The cheers came anyway. Then Saddi Wash- ington started clap- ping as CBS prepared to announce the No. 2 seed in the East. It would have landed Michigan in Detroit. But Purdue’s name was called, and t...…

…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com SportsMonday Monday, March 12, 2018 — 3B Bakich, Michigan plagued by errors in series loss to Lipscomb There’s no sugarcoating it. The Wolverines are rebuilding. “We’d like to think that coming into this season that we’ve put ourselves into a position to reload and not rebuild,” said Michigan coach Erik Baikich, “but clearly we’re rebuilding right now.” There was plenty of buzz surrounding ...…

…4B — Monday, March 12, 2018 SportsMonday The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Michigan falls to Ohio State, 3-2, in overtime thriller COLUMBUS — The Big Ten semifinal had all of the ingredients for a classic showdown. There was an NHL arena, a streaking Michigan team and a consistently powerful Buckeye offense that has managed to prevail in all four of the teams’ matchups this season. The No. 11 Wolverines (11- 11-3 Big Ten, 20...…

…While most University of Michigan students were preparing to watch the 52nd Superbowl last Sunday, LSA sophomore Alex Mullen, Rackham student Richard Nunn and other members from the Latinx Alliance for Community Action, Support and Advocacy had a different task at hand — finalizing their list of demands to the administration. The list of demands was created in response to the lack of Latino representation felt on campus. ...…

…how those felt.” John Pollack –– Consultant John Pollack, an author and Ann Arbor native, began the presentations by speaking about the role of analogies in government, innovation and daily lives. Pollack served as a speechwriter for former President Bill Clinton and now works as a consultant for Fortune 500 companies, philanthropies and non-profit organizations. In an interview with The Daily, Pollock described the import...…

…What does it mean to be Asian enough? Black hair. Off-white skin. It is in my name. The home where I was raised. No shoes indoors. Bags of rice in the cupboard And on the counter And in the cooker. I don’t speak mother/father’s language But I do speak her culture. Respect your elders. Everything in moderation. In America, Asian culture has been stir fried, pickled, and packed into a take out box. So it is digestible Just a ta...…