…Update 1/8: The University of Michigan has updated its COVID-19 dashboard to reflect an increase in quarantine housing availability. University spokesperson Rick Fitzgerald wrote in an email to The Daily that the increase reflects the University’s plan to house two students in two-bedroom quarantine housing spaces. Previously, each apartment housed only one student, regardless of how many bedrooms it had. When LSA...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com News 2 — Wednesday, January 12, 2022 The Michigan Daily (ISSN 0745-967) is publishing weekly on Wednesdays for the Winter 2022 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-dai...…
…Content Warning: The follow- ing article depicts sexual miscon- duct At the Dec. 9 Board of Regents Meeting at the Postma Club- house, Chuck Christian, a for- mer University of Michigan football player and a survivor of former University doctor Robert Anderson, made an unsched- uled appearance. Christian spoke with the regents about his experience with Anderson and his resulting fear of doctors – to which he attributes his stage IV...…
…“I would hope that they would realize that they have not been transparent,” Yeager said. “They have not considered anyone they say that they’re considering in these plans and … I would like to see (the University) reassess their insistence that everyone be in person because saying everything’s in person when we’re all (individually) switching to remote is just ridiculous.” At the start of the Fall 2020 semester, GEO went on strike for t...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Wednesday, January 12, 2022 — 5 Terms apply. Food delivery, entertainment, and more. EXCLUSIVELY WITH Student offers that will make your year. amazon.com/student The Michigan Daily …
…“I just want to fast forward to the part of my life when everything is okay,” Issa says to her reflection in the mirror. It’s a statement that we can all get behind. Life has its trials and tribu- lations. Oftentimes, it feels like there’s no possible way to get through the storm. But the series finale of HBO’s “Inse- cure” is proof that things do eventually work out in the end; we just have to stop standing in our own way. Created ...…
…Arts “I am a bad mother, but I am learning to be good.” Jessamine Chan’s dystopian novel “The School for Good Mothers” is not perfect by any means — neither is its heroine, Frida. However, Chan has constructed both a novel and a character that demonstrate the desperate yearning and burnout of motherhood with a level of depth that few other works of literature have achieved. “The School for Good Mothers” focuses on Frida Liu, a Chin...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Michigan in Color 8 — Wednesday, January 12, 2022 SO WE CAN STAY TOGETHER STAY SAFE MASK UP GET BOOSTED Learn more about getting a booster shot: campusblueprint.umich.edu/vaccine In high school when I was struggling with my sexuality, my future always looked blurry. Whenever I would think about my late 20s and 30s, I had no idea what my romantic life would look like. Everything was in the air. W...…
… The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Opinion Wednesday, January 12, 2022 — 9 PAIGE HODDER Managing Editor Stanford Lipsey Student Publications Building 420 Maynard St. Ann Arbor, MI 48109 tothedaily@michigandaily.com Edited and managed by students at the University of Michigan since 1890. JASMIN LEE Editor in Chief JULIAN BARNARD AND SHUBHUM GIROTI Editorial Page Editors Unsigned editorials reflect the official position of The Dai...…
…O n Nov. 30, a gunman walked into Oxford High School in Michigan and opened fire, killing four and injuring seven more. The gunman was only 15 years old. This shooting came at the end of one of the deadliest years for gun violence in U.S. history, with almost 45,000 gun deaths so far. Fighting against gun violence is not an easy task, yet shootings such as the one at Oxford High School show that the time for change is long overdu...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Sports 11— Wednesday, January 12, 2022 Early 3-point shooting crucial in dominating win over Rutgers Driving into the lane, senior forward Naz Hillmon kicked the ball out to senior guard Amy Dilk on the baseline. Catching, ready to shoot, Dilk fired up a 3-pointer, draining her first three since returning from a lower leg injury that she suffered in the first game of the season. In the No...…
…Julia Schachinger/Daily | Tess Crowley/Daily | Design by Sophie Grand S P O R T S W E D N E S D AY F ollowing the regular season and conference tournaments, the NCAA deploys PairWise, a mathematical ranking system, to seed its postseason hockey tournament. Facing the defending NCAA National Champions, the No. 6 Michigan hockey team received a prime chance to boost its PairWise rankings entering the second half of the sea...…
…The 2019 novel coronavirus (COVID-19) has spread to countries around the world and across the United States since its identification in Wuhan, China last December. Yesterday, two cases of COVID- 19 were confirmed in the state of Michigan, and Gov. Gretchen Whitmer declared a state of emergency. One of the two patients with COVID-19 in Michigan is an inpatient at Michigan Medicine. University President Mark Schlissel ann...…
…PAULINE RAJSKI/Daily The University of Michigan club rowing team raises money for Mott’s Children’s Hospital on the Diag Wednesday afternoon. What is coronavirus? Where did it start? COVID-19 is the most recently discovered strain of coronavirus. It was first identified in humans in Wuhan, China in December of 2019. Coronaviruses, a large family of zoonotic viruses, cause infections that span a wide spectrum of severity, ...…
…According to Eisenberg, “high-risk individuals should be more careful with social distancing. It is critical that they not be around big crowds.” For lower-risk people, Eisenberg said, they “probably won’t have a major illness but they can contribute to the transmission. Even though students aren’t high- risk they would be effective in its transmission. So for example, if you’re traveling a lot you might not want to visit...…
…T he Oscars 2020 reminded me all too well of the feeling you have when your grandma gives you a strange scarf for your birthday. It’s not what you wanted, but the gesture was nice. All you can do is hope that next year gets better, right? While there have been a lot of loud, feminist moments, the Oscars ultimately continue to snuff women out of many categories, most notably “Best Director.” After 92 years, only five women h...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Arts Thursday, March 12, 2020 — 5 Badmouthed, banned and ultimately blacklisted for their unwavering antiwar sentiment in 2003, the Dixie Chicks are battle- tested. After a 14-year hiatus, the ex-country music superstars have proven they’re ready to go another round with the fiery single “Gaslighter.” A “gaslighter” describes a manipulative abuser. In the song “Gaslighter,” ...…
…6 — Thursday, March 12, 2020 Arts The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com WHISPER SUBMIT A WHISPER By Michael Paleos ©2020 Tribune Content Agency, LLC 03/12/20 Los Angeles Times Daily Crossword Puzzle Edited by Rich Norris and Joyce Nichols Lewis 03/12/20 ANSWER TO PREVIOUS PUZZLE: Release Date: Thursday, March 12, 2020 ACROSS 1 Soft end of the Mohs scale 5 Old Toyota models 10 Order to go 14 Squiggly lines in the funnies, maybe 1...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Sports Thursday, March 12, 2020 — 7 Michigan baseball players are not Michigan baseball players are not allowed to enter the locker room until they allowed to enter the locker room until they have all earned the right to do so. have all earned the right to do so. Bakich created a months-long process of Bakich created a months-long process of earning entry via hard work in the practice earning e...…
…8 — Thursday, March 12, 2020 Sports The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com ALL ‘M’ SPORTING EVENTS, INCLUDING NCAA TOURNAMENT, TO BE PLAYED WITHOUT FANS AS COVID-19 SPREADS EVAN AARON/DAILY BEHIND CLOSED DOORS Design by Jack Silberman Michigan sporting events, NCAA Tournament to be played without fans As part of its action to combat the spread of COVID-19, the University announced Wednesday that it will be canceling all events on ...…
…University of Michigan professors are worried that an executive order intended to combat anti-Semitism poses a threat to their ability to teach about Middle Eastern conflict and engage with students freely in the classroom. The executive order, signed by President Donald Trump on Dec. 11, 2019, designates Judaism as either a nationality or a race and prohibits anti-Semitism, declaring certain language painting Israel in a n...…
…The University of Michigan Central Student Government convened Tuesday night in the Michigan Union to discuss asking the University to end their contract with Delta Air Lines and to revise CSG procedures in light of upcoming elections. Medical student Whit Froehlich ran the meeting in the absence of CSG president Ben Gerstein, Public Policy junior. Delta Air Lines made hundreds of deportation flights for ICE in 201...…
…“I felt that two things couldn’t be true at the same time,” Zipursky said. “I wish I could tell myself that the joy I was feeling was real, and just because I was having fun didn’t mean I wasn’t taking what I had been through and my pain seriously … We are allowed to feel all of it and to feel fully alive, whatever that means for us.” Zipursky said some survivors feel they are incapable of developing meaningful connectio...…
…Opinion The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com 4 — Wednesday, February 12, 2020 Alanna Berger Brittany Bowman Zack Blumberg Emily Considine Cheryn Hong Krystal Hur Ethan Kessler Zoe Phillips 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 manage...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Arts Wednesday, February 12, 2020 — 5 Hayley Williams’ Petals for Armor I EP is great. If the name is recognizable, some might recall Williams’ time as lead singer for pop-punk band Paramore. Her debut EP is short and sweet, five tracks in all. But Petals for Armor I isn’t simply Paramore’s punk-angst refashioned for a new decade. Williams’ EP combines the signature high- energy of her trademark s...…
…WHISPER puzzle by sudokusnydictation.com By Kurt Krauss ©2020 Tribune Content Agency, LLC 02/12/20 Los Angeles Times Daily Crossword Puzzle Edited by Rich Norris and Joyce Nichols Lewis 02/12/20 ANSWER TO PREVIOUS PUZZLE: Release Date: Wednesday, February 12, 2020 ACROSS 1 Home on the range 6 Hardly wimpy 11 Film watcher’s channel 14 Take the honey and run 15 “Encore!” 16 Évian water 17 *Power outage standbys 19 Digital readout, f...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Sports Wednesday, February 12, 2020 — 7 DeJulius growing through sophomore season After the Michigan men’s basketball team upset No. 16 Michigan State on Saturday, 77-68, a photograph started to pop up all over social media. In it, as the jubilant Maize Rage in the background celebrates the Wolverines’ statement defeat of the Spartans, sophomore guard David DeJulius embraces Michigan coach...…
…The first thing you should know about The first thing you should know about Strauss Mann’ Paleo diet is that it isn’t Strauss Mann’ Paleo diet is that it isn’t exactly Paleo. exactly Paleo. When I found out, I was popping When I found out, I was popping open three boxes of tupperware and open three boxes of tupperware and unwrapping a large bowl. It was Day 30, unwrapping a large bowl. It was Day 30, and I had just finished my ...…
…The University of Michigan recently conducted an internal investigation into sexual harassment in Michigan Medicine, termed #MedToo, per the recommendations of a 2018 National Academies study. The National Academies report investigated how women are treated in science, technology, engineering and math fields, now that more women are entering historically male- dominated spaces. The report found that th...…
…About 15 students and community members came to hear USS Liberty Survivor Larry L. Bowen speak at the Michigan League about the true story of the USS Liberty incident on June 8, 1967. This event was sponsored by the Veteran and Military Services in conjunction with Veterans Week sponsored by the University of Michigan. Bowen is a Purple Heart recipient for his service on the USS Liberty incident. Philip Larso...…
…“We believe that the dramatic increase in reporting last year and subsequent decrease this year represents stabilization of reporting following the significant attention and raised awareness at U-M of these issues and how to report concerns,” Frumkin said. When contacted by The Daily, a representative from the Sexual Assault Prevention and Awareness Center declined to comment on the report on behalf of SAPAC. The ...…
…Opinion The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com 4 — Tuesday, November 12, 2019 Alanna Berger Zack Blumberg Emily Considine Emma Chang Joel Danilewitz Emily Huhman Krystal Hur Ethan Kessler Magdalena Mihaylova Mary Rolfes Michael Russo Timothy Spurlin Miles Stephenson Joel Weiner Erin White FINNTAN STORER Managing Editor Stanford Lipsey Student Publications Building 420 Maynard St. Ann Arbor, MI 48109 tothedaily@michigandaily.com Edited...…
…P O L I C Y T A L K S @ T H E F O R D S C H O O L MICHAEL BREEN President and CEO Human Rights First JOSH ROSENTHAL EDUCATION F UND LECTU RE Human rights on the brink Free and open to the public. Reception to follow. Information: 734-615-7545 or fspp-events@umich.edu @fordschool #policytalks Thursday, November 14, 2019 4:00 - 5:20 pm Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy Annenberg Auditorium, 1120 Weill Hall 735 S. State Street...…
…By Kurt Krauss ©2019 Tribune Content Agency, LLC 11/12/19 Los Angeles Times Daily Crossword Puzzle Edited by Rich Norris and Joyce Nichols Lewis 11/12/19 ANSWER TO PREVIOUS PUZZLE: Release Date: Tuesday, November 12, 2019 ACROSS 1 Sports agent, briefly 4 Lavish meal 9 Behold, to Brutus 13 “Another Green World” musician Brian 14 Foamy coffee drinks 16 Bar measure 17 *Big top 19 “The Handmaid’s __”: Atwood novel 20 This, in Spain 21 ...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Sports Tuesday, November 12, 2019 — 7 Quick turnaround helps shake dust Both of the Michigan women’s basketball team’s matchups this past weekend felt closer than its 20-point margins of victory would suggest. On Friday, the Wolverines demonstrated an inability to hold onto the ball, tallying 19 turnovers and 22 fouls. “Hailey Brown got in foul trouble early, (Akienreh Johnson) got in foul tr...…
…AN EVENING WITH SAFA AL AHMAD NOVEMBER 19, 2019 | 7:30 P.M. | RACKHAM AUDITORIUM FREE | NO REGISTRATION | WALLENBERG.UMICH.EDU 8 — Tuesday, November 12, 2019 Sports The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com “ Throw out the records,” said Michigan coach Jim Harbaugh early Monday afternoon, a wry smile subtly forming on his face. “There’s a cliché you can use when you play this type of game.” Whether he believes that or not — his tea...…
…University of Michigan Rackham student Andrea Belgrade hosted the opening event for the Strength of Refugees and their Community in the Hatcher Graduate Library Wednesday night. A group of about 50 students and Ann Arbor residents attended the event. Belgrade does research with psychology professor Fiona Lee focused on Muslim-Americans, self-identified multicultural people, immigrants and refugees. The gallery at the eve...…
…A petition circulating around campus and the greater Ann Arbor community is calling on the University of Michigan to release the papers of Dr. John Tanton, a U-M alum and pioneer of the anti-immigration movement in the United States. The petition, entitled “Tell the University of Michigan: Stop Hiding White Nationalist’s Papers From The Public,” had more than 3,600 signatures as of Wednesday evening. The petition was created by...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com News Wednesday, September 12, 2019 — 3A Among the ethnicity designations available is the Middle Eastern/North African identity option. In 2017, ME/NA-identifying students formed the #WeExist campaign, asking the University to add the ME/NA identity category to University documents. At the time, the University followed the U.S. Census, which does not have a ME/NA identity catego...…
…Opinion The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com 4 — Thursday, September 12, 2019 Zack Blumberg Emily Considine Emma Chang Joel Danilewitz Emily Huhman Krystal Hur Ethan Kessler Magdalena Mihaylova Max Mittleman Timothy Spurlin Miles Stephenson Finn Storer Nicholas Tomaino Joel Weiner Erin White FINNTAN STORER Managing Editor Stanford Lipsey Student Publications Building 420 Maynard St. Ann Arbor, MI 48109 tothedaily@michigandaily.com E...…
…5 — Thursday, September 12, 2019 Arts The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Homecoming: sharing our love for Lady Ann and U-M Since my freshman year, I have been working in a biochemistry lab on the Medical Campus. It was a job I procured out of peer, advisor and personal pressure to do research in any way possible after a significant academic pivot from pre-law to pre-med during my first semester. After doing away with math and scie...…
…6 — Thursday, September 12, 2019 Arts The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Danny Brown’s last album, Atrocity Exhibition, was widely acclaimed and viewed by many to be one of the best projects of 2016. To follow up such a successful project can be a challenge, but, luckily for us, Danny Brown seems more than ready for the daunting task at hand. “Dirty Laundry,” the first single off of his recently-announced project, uknowhatimsay...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Sports Thursday, September 12, 2019 — 7 Jess Speight earns scholarship Just before the start of fall camp, Jess Speight was at dinner with his dad when he missed a call from Jim Harbaugh. He spent the next hour nervous, mind scrambling, wondering what the news could possibly be. Then, Harbaugh called back. He wanted the junior to switch to defensive line. After losing so many linemen in the offs...…
…8 — Thursday, September 12, 2019 Sports The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com C O M M E M O R AT I N G MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 2019 University of Michigan Law School, 1225 Jeffries Hall 4:10–5:30 p.m. Sponsored by U-M Office of the Provost A CONVERSATION WITH U.S. REPRESENTATIVE JUSTIN AMASH On Friday night, a similar roar of applause to the one that filled Temple’s McGonigle Hall in April 1970 bounced off the walls in Ann Arbor’s ...…
…Thursday morning, hundreds of students, faculty, alumni and community members filled the new home of the Trotter Multicultural Center on South State Street. University of Michigan President Mark Schlissel, Regent Ron Weiser and Cynthia Stephens, the 1st District Court of Appeals judge, were among the speakers at the Trotter Center’s opening ceremony. Alphonse Pitawanakwat, a lecturer in the Native American Ojibwe language, ...…
…Thursday, more than 150 students, alumni, faculty, donors and community members — including demonstrators — gathered in the University of Michigan Biological Sciences Building for a ribbon cutting ceremony and to hear remarks from University President Mark Schlissel and other campus leaders. Interim LSA Dean Elizabeth Cole began the event by thanking those who have dedicated time and resources to the building and noted many pe...…
…“It really started decades and decades ago when folks were calling for a new Trotter to recognize Black student rights in general, since the ’70s and ’80s and ’90s,” he said. Collier earned his Bachelor of Arts in Afroamerican and African Studies and Sociology from the University in 2014. He currently serves as the senior coordinator of operations for Relay Graduate School of Education in New York City. At the Trotter Center, Co...…
…Opinion The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com 4 — Friday, April 12, 2019 Zack Blumberg Emma Chang Joel Danilewitz Emily Huhman Tara Jayaram Jeremy Kaplan Magdalena Mihaylova Ellery Rosenzweig Jason Rowland Anu Roy-Chaudhury Alex Satola Timothy Spurlin Nicholas Tomaino Erin White Ashley Zhang FINNTAN STORER Managing Editor Stanford Lipsey Student Publications Building 420 Maynard St. Ann Arbor, MI 48109 tothedaily@michigandaily.com Ed...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Arts Friday, April 12, 2019 — 5 I don’t typically keep a running Best Picture tally throughout the year, but I will be quite disappointed if “Transit” does not get at least a nomination in Feb. of 2020. Taking place in modern France, “Transit” superimposes a Nazi occupation on a contemporary setting and follows the efforts Georg (Franz Rogowski, “Victoria”) makes to escape. “Trans...…
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