…An incomplete journey of identity and self-acceptance Trigger Warning: Homophobia; internalized homophobia W hen I was 12 years old, my mother told me to unbutton my collar because I looked like a lesbian. She assured me only a moment later, after I had undone two of the buttons, that it wasn’t bad to be a lesbian — I just shouldn’t misrepresent who I was. Years later, she would call me a “d*ke,” but I would laugh it off and prete...…
…12 Thursday, May 13, 2021 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com SPORTS A battle between the top two teams in the Big Ten conference ensued over the weekend, with No. 23 Minnesota (26-10 Big Ten) playing host to the No. 19 Michigan softball team (32-6) in a four-game series. With the Golden Gophers only four games behind the top spot entering the series, the stakes were high, but the Wolverines prevailed. They clinched the Big ...…
…For Spencer Heslop, commitment to faith requires difficult decisions For Michigan’s wheelchair tennis team, their competitive debut went about as well as anyone could’ve hoped. In the team’s first ever appearance at the Collegiate Wheelchair Tennis National Championships, the Wolverines’ athletes were finalists in the team competition and all but one of the individual competitions. The team racked up other accolades ...…
…14 Thursday, May 13, 2021 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com SPORTS STATE COLLEGE, Pa. — There’s an old adage in sports that it’s hard to beat a team three times in a season. Heading into its matchup against undefeated Maryland, the Michigan men’s lacrosse team hoped that that adage would once again rear its head. After a historic win over Ohio State in the first round of the Big Ten Tournament, the Wolverines were ...…
…T here may finally be some clarity surrounding college football. After a meeting on Tuesday morning, Big Ten Presidents and Chancellors voted to postpone fall sports. “The mental and physical health and welfare of our student-athletes has been at the center of every decision we have made regarding the ability to proceed forward,” Big Ten Commissioner Kevin Warren said. “As time progressed and after hours of discussion with our Big...…
…In an email to students and fac- ulty Monday, University of Mich- igan President Mark Schlissel outlined the new interim policy on sexual and gender-based mis- conduct, which will go into effect Aug 14. The policy will apply to students, faculty, staff and third parties on all three campuses and Michigan Medicine. “Improving how we prevent and address sexual and gender- based misconduct in our com- munity must always remain a foremost ...…
…As the Michigan Union reopened Monday morning for the second time this calendar year, University of Michigan alumni Isabel Wil- liams, Amanda Wasserman and Lucy Rosenthal stopped to say goodbye. The trio, who met their freshman year, roamed the silent, empty halls, reminiscing on game days and late-night food runs together one last time before their senior year housing lease ends later this week. “It’s definitely very sad look- ing ...…
…The Daily spoke with Sen. Gary Peters, D-Mich., on July 24 about his re-election campaign to the U.S. Senate, the federal govern- ment’s COVID-19 response and racial inequality. John James is the Republican nominee running against Peters for the Senate seat in this November’s election. The James campaign declined multiple requests for an interview. This interview has been edited and condensed for clarity. TMD: Why should young peo- p...…
…A mid the global COVID-19 pan- demic, the American people are struggling to find a healthy rou- tine. Across the country, people are reck- lessly jumping the gun, looking to return to pre-pandemic life while their fellow American brothers and sisters die. Bars and restaurants are packed, parties rage and crowds gather with reckless aban- don, often without masks. Our immedi- ate future seems bleak and irredeemable. These pivotal times, ...…
…I n the past month, I have observed friends and peers drop their fraternity and soror- ity life memberships due to the his- toric and current racism embedded in the institution. Every year, there are more videos of historically white fraternities and sororities (HWFS) chanting racist slurs or being exposed for racist practices in their rush strategies. As a new member, there have been many mandatory educational trainings on not bein...…
…In the prologue of his 2019 memoir, cho- reographer Mark Morris wrote that “the live aspect of performance is what appeals: the dancers, the musicians, the audience — all living beings in the same room. People might say they’ve watched a dance on You- Tube and they have. But they haven’t. It isn’t live.” Morris is so passionate about this point that he reiterates it in almost every subsequent chapter. By the time the book is finished, ...…
…Imperial Triumphant’s newest album, Alphaville might be the most versatile album of the year. To call the black metal trio strange would be an understatement; their latest work is a raging, depraved inferno that combines brutal death metal, jazz and even doo-wop to disorient- ing effect. Despite Alphaville’s colossal battery and sheer weirdness, the album has its mellifluous moments. The constant variation in genre, tone and energy...…
…9 MICHIGAN IN COLOR A letter from the editors As the summer comes to a close, and our time as Managing Editors is now complete, we would like to close off with a letter and a hope for MiC — an ode to a summer of revolution, if you will. Neither of us could have predicted what we signed up for, but we are more than proud of what we were able to accomplish. Thanks to a group of brilliant and talented writers and staff, we were able ...…
…Because of you Thank you for changing my dia- pers when I was a baby to being my biggest cheerleader growing up. I never feel lonely because of you. For saving me from drown- ing in countless pools, fountains and other near-death experiences I’m sure I had. I always feel com- fortable testing my boundaries because of you. For downloading my first iPod with all your music and making me hip by introduc- ing me to artists like Maroon 5 a...…
…11 SPORTS What postponement means for college athletics, Michigan The Big Ten made it official on Tuesday, ending days of speculation and contradicting reports with a decision to postpone the fall season. In a perfect world, that would be the end of all the questions and things would be cut and dried. But it isn’t a perfect world, it’s the NCAA. And that means this decision opens up a whole lot of questions that Michigan’s athletic ...…
…12 SPORTS Reactions to a devastating day for sports Sitting on practice field behind Schembechler Hall, the Michigan football team learned what most already knew: Their season — like those of the MAC and Mountain West — would have to wait. The Big Ten, the first Power Five conference to do so, postponed their season, with hopes of playing in the Spring. They were in the middle of a break between practices when the news came down. ...…
…13 Thursday, August 13, 2020 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com SPORTS Kevin Warren talks about ‘uncertainties’ that led to Big Ten decision Big Ten commissioner Kevin Warren had a lot to say about the postponement of sports in the conference this fall — unfortunately a lot of it translates to ‘We don’t know.’ “This is a holistic decision,” Warren said in an interview with the Big Ten Network. “There are just too many uncertainti...…
…LSA senior Jacob Chludzinski has spent the last few weeks hunkered down in the comfort of his family home in Clinton Township, Mich., keeping up with schoolwork, finalizing plans for after graduation and enjoying family time. “Although the current situation is unfortunate, I am glad I have the opportunity to be safe at home with my family,” Chludzinski said. “The main shift has been trying to become accustomed to the ...…
…2 — Monday, April 13, 2020 News The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com 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 ...…
…Government officials, at both the federal and state levels, have requested that families “stay home, save lives” to slow the spread of COVID-19, and to protect themselves, and those around them. Back in March, Michigan Medicine displayed a graphic showing how we can flatten the curve (slow the spread of COVID-19): if communities work together to slow the spread of this virus, the number of cases will stretch out across ...…
…S helter-in-place: day one. I felt exceedingly optimistic. I was free from the binding shackles of my three jobs and 18 credits, and I now had time to do things I was forced to neglect. During the week, I would be able to devote more time to studying for each of my classes, and I could enhance my understanding of the lecture material by engaging more in-depth. I could dedicate my weekends to self-care and relaxation. I f...…
…A s an introvert, I have been in some way, shape or form preparing for this moment for my entire life. I had used Zoom before a few of my classes made the switch to virtual meetings on the platform, and I was no stranger to the virtual learning world. I used Google Hangouts before it was cool or necessary. I regularly swipe through videos on TikTok, which is apparently a quintessential Generation Z activity. And sti...…
…A camera looks out onto a dimly lit living room. The frame is slightly unlevel, tilted up toward the right. In the bottom corner, a candle flickers; its shadow dances over the comfortable white drapes at the end of the room. Deep piano music starts, and a woman walks into view. She’s dressed simply: just shorts and a tank top. She starts to lunge toward the left, but then the video quickly changes to a different woman. This t...…
…Ten additional cases of the COVID-19 virus have been diagnosed in Michigan, officials announced late Thursday evening, leading to adjustments in state operations. This brings the total number of patients diagnosed with the COVID-19 virus to 12 in Michigan. According to Local 4 News, the new cases include: A Washtenaw County woman and a Washtenaw County man, one who has domestic travel history and one who ha...…
…Regent Ron Weiser (R), accused Dr. Robert Anderson, the late University of Michigan sports physician, of sexually assaulting him while he was a student in the 1960s, according to an interview with The Detroit News published Thursday morning. Weiser said he first encountered Anderson during his freshman year on the wrestling team. “It happened a long time ago, but we have to make sure it never happens again,” We...…
…Linda Vail, Ingham County health officer, told Bridge Magazine more cases will likely be confirmed as testing increases. She said public companies will offer testing at doctors’ offices in addition to tests provided by the state. As of Thursday, Ingham County had seven tests: two negative and five pending. Washtenaw County was the first to temporarily close schools and transition to online learning in light of t...…
…4 — Friday, March 13, 2020 Opinion The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Congratulations to the James B. Angell Scholars for 7+ Terms 97th Annual Honors Convocation | Sunday, March 15, 2020 | www.honors.umich.edu The following students will be among those recognized during the Honors Convocation program on Sunday, March 15, 2020. These individuals have demonstrated the highest level of undergraduate academic success by achieving seven or ...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Arts Friday, March 13, 2020 — 5 When someone talks about “the arts,” the first thing that comes to mind is usually some form of self- expression, like painting or photography. Very rarely do we talk about art in the same breath as running, but why not? We’re exploring this question with “Daily Arts Runs a Marathon.” However, due to the rising concerns surrounding a certain virus, our endeavor ends h...…
…6 — Friday, March 13, 2020 Arts The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com WHISPER SUBMIT A WHISPER By Winston Emmons ©2020 Tribune Content Agency, LLC 03/13/20 Los Angeles Times Daily Crossword Puzzle Edited by Rich Norris and Joyce Nichols Lewis 03/13/20 ANSWER TO PREVIOUS PUZZLE: Release Date: Friday, March 13, 2020 ACROSS 1 2019 Pan American Games city 5 Present to an audience 10 Nat’s hat 13 Norse deity 14 Syndicated show, say 1...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Sports Friday, March 13, 2020 — 7 LAMBERT FAMILY BOND Codie Lambert peered over the bright yellow railings that separated her from the gathering hockey players. Seven hundred ten miles from her hometown, she was standing in the bleachers, watching the Vernon Vipers line up for their pregame skate. Codie had made the long trek all the way from Saskatoon, Saskatchwen to see her little brother, ...…
…8 — Friday, March 13, 2020 Sports The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com MILES MACKLIN/DAILY THE END Design by Jack Silberman Give seniors an extra year of play T he unthinkable has hap- pened. Thursday, when the NCAA announced that the men’s and women’s basketball tournaments would be cancelled due to COVID- 19, the college bas- ketball world responded with shock, frustration, anger and just about everything in between. S...…
…About 100 students, faculty and community members came to Rackham Auditorium on Wednesday afternoon to hear Charles W. Mills, a distinguished philosophy professor at the City University of New York, speak on the concept of racial justice and why it has been historically ignored within the field of philosophy. Mills was featured as the guest speaker of the 2019- 2020 Tanner Lecture on Human Values sponsored by the Uni...…
…The impeachment trial of President Donald Trump has generated much debate across the political spectrum. The Daily spoke with several conservative students about their viewpoints on impeachment. On Jan. 15, 2019, the House of Representatives filed two impeachment articles against Trump, accusing him of abusing his power as president and obstructing Congress. In the following two weeks, U.S. senators filled the chamber to ...…
…Alves said having worked in the legal sector in New York, in politics at the White House and at fintech startups in Silicon Valley, she’s found the hardest problems facing the financial world require different types of knowledge. “The hardest problems to solve are ones that require people to have a perspective from different sectors, and that’s how I thought about my careers … I needed to have experience in all those pla...…
…Opinion The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com 4A — Thursday, February 13, 2020 Alanna Berger Brittany Bowman Zack Blumberg Emily Considine Jenny Gurung Cheryn Hong Krystal Hur Ethan Kessler Zoe Phillips Mary Rolfes Michael Russo Timothy Spurlin Miles Stephenson Joel Weiner Erin White ERIN WHITE Managing Editor Stanford Lipsey Student Publications Building 420 Maynard St. Ann Arbor, MI 48109 tothedaily@michigandaily.com Edited and man...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Sports Thursday, February 13, 2020 — 5A Michigan learning to adapt with three wrestlers out on Olympic redshirts Shortly after the World Wrestling Championships ended, Michigan coach Sean Bormet met with his competitors in a hotel room. They had 24 hours to make a decision. At the week-long competition, two Michigan wrestlers had qualified for the Olympics. Two others had a shot at Olympic...…
…6A — Thursday, February 13, 2020 Sports The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com WHISPER SUBMIT A WHISPER By Kevin Christian and Howard Barkin ©2020 Tribune Content Agency, LLC 02/13/20 Los Angeles Times Daily Crossword Puzzle Edited by Rich Norris and Joyce Nichols Lewis 02/13/20 ANSWER TO PREVIOUS PUZZLE: Release Date: Thursday, February 13, 2020 ACROSS 1 Suffix for Wikipedia 4 Humiliate 9 Network with a “Cameras in the Court” pag...…
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…2B — Thursday, February 13, 2020 b-side The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com “Once upon a time, not long ago, I was a hoe,” sang rapper/singer/Internet meme Mariahlynn through our phone speaker, my two best friends and I singing along as we hurtled across Europe in a rickety passenger train. This was not the first time any of us had mimicked her risque lyrics in public. By the end of our trip to Vienna last year, we had memorized t...…
…I love sinning as much as the next guy, but when it comes to literature and writing, there is one cardinal sin that truly irks me. The eighth deadly sin, more insidious than its seven predecessors, is the non sequitur (a conclusion or statement that does not logically follow from the previous argument or statement), the tangent, the digression. It’s funny and bizarre at first, but when it drags on for too long, it becomes grating. There...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com b-side Thursday, February 13, 2020 — 4B The seven deadly sins...but make them fashionable B-SIDE: STYLE I set Greed in the 1910s, because this era seemed to be obsessed with gaining wealth and social standing. A confining dress of gold with flaps modeled after Faberge Eggs, paired with an extensive amount of heavy jewelry are the featured parts of this outfit. LUST Lust is set in the 2010 #MeToo...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com b-side Thursday, February 13, 2020 — 5B During a drive to Ann Arbor with three other people in my car, I asked each of my companions to queue two songs on Spotify for us to listen to along the way. Two were quick to add their songs, but one of my friends was hesitant to add something to the queue. “I don’t know what to add, just skip me,” she insisted, but I demanded two songs from her. So sh...…
…The showcase of Richard Quinn’s Spring 2019 line opened with what many fashion publications would call a “luxe morphsuit.” The first four models were covered from head to toe in skin-tight black velvet accompanied by tonal tulle cocktail frocks, commanding silk capes, a pair of lilac pants and a striking blue satin a-line dress, covered in a jeweled vine of ruby red roses (with a matching bag!). The initial onslaught acted ...…
…michigandaily.com Ann Arbor, Michigan Monday, January 13, 2020 ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY-NINE YEARS OF EDITORIAL FREEDOM New life In need of wins after poor start, Michigan sweeps No. 14 Notre Dame in South Bend to start second half of season. » Page 1B Eli Savit, the Democratic candidate for Washtenaw County Prosecutor, met with students at the Ford School of Public Policy Sunday afternoon to discuss his campaign and ways stude...…
…2A — Monday, January 13, 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 CHRISTINE JEGARL “The entire process has been designed to be iterative, failure- positive, because we’re not going to get this right. No one has figured out exactly how to do this,” Stults said. “There isn’t a handbook. W...…
…“No hats allowed in class!” “Why? She’s got one on.” The whole class laughs. Hearing this remark in a Chicago Public School classroom is not uncommon let alone malicious. No matter where you came from or what you wore, thick skin in the classroom meant laughing along and moving on. But when I asked myself why I wanted to write for a publication that is made for people of color, this instance of a white boy making a “harmless” ...…
…Opinion The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com 4A — Monday, January 13, 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 Monday, January 13, 2020 — 5A If a show tells the same story as the one that it rebooted, then one might rightly ask why reboot it at all. By now, 1994 was 26 years ago. It’s often not the case that what was relevant in 1994 still holds up in 2020. Thankfully, “Party of Five” left 1994 in the past and caught up with 2020 in a solid, if somewhat bland, reboot. Instead of the white, middle clas...…
…6A — Monday Janurary 13, 2020 Arts The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com puzzle by sudokusnydictation.com By Matt McKinley ©2020 Tribune Content Agency, LLC 01/13/20 Los Angeles Times Daily Crossword Puzzle Edited by Rich Norris and Joyce Nichols Lewis 01/13/20 ANSWER TO PREVIOUS PUZZLE: Release Date: Monday, January 13, 2020 ACROSS 1 Hanks who plays Mr. Rogers 4 Spanish houses 9 Watched secretly 14 Dr.’s group 15 Scarlett of fiction...…
…Alexis Rankin / Daily Design by Jack Silberman INSIDE SPORTSMONDAY COLUMN: HOWARD HAS ‘M’ ON THE BRINK OF ANOTHER FAB FIVE SEE PAGE 2B SPORTSMONDAY Monday, January 13, 2020 | michigandaily.com NICK in the of time Nick Granowicz, Nick Pastujov and Nick Blankenburg all score as Michigan earns a sweep against No.14 Notre Dame Alexis Rankin / Daily | Design by Jack Silberman …
