…Civil rights activist Reverend Al Sharpton called on the University of Michigan to release a report on the number of African Americans involved in the management of the school’s endowment in a letter to University President Mark Schlissel and Chief Investment Officer Erik Lundberg last month. Sharpton, writing on behalf of his organization, the National Action Network, requested diversity data both on University s...…
…2A — Wednesday, April 15, 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 ...…
…Wednesday, April 15, 2020 — 3A News The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Challengers to Eaton include Jen Eyer, a former journalist for MLive and the Ann Arbor News, and Mozhgan Savabieasfahani, an environmental toxicologist. Erica Briggs and Dan Michniewicz are running for the Ward 5 seat, which is currently occupied by Chip Smith, D-Ward 5. All candidates participated in the forum. Jack Eaton, Democrat for Ward 4...…
…N obody should have to choose between their vote and their health, but Wisconsin voters faced this decision due to reckless and politically-motivated actions taken by the Republican Party and a complicit United States Supreme Court. As COVID-19 forces stay-at- home orders and social distancing, numerous states have postponed their primary elections in the name of public health. This is the right decision. Having pe...…
…Wednesday, April 15, 2020 — 5A Arts The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com SAM JUNE COMMUNITY CULTURE NOTEBOOK If you’ve been to Rick’s, you’ve probably seen Sam June dancing. A second-year master’s student in electrical engineering, June takes the stage for hours every weekend. Unusually, though, he usually dances alone and sober. While many people go to Rick’s for sloppy make-outs and cheap drinks, he goes to find so...…
…Wednesday, April 15, 2020 — 6A Arts The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com In response to the coronavirus pandemic, “Grey’s Anatomy” halted production on their season, before eventually cutting it short by four episodes. While it wasn’t the ending that was planned, the Season 16 finale of “Grey’s” was a satisfying one. Time and time again, the longest running medical drama in the history of television has proved its ability to piv...…
…statement THE MICHIGAN DAILY | APRIL 15, 2020 ILLUSTRATION BY MICHELLE FAN …
…Wednesday, April 15, 2020 // The Statement 2B Managing Statement Editor Magdalena Mihaylova Deputy Editors Emily Stillman Marisa Wright Associate Editor Reece Meyhoefer Designers Elizabeth Bigham Kate Glad Copy Editors Madison Gagne Sadia Jiban Photo Editor Keemya Esmael Editor in Chief Elizabeth Lawrence Managing Editor Erin White I f there’s one good thing that comes out of this quarantine, it’ll be the litt...…
…3B Wednesday, April 15, 2020 // The Statement 3B O ver the past two weeks, my campus house has had 200 multivitamins, 48 beers, 10 bottles of wine, seven pints of ice cream, four bags of chips, two Monster energy drinks and one gallon of spring water delivered to our doorstep. It’s a grocery haul far too depraved for Instacart or Shipt. We’ve been abusing goPuff, the millennial- catering-convenience-delivery-gig- business, wi...…
…T he muezzin’s call rang out over the masjid speakers, reciting the Islamic kalima, or statement of faith, and my mother grabbed my hand as we separated from my father and brother to answer the call to prayer. It was one of the occasional times my family went to our mosque in Miami, but at age eight, I was already aware that we were walking to the women’s section behind the men’s, separated by a row of dividers across the middle o...…
…Wednesday, April 15, 2020 // The Statement 6B W here are you from?” is a hard question for me to answer. “Do you mean, where do I live right now?” is usually my most common rebuttal. I don’t mean to be difficult, I just want to provide an honest response. For me, it’s tricky to stick to a consistent story, and I try not to get too bogged down in the details. Before I turned 18, I had already lived in 12 different houses and...…
…O n March 11, I sat in my small, dimly-lit apartment watching ESPN as footage came in of health officials sprinting out onto the court of Chesapeake Energy Arena in Oklahoma City, setting off a delay. Minutes earlier there was no official explanation for the delay to the start of Jazz vs. Thunder, but now there was — Jazz center Rudy Gobert tested positive for coronavirus. Sports actualized the threat of COVID-19 to the Ame...…
…Wednesday, April 15, 2020 // The Statement 8B VISUAL STATEMEN T: N A T I O N A L P A R K S BY ALICE LIU …
…The University of Michigan Museum of Natural History reopened on Sunday at its new location in the Biological Sciences Building. This marks the second of three phases of officially reopening the museum, with the third to occur in fall 2019. Plans to build the new Biological Sciences Building began in 2011, and the University decided to move the museum into the new building. The museum was housed in the Ruthven Museums Bui...…
…SOUTH BEND, IN — Mayor Pete Buttigieg officially announced his candidacy for president of the United States Sunday afternoon in South Bend, Indiana. Crowds began to gather as early as 8 a.m. for the 2:30 p.m. announcement, with thousands of supporters packing into the town’s former Studebaker automaker factory. If elected, Buttigieg would not only be the first openly gay president but also the country’s youngest president at...…
…As a child, I never worried about making mistakes. If my knees were scraped when playing outside, they healed, so I stood on the highest playground structure trying to look past the horizon. Growing up, I continued having this dauntless quality, always questioning how I could change the color of the sky or how I could solve a derivative in an unconventional way. For this reason, the liberating medium of acrylic paints became my fa...…
…Opinion The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com 4A — Monday, April 15, 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 E...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Arts Monday, April 15, 2019 — 5A Tonight is the highly anticipated premiere of “Game of Thrones” Season 8, which has been a great topic of conversation over the last few days (weeks, months). From a storytelling standpoint, “Game of Thrones” has become a stand-in example for a number of categories, perhaps the most common among them being brutal TV shows with merciless rates of character death. “Gam...…
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…Alec Cohen & Alexandria Pompei Design by Jack Silberman The Michigan Daily | michigandaily.com | April 15, 2019 SPEED SPEED FEEL FREE TO OVERREACT TO THE SPRING GAME INSIDE SPORTSMONDAY See Page 2B IN SPACE IN SPACE …
…2B — April 15, 2019 SportsMonday The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com M ichigan football is back. Well, sort of. On Sat- urday, the Wolverines held their Spring Game at Michi- gan Sta- dium, which turned out to be more of a practice with some scrimmage situations mixed in. It was everyone’s last chance to see Michigan and all its offensive changes before the summer begins. So, more accurately, Michi- gan football was back fo...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com SportsMonday April 15, 2019 — 3B ‘M’ shaky in series loss at Ohio State This wasn’t how this weekend was supposed to go. The No. 24 Michigan baseball team came into Columbus confident. They’d won eight of their last ten games, including a two-game sweep of in-state rival Michigan State and a big weekend series win over a tough Minnesota team. According to Michigan coach, the Wolverines wen...…
…4B — Monday, April 15, 2019 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com SportsMonday During spring ball, injuries lead to new opportunities for freshmen Mike Sainristil got the ball on a crossing route at the 23-yard line, beat his defender and coasted into the end zone. It was the first drive of Michigan’s Spring Game on Saturday, and though there was no real scoring, it wasn’t lost on the crowd that the freshman wide receiver had scored...…
…michigandaily.com Ann Arbor, Michigan Friday, April 15, 2016 ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY-FIVE YEARS OF EDITORIAL FREEDOM INDEX Vol. CXXV, No. 111 ©2016 The Michigan Daily michigandaily.com N E WS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 O PI N I O N . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 CL A S S I F I E DS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 S U D O K U . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 A R T S . . . . . . . . . . . . ...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com CAMPUS EVENTS & NOTES Best of UMix WHAT: UMix will host its last event of the semester. It will feature a screening “Zoolander 2,” canvas painting, laser tag and other activities. They will also have a midnight buffet featuring tacos. WHO: Center for Campus Involvement WHEN: 10 p.m. to 2 a.m. WHERE: Michigan Union “Mind Your Head” WHAT: The 2016 Stamps Senior Show will feature work from t...…
…a unique set of challenges and opportunities to the surrounding community. Lazarus and Fetherston noted public universities are tax-exempt and can therefore eat into the tax base of the local city whenever they expand. “As the University grows, there’s this balance between taxable properties and non- taxable,” Lazarus said, adding he has been able to maintain a beneficial relationship between the University of Texas and th...…
…Opinion SHOHAM GEVA EDITOR IN CHIEF CLAIRE BRYAN AND REGAN DETWILER EDITORIAL PAGE EDITORS LAURA SCHINAGLE MANAGING EDITOR 420 Maynard St. Ann Arbor, MI 48109 tothedaily@michigandaily.com Edited and managed by students at the University of Michigan since 1890. Unsigned editorials reflect the official position of the Daily’s editorial board. All other signed articles and illustrations represent solely the views of their authors...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Arts Friday, April 15, 2016 — 5 Ben Harper’s ‘Call It’ is eclectic dad rock By JOEY SCHUMAN Daily Arts Writer Ben Harper & The Innocent Criminals’s latest studio album, Call It What It Is, kicks off with a major dad quote: “I remember when sex was dirty / and the air was clean / and every- thing worth knowing / was in a magazine.” The whole dad quote thing makes sense, conside...…
…ACROSS 1 Not as available 8 Red herring, to a cop 15 Athens eatery 16 Where to view “Duck Dynasty” 17 Oath sworn in a kosher kitchen? 19 Hightailed it 20 Le Mans law 21 Great Plains tribe 22 9-Down opener 23 ’50s pres. candidate 25 Long of “Third Watch” 26 New Year’s Eve get-togethers? 27 Double-dealing in Delhi? 30 “A symptom of man’s failure as a thinking animal”: Steinbeck 31 Old knives 32 Cutthroat entrepreneur? 36 Pool option 37 Six-time ...…
…Sports The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Friday, April 15, 2016 — 7 Karas has found the perfect home By LANEY BYLER Daily Sports Writer At the tender age of 2 years old, Olivia Karas used to flip off her family’s couch. In an attempt to channel their child’s energy in a more controlled, less dangerous way, Karas’ parents enrolled her in “mommy and me” gymnastics classes. At first glance, the building where the classes were...…
…Senior captain continues to lead Wolverines in pool and in classroom By JORDAN HERBSTMAN Daily Sports Writer It’s not often that a water polo player is compared to seven- time Pro Bowl cornerback Darrelle Revis. But for Michigan coach Marcelo Leonardi, it was the perfect comparison for senior Ali Thomason. Thomason has put together a strong campaign for the No. 6 Michigan women’s water polo team. She leads the team i...…
…michigandaily.com Ann Arbor, Michigan Wednesday, April 15, 2015 CELEBRATING OUR ONE-HUNDRED AND TWENTY-FIFTH YEAR OF EDITORIAL FREEDOM SEXUAL MISCONDUCT POLICY University considers changes to appeals process, witness testimony By ALLANA AKHTAR Daily Staff Reporter University administrators sat down with students Monday and Tuesday night to discuss potential changes to the Student Sexual Misconduct Policy. Holly Rider-Milkovich,...…
…2-News 2A — Wednesday, April 15, 2015 News The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com THREE THINGS YOU SHOULD KNOW TODAY The Statement Magazine has announced its Students of The Year in its annual issue. The magazine also heavily features a variety of the best photos taken by the Daily’s photo staff. >> FOR MORE, SEE STATEMENT 2 CAMPUS EVENTS & NOTES Country-jazz concert WHAT:Hot Club of Cowtown, a country-jazz band, will pe...…
…speaker of the assembly. Reps. Noah Betman and Ben Meisel, both LSA sophomores, received nominations. Betman was ultimately elected to the post. As speaker, Betman said he hopes to improve the logistical and transparency issues in the assembly through initiatives such as making the assembly’s agenda known to the general public before meetings and asking representatives to submit reports from their respective meetings. Reps...…
…Opinion JENNIFER CALFAS EDITOR IN CHIEF AARICA MARSH and DEREK WOLFE EDITORIAL PAGE EDITORS LEV FACHER MANAGING EDITOR 420 Maynard St. Ann Arbor, MI 48109 tothedaily@michigandaily.com Edited and managed by students at the University of Michigan since 1890. Unsigned editorials reflect the official position of the Daily’s editorial board. All other signed articles and illustrations represent solely the views of their authors....…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Arts Wednesday, April 15, 2015 — 5A ‘Dark Ages’ a strong debut from Levad By KARL WILLIAMS Daily Arts Writer Sometimes poetry is funny. It doesn’t always hold the gravi- tas and severity of “The Waste- land” or “The Divine Com- edy.” Shake- speare wrote “King Lear,” but he made sex jokes, too. In fact, poetry is a remarkably flexible form, and the first collection of Megan ...…
…Classifieds Call: #734-418-4115 Email: dailydisplay@gmail.com ACROSS 1 Request an ID from 5 Classic milk flavoring 10 Degs. for choreographers 14 Yours, to Yves 15 One making a leaf pile 16 Wild speech 17 Key collection of records 19 Command to Fido 20 Trophy 21 Slyly suggest 23 Religious offense 24 Common “terrible twos” responses 26 Quiet time 27 Canadian crooner with four Grammys 32 Came out with 35 Protein-rich beans 36 Sushi fish 37 Scr...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Arts & Sports Wednesday, April 15, 2015 — 7A ‘M’ looks for another win in lopsided rivalry By CHRIS CROWDER Daily Sports Writer Michiganders agree on many things. There’s widespread acclaim over Euchre and drinking Vernors when you’re sick. But there is one question that divides the state more than anything else: Michigan or Michigan State? Michigan softball coach Carol...…
…8A — Wednesday, April 15, 2015 Sports The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com From afar: Bastien’s success a family affair By MATTHEW KIPNIS Daily Sports Writer Not once did Gary Bastien ask his son to follow in his footsteps. Gary didn’t hang up decathlon trophies or jerseys from his days at the U.S. Olympic trials around the house. At no point did he brag about stories from the glory days. And he certainly never pushed his son, ...…
…THE MICHIGAN DAILY APRIL 15, 2015 statement statement THE MICHIGAN DAILY APRIL 15, 2015 …
…Wednesday, April 15, 2015 // The Statement 2B Magazine Editor: Ian Dillingham Deputy Editor: Natalie Gadbois Design Editor: Jake Wellins Photo Editor: Luna Anna Archey Illustrator: Megan Mulholland Maggie Miller Editor in Chief: Jen Calfas Managing Editor: Lev Facher Copy Editors: Hannah Bates Laura Schinagle Emma Sutherland THE statement COVER BY MEGAN MULHOLLAND Students of the Year A president, some Nobel Prize winner...…
…Wednesday, April 15, 2015 // The Statement 3B AMANDA ALLEN/Daily Democratic Candidate for Michigan Senate Gary Peters announces his win at the Democratic Watch Party at MGM Grand in Detroit on Nov.4, 2014 CONNOR BADE/Daily Connor Morrell juggles during the 44th annual Hash Bash on the Diag on Apr. 4, 2015. JAMES COLLER/Daily Michigan Governor Rick Snyder waves to the crowd following his reelection at the Marriott in Detroit, MI on ...…
…Wednesday, April 15, 2015 // The Statement 4B W hen students reflect on their time on campus, many will remember game days, the Ann Arbor winter, and long study hours. LSA senior Keya Patel, however, will remember the many hours she spent working with communities around the world. Since her freshman year, Patel has worked with the Better Living Using Engineering Laboratory, a student organization guiding nine team proj- ects...…
…Wednesday, April 15, 2015 // The Statement 5B Keya Patel by: Emilie Plesset, Daily News Editor Natasha Dabrowski by: Tanya Madhani, Daily Staff Reporter Hannah Lee by: Caroline Filips, Daily Arts Writer learning from us is an integral experience because that’s what it will be like in the real world, you’re not just like surrounded by people who are just like you in terms of your academic back- ground,” Patel said. “Having peo...…
…Wednesday, April 15, 2015 // The Statement 6B PAUL SHERMAN/Daily Mercyhurst beat Slippery Rock at the Big House on Oct. 18, 2014. PAUL SHERMAN/Daily Junior wide receiver Devin Funchess fights off a Penn State defender to score a touchdown on Oct. 11, 2014. RUBY WALLAU/Daily Michigan cornerback Blake Countess and Ohio State wide receiver Devin Smith battle for a deep pass that fell beyond their reach during Michigan’s game against Ohio ...…
…Wednesday, April 15, 2015 // The Statement 7B JAMES COLLER/Daily Baseball Head Coach Erik Bakick’s son Colt helps out as the ball boy during Michigan’s 4-2 loss versus Michigan State on Apr. 14, 2015 at Comerica Park in Detroit. ZACH MOORE/Daily Michigan’s men’s swimming and beat Ohio State 187-117 in Canham Natatorium on Jan. 12, 2015. LUNA ANNA ARCHEY/Daily A Michigan and Michigan State player brawl The Michigan hockey team took o...…
…Wednesday, April 15, 2015 // The Statement 8B Wednesday, April 15, 2015 // The Statement 9B Freshman defenceman Cutler Martin celebrates his game winning overtime goal dur- ing a hard-fought match against Minnesota Feb. 13, 2015. SAM MOUSIGIAN/Daily Stacey Ervin in competition against Stanford on Feb. 7, 2015 in Cliff Keen Arena. Michigan won 434 to 433.05. Fans yell at the referees in Yost Ice Arena during Michigan’s game against Pen...…
…“ Forever Go Blue.” Those three words are often used to communicate what cannot truly be defined by words: fierce love for the University and its community, the love that wide-eyed Wolverine-under- lings only glimpse at orientation and even- tually build through every late night cram session, every unexpected friendship and every game day throughout their time here. Until once the tassel switches sides, we can’t think to say anything...…
…Wednesday, April 15, 2015 // The Statement 11B W ith a quiet voice and kind smile, LSA junior Olivia Rath’s greatest accomplishments are unknown to her, but her dedication to the University community shines through in everything she does. “I saw something on Pinterest the other day,” Rath said in an interview. “It’s prob- ably stupid but it really resonated with me. It said you don’t climb a mountain for the world to see you, y...…
…Wednesday, April 15, 2015 // The Statement 12B A fter finishing a mock job interview on the after- noon of Nov. 24, History graduate student Austin McCoy received big news: it was the day the world would know if Darren Wilson would be indicted for kill- ing Michael Brown. McCoy and his interviewer, Associate Prof. Matthew Countryman, along with other faculty and graduate stu- dents, quickly pulled together a stu- dent viewing of the...…
