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January 17, 2018 (vol. 127, iss. 57) • Page Image 1

…REMY FARKAS Daily Staff Reporter Lydia Polgreen, editor-in-chief of news blog HuffPost, discussed her relationship with journalism and the way in which her past affects her vision of present-day America in her lecture entitled “Who gets to define American Values,” given as part of the University of Michigan’s Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Symposium. The Wallace House program, as well as the Knight-Wallace Fellowship and L...…

January 17, 2018 (vol. 127, iss. 57) • Page Image 2

…Sudoku Syndication http://sudokusyndication.com/sudoku/generator/print/ 1 of 1 11/5/08 12:54 PM 9 7 5 9 3 8 9 4 7 1 1 8 3 2 9 4 8 4 5 6 8 9 6 7 3 1 2 4 1 FROST BITE. puzzle by sudokusyndication.com 2A — Wednesday, January 17, 2018 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com THURSDAY: Twitter Talk FRIDAY: Behind the Story MONDAY: Looking at the Numbers News DESIGNER/Daily TUESDAY: By Design 420 Maynard St. Ann Arbor, M...…

January 17, 2018 (vol. 127, iss. 57) • Page Image 3

…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com News Wednesday, January 17, 2018 — 3A today’s society. She emphasized her multicultural background and the influence of her time in Africa on her views regarding the current political climate of the United States. With an Ethiopian mother and white Minnesotan father, Polgreen said that she thinks a lot about American identity in the age of Trump. “But let’s be real — this isn’t a normal presi...…

January 17, 2018 (vol. 127, iss. 57) • Page Image 4

…Opinion The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com 4A — Wednesday, January 17, 2018 DAYTON HARE Managing Editor 420 Maynard St. Ann Arbor, MI 48109 tothedaily@michigandaily.com Edited and managed by students at the University of Michigan since 1890. ALEXA ST. JOHN Editor in Chief ANU ROY-CHAUDHURY AND ASHLEY ZHANG Editorial Page Editors Unsigned editorials reflect the official position of the Daily’s Editorial Board. All other sign...…

January 17, 2018 (vol. 127, iss. 57) • Page Image 5

…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Arts Wednesday, January 17, 2018 — 5A “Marie Antoinette” is Sofia Coppola’s masterpiece. “The Virgin Suicides” is the cult classic of the “Donnie Darko” crowd, “Lost in Translation” gets all the critical attention, but it’s “Marie Antoinette” that best showcases the ineffability of her visual wit. It’s a lush, pastel coming-of-age story that sees one of the most infamous figures in Western hi...…

January 17, 2018 (vol. 127, iss. 57) • Page Image 6

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January 17, 2018 (vol. 127, iss. 57) • Page Image 7

…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Sports Wednesday, January 17, 2018 — 7A Michigan Invitational defined by comebacks Kate Fahey was down, but not out. Despite dropping the first set, 4-6, to fifth-ranked Gabriela Talaba of Texas Tech on Monday, the junior — ranked No. 33 — came back to take the second set, 6-3, tie the third, 6-6, and eventually prevail in the tiebreaker, 7-2. Fahey wasn’t the only member of the Michigan w...…

January 17, 2018 (vol. 127, iss. 57) • Page Image 8

…8A — Wednesday, January 17, 2018 Sports The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com A memorable weekend for the senior guards of Michigan basketball It was quite the weekend for Michigan basketball’s seniors. But if you’re Muhammad-Ali Abdur-Rahkman, you’re blasé about it all. “I wasn’t thinking about much, just making the free throws,” the senior guard said after notching his 1,000th career point — a game-winning free throw to t...…

January 17, 2018 (vol. 127, iss. 57) • Page Image 10

…P ast the deer and occasional wild turkey on North Campus, beyond the research complexes and Environmental Protection Agency field office, lies a stretch of strip malls with grocery stores and gyms with vacant parking lots. Along Plymouth Road, among stores with yellowing signs and mounds of snow taking up parking spaces, there’s a place that is always full — the Songbird Cafe. The first time I came here was a little less than a ...…

January 17, 2018 (vol. 127, iss. 57) • Page Image 11

…3B Wednesday, January 17, 2018 // The Statement Soundtracking: The weather’s mood swings I f there’s one thing I’m reasonably good at — and the list of things I can do is pretty low these days — it’s small talk about the weather. You wanna talk about a movie you saw last week? Sure. Wanna ask how my day was? Something awkward probably happened but I’ll tell you everything anyway. Wanna talk about the weather? Fuck yes. I love ta...…

January 17, 2018 (vol. 127, iss. 57) • Page Image 12

…Wednesday, January 17, 2018 // The Statement 4B Wednesday, January 17, 2018 // The Statement 5B In Search of a Home by Abigail Muro, Daily Staff Reporter I get homesick when I look at pictures of the Sonoran desert. The gray-green Saguaro cacti, reaching their limbs past the distant, jagged mountain peaks toward a radiant blue sky, feel like family. Home is a white and gray tent, small enough to look natural among the desert br...…

January 17, 2018 (vol. 127, iss. 57) • Page Image 13

…Wednesday, January 17, 2018 // The Statement 6B Copy That: Stylizing my hometown M y flight ticket didn’t show the boarding gate, and “St. Louis” didn’t appear anywhere on the blue departure screens. I was panicking, but I didn’t want anyone to know I was panicking. This was my first solo flight, and I was determined to solve this on my own. So I stood in front of the departure screens until I felt security shooting me weird look...…

January 17, 2018 (vol. 127, iss. 57) • Page Image 14

…M y grandfather on my mom’s side of the family has a lexicon of cliches — a signature catchphrase, if you will, for almost any situation. “Put an egg in your shoe and beat it” happens to be my favorite, but there’s also one that I’ve only recently gained an appreciation for: “Call me anything you want. Just don’t call me late for dinner.” Over the past three and a half years, I’ve become immune to the improper pronunc...…

January 17, 2018 (vol. 127, iss. 57) • Page Image 15

…Wednesday, January 17, 2018 // The Statement 8B These are a lineup of spices that my dad, who immigrated here from India in the 1980’s, brought back from India so I can cook traditional Indian food. (Danyel Tharakan/Daily) V I S U A L S T A T E M E N T : W H E R E W E C O M E F R O M My dad’s side of the family is Italian, and cooking is an important tradition that has been passed down. My sister and I made this ricotta cheesecake, a tradi...…

April 17, 2018 (vol. 127, iss. 113) • Page Image 1

…This LSA senior is a model University of Michigan student. Raised in a family of educators, she is beyond attentive in class, constantly present during office hours and dedicates respect to her teachers — she is someone who cares deeply about how she earns her grade in a class. She said she is also an anxious student, to the point of being a perfectionist. It felt like it was these traits, she said, that were taken advantage of ...…

April 17, 2018 (vol. 127, iss. 113) • Page Image 2

…CAPS campus statistics are consistent with the trends in the Nature Biotechnology study. “We are also seeing a sustained increase in graduate students accessing CAPS services with issues of anxiety and depression identified as top concerns,” Monschau wrote. Monschau said 31 percent of CAPS services were provided to graduate students, of the 4,638 students serviced in total. CAPS has begun to target graduate studen...…

April 17, 2018 (vol. 127, iss. 113) • Page Image 3

…commercial developments. However, in February, Dahlmann sued the city for his failed development plans in hopes to gain an additional four years of ownership to complete his plans. At the previous meeting last week, the Council was split with seven in favor and three opposed. Councilmembers Jack Eaton, D-Ward 4, Sumi Kailasapathy, D-Ward 1, and Anne Bannister, D-Ward 1, all opposed the lot purchase. The council also met twi...…

April 17, 2018 (vol. 127, iss. 113) • Page Image 4

…Opinion The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com 4 — Tuesday, April 17, 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 stu...…

April 17, 2018 (vol. 127, iss. 113) • Page Image 5

…It has been just four days since my encounter with Emily Blumenthal, and I’ve already ordered new business cards. “You should always have a business card, regardless,” she advised me from our table in Espresso Royale last Friday. A gold nameplate necklace reading “Handbag Designer” dangled from her neck. “No matter what.” That’s just a mere glimpse into the tenacity and altruism that comprise Blumenthal’s character. Perhaps...…

April 17, 2018 (vol. 127, iss. 113) • Page Image 6

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April 17, 2018 (vol. 127, iss. 113) • Page Image 7

…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Sports Tuesday, April 17, 2018 — 7 Michigan offense struggles in loss to Ohio State Just when it looked like the ball would sneak into the net, Tommy Heidt reached behind himself and trapped it against the ground. The senior goalkeeper prevented Ohio State (1-2 Big Ten, 6-6 overall) from taking the lead over the No. 20 Michigan men’s lacrosse team in the second quarter of Friday night...…

April 17, 2018 (vol. 127, iss. 113) • Page Image 8

…Shattering expectations would be an understatement for the Michigan men’s basketball team in the 2017-18 season. After a 26-12 record in 2016- 17 that ended in a heartbreaking Sweet Sixteen loss to Oregon, the Wolverines lost three valuable starters in Derrick Walton, D.J. Wilson and Zak Irvin. They were supposed to spend this season retooling, with a solid recruiting class waiting in the wings. On numerous occasions, that look...…

May 17, 2018 (vol. 127, iss. 117) • Page Image 1

…michigandaily.com Thursday, May 17, 2018 INDEX Vol. CXXVII, No. 117 | © 2018 The Michigan Daily michigandaily.com NEWS .................................... OPINION ............................... ARTS/NEWS ......................... MiC......................................... SPORTS................................ MICHIGAN IN COLOR I miss the old Kanye The rapper’s fall from grace a disappointment to many, >> SEE PAGE 9 NEWS Ford pr...…

May 17, 2018 (vol. 127, iss. 117) • Page Image 2

…2 Thursday, May 17, 2018 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com NEWS SHMEDIUM, puzzle by sudokusyndication.com New Ford program funds collaboration Research and public policy program helps students engage with organizations By SAYALI AMIN Daily Staff Reporter Made possible by a $1.5 million gift from the Power Foundation, a new program for the University of Michigan will be housed in the Ford School of Public Policy to engage stu...…

May 17, 2018 (vol. 127, iss. 117) • Page Image 3

…3 NEWS Thursday, May 17, 2018 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Twenty-six Wolverines named Fulbright Finalists Program funds international engagement By ROB DALKA For The Daily The University of Michigan boasts 19 students and seven alum- ni as finalists for the 2018-2019 Ful- bright Student Program. The Fulbright program was introduced in 1945 when Sen. J. William Fulbright presented a congressional bill that encour...…

May 17, 2018 (vol. 127, iss. 117) • Page Image 4

…4 Thursday, May 17, 2018 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com OPINION 420 Maynard St. Ann Arbor, MI 48109 tothedaily@michigandaily.com Edited and managed by students at the University of Michigan since 1890. W omen have faced inequality for as long as we have had written history – especially when it comes to female athletes. Today, players on the U.S. Women’s Soccer Team – the No. 1 women’s soccer team in the world – get pai...…

May 17, 2018 (vol. 127, iss. 117) • Page Image 5

…I ’ll have a second helping of that wonderful fish you got there, Miss Julia.” A man who claims to be named William Shakespeare addresses me with familiarity. He’s a regular at Food Gatherers on West Huron Street, as are many locals who volunteer their time and serve dinner to those who can’t find it elsewhere. “You know I’m from the Caribbean. This meal tastes like home to me.” As I scoop a little extra fish onto the plate of ric...…

May 17, 2018 (vol. 127, iss. 117) • Page Image 6

…6 Thursday, May 17, 2018 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com ARTS FESTIVAL COVERAGE CANNES INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL Cannes: ‘Leto’ Cannes: ‘Sorry Angel’ delves into the heart FESTIVAL COVERAGE I should have taken French in school. I opted for Spanish, as responsible kids often do in California, for it promised to be more useful. However, I now find myself in the south of France — having miraculously schemed my way into the...…

May 17, 2018 (vol. 127, iss. 117) • Page Image 7

…7 Thursday, May 17, 2018 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com ARTS The watch list for any academic film course almost always rounds out to something like: a Chaplain comedy, some Technicolor musical, four impenetrable foreign films, two other silent-era juggernauts and Citizen Kane. Which is fine — in order to begin to form an understanding of how cinema has developed and grown and evolved in the past hundred years, it’s absolut...…

May 17, 2018 (vol. 127, iss. 117) • Page Image 8

…8 Thursday, May 17, 2018 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com ARTS/NEWS 1014 VAUGHN AVAIL Fall 2018 #1 is being rented by the room for $700/m including utilities If you have a group of 5, rent the whole unit for $3100 plus Electric to DTE #2 is a 6 Bdrm for $3720 plus Electric to DTE • 734‑996‑1991 1015 PACKARD 4 Bdrm Apt Avail Fall 2018 2 parking space, onsite laundry, 1st floor $2830 + Electric to DTE • 734‑996‑1991 422 HAMILTON 2 &...…

May 17, 2018 (vol. 127, iss. 117) • Page Image 9

…9 Thursday, May 17, 2018 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com MICHIGAN IN COLOR I miss the old Kanye As my Black Twitter time- line blew up with Bill Cosby memes and “now this” videos about yet another act of violence against someone Black, my heart dropped to see Kanye West. I had recently seen a picture of him wearing a MAGA hat posing with two other politicians and I feared for anything he might say to make things wo...…

May 17, 2018 (vol. 127, iss. 117) • Page Image 10

…10 Thursday, May 17, 2018 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com SPORTS Defense critical in success for ‘M’ With one out and a runner on sec- ond in the 10th inning Sunday after- noon, junior center fielder Jonathan Engelmann gathered a flyball on one hop off the wall and fired a perfect throw into relay man Jack Blomgren who then delivered a strike to cut down the potential go-ahead run at the plate. Blomgren exhibited elite range ...…

May 17, 2018 (vol. 127, iss. 117) • Page Image 11

…Jesse Franklin’s incredible freshman turnaround For the most part, John Morning- star knew what was about to happen. The softball coach was sitting in a suite at a Toledo Mud Hens minor league baseball game with some friends and co-workers watching the Detroit Tigers on a TV at the back of the suite. Detroit was batting with less than two outs and a runner on first, so he figured that the Tigers would try and advance the man on base s...…

May 17, 2018 (vol. 127, iss. 117) • Page Image 12

…12 Thursday, May 17, 2018 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com SPORTS Five years later, Trey Burke discovers a new beginning Trey Burke lined up across from Corey Person with only winning on his mind. This wasn’t a practice drill between the two guards — Burke a sophomore on his way to winning National Player of the Year, Person a walk-on in his senior year. Nor was it a pickup game after practice. It wasn’t even on a basketbal...…

September 17, 2018 (vol. 127, iss. 136) • Page Image 1

…A 2015 interview with Ann Scanlon McGinity, Michigan Medicine chief nursing executive, is record of the administrator’s hostility toward unions, nurses say. Scanlon McGinity — a lead player in the University of Michigan Professional Nurse Council’s ongoing contract bargaining with the hospital system — spoke in the interview of her dislike for unions and her experience of locking the nurses’ union out of the hospital when...…

September 17, 2018 (vol. 127, iss. 136) • Page Image 2

…PAE LL A FESTIVAL 2A — Monday, September 17, 2018 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com News CAMERON HUNT/Daily Chefs prepare different types of paella as part of Zingerman’s 33rd Annual Paella Party at Zingerman’s Delicatessen Sunday. CASEY TIN/Daily 420 Maynard St. Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1327 www.michigandaily.com ARTS SECTION arts@michigandaily.com SPORTS SECTION sports@michigandaily.com ADVERTISING dailydisplay@gmail.com NEWS TIPS ne...…

September 17, 2018 (vol. 127, iss. 136) • Page Image 3

…Somewhere in China, a little girl talks to her father on the phone. He is in the United States. She tells him he is a bad person and that the Chinese police are good people. That’s the last he hears from her for six months. His wife soon divorces him, because being married to him puts a “target on her back.” He is left hopeless, posting on social media in hopes of finding his wife and daughter. Unfortunately, the reason for this...…

September 17, 2018 (vol. 127, iss. 136) • Page Image 4

…T he White House was rocked last week following The New York Times’s publication of a critical Op-Ed from an anonymous senior official in President Donald Trump’s administration, eliciting a far-reaching array of reactions from all sides of the political spectrum. The Op-Ed, which praised the president’s conservative legislative achievements while condemning the president’s “anti-democratic” impulses and “a...…

September 17, 2018 (vol. 127, iss. 136) • Page Image 5

…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Arts Monday, September 17, 2018 — 5A ACROSS 1 Potato chips source 5 __ bean 9 Rick’s “Casablanca” love 13 “Aww!” 14 Spring bloom 15 Les __-Unis 16 Neighbor of Yemen 17 Large-scale departure 19 Island setting for Melville’s “Omoo” 21 Court order to testify 22 Mindless memorization 24 Farm sound 25 Blue expanse, on a clear day 26 Cost of a car, in most family budgets 31 1860s White House nickna...…

September 17, 2018 (vol. 127, iss. 136) • Page Image 6

…MUSIC REVIEW When I stumbled on All Are Saved in early 2015, approaching my high school graduation, I was certain I didn’t think I would be writing this review almost four years later. My graduation from university is now more imminent than is comfortable. I remember vacationing in Folly Beach, S.C. during spring break, the same week that Carrie & Lowell was released to the world at large. I was just beginning to find music for...…

September 17, 2018 (vol. 127, iss. 136) • Page Image 8

…2B — September 17, 2018 SportsMonday The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Patterson needs backup S hea Patterson has played even better than the most optimistic Michigan fans could have expected. Saturday’s 45-20 win over SMU was the most recent example. And yes, it’s only a three-game sample, but the consistency and prolificity with which Patterson has played in those three games is something that hasn’t been seen in Ann...…

September 17, 2018 (vol. 127, iss. 136) • Page Image 9

…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com SportsMonday Monday, September 17, 2018 — 3B Two units and two perspectives A s Donovan Peoples-Jones surveys the media during postgame interviews, he compliments his quarterback for sparking his collegiate breakthrough performance. Peoples-Jones found the end zone three times in Michigan’s 45-20 victory over SMU, so a little praise was warranted. That very quarterback, junior Shea Patt...…

September 17, 2018 (vol. 127, iss. 136) • Page Image 10

…4B — Monday, September 17, 2018 Sports The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com The arrival of Donovan Peoples-Jones Fairly or not, much as has been expected of Donovan Peoples- Jones in his short time with the Michigan football team. The sophomore wide receiver came to Ann Arbor nearly two years ago as a five-star prospect and the highest-ranked member of the Wolverines’ 2017 recruiting class. Despite ample playing opportunity, howe...…

October 17, 2018 (vol. 128, iss. 711) • Page Image 1

…About 60 people convened Monday at Palmer Commons for a Senate Assembly forum to discuss University of Michigan Board of Regents candidate platforms for the upcoming Nov. 6 election. Incumbents and first-time candidates covered topics such as financial aid, academic freedom, the recent reprimanding of Prof. John Cheney-Lippold for his refusal of a recommendation letter and more throughout the event. The forum was designed t...…

October 17, 2018 (vol. 128, iss. 711) • Page Image 2

…allow students and faculty hear each candidate’s position on various issues and participate in an open Q&A discussion. The meeting began with each of the five candidates outlining their platforms. Incumbent Regents Andrea Fischer Newman (R) and Andrew Richner (R) spoke with challengers Jordan Acker (D), Paul Brown (D) and Kevin Graves (Green Party) to outline each of their respective platforms. There are two open ...…

October 17, 2018 (vol. 128, iss. 711) • Page Image 3

…offers the greatest possible safeguards to Michigan’s waters while maintaining critical connections to ensure Michigan residents have the energy resources they need,” Gov. Rick Snyder wrote in a press release. “The historic agreement will result in eliminating nearly every risk of an oil leak in the Straits and provide added protections to the Great Lakes. It also will allow for multiple utilities to be housed and prot...…

October 17, 2018 (vol. 128, iss. 711) • Page Image 4

…T hough Facebook is the most commonly cited bad guy when it comes to misuse of its users’ personal information, especially in the wake of the Cambridge Analytica scandal or the recent breach affecting 50 million accounts, this week Google joined its ranks following a massive data exposure incident of its own. The main issue with this recent data incident is not its size or the fact that it even happened at all. The ethical problem...…

October 17, 2018 (vol. 128, iss. 711) • Page Image 5

…I read “Anna Karenina” on the school bus when I was 13. I took it a chapter a ride, shining a flashlight I kept in my backpack over the pages in the winter when the mornings were dark. It was my favorite part of the day — a stolen quiet moment, with just me and Anna and Kitty and Vronsky. I knew pretty much immediately that this would become the best book I would ever read, and even though 13-year-old me was wrong about a lot of ...…

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