…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com SportsMonday November 18, 2019 — 3B Despite an inconsistent offensive performance in the first half, the Michigan men’s basketball team handily defeated Elon, 70-50, at home on Friday night behind strong defensive performances from senior center Jon Teske and senior guard Zavier Simpson. Marred by fouls and apparent rhythm issues on offense, Michigan got off to a slow start, not scoring i...…
…AN EVENING WITH SAFA AL AHMAD NOVEMBER 19, 2019 | 7:30 P.M. | RACKHAM AUDITORIUM FREE | NO REGISTRATION | WALLENBERG.UMICH.EDU 4B — November 18, 2019 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com SportsMonday W alking through the Michigan Stadium concourse at about 3:50 on Satur- day, you could hear it before you saw it. “It’s great to be a Michi- gan Wolver- ine,” they chanted, and the chants came from no one direction, just every- w...…
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…This was more difficult for students who had already left due to the two-week stay at home order issued in late October. LSA freshman Dora Usdan, who moved back home earlier in November, plans to live in an off- campus apartment next semester with her roommate. “But we just had to sign the lease on an apartment that we’d never seen before because we’re not in Ann Arbor,” Usdan said. “It was really stressful because even as I w...…
…Graduate student Jeffrey Grim’s last moments with his grandparents consisted of Zoom calls and waiting outside their room in the hospital. Despite following public health guidelines, both of Grim’s grandparents, Jacob and Doris Bender, contracted COVID-19 this summer. “The hardest part was not being able to do anything,” Grim said. Doris and Jacob, who worked in the Army, married in 1958 after meeting in Hawaii . Th...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com News Wednesday, November 18, 2020 — 5 Three U-M professors to aid Biden-Harris transition Three University of Michigan professors and Obama administration alums will help President-elect Joe Biden transition to power in Washington, D.C. The group selected to evaluate various federal agencies and get them in line with the goals of the Biden administration is a who’s- who of acade...…
…Noor Al-Fikhri was buried in a shallow grave under a fig tree ten minutes before noon, after her left ankle gave out in an attempt to hang her blue silk dress to dry while climbing the rusty, half-removed ladder that led to the roof. My 12 year old grandmother found her sister half-splayed, cats and flies lap- ping at what little remained of the dried blood, her knees dis- jointed and contorted in the special sort of way that could...…
…Wednesday, November 18, 2020 — 7 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Michigan in Color My friend Grace and I arrange ourselves around her kitchen table after deciding to play a board game to pass time during another murky day in quarantine. I sit idly by as she distributes colorful paper money while her broth- ers argue over who gets to play as the top hat. Before I know it, the board is set up, cards neatly stacked and all....…
…Opinion It’s no secret that both the administration and the students made mistakes this semester. We’ve recorded thousands of cases of COVID-19, which resulted in a countywide shutdown of undergraduate activity. Now is the time to prove we can do better. The University needs to expand housing to accommodate students with special cases and make their criteria to stay on campus more widely known and accessible for those not able t...…
…T he Equal Rights Amendment was first introduced to Congress in 1923 by suffragists Alice Paul and Crystal Eastman. In 1972, it passed in Congress, but the necessary number of states failed to ratify it by the 1982 deadline. Since then, it has incited a great deal of debate on both sides of the aisle. In the revolutionary and arguably electric atmosphere we’re living in, the Equal Rights Amendment should finally be ratif...…
…A fter the tide turned against his conquest of continental Europe, Napoleon was decisively defeated by a coalition of European powers in the spring of 1814. The French emperor was then exiled by the victors to the small island of Elba, off the western coast of Italy. As the coalition powers met to determine the postwar balance of power in Europe, Napoleon, conscious of his popularity in France, slipped out of exile, retur...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Arts Wednesday, November 18, 2020 — 11 BOOK REVIEW ‘The Mirror and the Light’ fits the political climate Lana Del Rey and the mesh mask Her head makes a dull thud as it hits the platform, rolling a couple feet away as her body teeters and lurches forward, swimming “in a pool of crimson, the blood seeping between the planks.” Queen Anne Boleyn, the second of King Henry VIII’s six wives, ha...…
…Arts michigandaily.com — The Michigan Daily 12 — Wednesday, November 18, 2020 Contrary to popular belief, the multi-cam sitcom isn’t dead. Several cameras centered around one set to simultaneously record a scene. It’s an easy, painless setup that was popularized in 1951, when “I Love Lucy” won the hearts of the American public and left a permanent imprint on our digital culture. Since then, the multi-camera setup has given birt...…
…Arts Wednesday, November 18, 2020 — 13 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com “extremely online” to my friends, they usually agree — they too love memes and spend hours on Twitter. gets messy. It usually turns into some form of me reciting my own version of Bane’s quote from “The Dark Knight Rises”: “You merely adopted the internet; I was born in it, molded by it.” To say that this past week was stressful is an understatement. I...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com 14 — Wednesday, November 18, 2020 statement Last Saturday I stood in Chicago, across the river from Trump International Hotel & Tower, surrounded by a crowd of strang- ers. I’d found out the election results half an hour earlier, by way of a CNN push notifica- tion, on the 23rd floor of my dad’s apartment building. Within minutes, the honking and cheering pouring through the 12-inch glass window ...…
…Editor’s Note: The follow- ing article is an excerpt from a book the author is current- ly writing titled “The Search for Marcel.” O n January 15, 2020 — a day that history will remember for the grim pro- cession delivering two arti- cles of impeachment to the Senate of the United States — I first read an article written in 1937 by my great- grandfather, Otto Schirn, titled “Chancellor Schus- chnigg’s Work.” Four months earlier...…
…16 — Wednesday, N The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com statement I don’t consider myself a religious per- son, but I had the closest thing to a spiritual awakening when I first climbed up the olive steps leading to South Fourth Avenue’s most charming hideaway — a place with tingling espresso aromas, walls adorned with matcha- colored greenery and a heavenly soundtrack of scholarly chatter and prickly indie tunes: Literati Coffee. It ...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Sports Wednesday, November 18, 2020 — 17 Mira Shane aims to foster Michigan’s next generation in coaching role For four years, Mira Shane was the best goaltender in Michigan women’s lacrosse history. And now, just 18 months later, she’s making the return to Ann Arbor. Shane finished her career as Michigan’s all-time leader in career victories, saves and save percentage. Now, Shane is ...…
…18 — Wednesday, November 18, 2020 Sports The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com In lopsided loss, Michigan falls flat on its face Two weeks ago, the Michigan football team reached its lowest point at the Big House in Jim Harbaugh’s six-year tenure with a shocking loss to three-touchdown underdog Michigan State. It stooped even lower on Saturday night, this time to the tune of a 94-year record. For that, it has only its own lack ...…
…Thirty minutes before Michigan was set to Thirty minutes before Michigan was set to kick off against No. 13 Wisconsin on Saturday kick off against No. 13 Wisconsin on Saturday night, senior safety Brad Hawkins walked to night, senior safety Brad Hawkins walked to the back left corner of the end zone and knelt the back left corner of the end zone and knelt to offer up a prayer. If it had anything to do to offer up a prayer. If it had ...…
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