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…The co-founder and former CEO of Clinc, an Ann Arbor artificial intelligence startup with ties to the University of Michigan’s College of Engineering, is facing claims of sexual harassment. Jason Mars’s behavior was investigated after Clinc received two official complaints from employees in December. He stepped down as CEO Feb. 10 in response to the investigation. An article published in The Verge Thursday morning detailed rep...…

…2 — Tuesday, February 18, 2020 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com News 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 ...…

…“Even though just inherently in this mock trial room, learning that cases weren’t finite and outcomes were creative and many different things could happen inside them — after this long observation, I knew as an artist I must turn to some kind of action,” McClellan said. McClellan also explored the role of storytelling in a courtroom and how it contributes to the infinite uncertainty of truth. She said she sees ...…

…T he Saline School District was recently dealt a blow when racist incidents within the community made local and national headlines. The first was the discovery of a student Snapchat group that contained racial slurs and epithets like “White Power” and “The South Will Rise Again.” Students of color within that group chat reportedly felt marginalized, “unsafe” and “frustrated.” The second occurred at the community response to ...…

…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Arts Tuesday, February 18, 2020 — 5 One of the many pleasures of Andrea Lawlor’s 2017 novel “Paul Takes The Form Of A Mortal Girl” is the realization I came to that this novel is more or less unreadable by a straight person. It’s saturated with vivid, unsparing depictions of not only gay sex but also the ecosystem that surrounds it — glances and recognitions and guesswork, a whole network o...…

…6 — Tuesday, February 18, 2020 Arts The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com WHISPER SUBMIT A WHISPER By Craig Stowe ©2020 Tribune Content Agency, LLC 02/18/20 Los Angeles Times Daily Crossword Puzzle Edited by Rich Norris and Joyce Nichols Lewis 02/18/20 ANSWER TO PREVIOUS PUZZLE: Release Date: Tuesday, February 18, 2020 ACROSS 1 Govt.-backed investment 6 Travelocity recommendations 10 Comprehends 14 Commandment verb involving par...…

…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Sports Tuesday, February 18, 2020 — 7 Breaking down the Wolverines’ recent revival Two days before the Michigan men’s basketball team’s thrashing of Indiana, Eli Brooks leaned against the blue curtains of the Crisler Center media room, his blue mesh practice pinnie almost blending in. The junior guard fielded questions, most of which had nothing to do with the Hoosiers. Instead, he was ask...…

…8 — Tuesday, February 18, 2020 Sports The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com BEHIND TWO POWER PLAY GOALS, MICHIGAN CRUSHES SPARTANS, 4-1, MOVING TO THIRD IN BIG TEN BEHIND 8-1-1 RECORD IN 2020 KEEMYA ESMAEL / Daily POWERING FORWARD Design by Jack Silberman Wolverines win Duel in the D, 4-1 DETROIT — Nick Blankenburg extended his two hands out and wagged them up and down like paws. At first glance, it seemed like an innocent gestur...…

…Since the first cases of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) were confirmed in Michigan last week, doctors and hospital officials at Michigan Medicine have begun preparing for a steep increase in cases as the virus spreads. There are 65 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Michigan as of Tuesday, including seven in Washtenaw County. Shortly after the first two cases of the virus in the state were announced on March 10, M...…

…According to the email, sent by the University Housing Team, concerns about the spread of the novel coronavirus made it crucial for students to leave campus. “New developments in the COVID-19 pandemic make it clear that now is the time to return home,” the email reads. “ ... While University Housing will ensure that we have sufficient housing available for students who truly have no other alternatives,...…

…Rosie Van Alsburg, an Engineering senior studying computer science and physics, is from Ann Arbor, Mich. “I’m a transfer student so I started at WCC (Washtenaw Community College) first and then came here. I’ve been in college for five years. Everything still feels fake, you know. I’m in a state of disbelief, like, ‘Oh, it’s a joke. They’re going to put classes back in person and this is just a weird dream.’ But my fr...…

…T he drawbacks of social distancing can include loneliness, reduced productivity and loss of health benefits associated with human interaction. Happy hours, fitness classes, traveling and football games activate the body’s senses and make for a pleasant experience — so much so that people crave and seek out more of these interactions. So when left to our own resources, many are wondering, “How can we handle social d...…

…Wednesday, March 18, 2020 — 5A Arts The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Regularly, I find myself yearning to be out in the woods. Whether it’s the stereotypical “call of the wild” or a deeply poetic passion for the natural, being among the trees has always been a rather important form of respite for me. It’s a place where sitting on a mossy stump doing nothing in particular is a productive action. Over the years, this urg...…

…Wednesday, March 18, 2020 — 6A Arts The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com There’s something to be said about the popularity of sports movies, a genre that has made its name with heartwarming tales of misfits working together towards miraculous wins. Most sports films leave the audience with a sense of satisfaction. You know the story: The wise mentor coaxes talent out of an underdog team of misfits and ultimately leads them to ...…

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…Wednesday, March 18, 2020 // The Statement 2B Managing Statement Editor Magdalena Mihaylova Deputy Editors Emily Stillman Marisa Wright Associate Editor Reece Meyhoefer Designers Liz Bigham Kate Glad Copy Editors Madison Gagne Sadia Jiban Photo Editor Keemya Esmael Editor in Chief Elizabeth Lawrence Managing Editor Erin White M y feet were up on the dashboard of the passenger seat in my roommate Kevin’s 2015 S...…

…3B Wednesday, February 26, 2020 // The Statement3B A s I sat on a boulder in the middle of the Saluda River in North Carolina, I raised a can of Twisted Tea to my lips. I had never tried one before, and the taste was sweet and lemony — easily mistakable for a non-alcoholic beverage. “That’s dangerous,” I said to my friends, noting its satisfying intake that could have easily led me to drink five more. The relaxing sensation of th...…

…I n October 2019, I deleted my Instagram for a month. There was no dark downfall into obsession or an utter collapse of self-worth that prompted this decision, but I had been experiencing a plateau in my mental well-being at the time and had recognized social media wasn’t helping the problem. I loved Instagram from the moment I first downloaded it. I used to rely on it like a crutch, sharing content almost every day — posting pi...…

…Wednesday, March 18, 2020 // The Statement 6B I was in fifth-grade music class when I discovered my first pimple. It didn’t hurt, there was just a small raised bump on my cheek. I turned to one of my friends and asked if there was something on my face. She examined it. “Looks like a zit,” she said. “Want me to pop it?” I recoiled. “Can’t I just wipe it off?” I rubbed my palm on my cheek. She laughed. “It’s stuck to your face. ...…

…Wednesday, January 16, 2019 // The Statement 7B Wednesday, March 18, 2020 // The Statement 7B ILLUSTRATION BY CHRISTINE JEGARL W hen I was a child, my family used to go on nighttime walks during the summer. I remember strolling along the tree-lined sidewalks of New York City, purposefully going down the least well-lit path- ways so I could spot fireflies. I would gently reach my small hands toward any pulsating green light and sof...…

…Wednesday, March 18, 2020 // The Statement IRELAND: THE LUCKY CHARM OF EUROPE VISUAL STATEMENT PHOTOS BY SOPHIA AFENDOULIS …

…Chinese students in the U.S. have faced a unique set of challenges amid the pandemic, several of which exceed those of their domestic peers: from dealing with hate speech that wrongfully places blame on Chinese immigrants for the pandemic, to the threat of deportation in light of disruptions to their in-person research and academic pursuits. For Chinese graduate students in STEM fields, they face additional concerns from t...…

…Metro-Detroiters march against police brutality Last weekend, The Michigan Daily reporters went to 11 differ- ent protests, driving 269 miles and speaking to almost 100 people in 10 cities about why they came out. Some said it was their first time protesting. Many more said they were used to protests in big cities, but they never expected protests of this magnitude — or even pro- tests in general — in their subur- ban hometowns. Wh...…

…After temporarily closing all locations for almost two months in light of the COVID-19 pandemic, Espresso Royale Coffee has announced all business will permanently cease, including branch operations, catering and online sales. “Some would say that a company that goes out of business has failed; we don’t think so,” their website said. “Since 1987, Espresso Royale has served excellent coffee to millions of customers...…

…now are nothing new. From many past demonstrations — including the 2014 Ferguson protests in Missouri that ush- ered in the Black Lives Matter move- ment to the 1992 Los Angeles riots to the 1965 Watts riots — we are reminded that the stringent acts of racial profil- ing, oppression and violence enacted by police officers on the Black community is a centuries-old problem. As discussed in a recent editorial, modern policing agencies in ...…

…“ When do you think the protests will stop?” My mother asked me this when we were both sitting in the kitchen a few days ago. “Didn’t they arrest the cop who killed that guy? I don’t understand why there are all these violent protests still. And how does it benefit any- one to vandalize a building?” My mother is the daughter of two Cuban immigrants. My father is the proud son of two Cubans who also came to the United States decad...…

…6 Thursday, June 18 , 2020 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com ARTS Confronting a legacy of racism in country Black squares. Thoughts and prayers. “Love,” heart emojis and hashtags. That about sums up the country music communi- ty’s response to the recent uprisings for racial justice that were sparked by the murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery and so many others. Instead of using their platforms to advocate for...…

…Fourteen-year-old Jalaiah Harmon cho- reographed the famous “Renegade” dance in September 2019. She posted it on the social video app Funimate and by October the bouncy set of moves had been recreated on TikTok. It was quickly popularized by influencer Charli D’Amelio and by early 2020 the dance had reached unprecedent- ed stardom. The choreography floated into seemingly every corner of the internet and many offline dance parties. But...…

…8 Thursday, June 18, 2020 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com MICHIGAN IN COLOR Resentment: the politiciation of emotion to liberate the colonied GABRIJELA SKOKO MiC Managing Edtior The revolutionary nature of Glen Sean Coulthard’s book, “Red Skin, White Masks: Rejecting the Colonial Politics of Recogni- tion,” serves as a salute to radical scholar Frantz Fanon’s postcolonial work through its exposure of Canada’s systematic mar-...…

…9 Thursday, June 18, 2020 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com MICHIGAN IN COLOR A brief history of Black Muslims in America NOOR MOUGHNI MiC Staff Writer The American stigma around Islam often recognizes Muslim Americans as a recent addition to the nation, failing to recognize Black Muslims arrived with the first slave ship to reach Virginia’s coast in 1619. The first large influx of Muslim Americans were Black Muslims ca...…

…10 Thursday, June 18, 2020 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com SPORTS Eastern transfer halted by admissions For the Michigan men’s basketball team, Wednesday delivered yet another hiccup in an already bumpy offseason. Just a month after his surprise commitment to the Wolverines, Purdue transfer guard Nojel Eastern announced that he will no longer be heading to Ann Arbor. “I was not admitted to the University because o...…

…11 Thursday, June 18, 2020 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com SPORTS Jackson fronts dynamic special teams When considering Giles Jackson’s game-breaking speed, a few plays come to mind. Sure, there’s the reverse handoff he took 22 yards for a touchdown against Ohio State. Or the 40-yard reception off a wheel route against Alabama in the Citrus Bowl. But when examining Jackson’s full body of work as a freshman last fall, one ...…

…12 Thursday, June 18, 2020 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com SPORTS Rockies draft Blomgren In the fourth round of the 2020 MLB Draft Thursday, the Colorado Rockies selected junior shortstop Jack Blomgren with the 140th overall pick. The Rockies acquired a two- way shortstop with a knack for getting on-base and dynamic infielding capabilities. Blomgren started almost as soon as his freshman campaign began and though he strug...…

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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 ...…