…michigandaily.com Ann Arbor, Michigan Wednesday, November 18, 2020 ONE HUNDRED AND THIRTY YEARS OF EDITORIAL FREEDOM GOT A NEWS TIP? Call 734-418-4115 or e-mail news@michigandaily.com and let us know. INDEX Vol. CXXX, No. 8 ©2020 The Michigan Daily N E WS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 M I C . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 O PI N I O N . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 A R T S . ...…
…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...…
…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...…
…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...…
…Content warning: This article contains mentions of sexual misconduct Peter Chen, professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Michigan, has returned to teach at the University after a Washtenaw County jury found him not guilty of criminal sexual conduct. University spokesperson Kim Broekhuizen wrote in an email to The Michigan Daily that Chen returned to teach Friday after having been on paid a...…
…michigandaily.com Ann Arbor, Michigan Wednesday, May 18, 2022 - Weekly Summer Edition ONE HUNDRED AND THIRTY ONE YEARS OF EDITORIAL FREEDOM GOT A NEWS TIP? Call 734-418-4115 or e-mail news@michigandaily.com and let us know. INDEX Vol. CXXX, No. 77 ©2022 The Michigan Daily N E W S . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 A R T S . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 STATEMENT. . . . . . . . . . . . 4 M I C . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...…
…The Michigan Daily (ISSN 0745-967) is publishing weekly on Wednesdays for the Fall 2020 semester 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. If you would like a current copy of the paper mailed to you, please visit store. pub.umich.edu/michigan-daily-buy-this-edition to place your order. ERIN WHITE Managing Editor ekwhite...…
…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 ...…
…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...…
…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,...…
…Since Santa Ono took office as the president of the University of Michigan 88 days ago, the football team beat Ohio State for a second time, the 2022 fall semester finished and Ann Arbor experienced a frigid winter blast. Ono’s presidency marked a hopeful change for many organizations on campus, but has Ono lived up to his expectations in his first semester as U-M president? Rackham student Amir Fleischmann, Gradua...…
…Stanford Lipsey Student Publications Building 420 Maynard St. Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1327 www.michigandaily.com VANESSA KIEFER Editor-in-Chief eic@michigandaily.com ANGIE YU Business Manager business@michigan- daily.com EDITORIAL STAFF Brandon Cowit Managing Editor cowitb@michigandaily.com Tess Crowley Digital Managing Editor crowlete@michigandaily.com CONTACT INFORMATION The Michigan Daily (ISSN 0745-967) is publishing weekly on...…
…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...…
…“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 ...…
…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...…
…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...…
…The year 2022 has come and passed. A snowy winter turned into a gentle spring, and the subsequent glowing summer settled back into a bone-chilling fall. The Earth has again wound itself around the molten Sun, and once again we have aged, mourned and loved through the world’s exhaustion. Alongside the ebb and flow of our annual heartbreaks, deadlines and other varieties of fresh experiences, books have followed. We’ve allowed ourse...…
…Wednesday, May 18, 2022 — 3 Arts The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com ‘Dr. Strange in the Multiverse of Madness’ just feels like one big step backwards When I walked into my hometown movie theater for a late Friday night screening of “Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness,” I was already in a pretty bad mood. My friend and I were running about 10 minutes late. Our lateness was exacerbated by the ridiculously long ...…
…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...…
…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 ...…
…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 ...…
…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...…
…Arts The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com 4 — Wednesday, January 18, 2023 The biggest trends of 2022 As we move into 2023, it’s important to reflect on our experiences and discoveries during 2022, to continue the things we like and scrap the things we don’t. The most important reflections, of course, are those about fashion. It’s clear that 2022 was a year of fashion successes or, more controversially, “fashion fails.” Our style ...…
…4 When the school year ends Every year, I tell myself that things will be different in May. In those golden weeks between the end of the school year and the start of summer internships, I’ll take care of all the things I’ve been filing away in the back of my mind. Out of an excess of time, an idealized, optimized version of myself will emerge. I spent all of April planning for May. I needed to put money in my 401K, start training...…
…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...…
…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...…
…“ 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...…
…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...…
…S T A T E M E N T In the last 24 hours, my six friends and I collectively sent 374 texts in a group chat coming up on its five-year anniversary. And this was a slow day. Calling Tinder matches “pen pals,” all-caps play-by-play reactions to the new “Matilda” movie, pictures of people we haven’t spoken to in years that seem to reappear all too often. Texts like “im wearing a headband” and “a grown man is sitting next to me on the ...…
…Wednesday, May 18, 2022 — 5 Michigan in Color The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Feliz Día de las Madres IRVING PEA MiC Columnist I love Mother’s Day. I love waking up Sunday morning to a plethora of Instagram posts from my friends dedicated to their moms and reading the beautiful tributes my mutuals write about their one and only. I love being left in awe when I come across pictures of my friends side by side with their moms and...…
…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...…
…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...…
…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...…
…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 ...…
…Wednesday, January 18, 2023— 6 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com S T A T E M E N T Going public with picky eating Content Warning: Mentions Disordered Eating It shocked my parents when their little girl, the kid who frowned at “Spongebob” boxed macaroni and cheese and lied about having a peanut allergy to avoid peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, tore apart a small filet of smoked fish, leaving behind only a plate of bones. ...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Opinion 6 — Wednesday, May 18, 2022 BRANDON COWIT Managing Editor Stanford Lipsey Student Publications Building 420 Maynard St. Ann Arbor, MI 48109 tothedaily@michigandaily.com Edited and managed by students at the University of Michigan since 1890. VANESSA KIEFER Editor in Chief T here is something comforting about the universality of soda. Any name-brand cola in the deep recesses of a gas sta...…
…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....…
…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...…
…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...…
…m e n t a l h e a l t h statement THE MICHIGAN DAILY | MARCH 18, 2020 …
…Michigan in Color The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com New Year, new me I awoke to the sound of meowing and an itch in my eye. As I regained consciousness, I began to remember where I’d fallen asleep. I took stock of my friend’s apartment bedroom. The slight weight of a hang- over bore down on my head as it started to ache, compounded by the fact I had definitely got- ten too little sleep. I groggily pulled my phone off the char- ...…
…Wednesday, May 18, 2022 — 7 Sports The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Draw control woes end Michigan’s season against Northwestern JOHN TONDORA Daily Sports Writer When mounting a comeback, streamlining the game plan becomes paramount. As time dwindles down, and desperation grows, teams must claw their way back with the basics and leave the fancy stuff behind. As basic as it can get, the first step of that comeback starts at the f...…
…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...…
…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...…
…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-...…
…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...…
…I realize how burnt out I feel from all of my activities and school work. I’m finding it hard to remember my schedule, what I did last week, what I ate yesterday, and I have to look at my calendar to remember everything. It is not a good feeling. I can’t truly enjoy my activities and daily life anymore without feeling dread. What is your advice? -L Dear L, I completely understand where you are coming from. Burnout is such a n...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Sports 8 — Wednesday, May 18, 2022 Michigan falls in extra innings to Nebraska, losing Big Ten Championship NOAH KINGSLEY Daily Sports Writer EAST LANSING — Exactly 50 days ago, the Michigan softball team got punched in the mouth. In the first Big Ten series of the season, Nebraska came into Ann Arbor and swept the Wolverines in a doubleheader, putting them in an early hole in Big Ten play. F...…
…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...…
…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...…
