…michigandaily.com Ann Arbor, Michigan Monday, December 2, 2019 ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY-NINE YEARS OF EDITORIAL FREEDOM No answers Ohio State crushes Michigan, 56-27, handing Jim Harbaugh his fifth-straight loss in the rivalry. » Page 1B Hundreds of people lined the blocks outside local marijuana dispensaries early Sunday morning as Ann Arbor businesses Exclusive Brands, Arbors Wellness and Greenstone Provisions opened sales o...…
…2A — Monday, December 2, 2019 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com News TUESDAY: By Design THURSDAY: Twitter Talk FRIDAY: Behind the Story WEDNESDAY: This Week in History MONDAY: Looking at the Numbers Sudoku Syndication http://sudokusyndication.com/sudoku/generator/print/ 1 of 1 6/17/09 10:57 AM 3 7 2 8 1 5 4 1 6 8 7 7 2 7 6 1 9 5 7 2 6 3 3 9 7 6 1 4 1 6 5 BAD TIMING puzzle by sudokusyndication.com DESIGN BY TAYLOR ...…
…Best, Devak Nanua The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Michigan in Color Monday, December 2, 2019 — 3A Behind the leaderless revolution Dear Hasan, Arabic food... but make it vegan White-washed ELIZABETH HO MiC Columnist I don’t like the term “white- washed” as it is applied to people of color. Sure, we can say that Hollywood is white-washed — PoC stories and characters are fr...…
…Opinion The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com 4A — Monday, December 2, 2019 Alanna Berger Zack Blumberg Emily Considine Grace Hermann Joel Danilewitz Emily Huhman Krystal Hur Ethan Kessler Magdalena Mihaylova Michael Russo Miles Stephenson Finn Storer Joel Weiner Erin White Lola Yang FINNTAN STORER Managing Editor Stanford Lipsey Student Publications Building 420 Maynard St. Ann Arbor, MI 48109 tothedaily@michigandaily.com Edited and...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Arts Monday, December 2, 2019 — 5A Big industry is broken. We all know that, and anyone that doesn’t is either a brainwashed minion for “the man” or not on social media, because exposing big industry is all anyone ever does these days. Although this trend is justified, it has begun to grow repetitive in the echo chamber that is social media. The four-episode Netflix series “Broken” takes on the exac...…
…By Adam Vincent ©2019 Tribune Content Agency, LLC 12/02/19 Los Angeles Times Daily Crossword Puzzle Edited by Rich Norris and Joyce Nichols Lewis 12/02/19 ANSWER TO PREVIOUS PUZZLE: Release Date: Monday, December 2, 2019 ACROSS 1 Peruvian home 5 German philosopher who wrote “The Phenomenology of Spirit” 10 Microsoft Surface competitor 14 Chopped down 15 Amazon assistant 16 Italia’s capital 17 Imperfection 18 *Lucrative business 20 ...…
…Alec Cohen & Alexis Rankin / Daily Design by Jack Silberman FOR JIM HARBAUGH, THE QUESTIONS ARE THE INSULTS Monday, December 2, 2019 | michigandaily.com As the seconds continued to churn off the second-half clock Saturday, a sea of red began to funnel down the rows of Michigan Stadium. Chants of O-H-I-O from the traveling fan base rained down, and the locals filed for the exits. The scoreboard was lopsided, and it would only gr...…
…2B — Monday, December 2, 2019 SportsMonday The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com W hen it all ended, when the blowout was codified and the Michigan football team was taking a never-ending walk up the tunnel, Ohio State ran to the nearest end zone. They linked arms and swayed, the band giving the music, a sea of fans clad in red — the only ones still left in Michigan Stadium — supplying the vocals to “Carmen Ohio.” It all...…
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…4B — December 2, 2019 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com SportsMonday SUPPORT WHAT YOU ABOUT U-M. JOIN OVER 160 STUDENT ORGANIZATIONS AND TEAMS ON GIVING BLUEDAY, AND SUPPORT WHAT YOU LOVE ABOUT U-M! #givingblueday | givingblueday.org SPREAD THE WORD by telling your friends and sharing the news on social media. INCREASE YOUR IMPACT through matching funds* and other giving opportunities during Giving Blueday. THANK SUPPORTERS via...…
…The Washtenaw Health Initiative Opioid Project hosted the Washtenaw County Opioid Summit on Tuesday, where various state and local stakeholders came together for the discussion focused on the county’s high, but declining, rate of opioid overdoses and the link between trauma and addiction. Participants learned about opioid use in the county, heard testimonials and attended breakout sessions relating to primary preve...…
…With National Coming Out Day just over a week away, the Ross School of Business’s LGBTQ organization, Out for Business, hosted OUTx on Tuesday evening as part of Ross Coming Out Week. OFB sponsors Ross Coming Out Week annually, featuring events highlighting and supporting the LGBTQ community within the Business School. Michigan Business Women and the MBA Council cosponsored the TEDx-style event. Business graduat...…
…After a discussion about potential water erosion from the creek nearby, traffic analysis, concerns about mushy land and fire safety hazards, the commission amended two aspects of the motion by changing the bike parking location and adding traffic calming mechanisms, and then approved the motion to council. The commission then moved on to discuss two new companion projects: a multi-family residential six-story building ne...…
…Opinion The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com 4A — Wednesday, October 2, 2019 Zack Blumberg Emily Considine Emma Chang Joel Danilewitz Emily Huhman Krystal Hur Ethan Kessler Magdalena Mihaylova Max Mittleman Timothy Spurlin Miles Stephenson Finn Storer Nicholas Tomaino Joel Weiner Erin White FINNTAN STORER Managing Editor Stanford Lipsey Student Publications Building 420 Maynard St. Ann Arbor, MI 48109 tothedaily@michigandaily.com Ed...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Arts Wednesday, October 2, 2019 — 5A The sprawling gray highways will attempt to convince you that the most direct route is the best one. These concrete trails are hypnotic, tiring, blending into each other. You think you’re making progress, getting closer. But somehow you’re still so far away. You keep driving. This is how they get you. Please don’t fall for it. Roads seem like they’ll lead you a...…
…6A — Wednesday, October 2, 2019 Arts The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com My 2019 New Year’s resolution was to only purchase books written by women. Given the beyond-scary statistics of male authors being published around eight and a half times more frequently than their female counterparts, I recognized the only way to beat the statistic is to support female authors and share their books. Ironically, I’d read Peg Alford Pursell’s d...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Sports Wednesday, October 2, 2019 — 7A Wolverines value chance to compete, with exhibition against Windsor approaching With more than 30 regular season games slated from fall to early spring, the college hockey season can be long and strenuous. Opportunities to pause and fine-tune during games are few and far between. For the Michigan hockey team, there are two chances for such contemplatio...…
…8A — Wednesday, October 2, 2019 Sports The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Film breakdown: How Michigan’s first drive set tone for Gattis to follow Of all the contrasts to draw between Michigan’s first three games and its win over Rutgers on Saturday, the most striking was also the first. For the first three games of the season, the Wolverines put the ball on the ground on their first drive. And all three times, it foreshadowed a ...…
…statement THE MICHIGAN DAILY | OCTOBER 2, 2019 PHOTO BY DANYEL THARAKAN Sleeping in the cell …
…F resh off the plane back from my study abroad experience in Paris, and standing in front of the mirror in my mother’s bathroom, I took a pair of kitchen scissors and haphazardly cut a fringe, framing the front of my forehead. The bangs were uneven, a little too thick on the right side of my forehead, and very clearly an amateur job — but they immediately made me feel transformed, like a new woman. When my mom saw my handiwork later th...…
…I remember the exact moment in sixth grade when I realized an essay didn’t need to be five paragraphs: Intro, body, body, body and conclusion. It didn’t need to have topic sentences and transitions. I was always taught an essay should be concise and clean. It must be easy on the eye and straightforward — beautiful, even. Those were the rules, but I remember when I realized I was allowed to break them. I think this was one of the mome...…
…Wednesday, October 2, 2019 // The Statement 4B 5B Wednesday, October 2, 2019 // The Statement S eymour’s last meal had been overcooked, which, at least to him, ruined what should’ve been a perfectly civilized execution. There was no reason for it not to be civilized, after all. He had confessed right out to those “despicable acts of human indecency” of which he was accused. No sense in lying about it, anyway. He was unsure whether it ...…
…BY ALEXIS RANKIN VISUAL STATEMENT BIOLOGICAL STATION I SPENT MY SUMMER AT THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN BIOLOGICAL STATION BOTH AS A STUDENT AND AN INTERN. MY TIME WAS DIVIDED BETWEEN MY GENERAL ECOLOGY CLASS AND MY JOB AS A MEDIA AND COMMUNICATIONS INTERN, WHERE MY MAIN ROLE WAS TAKING PHOTOS. IT WAS A COMBI- NATION OF TWO OF MY FAVORITE THINGS, NATURE AND PHO- TOGRAPHY. IT WAS AN OPPORTUNITY THAT ALLOWED ME TO BE CREATIVE, LE...…
…On Monday afternoon, students and professors from the University of Michigan Data Science for Music Challenge Initiative conducted live research in Hill Auditorium during a musical performance and informational presentation before nearly 200 community members. James Kibbie, chair of the School of Music, Theatre & Dance Organ Department, and Daniel Forger, professor of mathematics, received a grant from the Michigan Institu...…
…SOUTHE RN AFRICAN ACTIVISTS EMMA STEIN Daily Staff Reporter Design by KATHRYN HALVERSON SACUA discusses institutional culture, new policy regarding faculty-student relationships Stanford Lipsey Student Publications Building 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 news@michigandaily.com LETTER...…
…He said this indicates there are presumably rules as to which progressions are aesthetically pleasing to listeners and which our intuition tells us should be avoided in composition. “There is some sort of an interesting structure to this,” Forger said. “Right now, we’re trying to figure out what is that structure.” Forger explained the primary goal of their project is to determine the psychological or neurological basis for patte...…
…Opinion The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com 4 — Tuesday, April 2, 2019 FINNTAN STORER 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. MAYA GOLDMAN Editor in Chief MAGDALENA MIHAYLOVA AND JOEL DANILEWITZ Editorial Page Editors Unsigned editorials reflect the official position of The D...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Arts Tuesday, April 2, 2019 — 5 Given my relatively vanilla cinematic taste to begin with, both the short film “Landscape of Absence” and feature film “<3” pushed my personal definition of art and proved a bit challenging to digest. Though I can’t say that either film left me wanting more, both exposed me to an unfamiliar genre and made for an interesting (to say the least) hour and a half....…
…Classifieds Call: #734-418-4115 Email: dailydisplay@gmail.com EFFICIENCY ‑ 1 & 2 Bdrm Apts Fall 2019/20 Rents range $875 ‑ $1850 most include heat and water. Showings scheduled M‑F 10‑3 734‑996‑1991 By Craig Stowe ©2019 Tribune Content Agency, LLC 04/02/19 Los Angeles Times Daily Crossword Puzzle Edited by Rich Norris and Joyce Nichols Lewis 04/02/19 ANSWER TO PREVIOUS PUZZLE: Release Date: Tuesday, April 2, 2019 ACROSS 1 “I’m clev...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Sports Tuesday, April 2, 2019 — 7 Through adversity, Michigan fights back Before the last day of the meet began, the Michigan men’s swimming team gathered together as it always has. Team meetings weren’t uncommon, but after three days of adversity and underwhelming results, there was more weight to this one. Instead of sulking in the negativity that came easily following a 17th-place r...…
…8 — Tuesday, April 2, 2019 Sports The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com From backup to cleanup hitter, Sobczak finds her stride at first When the Michigan softball team opened its season in Tampa, Fla., Alex Sobczak’s name wasn’t on the starting lineup card. Instead, the senior utility player lost a competition for the Wolverines’ everyday first baseman role to sophomore infielder Taylor Bump back in February. Sobczak saw lim...…
…An allegation of rape crumbled the facade surrounding University of Michigan professor David Daniels this summer, dubbed by many as one of the best countertenors in the world. The assault, however, is not Daniels’ only instance of predatory sexual behavior. Through police reports filed with Pittsfield Township, The Michigan Daily found the Office of Institutional Equity knew about an instance of Daniels’s questionable behavior...…
…thoroughly investigate sexual misconduct. *** David Daniels joined the Music, Theatre & Dance School faculty in 2015. One of the University’s most famous alumni, he enjoyed a quick rise to fame after graduating with a master’s degree from the vocal program in 1992, making his Metropolitan Opera Debut only five years after graduation. Daniels was well known in the opera sphere as the “world’s leading countertenor.” He’s so ...…
…3A — Friday, November 2, 2018 Arts The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com By Ed Sessa ©2018 Tribune Content Agency, LLC 11/02/18 Los Angeles Times Daily Crossword Puzzle Edited by Rich Norris and Joyce Nichols Lewis 11/02/18 ANSWER TO PREVIOUS PUZZLE: Release Date: Friday, November 2, 2018 ACROSS 1 Service calls 6 Emotionally bother 11 Sonic the Hedgehog maker 15 Miller’s salesman 16 Audibly awed 17 Dirt handful 18 Commonly bristly c...…
…N ext Tuesday, Michigan will vote on a proposal to legalize recreational marijuana. Between increased tax revenue, the birth of a new industry in the private sector and falling arrest rates, legalization of marijuana in Michigan would be extremely lucrative to the statewide economy. Michigan is currently one of 30 states that allows marijuana use for medical purposes, but a “yes” vote on Proposal 1 this November wo...…
…T he University of Michigan Board of Regents, a group of eight state-elected members who have general supervision of the University and its endowment, has two seats up for election this Tuesday. Incumbent candidates Regent Andrea Fischer Newman (R) and Regent Andrew Richner (R) face stiff competition from Democratic candidates Jordan Acker (D) and Paul Brown (D). In the past, The Michigan Daily Editorial Board and students ...…
…Jonah Hill’s career has been nothing if not dynamic. In 2007, he broke onto the scene with “Superbad,” a high-school screwball comedy that’s still mentioned as the gold-standard for the genre post-2000. Hill’s performance as the boisterous, awkward and overweight Seth would prove both a blessing and a curse, launching him to stardom but pigeonholing him as “The Fat Guy” in Hollywood. “I became famous in my late teens and then s...…
…EVAN AARON / DAILY DESIGN BY JACK SILBERMAN PENN STATE NOVEMBER 2, 2018 …
…Behind Enemy Lines: PSU writer Tyler King Before the season began, it seemed the Michigan football team’s entire 2018 would be defined by its three-game stretch against Wisconsin, Michigan State and Penn State, from middle October to early November. Two games through that stretch, the fifth-ranked Wolverines (7-1 overall, 5-0 Big Ten) have nearly made it out the other side unscathed. All that is left in Michigan’s season-...…
…3B TheMichiganDaily, www.michigandaily.com after the Michigan State game, you could kind of feel the vibe with the players, especially with a guy like Trace McSorley, who didn’t play his best game that day. The offense as a whole struggled, only scoring 17 points. He seemed kind of — he seemed very defeated after that game. But now I think they’ve kind of rebounded and yeah, this game right here is going to decide their season — wh...…
…come in and make an impact.” This was a guy who would find his way on the field or die trying. There was a time when Mason thought that would come on special teams exclusively, so he honed his craft at long-snapper. He still wants to play long-snapper. “I’m still thinking of doing that in the next couple years,” says the sophomore fullback with six touchdowns on the season. He means it, too. *** After he accepted the he...…
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…7B TheMichiganDaily, www.michigandaily.com What to watch for when No. 5 Michigan faces No. 14 Penn State There is no sugarcoating what is at stake for the Michigan football team in Saturday’s matchup against No. 14 Penn State. Win, and the team’s floor — barring shocking upsets against Indiana and Rutgers — is a New Year’s Six bowl game. Lose, and that scenario becomes a lot more difficult. Coupled with the desire to avenge last...…
…After much improvement, another test awaits Jon Runyan Jon Runyan Jr. was hesitant to watch his team’s season-opening loss at Notre Dame. The redshirt junior left tackle knew it would make him sick to his stomach. But last Friday, for the first time, he chose to anyway. What Runyan saw was not always pretty. There were plays he, self- admittedly, got caught in the heat of the moment. There were others where his technique evaded him. “...…
…Jay Crisostomo, assistant professor of assyriology, studies the languages and history of Mesopotamia with a focus on the information old texts reveal about communication and social structure in the ancient Middle East. Though several University of Michigan grants and one external organization sufficiently fund his research, Crisostomo said GOT A NEWS TIP? Call 734-418-4115 or e-mail news@michigandaily.com and let us know. ...…
…About 20 students, faculty and local activists convened on the University of Michigan Diag Monday afternoon for an anti-gun violence rally jointly hosted by Shattering the Silence, an organization dedicated to increased gun control measures, and the advocacy nonprofit NextGen America. The rally served to commemorate the 58 lives lost in Las Vegas a year ago — the deadliest mass shooting in American history — and urge people t...…
…the conduct of Ann Arbor police officers and investigate complaints from city residents, but concerns arose about the legality of certain provisions in relation to the city charter and the police department’s collective bargaining agreement. Kailasapathy, who co-sponsored the task force’s ordinance, said the process surrounding the formation of citizen task force’s proposal was the most democratic she had seen in her ...…
…“F irst impressions last a lifetime.” “Go confidently in the direction of your dreams.” These are the words of wisdom that led me toward my greatest adventure in medical school — an international rotation in Ghana. Pursuing my dream in another country created memories that will last a lifetime and inform who I am as a physician. First Day in the Labor Ward As I entered the labor ward at Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital, I discovered...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Arts Tuesday, October 2, 2018 — 5 Seated in an upholstered booth surrounded by a sparkling jewel toned interior and lit with a warm, bright glow, Sava’s Ann Arbor has everything a millennial foodie needs for the perfect Instagram picture — the trendy, boho ambiance pairs perfectly with their token Sweety Fries, of course. When Sava’s first opened its doors to the Ann Arbor community, they...…
…By Roland Huget ©2018 Tribune Content Agency, LLC 10/02/18 Los Angeles Times Daily Crossword Puzzle Edited by Rich Norris and Joyce Nichols Lewis 10/02/18 ANSWER TO PREVIOUS PUZZLE: Release Date: Tuesday, October 2, 2018 ACROSS 1 Gulf States prince 5 Macy’s competitor 10 Eucharist celebration 14 See 62-Across 15 Boise’s state 16 Israeli airline 17 Tool for cutting stone and concrete 19 River of Cairo 20 Playing surface surrounded b...…
