…I ’ll be honest — signing a lease next to one of the largest fraternities on campus was a massive mistake, especially as someone unaffiliated with social Greek life. Over the past year, I’ve learned to fall asleep to the thumping of the bass on Theta Chi’s speakers on ran- dom Tuesday nights and adjusted to rou- tinely throwing their trash back into their backyard from mine, only to watch squir- rels and other wildlife rummage through ...…
…Elizabeth Lim’s second novel in the Blood of Stars series, “Unravel the Dusk,” reaches deep into your prefrontal cortex and implants a strong desire to embroider and to create. She makes sewing exciting, infusing time consum- ing, mundane tasks with danger, dignity and purpose. In the world of “Unravel the Dusk,” embroi- dery and tailoring is regarded and honored as capital-A Art. The highest title of Master Tailor is reserved only for...…
…Every time I see someone tread off a beaten trail, crushing plants in their wake, my heart crumples inside. “They’re just plants,” is the usual response I’m met with, words that cut inside me further. Plants may seem insignificant, partly due to their size and their position below our eye level. Humans are fascinated with animals larger than themselves — ele- phants or killer whales, for example — but aren’t thrilled by a small shrub....…
…8 Thursday, July 2, 2020 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com MICHIGAN IN COLOR The overglorified Disney+ Hamilfilm On July 3, Disney+ will be exclusively streaming Lin-Manuel Miranda’s hit musi- cal, “Hamilton,” also known as #Hamilfilm. Ever since 2015, “Hamilton” has been highly praised because it features solely BIPOC singers and actors on the Broadway stage telling the tale of the American Revolution. I myself am a huge fan of...…
…9 Thursday, July 2, 2020 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com MICHIGAN IN COLOR Home is me / Kill me dirty country GABRIJELA SKOKO MiC Managing Editor home is me. stubborn. scared of your own soul. so the Soul maintains itself. unsure if home should be insan- ity or if you are insane. and so only the Soul is main- tained. I know I am insanity because you will not call me citizen. Finding my place: the power of change GRACE GARMO ...…
…10 Thursday, July 2, 2020 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com SPORTS Director of counseling Harden retires after 34 years After 34 years at Michigan, Greg Harden, who served as both executive associate athletic director and director of counseling has retired, Angelique Chengelis from the Detroit News reported Monday. Harden joined Michigan after being hired by Bo Schembechler 1986 and grew the prevalence of the mental well...…
…11 Thursday, July 2, 2020 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com SPORTS ‘The perfect storm’: Mbogo Mwangi speaks on race in America today, and how the lacrosse community needs to do better Growing up on Manhattan’s Upper East Side, Mbogo Mwangi never dealt with race as an issue. St. Stephen of Hungary, the private Catholic school that the junior defenseman attended, was a microcosm of New York City’s melting pot. Because Mwangi and...…
…12 Thursday, July 2, 2020 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com SPORTS Mwangi’s first wave was the product of COVID-19 and the disproportionate mortality rate between Black and white Americans exacerbated by disparities in healthcare access and employment opportunities. The second and third waves were based on the police’s double standard in managing its altercations with Black and white individuals: The absence of aggr...…
…PHOTOS BY MICHIGAN DAILY PHOTOSTAFF GOT A NEWS TIP? Call 734-418-4115 or e-mail news@michigandaily.com and let us know. INDEX Vol. CXXIX, No. 111 ©2020 The Michigan Daily COVER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1 N E WS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 N E W S . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 O PI N I O N . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 A R T S . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....…
…ARTS over the YEARS Bis etum il ius eliquam usaerum eium velicti comnit dunt, tota que consequo is essunture dolor molesti beriore, il ea ne plab ipsae excero te volorep tation re videndunt omnihil ipienda veliqui nobites et laboriame lantiossunt hil ius arumqui dentibus, qui aliat pa qui simolessit, nes escilit harum que volorit eicia con plis everum fugitatur si quiae esto blaturem labo. Itatas mos venis arumnihilla ntentotatem a...…
…In the middle of the Michigan League’s Maizie’s Kitchen & Market, a dozen undergraduate students huddled around a laptop to sign in for their canvassing shifts. The small group decided to brave the January blizzard and knock doors for Solomon Rajput, a 27-year-old Ann Arbor native who put his medical studies on hold for a year to challenge Rep. Debbie Dingell, D-Mich., for Michigan’s 12th congressional seat. Dingell has repre...…
…ARTS over the YEARS Bis etum il ius eliquam usaerum eium velicti comnit dunt, tota que consequo is essunture dolor molesti beriore, il ea ne plab ipsae excero te volorep tation re videndunt omnihil ipienda veliqui nobites et laboriame lantiossunt hil ius arumqui dentibus, qui aliat pa qui simolessit, nes escilit harum que volorit eicia con plis everum fugitatur si quiae esto blaturem labo. Itatas mos venis arumnihilla ntentotatem ...…
…November has come and gone, and Yandhi left with it. Despite enthusiastic words from Kim Kardashian, it was no surprise that Kanye West’s supposed ninth studio album did not appear on streaming services this Black Friday, a fact his legions had earlier been forced to come to terms with after Mr. West took to Twitter to go back on his wife’s promise. All signs point to Yandhi being a spiritual sequel of sorts to Kanye’s 2013 ...…
…6A — Saturday, May 2, 2020 Michigan in Color The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com The Neutral White Population CYDNEY GARDNER-BROWN 2017 MiC Contributor ‘The white rice was excellent. Followed the directions on the bag perfectly. Way to go.’ Courtesy of Hunter Zhao ARTS over the YEARS Bis etum il ius eliquam usaerum eium velicti comnit dunt, tota que consequo is essunture dolor molesti beriore, il ea ne plab ipsae excero te volor...…
…ARTS over the YEARS Bis etum il ius eliquam usaerum eium velicti comnit dunt, tota que consequo is essunture dolor molesti beriore, il ea ne plab ipsae excero te volorep tation re videndunt omnihil ipienda veliqui nobites et laboriame lantiossunt hil ius arumqui dentibus, qui aliat pa qui simolessit, nes escilit harum que volorit eicia con plis everum fugitatur si quiae esto blaturem labo. Itatas mos venis arumnihilla ntentotate...…
…8-Sports 8A — Saturday, May 2, 2020 Sports The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Beilein leaves ‘M’ for Cleveland with an unmistakable legacy The last time the Michigan had to replace its head coach, the program was unrecognizable to those familiar with the current Wolverines. Michigan in 2007 had barely scraped relevance since the breakup of the Fab Five in 1993. It hadn’t made the NCAA Tournament since 1998 — an appearance later ...…
…Michigan Medicine nurses at high risk of contracting the virus have had different experiences navigating the risk of caring for patients versus returning to work. Michigan Medicine began conducting in-house COVID-19 testing for employees and patients on March 19 and has created a COVID-19 hotline for employees and patients as well as curbside screening by referral. Meghan Clarke, a nurse at C.S. Mott Children’s on t...…
…News The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Gov. Gretchen Whitmer declared a state of disaster Wednesday night and signed an executive order expanding Michigan’s COVID-19 response. Whitmer previously declared a state of emergency on March 10 in hopes of helping local governments slow the spread of COVID-19 and persuading Michiganders to take preventative measures. In a press release Wednesday, Whitmer said the state of...…
…Roat said after reaching out to Oxford Companies, she was told they were not planning on providing rent assistance. “Essentially they said that they were a management company and the individual property owner of 425 Hill had chosen not to make any changes whatsoever.,” Roat wrote. “The person who emailed me recommended I apply for unemployment, and said I should consider subletting — I still live there, so that is not an...…
…S ince the first cases of COVID-19 — a respiratory disease caused by the coronavirus — were reported in the United States in January, American life has been turned upside down by an event few will ever forget. The coronavirus, which originated in Wuhan, China at the end of 2019, has spread to every continent except Antarctica and has claimed over 42,000 lives worldwide, with European countries like Italy a...…
…Thursday, April 2, 2020 — 5 Arts The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com PARAMOUNT FILM NOTEBOOK Movies are projections. Yes, literally, in the sense of filmstock and screens and projectors and bulbs. But movies can also be projections of ourselves — a momentary snapshot of the internal, the introspective, the metaphysical. And given the circumstances, we as the film beat are seeing less literal projections in movie theaters an...…
…Thursday, April 2, 2020 — 6 Arts The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com The other day I was cursorily perusing my housemate’s New York Times, and, amidst the portents of apocalypse, I came across an agitated letter to the editor in the book review. “Confirming a trend I’ve noticed with annoyance on bookstore shelves,” the man wrote, not one, and not two but “fully three” of the novels reviewed last week had writers as their ...…
…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...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com SportsMonday December 2, 2019 — 3B …
…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....…
