…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Sports February 20, 2017 — 3B Wolverines repeat as Big Ten champions As soon as it became official, 28 members of the Michigan women’s swimming and diving team — donning Big Ten Champion baseball caps and T-shirts — hurled themselves into the diving well at Boilermaker Aquatic Center on Saturday night. Coach Mike Bottom followed suit, entering the water emphatically with a victorious fro...…
…4B — February 20, 2017 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com SportsMonday Trouble at the line dooms Michigan MINNEAPOLIS — Uncharacteristic. That’s how Michigan coach John Beilein described the Wolverines’ performance from the free-throw line. It was also how both redshirt sophomore forward DJ Wilson and senior guard Derrick Walton Jr. described it. It was that kind of night for the Michigan basketball team (7-7 Big Ten,...…
…Amid objections from community activists, Ann Arbor City Council moved forward Tuesday with a proposed amendment to allow for a waiver of restrictions on the eligibility of city employees to sit on the police oversight commission. The amendment will be addressed at a second reading during the next council meeting. The 2014 shooting of Aura Rosser by an Ann Arbor Police officer provoked months of debate and protest, eve...…
…The U.S. Department of Agriculture is awarding “The Ann Arbor Greenbelt: Saving Michigan Farms Regional Conservation Partnership Program” $1 million dollars, according to a Feb. 4 press release. The project is led by the City of Ann Arbor Open Space and Parkland Preservation Program, also called the Greenbelt. It aims to protect surrounding Ann Arbor agricultural lands through conservation easements, the right to use some...…
…According to the website, when going over each case, HR will focus on the nature and gravity of the offense, the timeliness and accuracy of the disclosure and the relevancy to the role held at the University. HR’s statement explains the policy is meant to preserve a safe University community. “Information about a faculty or staff member’s criminal activity helps the University maintain a safe community and prevent putting people at...…
…Opinion The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com 4A — Wednesday, February 20, 2019 Emma Chang Joel Danilewitz Samantha Goldstein Elena Hubbell Emily Huhman Tara Jayaram Jeremy Kaplan Sarah Khan Lucas Maiman Magdalena Mihaylova Ellery Rosenzweig Jason Rowland Anu Roy-Chaudhury Alex Satola Ali Safawi Ashley Zhang Sam Weinberger Erin White FINNTAN STORER Managing Editor Stanford Lipsey Student Publications Building 420 Maynard St....…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Arts Wednesday, February 20, 2019 — 5A In 1978, the acclaimed novelist Yuko Tsushima published “Territory Of Light” a chapter at a time in the Japanese monthly literary magazine Gunzo, each chapter representing one month in a year. Tsushima is well-known in Japan, but is relatively unknown to Anglophone readers. The small amount of her work that has been translated into English is her most ...…
…Classifieds Call: #734-418-4115 Email: dailydisplay@gmail.com By George Jasper ©2019 Tribune Content Agency, LLC 02/20/19 Los Angeles Times Daily Crossword Puzzle Edited by Rich Norris and Joyce Nichols Lewis 02/20/19 ANSWER TO PREVIOUS PUZZLE: Release Date: Wednesday, February 20, 2019 ACROSS 1 Gaping mouths 5 “The Sorcerer’s Apprentice” composer 10 States in an outdated atlas: Abbr. 14 Nobelist Wiesel 15 Official mandate 16 Analo...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Sports Wednesday, February 20, 2019 — 7A Joseph Cecconi’s lifelong competitive drive is paying off It was the night before the United States junior hockey team’s last exhibition game at the 2017 World Juniors tournament, and Joseph Cecconi wasn’t nervous at all. He probably should’ve been. The Michigan captain — then a sophomore playing for his country at the World Juniors for the first time...…
…8A — Wednesday, February 20, 2019 Sports The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com *excludes ice cream & bottled drinks Only at 604 E Liberty St. Sweetwaters Coffee & Tea Liberty VALID UNTIL APRIL 31st 2019 20% OFF ANY DRINK For Charles Matthews, newly-minted leader, the time is now Charles Matthews walked into practice last week with some words in mind. The redshirt junior had just watched his Michigan team travel to State Coll...…
…statement THE MICHIGAN DAILY | FEBRUARY 20, 2019 ILLUSTRATION BY SHERRY CHEN The search to understand online grief and digital melancholy …
…I planned my dream wed- ding when I was 6 years old. I had met my soulmate in my kinder- garten class, and I was positive that our love was going to last forever. Because of my deep passion for organizing, my only clear option was to figure out every nitty- gritty detail of when and where we would tie the knot. Summer or Winter? Summer. The wed- ding will be outside, so it must be gor- geous out. Big or small? Big, with everyone I know ...…
…Wednesday, February 20, 2019 // The Statement 3B ILLUSTRATION BY CHRISTINE JEGARL I magine having a secret for most of your life you have wanted to tell someone for so long, but are afraid of what might happen if you share it. This was me. Until today. Today, I am going to stop feeling alone, and embrace who I am as a person — I am gay. This is something I’ve known for a very long time, but have been too afraid to share. Ever sin...…
…cells committing mass suicide.” Internet humor is primarily based on find- ing the specific absurdities in everyday life and spinning it into something everyone can relate to on a certain level. In the case of @ jovanmhill, who has 115 followers, a lot of that humor is based on the way he laments disturbing truths about his personal life. For better or worse, joking about mental health has become a primary avenue for people to forge an ...…
…Wednesday, February 20, 2019// The Statement 6B W henever I realize I need a haircut, it always takes me a few days to get around to booking it. First, because I always have something to do and often forget, but also because it takes a certain amount of cour- age for me to decide that I want to go to a place where I will be expected to make small talk with a stranger. Growing up, I always got my haircut with the same person. My mom’s...…
…Wednesday, January 16, 2019 // The Statement 7B Wednesday, February 20, 2019 // The Statement 7B L ast year, a friend of mine, who had been searching for a girl- friend for a decade, finally found someone. When I heard the wonderful news, I texted him, “I’m happy for you.” His reply was odd but familiar. He wrote, “aww thanks, it’ll happen for you one day, don’t worry.” I was slightly irritated. I had never expressed that I was se...…
…The Detroit Foundation Hotel used to be home to the Detroit Fire Department Headquarters. It has been repurposed and now operates as a chic boutique hotel in Downtown Detroit. The Foundation holds a restaurant called the Apparatus Room where the old red fire doors let in beautiful natural light showcasing the 1950s architecture with all of the original features illuminating the res- taurant. The restaurant and hotel provid...…
…michigandaily.com Ann Arbor, Michigan Thursday, February 20, 2020 ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY-NINE YEARS OF EDITORIAL FREEDOM University of Michigan students are opting to take math classes at other schools because of the reputation of the department’s classes being more difficult, students told The Daily. Students interviewed by The Daily said the University’s math classes pose a significant challenge and threaten their ability to m...…
…When Engineering senior Aria Thakore and LSA senior Aastha Dharia roomed together as freshmen at the University of Michigan, they noticed a lot of their peers struggled with the transition to college, turning to their friends or to other students for advice. “We always wanted to be that ear for them,” Dharia said. “But it was really hard to sometimes have those conversations without having had those experiences.” As the ye...…
…As a way to convince GEO to drop their demands, the University of Michigan is refusing to discuss further negotiations for salary and benefits, Patwardhan said. Patwardhan called the tactic “bad bargaining” and said the University’s decision will not distract GEO from issues affecting the community as a whole. “We can’t even organize around and that’s not the kind of thing that should be permitted as a tactic at the barga...…
…S upporting a small business can mean supporting environmentalism even when it might not be obvious. As local businesses in Ann Arbor shut their doors, students bemoan the loss of their favorite unique stops. Recent closures include The Local Bike Shop, Elixir Vitae coffee shop and Elevation Burger. With their closures, we lose not only some of Ann Arbor’s small-town charm but some of the city’s built-in environmentalism. Supp...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Arts Thursday, February 20, 2020 — 5 You know those shows that have a season-ending cliffhanger that makes you scream to yourself, “HOW IN THE WORLD AM I SUPPOSED TO WAIT FOUR MONTHS TO FIND OUT WHAT HAPPENS?” Well, it’s been years since the season seven finale of “Homeland” and somewhere along the way, I stopped caring. To refresh your memory, when we last saw Carrie Mathison (Claire Danes, ...…
…COMMUNITY CULTURE COLUMN ‘Caroline, or Change’ and the beauty in ambiguity SAMMY SUSSMAN Daily Community Culture Columnist COMMUNITY CULTURE NOTEBOOK E-boys and E-girls: a new, nonchalant counterculture GRACE TUCKER Daily Arts Writer 6 — Thursday, February 20, 2020 Arts The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com WHISPER SUBMIT A WHISPER By Bruce Haight ©2020 Tribune Content Agency, LLC 02/20/20 Los Angeles Times Daily Crossword Puzzle ...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Sports Thursday, February 20, 2020 — 7 As it entered the locker room at halftime Wednesday, the Michigan women’s basketball team had to catch its breath. The Wolverines just watched Illinois guard Brandi Beasley drive the length of the Crisler Center floor in five seconds, sinking a layup to give the Fighting Illini — the No. 13 team in the Big Ten — a one-point lead entering the break. I...…
…8 — Thursday, February 20, 2020 Sports The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com WITH LIVERS OUT, MICHIGAN RIDES ZAVIER SIMPSON’s 16-6-5 TO 60-52 WIN OVER SCARLET KNIGHTS ALEC COHEN / Daily RAC ATTACK Design by Jack Silberman ‘M’ tops Rutgers, 60-52, on the road PISCATAWAY — Prior to Wednesday’s night-matchup, the Michigan men’s basketball team had never lost to Rutgers — 12-0, to be exact. The Scarlet Knights meanwhile, currently ti...…
