…When graduate students at the University of Michigan decided to strike in September, state law was definitively not on their side. On the first day of the strike, the University filed an unfair labor practice complaint against the Graduate Employees’ Organization, the union representing more than 2,000 graduate student instructors and graduate student staff assistants, and later followed up with a request for ...…
…michigandaily.com Ann Arbor, Michigan Tuesday, January 21, 2020 ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY-NINE YEARS OF EDITORIAL FREEDOM Activist Cheryl Brown Henderson delivered a lecture on the legacy of landmark desegregation Supreme Court case Brown v. Board of Education before hundreds of people in the Michigan League Ballroom Monday afternoon. The talk was part of the University of Michigan’s Martin Luther King Jr. Symposium. Brown ...…
…The University of Michigan is freezing its fossil fuel investments — for the time being. On Thursday evening, during the University’s Board of Regents meeting at the Richard L. Postma Family Clubhouse, University Regent Mark Bernstein (D) announced the board is looking into the University’s policy on investments in fossil fuel companies. New investments will not occur during this time. “We will not bring forward new ...…
…michigandaily.com Thursday, May 21, 2020 INDEX Vol. CXXIX, No. 114 © 2020 The Michigan Daily NEWS .................................... OPINION ............................... ARTS/NEWS.......................... MiC......................................... SPORTS................................ MICHIGAN IN COLOR A/PIA Leaders Recognizing historical AAPI figures who have shaped modern America for A/PIA heritage month >> SEE PAGE 8 ...…
…Third-year Medical student Paris Rollins was in the middle of clinical rotations at Henry Ford Hospital, working 9-hour shifts in the Emergency Medicine Department, when she found out that the University of Michigan’s Medical School would be pulling all students out of rotations. “I felt this dread in the pit of my stomach,” Rollins said. “(The announcement) felt unprecedented in what could happen next.” Two d...…
…The Michigan Daily sat down with University President Mark Schlissel to discuss fall plans, vaccination, carbon neutrality and disinvestment, Regent Ron Weiser (R), public records, ongoing collective bargaining with U-M lecturers and more. This interview has been edited and condensed for clarity. MS: It is really important for as many students as possible to get vaccinated, and if they can’t get it done before they leave town, ge...…
…Multiple locations in the Ann Arbor area are now offering the new COVID-19 bivalent booster vaccine. The bivalent booster — which was authorized by the Food and Drug Administration at the end of August — protects against the original, BA.4 and BA.5 strands of the highly contagious Omicron variant. The University Health Service (UHS) in collaboration with Walgreens, is running pop-up COVID-19 bivalent booster and flu shot clinic...…
…commitment from quite a lot of volunteers, you can have a lot of money and still be very weak.” Kat Brausch, Rackham student and grievance committee co-chair of GEO, warned that right-to- work laws could result in unions having too few members or funds to continue, but clarified this is not currently a concern for GEO. “Right-to-work is intended to set up a sort of financial death spiral in a way because people do not have to b...…
…Rina Agarwala, associate professor of sociology at Johns Hopkins University discussed the history of Indian emigration at Weiser Hall on Friday afternoon. The Center for South Asian Studies hosted the event as part of a series on the history of emigration and how social class has shaped India’s emigration policy since its independence in 1947. Approximately 15 people attended the presentation titled “Managing Migrants...…
…The University of Michigan’s brand new Center for Ethics, Society and Computing opened in January with the goal of addressing inequality produced by digital media and computing technology. With the prevalence of computing technology across almost every professional field and modern, everyday life, the potential for inequity and exclusion exists across many disciplines. The center aims to use University resources to better under...…
…In an effort to assist the state of Michigan community groups and lawyers as they navigate the overflow of legal work related to the COVID-19 pandemic, a group of University of Michigan Law School student leaders formed the Michigan Law COVID Corps, a pro bono service with over 240 volunteers and student attorneys. The organization does not offer legal advice or represen- tation. Rather, volunteers offer assistance in the form...…
…2 — Tuesday, April 21, 2020 News The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com At a press conference Monday afternoon, Gov. Gretchen Whitmer announced the creation of a task force dedicated to addressing racial disparities in COVID-19 related deaths. 40 percent of reported coronavirus deaths in the state are Black residents, though Black people make up only 14 percent of the state’s total population. Whitmer said while statewide ...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com News 2 — Wednesday, April 21, 2021 GRACE BEAL/Daily After my weekly COVID-19 test at the LSA building, I walk back with my camera and take pictures of my free button around campus with hope that the University and the rest of the country can continue to “Beat Covid”. The Michigan Daily (ISSN 0745-967) is publishing weekly on Wednesdays for the Winter 2021 semester by students at the University of M...…
…University of Michigan Libraries announced in August that the prized gem of its astronomy collection, an original manuscript by Galileo Galilei, was actually a forgery following an investigation by Georgia State University professor Nick Wilding. The manuscript contained writings on Galileo’s telescopic observations of celestial bodies orbiting Jupiter, which reversed a common 17th century belief that Earth ...…
…The four students quoted in this article — all members of sororities in the Panhellenic Association familiar with the party and the outbreak in Chi Omega — spoke to The Daily on the condition of anonymity out of fear of retaliation from their chapter. This article will refer to each student by a pseudonym. Grace, who is currently living in a sorority house on campus, told The Daily that she has seen very few changes in fraterni...…
…“The city is not using metrics to determine how many deer there are in the city or how successful the program of killing deer for the last few years has been,” Abrams said. “So they keep renewing the (White Buffalo Inc. sharpshooter) contract.” Other members of FAAWN, such as Cathy Shafer, agreed with Abrams, saying she believes the city of Ann Arbor hasn’t progressed in reducing the deer population by conducting this deer cull. “...…
…GEO President Emily Gauld, a Rackham student, spoke to The Daily before the grade-in and described GEO’s disappointment with the University’s rejection of proposals for promoting equitable and accessible working conditions. “We spent many hours answering questions about the language and trying to start problem-solving,” Gauld said. “They were really trying to understand the root of the problem we were getting at, we were trying to ...…
…Driving alongside cars and bikes at 15 mph, Refraction AI’s autonomous robot, REV-1, is making food deliveries for four Ann Arbor restaurants and The Produce Station. The deliveries reach about 500 customers who order their food and groceries through an app after signing up for a pilot program on Refrac- tion AI’s website. Refraction AI, based in Ann Arbor, was co-founded by Matthew Johnson-Roberson, associate professor o...…
…Tuesday, April 21, 2020 — 3 News The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com FINANCE From Page 1 Read more at MichiganDaily.com “So what we’re able to do is educate the public about creative arts that are happening inside prisons.” In addition, students involved in PCAP organized correspondence to people who are incarcerated, among other forms of activism and engagement. Executive board members for PCAP also created a mutual ...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com News Wednesday, April 21, 2021 — 3 Read more at MichiganDaily.com RESEARCH LSA professor leads Virulent Hate Project Dr. Melissa May Borja aims to track anti-Asian hate incidents, community resistance efforts Dr. Melissa May Borja, University of Michigan assistant professor of American Culture, founded Virulent Hate, a project which aims to raise awareness around the surge in anti-Asian raci...…
…DEI Climate Survey results session What progress has been made around the climate at U-M over the last five years? Join us as we discuss the findings of our latest university-wide climate survey from 2021. RSVP to attend: myumi.ch/M9293 IN-PERSON SESSION: Tuesday, Sept. 27 | 8:30-10 am Michigan Union, Rogel Ballroom Open to all students, faculty & staff The session will also be livestreamed, recorded and posted on the DEI website. ...…
…Democratic presidential nominee and former Vice President Joe Biden spoke in Detroit with U.S. Senator Gary Peters, D-Mich., to supporters in their cars Friday night: a little more than two weeks before the general election Peters, who is also up for re-election this November, said he is excited to have Biden back in Michigan and reminded attendees about Biden’s work for Detroit during the Obama administra...…
…Opinion The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com 4A — Tuesday, January 21, 2020 Alanna Berger Brittany Bowman Zack Blumberg Emily Considine Cheryn Hong Krystal Hur Ethan Kessler Mary Rolfes Michael Russo Timothy Spurlin Miles Stephenson Joel Weiner Erin White Lola Yang ERIN WHITE Managing Editor Stanford Lipsey Student Publications Building 420 Maynard St. Ann Arbor, MI 48109 tothedaily@michigandaily.com Edited and managed by students a...…
…Opinion The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com 4 — Friday, February 21, 2020 Alanna Berger Zack Blumberg Brittany Bowman Emily Considine Jenny Gurung Cheryn Hong Krystal Hur Ethan Kessler Zoe Phillips Mary Rolfes Michael Russo Timothy Spurlin Miles Stephenson Joel Weiner Erin White ERIN WHITE Managing Editor Stanford Lipsey Student Publications Building 420 Maynard St. Ann Arbor, MI 48109 tothedaily@michigandaily.com Edited and manage...…
…I magine coming home from the grocery store, twisting open the seal on a gallon of milk that you just bought and pouring that milk straight down the drain. It seems unnatural — maybe even cynical — to waste perfectly good nutrients like this. However, many farmers in the United States are now left with no other choice. Instead of turning a seal on a carton of milk, they are turn- ing the hatch on a 12-wheeler steel tank and dumping...…
…W hile many parts of the world are now experiencing emotional darkness and instability, Israeli occupied territory is uniquely vulnerable to a coronavirus outbreak. With only four hours of electricity available each day, the lights have been out in Gaza for 13 years. In 2007, Israel and Egypt imposed a land, air and sea blockade of the Gaza Strip after Hamas took control of the territory, leaving Gaza’s ap...…
…I like the fact that it actually went beyond simply thinking about how to reduce the campus’ release of greenhouse gases. It talked about creating a culture of sustainability, promoting research and teaching around carbon neutrality and sustainability, and it had a very powerful focus on environmental justice. What I’ve been doing in the week since the report went final, and for the next several weeks, is working with various ...…
…4 — Wednesday, September 21, 2022 Arts The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Less than a year after the release of the third installment of the “After” series, I willingly purchased tickets to the premiere of the fourth movie, “After Ever Happy.” I stepped into the theater well aware that the plot would be weak, the relationship between Tessa (Josephine Langford, “Moxie”) and Hardin (Hero Fiennes Tiffin, “First Love”) would...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com News Wednesday, October 21, 2020 — 5 Amid pandemic, students pursue passion projects While the pandemic brought restrictions on social interactions, it also provided time for students to explore their passions. During the past six months, some University of Michigan students tried their hand at new projects and even started their own small businesses. As the pandemic negatively affects t...…
…A confused teenage girl sighs, “I think I might be broken.” Dr. Jean Milburn (Gillian Anderson, “The X-Files”) replies, “Sex doesn’t make us whole. So how could you be broken?” Though Dr. Milburn is speaking to one of the many students at Moordale Secondary School who comes to ask her advice, she’s really talking to you. This therapy session isn’t just for the sake of fiction. The message is clear and it’s meant for the view...…
…As enticing as a story about a manipulative mother who systematically poisons her daughter for years sounds, Stephanie Wrobel’s debut “Darling Rose Gold” manages to add an even more interesting wrinkle to this premise. It’s likely you’ve heard of Munchausen syndrome by proxy (MSBP): A child’s caretaker fabricates illnesses to make the child seem sick. This form of child abuse is a focal point of depictions such as HBO’s documentary “M...…
…5 OPINION Thursday, May 21, 2020 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com 5 OPINION A mid the pandemic, it’s dis- heartening to see our coun- try’s poor response to this public health crisis, and daily COVID- 19 updates highlight our nation’s inability to separate business and poli- tics from basic human rights. While most of the country has focused on bills like the Affordable Care Act and Medicare for All, this problem ulti- mately s...…
…Tuesday, April 21, 2020 — 5 Arts The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com The funny thing is, oranges aren’t really even in season right now. Yet lately I can’t seem to get enough of them. My family has been buying sacks and sacks of oranges; I grab one every time I head out on a walk, the juice making my fingers freeze in the brisk Northeastern April air. Or I have one at 2 a.m., the orange residue working its way under my fing...…
…Reporting live from my balcony, yet again, for another literary event coverage. This time it’s chef and author Bill Buford’s appearance in the “At Home with Literati” series, presenting his latest book “Dirt: Adventures in Lyon as a Chef in Training, Father, and Sleuth Looking for the Secret of French Cooking.” Today I’m not drinking Roiboos tea but matcha! This was my first time trying it, and it will most probably be the last. Ap...…
…In middle school, I was always hunting for more games to add to my collection. Spending $60 on a new title was a luxury that I could only afford once or twice a year, so I would always peruse the Xbox 360 game market for cheap or free games to play. Most of what was available were demos or knockoffs of other titles that I’d delete within a few minutes, disappointed and bored yet again. Today, that problem doesn’t exist. My middle s...…
…I am often amazed at how little people know about Executive Order 9066 (deemed Japanese Americans as a threat to national secu- rity and allowed President Roosevelt to move them into camps), if they have any idea of it at all. Sometimes they’re even more distraught when I say that we have locked peo- ple up in of the many atroci- ties that the United States has committed. Yet this is a history that many Japanese Americans will...…
…6A — Tuesday, January 21, 2020 Arts The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com WHISPER SUBMIT A WHISPER puzzle by sudokusnydictation.com By Chase Dittrich (c)2020 Tribune Content Agency, LLC 01/21/20 Los Angeles Times Daily Crossword Puzzle Edited by Rich Norris and Joyce Nichols Lewis 01/21/20 ANSWER TO PREVIOUS PUZZLE: Release Date: Tuesday, January 21, 2020 ACROSS 1 Sound of disbelief 5 Feature of some debit cards 9 Ford Fusion, e.g...…
…6 — Friday, February 21, 2020 Arts The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com WHISPER SUBMIT A WHISPER By Jeffrey Wechsler ©2020 Tribune Content Agency, LLC 02/21/20 Los Angeles Times Daily Crossword Puzzle Edited by Rich Norris and Joyce Nichols Lewis 02/21/20 ANSWER TO PREVIOUS PUZZLE: Release Date: Friday, February 21, 2020 ACROSS 1 “... morning roses newly wash’d with __”: Petruchio 4 Jacket stories 8 Caused trepidation 14 Phoeni...…
…COVID-19 has given the phrase “bedroom pop” a whole new meaning. High profile musi- cians across the world have flocked to video conferencing and streaming platforms like Zoom and Instagram Live to perform and chat with fans more than ever before, often from the comfort of their bedrooms. British singer and experimental pop superstar Charli XCX took this ascending intimacy between artist and listener and cranked it up to the max. Her ...…
…Tayarisha Poe’s debut feature film “Selah and the Spades” is an ancient, familiar story. It’s about legacy and vice. It’s about power — how you get it, how you keep it, how you lose it. It’s stylish and Shakespearean, featuring crime kingpins, bootleg rackets, snitches and plenty of stitches … but also prom, senior pranks and AP bio tests. As it so happens, “Selah and the Spades” is a mob movie wearing the clothes of your standa...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Arts 6 — Wednesday, April 21, 2021 When you think of the word indie, what typically comes to mind? Is it a youthful aesthetic? Is it a culture defined by being ahead of the curve? Or is it maybe just a new sound? Whatever the interpretation is, it’s hard to argue that Animal Collective doesn’t embody it in some way. Yes, I know. An artist retrospective on Animal Collective? How original. How...…
…My friend Jill is sitting behind me at a library table as the sun gets closer to setting in the distance, just past the lake, surrounded by a haze of trees that serve as a reminder that we are in the middle of nowhere. We’re supposed to be reading something for class, and I remark that the author has continually connected the idea of femininity with the ability to give birth. That is not how I’ve ever experienced femininity, I tell ...…
…On a Saturday night, after being encouraged by my SI 110 professor as well as — ironically enough — nearly all of my social media feeds, a couple friends and I decided to watch The Social Dilemma, Netflix’s acclaimed documentary centered around the meticulously manipulative aspects of social media. The documentary claims that the principal intention of all social media is to exploit the vulner- abilities of human behavior for pro...…
…VAN WYHE LEADS MICHIGAN TO DOUBLE OT WIN OVER NO. 6 PENN STATE, ‘M’ TAKES 5 OF 6 POINTS ON THE WEEKEND Alexis Rankin / Daily | Design by Jack Silberman UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Jacob Hay- hurst slid into the slot and waited. The graduate transfer forward saw sophomore forward Nolan Moyle with the puck, and he knew he was wide open for a shot on net. Moyle sent a pass up to Hayhurst, who didn’t hesitate as he released a shot that clea...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Sports Friday, February 21, 2020 — 7 In the fourth inning of Sunday’s game against Louisville, Michigan had trimmed a two-run deficit to one and was threatening for more with the potential tying run standing at first. Senior infielder Madison Uden was next in line to prolong the rally. But instead of letting Uden bat, Carol Hutchins opted for a change. Michigan’s coach looked down he...…
…This piece is part of a series on “Art during COVID,” an exploration of art forms to keep our idle minds creative during this pandemic. With many of us at home, our minds have ample time to wander, wonder and create. This series highlights accessible and immer- sive art forms to both produce and consume during the pandemic months and beyond. I’m sure every Ann Arbor student remembers where they were when they heard the news that wou...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com 7 — Tuesday, April 21, 2020 Sports ZAKYI, OSMAN From Page 8 Zakyi knows this easily could’ve been him. “I was one of the luckiest that went through and got selected,” he said. “I know there are a lot of talents back home that have so much potential. I know a lot of the guys that went through the tryouts, they all went back home and they go home to nothing. “That’s why it’ll always be ...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Arts Wednesday, April 21, 2021 — 7 Content Warning: sexual assault Gisela McDaniel grew up in predominantly white spaces: She was born on a military base in Bellevue, Neb., to a Chamorro mother who was a sociology professor teaching race and ethnicity and a white father enlisted in the Navy. On a recent Monday afternoon, the Art & Design alum spoke about how being raised with a pervasive awaren...…
…Imagine this: You’ve just seen a photo of the most appetizing fettuccine pasta, smothered with Alfredo sauce, on someone’s Instagram story. You don’t know the person well, but the food looks scrumptious; you have to know where they got it from. You respond to the post, asking for the name of the restaurant that prepared this mouth-watering meal. “This spot is kind of a personal thing to me,” comes the response. “Wha...…
…Opinion Students being taken advantage of by those with wealth and power on college campuses isn’t new; graduate students had to go on strike this fall in order for the University of Michigan to meet their basic requests and needs. It’s now clear that reopening as the University did was not safe, and landlords benefitted. This situation is indicative of a much broader problem of businesses and institutions in our community taking...…
