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…After a recent change in the University of Michigan’s School of Nursing curriculum, Nursing students were offering to buy other students’ clinical shifts for as much $400 in order to switch their assigned times and locations throughout the Fall 2019 semester. According to University spokeswoman Kim Broekhuizen, the change began in Fall 2019 and allows students to select their own clinical shifts based on their registration ...…

…Hundreds of local entheogenic and psychedelic plant activists gathered on the University of Michigan Diag on Sept. 19 for the first-ever Entheofest, a celebration and call for the decriminalization of plant medicines and fungi in Ann Arbor and beyond. The event began exactly at 11:11 a.m. and ended at 2:22 p.m. The celebration came a year after the Ann Arbor City Council voted to decriminalize the use and possession of enthe...…

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…There were 3,000 people standing side-by-side across the Diag on the University of Michigan’s campus Wednesday night. U-M students and community members gathered together in silence to mourn the mass shooting that took place on the Michigan State University’s campus Monday night which led to the death of three MSU students: Brian Fraser, Alexandria Verner and Arielle Anderson. The U-M Central Student Government organized the vi...…

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…The Ann Arbor City Council met Tuesday night and discussed anti-Israel protests, adding youth members to the Environmental Commission and how best to proceed regarding contamination from the Gelman Dioxane plume. During public comment, multiple community members spoke regarding the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, condemning U.S. military aid to Israel. Anti- Israel protester Henry Herskovitz, a defendant in...…

…The University of Michigan is home to more than 1,700 student- run organizations for students to join. Following a completely virtual year, many of these student organiza- tions are now returning to in-person events, similar to pre-pandemic life. Others, however, are reaping the ben- efits of continuing with a flexible vir- tual or hybrid format. The Michigan Daily spoke to five leaders and members of student organizations to learn ...…

…Pollinator populations across the country have been experiencing significant losses, threatening biodiversity, agriculture and food chains. The state of Michigan alone has seen a 61% drop in its bee population over the span of 15 years. A team of masters students at the University of Michigan’s School for Environment and Sustainability is aiming to raise awareness for pollinator conservation and enhance pollinato...…

…When Ann Arbor resident Anne Hiller first moved to ‘Tree City’ from the San Francisco Bay Area in 2004, she was looking forward to settling in the Wildwood Park subdivision, a scenic suburban neighborhood surrounded by nature on the city’s west side. Before she was about to close the deal on her house, however, Hiller noticed that her deed contained an archaic clause — a racially restrictive covenant that read “No portion of the...…

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…The rooms have AI technology on the computers and dry-erase walls to make it easier to conduct job interviews. LSA senior Taylor Lind said she encourages students to spend time at the Opportunity Hub and explore the new LSA addition. “I’m really excited to see how students can utilize this new space,” Lind said. “I think it’s a really unique one, especially for a college as large as LSA, because it’s hard to find a central space t...…

…Gov. Gretchen Whitmer pro- posed allocating $75 million of fed- eral COVID-19 funds to provide Michigan law enforcement with bet- ter training, find and remove illegal guns from Michigan communities and fund community programs that provide more opportunities in educa- tion, jobs and the justice system. This proposal, which was announced in Detroit last month, comes in the wake of an increase in violent crime in Michigan over the ...…

…Gov. Gretchen Whitmer signed a bill expanding rights and protections for LGBTQ+ Michiganders Thursday afternoon. The Elliott-Larsen Civil Rights Act of 1976 prohibits discrimination based on religion, race, color, national origin, age, sex, height, weight, familial status or marital status. The bill expands this list to include sexual orientation, gender identity and gender expression. In a press release obtained by...…

…puzzle by sudokusnydictation.com By Alexander Liebeskind & Yu-Chen Huang ©2023 Tribune Content Agency, LLC 02/22/23 Los Angeles Times Daily Crossword Puzzle Edited by Patti Varol and Joyce Nichols Lewis 02/22/23 ANSWER TO PREVIOUS PUZZLE: Release Date: Wednesday, February 22, 2023 ACROSS 1 Hint of color 6 Biblical tower site 11 Inquire 14 Play area? 15 Greek salad fruit 16 Sushi topper 17 Pride symbol 19 Texter’s “Hang on a sec” 20 “Cr...…

…Wednesday, June 22, 2022 — 3 News The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Second Juneteenth Annual Symposium opens with Opal Lee and discussions of healing UMich welcomed the start of the Second Annual Juneteenth Symposium on June 15, held in collaboration with the Ann Arbor branch of the NAACP The University of Michigan recognized the start of the Second Annual Juneteenth Symposium on June 15, a four-day event held in collaboration...…

…Opinion The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com 4A — Wednesday, January 22, 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...…

…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Ad 4 — Wednesday, September 22, 2021 Courtesy of Leisa Thompson photography …

…At a certain point in 2019, internet users in both the drama-filled DeuxMoi and the aspirational New York City- esque digital spheres were once again pulled towards Caroline Calloway. She has lived through multiple digital selves and has survived multiple news cycles of hatred and ridicule over the past decade. The Cambridge blogger- turned-scammer is now best known for her confessional, often chaotic Instagram presence — but ...…

…4 — Wednesday, February 22, 2023 Arts The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Dear Pinterest, I still remember the day that you and I first met. I couldn’t have been more than 12 years old. My aunt had told me all about you — “It’s like an online bulletin board,” she described — and showed me around her own profile. I had never seen so many pictures, appropriately dubbed “pins,” in one place before. I could save these pins to a board...…

…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com News 4 — Wednesday, June 22, 2022 LEO-GLAM demonstrates on the Diag to raise support during ongoing negotiations The LEO-GLAM union at UMich gathered on the Diag on Thursday to rally support during ongoing contract negotiations Members of the Galleries, Librarians, Archivists and Museums (GLAM) subunit of the Lecturers’ Employee Organization (LEO) at the University of Michigan staged a protest...…

…It’s a Saturday night in the middle of nowhere. You’re driving down a dirt road (in a pickup truck, obviously) and passing cornfield after cornfield. Eventually you reach a massive bonfire where attractive young people are gathered. Tailgates are down. Speakers are turned up. Everyone is drinking. It’s a common image in popular contemporary country music. The light-hearted, quasi-romantic night in the backwoods. ...…

…Anna, an orphan in 15th-century Constantinople; Omeir, a poor woodcutter’s son, his cleft palate proof of a demon’s presence; Zeno, an old man in modern-day Lakeport, Idaho; Seymour, an autistic Generation-Z teenager raised in that same town; Konstance, a girl aboard a spaceship in some distant future with only a tangle of conscious wires to keep her company; Aethon, a fictional man whose story connects everyone else throu...…

…The conversation surround- ing the future of Artificial Intelligence weighs heavily on the possibility of artificial life becoming a sentient threat to the human race. Steven Spiel- berg’s (“The Fabelmans”) “A.I. Artificial Intelligence” chang- es the tone of this conversation and turns a mirror to man- kind, a reminder that humans are solely responsible for what they bring into the world. “A.I.” opens on a catastroph- ic picture. S...…

…My friends have told me I don’t seem like I’m from Michigan. I was born and raised in a quiet town on Lake Michigan and both of my parents are natives of the western side of the state. I’m not sure what it even means to “seem like” I’m from Michigan, but there are a few things about me that are distinctly Midwestern. The most obvious tell is how I say certain words. Bagel is baahg-el not bay-gul. Milk is melk. Bag, like bagel, als...…

…This review contains spoilers for “Downton Abbey: A New Era.” I watched “Downton Abbey” for the first time during the summer of 2020. It was the summer after my freshman year of college and we had all just been sent home from the University of Michigan due to the COVID- 19 pandemic. My mom and I were sitting in the basement one night, as we did most nights during those six months of isolation, looking for something to watch...…

…6A — Wednesday, January 22, 2020 Arts The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com puzzle by sudokusnydictation.com By Jared Tamarkin (c)2020 Tribune Content Agency, LLC 01/22/20 Los Angeles Times Daily Crossword Puzzle Edited by Rich Norris and Joyce Nichols Lewis 01/22/20 ANSWER TO PREVIOUS PUZZLE: Release Date: Wednesday, Janury 22, 2020 ACROSS 1 Construction guideline 5 Pitfalls 10 Bible book that chronicles the conversion of Paul 14...…

…To whatever poor, tortured soul occupies this apartment next, You will earnestly swing open the heavy front door, gleaming with a streaky coat of clinical, blueish-purpleish-greyish paint, and you will smell mold. You’ll learn to grow accustomed to the scent — no obscene amount of Febreze or air freshener plugs will ever succeed in masking it — but it will make you flinch upon entry. Unfortunately, this will be only the beginning o...…

…It’s midnight on a Friday, and I stumble home after an hour at an incredibly lame Pride Night. Me and my homegirls tried to season the function, but not even we can shake ass to pop girly remixes under oontz oontz beats. We have to get this white man off aux. How did not a single Beyoncé song get spun? Was Nicki busy that night? I understand Rihanna has pissed us all off with the lack of an album drop, but not even “Umbrella” made...…

…Hair pulled up in a haphazard ponytail, I tightened the drawstrings on my pink pullover and trekked through the wind up the stairs to the North Quad dining hall. Stomped, was more like it. I’d forgotten my headphones, and in no world was I walking back through this tumultuous wind on an empty stomach. Without my dining hall playlist, I had to provide myself with some sort of entertainment while eating 20 minutes away from my do...…

…Reading between the lines Each night at 7:45 p.m. (my unwilling and adult-dictated bedtime) my mom would read my favorite book to coax my 4-year-old brain to sleep. Red and blue fish circled my head and matching letters swirled around as she read … “Did you ever fly a kite in bed? Did you ever walk with ten cats on your head? Did you ever milk this kind of cow? Well, we can do it. We know how. If you never did, you should. These ...…

…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Sports Wednesday, January 22, 2020 — 7A Pacific breeze Michigan sweeps through West Coast trip, beating Washington on Friday and Oregon on Saturday After a disappointing loss in its season opener to No. 23 North Carolina State, the No. 17 Michigan men’s tennis team (2-1) headed to the Pacific Northwest in search of its first win of the season. The team bounced back in dominant fashion, notch...…

…blurry memories of sleepy car rides home with everyone asleep but dad and me he points to the moon and says to me, if you look at the moon it looks back at you can you spot it? he asks it can always spot you he tells me tales of when he was young clouds of smoke would fill the sky and leave the night with darkness monsters lurked in the trees the city lay asleep but he was wide awake not one star to light the way but th...…

…On Tuesday, March 7, University President Santa Ono gave his inaugural address to the University of Michigan. In it, he focused on setting an optimistic tone for his term, outlining his plans for DEI 2.0, achieving carbon neutrality and restoring the health of the U-M community. Through these bold ideas, he successfully energized students and professors, ushering in a new era of leadership. While the plans he discussed repr...…

…Content warning: mentions of sex- ual assault. Writer’s note: This is not about one person in particular, but a com- pilation of memories from different people I have met. I wrote this piece to both share my experiences and thoughts on dating and relationships as well as to use this piece to finally let go and free myself of the heavy memo- ries I have hidden so deep inside of me for so long. ~~~ My bed feels a little emptier now that...…

…Growing up as a latchkey kid, I’d often squirm my way out of revealing where I lived to others. Instead, I’d lie. I’d tell friends I already had a ride or that it was no big deal for me to walk back home. I’d do or say anything to obfuscate details of where I lived and divert people away from seeing my dilapidated house. The faded blue paint that coated the wooden panels was slowly chipping away, just like my self-esteem. Needless ...…

…8A — Wednesday, January 22, 2020 Sports The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Robbins out with ACL The Michigan women’s basketball team has lost a key player in senior forward Kayla Robbins, who announced via Twitter on Tuesday that she tore her ACL in Sunday’s game at Nebraska. “Unfortunately, I have suffered an ACL tear that will keep me out for the remainder of my senior season” Robbins said in a statement posted to Twitt...…

…7-Opinion S ince our formation three years ago, the One University Coalition (1U) has called upon University President Mark Schlissel and the Board of Regents to provide the funds necessary to give University of Michigan – Flint and Dearborn campuses more of the opportunities already available on the Ann Arbor campus. As we see it, we have one University President and one Board of Regents; we are one university, and we should sh...…

…W ithout a doubt, I’m an optimist. From arguing in favor of the Bursley-Baits bus to arguing for an explicit expansion of our vocabulary, I try my best to see the light in every situation. But the silver lining is often elusive, and sometimes involves extensive searching. This search, in and of itself, is an art. Unlike most arts, though, optimism has a unique faculty and disposition toward improving all that it touches. While...…

…Michigan in Color 8 — Wednesday, February 22, 2023 How to love Alas, the (socially constructed) season of love is here. I always ques- tion what love is and how to practice it. The conceptualization of love as a verb, instead of just a noun, is promi- nent in our everyday language. This is because love is an all-encompass- ing concept. Like many, my first experiences with love came from family. It was at home that I learned to differe...…

…A s a young and impressionable child, the concept of gender and what it meant to be a “proper” girl were enshrined into seemingly every fabric of the world that surrounded me. When I visited Target to spend my carefully accrued Tooth Fairy money, the segregated blue and pink aisles quickly indicated which section I should browse. The girls section was filled with gendered stereotypes to carefully cultivate a new generation o...…

…statement THE MICHIGAN DAILY | JANUARY 22, , 2020 PHOTO COURTESY OF VERITY STURM Why destruction is the new American pastime …

…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Opinion Wednesday, September 22, 2021 — 9 619 east university avenue @ z place FRESH GROCERIES IN THE HEART OF THE CAMPUS Fresh Produce Fresh Chicken, Fish & Steaks Deli Meats & Cheeses International Foods Specialty Groceries Zingerman’s Bread Bottled Beverages thoughtfully-selected Wines & Beers for a quick, tasty meal, visit revive, our café next door! Open Mon-Fri 9am - 10pm Weekends 10am...…

…A nn Arbor’s tallest building is the aptly named Tower Plaza Condominium. Standing at around 300 feet tall, the building was controversial from its first proposal. City Council moved rapidly to enact an 18-story height limit, but Tower Plaza came in right under the wire before that ordinance change was passed. The first time Ann Arbor opposed a tower for being “too tall” was in 1929. The original proposal for the beaut...…

…S ince it was first founded, the University of Michigan’s Graduate Employees’ Organization has persistently pushed boundaries and moved the University forward. With its fierce advocacy for graduate student rights, the union has played a critical role in shaping campus conversations and leading cultural change. Unfortunately, however, the past three years have seen this once illustrious organization devolve into chaos. Aft...…

…I n the past few weeks of January, news headlines, social media and essentially every aspect of my digital media sphere seem to have been dominated by Oscars news. Even for someone who con- siders herself relatively removed from the world of cinema, it’s impossible to ignore the buzz. Discussions about whether the Netflix Original “Marriage Story” deserved its nomination, if a remake of Bong Joon- ho’s “Parasite” would be inherently W...…

…Ten months ago, with the Michigan football team trailing 17-0 in Piscataway, N.J., Jim Harbaugh turned to quarterback Cade McNamara. The move was seen as a last resort. McNamara, then a sophomore, began the season third on the Wolverines’ quarterback depth chart behind Joe Milton and Dylan McCaffrey. He had never seen meaningful game action, but after the former played his way to the bench and the latter transferred, McNamara was ...…

…In loss to LSU, Michigan shows that it’s a program in progress JACK CONLIN Daily Sports Writer BATON ROUGE, La. — At first glance, there’s not much to take away from a brutal loss like the one that the No. 6 seed Michigan women’s basketball team suffered on Sunday. In its 66-42 season-ending thwacking at the hands of No. 3 seed LSU, the Wolverines failed to exe- cute a cohesive gameplan from start to finish, managing just 15 fir...…

…J ust this week, a horrific mass shooting at Michigan State University shocked the nation and rocked our campus, as many have friends and relatives attending the nearby university. Its close proximity and the hours- long “shelter-in-place” order had many feeling anxious, confused and angry. But most significantly, the feeling of loss was overwhelming: the lives of Brian Fraser, Alexandria Verner and Arielle Anderson were...…

…T he loud music, dim lighting and cheap liquor blurred my surroundings in Rick’s American Cafe, an underground hideaway for most seniors at the University of Michigan. It was the beginning of another interminable Thursday night. It took me a few seconds to notice that a man had slid into the sticky upholstered seating next to me. He was inches away from my bare arm and lightly bumped into me, giving himself away. “Sorry,” I said, mov...…

…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Sports Wednesday, September 22, 2021 — 11 On Senior Night, seniors lead Michigan to comeback victory The Michigan volleyball team (7-2) cruised to an easy victory against Boston College (10-4) on Friday evening, winning 3-0 in its final match Friday. The Wolverines jumped to an early lead as they took the first set 25-13 behind senior outside hitter Paige Jones’s five kills and junior middle ...…