…About 50 students and faculty convened Tuesday evening in the Rackham Amphitheatre for the 2nd annual King Talks, a TED-talk style lecture. The event is part of the weeklong Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Symposium celebration, which included a keynote lecture and more than 20 other events. The King Talks event featured four graduate student speakers who shared how their work and life experiences related to the legac...…
…SK Y HIGH IN COLOR ADO ON THE DAILY: LIST SAYS ANN ARBOR THE PLACE TO GO FOR A CUP OF JOE THIS WEEK IN HISTORY: STUDENTS SIT IN TO PROTEST RESEARCH For those who require a daily fix of coffee, Ann Arbor is one of the best places to be, according to a ranking from ApartmentGuide.com. Ann Arbor made it as one of the top cities on Apartment Guide’s Top 10 Best Cities for Coffee Lovers list. Apartment Guide credited Ann Arbor’s p...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com News Wednesday, January 23, 2019 — 3A To explore the implications of this disciplinary disparity, Tucker-Shabazz compared classroom punishment to charges on a bank account, drawing the metaphor that positive behavior increases a student’s balance. “This is a hidden fee, but this is also a steep fee that young Black girls are paying for the same misconduct,” Tucker-Shabazz said. “One pa...…
…Opinion The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com 4A — Wednesday, January 23, 2019 We need an effective carbon neutrality commission THE CLIMATE ACTION MOVEMENT AT U-M | OP-ED 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 FINN STORER ...…
…On a hot summer day in 1947, a rancher noticed some kind of wreckage on a homestead outside Roswell, New Mexico. Then the Army came. And so the theories of extraterrestrials emerged. The mystery of this small New Mexico town has captivated us for seventy years now. If The CW’s new teen- soap would have you believe, the key to this small-town mystery is that Liz Ortecho (Jeanine Mason, “Grey’s Anatomy”) is having some very close enc...…
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…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Sports Wednesday, January 23, 2019 — 7A Swimmers find home away from home with ‘M’ Before the start of its senior day meet, the No. 2 Michigan women’s swimming and diving team lined up on the deck for the playing of the national anthem. But the Star Spangled Banner wasn’t the only anthem played. Michigan played the Chinese, Japanese and Yemeni national anthems and hung flags for each country o...…
…8A — Wednesday, January 23, 2019 Sports The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com At the buzzer Charles Matthews nails floater as time expires to stave off late upset bid from Minnesota MINNESOTA MICHIGAN 57 59 Michigan stood on the cusp of disaster, and Ignas Brazdeikis started a drive. When he finished it, things hadn’t gotten much better — a layup attempt falling short, the game still tied, a double-digit lead still blown, over...…
…ILLUSTRATION BY BREE ANDRUZZI statement THE MICHIGAN DAILY | JANUARY 23, 2019 On Connie Converse, considering the lilies …
…D ear Friends and Family, In our current political climate, everybody is more than aware the world is being ravaged by none other than a deadly, vicious virus: angry, annoying femi- nists. These women are demanding equal rights, rioting on the streets, speaking out against abuse from their male counterparts and drilling for an end to gender dis- crimination. Demanding respect — as if they deserve that. As if they’ve earned it. I have al...…
…Wednesday, January 23, 2019 // The Statement 3B M y blasé attitude toward New Year’s Eve was challenged while standing in the dairy aisle of the grocery store. Before that moment, I have never been one to indulge in the holiday branded with sequin dresses, champagne flutes and a drunken chorus counting down to another year of obligations. The occasion never quite seemed to fulfill “An Affair to Remember’s” promise of finding romanc...…
…I f I have two things to thank for introducing me to the heavenly spir- it that is Connie Converse, they are Spotify’s Discover Weekly algorithm and The New Yorker. Last summer, deciding to throw caution and typical career paths to the wind, I packed my bags and flew to Dehradun, India. There I worked for Anku- ri, a women’s rights non-prof- it that teaches high school English. In a foreign country, hundreds of miles f...…
…revival at a very young age, I automatically thought this must be from that era of musicians, gleaming what- ever they can from Harry Smith ’s Anthology of Ameri- can Folk Music. But as the song winds up, the guitar becomes more intricate. In addition, the voice is beyond anything I’ve ever heard before. It is gentle and soothing like the chime of a wind-up snow globe, yet there’s a fire burning under- neath, an urgen...…
…“In 2004 when she was played on ‘Spinning on Air,’ that was her first exposure to radio and I just still consider myself very lucky to have heard it, and I was very moved by it, and it just felt like very important music,” Dzula said. “I remember thinking at the time that, ‘Well this is such amaz- ing music, any day now someone’s going to release the album,’ and that just didn’t happen.” Four years after Dzula first heard Convers...…
…7B ILLUSTRATION BY MATT HARMON essay, she began drinking and smok- ing heavily. Then, in 1974, while her brother and his family were on sum- mer vacation, she packed up her things and penned a few letters to family and friends, begging them to “let me go. Let me be if I can. Let me not be if I can’t … Human society fascinates me and awes me and fills me with grief and joy; I just can’t find my place to plug into it.” After ...…
…V I S U A L S T A T E M E N T : Andrew Rogers, a staff organist at the Michigan Theater, first became in- terested in the organ at a chapel at one of his spiritual retreats before coming to the Michigan Theater. “I started to enjoy some of the sounds of the organ but then I got interested in wanting to learn how to play,” Rogers said. “Music was always in the background. I worked for a travel agency and I had (a) church job and mus...…
