…B lack History Month, for me, is by far the most meaningful month of the year. A time to reflect on the triumphs, tragedies and teachable moments of the past, while celebrating the influential people, institutions and events of today. It is also a time to look to the future and imagine a society greater than the one we currently inhabit. Since President Gerald Ford commissioned February as Black History Month in 1976 as a ...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Arts Friday, February 24, 2017 — 5 What will win: Some performances are stellar for their front-fac- ing exuberance. Even harder is keeping a vivid char- acter reserved and internal, with a complex morality bubbling and churning beneath the surface while life passes before the character’s eyes. Mahershala Ali’s Juan, the drug-dealing surrogate father to young Chi- ron in “Moonlight,” is the highligh...…
…ACROSS 1 Test in which contrasts are helpful, briefly 4 __ stiff 10 Minor set-to 14 Huffington Post owner 15 Wedding offering 16 Defunct food coating 17 Domestic shamelessness? 20 Boundary 21 Legal tender with a torch 22 Dealer’s offering 23 __ voce 25 Body shop supply 26 Near giveaway at the liquor store? 30 2016 Billboard Top Artist 31 Besides Linus, the only Nobel laureate in two fields 32 Take badly? 35 Alluring 36 Postgame staple 37 Candy...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Sports Friday, February 24, 2017 — 7 Michigan routs Nebraska on Senior Night Back on Jan. 22, the No. 25 Michigan women’s basketball team traveled to Lincoln and defeated Nebraska, 84-51. It was the Wolverines’ most lopsided victory in Big Ten play. Michigan was just five points away from tying that margin Thursday night at Crisler Center, as the Wolverines routed the Cornhuskers, 88-6...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com 8 — Friday, February 24, 2016 …
…Members of the University of Michigan’s Senate Assembly passed a resolution on Monday brought forth by the Academic Affairs Advisory Committee regarding salary cuts as a way to demote faculty. The meeting was also a chance for the assembly to hear last remarks from outgoing Provost Martha Pollack and initial remarks from incoming Interim Provost Paul Courant, a public policy professor. The faculty began t...…
…FACEBOOK STALKING. puzzle by sudokusyndication.com 2 — Tuesday, January 24, 2017 News The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Tweets Follow @michigandaily sam so @samuelsch99 Yellow car game except with canada goose when you go to Ann Arbor. Annie Shapiro @AnnieShapiro91 When your flight is delayed by 3 hours& you miss work, but all you rly care abt is that you made it back in time to see @ShaunKing at @UMich Michigan Students @U...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com News Tuesday, January 24, 2017 — 3 AARON BAKER/Daily The Movement Dance group practices in Angell Hall on Monday. punitive teaching roles … moving office space, and so on … But in each of those cases, a value judgment would have to be made regarding whether or not a demotion had occurred. We chose to keep the resolution short and simple, rather than to anticipate all the hypothetical abu...…
…W ith Valentine’s Day less than a month away and the heart- shaped boxes of chocolate appearing on the shelves of Walgreens, I find myself reminded of the time when I would spend countless hours perusing aisle upon aisle for the perfect box for my then-girlfriend. As a bachelor who experiences the common fear of finding himself dateless for Feb. 14, I take solace in the fact that I no longer bear the...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Arts Tuesday, January 24, 2017 — 5 Masterfully measured sounds of ‘La La Land’ Film’s score blends influences from historical genres into a stirring, and effective, emotional cinematic soundscape Part of the mastery of Damien Chazelle’s “La La Land” is its timing. When Sebastian takes Mia — played by Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone, respectively — to a jazz club after she declares her hatred for...…
…Classifieds Call: #734-418-4115 Email: dailydisplay@gmail.com ACROSS 1 Foot-in-mouth incident 6 Blue ox of folklore 10 Pork or lamb cut 14 Indian or Iranian 15 Tag sale condition 16 Helen of Troy’s mother 17 Golf stroke played from sand 19 Wrinkle remover 20 Remarkable times 21 Homes of blue- plate specials 23 “The Simpsons” creator Groening 26 Apple mobile platform 28 __ fit: tantrum 29 Readily available 31 Jerry of “Law & Order” 34 Act div...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Sports Tuesday, January 24, 2017 — 7 Wolverines growing on the defensive end On Jan. 11 in Champaign, the Michigan men’s basketball team allowed Illinois to shoot 64 percent from both the field and beyond the arc in a game which the Fighting Illini scored 1.393 points per possession. It was a contest that Michigan coach John Beilein labeled as the potential “low point” of the season, and...…
…8 — Tuesday, January 24, 2017 Sports The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Wolverines carry momentum into Notre Dame Invitational Coming off a second-place finish at the NCAA Championships for cross country last November, Erin Finn hasn’t lost her step. The senior ran away from the rest of the field in the 3,000-meter race at Saturday’s Notre Dame Invitational in South Bend, Ind., winning with a time of 9:07.24 – the fastest tim...…
…LSA junior Heather Martin was just 17 when her older sister Angie fatally overdosed in their family home, following a seven-year struggle with opiate addiction. Martin said her sister, throughout her life, was always a bubbly, amiable person. As The captains of the Michigan football team and women’s basketball team, as well as former men’s basketball Fab Five member Jimmy King, were among those present at the first- ever ...…
…Families, kids and dancers gathered around the Cube for a afternoon of pumpkin decorating, dressing up and a child’s rendition of Michael Jackson’s “Beat It” Sunday, organized by University of Michigan student group Dance Marathon. Dance Marathon, a student organization on campus, raises money for children with disabilities in Beaumont Hospital in Royal Oak and C.S. Mott, including a thorough 24-hour dance party towa...…
…3-News The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com News Monday, October 24, 2016 — 3A the vote efforts. However, those have very little to do with attracting candidates or surrogate visits, and only coordinate after a visit is announced. “It’s a very formalized process that is mostly done through the campaign,” said LSA senior Lauren Gallagher, Students for Hillary president. Cynthia Wilbanks, vice president of government re...…
…T wo years ago, I joined ROTC on campus as a sophomore. That March, in 2015, the boy I considered to be one of my closest friends both in the program and in the school decided to take advantage of me one night after I had been drinking at the bars. I didn’t know what to think the next few days; I passed the night off as something that had happened before: I got too drunk, and mistakes were made. It wasn’t until I came back to sc...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Arts Monday, October 24, 2016 — 5A HEY. YOU'RE DOING GREAT AND WE know you can do it. Don't give up! Classifieds Call: #734-418-4115 Email: dailydisplay@gmail.com ACROSS 1 “Handle __ care” 5 Burns with hot liquid 11 Ex-Florida governor Bush 14 “__ Ben Adhem” 15 Reacts facially to a bad joke, say 16 Chopping tool 17 What snowbirds seek in winter 19 “Mamma __!” 20 Mecca’s peninsula 21 Heat in a m...…
…American Football’s first release in 17 years begins softly, with a quietly crescendoing set of chimes that reverberate through the ears. The delicacy of the noise evokes thoughts of tinkling wind chimes dancing in the wind, reminiscent of a sun soaked warm welcome back home after a long and tiring adventure. The group was originally active from 1997 to 2000, releasing their first self-titled LP in 1999 an...…
…B The Michigan Daily | michigandaily.com | October 24, 2016 Stadium Sundays At the Big House on Sunday mornings, a community cleans up and builds a family » SportsMonday Column, Page 2B Home Cooking Michigan won the series opener against Michigan Tech on Friday, 4-3, and then rallied for a tie Saturday » Page 3B De’Veon Smith ran left on the first play. De’Veon Smith ran right on the second. Wilton Speight threw on the third...…
…2B — October 24, 2016 SportsMonday The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com SPORTSMONDAY COLUMN Cleaning up the Big House L ike clockwork, the cars start showing up at 7:30 a.m. sharp. Before that, the streets of Ann Arbor are quiet but for a single garbage truck. The sky is dark, lit only by a crescent moon. At Michigan Stadium, the lights are still on. A few more garbage trucks circle the concourse inside the stadium and...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com SportsMonday October 24, 2016 — 3B ‘M’ falls to Buckeyes in 2OT After 109 scoreless minutes marred by physicality from the onset, the Michigan men’s soccer team strived for a miracle goal or at least a draw against visiting Ohio State (3-3-1 Big Ten, 5-10-1 overall) Friday night. But with just 23 seconds left in the second overtime, Buckeye midfielder Ben Fitzpatrick tapped the ba...…
…4B — October 24, 2016 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com SportsMonday The good, the bad and the ugly: Michigan 41, Illinois 8 One week ahead of a perhaps slightly deflated visit to East Lansing, the Michigan football team kept rolling. The Wolverines raced to a 41-8 win over Illinois at Michigan Stadium on Saturday, keeping them undefeated heading into a rivalry game against Michigan State. The Daily broke down the good, t...…
…michigandaily.com Ann Arbor, Michigan Thursday, March 24, 2016 ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY-FIVE YEARS OF EDITORIAL FREEDOM INDEX Vol. CXXV, No. 95 ©2015 The Michigan Daily michigandaily.com NEWS......................... 2A OPINION.....................4A SPORTS ......................7A SUDOKU..................... 2A CL ASSIFIEDS............... 5A B - S I D E . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 B NEW ON MICHIGANDAILY.COM Complaints aga...…
…more students, a sentiment Rodriguez echoed. “The president firmly believes that anyone who works hard should not be priced out of a college opportunity and college education, particularly with the demands of today’s economy,” Rodriguez said. He said the administration has also made progress by working to keep interest payments low and cap student loan payments at 10 percent of their income. As well, by putting the Fre...…
…3-News The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com News Thursday, March 24, 2016 — 3A CLAIRE ABDO/Daily LSA sophomore Lindsay Randolph, president of Students for Kasich, discusses her thoughts on the 2016 presidential election on the Diag Monday. you make one of those objects soft like rubber, then when you try to push off the hard object, it makes the rubber deform,” Golovin said. “That deformation creates a stress concentrator between th...…
…C entral Student Government elections are currently underway. Save for the spammy Facebook messages you’re likely receiving from your friends — or “friends,” broadly construed — asking you to vote for them, you may not have paid much attention to the elections at all. Students on this campus certainly don’t face a shortage of challenges — but many of them don’t necessarily see CSG as the body destined to solve them. That n...…
…HAPPY THURSDAY! Enjoy the Sudoku on page 2 Classifieds Call: #734-418-4115 Email: dailydisplay@gmail.com ACROSS 1 See 44-Across 5 Bremen or Hamburg, locally 10 Fast-food order 14 Joie de vivre 15 Circus Maximus attire 16 Pizza chain started in Chicago, informally 17 Rich and Chris in a capital? 19 Pond denizen 20 Stumped 21 Fragrant hybrid 23 Billy and Minnie on a road? 27 Pub order 30 Cause harm 31 Capt.’s direction 32 Family member 33 “...…
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…B The Michigan Daily | michigandaily.com | Thursday, March 24, 2016 the b-side Seven Mile Music Brings Harmony to Detroit by Dayton Hare Daily Arts Writer T I E H M U S C I S S U E People have been noticing the salubrious effects of music for a long time. Both in regard to individuals and the public at large, its health benefits have been trumpeted by musicians, scientists and perhaps overly enthused devotees th...…
…2B — Thursday, March 24, 2016 the b-side The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com MUSIC VIDEO REVIEW A broken record sputters and repeats, much like the opening of Little Scream’s “Love As a Weapon” music video. Zooming out of an ornate frame, the shot reveals singer Laurel Spren- gelmeyer lounging in a wooden chair, surrounded by wood-pan- eled walls. The scene changes only slightly with each repeti- tion, not unlike a game of s...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com the b-side Trying to hear it all By MELINA GLUSAC Senior Arts Editor I really don’t want to start another piece talking about being cooped up in Espresso Royale and contemplating life. It’s been done before, and if there’s anything a burgeoning writer strives to avoid, it’s clichés. But I’m here — the walls are the kind of red that looks like home, the paintings are abstract enough to distra...…
…4B — Thursday, March 24, 2016 the b-side The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com EPISODE REVIEW Since the beginning of CW’s excellent first season of the musical comedy “Crazy Ex-Girl- friend,” we have watched pro- tagonist Rebecca Bunch (Rachel Bloom, “Robot Chicken”) develop from a delusional, depressed New York lawyer into a sunny, self-aware California woman. In this week’s episode “Josh Has No Idea Where I Am!,” the show...…
…michigandaily.com Ann Arbor, Michigan Wednesday, February 24, 2016 ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY-FIVE YEARS OF EDITORIAL FREEDOM Body discusses issues of abseentism at meetings By ANNA HARITOS Daily Staff Reporter At Tuesday’s meeting, representatives of Central Student Government discussed medical amnesty, recalling representatives, an upcoming mental health survey and two resolutions. During the meeting, the assembly...…
…9 5 7 3 1 9 7 2 3 1 5 8 9 2 3 4 1 8 2 5 7 9 4 3 4 SHARING CLOSE QUARTERS. puzzle by sudokusyndication.com 2A — Wednesday, February 24, 2016 News The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com NEWS BRIEF ANDREW COHEN/Daily Rackham student Niklas Tamm prefaces the U-M Choirs and Symphony Orchestra performance of Brahms, Mahler and Vaughan Williams with a a description of the story of the piece. CL A SSIC CHOIR Twenty-nine ...…
…3-News The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com News Wednesday, February 24, 2016 — 3A RC Art Gallery displays student- prisoner photos The Residential College Art Gallery in East Quad will display student-prisoneer collaborative photos through April 8, a University press release reports. The project is the first ever photography workshop in the state that included both students and inmates, and it was part of Humanize the Numbers ...…
…Opinion SHOHAM GEVA EDITOR IN CHIEF CLAIRE BRYAN AND REGAN DETWILER EDITORIAL PAGE EDITORS LAURA SCHINAGLE MANAGING EDITOR 420 Maynard St. Ann Arbor, MI 48109 tothedaily@michigandaily.com Edited and managed by students at the University of Michigan since 1890. Unsigned editorials reflect the official position of the Daily’s Editorial Board. All other signed articles and illustrations represent solely the views of their authors...…
…‘Witch’ is terrifying By JACOB RICH Senior Arts Editor A24 is quietly killing it. Do peo- ple realize how many of the great- est films of the 2010’s this New York-based distribution company has financed? None of their films make an enor- mous amount of money — the few that have done huge numbers include “Ex Machina,” my favor- ite film of 2015, and the critically acclaimed Amy Winehouse doc “Amy” — but almost all of them ar...…
…ACROSS 1 Lobsters’ sense organs 6 Celebs 10 Flight from the law 13 Poker declaration 14 “__ my guard down” 15 Famille patriarch 16 Form by combining elements 18 One-piece garments, slangily 19 Rome-based carrier 20 Toll road timesaver 22 “Girls Just Want to Have Fun” singer 24 Performer’s supporters 28 Guacamole, e.g. 29 Twisty letter 30 Diva delivery 31 Snoozed 33 Fictional voyager 40 Retired New York senator Al D’__ 41 Rational 42 DDE rival ...…
…Defenseman Martin tries hand at forward By KEVIN SANTO Daily Sports Writer Cutler Martin stepped off the rink after Monday’s practice, and judging by the smirk on his face, you could get a sense that something witty was coming. Observing Cooper Marody speaking to reporters, Martin cracked a joke that it was time for Marody to join his fellow freshmen in collecting all the pucks on the ice. Martin took the first-year forward’s s...…
…8A — Wednesday, February 24, 2016 Sports The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Wolverines brace for Northwestern By SIMON KAUFMAN Daily Sports Editor Before addressing the media on Tuesday, Michigan men’s basketball coach John Beilein lightheartedly noted that with spring approaching, the days have been getting longer. “You know we’re getting 11 hours of daylight every day right now? You know that?” Beilein ...…
…2B Magazine Editor: Karl Williams Deputy Editor: Nabeel Chollampat Design Editor: Shane Achenbach Photo Editor: Zoey Holmstrom Creative Director: Emilie Farrugia Editor in Chief: Shoham Geva Managing Editor: Laura Schinagle Copy Editors: Emily Campbell Alexis Nowicki Jose Rosales the statement Wednesday, February 24. 2016 // The Statement Dear Readers, Literary Issue, light of our lives, fire of our loins. Our sin, our...…
…3B Wednesday, February 24, 2016 // The Statement “I hear you’re bad at sex,” she says to the boy. A chuck- le bursts out but they don’t notice. No one ever notices the sometimes shy one posted against the wall, pants or no pants. The boy looks startled a bit. She grins. “Me? Who t(old) you that?” Pathetic, but who can blame the boy. The party noise eats the rest, so refocus to left eye corner. She’s still smiling, and so is the boy bu...…
…Wednesday, February 24, 2016 // The Statement Wednesday, February 24, 2016 // The Statement 4B 5B Bywater Squabble Eliza Cadoux Excerpted from Call Your Mom’s upcoming performance This Close Blanche hollers thinking I let the place go? I let the place go? Only it’s me And this isn’t Scene 1, and we are northerners In this humid city And I say thinking I’ll let you go? I’ll let you go? We rode bikes over And over Dark rings under your ...…
…Wednesday, February 24, 2016 // The Statement 6B Wakeful: A Year in Sleeping by Claire Bryan, Editorial Page Editor Yesterday morning, I drank decaf coffee. Last night, I crawled into bed a little before midnight, but did not fall asleep until 3:30 or 4 a.m. And yet, now, at 6:11 a.m, I am a piercing, alert awake. I shove my phone back onto my desk and push my eyes closed. The light from my phone’s screen creates an imprint on the...…
…Wednesday, February 24, 2016 // The Statement 7B to my health insurance company but never did. It was given to me nine weeks ago by a therapist… my therapist. I kept it because it gave me concreteness every time I opened this notebook that sat on the desk next to my bed, it told me — or by keeping it there I was trying to get it to tell me — a piece of my identity. “This is the room we have available at this time, it is typi...…
…Wednesday, February 24, 2016 // The Statement 8B I is this poem good will it get me laughed at or yelled at or whatever nah you’re fine is this paper good will i pass this class will i be put on academic probation and be publically humiliated nah you’re fine what do i do here do I text them back now? tomorrow? what’s the protocol? you worry too much. like, literally no one cares about these things as much as you II [ ] broke up with me ...…
…michigandaily.com Ann Arbor, Michigan Tuesday, November 24, 2015 ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY-FIVE YEARS OF EDITORIAL FREEDOM INDEX Vol. CXXV, No. 35 ©2015 The Michigan Daily michigandaily.com NEWS............................2 OPINION.......................4 ARTS............................. 5 SPORTS.........................7 SU DO K U. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 CL ASSIFIEDS.................6 NEW ON MICHIGANDAILY.COM Commu...…
…2 — Tuesday, November 24, 2015 News The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com THREE THINGS YOU SHOULD KNOW TODAY The Michigan women’s basketball team cruised to a 119-61 blowout of South Carolina Upstate at Crisler Center on Monday night, moving to 4-0 on the year. >>FOR MORE, SEE PG. 7 2 CAMPUS EVENTS & NOTES French police reportedly found an explosive vest in a suburb in southern Paris on Monday, The New York Times re...…
…“The UN wants this content not to happen in a black box,” Hogikyan said. “They want people around the world to know what’s happening, so they invite these people to come as observers.” Engineering senior Matthew Irish, who will also be attending the COP, said it will be one of the most important negotiations looking into the future of climate change. The team of University students and faculty will attend as observers...…
