…This article is the second part of a two-part investigation by The Michigan Daily into allegations of sexual misconduct against computer science professor Walter Lasecki and the University of Michigan’s handling of these allegations. It is based on emails, documents, notes and interviews with 12 individuals knowledgeable of these events. Part one focused on the allegations against Lasecki and the divergent conclusions of the Uni...…
…The University of Michigan’s Central Student Government (CSG) hosted a “Community Concerns” panel during the sixth meeting of the 11th CSG assembly. Students, alumni and staff voiced their concerns or support for CSG leadership’s recent statement of solidarity with the Palestinian community, which was released last Tuesday. In the statement, executive team members of CSG wrote that they recognize anti-Palestinian sentiment o...…
…A class action complaint was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan on Thursday against the University of Michigan for its handling of allegations of sexual assault against former University doctor Robert E. Anderson. The complaint, in order to prevent and respond to sexual violence on the U-M campus, seeks a court order that will require the University to carry out major reforms surrounding the ...…
…4 Thursday, May 27, 2021 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com OPINION T he strawberry dress. The crossover leggings. The Vivianne Westwood pearl choker. There are endless examples of fashion trends that TikTok has breathed into existence. This relatively new smartphone application has so much ownership over these trends that their original names are frequently tossed aside in favor of “the TikTok (insert article of clothing)...…
…the frog can definitively say the water has suddenly become too hot, there is usually no single, objective point where a system becomes too illiberal to be considered a real democracy. For instance, although America has free and fair elections, it also has several hugely unrepresentative political insti- tutions and a rash of voter restrictions. These limitations obviously don’t make America a totalitarian dictatorship à la North Kor...…
…For as long as I can remember, I have always been fat. For me, self- love could never be a matter of “you’re not fat” or “it’s all in your head” because through my daily interactions with other people, I’m often reminded that others see me as fat even when they mean well and especially when they don’t. As such, I had no choice but to confront fatness itself and accept myself as I was. However, loving my body was much easier said t...…
…7 Thursday, May 27, 2021 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com MICHIGAN IN COLOR The week begins with the Moon in Scorpio from May 24 to 25. The Scorpio Moon unearths our innermost desires and emotions, and lets us face them in all their intensity. Dig deep into your mind and abandon any fears or limiting beliefs. The powerful energy of the Scorpio Moon transitions into the even brighter full Moon and a lunar eclipse in Sa...…
…8 Thursday, May 27, 2021 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com ARTS ‘Shadow and Bone’ is the fantasy show we’ve been waiting for Courtesy of ‘Shadow and Bone’ There’s something so delightful about the fantasy genre when it’s done right. Maybe it’s the inner child in all of us that appreciates the mysticism and imagination that fuels every fantasy story, or perhaps it’s the adult in us that needs to fully escape our responsibiliti...…
…9 Thursday, May 27, 2021 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com ARTS On the first day of my 10th-grade American Literature class, as an introduction to the quintessential high-school-English-class novel “The Great Gatsby,” we learned about the ever-present American dream, or the belief that anyone can make it in the United States if they just work hard enough. To my then 15-year-old self, the critique of the American dream was ...…
…10 Thursday, May 27, 2021 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com STATEMENT Town or gown: the two sides of Ann Arbor Painting the rock at the corner of Hill Street and Washtenaw Avenue is much more than just a longstanding campus tradition. In 1953, Michigan students and their Michigan State counterparts began vandalizing each other’s campuses with paint the week before a rivalry football game, a tradition that escalated to stude...…
…The art of the roommate pitch It was a match made on Facebook. My roommate Maggie and I found each other on the Class of 2022 page and immediately clicked because we had so much in common. We had both taken gap years. We shared a bedtime (11pm to 1am), diet (vegetarian) and cleanliness level (we let clutter build up when we were busy). We were both training for our first marathon. We both came from small, religious communities i...…
…12 Thursday, May 27, 2021 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily. SPORTS Michigan shows it belongs In competitive debut, Michigan Adaptive Sports and Fitness sends a message SEATTLE — No team had ever beaten Washington in a regional game it hosted since 1995. The Huskies were a perfect 52-0. Yet there Michigan was in the bottom of the seventh, up 2-1, and just three outs away from being the first team to do so. Alex Storako clearly ...…
…Offense disappears in rubber game loss Blown opportunity: Michigan falls short in NCAA Regional final, wasting talented senior class The No. 24 Michigan baseball team entered the bottom of the ninth down by four runs — not an insurmountable deficit by the Wolverines’ standards. When slugger Griffin Mazur came to bat with one on and only one out, he needed just one good swing to put Michigan back in the game. Instead, the fifth-...…
…14 Thursday, May 27, 2021 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com SPORTS SEATTLE — Boos rang out in a cacophony from the Seattle University fans as centerfielder Bailey Thompson was rung out on a changeup that floated in and picked the bottom right corner of the zone. From the press vantage point, nearly behind the plate, the pitch thrown by senior left-hander Meghan Beaubien was objectively a strike. So why the jeers from the Red...…
