…Thursday, May 28, 2020 INDEX Vol. CXXIX, No. 115 © 2020 The Michigan Daily NEWS .................................... OPINION ............................... ARTS/NEWS.......................... MiC......................................... SPORTS................................ MICHIGAN IN COLOR Color & Coronavirus Racial disparities in America expose communities of color to the ravaging pandemic at alarming rates. >> SEE PAGE 8 NE...…
… Public commenters talk equitable funding, contract negotiations The University of Michigan’s Board of Regents held its third meeting of the year via Zoom on Thursday to approve recommend- ed revisions to the Regents’ bylaws and address ongoing changes in University operations amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Univer- sity President Mark Schlissel said Regent Katherine White (D) was not present due to an assignment with the National Gu...…
…As University of Michigan stu- dents wait to hear whether their fall term will be online, in-person or some combination of the two University President Mark Schlis- sel predicts that whatever deci- sion is made regarding classes will likely last through the academic year, not just for fall semester. In an interview with the Wall Street Journal, Schlissel discussed mak- ing the call on whether classes are online or in person for the fo...…
…A ssuming all things go as planned without any exten- sions, Gov. Gretchen Whit- mer’s COVID-19 stay-at-home order is set to end at 11:59 pm on June 12, with certain industries such as auto manufacturers being allowed to partially reopen before then. This extension is part of a carefully cre- ated protocol, known as MI Safe Start, which gradually eases stay-at- home restrictions based on how well COVID-19 cases are decreasing in the ...…
…5 OPINION Thursday, May 28, 2020 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com 5 OPINION A s COVID-19 continues to run its course across the United States, there are few aspects of Ameri- can life that have avoided this pandemic’s disastrous impact. According to medical data compiled by Johns Hopkins University, over 100,000 Americans have succumbed to COVID-19. At the same time, the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the Unive...…
…6 Thursday, May 28 , 2020 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com ARTS A ‘New Horizons’ diary The music that plays at 5 a.m. in “Animal Crossing: New Horizons” is beautiful. I’ve only heard it in-game once. Not because I’m some Fortune 500 freak who thinks waking up at the ass crack of dawn is the key to success, or because I woke up in the middle of the night and booted up the game because I couldn’t go to sleep. No. Because I had ...…
…A relationship’s “spark” is an abstract con- cept that we love to talk about. Whether it’s the reason someone might want to break up or it’s why we aren’t going on that second Tin- der date, the world seems to have collectively agreed that it’s the key to a good relationship. But what happens when the spark starts to fizzle? Or disappears altogether? Some couples go to marriage counseling while others might turn to less traditional meth...…
…8 Thursday, May 28, 2020 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com MICHIGAN IN COLOR Color as a symptom of the coronavirus As the spread of the coronavirus exponentially increases by the day, so does its toll with 1,678,843 total cases and 99,031 deaths in the U.S. alone. Despite making up only 13.4 percent of this nation’s population, the Black population is seen to be disproportionately victim of more than 50% of reported cases, 33 p...…
…9 Thursday, May 28, 2020 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com MICHIGAN IN COLOR ‘Never Have I Ever’ gone into an introspective spiral SUNITHA PALAT MiC Staff Writer Recently, I binged Season 1 of Mindy Kaling’s “Never Have I Ever,” a classic com- ing-of-age teen rom-com revolving around the life of a 15-year old Indian American, Devi Vishwakumar. At first I was uninter- ested in another heartfelt yet cringey Netflix series, but the ...…
…10 Thursday, May 28, 2020 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com SPORTS Schlissel warns ‘M’ won’t play without on-campus instruction As colleges and conferences across the country move closer to resuming athletic activities, Michigan President Mark Schlissel is taking a much more measured approach. “If there is no on-campus instruction then there won’t be intercollegiate athletics, at least for Michigan,” Schlissel said in an int...…
…11 Thursday, May 28, 2020 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com SPORTS Michael Barrett looks like Khaleke Hudson’s replacement at VIPER The last time Michigan football needed to find a new VIPER, it looked to Khaleke Hudson. Now, with Hudson going to the NFL’s Washington Redskins, defensive coordinator Don Brown needs another starter at the hybrid position, and he thinks he’s got one in Michael Barrett. “I’d seen enough out of Micha...…
…Jim Harbaugh knows Michigan has to beat Ohio State. Don Brown is falling right behind him in line. “I think coach (Harbaugh) addressed the Ohio State issue yesterday, am I right?” Brown said on a Zoom call with reporters. “So he’s the boss, that’s what he said, that’s what I’m gonna try to do.” Speaking on Mike Tirico’s show Wednesday, Harbaugh said, “Nothing makes us angrier,” than losing to Ohio State. Over the last decade,...…
