…michigandaily.com Ann Arbor, Michigan Friday, January 31, 2020 ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY-NINE YEARS OF EDITORIAL FREEDOM GOT A NEWS TIP? Call 734-418-4115 or e-mail news@michigandaily.com and let us know. INDEX Vol. CXXIX, No. 61 ©2020 The Michigan Daily N E WS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 O PI N I O N . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 CL A SSIFIEDS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .6 S U D O K U . . . . . . ...…
…Thursday night kicked off the ninth annual Sustainable Ann Arbor forum, a series of monthly events from January to April focused on the city’s Sustainability Framework hosted by the Ann Arbor District Library. This month’s forum focused on the energy sector, with a panel of five experts in the field of sustainable energy each presenting on their respective areas of focus. About 60 community members attended the event. Jos...…
…Collins was the Joan and Sanford Weill Dean of Public Policy for 10 years. When she left her post in 2017, Collins described her efforts to improve the school’s visibility in a farewell letter. “I was a really staunch supporter that you don’t talk until you have something to say — you don’t want to be known as the wind bag; you want to be known for having done the analysis, for having depth of understanding of what the challen...…
…Opinion The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com 4 — Friday, January 31, 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 at ...…
…I make a habit of avoiding movie theaters. Among other more important reasons, I really don’t enjoy other people telling me how and when to react. Misplaced laughter and overzealous reactions ruin a movie experience for me, almost as must as cliches and far-fetched storylines. The experience of watching “Uncle Frank” was an unfortunate mix of all of these. “Uncle Frank” is the type of movie that is sure to bring in crow...…
…6 — Friday, January 31, 2020 Arts The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com WHISPER puzzle by sudokusnydictation.com By David Poole ©2020 Tribune Content Agency, LLC 01/31/20 Los Angeles Times Daily Crossword Puzzle Edited by Rich Norris and Joyce Nichols Lewis 01/31/20 ANSWER TO PREVIOUS PUZZLE: Release Date: Friday, January 31, 2020 ACROSS 1 Really big show 6 Sharp bark 10 Software product with a cup-and- saucer logo 14 Addresses 15 M...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Sports Friday, January 31, 2020 — 7 Franz Wagner does what Michigan needs most If Franz Wagner proved one thing in the first half of the Wolverines’ Big Ten slate, it’s that he doesn’t shy away from big moments. For the Michigan men’s basketball team, Tuesday’s game against Nebraska was one of those moments. With senior point guard Zavier Simpson (suspension) and junior forward Isaiah Li...…
… It was supposed to be a routine favor, a short and simple task for Mel Pearson. The Andersons, his billet family, were preoccupied and asked Pearson, then 16, to pick up one of their daughters for them. Naturally, Pearson borrowed one of their cars. His parents had taken most things, cars included, when they moved back to Flin Flon, Manitoba two years prior. Despite his inexperience driving, he didn’t shy away from the opportunity t...…
…With the renovation of the Michigan Union underway, stu- dents and faculty will decide on which three vendors will move into the space when it reopens in the winter of 2020. Members of the University of Michigan community expressed con- cern regarding the potential of Wendy’s moving back into the building due to employee labor conditions. Washtenaw Solidarity with Farmworkers, a community and student-based group, has been lobby...…
…The partial government shutdown — which ended temporarily on Sunday as lawmakers work to create an agreeable budget — directly impacted the ability of re- searchers at the Cooperative Institute for Great Lakes Re- search to publish their find- ings. Professor and ecologist at the University of Michigan’s School for Environment and Sustainability, Bradley Car- dinale serves as director of the CIGLR, a research orga- nization sponsore...…
…In October, Daley discov- ered the Michigan Union and Office of Procurement have begun the process of accepting bids for vendors. Daley said she was concerned because of the Union’s lack of transparency regarding the bids. Kim Broekhuizen, Univer- sity Public Affairs spokes- woman, described the bidding process, which last- ed from Oct. 24 to Dec. 31. Broekhuizen expects final selections to be made “soon”. “The University is engage...…
…Opinion The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com 4 — Thursday, January 31, 2019 M ore than four years since the start of the Flint water crisis, thousands of residents still have lead pipes. Flint is in the process of finding and replacing those pipes, but it is challenging. City records are spotty, making locating at-risk homes somewhat of a shot in the dark. However, simply digging up all the lines in the city would be costly a...…
…The Huron River It’s July in Michigan: A roasting sun hangs high over the Huron River while lazy, college students stretch out on the rowing docks. They sip on Oberons and blow up inner tubes. The river is murky, but it still glistens in the sunlight and is a temperature that is just perfect enough for a swim. Ann Arbor wouldn’t be Ann Arbor without this place. Located two miles from the Diag are the well-known docks of the Huron...…
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…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Sports Thursday, January 31, 2019 — 7 Postition review: running backs With the Michigan football team’s 2018 regular season in the books, The Daily looks back at the performance of each unit this year and peers ahead to the future in 2019. In this edition: running backs In the two weeks leading up to Michigan’s 41-15 Peach Bowl loss against Florida, with Karan Higdon having announced he wou...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Sports Thursday, January 31, 2019— 8 Trash talking in basketball comes with a set of unwritten, but impossible-to-forget rules. Among the most important of these dictums: it doesn’t leave the court. In the second half of Michigan’s 65-49 win over the Buckeyes on Tuesday, Zavier Simpson fell to the court after being on the business end of a hard screen from Ohio State’s Kaleb Wesson. As ...…
…In the first hours of the University of Michigan’s West Quad Residence Hall’s armed robbery in early December, residents and staff grew concerned with the sudden unexplained presence of police vehicles outside of the dorm and officers in the building. Many residents turned to social media and their friends to make sense of the situation, and very rapidly, a rumor about an active shooter spread through campus. Fortunately for...…
…APPLE SAUCE puzzle by sudokusyndication.com 420 Maynard St. Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1327 www.michigandaily.com NEWS TIPS news@michigandaily.com LETTERS TO THE EDITOR tothedaily@michigandaily.com EDITORIAL PAGE opinion@michigandaily.com NATHAN GUPTA Business Manager 734-418-4115 ext. 1241 nathankg@michigandaily.com ALEXA ST. JOHN Editor in Chief 734-418-4115 ext. 1251 alexastj@michigandaily.com The Michigan Daily (ISSN 0745-967) i...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com News Monday, January 31, 2018 — 3A DOR AK ON THE DIAG LSA junior Rachyl Lyons and LSA sophomore Kelly Bertoni, members of the Do Random Acts of Kindness Club, hold signs for “free thumbs up” and more on the Diag Tuesday. HALEY MCLAUGHLIN/Daily website about what to do in an emergency, such as the “Run, Hide, Fight” strategy if an active attacker enters campus. DPSS also launched a new smartphone...…
…L ast week, I attended a town hall meeting hosted by Stop Spencer at the University of Michigan, which was set up in order to discuss Richard Spencer’s impending visit to campus. I wanted to catch myself up on the current situation, the likelihood he would actually come and to understand the University’s response to this saga. I want to respond to two different things that I learned. First, according to the organize...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Arts Wednesday, January 31, 2018 — 5A On Friday, Jan. 26, Ann Arbor locals and residents from the far corners of the mitten state alike flocked to the University’s own Hill Auditorium for the 41st Annual Ann Arbor Folk Festival. Being so close to the festival, in geographical terms, might make University students write the event off as a minor happening, but the festival is, in reality, centra...…
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…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Sports Wednesday, January 31, 2018 — 7A Lockwood out for year after shoulder surgery Three weeks ago, Will Lockwood faced a choice: He could attempt to play through his latest shoulder injury and have surgery once the Michigan hockey team’s season was over, or have surgery as soon as possible. Rather than delay the inevitable, Lockwood chose the latter. After Tuesday’s prac...…
…8A — Wednesday, January 31, 2018 Sports The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Three days to learn: Inside Michigan’s game preparation On average, a college basketball team gets three or four days between games. Three or four days to process the last game, get better, learn everything there is to know about the next opponent, teach it to the players, travel if the game is on the road, then go out and play. That’s a hefty order, es...…
…statement THE MICHIGAN DAILY | JANUARY 31, 2018 Tech takes a seat in Ann Arbor …
…I f I have one hope for 2018 — besides finishing school, graduating, figuring out life and finding my bigger purpose in this world — it’s to drink better coffee than I did last year. Since I am coming to the final pages of this chapter of my college career, it would make sense for me to try “adulting” in all corners of my life. This includes the music I listen to, the things I eat, the things I say, the books I read, but also, ...…
…3B Wednesday, January 31, 2018 // The Statement Soundtracking: A Voice Crack W hy? Why would you betray me like this? I trusted you. I gave you my everything, and you went and pulled this shitake mushrooms? We all know voice cracking isn’t incredibly uncommon. It happens to the best of us. Even the best voices to ever grace our ears hit speed bumps every now and then. I bet some nights when he’s unwinding and getting ready fo...…
…Wednesday, January 31, 2018 // The Statement 4B Wednesday, January 31, 2018 // The Statement 5B Tech takes a seat in Ann Arbor I n October 2017, Duo Security — an Ann Arbor-based com- pany, launched by two Uni- versity of Michigan alumni in 2009 — made national headlines when it secured a $70 million round of fund- ing that brought it to be valued at over $1 billion dollars; the information tech- nology startup is known for producing ...…
…I got a text from my mom on a hot, busy afternoon in July. Of course, all of your July afternoons are hot and busy when you spend so much time taking care of 7-year-olds that you almost have no time to take care of yourself. The text read, “Call Dad. It’s important.” My Nana had been sick for years. Ovarian cancer is a relentless battle, one that she had both lost and conquered gracefully. I braced myself for the news as I dial...…
…stages aren’t necessarily the same for everyone. I also learned that the anticipation of death doesn’t make it hurt any less. You can try to imagine what life will be like when someone is gone, in a morbid sort of attempt to prepare yourself. But when you get the call, when the finality sets in, it doesn’t matter how long you spent preparing, or how many times you said goodbye. It hits you hard and hurts all the same. I spent to...…
…Wednesday, January 31, 2018 // The Statement 8B V I S U A L S T A T E M E N T : I N S I D E T H E T E C H S P A C E Photos by Alec Cohen and Amelia Cacchione This week, the lead brought our photographers to Ann Arbor SPARK and Clinc, a local AI startup …
…President Donald Trump signed an executive order last Monday that placed a hiring freeze on the federal government, with the exception of military, national security and public safety personnel. The two-page order, which was promised during his campaign as a part of his “Day One” agenda, is meant to cut government payrolls and ensure a more efficient government. According to Trump’s contract with the American voter, the fr...…
…PEACE OUT, JANUARY. puzzle by sudokusyndication.com NEW WEEK, NEW ME. puzzle by sudokusyndication.com 2 — Tuesday, January 31, 2017 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com News Engaged Scholarship and Academic Values WHAT: Hiram Fitzgerald, associate provost at MSU, will discuss the impact community engagment can have on productive citizenship. WHO: UM Center for Educational Outreach WHEN: 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. WHERE: Michigan Leag...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com News Tuesday, January 31, 2017 — 3 since 1965. Despite worry from union members and veterans, Spicer said the freeze is ultimately to protect the working class. “Some people are working two, three jobs just to get by,” Spicer said. “And to see money get wasted in Washington on a job that is duplicative is insulting to the hard work that they do to pay their taxes.” LSA junior Taiwo Dosun...…
…FROM THE DAILY Standing with our students L ast Friday, Jan. 27, President Donald Trump issued an executive order barring the immigration of people from seven majority-Muslim countries for 90 days, suspending most refugee resettlement for 120 days and indefinitely barring the resettlement of all eligible Syrian refugees in the United States. The affected countries include Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen. The controver...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Arts Tuesday, January 31, 2017 — 5 Sal DiGioia/MICHIGAN DAILY “I hope you take some inspiration from it and I hope you like it. We about to get this shit poppin’.” Those were some of the last words before Big Sean premiered his fourth studio album, I Decided., on Sunday night among friends, family and some limited press at the Museum of Contemporary Art in his hometown of Detro...…
…HAPPY TUESDAY! Classifieds Call: #734-418-4115 Email: dailydisplay@gmail.com ACROSS 1 Greek sandwich 5 Happy gatherings 10 Baby cow 14 Control for an equestrian 15 In full view 16 Buckeye State 17 Horse feed 18 TV’s “The Practice,” e.g. 20 “Bummer!” 22 Ford fiasco 23 Provides staff for 24 “That makes sense” 26 Champagne stopper or popper 27 Genius Bar pro 29 JFK’s successor 32 High-card-wins game 33 Enjoy 35 Submitted tax returns with a cli...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Sports Tuesday, January 31, 2017 — 7 Walton emerging as MVP for ‘M’ In Michigan’s loss at Illinois a few weeks ago, Derrick Walton Jr. had a moment atypical of someone with his level of experience and composure. After picking up an offensive foul, Walton spiked the basketball, picked up a technical foul and was forced to sit the rest of the first half on the bench with two fouls. What tr...…
…8 — Tuesday, January 31, 2017 Sports The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com ‘M’ splits weekend tilt at ITA Kick-Off Traveling to Norman, Okla. for the ITA Kick-Off, the No. 19 Michigan men’s tennis team split its weekend series, losing 4-1 to No. 16 Oklahoma on Saturday, but defeating No. 25 Arkansas on Sunday, 4-0. Saturday’s match was marked with a flurry of Oklahoma victories, as the Sooners opened up a decisive 3-0 lead, wit...…
…P iC t Hn , a tll Ann Arbor, Michigan Friday, January 31, 2014 michigandaily.com ATHLETICS Gibbons fax sent Dec.19 came from 'U' football Melissa Harris-Perry, a professor of Political Science at Tulane University and host of her own show on MSNBC, spoke at the Rackham Auditorium Thursday eve- ning on how to talk about race and leadership on campus as part of the Black History Month. MSNBC host tackles race Harris-Perry opens University'...…
…2 - Friday, January 31, 2014 The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.com 2 - Friday, January 31, 2014 The Michigan Daily - michigandailycom ('the fidcipan Oail 420 Maynard St. Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1327 www.michigandaily.com PETER SHAHIN KIRBYVOIGTMAN Editor in Chief Business Manager 734-418-4115 ext. 1251 734-418-4115 ext. 1241 pjshahin@michigandaily.com kvoigtman@michigandaily.com UPPER LEFT Michigan State fans cheer during Michigan's 80 to 75 ...…
…The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.com Friday, January 31, 2014 - 3 GIBBONS From Page 1A the Dec. 19 meeting described by Ablauf. Regardless of whether foot- ball officials were aware of the disciplinary investigations or OSCR's subsequent sanctions, legal experts told the Daily that OSCR could have informed foot- ball officials at any point during the disciplinary investigation and proceedings. As previously reported by the Daily, the outc...…
…4 - Friday, January 31, 2014 The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.com 4 - Friday, January 31, 2014 The Michigan Daily - michigandailycom b 1i*id0igan 0aU Edited and managed by students at the University of Michigan since 1890. 420 Maynard St. Ann Arbor, MI 48109 tothedaily@michigandaily.com MEGAN MCDONALD PETER SHAHIN and DANIEL WANG KATIE BURKE EDITOR IN CHIEF EDITORIAL PAGE EDITORS MANAGING EDITOR Unsigned editorials reflect the official p...…
…5 - Friday, January 31, 2014 The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.com 5 - Friday, January 31, 2014 The Michigan Daily - michigandailycom Folk Fest banks on revitalized genre Iron & Wine and Pearl and the Beard set to headline By PAIGE PFLEGER DailyArts Writer The last few years have seen a resurgence in the folk genre; with on-screen hits like "Inside Llewyn Davis" and bands like Ann Arbor Of Monsters and Men or Folk Festival Mumford & Jan.3...…
…6 -- Friday, January 31, 2014 The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.com Prosecutors seek death penalty for Boston bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev faces death for his involvement in the Marathon terrorism BOSTON (AP) - Federal pros- ecutors Thursday announced they will seek the death penalty against 20-year-old Dzhokhar Tsarnaev in the Boston Mara- thon bombing, accusing him of betraying his adopted country by ruthlessly carrying outa terrorist attack...…
…The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.com Friday, January 31, 2014 - 7 The Michigan Daily - michigandailycom Friday, January 31, 2014-7 Murphy's By JUSTIN MEYER Daily Sports Writer Brian Murphy hung his head between his knees, having just lost a state championship. All that had separated him from his first Illinois high-school state title was a one-point escape. But when the clock expired, his opponent, current University of Illinois wrestler...…
…$ - Friday, January 31, 2014 The Michigan Daily -- michigandaily.com Boiler Broken: Wolverines avoid home upset Michigan 8-0 in Big Ten play for first time since '76-77 By SIMON KAUFMAN Daily Sports Writer Last Saturday in East Lansing, freshman guard Derrick Walton Jr. dropped 19 points and shed the title of an uneasy freshman. Thursday night, he continued to mature as the PURDUE 66 Michigan MICHIGAN 75 men's basketball team downed Purdue,...…
…ONU'lY1N) DTWEY' 'Al NTY TH1i 1 Ir EE YEAIRS OF ED 1'OIT IAI RIEDL OM Ann Arbor, Michigan Thursday, January 31, 2013 michigandailycom UNION PURE CHEMISTRY LEO puts on flashmob in Mason Hall Faculty dances at the right-to-work legislation recently signed into law, calling to call attention it a "sham." LEO President Bon- nie Halloran, a lecturer at the to contract Dearborn campus, said the union wants to have its contract settled negotiations b...…
…2A - Thursday, January 31, 2013 JOB SEARCH From 'U' football to broadcasting Jim Brandstatter is a commen- tator for Michigan football games as well as Detroit Lions games. He was an offensive tackle for Michi- ganfrom 1969 to 1971 under coach Bo Schembechler. Brandstatter has been broadcasting since he graduated from the University in 1972. So, how has the game of college football changed since you The players are bigger, stron- ger, faste...…
…The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.com Thursday, January 31, 2013- 3A NEWS BRIEFS PONTIAC, Mich. Weather varies across state Michigan is seeing it all, with temperatures nearing 70 in the south and a blizzard dumping up to eight inches of snow in the north, forcing a halt in bus service across the Upper Peninsula. The National Weather Service predicts a 30-degree temperature in parts of the Lower Peninsula, where Wednesday's highs reached 68...…
