…3B — Thursday, January 4, 2018 the b-side The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Arguably no other show reflected the uncertainty that pervaded 2017 quite like “The Leftovers.” Then again, “The Leftovers” was never about certainty to begin with. It was a miracle the series lasted so long, given its dismal ratings. But what the show lacked in strong viewership, it made up for with an incredible ensemble cast, poetic cinematograph...…
…DAMN. finds Kendrick Lamar running circles around his competition after the critical and commercial successes of Good Kid, M.A.A.D. City and To Pimp A Butterfly, but it doesn’t always feel like a victory lap. While songs like “ELEMENT.” and “LOYALTY.” find Kendrick at his most arrogant, other tracks like “YAH.” and “FEEL.” partially dispel this illusion of confidence, instead portraying his stardom through a lens of paranoia an...…
…5B — Thursday, January 4, 2018 the b-side The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com The Power Center serves as the home for multiple organizations and functions on campus, such as the School of Music, Theatre & Dance, the University Musical Society, the musical theatre troupe MUSKET and more. A building acutely aware of its geometrical design, the Power Center’s architectural layout demands to be noticed: From the outside mirrored ...…
…REGISTER ONLINE AT UM-KCP.EVENTBRITE.COM BEAT THE WINTER BLUES WITH KINESIOLOGY COMMUNITY PROGRAMS Rm 3064 CCRB | 401 Washtenaw Avenue Ann Arbor, MI 48109 734.647.2708 Kerry Winkelseth, Director | kebwink@umich.edu kines.umich.edu/KCP Beginning & Intermediate Tennis • Beginning & Intermediate Swim* Coached Swimming Workouts Tricks and Tips – Improve Your Swimming Strokes WSI: American Red Cross Water Safety Instructor* LG: American Re...…
…On an illuminated stage in the auditorium of the University of Michigan Museum of Art, the stories of people affected by HIV were presented in forms ranging from dances and slam poetry to statistics and HIV testing site information at the annual HIV Monologues presented by the University of Michigan’s chapters of National Council of Negro Women and the Black Student Union this weekend. LSA senior Margarett McBride, president...…
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…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com News Monday, December 4, 2017 — 3A University. He credits lecturers with enabling his success in higher education, beginning with the classes he first took in 2002 at Henry Ford Community College. “I remember when I first started, I was so nervous,” he said. “I didn’t know what I was doing and I would stay after class, and it was lecturers who would sit down and take time to help me understan...…
…T he internet ruined my life. OK, maybe that was a bit of an overstatement. I’ll issue an amendment: The internet has changed my life for better and for worse. Let’s start with the bad: the countless hours spent on that vapid website known as Facebook, the constant perusal of online articles to fulfill my insatiable appetite for political news and the way I begin and end each day by gluing my eyeballs to my cracked iPhone sc...…
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…6A — Monday, December 4, 2017 Arts The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com RCA/BYSTORM Miguel makes everything sexy On ‘War & Leisure’ Miguel makes social critique sexy In his latest release, Miguel adds another dimension to his music In 2017 America, there seems to exist very few moments of pure happiness. You could have just aced the exam that had a 56 percent class average, landed your dream job, gotten asked out by that guy / gi...…
…Moving on up With the completion of the Athletics South Competition and Performance Project, often-overlooked Michigan teams now have a home. » SportsMonday Column, Page 2B A quick fix? If Ole Miss’ Shea Patterson looks to transfer to Michigan, Jim Harbaugh would have a chance to nab a quarterback that could take Michigan to the next level. » Page 4B Last Wednesday, the Michigan men’s basketball team played its wor...…
…LAURA KASISCHKE ALLAN SEAGER COLLEGIATE PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE a poetry reading from new and selected poems December 5, 4:10 p.m. Rackham Amphitheatre A public lecture and reception For more information call 734.615.6667 2B — December 4, 2017 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com SportsMonday SPORTSMONDAY COLUMN A monumental leap forward L ast Saturday morning, the ribbons were finally cut. After ...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com SportsMonday December 4, 2017 — 3B FOOTBALL Michigan picked to face Cocks in Outback Bowl Remember that time Jadeveon Clowney knocked a helmet off Michigan running back Vincent Smith? Play it back a few times in your head, because the Michigan football team has a rematch in the same bowl game this year against the same opponent. Jim Harbaugh and the Wolverines are Florida bound — again —...…
…Directed by John Neville-Andrews • Dept. of Theatre & Drama Dec. 7 at 7:30 PM • Dec. 8 & 9 at 8 PM • Dec. 10 at 2 PM • Power Center Reserved Seating $30 & $24 • Students $12 with ID League Ticket Office • 734-764-2538 • tickets.smtd.umich.edu By William Shakespeare 4B — December 4, 2017 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com SportsMonday WOMEN’S BASKETBALL ‘M’ blows out LIU Thirty-three seconds into the game, junior center Hallie Thome ...…
…Tuesday morning racist fliers were posted outside Stockwell Residence Hall, presenting the minority enrollment numbers at both the University of Michigan and Michigan State University, insinuating gaps in the average IQ of Black and white students. This correlation between race and mental ability was popularized in the late 1990s by Charles Murray, a political scientist slated to speak at the University next Wednesday. The fo...…
…News The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com 2A — Wednesday, October 3, 2017 AARON BAKER/Daily Tweets Follow @michigandaily Univ. of Michigan @UMich U-M cannot be excellent without being diverse. All members of our community belong here and deserve an equal opportunity to thrive. Steven Sikora @StevenMSikora if you ever wanted to cause mass hysteria, try sending an email to a large and outdated UMich club distribution list Michae...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com News Wednesday, October 3, 2017 — 3A CAT MYKOLAJTCHUK/Daily Business senior Kevin Yang plays the Charles Baird Carillon under Professor Jeremy Chesman on Ingalls Mall Tuesday afternoon. KE E P CALM AND CARILLON confrontation, as he feels the safety of minority students is paramount. “As a university, we create spaces for dialogue, and sometimes that dialogue we find horrific and offensive,” Mar...…
…Last week’s protests were effective precisely because they were disruptive. It is not every day that the Diag is populated with dozens of students for hours on end, some holding umbrellas to block the heat and others delivering food and water. The students who blocked the intersections of bus routes near the C.C. Little bus station sought to parallel the “inconveniences” racism and microaggressions pose for students of color ...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Wednesday, October 4, 2017 — 5 Arts DOMINO 2 Fridays ago, Protomartyr released their latest record on a boat in Detroit Punks on a boat: Proto- Martyr’s release party Revelry and community mark a night of good tunes and good drinks as Protomartyr released their latest last Friday On a Friday night, practically every generation of Detroit punk fans were united in a sea of black and gray jeans, wa...…
…ACROSS 1 Fancy parties 6 [This is gonna be really bad!] 10 OutKast rapper Big __ 13 Hi in Hawaii 14 Senior golfer Aoki 15 Lends support to 16 Likely to speak out 17 *Vodka cocktail often served with a sugared rim 19 Text update from an Uber driver: Abbr. 20 Trippy ’60s drug 22 Milked for all it’s worth 23 Mai __: rum drinks 25 Post-CrossFit woes 26 With 49-Across, it keeps repeating itself ... and, based on the first and last letters, an apt d...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Sports Wednesday, October 4, 2017 — 7A “Game, set, match Lommer,” the loudspeaker rang over a brisk Sunday afternoon in Evanston. In the Blue Flight of the Wildcat Invitational, Michigan sophomore Chiara Lommer took home her first individual collegiate championship. Lommer, ranked 115th in the nation coming into the competition, dominated all weekend behind her improved off...…
…8A — Wednesday, October 4, 2017 Sports The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Michigan sets new volleyball attendance record at Crisler With 8,137 spectators in attendance, the No. 23 Michigan volleyball team drew its largest crowd in team history as it took down rival Ohio State, 3-1, at Crisler Center on Friday night. The Wolverines more than tripled their previous record attendance of 2,673 from 2009 and ...…
…statement THE MICHIGAN DAILY | OCTOBER 4, 2017 “Anybody have a problem with that?” Leading a fraternity as a gay man …
…I n U.S. politics, the call for tolerating differences between people — based on class, race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation or most any other identity — has been assigned to the realm of liberalism, generally speaking. But when liberals have called for a wider definition of “hate speech,” people have accusedthem of intolerance. This idea of “tolerance” is connected to the idea of empathy. Liberals call fo...…
…3B Wednesday, October 4, 2017 // The Statement Soundtracking: Tailgate season I woke up Saturday morning not to the sound of birds chirping outside my window, not to the smell of pancakes and eggs wafting into my bedroom from the kitchen, but instead to the muffled sound of a shotgun race and ’07 Yeezy playing down the street. “Good Morning” — Kanye West Game Day: an autumn event at Michigan in which we can all come together and ...…
…Wednesday, October 4, 2017 // The Statement 4B Wednesday, October 4, 2017 // The Statement 5B “Anybody have a problem with that?” Leading a fraternity as a gay man b y Av i S h o l k o f f, Daily Sports Writer Public Policy junior Daniel Greene remembers one of the first fraternity rush events he attended as a freshman. “I walk into the house, and the first thing I hear, is ‘that’s so gay,’” Greene said. “Some brother is repeating ...…
…Wednesday, October 4, 2017 // The Statement 6B Personal Statement: A graduate student’s quarter-life crisis “ What do you want to be when you grow up?” This is a pretty common question for kids, but to someone who is almost 30? Actually, I often ask myself that same question, although in a slightly different way: What do I want to do with my life? My career trajectory has never been linear. My goals changed constantly growing...…
…Wednesday, October 4, 2017 // The Statement 7B Personal Statement: Climb every mountain T he first mountain I climbed in Wyoming wasn’t even really a mountain. Mt. Ann is located directly behind Camp Davis, the Rocky Mountain Field Station owned and operated by the University of Michigan where students of all majors can take earth, environmental, American culture and ecology classes during the summer — so it’s a t...…
…Wednesday, October 4, 2017 // The Statement 8B V I S U A L S T A T E M E N T Z I N G E R M A N ’ S P A E L L A Green beans are then added to the pan. Shrimp is sauteed in olive oil in a large paella pan over mesquite . Green beans and chicken are sauteed in the pan. A tomato and saffron based sauce is added to the mix. Dry bomba rice is added to the paella pan. Chicken stock is poured into the pan, and the paella is left to simmer with...…
…University announces new Knight-Wallace Fellows Conference celebrates Ann Arbor and Detroit innovators Fellows consist of 12 U.S. and seven International journalists By KAELA THEUT Daily News Editor The University of Michigan has announced its 44th class of Knight- Wallace Journalism Fellows. The new group consists of 12 U.S. and seven international journalists. Fellows spend a year living in the University’s Wallace House, wh...…
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…3 NEWS Thursday, May 4, 2017 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Following intense bargaining, GEO contract ratified with U According to the GEO website, the contract went into effect May 1 By MATT HARMON Daily Staff Reporter After months of sit-ins, walk- out speculations and negotiations with the University of Michigan, the Graduate Employees’ Orga- nization officially ratified their new contract April 15; according to th...…
…4 Thursday, May 4, 2017 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com OPINION A day or two after Spring Break this year, as I sat studying in the Java Blu cafe in East Quad, I heard a girl say: “Well it isn’t Spring Break if someone doesn’t throw up.” She was referring to something her friend had said about someone on a Spring Break trip who’d vomited after drinking too much alcohol. Immediately, the casual way she responded struck me ...…
…5 OPINION Thursday, May 4, 2017 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com N owadays, I feel that we are out of touch with true kindness. Kindness is seen almost exclusively on phone screens through social media, where selfless people feed the homeless and leave extra-large cash tips at restaurants, where abandoned puppies are adopted by strangers and giant teddy bears distribute roses on the streets. Kindness is no more than a ...…
…6 Thursday, May 4, 2017 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com ARTS ‘Circle’ tanks By BECKY PORTMAN Daily Arts Writer Directed by James Ponsoldt (“The Spectacular Now”) and star- ring big-time actors like Emma Watson (“Beauty and the Beast”), Tom Hanks (“Bridge of Spies”) and strangely Patton Oswalt (“Ratatouil- le”) in a suit, “The Circle” is a film wrought with wasted potential. The concept is strong — it points out the omnip...…
…7 Thursday, May 4, 2017 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com ARTS ‘Veep’ star talks politics Matt Walsh discusses political satire and comedy By SHIR AVINADAV Daily Arts Writer “That came out wrong,” was uttered not by U.S. Press Secre- tary Sean Spicer, but by “Veep”’s Mike McLintock (Matt Walsh) after a gaffe that earned him one of Selena Meyer’s (Julia Louis- Dreyfus, “Seinfeld”) famous glares. Though the bumbling former ...…
…8 Thursday, May 4, 2017 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com NEWS Classifieds Call: #734-418-4115 Email: dailydisplay@gmail.com WINTEK CORPORATION AND Wintek Electro‑Optics Corporation are auctioning off its overseas assets and equipment. Bid period: announcement date 26 April 2017, bid closing date: May 9th 2017, bid opening date: May 10th 2017. For more detailed information, visit the Reorganization section a...…
…Ann Arbor observes May Day by social inequality protest University research buildings honored in competition for increased energy efficiency Hundreds of students and organizers gathered for festival with social and political focus By EDUARDO BATISTA Daily Staff Reporter On Monday, hundreds of students and organizers gathered in Ann Arbor for the May Day Festival of Resistance, an event with a social and political focus. The o...…
…10 Thursday,May 4, 2017 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com SPORTS Michigan Softball Academy makes impact Michigan coach Carol Hutchins stepped from the first baseline toward home plate. Her smile couldn’t have been larger. “Alright, let’s go baserunners,” she screamed emphatically. Unlike most cases, though, she wasn’t critiquing her players’ form or implementing game strategy. Hutchins was rooting on a handful of the part...…
…11 Thursday, May 4, 2017 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com SPORTS In the Michigan baseball team’s game against Rutgers Saturday, what should have been a harmless first inning fly-out was anything but. Left fielder Miles Lewis sprinted into the gap in left- center field in pursuit of a high fly ball off the bat of Scarlet Knight designated hitter Mike Carter. Meanwhile, senior center fielder Johnny Slater...…
…12 Thursday, May 4, 2017 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com In its 10th annual “Pink Game” to raise awareness for breast cancer, the Michigan softball team capped off an undefeated regular season home record with an 8-0 run-rule victory over Western Michigan Tuesday. The win gave the Wolverines (38-10-1 overall, 17-3 Big Ten) a perfect home record of 17-0 to end the season, a feat it hasn’t accomplished since 2009. Western...…
…michigandaily.com Ann Arbor, Michigan Tuesday, April 4, 2017 ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY-SIX YEARS OF EDITORIAL FREEDOM GOT A NEWS TIP? Call 734-418-4115 or e-mail news@michigandaily.com and let us know. INDEX Vol. CXXVII, No. 59 ©2017 The Michigan Daily N E WS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 O PI N I O N . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 A R T S . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 S U D O K U . . . ....…
…SHORT WINTER BREAKS. puzzle by sudokusyndication.com 2 — Tuesday, April 4, 2017 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com News Dinosaur Tour WHAT: Docents will lead half-hour tours of the current dinosaur exhibits. WHO: Museum of Natural History WHEN: 2:30 p.m. to 3 p.m. WHERE: Ruthven Museums Building University of Michigan President Mark Schlissel addressed students concerns about commencement, President Donald Tru...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com News Tuesday, April 4, 2017 — 3 that moment it was kind of like what just happened? It was a complete surprise … (This lecture) is very personal, and I’m hoping students will be able to take something away from this that’s more than just classroom material.” Cho started his lecture, titled “The Unexpected Benefits of Pain, Passion, and Pets,” like he begins his classes: by asking the audi...…
…M y name is Emily Kaufman. I am transgender, and this aspect of my identity is intrinsic to my sense of self. But I am more than that: I am a human, a woman, a friend, a leader, a writer and a poet. In three separate instances, The Michigan Daily has either misrepresented or erased my identity. I want to start, however, with an example of accurate and honest reporting that I expect of the Daily. On Jan. 17, an article ...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Arts Tuesday, April 4, 2017 — 5 FOCUS WORLD French horror flick, “Raw” ABC Jenna Elfman in ABC’s new “Imaginary Mary” ‘Raw’ is a delicious blend of coming-of-age horror ‘Imaginary Mary’ falls flat and fails to deliver French horror film is a gorey delight as it explores the life of a woman suppressing, and eventually giving into, cannibalism New ABC comedy doesn’t intrigue or captivate in its q...…
…Classifieds Call: #734-418-4115 Email: dailydisplay@gmail.com ACROSS 1 Complain and complain 5 Frolic in the field 9 Searched for shells in the shallows 14 Where to find Java 15 Governor Kasich’s state 16 Be a ham 17 Verizon invoice, e.g. 19 Way to get there 20 Saint at a gate 21 Melt frost from, as a windshield 23 Self-serve salad site 24 Old World Style sauce brand 26 The “c” in a + b = c 28 Govt. agency that lends to start-ups 30 Second ...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Sports Tuesday, April 4, 2017 — 7 Michigan falters against Maryland The Michigan women’s lacrosse team has been searching for a signature win since the program’s conception four years ago. Saturday, the Wolverines had another opportunity to earn their first win over a ranked opponent against No. 1 Maryland. Michigan would have to wait a little longer, though. The Terrapins (2-0 Big Ten, 1...…
…8 — Tuesday, April 4, 2017 Sports The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com ‘M’ rolling into midweek matchups The No. 18 Michigan baseball team (4-2 Big Ten, 22-6 overall) is coming off three blowouts over Penn State this past weekend and will look to stay hot going into two midweek games tomorrow and Wednesday against Notre Dame and Bowling Green, respectively. The Wolverines’ offense fired on all cylind...…
…As the minimum age to purchase tobacco products and e-cigarettes in Ann Arbor changes from 18 to 21 with the turn of the new year, the community reacts with mixed opinions. The resolution, introduced by Ann Arbor Councilmember Julie Grand (D–Ward 3), passed its initial read July 18, before being officially approved Aug. 4 by a City Council vote of 9-2. Ann Arbor is the first city in Michigan to implement the measure as par...…
