…A report from the Public Accountability Initiative has connected the University of Michigan to private equity fund Lime Rock Partners, which directly finances billionaire Texas oil-driver Tim Dunn and a far-right political action committee called Empower Texans. With the growing traction of the fossil fuel divestment movement on campus and greater emphasis on responsible investment, groups within the University...…
…The University of Michigan Central Student Government met in Pierpont Commons Tuesday night to appoint new representatives, discuss executive projects regarding mental health and student accessibility to campus resources, as well as accommodations for student absences on election days. Kate Stenvig voiced concerns regarding deportations to Iraq during the community concerns portion of the meeting. She highlighted the...…
…Gerstein said he has worked with the Dean of Students and Michigan Recreational Sports to eliminate barriers to physical fitness for students. “In working with Financial Aid and Rec Sports, we tried to create something that made sure that access to something that’s as important as physical fitness wasn’t privileged based on socioeconomic background,” Gerstein said. CSG has been criticized in the past for its actions surroun...…
…Opinion The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com 4A — Wednesday, February 5, 2020 Alanna Berger Zack Blumberg Brittany Bowman 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...…
…This review contains spoilers. Over the course of its four seasons, “The Good Place” kept its audience on the edge of their seats with one big plot twist after the next. While this unusual sitcom beautifully balanced high-stakes conflict with individual character growth, the finale began with the show’s biggest questions already answered. From redesigning the fundamentally flawed afterlife to reorganizing The Good Place, all...…
…WHISPER puzzle by sudokusnydictation.com By MaryEllen Uthlaut ©2020 Tribune Content Agency, LLC 02/05/20 Los Angeles Times Daily Crossword Puzzle Edited by Rich Norris and Joyce Nichols Lewis 02/05/20 ANSWER TO PREVIOUS PUZZLE: Release Date: Wednesday, February 5, 2020 ACROSS 1 Twinings products 5 Wolf pack leader 10 Oft-misused pronoun 14 Hall of Famer Donovan, first woman to coach a WNBA championship team 15 One-piece dresses...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Sports Wednesday, February 5, 2020 — 7A After years of turmoil, longtime Michigan State coach Dantonio retires Mark Dantonio, who brought Michigan State football back to prominence in the Big Ten, announced Tuesday that he would be stepping down as head coach of the Spartans. “Today makes one of the most difficult decisions that I have ever made here at Michigan State,” he said in a statement on...…
…lsa.umich.edu/philosophy Lecture is free and open to the public CHARLES W. MILLS The City University of New York WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 2020 4–6pm | Rackham Auditorium 2020 TANNER LECTURE ON HUMAN VALUES Torn apart Whenever Wolverines and Buckeyes collide, sparks fly — and not in a sentimental way. That’s to be expected from two bitter rivals. But the significance of Tuesday’s clash between the Michigan men’s basketball te...…
…statement THE MICHIGAN DAILY | FEBRUARY 5, 2020 From behind the screen “Everyone is entitled to all the rights and freedoms set forth in this Declaration, without distinction of any kind, such as race, colour, sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, property, birth or other status. Furthermore, no distinction shall be made on the basis of the political, jurisdictional or international status of t...…
…Wednesday, February 5, 2020 // The Statement 2B Managing Statement Editor Magdalena Mihaylova Deputy Editors Emily Stillman Marisa Wright Associate Editor Reece Meyhoefer Designers Liz Bigham Kate Glad Copy Editors Madison Gagne Sadia Jiban Photo Editor Keemya Esmael Editor in Chief Elizabeth Lawrence Managing Editor Erin White N o good college seduction routine would be complete without a pre-coital ideologic...…
…I t was Friday, Jan. 24. I was laying in my bed, only awake because of the sunlight streaming in through my dorm window. After a while, I decided it was time to finally get up, so I rolled over and reached for my phone sitting atop my desk. A calendar event notification topped the screen. It read: “Tomorrow, Lunar New Year.” My family has always loosely followed typical Lunar New Year traditions. We have a straightforward way...…
…I n the 1970s and ’80s, most major United States orchestras changed their audition policies in an attempt to eliminate their bias toward hiring male candidates. The new procedures included advertising the positions more widely, restructuring admissions committees to also include members of the orchestra and most importantly, the introduction of “blind” or “screen” auditions in which the identity of the player was hidden from the ju...…
…Wednesday, February 5, 2020 // The Statement 6B The girl with the plant tattoo A s I enter the second semester of my senior year of college, I’ve found that one of the most wonderful parts of this era of life is the evenings spent on friends’ couches drinking wine, surrounded by people I’ve grown close to over the past years. As the chaos, deadlines, anxiety of forming new bonds and all the noise of the first few years of college die ...…
…Wednesday, January 16, 2019 // The Statement 7B Wednesday, February 5, 2020 // The Statement 7B I finished the book “Make Trouble” by Planned Parenthood president Cecile Richards on a flight back to Ann Arbor from my hometown in New Jersey. As I closed the back cover of a memoir following Richards’s rise in the ranks from seven-year-old daughter of politician Ann Richards to president of Planned Parenthood, I began to cry. I was...…
…Wednesday, February 5, 2020 // The Statement 8B VISUAL STATEMENT: THE TIBETAN TRADITION OF BASKETBALL PHOTOS BY EMMA MATI READ MORE ABOUT THE TRADITION ONLINE AT MICHIGANDAILY.COM …
…Design by Maggie Huang Thursday, December 5, 2019 University of Michigan students gathered at the University Spectrum Center Wednesday evening for a town hall discussion on creating a plan to implement an informed consent model for gender-affirming care at University Health Services. At the event, ten students worked to identify and address health care disparities for transgender students at U-M. The students explained that at U...…
…2A — Thursday, December 5, 2019 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com News EASY © sudokugenerator.com. For personal use only. Generate and solve Sudoku, Super Sudoku, Godoku, Samurai Sudoku and Killer Sudoku puzzles at sudokugenerator.com! Sudoku Generator http://sudokugenerator.com/sudoku/generator/print/ 1 of 1 10/1/2010 1:28 PM LA VIE EN ROSE puzzle by sudokusyndication.com TUESDAY: By Design FRIDAY: Behind the Story WEDNESDAY: Thi...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com News Thursday, December 5, 2019 — 3A Professors, students reflect on online voting registration system Electronic option will save costs on paper and mailing, increase accuracy of voter profiles MADELINE MCLAUGHLIN Daily Staff Reporter Michigan’s Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson announced Monday that Michigan residents can now register to vote and update their voter registration status ...…
…Opinion The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com 4A — Thursday, December 5, 2019 Alanna Berger Zack Blumberg Emily Considine Emma Chang Joel Danilewitz Cheryn Hong Krystal Hur Ethan Kessler Magdalena Mihaylova Mary Rolfes Michael Russo Timothy Spurlin Miles Stephenson Joel Weiner Erin White Lola Yang FINNTAN STORER Managing Editor Stanford Lipsey Student Publications Building 420 Maynard St. Ann Arbor, MI 48109 tothedaily@michigandaily.c...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Sports Thursday, December 5, 2019 — 5A Granowicz learning from emotion-driven error Nick Granowicz could only watch. The freshman forward saw Wisconsin forward Cole Caufield skate with the puck from the right side of the boards over to center ice. Caufield spun to face the net as senior forward Nick Pastujov slid on his knees to try and block the shot. A shot never came though — Pastujov fell...…
…6A — Thursday, December 5, 2019 Sports The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com After losing two All-Americans, Wolverines look toward their future Walking into the Donald R. Shepherd Gymnastics Center, it’s near impossible to miss the maize and blue championship banners that hang in rows all across the ceiling. The flags — 26 in total — create an imposing image against the white interior of the building, a constant reminder of the ...…
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…2B — Thursday, December 5, 2019 b-side The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com B-SIDE: MUSIC NOTEBOOK For better or for worse, black metal broke the mold in the 2010s. It was a long time coming, too. From its inception in the early ’80s until shortly before 2010, black metal, with regard to both its sound and its culture, had barely budged. In any other genre, this is a completely foreign idea — artists are supposed to live and breathe,...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com b-side Thursday, December 5, 2019 — 3B Television shows can be immortalized in a number of ways. Perhaps it’s a character like The Fonz from “Happy Days,” who haunts our lives and Henry Winkler’s to this day. Or maybe it’s a catchphrase like “You got it dude!” uttered in “Full House” by a much-less-terrifying Olsen twin. Even a setting, like the Central Perk coffee shop of “Friends,” can launch a TV...…
…Each year, the quality of content released to the public from the entertainment industry hits new highs and lows. With every sequel and prequel released, I sink further into doubt that Hollywood can surprise us anymore. After all, what can shake audiences to their core the way that “Arrival of a Train” did? Or the “firsts” of every genre? Thankfully, something always comes along that proves me wrong, and after all these years that Holl...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com b-side Thursday, December 5, 2019 — 5B B-SIDE: TV/FILM CROSSOVER Comedians Tina Fey and Amy Poehler began their night as hosts of the 2015 Golden Globes with a joke that would define popular media in the 2010s: “Only at the Golden Globes do the beautiful people of film rub shoulders with the rat-faced people of television.” This line, while intended to poke fun at the persistent belief that film i...…
…6B — Thursday, December 5, 2019 Arts The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com While there’s no cut-and-dry definition of the best film of the decade, some measures are better than others. For me, a decade- defining movie must be more than technically, critically or commercially successful. Many films from the 2010s met all of these criteria, all competent, some more memorable than others. After all, even the most holistic and unambiguous ap...…
…City Council passed an affordable housing ordinance Monday evening that provided incentives for private developers to include affordable housing units and also passed a resolution for Ann Arbor to achieve carbon neutrality by the year 2030. More than 50 Ann Arbor residents packed the seats of Larcom City Hall for the first City Council meeting of the month. The Roosevelt Institute, a University of Michigan student progressive pub...…
…Gov. Gretchen Whitmer and other lawmakers in the Michigan House Democratic Caucus introduced the Reproductive Health Care Act, a plan to revoke existing laws which restrict or bar access to abortion, last Tuesday. Abortion is currently legal through the first 24 weeks of pregnancy in the state of Michigan, though there are a number of restrictions regarding access to abortion that the RHA aims to dissolve. Among the legislat...…
…concerned about issues of safety, physical safety and psychological safety. So, we’re going to work with students around there. And then the Ginsberg Center has been working since the last midterm elections to get students registered to vote and to think about what it means to be a part of a democracy. They’re going to lead out their efforts. We’re trying to think about what the academic offerings might be. I’m hoping when the medi...…
…Opinion The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com 4A — Tuesday, November 5, 2019 Alanna Berger Zack Blumberg Emily Considine Emma Chang Joel Danilewitz Emily Huhman Krystal Hur Ethan Kessler Magdalena Mihaylova Michael Russo Timothy Spurlin Miles Stephenson Nicholas Tomaino Joel Weiner Erin White FINNTAN STORER Managing Editor Stanford Lipsey Student Publications Building 420 Maynard St. Ann Arbor, MI 48109 tothedaily@michigandaily.com E...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Arts Tuesday, November 5, 2019 — 5A You walk into a bar on Halloween dressed as Margot Robbie dressed as Sharon Tate from Quentin Tarantino’s “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.” You spent 20 dollars and six hours trying to put on fake eyelashes and the bar is empty. The guy dressed as Austin Powers you flirted with at Rick’s on Tuesday isn’t there, your roommates who couldn’t decide on a trio costume...…
…6A — Tuesday, November 5, 2019 Arts The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com By C.C. Burnikel (c)2019 Tribune Content Agency, LLC 11/05/19 Los Angeles Times Daily Crossword Puzzle Edited by Rich Norris and Joyce Nichols Lewis 11/05/19 ANSWER TO PREVIOUS PUZZLE: Release Date: Tuesday, November 5, 2019 ACROSS 1 Works on a quilt 5 Team that won the Women’s World Cup in 2019 8 Winter skating sites 13 Yawn-inducing 15 Melancholy 16 Love to...…
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…Tuesday, November 5, 2019 // TIPOFF 2019 2B Appalachian State Creighton Elon Houston Baptist Battle 4 Atlantis at Louisville Iowa at Illinois Oregon Presbyterian College UMass Lowell at Michigan State Purdue at Minnesota at Iowa Nov. 5 Nov. 12 Nov. 15 Nov. 22 Nov. 27-29 Dec. 3 Dec. 6 Dec. 11 Dec. 14 Dec. 21 Dec. 29 Jan. 5 Jan. 9 Jan. 12 Jan. 17 Jan. 22 Jan. 25 Jan. 28 Feb. 1 Feb. 4 Feb. 8 Feb. 12 Feb. 16 ...…
…Only the jerseys Tuesday, November 5, 2019 // TIPOFF 2019 3B W hen Michigan’s sea- son tips off tonight, only the Wolverines’ jerseys will remind you of yesteryear. By now, most have grown numb to the fact that John Beilein is gone. The shock doesn’t register nearly as much as it did only a few months ago. But on Tuesday night, it will resonate more than ever before. The man who spent the last decade-plus building the Mic...…
…It was a practice just like any other for the Miami Heat. The starters were out on the floor running through their offensive schemes against the scout team. Among the latter, per usual, was then-assistant coach Juwan Howard. Howard, having played 19 years in the NBA, standing at 6-foot-9 and doing everything he can to keep in shape, almost always ran with the scout team in practice. In a typical pick-and-roll play, Howard ha...…
…was the perfect opportunity for the young coach — an ability to get his feet wet with the position without being completely thrown to the wolves. While he wasn’t reinventing the wheel or tasked with redesigning Heat concepts, Howard was able to learn some of the minutiae of the position — how to talk in timeouts, who to call on when games are getting close, how to scream on the sidelines. “He defined guys’ roles early, and I ...…
…Tuesday, November 5, 2019 // TIPOFF 2019 6B Roster breakdown Roster turnover — and adjusting to it — is an inherent part of college basketball. A top program’s best players tend to move on annually to the professional ranks as a new batch of heralded freshmen take over. Michigan, which can now be classified among the very elite programs in the sport, is no different. Jordan Poole, Charles Matthews and Ignas Brazdeikis all moved ...…
…Tuesday, November 5, 2019 // TIPOFF 2019 7B Every year for the Tipoff edition, The Daily’s basketball beat puts out a preview of the entire conference. Plenty of other outlets do similar pieces around the start of the season. They’re big, they’re unwieldy, and, honestly, they can get a little boring. Not this one. If I’m going to write this Big Ten preview, then I’m going to have some fun with it. And I’m not going to waste yo...…
…Tuesday, November 5, 2019 // TIPOFF 2019 8B No. 23 Purdue First order of business: Boilermakers? Really? I’ve just never understood it. Nobody mansplain it to me in the comments. I don’t care that much. Frankly, they’re probably going to be pretty good. KenPom puts them at No.7 overall. They’ve been a pretty consistent force in Big Ten basketball over the past few years. They busted up my junior-year homecoming date’s bracket p...…
…michigandaily.com Ann Arbor, Michigan Thursday, September 5, 2019 ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY-EIGHT YEARS OF EDITORIAL FREEDOM The Center of the City Task Force met at Larcom City Hall to discuss the planning stages of a new park in the center of Ann Arbor Wednesday afternoon. The 10-person municipal committee was designed to promote long-term beautification projects in Ann Arbor. The group first met on Aug. 1, after local vote...…
…The Kelsey Museum of Archaeology debuted a new exhibit titled “Graffiti as Devotion along the Nile: El-Kurru, Sudan” on August 23. The exhibit focuses on approximately 600 graffiti artifacts found at the site of El-Kurru in ancient Kush, located in modern day Sudan. Geoff Emberling, co-curator of the exhibit, said the project began when a group of researchers traveled to Sudan in 2015, expecting to find an ancient royal cit...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com News Thursday, September 5, 2019 — 3 P O L I C Y T A L K S @ T H E F O R D S C H O O L STEPHEN BIEGUN U.S. Special Representative for North Korea Photo: Josh Burek/Belfer Center Free and open to the public. Reception to follow. Info: fspp-events@umich.edu fordschool.umich.edu @fordschool #policytalks W E I S E R D I P LO M ACY C E N T E R L A U N C H S E R I E S International diplomacy chal...…
…Opinion The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com 4 — Thursday, September 5, 2019 Zack Blumberg Emily Considine Emma Chang Joel Danilewitz Emily Huhman Krystal Hur Ethan Kessler Magdalena Mihaylova Max Mittleman Timothy Spurlin Miles Stephenson Finn Storer Nicholas Tomaino Joel Weiner Erin White FINNTAN STORER Managing Editor Stanford Lipsey Student Publications Building 420 Maynard St. Ann Arbor, MI 48109 tothedaily@michigandaily.com Ed...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Arts Thursday, September 5, 2019 — 5 Somewhere on a dingy, pale- blue sofa in a poorly lit room, BROCKHAMPTON is situated before your screen in silvery jumpsuits. Their quintessential Cheeto-dust orange garb and cheesy smiles are supplanted by somber, subdued semi-dancemoves and emotionally raw lyricism. This is their latest album GINGER at its overarching emotional core, “Dearly Dep...…
…By Kristian House ©2019 Tribune Content Agency, LLC 09/05/19 Los Angeles Times Daily Crossword Puzzle Edited by Rich Norris and Joyce Nichols Lewis 09/05/19 ANSWER TO PREVIOUS PUZZLE: Release Date: Thursday, September 5, 2019 ACROSS 1 Isla surrounder 5 Real cutup 10 Italian volcano 14 TV series that had flashbacks, flash-forwards and multiple timelines 15 Kemper of “The Office” 16 Truant GI 17 *Brain trust member 19 Meander 20 Affl...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Sports Thursday, September 5, 2019 — 7 How Eubanks unlocks the offense A spread offense, as with any other, is usually defined by its personnel. Philosophically, the idea of forcing opponents to defend all 53.5 yards of horizontal space on a football field translates to getting athletic guys to run routes and spreading them out. Usually, that means wide receivers. The proliferation of the sp...…
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