…University of Michigan researchers have released an app that helps Flint residents assess lead contamination levels by utilizing functions related to water testing and providing infrastructure- related information. The team also worked with Flint Mayor Karen Weaver on data analytics for lead pipe removal. The app, released in early December, gives residents information about distribution centers for water and w...…
…Tweets Follow @michigandaily CAMPUS EVENTS & NOTES The Michigan Daily (ISSN 0745-967) is published Monday through Friday during the fall and winter terms by students at the University OF Michigan. One copy is available free of charge to all readers. Additional copies may be picked up at the Daily’s office for $2. Subscriptions for September-April are $225 and year long subscriptions are $250. University affiliates are subject to a re...…
…News The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Friday, January 6, 2017 — 3 access a central hub of information about the water crisis.” Abernethy said. “(Google) had people who did software development, but they didn’t have people who did sort of data science, machine learning analytics stuff. With the help of a grad student a year and a half ago, I helped initiate this thing through Michigan called the Michigan Data Scien...…
…I t has been posited that were it not for the Democratic National Committee’s tactics and deep-rooted support for Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders would have been the blue candidate and would have been victorious over President- elect Donald Trump. Though he, like Trump, would have been a viable “change candidate” in his party and shared similarly nationalistic views, it can be shown that a Sanders presidential campaign woul...…
…TV REVIEW It’s one of the few absolutes in film: there has never been a good video game movie. In the 23 years since “Super Mario Bros.” was released to resounding vitriol, not one film in the genre has crossed the line into even mediocre. But as “Assassin’s Creed” approached, it seemed like it would be the one to break the mold. Justin Kurzel, who helmed last year’s visually astounding adaptation of “Macbeth,” sig...…
…Have you ever pressed ‘A’ on a TV in a Pokémon game to see what was playing? “There’s a movie on TV,” the text box reads. “Four boys are walking down railroad tracks. …I’d better go, too.” This is, of course, a reference to “Stand By Me,” the 1986 Rob Reiner film adapted from Stephen King’s “The Body.” The film and the book it’s based on are seminal texts that explore working class heteromasculinity; t...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Sports Friday, January 6, 2017 — 7 Hayden earns ninth at National Championship For many competitors, the USA Diving Winter National Championships is a reprieve from the stressful academic and athletic workload that student athletes across the country face. With final exams in the rearview mirror, competing divers can put blue book essays behind them and focus solely on gold medals. That i...…
…8 — Friday, January 6, 2017 Sports The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Behind Enemy Lines: Talk with Maryland coach Mark Turgeon The Maryland men’s basketball team will visit Crisler Center on Saturday for just the second time as a member of the Big Ten Conference. Coach Mark Turgeon, in his third season in the conference, has overseen the Terrapins’ transition from the Atlantic Coast Conference to the Big Ten....…
…An LSA freshman who requested to remain anonymous was held up when walking back to South Quad Residence Hall from a fraternity party Friday night — he could have called an Uber, but instead, he decided to set out on foot. During the walk back, a car pulled up next to him and an occupant of the car demanded his property. This incident has occurred amidst a series of similar robberies near campus in the past few weeks, s...…
…THIS SUDOKU IS FIRE. puzzle by sudokusyndication.com 2A — Monday, February 6, 2017 News The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Tweets Follow @michigandaily Isaiah @isaiah_02 finally made it to AA for a umich game LETS GO BLUE! leah @leahhardyyy feeling torn bc tom brady played for michigan but i also find him mildly insufferable U-M Library @UMichLibrary Showing support for the international community in the Shapiro Library today...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com News Monday, February 6, 2017 — 3A of coming together during a difficult time and fostering a safe space for the speakers. Al-Bonijim discussed the controversy surrounding the hijab in wake of the election and said she hopes the event will eradicate some of the misconceptions of the hijab. “We came up with the name ‘halfway hijabi’ because we feel being Muslim in America often feels like ...…
…O n Jan. 16, Claudia Rankine spoke at Rackham Auditorium about her book- length poem, “Citizen: An American Lyric.” There was an exchange during the question-and-answer portion that I will expound upon here: Crowd Member: I want to preface my question by saying I come from an all- white suburb which does nothing for Martin Luther King Day. Where people have Confederate flags hanging out of the back o...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Arts Monday, February 6, 2017 — 5A Classifieds Call: #734-418-4115 Email: dailydisplay@gmail.com ACROSS 1 Most musicals have two 5 Start to faceted or purpose 10 Modern organizers, for short 14 Countenance 15 In front 16 Wine prefix 17 First chip in the poker pot 18 Football with scrums 19 Songwriter Kristofferson 20 Player who shoots par regularly 23 Malted relative 24 Magnolia State school, familiarl...…
…6A — Monday, February 6, 2017 Arts The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Over the past two weeks, my brain has felt like it’s split in two: a frivolous half and an anxious half. I’m spending my days nervously refreshing Twitter, monitoring updates from the Oval Office and wondering which country the President has offended today, or which Americans’ rights are now in jeopardy. At the same time, however, I can’t help but be oc...…
…B The Michigan Daily | michigandaily.com | February 6, 2017 Double trouble The Michigan men’s basketball team was plagued by both foul and rebounding trouble in its loss to the Buckeyes on Saturday. » Page 4B Real concerns Mokhtar Al-Yamani’s future has become uncertain due to Donald Trump’s recent executive order. » SportsMonday Column, Page 2B Ohio State 6, Michigan 5 Ohio State 70, Michigan 66 The defensive problems ...…
…2B — February 6, 2017 SportsMonday The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com A swimmer, his father and an executive order M okhtar Al-Yamani just wants to see his dad and swim for his country. He has a father, Ali, from Yemen and a future competing in the Olympics. But for him, as for so many others, by the end of the day on Jan. 27, the world had changed. The 19-year- old sophomore swimmer at Michigan is hoping to travel ...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com SportsMonday February 6, 2017 — 3B After trailing the entire game, Wolverines eke out victory Nicole Munger was the fourth option. The final play was meant for sophomore center Hallie Thome. If the ball wasn’t going to her, junior guard Katelynn Flaherty was supposed to receive, and after Flaherty, freshman guard Kysre Gondrezick. But Munger, a sophomore guard, had the best matchup of ...…
…4B — February 6, 2017 SportsMonday The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Wins or not, Yost Ice Arena remains the same They come to Yost Ice Arena every week. Some for five years, some for 10, and for John Sterbenz and Craig Kuras, 24. There’s a mayor — Tony Corey, a season ticket holder since 2004. You can’t forget the children, either — not literal adolescents, but the Michigan hockey team’s famous student section, “The Chi...…
…Next semester, a new one- credit class titled “Fake News, Lies, and Propaganda: How to Sort Fact from Fiction” will be offered to undergraduate students by the University of Michigan library system. The class will be aimed at dispelling biases about the news and teaching students how to look at media with a more critical eye. Though the topic of fake news has been widely discussed in the context of the current...…
…#WEBACK. puzzle by sudokusyndication.com 2A — Monday, March 6, 2017 News The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com 420 Maynard St. Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1327 www.michigandaily.com ARTS SECTION arts@michigandaily.com SPORTS SECTION sports@michigandaily.com ADVERTISING dailydisplay@gmail.com NEWS TIPS news@michigandaily.com LETTERS TO THE EDITOR tothedaily@michigandaily.com EDITORIAL PAGE opinion@michigandaily.com HUSSEIN HAKIM Busi...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com News Monday, March 6, 2017 — 3A cemeteries in three different states have been vandalized in recent weeks. Recent threats in southeast Michigan go beyond the Jewish community, too. A threatening voicemail was left at the American Muslim Society in Dearborn on Feb. 19, claiming Muslims are “agents of Satan” and that they “will be eradicated.” The FBI has also been called upon to in...…
…T he term “supernova” is used to describe the extremely dramatic destruction of massive stars within our universe. This occurs in the final stages of stellar life as a star burns its last amounts of helium and hydrogen, expanding to an incomprehensible size and increasing the temperature of its core to billions of degrees. The outer layers of the expanded star eventually collapse in on themselves, pr...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Arts Monday, March 6, 2017 — 5A Classifieds Call: #734-418-4115 Email: dailydisplay@gmail.com ACROSS 1 Scalawag 6 Barber’s razor targets, at times 11 Folder identifier 14 Ann __, Michigan 15 “Haste makes waste,” e.g. 16 Color 17 Place for a haircut and a whiskey? 19 Tiny six-footer 20 James Bond is one 21 Be itinerant 22 “Ho ho ho” holiday guy 24 “You’re it!” game 25 James Watt, by birth 27 Storage sol...…
…6A — Monday, March 6, 2017 Arts The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Why I’m proud of my fat, bruised punk show lip DAILY MUSIC COLUMN The power and meaning in music and the injuries we endure for it Of course, I know that “I love punk rock” is the least punk rock thing a person could possibly say, but as I left the Magic Stick after a sold-out Menzingers show over Spring Break, I just had to let out that exclamation — as corny a...…
…B The Michigan Daily | michigandaily.com | March 6, 2017 Collar check The Michigan men’s basketball team heads into a rubber match with Illinois in a much better position. » SportsMonday Column, Page 2B Senior moment The Wolverines’ Evan Allen is playing the best hockey of his career in the final weeks of his senior season. » Page 4B LINCOLN — With just over five minutes remaining, senior wing Zak Irvin pulled up from beyo...…
…LINCOLN — By tip-off Sunday night, the Michigan men’s basketball team already knew its postseason fate. After Iowa’s victory earlier that day, the Wolverines knew a matchup with No. 9 seed Illinois awaited them in the second round of the Big Ten Tournament in Washington D.C later this week. But before Michigan could turn the page on its regular season, the Wolverines had one last task to attend to — a road ...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com SportsMonday March 6, 2017 — 3B Michigan wraps Spring Break trip with 2-1 finish After scoring 43 runs in a 5-0 start to begin its West Coast swing, the Michigan baseball team found less luck at the plate in the Dodgertown Classic in Los Angeles. Despite managing just seven runs combined against UCLA, Southern California and San Diego, the Wolverines (9-3) took two out of three games in the t...…
…4B — March 6, 2017 SportsMonday The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com WRESTLING Wolverines finish seventh at Big Ten Championships A season that started with the Michigan wrestling team redshirting three of its best athletes began its championship swing this weekend. And as they continued to travel with a young squad, the 15th-ranked Wolverines ended up right in the middle of the conference, finishing seventh at the Big Ten ...…
…Creating social change and gaining entrepreneurial success as a woman were among the emphasized topics discussed by female business leaders at the Women, Entrepreneurship and Social Change Conference Wednesday afternoon. Fostering conference, held in the Michigan League, was organized by LSA senior Hayley Maybaum. Maybaum met Sonya Passi, the founder and CEO of FreeFrom, while doing pro bono work at a law firm in New York Cit...…
…Sudoku Syndication http://sudokusyndication.com/sudoku/generator/print/ 1 of 1 10/27/08 1:10 PM SUDOKU HARD 9 6 4 9 1 8 5 6 4 9 8 5 1 2 9 9 5 2 7 4 1 5 6 3 2 5 8 4 6 1 6 4 A TRADITION UNLIKE ANY OTHER. puzzle by sudokusyndication.com 2A — Thursday, April 6, 2017 News The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com CAMPUS EVENTS & NOTES The Research University and Society WHAT: Five former University presidents will ...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Michigan in Color Thursday, April 6, 2017 — 3A I’m not proud to make this declaration by any means; I’m actually quite devastated that this has become a facet of my being, but holy fuck do I detest reading. I’m not talking about the day- to-day casual Reddit browsing, Facebook lurking stuff, or the kind that is fundamental. I’m talking like the big-ass textbooks, fucking “War and Peace” type of...…
…T here is nothing like a fall afternoon at the Big House. A football game, a great band, discerning fans and lots of excitement. About 110,168 fans on a regular basis, not counting the vast TV audiences, couldn’t be wrong. But there is another storyline here. College football has become much bigger than the universities it actually purports to represent. Michigan football is branded on the sweats and tees and mugs of every Wal...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Sports Thursday, April 6, 2017 — 5A ACROSS 1 Highlands hat 4 Serenade, as the moon 9 Pearl seeker 14 Botanist Gray 15 Naproxen brand 16 “__ Mio” 17 *Judy Blume genre 19 Bags with handles 20 Calendario start 21 Sierra __ 23 Former Radiohead label 24 __ Valley: Reagan Library site 25 *Got from the cloud? 27 Not having the know-how 29 Locomotive, e.g. 30 Compose, in a way 31 Single-celled creature 35 Sinusi...…
…6A — Thursday, April 6, 2017 Sports The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Seizing catcher role, Alexander aids Betsa’s pitching When sophomore catcher Katie Alexander visits senior right-hander Megan Betsa in the circle between pitches, the message is usually simple: just breathe. As complex as a softball pitcher’s throwing technique can be, that’s what the pair focuses on in the middle of pressure-cooker games. Alexander’s ...…
…THE ISSUE B The Michigan Daily | michigandaily.com | Thursday, April 6, 2017 Design By Jacob Bergen …
…2B — Thursday, April 6, 2017 the b-side The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Seventy years later, all roads lead to Fleetwood The peculiar Ann Arbor diner is riddled with stories and history THE MICHIGAN DAILY Ann Arbor’s own Fleetwood Diner “There’s an old payphone back here that doesn’t work,” said server Rob Bell to me one hazy afternoon, as I stopped by the restaurant where he worked. “One night this total crazy person was t...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com the b-side Thursday, April 6, 2017 — 3B Srijith Gopinathan — executive chef to San Francisco’s Taj Campton Place Hotel — found his career path to be fraught with what he says were “big time complications.” Hailing from southern India, Gopinathan had as traditional of an upbringing as any of his regional contemporaries possibly could — a mother who (at least initially) wasn’t the happie...…
…4B — Thursday, April 6, 2017 the b-side The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com As inspiring as the perfect kiss scene UNIVERSAL PICTURES Still from Bridget Jone’s Diary A look at food & chocolate in the most notable romantic comedies “What originally turned you on to cooking?” “Fire.” And so answered Chef Roger Urso, owner of the company Food and Logic, chef for multiple organizations on campus including fraternity Sigma Ch...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com the b-side Thursday, April 6, 2017 — 5B SARAH AGNONE/THE MICHIGAN DAILY Literati’s Espresso Bar A mixed review of my top three coffee shops in AA Arts Writer Sarah Agnone travels around Ann Arbor recording the tastes and sounds of her favorite caffeine-crutch suppliers On any college campus, coffee indisputably reigns supreme and the University of Michigan is no different. Students ...…
…6B — Thursday, April 6, 2017 Arts The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com When the “Rick & Morty” surprise episode that dropped last Saturday gave nod to a long lost Szechuan McNugget dipping sauce, the internet blew up and “Binging with Babish” was on the case to try to recreate the mysterious sauce. Andrew Rea, the man behind the hit YouTube channel has carved out his own little corner of the web cooking famous dishes from mov...…
…Disagreement over impact of gerrymandering in MI Voters see their voice as less effective, since the majority opinion isn’t fulfilled, may breed apathy By CARLY RYAN Daily Staff Reporter Eastern Michigan University junior Allen Maxson looked at a map of Michigan’s congressional districts and saw something “like a map of Europe in the middle of World War 2.” State Rep. Jeremy Moss (D–Southfield) saw “a squiggly mess.” And Way...…
…420 Maynard St. Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1327 www.michigandaily.com NISA KHAN Editor in Chief 734-418-4115 ext. 1251 nisakhan@michigandaily.com JUEUI HONG Business Manager 734-418-4115 ext. 1241 jueuih@michigandaily.com EDITORIAL STAFF Dayton Hare Managing Editor haredayt@michigandaily.com Jennifer Meer Managing News Editor news@michigandaily.com SENIOR NEWS EDITORS: Andrew Hiyama, Kaela Theut Sarah Khan Editorial Page Editor...…
…3 NEWS Thursday, July 6, 2017 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com University faculty member finds link between access to employer-provided health care and employee race, sex Almost every health condition could be impacted by access to health care, researcher says By KENNEDY WERNER Daily Staff Reporter New University of Michigan research find that employment leads to a higher life expectancy for white men. The study empha- s...…
…4 Thursday, July 6, 2017 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com OPINION T here is a scene in the biopic “Malcolm X” directed by Spike Lee that has always stuck with me in one of the most chilling and devastating ways possible. As Malcolm Little, soon to take the last name X, is beginning to adopt the teachings of Elijah Muhammad and the Nation of Islam, he is prompted by one of his mentors to define the words “white” and “bla...…
…5 OPINION Thursday, July 6, 2017 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com A lmost every day, we wake up, roll over in our beds and turn off our alarm*. Sometimes that is in a digital clock*, but knowing our generation, it is most likely a cellphone*. After tapping the screen*, we hop out of bed and turn on the light*. We may run to the restroom, and turn on the faucet* for a glass of water. After that, we might brush our teeth wit...…
…6 Thursday, July 6, 2017 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com ARTS TIDAL New album ‘4:44’ brings us back to ‘Lemonade’ Four-bar looped soul samples, oh how we’ve missed you. 4:44 opens with the dense, layered “Kill Jay-Z.” While a siren reminiscent of “Workinonit” recursively spaces in and out, Hov recounts shooting his brother, stabbing someone over album bootlegs and his intoxication with fame, among other things....…
…7 Thursday, July 6, 2017 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com ARTS TV REVIEW HBO ‘Silicon Valley’ ended its fourth season this past Sunday ‘Silicon’ Season Four finale bids goodbye to Bachman Finale pleases with comedy, disappoints in goodbye to Miller The success of any “Silicon Valley” episode has always started and ended with its characters. When the characters are connecting, the show’s jokes seem to build off of each other...…
…8 Thursday, July 6, 2017 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com NEWS Classifieds Call: #734-418-4115 Email: dailydisplay@gmail.com ACROSS 1 Many opera villains 6 Georgia __ 10 ’70s Israeli prime minister 14 Ration out 15 Antioxidant-rich fruit in smoothies 17 Some earrings 18 Celestial explosion 19 Midwestern pair 21 Japanese prime minister since 2012 22 Cold War weapons 26 Northeastern pair 33 Ready followers? 34 Jumper cable connection 3...…
…By CHRISTIAN PANEDA Michgian In Color Summer Managing Editor Founded in 2009, Pilipino American Unity for Progress is a national nonprofit orga- nizations that invests itself in engaging and empowering the Filipinx and FIlipinx Ameri- can community at large in the United States. UniPro was founded on the mission to pro- vide opportunities for Filipinx students in the United States to explore professional devel- opment, history and...…
…10 Thursday, July 6, 2017 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com OPINION D ear Mr. Carlson, I had not heard of you prior to the “Tucker Carlson Interview Request” I received to my work account last weekend (forgive me, Fox News wasn’t ever really my thing). And then I looked you up a bit. And read about you. And watched some of your videos. I reread the email: We’re looking to discuss the free speech bill that was proposed in...…
