…The Ann Arbor City Council met Monday evening via Zoom in a public livestream. Despite the meeting’s alternative format, the council kept its usual structure, including public comments via phone calls and speakers from various city government organizations, informing the public on issues such as zoning policy and the city budget. With people across the country as well as local tenants calling for a rent freeze...…
…2 — Tuesday, April 7, 2020 News The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com 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 $250 and year long subscriptions are $275. University affiliates are ...…
…Tuesday, April 7, 2020 — 3 News The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com It began with introductions of SACUA’s three new members: Jennifer Caitlin Finlayson, associate professor of English literature at the U-M Dearborn; Allen Liu, associate professor of mechanical and biomedical engineering in the College of Engineering; and Kentaro Toyama, professor of information and community information in the School of Informat...…
…“ Stay safe.” It’s a phrase that’s becoming all too familiar in the days of COVID-19. My husband says it to me as he hugs me before I leave for work. I read it in texts from friends and family who I haven’t seen in weeks. The grocery store clerk utters it through a plexiglass barrier in the checkout line. These two words are a ubiquitous mantra the whole world is crying out in desperation. I want to tell you all today that ...…
…“Parasite” made history two months ago (yes, two months is right — time is all sorts of funky in the age of corona) with its Best Picture win, but it certainly wasn’t the first non-English-language film to make an attempt at the Academy’s top prize. The twentieth century saw a number of French, Italian and Swedish films have a go. The year 2000 featured Ang Lee’s martial arts epic “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.” And it wa...…
…Tuesday, April 7, 2020 — 6 Multimedia The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Working from PHOTO ESSAY home: TMD photographer edition Asha Lewis/Daily As millions of people adjust to working, learning and trying to live their normal lives from home, some jobs simply can’t be done from the confines of your living room. At first, being a Michigan Daily photographer seemed to be one of those jobs since all events and games had been canceled...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com 7 — Tuesday, April 7, 2020 Sports The bond between Owen and Bryan Finnerty Bryan Finnerty gazed across the table and saw himself. It was late last October, and he was out to lunch in Ann Arbor, in town for that night’s men’s soccer game between Michigan and Wisconsin. Bryan was catching up with one of his fraternal twin sons, Owen, who doubled as the Wolverines’ backup goalkeeper. ...…
…8 — Tuesday, April 7, 2020 Sports The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Michigan guard David DeJulius plans to enter the transfer portal, according to a program spokesperson. The news was first broken by Josh Henschke of 247Sports. A former four-star recruit from Detroit in 2018, DeJulius played sparingly as a freshman before taking on a bigger role this past season. He averaged 7.0 points on 42 percent shooting...…
…michigandaily.com Ann Arbor, Michigan Wednesday, April 7, 2021 ONE HUNDRED AND THIRTY YEARS OF EDITORIAL FREEDOM GOT A NEWS TIP? Call 734-418-4115 or e-mail news@michigandaily.com and let us know. INDEX Vol. CXXX, No. 27 ©2021 The Michigan Daily N E WS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 M I C . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 ARTS.............................6 STATEMENT...................9 OPIN...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com News 2 — Wednesday, April 7, 2021 ANNA FUDER/Daily The famous murals along West Hubbard Street in Chicago’s West Loop neighborhood remind me of the famous graffiti alley on East Liberty Street, and both feel like home. The Michigan Daily (ISSN 0745-967) is publishing weekly on Wednesdays for the Winter 2021 semester by students at the University of Michigan. One copy is available free of charge to a...…
…Ann Arbor City Council convened virtually April 5 to discuss the development of an unarmed safety response team, support for the University of Michigan’s President’s Commission on Carbon Neutrality, an amendment to the housing rental period and a resolution to condemn anti-Asian hate crimes. The council discussed DC-3, a resolution that would task the city administrator with investigating different pathways for developing an un...…
…The first time I became aware of my body, I was 12 years old at an outdoor water park. I sat in an inflated tube, swaying back and forth in an obnoxiously loud wave pool with my sister and friends. It was a perfect day until it wasn’t. At one moment, my sister and friends had been taken elsewhere by the manufactured tide and I sat swaying along, enjoying the blazing sun on my face and the cool of the water on my feet. I was then ap...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Michigan in Color Wednesday, April 7, 2021 — 5 U-M professors, Michigan public officials discuss roots of anti-Asian racism, but suggestions for what to do in the face of hate fall short Disclaimer: The author and Michigan in Color as a whole do not condone involvement of the carceral state or any perpetuation of criminalization. The solutions covered in this event are not solutions the author is...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Arts 6 — Wednesday, April 7, 2021 A little over a week ago, news broke of the death of former Metropolitan Opera conductor James Levine. Reporters and critics across the classical music and opera worlds wrote long obituaries that interrogated Levine’s complicated legacy. The first item that most obituaries touched upon was Levine’s critical success as the conductor of the Met. He led the...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Arts Wednesday, April 7, 2021 — 7 What first comes to mind when you hear the term SoundCloud rap? Perhaps you envision an immature group of teens with colorfully-dyed hair and face tattoos, rapping about prescription drugs. Maybe the term connotes a sense of rebelliousness that brings to mind exciting, unfiltered discoveries found on the internet. It could remind you of your own blunders and s...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Arts 8 — Wednesday, April 7, 2021 Ann Arbor is never entirely quiet. But of the many sounds you hear drifting through the city, those of a band with a bossa nova feel often aren’t among them. And yet, on a slightly chilly Saturday afternoon, a group of around 40 people and I found ourselves masked up and spread out, sprawled all over Lawrence Street as a jazz/rock band played on the porch of...…
…L ike so many other universities around the world, the University of Michigan relied on its existing technological resources to design a dis- tanced education for the COVID-19 era. The pandemic certainly came as a sur- prise, though ultimately a widespread familiarity with the basic tools of email, course websites and video conferencing helped students and teachers adapt to a new normal. Online education in general, how- ever, is n...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com 10 — Wednesday, April 7, 2021 statement Love everlasting: the relationships that color my identity W hen I left home for col- lege, my Bubbie — the Yid- dish term for grandmother — gifted me with a thin red bracelet to protect me from the harm of the evil eye. The tradition is rooted in the spiritual Jewish practice called Kab- balah, though the reasoning behind it is widely debated. Some beli...…
…I brainstorm new topics for Michigan Daily articles, like this one, from my bed in the apartment I moved into when the freshmen residence halls closed. I rest my computer on my lap, blank document open and waiting, and I lean back into the silence. Across from my bed is a window, and through it, as I write or ponder, I see the yel- low house next door. On clear evenings like tonight, the sunset compliments the friendly yel- l...…
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…7-Opinion T his past week, there was a little drama in the race for New Mexico’s 1st Congressional District. Sheridan Lund, the precinct chair of the Democratic Party of Bernalillo County and candidate for the congressional seat, tweeted a now-deleted attack on one of the candidates. The charge being leveled was that Victor Reyes, a former top aide to New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham and one of the candidates for the congres...…
…2-News 14 — Wednesday, April 7, 2021 Opinion The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Online Event: Wednesday, March 31st, 2021 | 4:00 p.m. An online lecture. For more information, visit events.umich.edu/event/81873 or call 734.615.6667 IF THEY ONLY KNEW VINCENT HUTCHINGS Hanes Walton Jr. Collegiate Professor of Political Science and Afroamerican and African Studies Informing Blacks and Whites about the Racial Wealth Gap JOHN TU...…
…In four years at Michigan, Isaiah Livers has scored 987 points, collected 453 rebounds and assisted 110 baskets. In the process, he’s won 94 games, each one helping to earn the University hundreds of thousands of dollars from ticket sales, advertising revenue and TV deals. None of it has gone to Livers. “I just feel like I’m being used a lot,” Livers, who wore a shirt with the hashtag #NotNCAAProperty thr...…
…Michigan advances to National Championships with record tie Michigan goes 2-2 against Maryland, Northwestern Baserunning costs Michigan outs and runs Standing on the edge of the floor before her routine, junior Natalie Wojcik watched as her teammate’s score came in at a 9.950, securing the win for Michigan and advancing it to the NCAA Gymnastics Championships. However, Wojcik still saluted the judges, stepped out on the floo...…
