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December 09, 2020 (vol. 130, iss. 10) • Page Image 1

…michigandaily.com Ann Arbor, Michigan Wednesday, December 9, 2020 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. 10 ©2020 The Michigan Daily N E WS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 M I C . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 O PI N I O N . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 STATEMENT....…

December 09, 2020 (vol. 130, iss. 10) • Page Image 2

…The Michigan Daily (ISSN 0745-967) is publishing weekly on Wednesdays for the Fall 2020 semester 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. If you would like a current copy of the paper mailed to you, please visit store. pub.umich.edu/michigan-daily-buy-this-edition to place your order. ERIN WHITE Managing Editor ekwhite...…

December 09, 2020 (vol. 130, iss. 10) • Page Image 3

…Phase 2 is set to begin in the late winter or early spring and will extend to the broader University community. A start date for Phase 3 has not been announced. General students will likely be in the second phase of the vaccine’s distribution, unless they are high risk, which could move them to the first phase, Cinti said. He expects the University to vaccinate about 80,000 U-M community members in the coming months. Two dos...…

December 09, 2020 (vol. 130, iss. 10) • Page Image 4

…When my mother emphatically woke me up at 1 a.m. and claimed that I might die from a pulmonary embolism, I didn’t know how to react. Moreover, I didn’t know what I could do. I was laying on my bed with my right leg elevat- ed over almost every pillow we owned to combat the swelling that came with a torn ACL. At first, I rolled my eyes at what seemed to be the classic WebMD diagnosis. However, there was a confidence and fear in her...…

December 09, 2020 (vol. 130, iss. 10) • Page Image 5

…7-Opinion Wednesday, December 9, 2020 — 5 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Michigan in Color Why Writing? Think of all the things you’ve ever written. Essay. Journal entry. TikTok comment. What did you write it for? To inform whoever reads it? To release your emotions? To complete the essay that you’ve put off all of Thanksgiving Break? There has to be some mean- ing or reason behind every- thing that is written because if ...…

December 09, 2020 (vol. 130, iss. 10) • Page Image 6

…7-Opinion Opinion K ing George III probably assumed that George Washington would go the way of Oliver Cromwell. To be fair to America’s colonial monarch, it was a reasonable assumption. Across history, such astronomic victories in the field were rarely followed by voluntary concessions. Many Europeans — and even Americans — suspected that in the event of a Franco-American victory, Washington would retain his power, perhap...…

December 09, 2020 (vol. 130, iss. 10) • Page Image 7

…I n just under two months, former Vice President Joe Biden will assume the Oval Office after defeating incumbent President Donald Trump during the election in November. President-elect Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris will seek to quickly make changes from the executive branch that will alter the nature of American leadership at home and abroad and create significant daylight between their policies and those put...…

December 09, 2020 (vol. 130, iss. 10) • Page Image 8

…Opinion A s many begin to head home for the holidays, it has become clear that this year will look different. If you are planning to safely reconnect with family this holiday season, there is bound to be tension regarding any discussion from a year that is seemingly a simulation gone rogue. Despite the largely-acknowledged principle of avoiding controversial talk at the Thanksgiving table, complicated conversations are essen...…

December 09, 2020 (vol. 130, iss. 10) • Page Image 10

…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com 10 — Wednesday, December 9, 2020 statement P eople love listening to other peo- ple talk about sex. The fear is actually talking about it themselves. Aside from the awkward sit-down discussions some parents force upon their adolescent children and the inad- equate sex education classes most students are subjected to, talking about sex is gener- ally considered taboo — most especially for women. ...…

December 09, 2020 (vol. 130, iss. 10) • Page Image 11

…Quarantine Quarantine means time to means time to make use of make use of our hands our hands The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com statement BY GRACE TUCKER, STATEMENT COLUMNIST Wednesday, December 9, 2020 — 11 C an anyone else, like, not stop jerk- ing off?” Our respective Zoom boxes lit up in a staggered glow as my group of friends and I erupted into laughter. It was April, and we were enduring what would be the second mo...…

December 09, 2020 (vol. 130, iss. 10) • Page Image 12

…12 — Wednesday, December 9, 2020 I t’s that time of year again, Michigan Daily readers. The leaves are chang- ing, holiday music is playing, snow is falling and you guessed it — The Statement Magazine is analyzing campus sex culture. Welcome to our annual sex edition, where we dive deep into the topic’s nuances and in- tricacies through narratives and investigative pieces. But first, in order to get quantitative data about what sex ...…

December 09, 2020 (vol. 130, iss. 10) • Page Image 13

…T he survey posed two questions to gauge how students’ perceptions of their peers’ sexual behavior dif- fered from reality. Indeed, our findings show that while the majority of students think that students on campus are having sex once or twice a week or less, the reality involves less frequent sex. Of the respondents, 39.8% indicated not having sex at all this semes- ter, while 25.1% indicated once or twice per month or less and 23....…

December 09, 2020 (vol. 130, iss. 10) • Page Image 14

…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com 14 — Wednesday, December 9, 2020 statement T his September, Netflix announced that it would start streaming the film “Cuties,” a French film directed by Senagalese-French director Maïmouna Dou- couré, and the Internet went wild. “Cuties” is a coming of age film following an eleven-year- old girl who uses dance to explore her identity, against the ideals of her conservative family. The film has b...…

December 09, 2020 (vol. 130, iss. 10) • Page Image 15

…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Wednesday, December 9, 2020 — 15 statement Sex on the Sex on the internet internet BY ALIX CURNOW, STATEMENT COLUMNIST P lease, no, not on social media. I *heart emoji* you so much and really no. Sa- vor it for the personal and unique, not the masses,” read the comment my aunt had left on a photo I posted on Instagram last week. The photo was of me, with my back to the cam- era, wearing a bra a...…

December 09, 2020 (vol. 130, iss. 10) • Page Image 16

…2-News 16 — Wednesday, December 9, 2020 The B-Side The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com The B-Side: Harry Potter and the Canceled Author It’s time that we talk about ‘The Fault in Our Stars’ I grew up in a house in the middle of the woods, surrounded by deer and trees and friendly small-town neighbors, but I spent a lot of my childhood immersed in books instead. Something about the allure of a different world enthralled me; magica...…

December 09, 2020 (vol. 130, iss. 10) • Page Image 17

…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com The B-Side Wednesday, December 9, 2020 — 17 The B-Side: How has ‘South Park’ not been canceled? Should “South Park” be canceled? With debates spawned by controversial episodes raging across Twitter and echoing on Reddit subthreads, “South Park” remains as scandalous as it was back in 1997. Mocking Clinton’s sex scandals, Scientology and the Virgin Mary with equal vigor, the show has ...…

December 09, 2020 (vol. 130, iss. 10) • Page Image 18

…Arts michigandaily.com — The Michigan Daily 18 — Wednesday, December 9, 2020 This article is a part of the Daily Arts “Canceled” b-side. For a full look at our b-side pieces exploring this theme, visit our site. Season four of Netflix’s “The Crown” opens with a lunchtime conversation at Buckingham Palace. Queen Elizabeth II (Olivia Colman, “The Favourite”) sits at the end of a long table stacked with food and flower arrangemen...…

December 09, 2020 (vol. 130, iss. 10) • Page Image 19

…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Sports Wednesday, December 9, 2020 — 19 This season, the Michigan hockey team’s penalty kill has been crucial in shutting down high ranked opponents. But on Thursday, it was a major factor in the Wolverines’ downfall. Before its second matchup against Penn State, Michigan had killed 19 of its 22 penalties. “We have faith in our players,” sophomore forward Nick Granowicz said on Nov. 2...…

December 09, 2020 (vol. 130, iss. 10) • Page Image 20

…20 — Wednesday, December 9, 2020 Sports The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Oftentimes in practice, the Michigan men’s basketball team plays exhibitions between its first and second units. Normally, the result is exactly what you’d expect it to be. “We may beat them a few times but most of the time (the starters are) beating up on us,” senior forward Chaundee Brown said. In Sunday’s 80-58 victory over Central Florida, thou...…

December 09, 2020 (vol. 130, iss. 10) • Page Image 21

…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Sports Wednesday, December 9, 2020 — 21 Michigan’s reaction to Ohio State game cancelation Jim Harbaugh protested and marched, released statements and said publicly at every turn that he wanted this football season to happen. And when he told the Michigan football team that the biggest game of their season was canceled — marking the first time in over a century that the Wolverines won’t p...…

December 09, 2020 (vol. 130, iss. 10) • Page Image 22

…It’s not how you start, it’s how you finish. That refrain certainly rang true for the Michigan men’s basketball team (4-0) during Sunday’s 80-58 rout of Central Florida (1-1). After surviving three tune-up games against low mid-major opponents, the Wolverines came out flat against the Knights, who had beaten Auburn in their only game of the season. Not only was Michigan’s defense incapable of preventing UCF’s guards from getti...…

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