…ROSEANNE CHAO/Daily Universities across the United States, and especially those in the Midwest, are struggling to attract international students to their campuses. International enrollment has most noticeably declined in non-flagship state universities, where funding for classes and facilities has dried up due to the lack of international students who are willing to pay full price for tuition. University of Michigan students ...…
…Wednesday, Gov. Rick Snyder suggested a 2 percent increase in funding for the state’s higher education budget during the 2018-2019 fiscal year. According to a University of Michigan press release, the proposed plans would provide the University’s Ann Arbor campus with $320.8 million. The budget would also provide the Dearborn campus with $26.1 million, a 2.6 percent increase, and the Flint campus with $23.6 million, a 2.3 percen...…
…world to ensure a globally diverse campus community.” Despite these challenges, U-M’s Ann Arbor campus has held up well, with the number and percentage of international students growing almost uninterrupted for 10 years. In 2008, the percentage of international students at the University’s Ann Arbor campus was 11.55, growing to 15.14 percent in 2017. Kedra Ishop, vice provost for Enrollment Management, said because gover...…
…“ The barrier of loneliness: The palpable, desperate need of the human animal to be with his fellow man … up there is an enemy known as isolation” - Rod Serling. The haunting nature of loneliness is vividly captured by Serling at the end of the very first episode of “The Twilight Zone,” in which a man finds himself trapped in a town with no people in it. While you and I will likely never experience such a frightening scenar...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Arts Friday, February 9, 2018 — 5 “Hostiles” by Scott Cooper is a paradoxically violent yet aesthetically gorgeous take on a Western classic. Captain Joseph J. Blocker (Christian Bale, “The Promise”), a seasoned military leader with a history of killing Native Americans, is ordered to return a Cheyenne war chief Yellow Hawk (Wes Studi, “Penny Dreadful”) back to his ancestral land after being ...…
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…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Sports Friday, February 9, 2018 — 7 Behind Enemy Lines: Wisconsin center Ethan Happ For the first time in two decades, the Wisconsin basketball program is rebuilding. After two pairs of Final Four and Sweet Sixteen appearances in the past four years, the Badgers have struggled from the get-go this season. A drop of some degree was anticipated for Wisconsin. Gone is the steady a...…
…8 —Friday, February 9, 2018 Sports The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Harbaugh, Michigan looking to fill 10th assistant spot on coaching staff While the Michigan football team finalized a new class of signees, one group on the team could still use a little more depth. The coaching staff, as of Wednesday, has filled just nine of the 10 available spots for full- time assistants — despite the 10th having been temporarily filled ju...…
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…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com News 2 — Wednesday, February 9, 2022 BUSINESS Cinnaholic, an Atlanta-based vegan bakery chain with locations across the United States and Canada, opened its first Michigan location in Ann Arbor on Friday morning. The store sold its specialty cinnamon rolls at $1 to the customers braving the freezing temperatures for the opening event. U.S. Rep. Debbie Dingell spoke at the ribbon cutting c...…
…CAMPUS LIFE RESEARCH ADMINISTRATION The University of Michigan was ranked the top-funded institution in social science research in the U.S., according to the Fiscal Year 2020 Higher Education Research and Development (HERD) Survey recently released by the National Science Foundation (NSF). The survey measures the annual research and development (R&D) spending by academic institutions across all academic disciplines. Higher...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Arts 4 — Wednesday, February 9, 2022 Everyone grows up. It’s the inevi- table consequence of life ticking for- ward one second at a time, but just because we grow up doesn’t mean we are grown-ups. We all come of age dis- tinctly, surrounded by different people and existing in different circumstances, but we are united in the fact that grow- ing up sucks. It’s a beautiful, disgusting, painful, eupho...…
…Wednesday, February 9, 2022 — 5 Arts The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com About a year ago, I ran into an old friend during the com- mute home from one of my classes. Given the state of the world in 2021, that commute was, of course, entirely vir- tual, and consisted merely of moving a cursor from the big red “Leave Meeting” button on Zoom to the power down button on the Windows start menu. But during my cursor’s brief virtual tr...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Arts 6 — Wednesday, February 9, 2022 Hot take: I hate syllabus week. Better known as “sylly week,” the first week of college classes in a semes- ter is often referenced affectionately as the final week in which a student could condone their laziness and theoretically couldn’t yet be behind. For some stu- dents, it’s purgatory at worst, party time at best. For me, though, sylly week (and its singl...…
…Wednesday, February 9, 2022 — 7 Michigan in Color The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com It all started as an innocent way of sending funny pictures of yourself to your friends on Snapchat and “harm- lessly” touching up small blemishes on our faces to appear more flatter- ing in our selfies. Now, social media has transformed into an inescapable reality where significantly altering your appearance to seem more “pol- ished” and “socially...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Michigan in Color 8 — Wednesday, February 9, 2022 On Sunday Jan. 26, student organizers from the Indian Amer- ican Student Association and the United Asian American Orga- nizations came together to host an intimate dialogue about the re-examination of South Asian Queerness — a much-needed first of its kind. Before the event was underway, I sensed something irresolute in the air of the dimly li...…
… The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Opinion Wednesday, February 9, 2022 — 9 O n Aug. 19, 2021, Only- Fans announced that the platform would ban sexually explicit content. This came as a shock to many, espe- cially sex workers who depend on posting their content on the site for income. OnlyFans’ pub- licity has skyrocketed because of its explicit content, and it is supported immensely by explicit content creators. Banks and pa...…
…O n Jan. 19, coming off a year of unprecedented attacks on the right to vote by Republican state legislatures throughout the country, congressional Democrats made their last- chance gambit and finally had a vote on carving out an exception for the filibuster for voting rights and election reform legislation. As had been telegraphed for months, the move failed, coming up two votes short of the 50-vote threshold nee...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Sports Wednesday, February 9, 2022 — 11 JENNA HICKEY/Daily Michigan isn’t a good team, but late in the season, it is making some strides toward getting better. Women’s tennis optimistic despite loss to UNC Entering Saturday’s match against North Carolina, Michigan women’s tennis coach Ronni Ber- nstein was just a single win shy of becoming the winningest coach in program history. The Wo...…
…Julia Schachinger/Daily | Dominick Sokotoff/Daily | Kate Hua/Design | Design by Sophie Grand One month and a lifetime ago, Jim Harbaugh sat at a podium with a backdrop of College Football Playoff logos, expressing vigorous optimism for the future of the Michigan foot- ball program. “It’s still a beginning for this team,” Harbaugh waxed, his outlook unchanged in the wake of Georgia’s 23-point drubbing in the Orange Bowl. “That’s whe...…
…ILLUSTRATION BY JENNIE VANG PAGE LAYOUT BY SARAH CHUNG VINTAGE VALENTINE CREDIT: Bentley Historical Library Wednesday, February 9, 2022 // The Statement — 2 Read more at MichiganDaily.com BY JULIA VERKLAN MALONEY, STATEMENT DEPUTY EDITOR Can’t Buy Me Love Can’t Buy Me Love What is love? Scientists explain it in terms of the body’s release of adrenaline, dopamine and serotonin; cynics refute its existence by citing ancient philo...…
…3 — Wednesday, February 9, 2022 // The Statement Fathers, daughters and daddies Necto, TikTok, And the importance of queer spaces Fathers, daughters and daddies Necto, TikTok, And the importance of queer spaces When thinking about father-daughter rela- tionships, unfortunately, there is no “dad” without a “daddy.” Since entering our collective vocabulary, terms like “daddy issues,” “fatherless behavior” and “father complex” have do...…
…Wednesday, February 9, 2022 // The Statement — 4 Love Notes Love Notes Hi, Hope all is well. lonely out here in italy. this is from your secret admirer. I hope you share this with everyone. miss you! You + me = forever baby. Love you lady You are the absolute coolest, most funny most creative guy out there ! So glad we’re friends :) to my dear, smelly friends on e ann and my gorgeous, beautiful roommat...…
