…The Graduate Employees’ Organization, which represents more than 2,000 graduate student instructors and graduate student staff assistants, announced Monday that its members have voted to strike in response to the University of Michigan’s fall reopening plans. This move could substantially disrupt academic operations through the course of next week. This is the first GEO strike since 1975. In a press release announcing...…
…Three weeks ago, LSA professor Bob King, the former president of the United Auto Workers, heard his phone buzz. When he picked it up, he saw an incoming call from his longtime friend Sen. Bernie Sanders, D-Vt., the liberal firebrand and former Democratic presidential candidate. Sanders asked if King would speak at the 2020 Democratic National Convention the upcoming week to nominate him for president. It was an offer Ki...…
…The strike will be time-limited and run until Friday, with the potential for reauthorization if the University does not meet the organization’s demands. GEO is asking for the diversion of funds from the Division of Public Safety and Security and more COVID-19 protections, such as the right to work remotely for all graduate student instructors, more transparency in opening plans and protection from hiring discrimination for tho...…
…Gyms and pools can reopen subject to restrictions to uphold public health protocols amid the COVID- 19 pandemic, Gov. Gretchen Whitmer announced Thursday. Some organized sports will also be permitted to resume as part of the state’s gradual reopening process. Following the governor’s executive order, the University of Michigan’s Department of Recreational Sports announced plans to begin reopening its facilities ...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com News Wednesday, September 9, 2020 — 5 Multiple residence halls confirm cases of COVID-19 Multiple residents across three University of Michigan residence halls tested positive for COVID- 19 less than a week into the fall semester. One resident of South Quad Residence Hall, two residents of Bursley Residence Hall and one resident of North Quad Residence Hall tested positive for the virus ...…
…Over the course of the last few months, The Daily summer staff collaborated to produce a spe- cial edition on systemic racism, titled “Miseducation.” Articles from all sections — including Michigan in Color, Opinion, The Statement, Sports, News, Arts and Photo — were curated and arranged into different cat- egories with the ultimate goal to educate our community and report on the fight for racial jus- tice in our country and across ...…
…7-Opinion Wednesday, September 9, 2020 — 7 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Michigan In Color YOUR WEEKLY ARIES With Mars, your ruling planet, turning retrograde, this is your chance to dial down the noise and to turn inward for a while. Focus on getting the background details right at work; good preparation now will ensure success later. AQUARIUS GEMENI If you need financial or practical assistance, distant family memb...…
…Opinion I t’s highly likely that the folks reading this are younger rather than older. You’re probably reading this on your computer or phone. Maybe you’re laying in bed, e-commuting to class or, most likely of all, sitting on the toilet. Whatever you’re doing while reading, I’m positive this next part will spark some curiosity, cause you to miss a step or — hopefully, because that’d be funny — produce a combo of the two. Contra...…
…2-News O ver the last few months, the University of Michigan has issued guidelines and rules for its students regarding the ongoing spread of COVID-19. Of course, intelligent containment efforts are necessary, as COVID-19 represents a serious threat to the health of the University community and the challenges administrators face are remarkably difficult. However, this containment goal does not justify the means the Unive...…
…O n Aug. 26, the United State’s Departments of State and Commerce announced a plethora of sanctions that are set to be enacted against leaders of construction companies — owned by the Communist Party of China (CPC) — which officials deemed as participating in malign state projects in the South China Sea. The relevant measures include export restrictions, withholding visas and decreased access to U.S.- create...…
…Arts Wednesday, September 9, 2020 — 11 You’re not too old to enjoy Candace Flynn’s return Take yourself back to the summer of 2007. Tiger Woods was at the height of his career. The first iPhone had a triumphant release. I went to a week of summer camp and returned with a couple hundred mosquito bites. And in August, Disney Channel previewed an animated show called “Phineas and Ferb.” As someone who started watching the show...…
…Why I’m reading Stephen King during the pandemic Over the last six months, I have (understandably) turned to reading books that comfort me. I reread the first “Harry Potter” book out loud to my six-year-old neighbor; I revisited the meditative poetry of Walt Whitman and the remarkable prose of Tom Robbins. The words that I had read time and time again consoled me while everything else seemed impossibly crazy. More and mo...…
…Arts Wednesday, September 9, 2020 — 13 Lana Del Rey ventures into spoken word poetry In between the transition of tracks one and two, I fire off three successive texts: “Holy f#$%ing sh$t. Nothing has ever wreaked havoc on my soul like this single track has done. I am CRYING.” My friend responds with the picture of a small child who appears to embody the world- weary disgruntlement of a man amid a mid-life crisis: “Lana alw...…
…M y mother has always told me I’m allowed to be an English major, but I’m not allowed to become a teacher. As a senior studying cre- ative writing and literature, I haven’t strayed far from the world I grew up in — one where education was a daily topic of discussion. My mother is a public high school English teacher whose biggest project is a class called College Writing, which she created over a ten-year span with peers an...…
…I ’ve been settling recently. I’ve settled into a new home. I’ve settled into a new ro vcutine. I’ve settled into a global pandemic. I watch as my friends and family seem to do the same. The mention of “COVID-19” sounds like the name of an estranged relative my family likes to gossip about. While I get annoyed when my mother brings it up at the dinner table, I can’t help but listen to every word, waiting for the next updat...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com statement ILLUSTRATION BY ???? Zoom fatigue: A new way to be exhausted in college BY LEAH LESZCZYNSKI, STATEMENT COLUMNIST Wednesday, September 9, 2020 — 16 W alking briskly to my French class to escape the Michigan chill, I savor the blinding morning sun and let the autumn breeze tangle my hair as I weave through the bottlenecks of people in Angell Hall to arrive at my first class...…
…On the day the Michigan football team was supposed to kick off its season against Washington, several Wol- verine players and parents instead gathered at Michigan Stadium to protest the sea- son’s postponement. The protest, which was pri- marily arranged by Michigan parents Peach Pagano (Carlo Kemp’s mother), Melissa Hutchinson and Lisa McCaf- frey, included over 50 people in total, including a handful of players and coach Jim Har...…
…18 — Wednesday, September 9, 2020 Sports The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com I t’s too bad we couldn’t see Jim Har- baugh’s face under- neath his mask on Saturday. It might have been revealing. Speaking to reporters while par- ticipating in a parent-led protest on the Big Ten’s postpone- ment of foot- ball season, Harbaugh was asked six times in seven minutes about University president Mark Schlissel. He did his best no...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Sports Wednesday, September 9, 2020 — 19 On Saturday, the Michigan football team would have been opening its season against Washington in Seattle. Next week, it would have been open- ing its home slate against Ball State in Ann Arbor. And The Daily would have been there for it all. Instead, like everyone else, we’ll be sitting at home, missing the joys of fall. So on the day that Michigan’s ...…
…Originally, the plan was for Saturday’s protest to go from the tunnel entrance of the Big House to South University Avenue, where University President Mark Schlissel resides. Organizers scrapped that due to construction. If they hadn’t, Michigan coach Jim Harbaugh would have been protesting outside his president’s house. Schlissel, according to documents obtained in a lawsuit by frustrated players...…
