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…longest streak of private-sector job creation in history,” he said. “More than 14 million new jobs; the strongest two years of job growth since the ’90s; an unem- ployment rate cut in half. Our auto industry just had its best year ever.” The White House recently announced plans for Obama to visit Detroit for the North Ameri- can International Auto Show. Obama also visited a Ford Motor manufacturing plant prior to his 2015 State of...…
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…2A — Wednesday, January 6, 2016 News The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com ZOEY HOLMSTROM/Daily Twenty One Pilots played at Saint Andrew’s Hall in Detroit on December 17, 2015. On New Year’s Eve about 1,000 young men coordinated and carried out acts of sexual violence on at least 90 women in Cologne, Germany, The New York Times Reported. Police in Hamburg are now reporting similar incidents. CAMPUS EVENTS & NOTES Conc...…
…2A — Wednesday, January 13, 2016 News The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com ANDREW COHEN/Daily LSA junior Erin Dunne campaigns for her student organization, Students for Sensible Drug Policy, at the Winterfest club fair sponsored by the Center for Campus Involvement at the Union on Tuesday. The Powerball lottery jackpot is now at $1.5 billion for Wednesday’s drawing, CNBC reported. No winners were announced Saturday and more tha...…
…2A — Thursday, January 7, 2016 News The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com THREE THINGS YOU SHOULD KNOW TODAY Daily Arts Writers hang with up-and-coming rock band The Moxies, talk to student producer, YOG$, visit Third Man Records and more in a music-centric edition of The B-Side >>SEE B-SIDE, PAGE 1B 2 CAMPUS EVENTS & NOTES International Policy Center Film Series WHAT: The film The Village Under The Forest explores the Israe...…
…2A — Thursday, January 14, 2016 News The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com THREE THINGS YOU SHOULD KNOW TODAY Arts writers created a guide for everything you need to know about Restaurant Week in Ann Arbor. >>SEE B-SIDE, PAGE 1B 2 CAMPUS EVENTS & NOTES Michigan governor Rick Snyder activated the National Guard on Tuesday and is seeking help from the Federal Emergency Management Agency to address the contaminated wate...…
…arguments from legal representatives of the plaintiffs, city and U.S. Department of Agriculture — the department’s Wildlife Services is conducting the cull —Monday. Should the court rule in favor of the plaintiffs and grant a preliminary injunction — a legally binding court order granted before the resolution of a lawsuit — the City of Ann Arbor would be forced to halt the cull until the lawsuit is resolved, even if the su...…
…by felons and the mentally ill, two aspects that background checks are used to flag. “It’s not a serious argument under current Supreme Court doctrine,” he said. “The idea that background checks would be anything other than a reasonable technical method of achieving what the Supreme Court has basically said is perfectly fine is too much to swallow. I would not want to be the lawyer who had to argue that case.” Looking to the ...…
…Exposure to negative stereotypes increased support for restrictive policies By SAMIHA MATIN Daily Staff Reporter Recent University studies suggest individuals who identify as non-Muslim and are exposed to negative portrayals of Mus- lims in the media are more likely to support restrictive public pol- icies aimed at Muslims interna- tionally and domestically. Communications Prof. Muni- ba Saleem, a faculty associate at the Inst...…
…dime go toward these projects,” he said. Now, in 2016, two projects are competing for the space. A memo was sent to Interim City Administrator Tom Crawford on Dec. 3 containing two dis- tinct proposals from competing real estate firms in Chicago for the establishment of multi-mil- lion dollar high-rise develop- ments in the city-owned library lot. These proposals have been under consideration for months, but until now no direc-...…
…2A — Wednesday, January 27, 2016 News The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com ANDREW COHEN/Daily LSA and Art & Design freshman Gwen Burzinski practices the main theme from the video game “Xenoblade Chronicles”, on the carillon in Burton Tower on Tuesday. ISIS released a propaganda video regarding the Paris attacks early this week, The New York Times reported. The video shows the names of the terrorists involved in November ...…
…State of the State,” Snyder said. “I would like to address the people of Flint. I want to speak directly, honestly sincerely… The government failed you. I’m sorry most of all that I let you down. You deserve accountability. You deserve to know the truth and I have a responsibility to tell the truth.” During the speech, Snyder said he will release all of his e-mails pertaining to the water crisis as well as a comprehensive timelin...…
…2A — Tuesday, January 19, 2016 News The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com THREE THINGS YOU SHOULD KNOW TODAY CAMPUS EVENTS & NOTES Eagles guitarist and founding member Glenn Frey died Monday at age 67. According to BBC, his death was due to complications from rheumatoid arthritis, acute ulecrative colitis and pneumonia. 1 The United Kingdom’s parliment debated on Monday whether to ban Donald Trump from entering ...…
…Talk discusses current movement, cites need for progressive agenda By EMILY DAVIES Daily Staff Reporter About 30 people gathered Friday to listen to and engage with Matthew Platt, assistant professor of political science at Morehouse College, on the state of Black politics in the modern world. The event emphasized what Platt described as a need to con- tinue to think critically about the strategy the Black commu- nity emplo...…
…2A — Thursday, January 21, 2016 News The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Poetry reading WHAT: Canadian poet and ancient Greek teacher Anne Carson reads her work as part of the Zell Visiting Writers Series. She has recieved myriad awards including the Griffin Trust Award for Excellene in Poetry. WHO: Anne Carson WHEN: 5:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. WHERE: Museum of Art - Helmut Stern Auditorium Former grantee panel WHAT: 2015 Interna...…
…2-News 2A — Thursday, January 28. 2016 News The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com THREE THINGS YOU SHOULD KNOW TODAY Daily Arts Writers explore our perceptions about our own mortality, through visits to a funeral home and a Buddhist temple. >>SEE B-SIDE, PAGE 1B 2 CAMPUS EVENTS & NOTES Research information session WHAT: Learn about D.E. Shaw Research, a lab that explores computational biochemistry. Brannon Batson ...…
…Christopher Hill explores political strategies in Syria and North Korea By CALEB CHADWELL Daily Staff Reporter Christopher Hill, former assistant secretary of state and U.S. ambassador, discussed current topics in foreign policy, such as ongoing peace settlements for conflicts in Syria and North Korea, at the Ford School of Public Policy Monday evening. Hill was nominated as an ambassador by three presidents, mos...…
…2-News 2 — Friday, January 29, 2016 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com THREE THINGS YOU SHOULD KNOW TODAY The No. 6 Michigan hockey team defeated No. 15 Penn State, 7-4 Thursday. Freshman forward Kyle Connor and senior forward Tyler Motte scored two goals each. >> SEE SPORTS on page 7 2 CAMPUS EVENTS & NOTES Storyteller workshop WHAT: Award winning journalist, lecturer and advocate Jimmie Briggs will share his experi...…
…2 — Friday, January 22, 2016 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com 2-News News RYAN MCLOUGHLIN/Daily James Logan, co-founder of Space Enterprise Institute, gives a prsentation on the future of space travel in the Beyster Building Wednesday. Antimicrobal agent nisin shrunk tumors on neck and head of mice By ALEXA ST. JOHN Daily Staff Reporter Nisin, an antimicrobal agent which is produced b...…
…Sanzotta, a plaintiff in a law- suit filed earlier this month by Ann Arbor Residents for Public Safety against the city to halt the cull, expressed her frustration with the council’s decision to move forward. “I see you don’t care much about facts, or public safety,” Sanzotta said. “Our council has been bought and sold — cheaply.” Barry Powers, the attor- ney representing Ann Arbor Residents for Public Safety, referred to the la...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com News Monday, January 13, 2016 — 3A University rewards encourage healthy behavior in employees According to a University press release, MHealthy announced the start of its annual rewards program, which aims to motivate faculty and staff members to better their health. From weight management and exercise classes to mental and emotional well-being classes, it provides participants with resourc...…
…CLAIRE ABDO/Daily LSA Senior Zachary Ackerman after being sworn into the Ann Arbor city council on November 17, 2015. The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com News Thursday, January 7, 2016 — 3A within the University.” While McCoy added that he supported the administration’s decision, he emphasized that the driving force behind the change was student activism. “For the University to follow through on that demand is a welcome...…
…the auto industry. Warren said Obama’s leadership was key in creating policy to support the auto industry and helping Michigan’s economy recover from the 2008 recession. “If you grew up in Michigan, you probably have someone in your family who has a job in the auto industry or related to the auto industry,” she said. “If the auto industry had truly gone into bankruptcy and had not been able to recover, it would have been deva...…
…Teacher “sickout” threatens to close one-third of Detroit public schools Detroit Public Schools teachers plan to stragically close at least 35 schools with a “sickout” today. The sickout was coordinated by a group of teachers calling themselves “Detroit Strikes to Win.” The group spent more than 90 minutes discussing potential strikes last Saunday before settling on the sickout. Former teacher union president Steve Conn leads th...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com News Friday, January 8, 2016 — 3 today’s high-tech innovations: the brain. “I wasn’t solving the world’s problems, and I wanted to be closer,” Gaidica said. “I had talked about the brain much before at this TEDxFlint talk, and it makes a lot of sense for an electrical engineer. The brain runs on electricity, and so it kind of just became this problem that I really wanted to get into.” Gaidic...…
…The committee also discussed changes to the Standard Practice Guideline, which outlines professional standards for faculty, in further detail during an executive session. This session was not open to the press. During the meeting, Weineck said SACUA had received possible revisions to the SPG from Provost Pollack. “Martha (Pollack) expressed that she now gave us back a document with a considerable number of edi...…
…for so long and that the rent is getting raised on them but that’s sort of the unfortunate downfall of being a small busi- ness,” she said. Bathish said in his experi- ence, many students aren’t necessarily interested in sit- ting and eating when they go to Amer’s. “A lot of the students are on the go anyway so the reduced seating won’t affect them,” Bathish said. LSA senior Stephanie Choi, echoed Schuman’s sentiments. “It defi...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com News Wednesday, January 27, 2016 — 3A GREG GOSS/Daily Montana Stevenson, graduate student in the School of Natural Resources and Environment, speaks on issues ranging from food scarcity to racial injustices during the Food Justice Panel at the Dana Building on Tuesday. within cities like Detroit. “This is legal segregation,” Bernardo said. “This is what it looks like.” Another panelist, Mama Han-...…
…3-News The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com News Wednesday, January 20, 2016 — 3A NEWS BRIEFS after watching the crisis unfold and realizing the far-reaching impacts of the contaminated water. “Our center has worked directly with the Flint community for over twenty years,” she said. “We know people who live in the community; they are our partners, our friends and our colleagues. We just wanted to be able to do something.” ...…
…Rackham to Snyder’s Ann Arbor condo at 211 S. Main St. where they formed a moving circle and cheered loudly. Chants from the protest included “Justice for Flint, arrest Rick Snyder” and “Democracy, democracy, that’s our right; Snyder stole it, that’s our fight.” Buttons were also passed out that said “Arrest Rick Snyder” and featured an image of Snyder, handcuffed, wearing a black and white striped prisoner’s uniform. Jan...…
…Bernstein said the University should pay less attention to standardized test scores and more to skills that “contribute to society.” Newman added the Uni- versity works closely with the Detroit Public Schools and will continue its presence in the city. Recently, many teach- ers have spoken out againstthe poor conditions of DPS schools and how they limit K-12 stu- dents’ success. LSA freshman Peter Pujols asked what the regents pl...…
…University study examines parental restrictions on teen driving habits Though parents reported limiting cell phone use, the number of passengers, driving times and driving locations of their teen drivers, teens reported their parents never placed these types of limitations on their driving, according to a C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital National Poll on Children’s Health. The study, looking at parents of teens 13 to 18 years old...…
…and solar. Ian Hiskens, professor of electrical engineering and computer science, said the energy transition has several impacts on the electric grid. “The main issue with renewables is variability,” Hiskens said. “Output for a coal power station can be fixed and controlled. If you deal with a wind farm, you have no control over the output. The energy grid needs to be upgraded to manage fluctuations and variability.” ...…
…CLAIRE ABDO/Dailly University President Mark Schlissel speaks at a Senate Assembly meeting about the Flint water crisis and other Univer- sity business in the Palmer Commons on Monday. The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com News Tuesday, January 26, 2016 — 3 Rodents and mold found during Detroit schools inspection The City of Detroit conducted inspections of 11 public schools as a part of distrinct-wide review this week. The inspec...…
…State research economic benefits top $17 billion The state of Michigan’s University Research Corridor contributed $17.5 billion to the Michigan economy in 2015, according to a University press release this week. The URC is a collective of research by the University, Michigan State and Wayne State, and boosted economic activity in every region in the state due to student spending, spending on operations and alumni earnings. The...…
