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January 25, 2023 (vol. 132, iss. 102) • Page Image 1

…Campus community members gathered Monday morning to commence the 2023 University of Michigan Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Symposium Memorial Keynote Lecture. Hosted in Hill Auditorium, The Symposium was co-sponsored by the Office of Academic Multicultural Initiatives, the Ross School of Business and the Stephen M. Ross Athletic Campus, and centered around the theme — “(R)evolution: from Segregation to Elevation.” The ...…

January 18, 2023 (vol. 132, iss. 101) • Page Image 1

…Content warning: This article contains mentions of sexual misconduct Peter Chen, professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Michigan, has returned to teach at the University after a Washtenaw County jury found him not guilty of criminal sexual conduct. University spokesperson Kim Broekhuizen wrote in an email to The Michigan Daily that Chen returned to teach Friday after having been on paid a...…

January 11, 2023 (vol. 132, iss. 100) • Page Image 1

…University of Michigan President Santa Ono announced the University’s plan to build a new residence and dining hall targeted at serving first-year students on Central Campus at the Board of Regents meeting Thursday. The new residence hall will be built on the site of Elbel Field and is planned to have the capacity to house 2,300 students. Ono cited a stagnant supply of housing for undergraduate students amidst growing enrollme...…

January 26, 2022 (vol. 131, iss. 64) • Page Image 1

…TATE LAFRENIER & LOLA YANG Focal Point Reporters GOT A NEWS TIP? Call 734-418-4115 or e-mail news@michigandaily.com and let us know. INDEX Vol. CXXXI, No. 64 ©2022 The Michigan Daily NEWS............................ 2 ARTS.............................4 STATEMENT.......................6 M I C . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 O P I N I O N . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .9 S P O R T S . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....…

January 19, 2022 (vol. 130, iss. 63) • Page Image 1

…ADMINISTRATION GOT A NEWS TIP? Call 734-418-4115 or e-mail news@michigandaily.com and let us know. INDEX Vol. CXXX, No. 63 ©2022 The Michigan Daily NEWS............................ 3 A R T S . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 STATEMENT. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 M I C . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 O P I N I O N . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .9 S P O R T S . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...…

January 12, 2022 (vol. 130, iss. 62) • Page Image 1

…Update 1/8: The University of Michigan has updated its COVID-19 dashboard to reflect an increase in quarantine housing availability. University spokesperson Rick Fitzgerald wrote in an email to The Daily that the increase reflects the University’s plan to house two students in two-bedroom quarantine housing spaces. Previously, each apartment housed only one student, regardless of how many bedrooms it had. When LSA...…

January 27, 2021 (vol. 130, iss. 16) • Page Image 1

…The University of Michigan’s Senate Assembly met virtually Monday afternoon to provide an update on the work of the Faculty COVID-19 Council, specifically discussing how to improve messaging from administration to students. Senate Assembly also heard from Kevin Hegarty, the executive vice president and chief financial officer, who will be retiring at the end of the semester, and voted for the Senate Advisory Committee on Uni...…

January 20, 2021 (vol. 130, iss. 16) • Page Image 1

…michigandaily.com Ann Arbor, Michigan Wednesday, January 20, 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. 16 ©2021 The Michigan Daily N E WS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 ARTS............................ 5 OPINION.......................7 S P O R T S . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .9 michiga...…

January 31, 2020 (vol. 129, iss. 61) • Page Image 1

…michigandaily.com Ann Arbor, Michigan Friday, January 31, 2020 ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY-NINE YEARS OF EDITORIAL FREEDOM GOT A NEWS TIP? Call 734-418-4115 or e-mail news@michigandaily.com and let us know. INDEX Vol. CXXIX, No. 61 ©2020 The Michigan Daily N E WS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 O PI N I O N . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 CL A SSIFIEDS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .6 S U D O K U . . . . . . ...…

January 30, 2020 (vol. 129, iss. 56) • Page Image 1

…Gov. Gretchen Whitmer discussed education, jobs, health care and roads at her second State of the State address on Wednesday evening at the State Capitol in Lansing. This was her second state address since her swearing-in as the 49th Governor of Michigan in January 2019. In her 2019 address, Whitmer discussed key issues including Michigan’s infrastructure and educational system, emphasizing her intention to garner bipartisan...…

January 29, 2020 (vol. 129, iss. 56) • Page Image 1

…Nikole Hannah-Jones, domestic correspondent for The New York Times Magazine and creator of the NYT 1619 Project, compared slavery to the red pill in the movie, “The Matrix.” As Hannah- Jones described it, the legacy of slavery in America is “the coding and the architecture of everything that we see, and we have been allowing this country to pretend that slavery is marginal to the American story.” Tuesday night, The Wallace Hou...…

January 28, 2020 (vol. 129, iss. 55) • Page Image 1

…In 2018, Engineering senior Barry Chen went to his first and last career fair to look for aerospace engineering internships. Before the fair, he had already done research on which companies would be willing to hire international students. “When we had a career fair, we had a list of companies, and we could also check if they want to sponsor international students,” Chen said. “I checked it, and turns out very few of them (sponsor...…

January 27, 2020 (vol. 129, iss. 57) • Page Image 1

…About 50 Ann Arbor residents and University of Michigan students gathered in the Ann Arbor District Library to learn about the future of artificial intelligence on Friday night. The talk, titled “Artificial Intelligence and Finance,” featured Engineering professors Rada Mihalcea and Michael Wellman, who discussed how AI will affect trading in the financial world. Mihalcea started the conversation by asking Wellman about his ...…

January 24, 2020 (vol. 129, iss. 56) • Page Image 1

…michigandaily.com Ann Arbor, Michigan Friday, January 24, 2020 ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY-NINE YEARS OF EDITORIAL FREEDOM GOT A NEWS TIP? Call 734-418-4115 or e-mail news@michigandaily.com and let us know. INDEX Vol. CXXIX, No. 56 ©2019 The Michigan Daily N E WS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 O PI N I O N . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 CL A SSIFIEDS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .6 S U D O K U . . . . . . ...…

January 23, 2020 (vol. 129, iss. 55) • Page Image 1

…University of Michigan Provost Martin A. Philbert, executive vice president of academic affairs, was placed on administrative leave on Jan. 21 following several allegations of sexual misconduct. According to an email sent to the campus community by University President Mark Schlissel, these allegations were first reported to University administration on Jan. 16, prompting a three-day investigation by an outside law firm and the Div...…

January 22, 2020 (vol. 129, iss. 54) • Page Image 1

…After a recent change in the University of Michigan’s School of Nursing curriculum, Nursing students were offering to buy other students’ clinical shifts for as much $400 in order to switch their assigned times and locations throughout the Fall 2019 semester. According to University spokeswoman Kim Broekhuizen, the change began in Fall 2019 and allows students to select their own clinical shifts based on their registration ...…

January 21, 2020 (vol. 129, iss. 53) • Page Image 1

…michigandaily.com Ann Arbor, Michigan Tuesday, January 21, 2020 ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY-NINE YEARS OF EDITORIAL FREEDOM Activist Cheryl Brown Henderson delivered a lecture on the legacy of landmark desegregation Supreme Court case Brown v. Board of Education before hundreds of people in the Michigan League Ballroom Monday afternoon. The talk was part of the University of Michigan’s Martin Luther King Jr. Symposium. Brown ...…

January 17, 2020 (vol. 129, iss. 52) • Page Image 1

…U.S. Rep. Debbie Dingell, D-Mich., held a community meeting Thursday evening at Washtenaw County Learning Resource Center to discuss potential action to stop the spread of the Gelman Plume, a plume of toxic chemical pollution currently running through Ann Arbor’s groundwater. Dingell spoke at the event alongside officials from the Environmental Protection Agency, Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes & Ene...…

January 16, 2020 (vol. 129, iss. 51) • Page Image 1

…This is the second installment of a three-part series investigating student mental health at the University of Michigan. The Daily interviewed students on campus, students across the country and prominent leaders of mental health to contribute to this series. In part one, The Daily examined student complaints about Counseling and Psychological Services (CAPS). This part looks at student-led alternatives to CAPS on campus...…

January 15, 2020 (vol. 129, iss. 50) • Page Image 1

…This is the first installment of a three-part series investigating student mental health at the University of Michigan. The Daily interviewed students on campus and across the country as well as prominent leaders in mental health. In parts two and three, The Daily will examine alternative mental health resources on campus and how mental health systems work at other universities, such as Michigan State University. Music, Theatre ...…

January 14, 2020 (vol. 129, iss. 49) • Page Image 1

…michigandaily.com Ann Arbor, Michigan Tuesday, January 14, 2020 ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY-NINE YEARS OF EDITORIAL FREEDOM The University of Michigan Senate Assembly met Monday afternoon at the Michigan League to discuss the structure of faculty governance, changes to policy regarding faculty pay during University misconduct trials, the status of U-M Flint and the purpose of University Ombuds. The Ombuds is an independent body workin...…

January 13, 2020 (vol. 129, iss. 48) • Page Image 1

…michigandaily.com Ann Arbor, Michigan Monday, January 13, 2020 ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY-NINE YEARS OF EDITORIAL FREEDOM New life In need of wins after poor start, Michigan sweeps No. 14 Notre Dame in South Bend to start second half of season. » Page 1B Eli Savit, the Democratic candidate for Washtenaw County Prosecutor, met with students at the Ford School of Public Policy Sunday afternoon to discuss his campaign and ways stude...…

January 10, 2020 (vol. 129, iss. 47) • Page Image 1

…Last winter, LSA student Alexandra Ellard had to miss 10 days of class. Due to extreme weather, many Metro Detroit area public schools and facilities were closed. This meant Ellard couldn’t take her almost 2-year-old son, Oliver, to day care, and the road conditions were too dangerous to bring him along on the 40-minute drive to campus. She had no choice but to stay home. Ellard, who will be graduating this May with a Gener...…

January 09, 2020 (vol. 129, iss. 46) • Page Image 1

…michigandaily.com Ann Arbor, Michigan Thursday, January 9, 2020 ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY-NINE YEARS OF EDITORIAL FREEDOM The Regional Transit Authority of Southeast Michigan (RTA) is looking to make travel between Ann Arbor and Detroit less of a hassle. The RTA held a public hearing about a potential new bus service, in collaboration with TheRide, connecting the two cities on Wednesday evening at the Ann Arbor District Librar...…

January 08, 2020 (vol. 129, iss. 40) • Page Image 1

…Every Saturday morning since September 2003, members of Witnesses For Peace — an anti- Israel protest group — have stood outside the Beth Israel Congregation on Washtenaw Avenue in Ann Arbor. Members of the group hold signs reading “Resist Jewish Power,” “Jewish Power Corrupts,” “Boycott Israel,” “Stop U.S. Aid to Israel” and “End the Palestinian holocaust.” Their demonstrations last from about 9:30 to 11:30 a.m., taking p...…

January 31, 2019 (vol. 127, iss. 64) • Page Image 1

…With the renovation of the Michigan Union underway, stu- dents and faculty will decide on which three vendors will move into the space when it reopens in the winter of 2020. Members of the University of Michigan community expressed con- cern regarding the potential of Wendy’s moving back into the building due to employee labor conditions. Washtenaw Solidarity with Farmworkers, a community and student-based group, has been lobby...…

January 30, 2019 (vol. 127, iss. 64) • Page Image 1

…In light of sub-zero temperatures and extreme wind chills predicted for Wednesday and Thursday, the University of Michigan has decided to cancel all events and classes on campus, beginning 12 a.m. Wednesday and intends to resume activity 7 a.m. Friday. This will be the third time in 40 years the school has closed due to weather. The University Record announced classes were canceled at 3:30 p.m. on Tuesday. The las...…

January 29, 2019 (vol. 128, iss. 63) • Page Image 1

…Around 8 p.m. on Monday night, the Michigan Student Power Network created a petition called #UMichColdShoulder demanding the University of Michigan cancel classes. “The University of Michigan - Ann Arbor must close campus during harsh weather conditions - not just in extreme circumstances,” the petition reads. “A refusal to do so is classist and ableist, with disproportionate effects on workers, low income community memb...…

January 28, 2019 (vol. 128, iss. 61) • Page Image 1

…More than 70 Michigan dispensaries operating under temporary licenses were forced to shut their doors at the beginning of 2019. In compliance with a set of bills passed in 2016, reforming the way the state regulates the production and sale of medical marijuana. The result was a shortage in medical marijuana, plaguing many areas in Michigan including much of Ann Arbor. Ann Arbor is home to 20 dispensaries, only seven of which ...…

January 25, 2019 (vol. 128, iss. 60) • Page Image 1

…Katie Wolberg returned to campus after winter break filled with anticipation. As a second- semester LSA freshman, she resolved to explore her developing interest in consulting, excited by the prospect of what joining a firm offered her: a network, a group of friends and a community at the University of Michigan. Despite Katie’s interest in data analytics and consulting, her anticipation quickly turned into disappointment when s...…

January 24, 2019 (vol. 128, iss. 50) • Page Image 1

…Just in time for its 11th anniversary, Michigan-based craft beer bar HopCat rolled out a new name for its award- winning Crack Fries on Jan. 14. The newly deemed “Cos- mik Fries” were the center of anniversary celebrations Sat- urday, during which free fries and a fries eating contest were offered at each HopCat loca- tion. According to Joe Sonheim, director of marketing for Bar- Fly Ventures, the decision to change the name was made ...…

January 23, 2019 (vol. 127, iss. 58) • Page Image 1

…About 50 students and faculty convened Tuesday evening in the Rackham Amphitheatre for the 2nd annual King Talks, a TED-talk style lecture. The event is part of the weeklong Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Symposium celebration, which included a keynote lecture and more than 20 other events. The King Talks event featured four graduate student speakers who shared how their work and life experiences related to the legac...…

January 22, 2019 (vol. 128, iss. 57) • Page Image 1

…More than 1,000 students and Ann Arbor residents filled Hill Auditorium on Monday to hear keynote speakers principal and co-founder of the James and Grace Lee Boggs School in Detroit Julia Putnam and anti-racism activist and writer Tim Wise discuss issues of inequality and injustice in America. The keynote memorial lecture is just one event in a two-week series of discussions, forums and events honoring Martin Luther King Jr. and...…

January 18, 2019 (vol. 128, iss. 56) • Page Image 1

…In partnership with the Detroit Community-Academic Urban Research Center, University of Michigan student organization Poverty Solutions took on nine, year-long projects in 2019 in an effort to combat the rising rates of poverty and evictions in Michigan using a cross-community collaborative approach. Numerous cities within the state of Michigan, including Muskegon, Saginaw, Battle Creek and Dearborn Heights, are among t...…

January 17, 2019 (vol. 128, iss. 50) • Page Image 1

… Gwen Tessier, University alum and former Student Adminis- trative Assistant Intermedi- ate for the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research, alleges her employment was terminated as a result of reporting sexual harassment at the University of Michigan. Tessier worked for the Uni- versity from 1998-2004 and in ICPSR specifically from 2009- 2015. ICPSR is an international research consorti...…

January 16, 2019 (vol. 127, iss. 54) • Page Image 1

…Photojournalist Rachel Woolf’s exhibit “Deported: An American Division,” which examines the impact of immigration policy on a local family, opened Tuesday at Weill Hall. Woolf’s photography depicts Lourdes Salazar Bautista and her family’s deportation from the United States to Mexico in 2017. The images capture the days before Bautista’s deportation hearing in Detroit and images of the family in Toluca, Mexico after their forced r...…

January 15, 2019 (vol. 128, iss. 53) • Page Image 1

…U.S. Rep. Debbie Dingell, D-Mich., announced Thursday she would be introducing legislation to crack down on drunk drivers in a speech to the House of Representatives. Issam Abbas, 42, his wife, Dr. Rima Abbas, 38, and their three children, Ali, 13, Isabelle, 12, and Giselle, 7, were driving home to Michigan from their vacation in Florida when they were struck by an oncoming pickup truck. The driver was intoxicated. After the tr...…

January 14, 2019 (vol. 128, iss. 52) • Page Image 1

…‘The University of Michigan Athletics Department announced Sunday night it was ending its “consulting relationship” between Rhonda Faehn and the Michigan women’s gymnastics team. Faehn, a former senior vice president of USA Gymnastics who left amid the fallout of the Larry Nassar scandal, joined the coaching staff on Thursday, Jan 10. In the Department’s public statement disclosing the termination of Faehn’s contract, the Un...…

January 11, 2019 (vol. 128, iss. 51) • Page Image 1

…The last few winters have not been favorable for deer in Ann Arbor. Since City Council approved a deer management program in 2015 to reduce the size of the local population, 274 have been killed and 78 surgically sterilized. The city’s fourth deer cull began Jan. 2, closing parks across Ann Arbor with the aim of killing up to 150 deer by the end of the month. Sharpshooters from White Buffalo Inc., the Connecticut-base...…

January 10, 2019 (vol. 128, iss. 50) • Page Image 1

…Dean of Students Laura Blake Jones called out the Alpha Sigma Phi fraternity at the University of Michi- gan in a message to MLive published Dec. 17. Blake Jones said “several gen- erations” took part in haz- ing activities at the Theta chapter and the fraterni- ty’s national headquarters turned a “blind eye” to haz- ing. On. Nov. 7, the University terminated the fraternity for hazing infractions with opportunity for recoloni- zat...…

January 09, 2019 (vol. 127, iss. 49) • Page Image 1

…City Council voted down a resolution Monday that would have directed the city attorney to investigate the actions of the protesters who sought to disrupt Ann Arbor’s annual deer cull. The measure, which was defeated in a 6-5 vote, would have required the city attorney to “take any and all appropriate responsive actions, including issuance of citations and the filing of lawsuits seeking an injunction or such other relief th...…

January 31, 2018 (vol. 127, iss. 66) • Page Image 1

…In the first hours of the University of Michigan’s West Quad Residence Hall’s armed robbery in early December, residents and staff grew concerned with the sudden unexplained presence of police vehicles outside of the dorm and officers in the building. Many residents turned to social media and their friends to make sense of the situation, and very rapidly, a rumor about an active shooter spread through campus. Fortunately for...…

January 30, 2018 (vol. 127, iss. 65) • Page Image 1

…On Monday, The Michigan Daily sat down for an interview with E. Royster Harper, the University of Michigan’s vice president of Student Life. During a time of national conversations surrounding many important and polarizing issues, we asked Harper for her take on current Greek life reforms, sexual assault and misconduct, and free speech in the context of white supremacist Richard Spencer’s possible visit to campus next sem...…

January 29, 2018 (vol. 127, iss. 64) • Page Image 1

…Reinventing Urban Transportation and Mobility aims to revolutionize public transit through an online app that turns transportation into an on-demand service. The app, which serves travelers on the University of Michigan’s North Campus, first launched this month on January 16. While no timeline is set in place yet, the developers hope to eventually expand the service to the University as a whole. RITMO, partnering with t...…

January 26, 2018 (vol. 127, iss. 63) • Page Image 1

…Morgan McCaul entered Michigan State’s medicine clinic at the age of 12. At the time, McCaul — now an LSA freshman at the University of Michigan — was an aspiring ballerina with tears in both hip flexors. She went to East Lansing in search of world-renowned doctor Larry Nassar with hopes he could provide her with the help she needed to return to dance. Nearly five years later, McCaul realized she had been sexually a...…

January 25, 2018 (vol. 127, iss. 62) • Page Image 1

…Former USA Gymnastics and Michigan State University doctor Larry Nassar was sentenced to serve 40 years to 175 years in state prison Wednesday afternoon at the conclusion of a week-long trial. More than 150 survivors of sexual assault delivered statements over the course of the week, testifying to the molestation and abuse they suffered at the hands of Nassar under the guise of medical treatment over the past 30 ...…

January 24, 2018 (vol. 127, iss. 61) • Page Image 1

…The duality of the First Amendment as a powerful political weapon for both marginalized groups and their oppressors presented itself as a reality this past semester. The ongoing negotiation between the University of Michigan administration and white supremacist Richard Spencer regarding Spencer’s request to speak at the University, as well as planned University events in response to the speech, has roused divided opinio...…

January 23, 2018 (vol. 127, iss. 60) • Page Image 1

…LSA junior Anna Tushman took an AP economics in high school and loved it. She came to the University of Michigan expecting to major in math but decided to take Econ 101 and found herself fascinated by its rational, logical thought process. Her 101 class had a fair mixture of women and men, but as she progressed through the major, she found the number of female students in her classes leveling off. Out of boredom one day in her e...…

January 22, 2018 (vol. 127, iss. 59) • Page Image 1

…On Friday afternoon, Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel spoke to a full house of University of Michigan students and community members at Stamps Auditorium. As part of the class Entrepreneurship 407: Entrepreneurship Hour, Emanuel discussed entrepreneurship and innovation, drawing both on his past and present experience in politics. Emanuel was elected as mayor in 2011, and before served in Congres...…

January 19, 2018 (vol. 127, iss. 58) • Page Image 1

…One LSA freshman, who requested to remain anonymous, said he has paid almost $200, and will pay about another $400 in courts costs and up to $1,000 in probation fees. He also has to complete five days of community service, and though the student foresees a judge accepting his plea and giving him six to 12 months of reporting probation, combined with regular drug and breathalyzer tests, the repercussions aren’t over. This ...…

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