…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com News Wednesday, January 11, 2017 — 3A HALEY MCLAUGHLIN/Daily Altyn Ciang Knight, coordinator of The College Postersale, sells a poster to a student in the Union on Tuesday. POSTE R S GALORE community? We thought they should be working for each other — making more revenue and getting more foot traffic.” Spade takes print advertisements from clients — local restaurants, for example — and place...…
…I n one of my classes, we had an opportunity to talk candidly about grades. One student humored the crowd: “The smarter you get, the worse grades you get!” He received a laugh from his audience, including me. It was a typical “talent” vs. “striver” debate. Initially, I found some comfort in my classmate’s statement — it was a tempting way to justify the bad grades I have received. However, the utterance carried a ...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Arts Wednesday, January 11, 2017 — 5A ‘Portlandia’ fails to match past seasons’ offerings While latest season delivers on signature humor, a dependence on guests takes away from potential success and originality ‘La La Land’ and ‘Swing Time’ have a penchant for dreaminess and nostalgia that brings love for art to life Following its fifth season, “Portlandia” was renewed for not one but two new ...…
…Classifieds Call: #734-418-4115 Email: dailydisplay@gmail.com ACROSS 1 Bowling alley button 6 European cheese town 10 Puddle jumper trip 13 Wedding figure 14 ChapStick container 15 Fix up 16 Newspaper reporter’s compensation? 18 Big star 19 “I’m with ya” 20 Threatening words 21 Farming prefix 22 “Wheel of Fortune” buy 23 Smooth, as transitions 25 Wise 29 DOJ bureau 30 Dry as dust 31 Speaker’s spot 34 Get out of bed 37 “__ who?” 38 Chiropract...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Sports Wednesday, January 11, 2017 — 7A Recapping the first half of the Michigan hockey season Through 18 games, Michigan’s offense has failed to muster a consistent goal-scoring threat, relying on its defense and goaltending to keep the Wolverines competitive until the final seconds. This weekend, Michigan will face another challenging Big Ten opponent in No. 9 Minnesota, who it spl...…
…8A — Wednesday, January 11, 2017 Sports The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Peppers leaves ‘M’ to declare for NFL Draft A decision that seemed inevitable for months is now official. After a season in which his versatility and explosive play landed him in New York as a Heisman Trophy finalist, redshirt sophomore linebacker Jabrill Peppers announced Tuesday that he will forgo his remaining two years of eligibility at Michi...…
…the newspapers of Ann Arbor in statement THE MICHIGAN DAILY | JANUARY 11TH, 2016 …
…I learned the true meaning of benevolence in a flea market. As a 16-year-old American traveling in a place like Costa Rica, I didn’t know much about the culture, the way of living or its people. While there, I learned of the immense fighting the Costa Rican natives, called Ticos, had to suffer through for their independence. I learned of the consistent poverty the majority of Costa Rican communities battle every...…
…“ The last time I threw up, it was 1978. I was in the back of my buddy’s pick up truck and I had been drinking Seagrams 7 and 7up — we used to call those 7 and 7s. Anyway, I had eaten Cheetos before, so you can imagine what it looked like.”- My Dad Almost any time someone in my family talks about throwing up, gin or the 1970s, my dad tells the story of the last time he puked. If it wasn’t so disgusting, it would almost be cute. I ...…
…Wednesday, January 11th, 2017 / The Statement 4B Wednesday, January 11th, 201 / The Statement 5B City Reckons with the Decline of Newspapers W ashtenaw County Commissioner Conan Smith resigned his elected post in August of 2016, after accusations that he engaged in a self-serving conflict of interest surfaced. In a letter to the County Board, Mary Morgan, former opinion editor of the now-defunct Ann Arbor News, alleged Smith...…
…M y mother comes from a family of blonde Irish Catholics with smooth, compliant hair. Maybe she was blindsided by the delicate way my curls framed my head as a toddler, soft ringlets that formed a gentle puff of yellow around my head. It would become clear that I inherited the Jewish father’s hair: frizzy, twisted locks, thick and prone to expanding upon contact. It’s not her fault that my mom didn’t know the rules of cur...…
…Wednesday, January 11 2017 // The Statement 7B A little under a month ago, I received a Facebook notification that the Regal Cinemas Bethesda movie theater in my Maryland hometown was shutting its doors after more than 20 years of busi- ness. “Thank you, Bethesda. We will miss you” has now replaced the multiplex’s film titles that used to casually scroll across the marquee. What was once a staple of downtown Bethesda slowly became...…
…Wednesday, January 11 2017 // The Statement 8B V I S U A L S T A T E M E N T : B E L I Z E P H O T O S B Y J E R E M Y M I T N I C K From the beaches of San Pedro to the rainforests of Belmopan, Belize’s beauty radiates. Taken softly before the interuption of Hurriance Earl, which swept through and devastated the natural beauty of this country. …
…The Senate Advisory Committee on University Affairs had their first meeting of the winter semester on Monday to discuss the Academic Affairs Advisory Committee resolution to protect faculty from unfair demotions. The committee discussed whether it should endorse the AAAC’s resolution regarding salary cuts and demotions of tenured and tenure-track professors. This resolution was written in response to a tenured pr...…
…EASY AS 1 2 3. puzzle by sudokusyndication.com 2 — Tuesday, January 10, 2017 News The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Department of Piano Faculty Recital WHAT: UM piano faculty will perform classical pieces on the piano of Vladimir Horowitz. WHO: School of Music, Theatre & Dance WHEN: 7:30 p.m. WHERE: Earl V. Moore Building, Britton Recital Hall CAMPUS EVENTS & NOTES Environmental Research Seminar WHAT: The health eff...…
…its National Guard Tuition Assistance Program in 2014 by creating a tuition fund within the state treasury, capped at $10 million. Despite these efforts to improve education funding for members of the Michigan National Guard, the program introduced in 2014 struggled with red tape complexities. According to Brig. Gen. Michael Stone, assistant adjutant general for installations of the Michigan Army National Guard, a...…
…I ’m going to tell you a personal anecdote and then relate it to an advertisement I saw on campus; these two things, together, will help me make my point. I promise they relate to one another. This does not mean, despite my best wishes to live in the world of “maybe it’s Maybelline,” that my life is an advertisement. If my life were an advertisement, if any of our lives were advertisements, we would be fucked. OK?...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Arts Tuesday, January 10, 2017 — 5 ‘Fences’ hopes to break away from theatre roots Despite Viola Davis’ s strong performance, film adaptation of classic August Wilson play falls short of expectations Someone give Viola Davis an Oscar right now. Right now. Don’t even wait until February. The actress, made famous by her role as Annalise Keating on “How to Get Away With Murder,” is the sh...…
…HAPPY TUESDAY! Classifieds Call: #734-418-4115 Email: dailydisplay@gmail.com ACROSS 1 Doofus 5 Dodge Aries and Plymouth Reliant 10 Smack on the mouth 14 Letter-shaped support piece 15 “For real!” 16 Pop singer Brickell 17 Dice roller’s exhortation 19 Scrabble piece 20 TV preview 21 Taken as a whole 23 Satchel feature 26 Margarita glass rim coating 27 Curved sword 30 Application info: Abbr. 32 Pool measure 35 What soccer shootouts resolve 36...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Sports Tuesday, January 10, 2016 — 7 Hamilton to reportedly join coaching staff According to several reports, current Cleveland Browns assistant head coach and quarterbacks coach Pep Hamilton is joining Jim Harbaugh and the rest of the Michigan coaching staff as the new assistant head coach and passing game coordinator. Ian Rapoport of NFL.com first reported Saturday that Hamilton ...…
…8 — Tuesday, January 10, 2017 Sports The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Michigan looking for answers after slow start The Michigan men’s basketball team is three games into its Big Ten season, and there are already questions swirling about the Wolverines’ (1-2 Big Ten, 11-5 overall) conference fate this season. Projected to be a relatively average team before the year began, Michigan made a fairly big impression instead, g...…
…A new self-driving passenger shuttle made its North American debut at the University of Michigan Mcity testing site last month in the hopes it will eventually be approved for public usage. The shuttle, named the ARMA, is manufactured by the French company NAVYA Technologies. It made its first appearance in North America in Mcity, the University’s simulated city and testing site for driverless cars, according to a Univer...…
…SQUATS FOR DAYS. puzzle by sudokusyndication.com 2A — Monday, January 9, 2017 News The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com SYLLY WEEK. puzzle by sudokusyndication.com SHORT WINTER BREAKS. puzzle by sudokusyndication.com LSA juniors Emma McGlashen and Sophia Kaufman are working on a play for the bicentennial celebration that will follow the trials and tribulations faced by the first five women to attend the University of...…
…Monday, January 9, 2017 — 3A News The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com who had HIV/AIDS and never told their mother. “Why didn’t he show her any respect, because AIDS soon took her life,” read their poem. Rackham student Will Beischel said in an interview he attended the event because the topic is personally relevant. “I think a lot of the time HIV is kind of reduced to people getting it from being promiscuous or drug use a...…
…E ngineering education, as I have experienced it, has a singular obsession with theory. This obsession brings irreparable change to a student’s mentality and, inevitably, the industry they enter. I make the presumption throughout this column that engineering students enter college with a desire to create or change things for the better in some way. This fundamental desire is not catered to when students enter the classr...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Arts Monday, January 9, 2017 — 5A Have you purchased the Football Book yet? Do the crossword, then order one. store.michigandaily.com ACROSS 1 Rides for hire 5 Rapids transports 10 Toothed tonsorial tool 14 Treaty partner 15 Open courtyards 16 “So that’s what you mean” 17 Shakespearean king 18 “Just handle the problem!” 20 Jam session jammer 22 Signs of sadness 23 Upstage one’s co-stars 26 Tave...…
…6A — Monday, January 9, 2017 Arts The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com DFA RECORDS James Murphy is my dad. The early 2000s get far too much credit for their contribution to the emo movement. Yes, the era blessed us with Take This to Your Grave, In Love and Death and Your Favorite Weapon, but 1999 gave us truly untouchable gems like the quintessential first self-titled record by American Football. Yet, the true diamond in the rou...…
…B The Michigan Daily | michigandaily.com | January 9, 2017 Still family Michigan hockey alumni returned to Yost Ice Arena on Saturday night to support former Wolverine Scott Matzka in his fight against ALS. » Page 3B Some perspective The Michigan football and basketball teams have left something to be desired in their respective seasons, but they have come a long way. » SportsMonday Column, Page 2B After the Michigan men...…
…2B — January 9, 2017 SportsMonday The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Wolverines experience a turbulent week in recruiting The Michigan football team was looking to do something no other team has done since rankings were introduced to the recruiting process: sign back- to-back No. 1 overall prospects. The Wolverines signed Rashan Gary — ranked No. 1 in 247Sports’ composite rankings of the 2016 class — and were looking to do the ...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com SportsMonday January 9, 2017 — 3B Michigan alumni help one of their own in Scott Matzka The tunnel from the Michigan hockey locker room opened and 28 former players skated onto the ice at Yost Ice Arena on Saturday night. Some players knew Scott Matzka personally from their time in Ann Arbor. Others participated simply to see old friends and to help a member of the “Michigan family.” But...…
…4B — January 9, 2017 SportsMonday The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Michigan’s depth an issue against Terps Forward Zak Irvin and guard Derrick Walton Jr. both entered Saturday’s game against Maryland ranked in the top-five of minutes played per game in the Big Ten. While the pair of seniors have insisted that they can handle the marathon of spending so much time on the court, their seemingly bottomless gas tanks finally ...…
…University of Michigan researchers have released an app that helps Flint residents assess lead contamination levels by utilizing functions related to water testing and providing infrastructure- related information. The team also worked with Flint Mayor Karen Weaver on data analytics for lead pipe removal. The app, released in early December, gives residents information about distribution centers for water and w...…
…Tweets Follow @michigandaily CAMPUS EVENTS & NOTES The Michigan Daily (ISSN 0745-967) is published Monday through Friday during the fall and winter terms 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. Subscriptions for September-April are $225 and year long subscriptions are $250. University affiliates are subject to a re...…
…News The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Friday, January 6, 2017 — 3 access a central hub of information about the water crisis.” Abernethy said. “(Google) had people who did software development, but they didn’t have people who did sort of data science, machine learning analytics stuff. With the help of a grad student a year and a half ago, I helped initiate this thing through Michigan called the Michigan Data Scien...…
…I t has been posited that were it not for the Democratic National Committee’s tactics and deep-rooted support for Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders would have been the blue candidate and would have been victorious over President- elect Donald Trump. Though he, like Trump, would have been a viable “change candidate” in his party and shared similarly nationalistic views, it can be shown that a Sanders presidential campaign woul...…
…TV REVIEW It’s one of the few absolutes in film: there has never been a good video game movie. In the 23 years since “Super Mario Bros.” was released to resounding vitriol, not one film in the genre has crossed the line into even mediocre. But as “Assassin’s Creed” approached, it seemed like it would be the one to break the mold. Justin Kurzel, who helmed last year’s visually astounding adaptation of “Macbeth,” sig...…
…Have you ever pressed ‘A’ on a TV in a Pokémon game to see what was playing? “There’s a movie on TV,” the text box reads. “Four boys are walking down railroad tracks. …I’d better go, too.” This is, of course, a reference to “Stand By Me,” the 1986 Rob Reiner film adapted from Stephen King’s “The Body.” The film and the book it’s based on are seminal texts that explore working class heteromasculinity; t...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Sports Friday, January 6, 2017 — 7 Hayden earns ninth at National Championship For many competitors, the USA Diving Winter National Championships is a reprieve from the stressful academic and athletic workload that student athletes across the country face. With final exams in the rearview mirror, competing divers can put blue book essays behind them and focus solely on gold medals. That i...…
…8 — Friday, January 6, 2017 Sports The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Behind Enemy Lines: Talk with Maryland coach Mark Turgeon The Maryland men’s basketball team will visit Crisler Center on Saturday for just the second time as a member of the Big Ten Conference. Coach Mark Turgeon, in his third season in the conference, has overseen the Terrapins’ transition from the Atlantic Coast Conference to the Big Ten....…
…On his way to attend an accessibility event hosted in Ann Arbor by the University of Michigan Council for Disability Concerns in early December, the Ann Arbor Metro Airport Shuttle denied service to Stephen Kuusisto, a Syracuse University education professor who is blind. Kuusito said he was denied service because he had his guide dog with him. Days before traveling to Ann Arbor, while still at home in Syracuse, Kuusis...…
…2 — Thursday, January 5, 2017 News The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com SHOPPING ON A BUDGET. puzzle by sudokusyndication.com The Michigan Daily (ISSN 0745-967) is published Monday through Friday during the fall and winter terms 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. Subscriptions for September-April are $225 and yea...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Thursday, January 5, 2017 — 3 News The Three Oaks-based Mid America Cowgirls Rodeo Drill Team, an equestrian drill team featuring a variety of horse breeds, will send a group of 44 women and 18 horses to Washington D.C. Upon being selected, Debbie Dunphy, team coordinator and captain, said in an interview with the Harbor County News she was shocked and knew they had to kick it into high ge...…
…T o the man who told me to give Donald Trump a chance: Well hi, how are you? I hope you are having a nice time ice skating with your granddaughter — my friend and I were until you reminded us of what the majority of Americans think is the country’s latest blunder. It’s funny that you picked us out to talk about this. What gave us away? I know we fit the demographics of Hillary Clinton supporters: We are both college-aged ...…
…Sports The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Thursday, January 5, 2017 — 5A Wolverines capture first B1G victory against Penn State Redshirt sophomore forward DJ Wilson spent what seemed like an eternity suspended in mid-air, but when he came down to earth, he had an alley-oop pass from senior guard Derrick Walton Jr. in his hands. Slamming it home with authority, Wilson gave the Wolverines a 61-60 lead with just under three a...…
…Wolverines energized from annual trip to South Florida The Michigan men’s swimming and diving team has spent the last week in Florida, training and preparing for the next stretch of its season. With important Big Ten meets against Indiana, Ohio State and Michigan State coming up in the next month, the trip to the Sunshine State was a worthwhile change for the 12th-ranked Wolverines. The trip, which is an annual tradition for...…
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…2B — Thursday, January 5, 2017 the b-side The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Best Student Productions of 2016 1. Peter and the Starcatcher Michigan’s theatre department took on a new challenge this season with their performance of “Peter and the Starcatcher.” As the prequel to the famous story of “Peter Pan,” the Tony-award-winning play performed at the Power Center this past December. What made this show stand out among ot...…
…3B — Thursday, January 5, 2017 the b-side The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com “Formation” is an unabashed salute to the power of woman- hood — more importantly, to the fortitude of Black, south- ern womanhood. Partnered with the striking images in the music video of various Black women over time, the track transcends the confines of pop music and becomes an instance of protest. Bey is refusing to be limited by her race, place ...…
…4B — Thursday, January 5, 2017 the b-side The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Best Albums of 2016 1. Blonde Frank Ocean In a year of anomalies, norm- breaking and the unexpected, Frank Ocean remains his own island. When an artist can get hun- dreds of thousands of young people to watch paint dry on live stream over a two-week period, there’s something unique happening. It indicates a shift in what we inter- pret as “popular cul...…
…As the minimum age to purchase tobacco products and e-cigarettes in Ann Arbor changes from 18 to 21 with the turn of the new year, the community reacts with mixed opinions. The resolution, introduced by Ann Arbor Councilmember Julie Grand (D–Ward 3), passed its initial read July 18, before being officially approved Aug. 4 by a City Council vote of 9-2. Ann Arbor is the first city in Michigan to implement the measure as par...…
