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January 27, 2020 (vol. 129, iss. 57) • Page Image 4

…Opinion The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com 4A — Monday, January 27, 2020 Alanna Berger Zack Blumberg Brittany Bowman Emily Considine Cheryn Hong Krystal Hur Ethan Kessler Mary Rolfes Michael Russo Timothy Spurlin Miles Stephenson Joel Weiner Erin White Lola Yang ERIN WHITE Managing Editor Stanford Lipsey Student Publications Building 420 Maynard St. Ann Arbor, MI 48109 tothedaily@michigandaily.com Edited and managed by students at...…

January 27, 2020 (vol. 129, iss. 57) • Page Image 5

…2015’s era of bright, side- swept hair and Tumblr edginess is embodied in one famous figure: Halsey. Rising to extreme stardom with the release of her fantastical debut album, BADLANDS, she became a voice that many angsty teenagers clung to. Her music created an alternate reality, BADLANDS existing as a fake universe for teenage fans to get lost in. Her distinctive, almost warbling vocals have garnered both praise and cri...…

January 27, 2020 (vol. 129, iss. 57) • Page Image 6

…Arts The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com WHISPER SUBMIT A WHISPER By Frank Virzi ©2020 Tribune Content Agency, LLC 01/27/20 Los Angeles Times Daily Crossword Puzzle Edited by Rich Norris and Joyce Nichols Lewis 01/27/20 ANSWER TO PREVIOUS PUZZLE: Release Date: Monday, January 27, 2020 ACROSS 1 Tibetan monks 6 Rise up against authority 11 U.S. interstate, e.g. 14 Grind, as teeth 15 Amazon Echo Dot’s voice service 16 West end? 1...…

January 27, 2020 (vol. 129, iss. 57) • Page Image 7

…Isaiah Livers and the fate of the Michigan men’s basketball team Isaiah Livers shouldn’t have been in the game. In fact, for over half of it, he wasn’t. But despite suffering anoth- er injury in the second half, the Michigan men’s basketball team knew who it needed on the floor. The Wolverines were down by two points to Illinois with half a second and one chance, maybe, to pry a victory away from the Illini (15-5 overall, 7-2 Big ...…

January 27, 2020 (vol. 129, iss. 57) • Page Image 8

…2B — January 27, 2020 SportsMonday The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com M aybe some who pulled up to the Lincoln High School parking lot that night knew what they were getting into, but I sure did not. I was there — like most — to see Emoni Bates. Bates is the top prospect in the 2022 recruiting class, accord- ing to, well, everyone. Most recruit- ing analysts, including ESPN’s Paul Biancardi, tab Bates as the best prep p...…

January 27, 2020 (vol. 129, iss. 57) • Page Image 9

…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com SportsMonday January 27, 2020 — 3B A different perspective for volunteer assistant coach Matt Hunwick When the second intermission at the Great Lakes Invitational ended, the coaches walked across the ice and to their places behind the bench. But there was something different about the sight of them, gripping along the glass as they trotted. There was a new face, or at least a new face in t...…

January 27, 2020 (vol. 129, iss. 57) • Page Image 10

…4B — January 27, 2020 SportsMonday The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com ‘M’ falls, 64- 62, to Illinois Ayo Dosunmu called game. Despite being hounded by Zavier Simpson, the Illinois guard, with ice in his veins, rose up over Michigan’s shorter senior point guard and drained the go-ahead jumper from the elbow with just 0.5 seconds on the clock. “That last play was guarded as well as you could possibly guard it,” Illinois coach Brad...…

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 24, 2020 (vol. 129, iss. 56) • Page Image 2

…A group of about 30 faculty members, including the nine members of the tenure bylaw working group, gathered in the Pendleton Room of the Michigan Union Thursday to discuss proposed changes to the University of Michigan’s tenure policy. Due to recent sexual misconduct allegations against Provost Martin A. Philbert, many professors expressed a feeling of urgency about amending these bylaws. The working group, which is compris...…

January 24, 2020 (vol. 129, iss. 56) • Page Image 3

…“We realize that it is deeply complicated to ask to divest completely from fossil fuels cold turkey, so we’re just asking for no more from here.” Student groups and CSG have lobbied the University to divest from fossil fuel companies. While the University Board of Regents voted in December against investing $50 million in a company with ties to oil and gas production, members of the Climate Action Movement released a statement ...…

January 24, 2020 (vol. 129, iss. 56) • Page Image 4

…Opinion The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com 4 — Friday, January 24, 2020 Alanna Berger Zack Blumberg Brittany Bowman Emily Considine Cheryn Hong Krystal Hur Ethan Kessler Mary Rolfes Michael Russo Timothy Spurlin Miles Stephenson Joel Weiner Erin White Lola Yang ERIN WHITE Managing Editor Stanford Lipsey Student Publications Building 420 Maynard St. Ann Arbor, MI 48109 tothedaily@michigandaily.com Edited and managed by students at...…

January 24, 2020 (vol. 129, iss. 56) • Page Image 5

…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Arts Friday, January 24, 2020 — 5 There are no Kinks in The Kinks, no Smiths in The Smiths, not a stroke in the The Strokes to be found. Perhaps then, to some surprise, front woman María of The Marías seems anything but out of place. María (who leaves off her surname in press) is the focal point of the band’s aesthetic, supplying the velvety vocals to the songs she co-writes, wearing the bob of b...…

January 24, 2020 (vol. 129, iss. 56) • Page Image 6

…6 — Friday, January 24, 2020 Arts The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com WHISPER SUBMIT A WHISPER By Paul Coulter (c)2020 Tribune Content Agency, LLC 01/24/20 Los Angeles Times Daily Crossword Puzzle Edited by Rich Norris and Joyce Nichols Lewis 01/24/20 ANSWER TO PREVIOUS PUZZLE: Release Date: Friday, January 24, 2020 ACROSS 1 Draft category 5 Crisply played, in mus. 9 Qatar’s capital 13 Inflammation treatment 15 Apple product 16 ...…

January 24, 2020 (vol. 129, iss. 56) • Page Image 7

…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Sports Friday, January 24, 2020 — 7 T he problems plaguing the Michigan men’s basket- ball team are supposed to be early-season kinks, not late-January shortcom- ings. But this roller coaster of a season didn’t have any initial kinks. It began with seven straight wins and a smooth ascension to the No. 4 spot in the national poll. That was seven weeks ago. Now, the Wolverines are mired i...…

January 24, 2020 (vol. 129, iss. 56) • Page Image 8

… The first time Nick Pastujov ever saw snow, he was five years old. As a kid from Bradenton, Fla., snow was a foreign concept to him. Sure, it existed on TV where kids would build snowmen and have snowball fights, but to him, it was more of an illusion. Movies were the closest he ever got to it. Then he got his chance. For the Silver Sticks International Tournament over Christmas, Nick traveled to Michigan, and there he saw it: the po...…

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 23, 2020 (vol. 129, iss. 55) • Page Image 2

…Exciting news for exercise Exciting news for exercise enthusiasts and casual gym- enthusiasts and casual gym- goers: researchers at the goers: researchers at the University of Michigan have University of Michigan have found a protein called Sestrin found a protein called Sestrin that has the potential to induce that has the potential to induce some of the most positive effects some of the most positive effects of exercise w...…

January 23, 2020 (vol. 129, iss. 55) • Page Image 3

…Typically, the Office of Institutional Equity handles cases of sexual misconduct, but this office reports to Philbert and the Office of the Provost. In the email sent Wednesday afternoon, Schlissel said the reporting line for all matters related to investigations surrounding Philbert will be directed to Richard S. Holcomb, associate vice president for human resources. It is unclear what will happen to pending OIE invest...…

January 23, 2020 (vol. 129, iss. 55) • Page Image 4

…Opinion The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com 4 — Thursday, January 23, 2020 Alanna Berger Brittany Bowman Zack Blumberg Emily Considine Cheryn Hong Krystal Hur Ethan Kessler Mary Rolfes Michael Russo Timothy Spurlin Miles Stephenson Joel Weiner Erin White Lola Yang ERIN WHITE Managing Editor Stanford Lipsey Student Publications Building 420 Maynard St. Ann Arbor, MI 48109 tothedaily@michigandaily.com Edited and managed by students a...…

January 23, 2020 (vol. 129, iss. 55) • Page Image 5

…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Arts Thursday, January 23, 2020 — 5 The lasting odyssey of ‘Uncut Gems’ FILM NOTEBOOK ANDREW WARRICK Daily Arts Writer “Everything will be OK” is the kind of thing we tell someone when one of two situations has occurred: Someone is irrationally caught up in a minute problem, or everything will absolutely not be OK. Yet, the new comedy from Australian comedian Josh Thomas (“Please Like Me”) walks...…

January 23, 2020 (vol. 129, iss. 55) • Page Image 6

…6 — Thursday, January 23, 2020 Arts The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com WHISPER SUBMIT A WHISPER By Bruce Haight (c)2020 Tribune Content Agency, LLC 01/23/20 Los Angeles Times Daily Crossword Puzzle Edited by Rich Norris and Joyce Nichols Lewis 01/23/20 ANSWER TO PREVIOUS PUZZLE: Release Date: Thursday, January 23, 2020 ACROSS 1 Spunky 8 Longest-serving Japanese prime minister 11 Ave. crossers 14 Steel foundry input 15 Traction...…

January 23, 2020 (vol. 129, iss. 55) • Page Image 7

…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Sports Thursday, January 23, 2020 — 7 ‘It extends further than lacrosse’ Playing against the best atheletes of your sport at the Division I level is daunting. Playing in a starting role as a freshman — even more daunting. But when attackman Bryce Clay and defenseman Andrew Darby both found themselves in the starting lineup for the Michigan men’s lacrosse team against Drexel last Februrary — ...…

January 23, 2020 (vol. 129, iss. 55) • Page Image 8

…8 — Thursday, January 23, 2020 Sports The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Pearson’s vision coming true In sports, positive messages about resilience and perseverance have become the staple of struggling teams. Yet such optimism often falls short. Out of all the teams that pledge to stick with it, trust the process, work hard and improve each day to make a midseason comeback, only a handful will see such promises com...…

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 22, 2020 (vol. 129, iss. 54) • Page Image 2

…The Ann Arbor City Council met Tuesday night and discussed anti-Israel protests, adding youth members to the Environmental Commission and how best to proceed regarding contamination from the Gelman Dioxane plume. During public comment, multiple community members spoke regarding the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, condemning U.S. military aid to Israel. Anti- Israel protester Henry Herskovitz, a defendant in...…

January 22, 2020 (vol. 129, iss. 54) • Page Image 3

…The rooms have AI technology on the computers and dry-erase walls to make it easier to conduct job interviews. LSA senior Taylor Lind said she encourages students to spend time at the Opportunity Hub and explore the new LSA addition. “I’m really excited to see how students can utilize this new space,” Lind said. “I think it’s a really unique one, especially for a college as large as LSA, because it’s hard to find a central space t...…

January 22, 2020 (vol. 129, iss. 54) • Page Image 4

…Opinion The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com 4A — Wednesday, January 22, 2020 Alanna Berger Brittany Bowman Zack Blumberg Emily Considine Cheryn Hong Krystal Hur Ethan Kessler Mary Rolfes Michael Russo Timothy Spurlin Miles Stephenson Joel Weiner Erin White Lola Yang ERIN WHITE Managing Editor Stanford Lipsey Student Publications Building 420 Maynard St. Ann Arbor, MI 48109 tothedaily@michigandaily.com Edited and managed by students...…

January 22, 2020 (vol. 129, iss. 54) • Page Image 5

…It’s a Saturday night in the middle of nowhere. You’re driving down a dirt road (in a pickup truck, obviously) and passing cornfield after cornfield. Eventually you reach a massive bonfire where attractive young people are gathered. Tailgates are down. Speakers are turned up. Everyone is drinking. It’s a common image in popular contemporary country music. The light-hearted, quasi-romantic night in the backwoods. ...…

January 22, 2020 (vol. 129, iss. 54) • Page Image 6

…6A — Wednesday, January 22, 2020 Arts The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com puzzle by sudokusnydictation.com By Jared Tamarkin (c)2020 Tribune Content Agency, LLC 01/22/20 Los Angeles Times Daily Crossword Puzzle Edited by Rich Norris and Joyce Nichols Lewis 01/22/20 ANSWER TO PREVIOUS PUZZLE: Release Date: Wednesday, Janury 22, 2020 ACROSS 1 Construction guideline 5 Pitfalls 10 Bible book that chronicles the conversion of Paul 14...…

January 22, 2020 (vol. 129, iss. 54) • Page Image 7

…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Sports Wednesday, January 22, 2020 — 7A Pacific breeze Michigan sweeps through West Coast trip, beating Washington on Friday and Oregon on Saturday After a disappointing loss in its season opener to No. 23 North Carolina State, the No. 17 Michigan men’s tennis team (2-1) headed to the Pacific Northwest in search of its first win of the season. The team bounced back in dominant fashion, notch...…

January 22, 2020 (vol. 129, iss. 54) • Page Image 8

…8A — Wednesday, January 22, 2020 Sports The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Robbins out with ACL The Michigan women’s basketball team has lost a key player in senior forward Kayla Robbins, who announced via Twitter on Tuesday that she tore her ACL in Sunday’s game at Nebraska. “Unfortunately, I have suffered an ACL tear that will keep me out for the remainder of my senior season” Robbins said in a statement posted to Twitt...…

January 22, 2020 (vol. 129, iss. 54) • Page Image 10

…I n the past few weeks of January, news headlines, social media and essentially every aspect of my digital media sphere seem to have been dominated by Oscars news. Even for someone who con- siders herself relatively removed from the world of cinema, it’s impossible to ignore the buzz. Discussions about whether the Netflix Original “Marriage Story” deserved its nomination, if a remake of Bong Joon- ho’s “Parasite” would be inherently W...…

January 22, 2020 (vol. 129, iss. 54) • Page Image 11

…T he loud music, dim lighting and cheap liquor blurred my surroundings in Rick’s American Cafe, an underground hideaway for most seniors at the University of Michigan. It was the beginning of another interminable Thursday night. It took me a few seconds to notice that a man had slid into the sticky upholstered seating next to me. He was inches away from my bare arm and lightly bumped into me, giving himself away. “Sorry,” I said, mov...…

January 22, 2020 (vol. 129, iss. 54) • Page Image 12

…W e don’t wanna just throw the axe at the board. We wanna throw through the board. Whatever it takes.” Anthony Taylor, the bearded and tattooed co-owner of Axe Ventura, Ann Arbor’s newest and only axe throwing venue, is giving me a pep talk. My friend Emily and I have been chucking axes at the wall for the past 15 minutes, and I can’t land a stick (Emily, for the record, stuck her second throw). I assume position: toes on the line,...…

January 22, 2020 (vol. 129, iss. 54) • Page Image 13

…R achel escorted us to the gear room, instructing us to suit up in full-length coveralls and plastic face shields. We emerged resembling a very skinny third of BROCKHAMPTON and met her by the weapons, a towering wall of recycled compressed wood hung with baseball bats, crowbars, frying pans, sledgehammers, wrenches, golf clubs, hammers, hockey sticks and mallets. Gibby grabbed a large wrench, Sophie an orange mallet. Jacob took his ti...…

January 22, 2020 (vol. 129, iss. 54) • Page Image 14

…Wednesday, January 16, 2019 // The Statement 7B Wednesday, January 22, 2020 // The Statement 7B W hen I was 10, my mother gave me my first copy of “Little Women” in the middle of summer. It was a bright pink paperback with a monochrome drawing of a woman’s skirt and shoes, simple and minimalistic. As a little kid who was used to the detailed, flashy covers of “Harry Potter” and “Percy Jackson” books, I was less than intrigued. Even...…

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 21, 2020 (vol. 129, iss. 53) • Page Image 2

…Rina Agarwala, associate professor of sociology at Johns Hopkins University discussed the history of Indian emigration at Weiser Hall on Friday afternoon. The Center for South Asian Studies hosted the event as part of a series on the history of emigration and how social class has shaped India’s emigration policy since its independence in 1947. Approximately 15 people attended the presentation titled “Managing Migrants...…

January 21, 2020 (vol. 129, iss. 53) • Page Image 3

…“The city is not using metrics to determine how many deer there are in the city or how successful the program of killing deer for the last few years has been,” Abrams said. “So they keep renewing the (White Buffalo Inc. sharpshooter) contract.” Other members of FAAWN, such as Cathy Shafer, agreed with Abrams, saying she believes the city of Ann Arbor hasn’t progressed in reducing the deer population by conducting this deer cull. “...…

January 21, 2020 (vol. 129, iss. 53) • Page Image 4

…Opinion The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com 4A — Tuesday, January 21, 2020 Alanna Berger Brittany Bowman Zack Blumberg Emily Considine Cheryn Hong Krystal Hur Ethan Kessler Mary Rolfes Michael Russo Timothy Spurlin Miles Stephenson Joel Weiner Erin White Lola Yang ERIN WHITE Managing Editor Stanford Lipsey Student Publications Building 420 Maynard St. Ann Arbor, MI 48109 tothedaily@michigandaily.com Edited and managed by students a...…

January 21, 2020 (vol. 129, iss. 53) • Page Image 5

…A confused teenage girl sighs, “I think I might be broken.” Dr. Jean Milburn (Gillian Anderson, “The X-Files”) replies, “Sex doesn’t make us whole. So how could you be broken?” Though Dr. Milburn is speaking to one of the many students at Moordale Secondary School who comes to ask her advice, she’s really talking to you. This therapy session isn’t just for the sake of fiction. The message is clear and it’s meant for the view...…

January 21, 2020 (vol. 129, iss. 53) • Page Image 6

…6A — Tuesday, January 21, 2020 Arts The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com WHISPER SUBMIT A WHISPER puzzle by sudokusnydictation.com By Chase Dittrich (c)2020 Tribune Content Agency, LLC 01/21/20 Los Angeles Times Daily Crossword Puzzle Edited by Rich Norris and Joyce Nichols Lewis 01/21/20 ANSWER TO PREVIOUS PUZZLE: Release Date: Tuesday, January 21, 2020 ACROSS 1 Sound of disbelief 5 Feature of some debit cards 9 Ford Fusion, e.g...…

January 21, 2020 (vol. 129, iss. 53) • Page Image 7

…VAN WYHE LEADS MICHIGAN TO DOUBLE OT WIN OVER NO. 6 PENN STATE, ‘M’ TAKES 5 OF 6 POINTS ON THE WEEKEND Alexis Rankin / Daily | Design by Jack Silberman UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Jacob Hay- hurst slid into the slot and waited. The graduate transfer forward saw sophomore forward Nolan Moyle with the puck, and he knew he was wide open for a shot on net. Moyle sent a pass up to Hayhurst, who didn’t hesitate as he released a shot that clea...…

January 21, 2020 (vol. 129, iss. 53) • Page Image 8

…2B — January 21, 2020 SportsTuesday The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com T he couch is taken, so Carol Hutchins pulls an ottoman out from under a table. Practice ran long, so she’s running late. There is little time for small talk. “What can I do for you?” she asks. She is here, in a team meet- ing room at the Donald R. Shepherd Softball Center, to talk about program-building, a subject on which Hutchins is one of the fore...…

January 21, 2020 (vol. 129, iss. 53) • Page Image 9

…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com SportsTuesday January 21, 2020 — 3B UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Mel Pearson stopped midway through his answer. He bounced his foot on the press conference stage a few times. Then he blinked hard. He had just been asked about freshman forward Nick Granowicz, and his performance in Saturday night’s game. “He’s been really good,” Pearson said. “He’s been really good on the road.” Just moments ...…

January 21, 2020 (vol. 129, iss. 53) • Page Image 10

…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com SportsTuesday 4B — January 21, 2020 In Wagner’s eyes, slump boils down to emotion IOWA CITY — To Franz Wagner, the most pressing issue for the Michigan men’s basketball team is simple. It isn’t hapless interior defense, nor is it a winless road record. You can cross the team’s lack of free throws off the list, too. Really, it doesn’t have anything to do with the physical demands of college bas...…

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 17, 2020 (vol. 129, iss. 52) • Page Image 2

…2 — Friday, January 17, 2020 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com News TUESDAY: By Design THURSDAY: Twitter Talk FRIDAY: Behind the Story WEDNESDAY: This Week in History MONDAY: Looking at the Numbers B E HIND THE STORY Every Friday, Daily staffers will give a behind the scenes look at one of this week’s stories. This week, LSA freshman Jasmin Lee and sophomore Calder Lewis on their three-part series about University mental health ...…

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