…Astronomy professor Michael Meyer is at the forefront of the study of exoplanets — a field that explores planets orbiting stars outside the solar system. Recently, Meyer was part of a team which discovered a new planet. After receiving his Ph.D. in astronomy from the University of Massachusetts and serving as a professor in the Department of Astronomy at the University of Arizona, Meyer worked as a professor of star and pl...…
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…hand experience. “When listening to a TED talk, you’re trying to live vicariously through the speaker, and you think about what their experience was like, but with an adventure you really get to live that life yourself,” French said. The event began with an explanation of dabke’s origin and importance in Arab culture, and then participants had an opportunity to learn a choreographed dance taught by Arabesque choreographers —...…
…W hen I was 14, my dad passed away from pancreatic cancer. It happened very quickly — he was diagnosed in February, placed into hospice in May and died in June — but I valued the time I had to prepare myself and to mourn. Even so, these months, and the months and years afterward, were some of the hardest times of my life. I often felt as if I couldn’t get through the day without thinking of my dad, and the fact that ...…
…ACROSS 1 Ophthalmic sore 5 Season-ending college football game 9 Stories spanning decades 14 __ hygiene 15 Bounce off a wall 16 Chopin piece 17 Evening show with headlines and stories 19 Flabbergast 20 Swiss convention city 21 Fist-pump cry 23 Sales force member 24 ’60s protest org. 25 Periods that may decide 5-Acrosses, briefly 27 Andean animal 29 Like perceptive hindsight 33 Promise before testimony 36 Take to court 37 Journalist Couric ...…
…6A — Monday, October 2, 2017 Arts The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Manchester brings emo Before they took the stage, I had practically no clue what the Manchester Orchestra sound was. I vividly remember seeing Foxing and Tigers Jaw — two of my favorites — announced as openers for this tour, hitting stages I never even dreamed they’d reach when I was 16. Yet, by Manchester Orchestra’s moniker, I assumed they were a plain-Jan...…
…B The Michigan Daily | michigandaily.com | October 2, 2017 Falling out of love Sports and society have a complex relationship, and the current climate has made that all the more apparent. » SportsMonday Column, Page 2B A perfect start It may have only been an exhibition, but Mel Pearson’s first game as Michigan’s hockey coach still gave people plenty to smile about. » Page 3B Michigan 10, Western Ontario 1 RYAN MCLOUGHLIN/Daily...…
…2B — Monday, October 2, 2017 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com SportsMonday A love-hate relationship I ’ve loved sports since before I can remember, and the one sport I’ve always loved most is soccer. When I was one, my parents took me to a professional photographer for family portraits. They sat me down in front of the camera for an individual shot, but I started crying as soon as they walked away. No matter what...…
…Wednesday, October 4, 2017 4:00-5:30 PM Free and open to the public. Reception to follow. Info: fspp-events@umich.edu Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy Annenberg Auditorium 1120 Weill Hall, 735 S. State Street Follow us: @fordschool Join the conversation: #policytalks Escaping poverty through entrepreneurship Arthur Brooks, President of American Enterprise Institute Photo: Gage Skidmore The Michigan Daily — michigandail...…
…This event was made possible by generous supportfrom the following organizations: Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Department of Engineering, UM Library - Labadie, Collection, School for Environment & Sustainability, Weiser Center for Emerging, Democracies, LSA Honors Program, Institute for the Humanities, College of Literature, Science, and the Arts, Department of Chemistry, Depar...…
…A recent study conducted by University of Michigan researchers has found 20 percent of adolescents and teenagers have sustained a concussion at least once. This research project was directed under the 2016 Monitoring the Future study, a broader project conducted under the University, which explores the behaviors of American students from kindergarten through university level. This study is funded by the National Insti...…
…News The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com 2 — Tuesday, October 3, 2017 Tweets Follow @michigandaily CAMPUS EVENTS & NOTES 420 Maynard St. Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1327 www.michigandaily.com ARTS SECTION arts@michigandaily.com SPORTS SECTION sports@michigandaily.com ADVERTISING dailydisplay@gmail.com NEWS TIPS news@michigandaily.com LETTERS TO THE EDITOR tothedaily@michigandaily.com EDITORIAL PAGE opinion@michigandaily.com NAT...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com News Tuesday, October 3, 2017 — 3 CLAIRE MEINGAST/Daily Paul McCartney performs in Detroit Sunday evening. SIR PAUL Scholarship, which is a $5,000 need-based scholarship given to undergraduate students and that can be can be divided between one or two recipients. This year, Ortega motioned for the award to be given to two students with the money split evenly among them. SACUA member Dave...…
…D onald Trump wants to be your tour guide on what makes America great and how he is making it even greater and even more patriotic. You can kick off your journey with a visit to Charlottesville, Va., a place with “some very fine people on both sides.” There, you’ll be treated to proud displays of Confederate flags and monuments — testament to the “patriotic and idealistic cause” known as the Confederacy, whose flag “p...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Tuesday, October 3, 2017 — 5 Arts INTERESTED IN ALL THINGS FASHION & LIFESTYLE? LIKE RUMINATING OVER YOUR FAVORITE AUTHORS? Daily Arts is interested in hiring staffers for its Style and Book Review beats! Interested? Email arts@michigandaily.com for an application. Looking simultaneously at new Four Tet and Cyrus RCA/TEXT ALBUM REVIEW Gone are the days of Miley Cyrus pole dancing in fro...…
…ACROSS 1 Carpet thickness 5 Crowbar, basically 10 Vanishing ski lift 14 Preemptive rescue op 15 Wear down 16 MasterCard rival 17 *Boot camp newbie 19 Not fer 20 Slap in the face 21 Play the hand you were dealt 23 Smooth engine sound 25 __-Locka, Florida 26 Aetna’s bus. 27 Michelin product 31 Ancient vase in a museum, say 33 Fuel-efficient Chevy 34 Physics work unit 36 Starts the kitty 39 Truth stretcher 40 Nebula Award genre 43 Undiluted 44 Un...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Sports Tuesday, October 3, 2017 — 7 So far this season, the Michigan women’s soccer team has had a consistent story — the Wolverines (2-1-3 Big Ten, 5-2-6 overall) have utilized a talented crop of freshmen to fill in the gaps left by a multitude of injuries. Michigan’s battle against Nebraska (1-1-2, 7-3-2) on Sunday was consistent with this narrative, with one notable exception. Fifth-y...…
…8 — Tuesday, October 3, 2017 Sports The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com ‘M’ defense a threat in opening contest The Michigan hockey team’s 10 goals against Western Ontario on Saturday night was a spectacle of an offensive performance. What many overlooked, though, was how pivotal the defense was in securing those goals. Senior defenseman Cutler Martin’s snipe past the opposing goaltender for the Wolverines’ e...…
…Tuesday morning racist fliers were posted outside Stockwell Residence Hall, presenting the minority enrollment numbers at both the University of Michigan and Michigan State University, insinuating gaps in the average IQ of Black and white students. This correlation between race and mental ability was popularized in the late 1990s by Charles Murray, a political scientist slated to speak at the University next Wednesday. The fo...…
…News The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com 2A — Wednesday, October 3, 2017 AARON BAKER/Daily Tweets Follow @michigandaily Univ. of Michigan @UMich U-M cannot be excellent without being diverse. All members of our community belong here and deserve an equal opportunity to thrive. Steven Sikora @StevenMSikora if you ever wanted to cause mass hysteria, try sending an email to a large and outdated UMich club distribution list Michae...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com News Wednesday, October 3, 2017 — 3A CAT MYKOLAJTCHUK/Daily Business senior Kevin Yang plays the Charles Baird Carillon under Professor Jeremy Chesman on Ingalls Mall Tuesday afternoon. KE E P CALM AND CARILLON confrontation, as he feels the safety of minority students is paramount. “As a university, we create spaces for dialogue, and sometimes that dialogue we find horrific and offensive,” Mar...…
…Last week’s protests were effective precisely because they were disruptive. It is not every day that the Diag is populated with dozens of students for hours on end, some holding umbrellas to block the heat and others delivering food and water. The students who blocked the intersections of bus routes near the C.C. Little bus station sought to parallel the “inconveniences” racism and microaggressions pose for students of color ...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Wednesday, October 4, 2017 — 5 Arts DOMINO 2 Fridays ago, Protomartyr released their latest record on a boat in Detroit Punks on a boat: Proto- Martyr’s release party Revelry and community mark a night of good tunes and good drinks as Protomartyr released their latest last Friday On a Friday night, practically every generation of Detroit punk fans were united in a sea of black and gray jeans, wa...…
…ACROSS 1 Fancy parties 6 [This is gonna be really bad!] 10 OutKast rapper Big __ 13 Hi in Hawaii 14 Senior golfer Aoki 15 Lends support to 16 Likely to speak out 17 *Vodka cocktail often served with a sugared rim 19 Text update from an Uber driver: Abbr. 20 Trippy ’60s drug 22 Milked for all it’s worth 23 Mai __: rum drinks 25 Post-CrossFit woes 26 With 49-Across, it keeps repeating itself ... and, based on the first and last letters, an apt d...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Sports Wednesday, October 4, 2017 — 7A “Game, set, match Lommer,” the loudspeaker rang over a brisk Sunday afternoon in Evanston. In the Blue Flight of the Wildcat Invitational, Michigan sophomore Chiara Lommer took home her first individual collegiate championship. Lommer, ranked 115th in the nation coming into the competition, dominated all weekend behind her improved off...…
…8A — Wednesday, October 4, 2017 Sports The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Michigan sets new volleyball attendance record at Crisler With 8,137 spectators in attendance, the No. 23 Michigan volleyball team drew its largest crowd in team history as it took down rival Ohio State, 3-1, at Crisler Center on Friday night. The Wolverines more than tripled their previous record attendance of 2,673 from 2009 and ...…
…statement THE MICHIGAN DAILY | OCTOBER 4, 2017 “Anybody have a problem with that?” Leading a fraternity as a gay man …
…I n U.S. politics, the call for tolerating differences between people — based on class, race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation or most any other identity — has been assigned to the realm of liberalism, generally speaking. But when liberals have called for a wider definition of “hate speech,” people have accusedthem of intolerance. This idea of “tolerance” is connected to the idea of empathy. Liberals call fo...…
…3B Wednesday, October 4, 2017 // The Statement Soundtracking: Tailgate season I woke up Saturday morning not to the sound of birds chirping outside my window, not to the smell of pancakes and eggs wafting into my bedroom from the kitchen, but instead to the muffled sound of a shotgun race and ’07 Yeezy playing down the street. “Good Morning” — Kanye West Game Day: an autumn event at Michigan in which we can all come together and ...…
…Wednesday, October 4, 2017 // The Statement 4B Wednesday, October 4, 2017 // The Statement 5B “Anybody have a problem with that?” Leading a fraternity as a gay man b y Av i S h o l k o f f, Daily Sports Writer Public Policy junior Daniel Greene remembers one of the first fraternity rush events he attended as a freshman. “I walk into the house, and the first thing I hear, is ‘that’s so gay,’” Greene said. “Some brother is repeating ...…
…Wednesday, October 4, 2017 // The Statement 6B Personal Statement: A graduate student’s quarter-life crisis “ What do you want to be when you grow up?” This is a pretty common question for kids, but to someone who is almost 30? Actually, I often ask myself that same question, although in a slightly different way: What do I want to do with my life? My career trajectory has never been linear. My goals changed constantly growing...…
…Wednesday, October 4, 2017 // The Statement 7B Personal Statement: Climb every mountain T he first mountain I climbed in Wyoming wasn’t even really a mountain. Mt. Ann is located directly behind Camp Davis, the Rocky Mountain Field Station owned and operated by the University of Michigan where students of all majors can take earth, environmental, American culture and ecology classes during the summer — so it’s a t...…
…Wednesday, October 4, 2017 // The Statement 8B V I S U A L S T A T E M E N T Z I N G E R M A N ’ S P A E L L A Green beans are then added to the pan. Shrimp is sauteed in olive oil in a large paella pan over mesquite . Green beans and chicken are sauteed in the pan. A tomato and saffron based sauce is added to the mix. Dry bomba rice is added to the paella pan. Chicken stock is poured into the pan, and the paella is left to simmer with...…
…“I can say ‘I’m gay’ so easily now, but for the majority of my life those words held me hostage,” one performer said. Public Policy junior Lena Dreves recently started approaching student groups and organizations for support to create a LGBTQ Monologues event happen, which was ultimately co-sponsored by the Spectrum Center and LGBT+ Michigan. Dreves wanted to bring to light the experiences of members of this community...…
…1 3 5 9 6 4 9 5 6 3 1 8 6 9 9 2 4 5 1 9 3 8 2 9 3 7 5 6 2 8 1 5 6 © sudokusolver.com. For personal use only. Generate and solve Sudoku, Super Sudoku and Godoku puzzles at sudokusyndication.com! Sudoku Syndication http://sudokusyndication.com/sudoku/generator/print/ 1 of 1 1/23/09 1:57 PM LOL puzzle by sudokusyndication.com 2 — Thursday, October 5, 2017 News The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com CAMPUS EVENTS...…
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…“T hat’s incredible. I wish I could be there alongside him right now,” I thought as I clicked the like button on the article detailing University of Michigan student Dana Greene’s protest against racism on the Diag. I closed Facebook and continued typing away at the paper due in class the next day, sitting comfortably on my bed. My paper had a long way to go; protests would have to wait. Looking back at this moment,...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Thursday, October 5, 2017 — 5 Arts WHITE HOUSE ARCHIVES Paul McCartney gives live music newfound meaning LAURA DZUBAY Daily Arts Writer My ideal concert venue is an abandoned barn. Hear me out: It’s surrounded by empty fields, all quiet and attentive to themselves. It’s dark, but not frightening: you feel welcome, you’ve only stopped here for the night. The roof is patchy, the windows and ...…
…ACROSS 1 Seize 6 Just slightly 10 Lip-__ 14 Justice nominated by Barack 15 Buddy, in slang 16 Secure with lines 17 Cut most likely to win a BBQ competition? 19 TT automaker 20 Part of 21 Feminine side 22 Keyboard shortcuts 24 TV scientist with 19 Emmys 25 Keurig coffee for the big day? 27 Tear drier 29 Richmond-to- D.C. direction 30 Hunk’s pride 31 Finishes second 34 Deli order 35 Rental to get the twins to college? 38 Word before or after pa...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Sports Thursday, October 5, 2017 — 7A Secondary to face new test against Spartans Jim Harbaugh’s assessment was brief, yet accurate. “He throws very well, runs very well,” Harbaugh said of Michigan State quarterback Brian Lewerke on Monday. “He has a penchant for making the big play.” Against Western Michigan, Lewerke flashed an example of his playmaking ability, taking a read option 61 ya...…
…8A — Thursday, October 5, 2017 Sports The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Dueling Columns: 2017 R especting our opponents in this “touch” football game has become very difficult. Every year, The Michigan Daily plays The State News. And every year, your staff continues to degrade itself. Maybe I should have expected that, but to be honest, as a New York native, the Michigan- Michigan State rivalry was entirely foreign to...…
…Thursday marked undocumented immigrants’ last day to submit renewals to the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program — but undocumented students at the University of Michigan were undeterred. One hundred protesters marched from the Diag to the Fleming Administration Building to lobby University officials for institutional resources and protection for vulnerable students. After President Donald Trump’s succ...…
…7 1 6 9 5 9 6 8 4 2 3 3 5 4 8 7 8 5 1 5 6 9 8 1 5 2 6 8 Sudoku Syndication http://sudokusyndication.com/sudoku/generator/print/ 1 of 1 2/12/09 12:08 PM SUNFLOWERS. puzzle by sudokusyndication.com 2A — Friday, October 6, 2017 News The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Tweets Follow @michigandaily CAMPUS EVENTS & NOTES 420 Maynard St. Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1327 www.michigandaily.com ARTS SECTION arts@michigandaily...…
…A Data-Driven World: Potentials and Pitfalls Wednesday, Oct. 11 | Rackham Auditorium & Michigan League Announcing the 2017 MIDAS Symposium Keynote Speaker 1:30 p.m., Rackham Auditorium Cathy O’Neil, author, “Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy” Also featuring... • Daniela Witten, Assoc. Prof. of Statis- tics and Biostatistics, Univ. of Washington • James Pennebaker, Professor of Psych...…
…O ne day, I may forget my name. I will wake up in a stranger’s house and see a person I’ve never met before in the mirror. Her eyes will stare blankly back at me, face muscles sagging with fatigue and confusion. One day, I will forget how to hug someone. I will have to ask where the bathroom is in my own home, and I will need help getting there. One day, my brain may simply forget how to breathe. Every 66 seconds, someone i...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Friday, October 6, 2017 — 5A Arts ABC ‘The Good Doctor’ fails to stand out among the pack MEGAN MITCHELL Daily Arts Writer David Shore, the creator of the long-running medical- drama “House,” fails to outlive the trope of his past series in his newest conception, “The Good Doctor.” Focusing on Dr. Shaun Murphy (Freddie Highmore, “Bates Motel”), a brilliant surgeon diagnosed with aut...…
…6A — Friday, October 6, 2017 Arts The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com DISNEY Reappraisal: ‘Dead Man’s Chest’ and ‘At World’s End’ In Reappraisals, Michigan Daily film writers attempt to defend films that have been critically maligned. This week: Two “Pirates of the Caribbean” films, 2006’s “Dead Man’s Chest” (54 percent on Rotten Tomatoes) and 2007’s “At World’s End” (45 percent on Rotten Tomatoes). “Pirates of the Carib...…
…OCTOBER 7, 2017: MICHIGAN STATE FINDING PEACE …
…FootballSaturday, October 7, 2017 2 STAFF PICKS The Daily football writers pick against the spread to predict scores for the top 25 and Big Ten in the 2017 football season. Betelhem Ashame Ted Janes Orion Sang Kevin Santo No. 1 Alabama (-26.5) at Texas A&M Alabama Alabama Alabama Alabama Alabama Wake Forest (+21.5) at No. 2 Clemson Clemson Wake Forest Wake Forest Wake Forest Clemson Iowa State (+30.5) at No. 3 Oklahoma Oklahoma ...…
…3 TheMichiganDaily, www.michigandaily.com Behind Enemy Lines: Chris Frey Last season wasn’t a banner year for Michigan State. Chris Frey is well aware of that. Frey, a senior linebacker, was one of a few returning starters for a team that went 3-9 as the Spartans fell off a precipitous cliff only one year removed from a College Football Playoff appearance. At Big Ten Media Days in July, Frey made it clear that he ...…
