…Anderson cited this characterization as her major qualm with the title. “Notoriously, philosophy and also math and physics are places where you have people believe you have to be a ‘genius’ to succeed in them,” Anderson said. “And those are also disciplines — especially physics and philosophy — where there are very few women, so I’m not keen on calling the MacArthur Awards ‘Genius Awards.’” In her studies, Anderson mainly e...…
…Opinion The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com 4A — Thursday, October 3, 2019 Zack Blumberg Emily Considine Emma Chang Joel Danilewitz Emily Huhman Krystal Hur Ethan Kessler Magdalena Mihaylova Max Mittleman Timothy Spurlin Miles Stephenson Finn Storer Nicholas Tomaino Joel Weiner Erin White FINNTAN STORER Managing Editor Stanford Lipsey Student Publications Building 420 Maynard St. Ann Arbor, MI 48109 tothedaily@michigandaily.com Edi...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Sports Thursday, October 3, 2019— 5A Big Ten reacts to NIL law with mix of apprehension, ignorance and support ROSEMONT, Ill. — On Monday, the college athletics world was rocked to its core. California Gov. Gavin Newsome signed a bill into law that, starting in 2023, allows college athletes to benefit off their name, image and likeness (NIL). It’s the beginning of the payoff of a social movement ...…
…By Jeff Stillman ©2019 Tribune Content Agency, LLC 10/03/19 Los Angeles Times Daily Crossword Puzzle Edited by Rich Norris and Joyce Nichols Lewis 10/03/19 ANSWER TO PREVIOUS PUZZLE: Release Date: Thursday, October 3, 2019 ACROSS 1 Collect 6 Stag 10 Diminished gradually, with “off” 14 Lake between the Silver State and Golden State 15 Promise, for one 16 Operation Solomon airline 17 Feature of an American flag purchased with 58-Ac...…
…Design by Christine Jegarl Thursday, October 3, 2019 …
…2B — Thursday, October 3, 2019 b-side The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Bookstores are more than just retail shops — they are sacred spaces where profound ideas meet curious thinkers. When I walk into a local bookstore, I’m overwhelmed and excited by the endless shelves full of new stories and ideas. I’ve discovered some of my favorite books in local bookshops and often peruse them when trying to decide my next read. Independent book...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com b-side Thursday, October 3, 2019 — 3B Does anyone else remember an online rumor that claimed Devon Werkheiser, most famous for playing Ned on “Ned’s Declassified School Survival Guide,” was 6’ 3’’? No? Well I do, and turns out it’s false. He’s 5’ 9’’, and his voice has not gotten any deeper since 2007. And he wears neckerchiefs unironically now. What does this have to do with anything? Something!...…
…“It’s one of those things that gets better with time. These books are passed between artists as gifts, and getting one from someone you look up to means that you’ve really made it.” Having been shown their work on a somewhat peculiar date with a somewhat immodest poet/ artist/editor person, my introduction to the couple and surrealist photography duo known as Pierre et Gilles was loaded to say the least. He ended up using the book in o...…
…This week, The Daily celebrated 129 years of publication. Since that first day in 1890, The Daily has produced Pulitzer Prize winners, famous authors, national activists and world-renowned journalists. Every person that steps into this newsroom feels its impact, and when they leave they carry that influence into the world. For the Paper B-Side, we felt there was no more appropriate way to honor paper than to talk about our very own. Below ...…
…6B — Thursday, October 3, 2019 Arts The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com PLUS MORE EVENTS THROUGHOUT OCTOBER, INCLUDING: Plus remarks by President Mark S. Schlissel and senior leaders 10–11:30 AM | HILL AUDITORIUM 2019 DIVERSITY, EQUITY & INCLUSION SUMMIT VAN JONES OCTOBER 1 — 6–8 PM | TROTTER MULTICULTURAL CENTER Ignite & Implement: Student Engagement with DEI Initiatives OCTOBER 16 — 1–2:30 PM | MICHIGAN LEAGUE BALLROOM Commu...…
…The Washtenaw Health Initiative Opioid Project hosted the Washtenaw County Opioid Summit on Tuesday, where various state and local stakeholders came together for the discussion focused on the county’s high, but declining, rate of opioid overdoses and the link between trauma and addiction. Participants learned about opioid use in the county, heard testimonials and attended breakout sessions relating to primary preve...…
…With National Coming Out Day just over a week away, the Ross School of Business’s LGBTQ organization, Out for Business, hosted OUTx on Tuesday evening as part of Ross Coming Out Week. OFB sponsors Ross Coming Out Week annually, featuring events highlighting and supporting the LGBTQ community within the Business School. Michigan Business Women and the MBA Council cosponsored the TEDx-style event. Business graduat...…
…After a discussion about potential water erosion from the creek nearby, traffic analysis, concerns about mushy land and fire safety hazards, the commission amended two aspects of the motion by changing the bike parking location and adding traffic calming mechanisms, and then approved the motion to council. The commission then moved on to discuss two new companion projects: a multi-family residential six-story building ne...…
…Opinion The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com 4A — Wednesday, October 2, 2019 Zack Blumberg Emily Considine Emma Chang Joel Danilewitz Emily Huhman Krystal Hur Ethan Kessler Magdalena Mihaylova Max Mittleman Timothy Spurlin Miles Stephenson Finn Storer Nicholas Tomaino Joel Weiner Erin White FINNTAN STORER Managing Editor Stanford Lipsey Student Publications Building 420 Maynard St. Ann Arbor, MI 48109 tothedaily@michigandaily.com Ed...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Arts Wednesday, October 2, 2019 — 5A The sprawling gray highways will attempt to convince you that the most direct route is the best one. These concrete trails are hypnotic, tiring, blending into each other. You think you’re making progress, getting closer. But somehow you’re still so far away. You keep driving. This is how they get you. Please don’t fall for it. Roads seem like they’ll lead you a...…
…6A — Wednesday, October 2, 2019 Arts The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com My 2019 New Year’s resolution was to only purchase books written by women. Given the beyond-scary statistics of male authors being published around eight and a half times more frequently than their female counterparts, I recognized the only way to beat the statistic is to support female authors and share their books. Ironically, I’d read Peg Alford Pursell’s d...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Sports Wednesday, October 2, 2019 — 7A Wolverines value chance to compete, with exhibition against Windsor approaching With more than 30 regular season games slated from fall to early spring, the college hockey season can be long and strenuous. Opportunities to pause and fine-tune during games are few and far between. For the Michigan hockey team, there are two chances for such contemplatio...…
…8A — Wednesday, October 2, 2019 Sports The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Film breakdown: How Michigan’s first drive set tone for Gattis to follow Of all the contrasts to draw between Michigan’s first three games and its win over Rutgers on Saturday, the most striking was also the first. For the first three games of the season, the Wolverines put the ball on the ground on their first drive. And all three times, it foreshadowed a ...…
…statement THE MICHIGAN DAILY | OCTOBER 2, 2019 PHOTO BY DANYEL THARAKAN Sleeping in the cell …
…F resh off the plane back from my study abroad experience in Paris, and standing in front of the mirror in my mother’s bathroom, I took a pair of kitchen scissors and haphazardly cut a fringe, framing the front of my forehead. The bangs were uneven, a little too thick on the right side of my forehead, and very clearly an amateur job — but they immediately made me feel transformed, like a new woman. When my mom saw my handiwork later th...…
…I remember the exact moment in sixth grade when I realized an essay didn’t need to be five paragraphs: Intro, body, body, body and conclusion. It didn’t need to have topic sentences and transitions. I was always taught an essay should be concise and clean. It must be easy on the eye and straightforward — beautiful, even. Those were the rules, but I remember when I realized I was allowed to break them. I think this was one of the mome...…
…Wednesday, October 2, 2019 // The Statement 4B 5B Wednesday, October 2, 2019 // The Statement S eymour’s last meal had been overcooked, which, at least to him, ruined what should’ve been a perfectly civilized execution. There was no reason for it not to be civilized, after all. He had confessed right out to those “despicable acts of human indecency” of which he was accused. No sense in lying about it, anyway. He was unsure whether it ...…
…BY ALEXIS RANKIN VISUAL STATEMENT BIOLOGICAL STATION I SPENT MY SUMMER AT THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN BIOLOGICAL STATION BOTH AS A STUDENT AND AN INTERN. MY TIME WAS DIVIDED BETWEEN MY GENERAL ECOLOGY CLASS AND MY JOB AS A MEDIA AND COMMUNICATIONS INTERN, WHERE MY MAIN ROLE WAS TAKING PHOTOS. IT WAS A COMBI- NATION OF TWO OF MY FAVORITE THINGS, NATURE AND PHO- TOGRAPHY. IT WAS AN OPPORTUNITY THAT ALLOWED ME TO BE CREATIVE, LE...…
…When Ari Paul, a University of Michigan alum, met his aunt’s husband William “Buzz” Alexander as a teenager, he recognized how special Alexander was right away. “Meeting him for the first time, you could tell he was someone of incredible experience and had an endless love of people,” Ari said. Janie Paul, Alexander’s wife and a School of Art & Design professor, met her husband in 1992 at the Blue Mountain Center, a community o...…
…Michigan’s Global CO2 Initiative On April 11th of this year, the University of Michigan’s Global CO2 Initiative met for the first time, hosting a two-day workshop on developing CO2-based products. The initiative aims to create solutions that reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and create carbon negative technologies, while gauging public interest in the new technologies. Some of the solutions include: U-M scientists are developing ways to c...…
…Though marijuana has been legalized in one form or another in 47 states and Washington D.C., it is not legal at the federal level. Thus, many depository institutions have been reluctant to engage in business with the cannabis industry for fear of getting penalized by the federal government. This has prevented many marijuana businesses, including those in Ann Arbor, from having strong relationships with banks. For instance, Om of ...…
…Opinion The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com 4 — Tuesday, October 1, 2019 Zack Blumberg Emily Considine Emma Chang Joel Danilewitz Emily Huhman Krystal Hur Ethan Kessler Magdalena Mihaylova Max Mittleman Timothy Spurlin Miles Stephenson Finn Storer Nicholas Tomaino Joel Weiner Erin White FINNTAN STORER Managing Editor Stanford Lipsey Student Publications Building 420 Maynard St. Ann Arbor, MI 48109 tothedaily@michigandaily.com Edite...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Arts Tuesday, October 1, 2019 — 5 It feels inaccurate somehow to call Félicia Atkinson a polymath, even though she has established herself fairly equally as a sculptor, poet and electronic musician. Her several disciplines feel less like different worlds that she enters and more like parts of a continuous whole, the working- out of a single rhizomic idea. I’m interested in how polymaths think: They...…
…By C.C. Burnikel ©2019 Tribune Content Agency, LLC 10/01/19 Los Angeles Times Daily Crossword Puzzle Edited by Rich Norris and Joyce Nichols Lewis 10/01/19 ANSWER TO PREVIOUS PUZZLE: Release Date: Tuesday, October 1, 2019 ACROSS 1 Fisherman’s __: waterfront district in San Francisco 6 Police HQ alerts 10 Sushi bar sauce 13 Swiss mathematician 14 Soft palate dangler 15 “t,” in “btw” 16 Golf tournament won by Shane Lowry in 2019 18 C...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Sports Tuesday, October 1, 2019 — 7 Meet Nebojsa Popovic, Michigan’s newest star The Michigan men’s soccer team has a new player this season who is lighting up opposing defenses. His name is Nebojsa Popovic. The forward is a graduate transfer from Oakland University spending his last year of eligibility in Ann Arbor. Since stepping on campus, he’s made an immediate impact, notching five goal...…
…OL looks to carry improvement As Michigan’s offense entered the season with sky-high expectations, every conversation was rooted in one assumption: The Wolverines would have a steady, reliable offensive line. It was built into the widespread confidence in Shea Patterson’s growth and was the foundation behind the lack of concern in a run game that lost its top two ball- carriers. And the assumption made sense. Everyone except reds...…
…With another record number of applications submitted for the fall 2018 freshman class, the University of Michigan- Ann Arbor campus enrollment has seen increased economic diversity and higher numbers of underrepresented students, according to a report published by University Public Affairs. The University received an 8 percent increase in applications for the fall 2018 freshman class. More specifically, 64,917 appli...…
…At the University of Michigan, a professor in the Department of Astronomy is taking the phrase “reach for the stars” to a whole new level. In a new discovery, Astronomy Prof. Sally Oey and her team observed runaway stars using Gaia, a new satellite launched by the European Space Agency. “What we were originally trying to do was look for runaway stars and those are massive stars,” Oey said. “So they’re moving really ...…
…University before he dove into a pool and broke his neck — paralyzing him from the chest down. He said being exposed to adaptive sports gave him the opportunity to continue to participate in sports that were a major part of his previous life. Oklanlami concluded his proposal by saying an adaptive sports program would help the University attract a diverse student body that values inclusivity and would demonstrate that ...…
…I t’s no secret that our current political climate is becoming exceedingly polarized. Not only are Democrats shifting left and Republicans shifting right, but liberals and conservatives alike are witnessing a “rising tide of mutual antipathy.” While both of these trends are undoubtedly contributing factors to the hostility of today’s political climate, it is really the latter that prevents us from escaping this seemin...…
…“Dancing On My Own.” In the latter, Robyn watches an ex-lover from the corner, begs him to see her and ultimately dances with sorrow alone. It’s a crystalline encapsulation of bittersweet. When she wonders, “I’m right over here / Why can’t you see me?” she’s asking a question, but it sounds like a demand; with that demand is the implicit belief that a better world might exist — that she might deserve the right to escape he...…
…By Bruce Haight ©2018 Tribune Content Agency, LLC 10/31/18 Los Angeles Times Daily Crossword Puzzle Edited by Rich Norris and Joyce Nichols Lewis 10/31/18 ANSWER TO PREVIOUS PUZZLE: Release Date: Wednesday, October 31, 2018 ACROSS 1 Story with many chapters 5 Hoops gp. since 1996 9 Colorado tribe 13 Curved fastener 15 Remote batteries 16 Former Persian ruler 17 Actor who’s anxious to get the Halloween party startled? 19 Only 20 Man...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Michigan in Color Wednesday, October 31 2018— 7A NOLAN FELICIDARIO/Daily Figure 1 WILLA HUA/Daily Figure 2 WILLA HUA/Daily Figure 3 The University of Michigan just scored an “F” on racial equity in a public university study. And since we are in the spirit of writ- ing guides, I thought it would only be right to create a guide where a Black student attempts to educate their peers on how to be...…
…8A — Wednesday, October 31, 2018 Sports The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Facing McSorley, Michigan looks for redemption After allowing season highs of 506 yards and 42 points to Penn State in last season’s blowout, the Michigan football team’s defense can seemingly rest easier. This Saturday, it doesn’t have to line up across some of the threats that keep defensive coordinator Don Brown up at night. There is no whiteout crowd ...…
…statement THE MICHIGAN DAILY | OCTOBER 31, 2018 Why should we care about the University’s forgotten Detroit roots? ILLUSTRATION BY CHRISTINE JEGARL …
…A few days ago, I saw a man rollerblading while pushing a stroller with a golden retriever trailing behind on a leash. The spectacle looked like an American Ninja Warrior audition. As I watched the feat from across the street, I considered the skill of this man completing his Saturday morning to-do list while balancing on eight wheels. In that moment, I came to two conclusions. First, his dedication to exercise seemingly c...…
…“ I am here today not because I want to be. I am terrified. I am here because I believe it is my civic duty to tell you what happened to me while Brett Kavanaugh and I were in high school.” - Dr. Christine Blasey Ford On a Thursday afternoon late in September, these words were spoken but not heard. They fell on the deaf ears of blind men sitting just feet away, the Kings of the Hill — Capitol Hill. Reverberations of these words ...…
…Wednesday, October 31, 2018 // The Statement 4B Wednesday, October 31, 2018 // The Statement 5B ILLUSTRATION BY EMILY KOFFSKY by KATE GLAD éline was a fashion house run by women for women. Celine — with the accent above the “e” conspicuously deleted — is a fashion house run by Hedi Sli- mane for Hedi Slimane. On Sept. 2, every post on the official Céline Instagram was deleted and replaced with a new branding cam- paign by Slimane ...…
…A few days ago, I saw a man rollerblading while pushing a stroller with a golden retriever trailing behind on a leash. The spectacle looked like an American Ninja Warrior audition. As I watched the feat from across the street, I considered the skill of this man completing his Saturday morning to-do list while balancing on eight wheels. In that moment, I came to two conclusions. First, his dedication to exercise seemingly c...…
…“ I am here today not because I want to be. I am terrified. I am here because I believe it is my civic duty to tell you what happened to me while Brett Kavanaugh and I were in high school.” - Dr. Christine Blasey Ford On a Thursday afternoon late in September, these words were spoken but not heard. They fell on the deaf ears of blind men sitting just feet away, the Kings of the Hill. Reverberations of these words were felt throu...…
…With bands traveling all the way from Connecticut, the loss of power couldn’t stop us at Sigma Phi from hosting our house show. My feet were wet and it was real cold, but sitting together in the candlelight made it that much more special. V I S U A L S T A T E M E N T : Co n c e r t by C a n d l e l i g h t photos by Prashanth Panicker Wednesday, October 31, 2018 // The Statement 8B …
…begin to accept applications and deposits during the fall semester. For many freshmen, the search for off-campus housing can begin only a few months into their college careers and can present many obstacles for those unfamiliar with the ins and outs of securing and negotiating housing contracts. “We’ve been working really hard to correct a misperception that you have to rush and be in a hurry to make a decision about yo...…
…and South University Avenue area. According to Ackerman, this building would fill an otherwise desolate area and give students walking home at night a greater sense of security. The panelists explained even though the Library Lot development isn’t a comprehensive solution to affordable housing in Ann Arbor, this is a necessary first step in the process. “With respect to affordable housing in the city of Ann Arbor...…
…question CMENAS’s decision to hold an event discussing a movement some equate with anti-Semitism. He explained CMENAS decided BDS is too vital a movement to not be discussed, claiming the movement is against a racist institution rather than a group of people. “Why hold an event like this after such a terrible tragedy?” Ali said. “Frankly, we considered canceling the event altogether. But violence is contagious … BDS is...…
…I t’s a word you have read a million times, it’s a word you have used a million times, but you have no idea what it actually means. An initial reaction would be to say that “lol” isn’t actually a word, it’s an acronym. While it is true that in 1989, when it is believed that “lol” was first used, “lol” did literally mean “laugh out loud,” but it is hard to argue that is still the case. Just quickly looking at my recent text messag...…
