…A new nine-story development, currently engaged in the City Council approval process, may be built on a currently vacant site next to the University of Michigan’s Medical Campus. At its Nov. 20 meeting, the council unanimously approved the zoning necessary for the development, and Catherine Ann Development, the Bloomfield Hills company responsible for the project, will bring its designs to the council on Dec. 18 for...…
…UGH. puzzle by sudokusyndication.com 2 — Thursday, November 30, 2017 News The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com 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 NATHAN GUPTA Busi...…
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…“I njustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.” These words by Martin Luther King Jr. have resonated deeply with me since reading them last semester. The problem now is that, coming from someone not firmly on either side of the political spectrum, I see injustice everywhere. When I went to hear Charles Murray speak, I wanted to be a fly on the wall during the protest, but I was moved to speak when the protester...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Arts Thursday, November 30, 2017 — 5 ARBOR PROPERTIES Award‑Winning Rentals in Kerrytown Central Campus, Old West Side, Burns Park. Now Renting for 2018. 734‑649‑8637 | www.arborprops.com FALL 2018 HOUSES # Beds Location Rent 11 1014 Vaughn $7700 9 1015 Packard $6525 6 1016 S. Forest $5400 4 827 Brookwood $3000 4 852 Brookwood $3000 4 1210 Cambridge $3400 Tenants pay all utilities. Show...…
…6 — Thursday, November 30, 2017 Michigan in Color The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Call to Action 4 Instructors to say ‘no’ to Spencer’s visit Marginalized identity in ‘The Shape of Water’ A home away from home University of Michigan faculty, graduate student instructors, research assistants and staff: We are writing this to request that you to cancel classes Nov. 30 to pressure the administration to refuse to allo...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Sports Thursday, November 30, 2017 — 7 Piazza, Cecconi provide leadership for struggling unit The Michigan hockey team departed Yost Ice Arena on Saturday with far more thorns than roses. The Wolverines’ marred defensive performance was composed of too many giveaways, too many goals given up and too few meticulous passes — problems that were only exacerbated by an absent offensive s...…
…8 — Thursday, November 30, 2017 Sports The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Poor rebounding, defense sinks ‘M’ CHAPEL HILL, N.C. — It was a play that the Michigan basketball team has practiced defending hundreds of times. Early in the second half of the Wolverines’ 86-71 loss Wednesday, North Carolina’s Joel Berry II called for a screen at the top of the key. Forward Luke Maye obliged, setting the screen and rolling to the...…
…The Michigan Daily sat down for an interview with University President Mark Schlissel to address several current issues on campus, including a potential visit from Richard Spencer, Central Student Government’s vote for #UMDivest and more. The Michigan Daily: Starting with Richard Spencer — in the Regent’s Meeting called last week, safety seemed like a big topic of discussion, that’s your top priority that you’re stating ...…
…into account. TMD: What kinds of things are you going to specifically, in the negotiations, what kinds of things do you think could contribute to making a more or less safe environment? Schlissel: What the law allows us to consider is the time and the place and the manner of speaking. So for example, it would be very easy for us to say no if Mr. Spencer insisted on speaking on the Diag at 11 in the morning on a class day with ...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com News Wednesday, November 29, 2017 — 3A communications director for the University’s chapter of College Democrats, said in the past they have been cautious in attaching their name to certain causes to avoid politicization, “opting instead to show up as allies rather than political affiliates.” “In this instance, however, we believe that Spencer and his movement are enough of a political threa...…
…M y most anxious times used to be weekend nights. I remember spending countless Saturday nights staring out my window at the frozen landscape of campus — imagining that all of the lights from dorm rooms, apartments and houses were filled with students laughing, partying and just enjoying the few hours of downtime that college life grants. And ignorantly, I deluded myself into believing that I was the only s...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Arts 5A — Wednesday, November 29, 2017 BLEECKER STREET Silly film starring a schizophrenic Dickens ‘The Man Who Invented Christmas’ lively & fresh The latest Scrooge story rings in a season of holiday movies “A Christmas Carol” is one of those stories that has been told and told again year after year to the point that it’s hard for any new adaptation to do much more than retread the same mater...…
…6A — Wednesday, November 29, 2017 Arts The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com INTERSCOPE Mura Masa performed in Detroit the Friday before Thanksgiving Mura Masa’s meticulous magic stuns at Majestic British DJ brought mellowness and majesty to the Detroit venue There’s a fine line between concerts and listening parties. Both involve listening to an artist’s music with a large group of people; you can dance at both, you can sing along...…
…statement THE MICHIGAN DAILY | NOVEMBER 29, 2017 changing the script …
…2B Managaing Statement Editor: Lara Moehlman Deputy Editors: Yoshiko Iwai Brian Kuang Photo Editor: Alexis Rankin Editor in Chief: Emma Kinery Design Staff: Michelle Phillips Hannah Myers Emily Hardie Erin Tolar Emily Koffsky Managing Editor: Rebecca Lerner Copy Editors: Elizabeth Dokas Taylor Grandinetti Wednesday, November 29, 2017 // The Statement Let’s talk about it: What it means to keep walking statement THE M...…
…3B Wednesday, November 29, 2017 // The Statement Soundtracking: Scheduling I t’s the most wonderful time of the year … I’m sitting on my laptop, physically drowning in papers and assignments, when an email notification pops up on my phone — not that I was on my phone instead of doing homework or anything but this is a judgement-free zone so get off my back. I swipe down to check out what all the fuss is about in my inbox. That’s w...…
…Wednesday, November 29, 2017 // The Statement 4B Wednesday, November 29, 2017 // The Statement 5B Changing the Script Students of color break barriers in musical theater by Tanya Madhani, Senior MiC Editor W ith the highly-antici- pated opening of “Ham- ilton: An American Musical” in the summer of 2015, it seemed as if Broadway — and theater as a whole — was taking the first step to combat the highly divisive and potent movement ...…
…Wednesday, November 29, 2017 // The Statement 6B Personal Statement: Dancing in color I always feel as though I was given a second chance. I was born in Guatemala City to a homeless mother who never had the opportunity to go to school. She signed my adoption papers with her thumb print because she couldn’t write her name. She told the social worker her one wish for me was a good education. As I write this article I think about ...…
…Wednesday, November 29, 2017 // The Statement 7B Personal Statement: Someone in the crowd by Micky Esteban, SMTD junior I grew up in a small town in Connecticut where it was impossible for me to get lost. In a place where 95.7 percent of the population is Caucasian, an Asian stands out in a crowd. My school, my dance studio, my friends all reflected that demographic. As a result, I was my differences. My black hair, my dark ski...…
…Wednesday, November 29, 2017 // The Statement 8B V I S U A L S T A T E M E N T T H A N K S G I V I N G The Michigan Daily photo staff share photos from their Thanksgivings, featuring traditions, family and memories. Photos by Michigan Daily Photo Staff The annual appearance of my grandma’s blue turkey plates is one of my favorite parts of Thanksgiving. (Alexis Rankin/Daily) As soon as my family wakes up on Thanksgiving we start cooki...…
…When Rackham student Surojit Sural, Ph.D. candidate in molecular and integrative physiology, was deciding on leaving his home country of India for Japanese or American doctorate programs, he chose the University of Michigan for what he said was its prestige, location and financial support. His peers were accepted to high-ranking European universities, but also chose American schools due to their financial...…
…While football fans streamed into Michigan Stadium on Saturday morning, Brian Ellison, a Libertarian running for U.S. Senate, held up a sign that read “say no to oral,” written in permanent marker. Along with a half dozen others at the corner of South Main Street and East Stadium Boulevard, Ellison, a resident of Royal Oak, protested the Preliminary Oral Fluid Analysis pilot program recently launched by the Michigan Sta...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com News Monday, November 27, 2017 — 3A speakers around the world. After Spanish, it’s the most spoken romance language and it has more speakers than all the others, French, Italian, Catalan, Romanian, all of them, except Spanish, combined. So that’s how big it is. It’s huge and yet … (Portuguese has) struggled to get (a program) because people don’t see the relevance of it. Even though the nu...…
…I n four years here, I have never really played the role of outspoken critic as it pertains to University administration. That is, though I may have strongly disagreed with any number of decisions made by University President Mark Schlissel and the Board of Regents, I never truly questioned the fact that they were responsible, thoughtful public servants who had the best interests of the University communit...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Arts Monday, November 27, 2017 — 5A NETFLIX The 1986 film hits the small screen of Netflix. Lee revamps for TV his hit ‘She’s Gotta Have It’ The director’s 1986 debut recieves a refreshing makeover Love yourself, even if society doesn’t want you to. That seems to be one of the many underlying messages of “She’s Gotta Have It,” the refreshing television adaptation of Spike Lee’s (“Oldboy”) ...…
…6A —Monday, November 27, 2017 Arts The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com BIG MACHINE What happened, Tay?? Who is to blame for Swift’s latest album ‘reputation’? The new album is a digression from the Taylor we knew & loved When I turned 16, my friend gave me a copy of Taylor Swift’s then newest album, Red, to accompany me in my newfound freedom behind the wheel. Much of the record soundtracked my late night drives spe...…
…Dealt a bad hand In Saturday’s loss, Ohio State did what Michigan has tried to do all year: win with its backup quarterback. » SportsMonday Column, Page 2B New chapter Wilton Speight announced Sunday afternoon, through Instagram, that he will be transfering from Michigan for the 2018 season. » Page 4B It was all there for the taking. With 2:47 left in the fourth quarter, Michigan needed 77 yards. 77 yards to beat a tea...…
…2B — Monday, November 27, 2017 SportsMonday The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com SPORTSMONDAY COLUMN A stacked deck T he play was routine. With just over six minutes remaining in the third quarter, J.T. Barrett scrambled for 10 yards on 2nd-and-11. Fifth-year senior linebacker Mike McCray brought Barrett down by his legs. Barrett stood up, then grabbed at his right knee and went back to the turf. The trainers came ...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com SportsMonday Monday, November 27, 2017 — 3B Reality check T he sobering reality was clear well before Ohio State scored just prior to the final horn to cap off a brutal weekend for the Michigan hockey team. This reality was especially sobering because it was a new one. For two straight nights, the Wolverines had been dominated in every facet of the game and run off their home ice. Th...…
…4B — Monday, November 27, 2017 SportsMonday The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Chase Winovich reached out at the air, grabbing at something that wasn’t quite concrete and had already passed him by. He spoke in platitudes of just how close the Wolverines were to finally beating Ohio State. Except this time, they weren’t really platitudes at all. Michigan really could touch victory, and actually could taste it. But in the end, ...…
…University of Michigan Central Student Government President Anushka Sarkar, an LSA senior, signed the assembly’s resolution AR 7-019 that calls for the University to investigate possible divestment from companies that violate Palestinian human rights. In a secret ballot vote last Wednesday morningat CSG’s meeting, the #UMDivest movement passed for the first time on the University’s Ann Arbor campus with 23 votes in favor...…
…percent Asian population. Helmkamp said he also believes that with schools such as the University of Michigan, UW and even the University of California, Berkeley — which have large student populations and differences in diversity across the student body — there are efforts to bring a lot of communities together; he noted though he expects attempts to build community, there are also case-by-case scenarios that need to be c...…
…5.6 percent is Hispanic or Latino, 5.4 percent is Asian, and 66.3 percent is white. According to the 2016 U.S. Census Bureau, the state of Indiana has a 9.7 percent Black or African American population, a 6.8 percent Hispanic or Latino population, a 2.2 percent Asian population and a 79.6 percent white population. Additionally, though Trump won the state of Indiana in the 2016 election, 59.3 percent of voters in Monroe County, wh...…
…Particularly troubling for students, the GOP tax bill greatly undervalues education. For one, student loan repayment will no longer be tax deductible. Currently, 44 million borrowers owe $1.3 trillion in student loan debt in the U.S. As such, this legislation would make a college education much more unaffordable for the average American. Graduate education takes a much bigger hit. Under the Section 117 (d)(5) of the...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Arts Wednesday, November 22, 2017 — 5A RCA/SONY Two years ago he told us that Buffalo revived his career and that’s the most that city’s done ‘Oblivion’ is the comeback none of us asked T-Pain for The new release finds T-Pain trying, failing to reinvent himself Louis Menand, a staff writer for the New Yorker, postulated “The Iron Law of Stardom,” which states that a star can only coincide wit...…
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…statement THE MICHIGAN DAILY | NOVEMBER 22, 2017 A home, not a house A look at Ann Arbor’s historic co-ops …
…2B Managaing Statement Editor: Lara Moehlman Deputy Editors: Yoshiko Iwai Brian Kuang Photo Editor: Alexis Rankin Editor in Chief: Emma Kinery Design Staff: Michelle Phillips Hannah Myers Emily Hardie Erin Tolar Emily Koffsky Managing Editor: Rebecca Lerner Copy Editors: Elizabeth Dokas Taylor Grandinetti Wednesday, November 22, 2017 // The Statement Copy that: What’s in a name? statement THE MICHIGAN DAILY | NOVEMB...…
…3B Wednesday, November 22, 2017 // The Statement Empath in the wild: Graduating R ecently, a panicky feeling has been lingering in the back of my mind. I’m entering the last semester of my undergraduate education, and I don’t know what I want to do when that’s over. I, at the very least, know what city I want to be in, but I don’t have housing secured and I don’t have a job secured. I’ve become disenchanted with my major, Engli...…
…Wednesday, November 22, 2017 // The Statement 4B Wednesday, November 22, 2017 // The Statement 5B A home, not a house A look at Ann Arbor’s historic co-ops by Lara Moehlman, Managing Statement Editor H ot air wafts from the oven in the kitchen of Linder Cooperative House, which looks semi-industrial with steel gray appliances. A hooded stove and two picnic benches tucked under a wood- en table back into the far right corner of a ch...…
…Wednesday, November 22, 2017 // The Statement 6B Personal Statement: No more pretzels “ Why even drink coffee if you’re gonna just have decaf?” I could probably buy my own coffee shop with the number of times someone has asked me. “I like the taste but I don’t want to get addicted and then start to need the caffeine,” I would reply. Then it’d start a discussion about how they don’t taste the same. (Sorry, guys, even after having ...…
…Wednesday, November 22, 2017 // The Statement 7B The picture stays in the kid: Lives I didn’t quite live by Daniel Hensel, Daily Film Editor I was never much of a teenager. It’s not as if I wasn’t a student; it was that I was absent so much — literally away from Northbrook, at debate tournaments once or twice a month, over the weekends — that I never felt as if I was really a member of my community. After all, when yo...…
…Wednesday, November 21, 2017 // The Statement 8B Students study at Mighty Good Coffee on South University Avenue. Students share one of the many communal tables at Starbucks on South University Avenue. The Roasting Plant has become a popular student study spot since opening early this fall. Baristas put pastries on display at Lab on East Liberty Street. The interior of Mighty Good Coffee on South University Avenue. Students review cours...…
…NOVEMBER 25, 2017: OHIO STATE EVAN AARON / DAILY …
…FootballSaturday, November 25, 2017 2C STAFF PICKS The Daily football writers pick against the spread to predict scores around college football in the 2017 football season. Betelhem Ashame Ted Janes Orion Sang Kevin Santo No. 2 Penn State (+6.5) at No. 6 Ohio State Alabama Auburn Alabama Alabama Alabama No. 3 Georgia (-14) at Florida Miami Pittsburgh Miami Miami Miami No.4 TCU (-6.5) at No. 25 Iowa State Clemson Clemson South Ca...…
…3 TheMichiganDaily, www.michigandaily.com Furbush different from most players Noah Furbush understands this rivalry better than most. After all, he’s been on both sides. A native of Kenton, Ohio, the redshirt junior linebacker has three family members who attended Ohio State. Naturally, a young Furbush grew up cheering for the Buckeyes. Then the dominoes began falling. His older brother attended the University of Mic...…
…Chase Winovich doesn’t forget things easily. He still remembers the Ohio State fan who “shot the double bird” at him last year. He still remembers his omission from the Under Armour All-America Game. He still remembers the scout team, the position change and every other slight, in part, because all of that has made him who he is. Perhaps it’s those recollections that draw his teammates to say the redshirt junior has a few...…
…done.” That wouldn’t be the last time Winovich willed something into being. *** When Matt Thompson first met Chase Winovich, Nick Volk had a prediction for him. “The day I met Chase,” Thompson recalls, “(Volk) said that Chase was gonna be an All-American one day.” Winovich came to Ann Arbor to play SAM in Brady Hoke’s defensive scheme, was asked to play tight end upon Jim Harbaugh’s arrival, hurt his PCL in the ens...…
…FootballSaturday, November 25, 2017 6 Launius said. “(He asked) a lot of questions about the mobility of the movement that a beginner student wouldn’t even have the conception of asking.” Having taught at the studio for the past 10 years, Launius never once saw a football player walk through its doors. But as she put it, teaching Winovich was “a treat.” Though they joked about it, there was never a recital in the cards for Mi...…
