…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Sports Wednesday, November 14, 2018 — 7A Pearson addressing faceoff struggles Some people get a thrill out of the chase — whatever that chase entails. That is, unless you’re Michigan hockey coach Mel Pearson and what you’re chasing is the puck. Despite having won 52 percent of its draws this season, the No. 16 Michigan hockey team (5-4-0 overall, 1-1 Big Ten) has lost the faceoff battle i...…
…Patterson ‘back in that killer mode’ Shea Patterson remembers when he first met Jim Harbaugh. It was last December in Mississippi when the now-junior quarterback found the Michigan football coach’s straight-forward approach and character endearing. So much so that, during the pair’s first recruiting visit, Patterson turned to his friend with a prophetic message. “I want to play for that guy.” Almost a year later, Patterson ...…
…statement THE MICHIGAN DAILY | NOVEMBER 14, 2018 What Scientologists taught me about rocks, and other discoveries in their brand new Detroit Church ILLUSTRATION BY CHRISTINE JEGARL …
…E very Monday we would crack the spine of our “Handwriting Without Tears” workbooks, an artifact of early 2000s elementary school curriculum, a time when public schools could still afford such luxuries. While these cursive primers generally honored their promise of dry eyes, the exercise of tracing dotted lines instead of keystrokes was contentious. Our teachers found themselves playing defense against a classroom o...…
…Wednesday, November 14, 2018// The Statement 3B O n the first day of middle school after moving to Michigan, I took a mathematics test. Our teacher walked slowly up and down each aisle, handing every student their test with a straight face. This was a pre-algebra test that would determine if we were competent enough to stay in the “advanced” math track, and everyone was expected to pass, as it covered concepts from...…
…W hen we walked into the recently opened Church of Scientology in Detroit, located downtown at 1 Griswold Blvd., a man in an ill-fitting black suit jumped up from behind the front desk and immediately told us to fill out a “survey,” asking for our full names, addresses, phone numbers, emails and reason for the visit: “Do you want to be more successful?” “Do you have deep insecurities from your past that are holding yo...…
…Wednesday, November 14, 2018 // The Statement 6B is where you’re at.” My graph put me at -100 for nervousness, -88 for depression and -79 for instability. I nod. “I see.” “So the results are ... that it shows that you’re unstable…” I nod again, and she lowers her voice. “You’re … depressed.” Another nod. “You’re a really nervous person.” “Hm.” “Sometimes you’re really active, sometimes you’re not active at all.” “Mhm.” “And then...…
…Wednesday, November 14, 2018 // The Statement 7B I f you don’t want to be stereotyped, don’t tell people you’re from the South. People will usually be hesitant to make judgements on background information they receive, but letting people know you grew up in the Bible Belt is a surefire way to get pegged as a country-music loving, farm- raised, bull-riding redneck or hillbilly. I mean, they’re not entirely wrong, though. ...…
…The UM Boxing Club competes in shows and tournaments year round, culminating in the United States Intercollegiate Boxing Association (USIBA) Nationals Tournament in March. Many competing boxers join the club with zero prior experi- ence, some of who bring back championship belts at the year’s end. Found throughout their practice space in the Sports Coliseum are the letters TDSM - teamwork, dedication, slight work, and motivation. The man...…
…In honor of Veterans Day, the Ford School of Public Policy at the University of Michigan hosted a panel event Monday night to discuss the implications of public policy for veterans. The panel, titled “The U.S. at ‘Endless War’: Public Policy and Those Who Serve,” featured three veterans and was moderated by associate professor Luke Shaefer, director of Poverty Solutions. The event followed the University’s Veterans Wee...…
…The American Civil Liberties Union of Michigan is fighting back against a new city ordinance that bans any unauthorized displays of the city’s seal or flag. In a three-page letter to the city dated Nov. 1, Dan Korobkin, deputy legal director for the ACLU’s Michigan chapter, and Gayle Rosen, co-chair of the Washtenaw County ACLU Lawyers Committee, called the ordinance unconstitutional on the grounds o...…
…questions to Public Policy graduate student Heath Bergmann, a captain in the U.S. Army, Chemistry chief administrator Jan Malaikal, a retired U.S. Army lieutenant colonel and Troy Nienberg, legislative director for U.S. Rep. Dan Kildee, D-Mich. and an Air National Guard officer. The event was organized in part by lecturer Stephanie Sanders, the Public Policy School’s Diversity, Equity and Inclusion officer. Sa...…
…H earing the news of the shooting at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh, I was numb. Another shooting at a place that is supposed to be safe and sacred. It was horrifically disgusting and incredibly sad, but it didn’t feel very different from the other shootings at schools, churches, bars and movie theaters. I must be desensitized to mass shootings, but am I supposed to feel different because it happened to my people? On soc...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Arts Tuesday, November 13, 2018 — 5 FILM REVIEW The 2015 National Survey on Drug Use and Health reported that over 21 million Americans aged 12 and older have struggled with illegal substance abuse. The CDC reported in 2017 that nearly 115 deaths occur every day in the U.S. as a result of opioid overdoses. At these rates, the drug use in America has reached epidemic levels. One might assu...…
…CLEANER NEEDED $550/WEEKLY Working Days: Monday and Friday Time Schedule: 8AM ‑ 2PM Email: johnlegend876@outlook.com HELP WANTED By Mark McClain ©2018 Tribune Content Agency, LLC 11/13/18 Los Angeles Times Daily Crossword Puzzle Edited by Rich Norris and Joyce Nichols Lewis 11/13/18 ANSWER TO PREVIOUS PUZZLE: Release Date: Tuesday, November 13, 2018 ACROSS 1 Source of spumante wine 5 Mr. __: Former name of a Dr Pepper rival 9 Light...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Sports Tuesday, November 13, 2018 — 7 Peoples-Jones emerging as top target Donovan Peoples-Jones didn’t score a touchdown or notch more than 65 yards in a single game last year. Then a freshman, he wasn’t alone in his struggles; the Wolverines’ leading receiver last year, Grant Perry, totaled just 307 yards himself. The offense as a whole managed 157 passing yards per conference game en ro...…
…8 — Tuesday. November 13, 2018 Sports The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Matthews finding balance in style of play For much of last season, redshirt junior Charles Matthews cast a frustrating figure for the Michigan men’s basketball team. The forward combined elite defense and athleticism with an inability to score consistently, especially outside the paint. That version of Matthews returned just seconds into the Wolverines’ ...…
…The Washtenaw Housing Alliance and Shelter Association of Washtenaw County hosted the second-ever Voices of Homelessness event Friday evening in Ypsilanti, inviting community members to share their experiences with homelessness through art and storytelling. A Washtenaw Housing Alliance 2018 report found 256 people in the county live in shelters or transitional housing, while 28 people are completely unsheltered. The ...…
…have it, the students seem to be very passionate about these things and want to learn about. I’m happy we get to have it here.” The weekend’s event consisted of a series of talks and discussions from 13 speakers, many of whom represented various Syrian activist organizations. Activist Shiyam Galyon, former director of the Books Not Bombs campaign that captured campus attention in 2016, delievered the conference ...…
…You’re American but you’re too Black. You’re Black but you’re too African. You’re African but you’re too dark. I’m sick of being told what I am and what I am not. You say I’m too much of that but not enough of this. Just because my looks don’t fit your stereotyped definition of what I should be. Who are you to tell me who I should be. Whoever gave you the right to put me in a box anyway. You sort, prioritize, and fixa...…
…C ollege students love their themed parties — so when Halloweekend comes around, many pull out all the stops to dress in a multitude of dazzling costumes that will inevitably end up contributing to a never-ending stream of Halloween posts on Instagram. Some popular costumes I spotted this year were boxers, devils and, of course, all kinds of feline ceatures. While these costumes certainly were not very original, I thought they w...…
…I was recently asked who I consider to be my favorite writer. It’s always a difficult question for me to answer — everyone I look up to for their writing, I look up to for a different reason, and there are quite a lot of those people. A Bob Dylan quote about his influences always jumps into my mind: “Open your eyes and your ears and you’re influenced.” There is something to learn from everyone. But today I’m going to talk about an...…
…COMMUNITY CULTURE REVIEW Muse might be a British band, but they reached the height of their popularity in the States when George Bush’s presidency turned toward absolute contention. Without feeling too abstract or derivative, Absolution and Black Holes and Revelations played like soundtracks to “1984”; they spoke to our emotions, not just our politics. You might have even hated Muse, felt their political slant was a bit too “ho...…
…The Michigan Daily | michigandaily.com | November 12, 2018 SPORTSMONDAY MICHIGAN 42 RUTGERS 7 Design by Jack Silberman Alec Cohen / Daily Another Roadtrip The Daily took another long, arduous roadtrip this weekend — this time to Piscataway. There are good reasons. Page 2B Millenium Mark Karan Higdon eclipsed the 1,000-yard mark in Saturday’s win over Rutgers, reaching a goal he has coveted. Page 3B Comeback Michigan had to c...…
…2B — November 12, 2018 SportsMonday The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Another Daily road trip T he Daily’s sports sec- tion takes road trips. It’s oddly part of our identity. And they’re not normal road trips, where you stop at a hotel and take it easy. We’re talking through- the-night-for-10-hours-back- from-New-York road trips. The type of road trips where you get done writing after a game and immediately get in a car, ...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com SportsMonday November 12, 2018 — 3B Teammates make Gary proud in homecoming PISCATAWAY — With a loosened brace draped over his right shoulder, Rashan Gary peered at the stat sheet on the podium in front of him. “Pssst,” Gary muttered to no one in particular. “It’s great to be a Michigan Wolverine.” The junior defensive end, in fact, repeated that phrase four times throughout his postgame press...…
…4B — November 12, 2018 Sports The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com ‘M’ topples Mount St. Mary’s, 88-40 On the first possession of the game, freshman guard Amy Dilk lobbed a pass from the right wing to senior forward Hallie Thome in the paint. Thome failed to convert, but it didn’t matter. Sophomore forward Hailey Brown was there to grab the rebound and get her team on the board. That opening play was a preview of how most of ...…
…The Heartland Independent Film Forum, in partnership with The Michigan Daily, hosted a launch event Thursday night at the Ann Arbor Public Library for an online database containing every impact statement of the survivors of Larry Nassar. The database is intended to aid students, families, educators and journalists in understanding this decades-long pattern of abuse. About 25 students and Ann Arbor residents were in attendance. ...…
…The Michigan Refugee Assistance Program, a student- led organization dedicated to assisting recently resettled refugees in the greater Detroit and Ann Arbor areas, held the second of their four-part roundtable series Thursday night examining the intersectional issues within the refugee crisis. This particular speaker event was focused on examining educational barriers faced by refugees as well as the response, or lack thereof...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com News Friday, November 9, 2018— 3A ALEXANDRIA POMPEI/Daily Red blood drop cutouts stand are placed around campus advertising the “Blood Battle” between Michigan and Ohio State University on the Diag Thursday. BLOOD DRIVE Earlier this semester, multiple fraternities disaffiliated from University IFC. The five current unaffiliated fraternities are still recognized by the University but t...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Arts Friday, November 9, 2018 — 5A ANU SOFTWARE CONSULTANTS, INC. (Ann Arbor, MI) is recruiting: Sys tems analysts to perform systems require ments, integration testing, technical and risk analysis; Sr. Sys tems Analysts to pro vide technologi cal support, gather require ments, and convert to functional specifica tions, and must have experience, educa tion or training in at least two of the...…
…W hen colleges first began to go co-ed about the time of the Civil War, higher education was still very much a man’s game. It wasn’t until 1980, nearly 100 years after the start, that women and men began to attend college at similar rates. Soon enough, women began to outpace men in terms of attending college and earning degrees. As of 2015, 72.5 percent of women who recently graduated high school were enrolled in college, com...…
…working conditions that factory workers in China were susceptible to. In an interview with Racked, Aflalo said, “I also went to China to visit a factory, and I had this moment where I realized this is really a polluted environment … I started to make the connection: This is me, I’m making clothes and I’m a big part of this.” She soon left Ya Ya and started Reformation in 2009. In the beginning, the company practiced sustaina...…
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…Friday, November 9, 2018 // TIP OFF 2018 2B Mount St. Mary’s at Western Michigan Detroit Mercy Gulf Coast Showcase at NC State at Marquette LIU Brooklyn at Oakland Morgan State Southern Fort Wayne at Nebraska Minnesota at Purdue Nov. 9 Nov. 15 Nov. 19 Nov. 23-25 Nov. 29 Dec. 2 Dec. 6 Dec. 9 Dec. 15 Dec. 21 Dec. 16 Dec. 28 Dec. 31 Jan. 5 Jan. 8 Jan. 12 Jan. 17 Jan. 20 Jan. 24 Jan. 27 Jan. 31 Feb. 3 Feb. 7 Feb. 4 F...…
…This year shouldn’t be about replacing Flaherty I t definitely felt odd. Last week, the Michigan women’s basketball team defeated Findlay in an exhibition. And for the first game in a long time, the name Katelynn Flaherty wasn’t announced emphatically, over and over again throughout Crisler Center. But as odd as it was, it might not be a bad thing. Entering this season, there’s been ample talk about how and if the Wolverines w...…
…Friday, November 9, 2018 TIP OFF 2018 5B Friday, November 9, 2018 TIP OFF 2018 4B Long before former Philadelphia 76ers general manager Sam Hinkie asked his devout fan base and the inquisitive media to “trust the process,” Nicole Munger had already been applying that mantra to her basketball career. Just an hour north of the Wells Fargo Center, Munger was entering her freshman year at Central Bucks High School West in Doylestow...…
…Friday, November 9, 2018 // TIP OFF 2018 6B Big Ten Breakdown: Iowa and Maryland the teams to beat With football season dwindling, there is only one thing that can fill the void that will be left in the hearts of Big Ten fans across the country: basketball – and maybe a little bit of hockey. Coming off its seventh straight 20-plus win season – the sixth straight under coach Kim Barnes Arico – the Michigan women’s basketball ...…
…Friday, November 9, 2018 // TIP OFF 2018 7B Roster Breakdown: ‘M’ replacing Flaherty with strong recruiting class and experienced forwards After advancing to the second round of the 2018 NCAA Tournament last year, the Michigan women’s basketball team returns a seasoned and experienced bunch. Of course, the Wolverines will be without Katelynn Flaherty for the upcoming campaign. Flaherty scored 2,776 points in her car...…
…Friday, November 9, 2018 // TIP OFF 2018 8B where she helped her high school to a 22-2 record and the first Final Four appearance in school history. Rauch, while small at 5-foot-8, showed tenacity on the glass during her high school career at Bishop Ludden in Syracuse, N.Y. Rauch averaged 7.1 boards per game and should be a force on the defensive side of the ball as well, evidenced by her 4.5 steals per game average last season. ...…
…In a race that took until Wednesday morning to call, Democratic challengers Jordan Acker and Paul Brown have unseated Republican incumbents Andrea Fischer Newman and Andrew Richner on the University of Michigan Board of Regents. Acker’s main focus is on the affordability of attending the University, emphasizing the cost is not reflected accurately by tuition alone but also housing and other expenses. Specifically, Acker sa...…
…2A — Thursday, November 8, 2018 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com News Bryxter @BryxterNavalta I study in the medical library on campus with hopes that one of the med students will think I’m cute and fall in love with me gratefyl los @Los_LeeJr I voted because I matter. I voted because generations before me mattered, as well as the generations after me. My black vote will forever be flexed. William S. Currie @WilliamSCurrie ...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com News Thursday, November 8, 2018 — 3A VETE R ANS WE E K RUCHITA IYER/Daily Ahmed Hamadi, Marines Corp NROTC Senior Advisor, shares his experiences as an Arab American corpsman at the Veterans Week Annual Veterans of Color Symposium at Hatcher Wednesday afternoon. Though these individuals did not appear on the registration list, they were able to fill out provisional ballots. In order to submit the...…
…A s alumni of the University of Michigan, we were deeply disappointed by the recent actions of two instructors who refused to support students’ desire to study abroad in Israel. While we applaud the University for disciplining Prof. John Cheney-Lippold, we are concerned that the campus climate is undergoing a dangerous trend toward restricting academic freedom and unfairly singling out students who pursue educat...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Sports Thursday, November 8, 2018 — 5A Partridge shares mixed reviews of special teams There is plenty to be said about the Rutgers football team, but poor kickoff coverage is not one of them. Jim Harbaugh made sure to note that — unprompted — during his Monday press conference. And if a 39.5-point spread is any indication, we could see plenty of the Scarlet Knights’ special teams on the field ...…
…Amine dominates matches at NWCA All-Star Classic Myles Amine emerged from the tunnel and was met with a reception fit for the final bout at the NCAA Championships. The redshirt junior trotted out to the mat elevated by the cheers of the raucous crowd and the spirit of the event. Flames shot into the air on either side of him. He came prepared and ready to dominate. And on Friday at the NWCA All-Star Classic, that’s exactly what h...…
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…2B — Thursday, November 8, 2018 b-side The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Stories of life: Slices in the cake of human experience Consider something as short as a single tweet: 280 characters to express your most surreal, plain, intrusive or wholesome thoughts. Now take the 137,374 defined Unicode characters and permutate them with Twitter’s strict character limit and you get … well, a seemingly infinite number of possible t...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com b-side Thursday, November 8, 2018 — 3B Mixing it all together: The magic of musical mashups I didn’t know what song was playing when I stepped into Underground Sounds but I know, for a fact, that “Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey” by Paul and Linda McCartney was playing when I was talking with owner Matthew Bradish about guilty pleasures, a term we mutually concluded doesn’t really mean anything...…
…2-BSide 4B —Thursday, November 8, 2018 b-side The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com The musical interlude An interlude, at its most basic definition, is “an intervening or interruptive period, space, or event.” Technically speaking, an interlude is meant to disrupt, to draw attention or to provide something else to focus on. Albums are often judged on their cohesion and flow, on how well each song complements the entire album...…
