…W hen I was looking at study abroad programs for the winter semester of my junior year, the overwhelming number of places I could go both excited and scared me. Ross Global Initiatives and the Center for Global and Intercultural Studies offer programs to over 40 countries. I felt and continue to feel lucky to be student at such an international-reaching university, where the opportunities to travel and learn are plentiful. Although I...…
…Wednesday, November 30, 2016 // The Statement 4B Wednesday, November 30, 2016 // The Statement 5B A ccording to this year’s enrollment overview from the University of Michigan’s Office of the Registrar, there are only 80 Native students at the University, making up 0.21 percent of those enrolled as of fall 2016. These students make up 0.17 percent of enrolled undergraduates and 0.32 percent of graduates and professional sta...…
…I never understood the hype, and I’m still not really sure if I do. The aura that surrounds sports at the University of Michigan is unique, and as a photojournalist for The Michigan Daily, I view it all from a unique perspective. It’s humbling to stand on a field surrounded by thousands of screaming fans that live and breathe Michigan sports while I, as a photojournalist, must remain neutral. I had never cared about Michigan or its ...…
…“ People are afraid to merge on freeways in Los Angeles.” - Bret Easton Ellis, “Less Than Zero” If you’re from Los Angeles or know anything about it, the first thing that comes to mind is the city’s horrendous traffic. And yes, for those not from L.A., the traffic is indeed horrible. As a resident of Los Angeles, I can attest to this. Getting to school in the mornings and coming home in the afternoons was a pain, especially when I had...…
…Wednesday, November 30, 2016 // The Statement 8B Journalists look out from a hill overlooking the camp. Water protectors — as those working to stop then pipeline prefer to be called — hold signs and gather as they approach the police last Thursday. V I S U A L S T A T E M E N T : S TA N D I N G R O C K P H O T O S B Y C A R O L Y N G E A R I G The road leading into the main standing Standing Rock camp, Oceti Sakowin Camp, is lined with...…
…About 150 students gathered Monday afternoon in an Angell Hall auditorium for “Election 2016: Looking Under the Hood and Down the Road,” a panel of University of Michigan’s political science faculty also discussed the recent presidential election as a monumental shift in American politics. The panel consisted of six LSA faculty members with concentrations in American politics, political psychology, public policy and the Midd...…
…MANAGING YOUR LIFE. puzzle by sudokusyndication.com 2 — Tuesday, November 29, 2016 News The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com The Michigan Daily (ISSN 0745-967) is published Monday through Friday during the fall and winter terms by students at the University OF Michigan. One copy is available free of charge to all readers. Additional copies may be picked up at the Daily’s office for $2. Subscriptions for September-April are $225 and year ...…
…real wages —wages adjusted for inflation — have grown and income has increased for people in lower and middle classes. But Furman said despite these factors, the United States’ recovery is not complete. He cited lowered productivity growth, which is the measure of efficiency of production, as a longer-term issue for the economy and said the decline seen in the the levels of firm entry and growth results in the decline of...…
…O n Oct. 11, 1975, NBC released a show called “Saturday Night Live,” which brought with it a revolutionary new genre that was based around sketch comedy. One particular recurring sketch within the first few episodes set a successful tone that the show, and many others like it, would continue. Cast member Chevy Chase sat behind a desk in a mock Oval Office and clumsily reported to the United States as the pres...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Arts Tuesday, November 29, 2016 — 5 J an. 20, 2009 — The most famous people in the world are gathered in Washington D.C. for what feels like a trans- formative moment in American history. Barack Obama has been sworn in as president of the United States, and the occasion has been celebrated with performances from iconic musicians like U2, Bruce Springsteen and Aretha Franklin, just to name ...…
…HAPPY TUESDAY! Classifieds Call: #734-418-4115 Email: dailydisplay@gmail.com ACROSS 1 Energizes, with “up” 5 Onetime TWA rival 10 Lucy’s co-star 14 “Star Wars” princess 15 Bakery draw 16 “That’s so true!” 17 Misfortunes 18 Las Vegas loser’s complaint 20 [“Get off the stage!”] 22 Word with dog, horse or lion 23 Bank acct. posting 24 Critter “in the headlights” 26 Worked hard 30 Spoken 32 Make on the job 34 Explosive emotion 35 Eight, en espa...…
…Sports The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Tuesday, November 29, 2016 — 7 Kieffer-Wright keys Senior Night sweep Cliff Keen Arena was abuzz from start to finish as the No. 18 Michigan volleyball team celebrated its Senior Night with a win against No. 14 Michigan State. On this emotional night, it wasn’t a senior who may have made the biggest impact in a 3-0 sweep — it was sophomore middle blocker Claire Kieffer-Wright. Com...…
…8 — Tuesday, November 29, 2016 Sports The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Now more than ever, ‘M’ needs Irvin If the Michigan basketball team is a train, Derrick Walton Jr. might be the conductor. But Zak Irvin is the engine that drives it. Prior to the Wolverines’ season-opening exhibition against Armstrong State, Michigan’s senior wing admitted as much. “We know that the team goes as Derrick and I go,” Irvin sai...…
…Richard Spencer, a prominent white nationalist who coined the term “alt- right,” a movement promoting white supremacist ideals, announced public speaking engagements at the University of Michigan and Texas A&M University in a Washington Post profile last Tuesday, though the University confirmed he has not been formally invited by the University or student groups. “I think there’s going to be a huge crowd,” Spencer ...…
…THANKFUL FOR EVERYONE puzzle by sudokusyndication.com WHO DOES THE SUDOKU. 2A — Monday, November 28, 2016 News The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com The Michigan Daily (ISSN 0745-967) is published Monday through Friday during the fall and winter terms by students at the University OF Michigan. One copy is available free of charge to all readers. Additional copies may be picked up at the Daily’s office for $2. Subscriptions for September-A...…
…3-News The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com News Monday, November 28, 2016 — 3A trifecta of Barrett, Samuel and running back Mike Weber, coordinator Don Brown’s unit dominated. The Wolverines gave up just 206 yards on 50 carries. They sacked Barrett eight times, piled up 13 tackles for loss and added an interception. But the offense could never deliver the clinching blow. Down 3-0 in the second quarter, having gained 2...…
…I n the aftermath of the 2016 presidential election, I, like many others, experienced an amalgam of emotions: frustration, anger, fear, guilt, shame. In particular, in a way more than ever before, I have felt the overwhelming presence of my privilege as a white man in the United States. As CNN reporter Van Jones put it, “This was a whitelash against a changing country.” In my own processing of the result, one overarching t...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Arts Monday, November 28, 2016 — 5A FOLLOW US ON TWITTER @michigandaily NOW. Classifieds Call: #734-418-4115 Email: dailydisplay@gmail.com ACROSS 1 “Get lost!’ 6 Google __: geographical app 10 Ruth with bats 14 Egypt’s capital 15 They may clash on a movie set 16 Environmental sci. 17 *Power source that plugs into a computer port 19 Physics particle 20 Andes, e.g.: Abbr. 21 Against 22 Make amends (for...…
…FILM REVIEW “I don’t appear in public very often, but I think I should go out more.” So says Howard Hughes, the legendary and mysterious industrialist, to an impressionable young child at the conclusion of “Rules Don’t Apply.” The same can be said for Warren Beatty, the notoriously reclusive and quiet actor (and director, writer and producer) who portrays Hughes in the film. This is Beatty’s first directorial...…
…B The Michigan Daily | michigandaily.com | November 28, 2016 Business trip The Michigan women’s basketball team spent Thanksgiving in the U.S. Virgin Islands and came away with two victories » Page 3B The new ‘Game’ Jim Harbaugh proved Saturday — and for the past year — how much the Ohio State rivalry means » SportsMonday Column, Page 2B C OLUMBUS — The play was called 29 lead. Curtis Samuel took a handoff going left. His...…
…2B — November 28, 2016 SportsMonday The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com ‘The Game’ lives up to the hype J ust after 10 a.m. Saturday, Jim Harbaugh led his Michigan football team off the buses and walked through the gates of Ohio Stadium. Harbaugh said Monday that he had not been back since he last played quarterback there in 1986. He did not say much else about his team’s biggest rivalry. Does he embrace the rivalry ...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com SportsMonday November 28, 2016 — 3B Michigan beats Mount St. Mary’s No matter how intricate a team’s offense may be — and John Beilein’s scheme is certainly among the most complex — the system can only work if players are making shots. So when No. 25 Michigan shot just 19.2 percent from the field against South Carolina on Wednesday, including a dismal 7.7 percent from behind the arc...…
…4B — November 28, 2016 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com SportsMonday The good, the bad and the ugly: Ohio State For as heartbreaking as the Michigan football team’s 30-27 double-overtime defeat in Columbus was, there were plenty of joyful moments for Wolverine fans at Ohio Stadium. For the first three quarters of the game, it seemed as if Michigan would be able to cruise to victory the potency of its defense. It would ha...…
…In November, The Michigan Daily administered a women’s health survey to 1,000 randomly selected respondents at the University of Michigan campus. There were 147 respondents, with 115 self-identifying as female. The following article includes data collected in this survey, particularly with regard to beliefs about sex on campus. From a young age, LSA senior Ariana Headrick considered premarital sex a healthy and imp...…
…The Michigan Daily (ISSN 0745-967) is published Monday through Friday during the fall and winter terms by students at the University OF Michigan. One copy is available free of charge to all readers. Additional copies may be picked up at the Daily’s office for $2. Subscriptions for September-April are $225 and year long subscriptions are $250. University affiliates are subject to a reduced subscription rate. On-campus subscriptions for fall ...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com News Wednesday, November 23, 2016 — 3A premarital sex, including religion, individual values and culture. The data from the survey indicated that 56 percent of students feel their parents’ religion influences how they view health issues. Respondents represented a wide range of religions, such as Christianity (50.41 percent), Judaism (5.69 percent), Hinduism (3.25 percent) and Islam (0.81 pe...…
…I ’ll be honest: I think these next few years will probably be tough for people of marginalized identities. Many people in these groups, myself included, can only describe our expectations with one word: fear. Fear of the unknown, fear for our political system and, most of all, fear for my future as a young Black male in a country that more closely resembles the racist America I thought only existed in old p...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Arts Wednesday, November 23, 2016 — 5A FXX “Didn’t you die on ‘Orange is the New Black?’ “ The characters on “You’re the Worst” are best described as, well, the worst. These disaffected Angelenos are by turns narcissistic and callous, disinterested and egotistical, bitterly cruel and relentlessly, hopelessly broken. In the stellar part one of the season three finale, “You Knew I...…
…ENJOY YOUR BREAK! FREE TIME Classifieds Call: #734-418-4115 Email: dailydisplay@gmail.com ACROSS 1 Temporary shelter 5 Boeing product 8 Blue hue 13 Decor finish? 14 Mediocre 15 Stuffy-sounding 16 Comparatively frugal 18 Apple products 19 Prepares to sail, maybe 20 Common fall hiree 22 Extinct emu-like bird 23 Campus military org. 25 Member of the flock 29 Word with light or shade 31 Idle 33 Tavern offering 34 For example 36 Baldwin of “B...…
…T E A M S T A T S MICH OPP Points/Game 42.3 10.9 First Downs/Game 22.8 13.5 Rush Yards/Game 235.3 108.6 Yards/Rush 5.2 3.0 Rushing TDs 39 4 Passing Yards/Game 215.8 137.0 Completion % 62.2% 44.2% Yards/Pass 8.0 5.6 Passing TDs 17 9 Interceptions 4 11 Offensive Plays/Game 71.9 60.5 Total Offense 451.1 245.6 3rd-down Conversions 43.8% 21.1% 4th-down Conversions 64.7% 34.8% Sacks/Game 3.3 1.5 Kick return average 17.3 21....…
…8A — Wednesday, November 23, 2016 Sports The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Wolverines headed to U.S. Virgin Islands Instead of eating turkey, the Michigan women’s basketball team will be sipping coconut water on the beaches of St. Thomas. The Wolverines flew Tuesday morning to the U.S. Virgin Islands to participate in a marquee preseason tournament, The Paradise Jam, from Thursday through Saturday. According to its w...…
…statement THE MICHIGAN DAILY | NOVEMBER 23, 2016 …
…2B Magazine Editor: Karl Williams Deputy Editors: Nabeel Chollampat Lara Moehlman Design Editor: Shane Achenbach Photo Editor: Zoey Holmstrom Creative Director: Emilie Farrugia Editor in Chief: Shoham Geva Managing Editor: Laura Schinagle Copy Editors: Emily Campbell Alexis Nowicki Taylor Grandinetti the statement Wednesday, November 23, 2016 / The Statement How To: Pledging for Unity in the Face of Divisiveness B Y S ...…
…L ast winter, I struggled with writing an application for a program that I desperately wanted to be admitted to. The most fundamental section of the application consisted of five personal short answer questions. Once I had settled on the ideas I wanted to express in my responses, I faced a whole new challenge: how to write them. I wrote freely and tried not to get in my own way, but faced a few worries when I went back to revise. Thi...…
…Wednesday, November 23, 2016 // The Statement 4B Wednesday, November 23, 2016 // The Statement 5B Everyone says it: Print is dead. Newspapers across the country have been going through a process of intense change, as their primary method of distribution moves from print to digital. But my position as a managing design editor for The Michigan Daily means that I lay out the front page for the print version of a paper, design the layout o...…
…I ’m going to tell you a story. A romantic story, one including star-crossed lovers, international travel and defying odds and cultural barriers. However, I will warn you now, the end of this seemingly perfect story is yet to be determined. The scene opens on an island on the west coast of Norway, a few hours south of Bergen, the country’s second-largest city. An American girl arrives with four 11-year-olds in tow, nervous, but read...…
…T he palms of my hands inch forward, slow and steady, farther and farther away from my body. My eyes close, surrounded by darkness, with disso- nant sounds that clatter and ring like hovering shards of fragmented glass occasionally colliding, I feel my hands quiver in space, this dimensionless zero-gravity place. I wait in this darkness, for some sort of cue, a sign, a voice that’ll tell me exactly what to do and what to feel. Maybe a...…
…Wednesday, November 23, 2016 // The Statement 8B Students sit in the Diag before the prayer. A student is interviewed for a local news channel after the prayer. Chalk on the Diag reads, “Muslims you belong here.” V I S U A L S T A T E M E N T : I S H A A P R A Y E R P H O T O S B Y R Y A N M C L O U G H L I N Students talk among themselves after the prayer. On November 14, members of the University of Michigan Muslim Students’ Associa...…
…Hilary Clinton made history this past presidential election cycle after securing the Democratic nomination for the 2016 election as the first female to ever win a major party nomination, promoting excitement among many young voters including on campus. However, the election of her opponent, President-elect Donald Trump, has sparked concern over what his presidency will mean for women’s rights for many students. While ...…
…The Michigan Daily (ISSN 0745-967) is published Monday through Friday during the fall and winter terms by students at the University OF Michigan. One copy is available free of charge to all readers. Additional copies may be picked up at the Daily’s office for $2. Subscriptions for September-April are $225 and year long subscriptions are $250. University affiliates are subject to a reduced subscription rate. On-campus subscriptions for fall ...…
…3-News The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com News Tuesday, November 22, 2016 — 3 for Hillary, said while Clinton’s loss was upsetting, she has hope for the future. “Having a woman running for the highest office shows girls that they do have the ability to run for office,” she said. “I heard a quote that the first female president was watching Hillary run, so in our lifetimes there will be a female president and I’m really confide...…
…W inning and losing is the essence of politics, and losing badly is exactly what happened to Democrats across the country on Nov. 8. As Democrats, the losses we suffered all the way down the ballot on Election Day would have been disappointing at a minimum, even if some other run-of-the-mill Conservative was at the top of the Republican ticket. However, given the sexist, xenophobic, racist and bigoted rhetoric of Presi...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Arts Tuesday, November 22, 2016 — 5 WARNER BROS. When boys try to mansplain the time turner to me. “Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them” is the much anticipated prequel to the Harry Potter series, centered on the adventures of the renowned author Newt Scamander (Eddie Redmayne, “The Danish Girl”) in his writing of the titular textbook read by Harry and the crew. It would be easy ...…
…Classifieds Call: #734-418-4115 Email: dailydisplay@gmail.com ACROSS 1 Took a powder 5 Wake-up call alternative 10 Real estate ad abbr. after 2 or 3, commonly 14 Golfer Aoki 15 Blender button 16 “Wonderfilled” cookie 17 One of a daily three at the table 19 __ colada: cocktail 20 Heart rate 21 Tempo 22 Tar Heel State university 23 Hunting dog 25 Israeli currency 27 __ out a living 29 Fiber-__ cable 32 Temperate 35 Jinx 39 Tokyo, long ago 40 D...…
…T E A M S T A T S MICH OPP Points/Game 42.3 10.9 First Downs/Game 22.8 13.5 Rush Yards/Game 235.3 108.6 Yards/Rush 5.2 3.0 Rushing TDs 39 4 Passing Yards/Game 215.8 137.0 Completion % 62.2% 44.2% Yards/Pass 8.0 5.6 Passing TDs 17 9 Interceptions 4 11 Offensive Plays/Game 71.9 60.5 Total Offense 451.1 245.6 3rd-down Conversions 43.8% 21.1% 4th-down Conversions 64.7% 34.8% Sacks/Game 3.3 1.5 Kick return average 17.3 21....…
…Big Ten roundup With just over a week of college basketball in the books, the season is already shaping up to be a good one. Granted, the level of competition across the board has not been even, but so far, the Big Ten is still an impressive 42-9. No. 25 Michigan is probably in the top half of that spectrum after beating Marquette and Southern Methodist last week in New York City to win the 2K Classic. While it’s still ea...…
…Over the past few weeks, protests calling for action against discrimination on campus and nationwide have swept the University, drawing thousands. More than 100 times that number — about 110,000 spectators — watched the football team beat Indiana this weekend at The Big House, a place that can seem a world away from student activity on campus with its cameras and fanfare. This football season, however, student-athletes have ...…
…Football fans saw the fickle nature of Michigan weather this weekend when it swung from a sunny, warm 70 degrees Friday to a chilling low of 30 degrees Saturday, along with a dusting of snow on The Big House, during Michigan’s final home football game. Despite the cold, Michigan fans celebrated their 20-10 win against Indiana by taking to the field and making snow angels. Snow fell heavily during the game as well, forcing th...…
…3-News The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com News Monday, November 21, 2016 — 3A included rhythmic call-and- repeats such as “All these racist politicians we don’t need em” and “When Muslims are under attack, what do we do?” with the crowd responding “Stand up, fight back.” In attendance was the first SDS president, University alum Alan Haber, who graduated in 1965. In speaking to the crowd, Haber, a self-proclaimed “senior for...…
…A s an organic chemistry lab exam is fast approaching, the topic of studying comes up among a group of me and my classmates. How best should we prepare for the exam? We know we shouldn’t simply memorize the material but the temptation to just make up some flash cards and cram information into our brains for a short period of time is too great. However, what started as a seemingly normal collegiate conversation took a turn ...…
