…Wednesday, January 16, 2019 // The Statement 7B Wednesday, April 10, 2019 // The Statement 7B Fictional characters, real life lessons T hroughout my life, I have been called many different things — a loud and little extrovert as a child to a loud and liberal feminist throughout my teenage years. With my high-volumed voice, which I can thank my dad’s side of the family for — I’m mute compared to them — I never stopped talking. Te...…
…ALEXIS RANKIN VISUAL BY STATEMENT FROM BRIGHT, MULTICOLORED “ROCKS” STRATEGICALLY PLACED ON THE WALLS TO PUFFS OF WHITE CHALK LINGERING IN THE AIR TO CLIMBERS DANGLING FIFTY FEET IN THE AIR, THERE WAS NO SHORTAGE OF VISUALLY INTERESTING THINGS TO PHOTOGRAPH AT PLANET ROCK IN ANN ARBOR. ACCOMPANIED BY TWO EXPERIENCED CLIMBERS, I WAS ABLE TO SHOOT AS THEY TACKLED BOULDERING PROBLEMS AND TOP-ROPING ROUTES. EVENTUALLY, I TOOK A BREAK ...…
…In the fall of 2013, the Black Student Union e-board sat in a room in Palmer Commons to discuss the possibility of a new hashtag. They hoped the hashtag, #BBUM — or, Being Black at the University of Michigan — would create an opportunity for Black students at the University to share their experiences on campus. Little did the e-board know, the hashtag would lead to a movement that six years later resulted in the relocation of the ...…
…Dreams2Reality, a program for metro Detroit high school students sponsored by PILOT, concluded their year- long program Monday with Dream Day, a day-long event in the University of Michigan School of Education. PILOT is a student- led organization with a goal to develop leadership skills and encourage campus engagement within underrepresented communities. LSA sophomore Una Jakupovic is a member of PILOT and co-led D...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com News Tuesday, April 9, 2019 — 3 In an interview with The Daily, LSA freshman Andrew Gerace suggested that while this was an important step to address concerns over sexual misconduct, more should be done by SMTD to address this issue. “I think it will help students feel more comfortable. And that’s an important step to take,” Gerace said. “But I think what the music school needs to grapple with ...…
…Opinion The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com 4 — Tuesday, April 9, 2019 Emma Chang Joel Danilewitz Samantha Goldstein Elena Hubbell Emily Huhman Tara Jayaram Jeremy Kaplan Sarah Khan Lucas Maiman Magdalena Mihaylova Ellery Rosenzweig Jason Rowland Anu Roy-Chaudhury Alex Satola Ali Safawi Ashley Zhang Sam Weinberger Erin White FINNTAN STORER Managing Editor Stanford Lipsey Student Publications Building 420 Maynard St. Ann Arbor, MI 481...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Arts Tuesday, April 9, 2019 — 5 After fleeing to the Broadway scene for six years, Sara Bareilles is finally back with her new album, Amidst the Chaos. Filled with themes of love, feminism and politics, Bareilles has certainly made up for the lost time and has given fans an in-depth look to what she’s been thinking about during her time in the theatre scene. In stark contrast to her previous al...…
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…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Sports Tuesday, April 9, 2019 — 7 Wolverines growing in mistakes At the halfway point of its season, the No. 24 Michigan baseball team (22-8) is heating up at exactly the right time. It’s returned to the rankings. It took four of its first five Big Ten games and eight of its last 10 contests, a stretch that included a 1-0 pitchers’ duel victory against San Jose State, a 16-2 rout of Michigan S...…
…PLANET IN PERIL Averting Climate Catastrophe Through Law and Social Change ENVIRONMENTAL LAW AND POLICY PROGRAM CONFERENCE For a complete conference schedule, visit law.umich.edu/elpp Co-Sponsored by the Environmental Law Society and the Michigan Journal of Environmental and Administrative Law April 11-12, 2019 Jeffries Hall 1225 University of Michigan Law School The stadium was silent. There were three balls, two strikes and t...…
…Sunday afternoon, students and Ann Arbor residents gathered for the annual FestiFools public art parade on South Main Street in downtown Ann Arbor. Papier-maché puppets created and controlled by University of Michigan students and volunteers, along with other artists and dancers, performed under the theme “Dancin’ FOOLS.” The parade, organized by WonderFool productions, is one in a series of public art parades the grou...…
…FOOL MOON 2A — Monday, April 8, 2019 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com News ALLISON ENGKVIST/Daily Ann Arbor residents light up Kerrytown with different luminaries during Foolmoon Friday night. DESIGN BY VIVIAN HARBER OH BABY puzzle by sudokusyndication.com It’s more about the overall experiences of womanhood, however that’s defined. ALYSSA MCMURTRY Daily Staff Reporter TUESDAY: By Design THURSDAY: Twitter Talk FRIDAY: Behin...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Michigan in Color Monday, April 8, 2019 — 3A Dearborn, Michigan is the epicenter of Muslim/ Arab American culture. It is a microcosm of the Middle East with people from every Arab country (i.e. Lebanon, Iraq, Palestine, Syria, Yemen, Saudi Arabia, etc). There is such a diverse presence of nationalities and cultures that all contribute their own traditions while sharing similar traditions w...…
…Opinion The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com 4A — Monday, April 8, 2019 Erik Nesler can be reached at egnesler@umich.edu. FINNTAN STORER Managing Editor Stanford Lipsey Student Publications Building 420 Maynard St. Ann Arbor, MI 48109 tothedaily@michigandaily.com Edited and managed by students at the University of Michigan since 1890. MAYA GOLDMAN Editor in Chief MAGDALENA MIHAYLOVA AND JOEL DANILEWITZ Editorial Page Editors Unsign...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Arts Monday, April 8, 2019 — 5A When you walked out your door this morning, it was probably the first thing you smelled: spring. It’s a sweet ripeness in the air that contrasts with the smokier, earthier scent of colder days weeks prior. It triggers an immediate emotional response that, at least in spring’s earliest days, is impossible to ignore. It makes us more energetic, happier, lo...…
…6A — Monday, April 8, 2019 Arts The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Priests explores being bad on ‘Seduction of Kansas’ ALBUM REVIEW SISTER POLYGON RECORDS After releasing their excellent album Nothing Feels Natural, it was hard to imagine where Priests would take their sound. The band masterfully demonstrated their post-punk chops, but that genre seems to have its limitations. It is difficult to navigate the post-punk g...…
…“Can’t break steel.” All season long, that’s what Michigan’s gymnasts have preached. Through injury, through tough competition, through controversy and a long season of twisting and turning and tumbling — you can’t break steel. Saturday night, the culmination of that mentality was put to the test. A day of competition in the NCAA Regional Final left reigning national champion UCLA with a hefty lead and the Wolverines in second wi...…
…2B — April 8, 2019 SportsMonday The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Sainristil impressing in spring ball Mike Sainristil was one of those guys in high school. The kind that played seemingly every position and did it well, his athleticism the prevailing reason he stepped on a football field and stayed there nearly the whole time. Even when he committed to Michigan, it was unclear whether Sainristil’s talents would be best fit at w...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com SportsMonday April 8, 2019 — 3B Watching their team down 6-5 with two outs in the bottom of the seventh, the crowd started to clear, anticipating Michigan’s first loss in the Big Ten. But the Wolverines didn’t back down. Facing a 3-2 count with two runners on base, senior MacKenzie Nemitz swung hard, finding a gap between center and right field that propelled the Wolverines to a 7-6 walk-off vi...…
…4B — April 8, 2019 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com SportsMonday PLANET IN PERIL Averting Climate Catastrophe Through Law and Social Change ENVIRONMENTAL LAW AND POLICY PROGRAM CONFERENCE For a complete conference schedule, visit law.umich.edu/elpp Co-Sponsored by the Environmental Law Society and the Michigan Journal of Environmental and Administrative Law April 11-12, 2019 Jeffries Hall 1225 University of Michigan Law Sc...…
…More than 60 students gathered in the Michigan League for the second-ever Coming Out Speak Out, an open-mic event for the LGBTQ+ community. The event was hosted by Stonewall Democrats, the LGBTQ+ issue committee of College Democrats at the University of Michigan. The first Coming Out Speak Out was hosted in 2017. To begin, LSA senior Colleen Grogan and LSA freshman Neil Jain, Stonewall Democrats co-chairs, introduc...…
…On March 25, President Donald Trump expressed support for the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative to be fully funded in a Grand Rapids rally. This turnaround came after an initial 90 percent budget cut for the initiative as outlined in the 2020 budget plan for congressional approval just weeks before. In the 2020 budget plan released March 11, Trump proposed to cut the $300-million Great Lakes Restoration Initiative by $270 m...…
…Bryan identified the need for accessible food for students, especially because a full-service grocery store is not located on the University’s campus. Bryan explained that the Food Sustainability Program teamed up with organizations like the Office of Student Life, Wolverine Wellness, the Office of Financial Aid and CAPS to form a task force and determine the need behind this initiative. “There is need here, there are students ...…
…Opinion The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com 4 — Friday, April 5, 2019 FINNTAN STORER Managing Editor Stanford Lipsey Student Publications Building 420 Maynard St. Ann Arbor, MI 48109 tothedaily@michigandaily.com Edited and managed by students at the University of Michigan since 1890. MAYA GOLDMAN Editor in Chief MAGDALENA MIHAYLOVA AND JOEL DANILEWITZ Editorial Page Editors Unsigned editorials reflect the official position of The Da...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Arts Friday, April 5, 2019 — 5 The 57th Ann Arbor Film Festival came to a close on Sunday night with a screening of some of this year’s award-winning short films. While The Daily’s coverage of the festival has largely focused on feature-length entrants, the eight shorts presented on Sunday ran the gamut of film-making techniques, packing a wide spectrum of innovation into 74 minutes. A few ...…
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…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Sports Friday, April 5, 2019 — 7 Carson’s grand slam emblematic of freshmen success for Michigan By the bottom of the second inning, the No. 23 Michigan softball team had fallen into a pattern: get walked to first on a full count, round the bases to home, repeat. Then, freshman catcher Hannah Carson stepped up to the plate. Before Wednesday’s game against Toledo, Carson had 35 at-bats, r...…
…8 — Friday, April 5, 2019 Sports The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Position review: Linebackers Back in 2015, the Michigan football team landed a coup. Devin Bush was supposed to go to Florida State. His dad played for the Seminoles and was a legend for them. Bush was a legacy, a highly-touted South Florida kid who’d have his pick of colleges. But Florida State didn’t have Jim Harbaugh or Don Brown. And those two convinced him ...…
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…2 — Thursday, April 4, 2019 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com News The Detroit News @detroitnews A UM alumna made history Tuesday for African American women and the LGBTQ community when she was elected the first black female and openly gay mayor of Chicago. Jonathan Overpeck @GreatLakesPack Spring has hit@UMich! The hammocks are emerging on the Diag. Flowers blooming. Nice! BK @bankrollbeek The most umich thing I ever seen ...…
…By examining the intentions of Israeli and Palestinian groups, both past and present, Lieberman engaged in a conversation with attendees, contemplating the future of negotiations between the two nations. “From the 1990s to about 2014, the two-state solution was the official goal of the Israeli government and the Palestinian Authority, the PA,” Lieberman said. “Today most commentators agree that the two- state solution is on life su...…
…Opinion The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com 4 — Wednesday, April 4, 2019 Erik Nesler can be reached at egnesler@umich.edu. FINNTAN STORER Managing Editor Stanford Lipsey Student Publications Building 420 Maynard St. Ann Arbor, MI 48109 tothedaily@michigandaily.com Edited and managed by students at the University of Michigan since 1890. MAYA GOLDMAN Editor in Chief MAGDALENA MIHAYLOVA AND JOEL DANILEWITZ Editorial Page Editors Unsi...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Arts Thursday, April 4, 2019 — 5 itcoms are as American as television can get: They display our signature appreciation for tight- knit circles and the eerie feeling that although time is pushing onwards, you keep reaching the same equilibrium. In their take on “time,” Daily Arts Writers, Maxwell Schwarz and Sophia Yoon tackle recent changes to the sitcom form over time, particularly the recent ...…
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…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Sports Thursday, April 4, 2019 — 7 At end of season, Poole carries weight of unfulfilled expectations As Jordan Poole sat by his locker on the eve of Michigan’s NCAA Tournament opener against Montana two weeks ago, the questions flowed toward the sophomore forward. They always do, positive or negative. This time — three days removed from Poole not speaking with media after his 3-fo...…
…8 — Thursday, April 4, 2019 Sports The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Notebook: Harbaugh details spring depth chart, updates on injuries About five minutes into his press conference Wednesday morning, Jim Harbaugh was asked about Ben VanSumeran. Questions about younger guys — in this case, a sophomore running back who appeared in four games last season, narrowly avoiding a redshirt — are what spring pressers are for. Hype build...…
…The second Democratic presidential debate will be hosted in Detroit on July 30 and 31. The Democratic National Convention approved 12 debates, which will start in June 2019. The DNC told the Detroit Free Press the primary debate will host approximately 20 candidates including Bernie Sanders, Kamala Harris, Beto O’Rourke, Cory Booker, Kirsten Gillibrand and Elizabeth Warren. DNC Chairman Tom Perez told the Detro...…
…On Tuesday afternoon, while pro-Israel and Jewish student groups held their annual Israel Day on the Diag event, about 15 students in support of Palestine gathered in the corner of the Diag and held a Palestinian flag. The Diag Day is centered around the celebration of Israel, but dissenters arrived to represent Palestine. The event prompted a passerby to call the Division of Public Safety and Security, despite the gatherin...…
…In 2013, the AFDI sued King County, Washington, for refusing to post a bus advertisement titled “The Faces of Global Terrorism.” Another branch of the AFDI called “Stop Islamization of America,” had already been blocked from attempting to post similar advertisements a year earlier in New York City’s subway system. By 2015, the case was brought to the Ninth Circuit Federal Court of Appeals, where Muise and Yerushalmi claimed ...…
…Opinion The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com 4A — Wednesday, April 3, 2019 FINNTAN STORER Managing Editor Stanford Lipsey Student Publications Building 420 Maynard St. Ann Arbor, MI 48109 tothedaily@michigandaily.com Edited and managed by students at the University of Michigan since 1890. MAYA GOLDMAN Editor in Chief MAGDALENA MIHAYLOVA AND JOEL DANILEWITZ Editorial Page Editors Unsigned editorials reflect the official position of Th...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Arts Wednesday, April 3, 2019 — 5A About 20 minutes past the intended start time, we still stood outside the Michigan Theater’s screening room in claustrophobic gridlock. I realized I had no idea what I had gotten myself into. Welcome to the Ann Arbor Film Festival’s ‘Films in Competition 9: Animation.’ My editors and fellow film writers warned me, an AAFF first- timer, these films would be weird. Fou...…
…Classifieds Call: #734-418-4115 Email: dailydisplay@gmail.com By Kevin Christian and Jules Markey ©2019 Tribune Content Agency, LLC 04/03/19 Los Angeles Times Daily Crossword Puzzle Edited by Rich Norris and Joyce Nichols Lewis 04/03/19 ANSWER TO PREVIOUS PUZZLE: Release Date: Wednesday, April 3, 2019 ACROSS 1 Specially formed 6 Suffix with Jumbo 10 Outback 14 Avian crops 15 Disney film set in Polynesia 16 “Fancy meeting you here!” 1...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Sports Wednesday, April 3, 2019 — 7A Michigan’s leading goal scorer Will Lockwood returning for senior year Michigan’s leading goal scorer from the 2018-19 season will return for his senior year, a team spokesperson confirmed on Tuesday morning. Junior forward Will Lockwood was in discussion with the Vancouver Canucks to forego his senior year and join the professional ranks, but he electe...…
…8A — Wednesday, April 3, 2019 Sports The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Position review: Offensive line The Michigan football team’s most important addition for 2018 likely wasn’t a new recruit or even junior quarterback Shea Patterson. Instead, it was new offensive line coach Ed Warinner, hired to fix what was a major area of weakness in the Wolverines’ 8-5 season in 2017. While the beginning of the 2018 season made the much...…
…statement THE MICHIGAN DAILY | APRIL 3, 2019 ILLUSTRATION BY CHRISTINE JEGARL Alexis Rankin/Daily Repaint the wall, Annie Hall: Rethinking Ann Arbor’s bookstore mural …
…F or the past few months, my col- umn has covered hefty topics such as Facebook data breaches, Blackberry’s pivotal strategy and Bud Light’s false advertising. This week, I am switching things up and digging into the economics of something worth far more than the multibillion dollar bottom lines of corporations: joy. It’s been a while since many of us took Economics 101, but most remember the first fundamental pillar of microeco- nom...…
…Wednesday, April 3, 2019 // The Statement BY NADIA FINKEL, STATEMENT CONTRIBUTOR 3B Do you know your options? F rom the viral spread of the #MeToo movement to the brave testimony of Dr. Christine Bla- sey Ford, it’s not a secret that sexual violence is pervasive in our society. However, we are now living in a politi- cal and social climate where many sur- vivors of sexual violence are feeling a sense of empowerment to speak up ...…
…BY ERIN WHITE, SENIOR OPINION EDITOR Repaint the wall, Annie Hall: Rethinking Ann Arbor’s bookstore mural Wednesday, April 3. 2019 // The Statement 4B 5B Wednesday, April 3, 2019 // The Statement I have walked past the “Bookstore Mural” hundreds of times during my two years living in Ann Arbor. When- ever my errands drag me across the Diag, my heels instinctively turn the corner and put me onto the perpetually busy street of East ...…
…Wednesday, April 3, 2019// The Statement 6B L isa nearly dropped the plate she was cleaning when she heard a large truck door slam shut. It was the new neighbors at last. She opened her curtains wide, allowing sunshine to burn the dark, dustless countertops, and peered out of her kitchen window. They were a typical young family: a husband, a pregnant wife and a toddler in a stroller. They looked nice enough, but she couldn’t tell m...…
…Wednesday, January 16, 2019 // The Statement 7B Wednesday, April 3, 2019 // The Statement 7B Is the craft blog dead? T he first blog I ever read reli- giously was called “Mod Podge Rocks.” It was 2011 and I was a devoted decoupager. In fact, I was so devoted that my birthday wish list resembled the Pinterest board of a shab- by chic bride; all I wanted was mason jars, tissue paper, burlap, and buttons. I looked forward to the Sund...…
