…A couple of years ago, my friends decided to start getting into “League of Legends.” If that doesn’t make you throw up in your mouth a little bit, it should. I held out for about a month, refusing to join them. Eventually, the frustration of being excluded from conversations because of game communications taking priority over everything else got to me. I became the worst possible thing you could ever live to see yourself becomin...…
…S T A T E M E N T The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Wednesday, April 19, 2023 — 7 The Journal of Psychiatric Research asserts that 2.82% of 18 to 29 year olds have a skin picking disorder, which makes skin picking most prevalent among college-age students. By my count, as someone with a skin picking disorder, I’m about one in 35. That’s maybe someone in your first-year writing class. Or your two hour computer science lab. Or...…
…If you had asked me what I wanted most in life just one year ago, I would have buoyantly responded with: a book deal and a successful writing career. As my aptitude for setting professional goals stretches back even further — a circled “1500” signaling my goal SAT score, a nine-page recount of a leadership development conference I went to when I was 17 and a crisply flattened picture of me and my mom after we toured Vanderbilt...…
…On July 13, 2019, Halle Bailey was announced as Ariel in the live-action retelling of “The Little Mermaid”. For many, this was cause for celebration. Black Twit- ter met the announcement with a sea of unbridled support. Fans of the alternative sister duo, Chloe x Halle, rejoiced. For we know, Halle has a voice that a certain sea witch couldn’t help but be envious of. Wide-eyed Black girls uttering “Mommy, she looks just like me” st...…
…T he University of Michigan recently announced that it has received Bee Campus Certification from Bee Campus USA, which recognized our campus for establishing pollinator habitats, creating nest sites and reducing pesticides. While these are laudable achievements, the fact remains: We need to do more. The prospects for insect life, and by extension our wellbeing, are bleak. Traditionally composing half of all animal biomass...…
…I sat in the Michigan Union one snowy Wednesday morning, looking out on the picket line. After months of unproductive talks with the University of Michigan, the Graduate Employees’ Organization finally gave up on negotiations in favor of a strike. You’ve probably heard union members chanting as you walk down State Street: “No contract, no grades!” or “What’s disgusting? Union busting!” You may have even been accosted on ...…
…Opinion Don’t cross the picket line The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com 10 — Wednesday, April 19, 2023 T his year, Ivy League universities received a whopping 311,948 applications. Of that overwhelming number, only 21,168 lucky students received a decision letter starting with “Congratulations!” This shouldn’t come as a surprise. With acceptance rates ranging from 3% to 8%, the odds aren’t exactly in your favor. ...…
…When Lauren Derkowski threw a no-hitter in the Michi- gan softball team’s win against Purdue on Friday it wasn’t all that shocking. Amid the sopho- more right-hander’s breakout season and continual progres- sion, she seemed certain to throw a no-no at some point. But with a second no-hitter on Saturday, Derkowski proved that she had evolved into a truly elite pitcher. After pitching just 44.2 innings last year, Derkows- ki entere...…
…It’s important to say “hello” before you can say “goodbye.” My friends and I like to go back and look at our introduc- tory emails we sent before becoming Daily Sports Writ- ers. Mostly, they make us laugh, reading through the awkward, all-too-formal interactions. But they also hold fragments of the people we once were and, for better or worse, fragments of a person we’d never become. Here’s mine: from: Nicholas Stoll nkstoll@ umich.e...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Wednesday, April 19, 2023 — 15 Michigan drops two of three games in wild weekend series at Rutgers JOSHUA BROWN Daily Sports Writer When junior left-hander Connor O’Halloran gave up four runs before recording a single out in Friday’s series opener at Rutgers, it was clear that the Michigan baseball team was in for a hectic weekend. After massive momentum swings like a weather delay, Michi- g...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com 16 — Wednesday, April 19, 2023 Achievement in the Arts Awards The Arts at Michigan and the Arts Initiative are pleased to present the Accolades Awards, recognizing outstanding achievements by student organizations in the arts. Awards were decided by public vote in a range of different categories. Congratulations to the 2022-2023 Accolades Awards winners! LITERARY ARTS PUBLICATION DESIGN ALTERN...…
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…University of Michigan President Mark Schlissel has been fired effective immediately following an internal investigation revealing Schlissel’s inappropriate behavior with a subordinate at the University, according to a Saturday press release from the Board of Regents. The decision was made at a closed- door Board of Regents meeting Saturday morning without a public vote after the board hired a third party investi...…
…Since Oct. 8, survivors of late University of Michigan athletic doctor Robert Anderson have been camping outside of University President Mark Schlissel’s house in protest against the University’s handling of the nearly 1,000 indi- viduals who have come forward with sexual assault allegations against Anderson. Over the past few months, survivors have appeared in front of the Board of Regents, rallied students and community members a...…
…The basement in my childhood home was equipped with a Magnavox box TV, a GameCube and a PlayStation 2. The furniture was old, and the basement was prone to flooding, but it didn’t matter so long as my older brother and I had the TV and at least one console. Before the days of homework and exams, my brother and I would spend every day after school in the basement: He would sit on the ottoman in front of the television while I cu...…
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…I remember staring blankly at the ceiling and contemplating my emotions before falling asleep in middle school. Falling in love for the first time was overwhelming, especially with five popstars. As the months went by and my love grew stronger, my posters began to creep up my walls, mysteri- ously making their way into my line of vision. Eventually my ceil- ing was covered in One Direction posters. And I’m not ashamed one bit. Harry...…
…A senior in college is reclining on his front porch in the gray spring light of Ann Arbor. He’s trying to make sense of it all. He says: The tuition was $50,000 a year, frontloading on classes to wrap it up in three years, that’s $150,000. Plus food and housing, which totaled about $900 a month, that’s $180,000, but I’d have needed to eat regardless, so maybe only $170,000. Eighteen hours a week of classes, assuming I’d attended t...…
…The first time I ever had to carry grief that did not belong to me was the day I began to report on survivors of former University of Michigan Athletics doctor Robert Anderson. Over a span of 37 years, more than 950 victims reported thousands of incidents of sexual abuse and misconduct at the hands of Anderson, remaining as likely the most sexual abuse allegations against a single person in United States history. There is an untol...…
…The home my family and I have forged and nurtured is a remnant of our histories. When I was a kid, my parents chastised me when I spoke English in the house, told me the occasional ancient Korean myth during story time, fed me jjigae and banchan, and when I grew older, taught me about our past, especially Korea’s turbulent and oppressive 20th century (including the dictatorship, coup and military regime they grew up under). They e...…
…To whatever poor, tortured soul occupies this apartment next, You will earnestly swing open the heavy front door, gleaming with a streaky coat of clinical, blueish-purpleish-greyish paint, and you will smell mold. You’ll learn to grow accustomed to the scent — no obscene amount of Febreze or air freshener plugs will ever succeed in masking it — but it will make you flinch upon entry. Unfortunately, this will be only the beginning...…
…T he University of Michigan’s reopening has been fraught with challenges and has met much criticism from faculty, students and Ann Arbor residents alike. Messaging from upper administration and University President Mark Schlissel throughout the summer months leading up to reopening has been remarkably inconsistent. From saying that the assertion that students won’t follow safety protocol is “offensive” to analogizing stud...…
…L ast week’s shooting near Indianapolis marked the sixth straight week containing a mass shooting. We see the same cycle after every one. Thoughts and prayers are followed by Democrats generally calling for reform and Republicans generally accusing the former of politicizing personal injury. Then a few weeks later, we all stop talking about it and move on to something else we try and care about for a bit. It seems as though ever...…
…All University of Michigan athletics will be paused for two weeks starting Sunday, Jan. 24 in accordance with a recommendation from the state health department according to messages obtained by The Daily and confirmed by a source close to the athletic department. The order, which halts all athletic activity including practice, is limited exclusively to U-M athletics after a recent influx of positive cases within several Michigan...…
…For 3,653 days — long, arduous, hollow days — the Michigan football program lived in the shadows of its unremitting failures against Ohio State. There won’t be a 3,654th day. At long last, that futile streak is over. After eight consecutive bitter losses to the Buckeyes, the Wolverines emerged from The Game victorious. No. 5 Michigan (11-1 overall, 8-1 Big Ten) shocked No. 2 Ohio State (10-2, 8-1), 42-27, clinching the Big Ten...…
…INDIANAPOLIS — Nobody took Jim Harbaugh and Aidan Hutchinson seriously back in July. Yet there they were, sitting behind a podium at Lucas Oil Stadium during Big Ten Media Days, insisting the Michigan football team was ready to take the next step. Asked about beating Ohio State and reaching the Big Ten Championship Game, Harbaugh said the Wolverines would “get there or die trying.” Hutchinson, too, affirmed his willingness t...…
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