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…D ating tip: If you want to re- ally get to know someone, take a scroll through their TikTok “For You” page. From there, a stream of 15-second video and audio clips will teach you about the many little idiosyncrasies and bizarre interests you might need to know to move things along with that prospective special someone. I gave this a try recently, sheep- ishly offering my niche “For You” page tab for my date to peruse. Looking ov...…

…B ack in September, when the University of Michigan announced there would no longer be a spring break for students and faculty, I figured I would be fine. COVID-19 did not appear to be slowing down anytime soon and, with the semester concluding on April 30, I would benefit more from an extended summer than a week in March. All in all, it seemed to be a good deal. After the fall semester, I was drained. The transition fr...…

…7-Opinion A s a columnist for The Michigan Daily, I’m not supposed to discuss internal Daily issues in my work. However, the debate frequently reignited at our elections has arisen yet again, and I feel the dilemma is too important to keep from our readers. So, to our audience, I pose the question: Is it acceptable to urinate in the shower? Perhaps I will receive backlash for this position, but, nonetheless, I must remain loyal to...…

…For Isaiah Livers, time runs out Student-athletes continue to vie with the NCAA for rights Isaiah Livers stood on the bench in sweats, hands in his pockets and a long expression on his face. Michigan’s season was coming to its end and Livers could only watch helplessly as the waning moments of his collegiate career faded into the abyss. He dared to follow the arc of Franz Wagner’s last-second 3-point attempt, a heave that carri...…

…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Sports Wednesday, April 14, 2021 — 15 Gabby Wilson’s floor routine is an excellent encapsulation of who she is as both an athlete and an advocate. In her 90 seconds on the mat, Wilson dives into themes of race that would have been taboo to speak of, much less present in competition, as recently as a decade ago. And, all the while, she throws in powerful dance moves and athletically impressive ...…

…After eight innings, senior left-hander Meghan Beaubien stepped off the rubber. The biomedical engineering student walked off the field with her fifth collegiate complete game no-hitter, this time with an extra inning tacked on. The 2-1 credited win over Nebraska marked her 73rd as a Wolverine, surpassing Kelly Kovach for ninth-most in Michigan history. Beaubien’s work on the diamond was over for the day, but she still had work in t...…

…michigandaily.com Ann Arbor, Michigan Wednesday, April 7, 2021 ONE HUNDRED AND THIRTY YEARS OF EDITORIAL FREEDOM GOT A NEWS TIP? Call 734-418-4115 or e-mail news@michigandaily.com and let us know. INDEX Vol. CXXX, No. 27 ©2021 The Michigan Daily N E WS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 M I C . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 ARTS.............................6 STATEMENT...................9 OPIN...…

…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com News 2 — Wednesday, April 7, 2021 ANNA FUDER/Daily The famous murals along West Hubbard Street in Chicago’s West Loop neighborhood remind me of the famous graffiti alley on East Liberty Street, and both feel like home. The Michigan Daily (ISSN 0745-967) is publishing weekly on Wednesdays for the Winter 2021 semester by students at the University of Michigan. One copy is available free of charge to a...…

…Ann Arbor City Council convened virtually April 5 to discuss the development of an unarmed safety response team, support for the University of Michigan’s President’s Commission on Carbon Neutrality, an amendment to the housing rental period and a resolution to condemn anti-Asian hate crimes. The council discussed DC-3, a resolution that would task the city administrator with investigating different pathways for developing an un...…

…The first time I became aware of my body, I was 12 years old at an outdoor water park. I sat in an inflated tube, swaying back and forth in an obnoxiously loud wave pool with my sister and friends. It was a perfect day until it wasn’t. At one moment, my sister and friends had been taken elsewhere by the manufactured tide and I sat swaying along, enjoying the blazing sun on my face and the cool of the water on my feet. I was then ap...…

…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Michigan in Color Wednesday, April 7, 2021 — 5 U-M professors, Michigan public officials discuss roots of anti-Asian racism, but suggestions for what to do in the face of hate fall short Disclaimer: The author and Michigan in Color as a whole do not condone involvement of the carceral state or any perpetuation of criminalization. The solutions covered in this event are not solutions the author is...…

…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Arts 6 — Wednesday, April 7, 2021 A little over a week ago, news broke of the death of former Metropolitan Opera conductor James Levine. Reporters and critics across the classical music and opera worlds wrote long obituaries that interrogated Levine’s complicated legacy. The first item that most obituaries touched upon was Levine’s critical success as the conductor of the Met. He led the...…

…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Arts Wednesday, April 7, 2021 — 7 What first comes to mind when you hear the term SoundCloud rap? Perhaps you envision an immature group of teens with colorfully-dyed hair and face tattoos, rapping about prescription drugs. Maybe the term connotes a sense of rebelliousness that brings to mind exciting, unfiltered discoveries found on the internet. It could remind you of your own blunders and s...…

…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Arts 8 — Wednesday, April 7, 2021 Ann Arbor is never entirely quiet. But of the many sounds you hear drifting through the city, those of a band with a bossa nova feel often aren’t among them. And yet, on a slightly chilly Saturday afternoon, a group of around 40 people and I found ourselves masked up and spread out, sprawled all over Lawrence Street as a jazz/rock band played on the porch of...…

…L ike so many other universities around the world, the University of Michigan relied on its existing technological resources to design a dis- tanced education for the COVID-19 era. The pandemic certainly came as a sur- prise, though ultimately a widespread familiarity with the basic tools of email, course websites and video conferencing helped students and teachers adapt to a new normal. Online education in general, how- ever, is n...…

…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com 10 — Wednesday, April 7, 2021 statement Love everlasting: the relationships that color my identity W hen I left home for col- lege, my Bubbie — the Yid- dish term for grandmother — gifted me with a thin red bracelet to protect me from the harm of the evil eye. The tradition is rooted in the spiritual Jewish practice called Kab- balah, though the reasoning behind it is widely debated. Some beli...…

…I brainstorm new topics for Michigan Daily articles, like this one, from my bed in the apartment I moved into when the freshmen residence halls closed. I rest my computer on my lap, blank document open and waiting, and I lean back into the silence. Across from my bed is a window, and through it, as I write or ponder, I see the yel- low house next door. On clear evenings like tonight, the sunset compliments the friendly yel- l...…

…7-Opinion Opinion BRITTANY BOWMAN 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. CLAIRE HAO Editor in Chief ELIZABETH COOK AND JOEL WEINER Editorial Page Editors Unsigned editorials reflect the official position of The Daily’s Editorial Board. All other signed articles and il...…

…7-Opinion T his past week, there was a little drama in the race for New Mexico’s 1st Congressional District. Sheridan Lund, the precinct chair of the Democratic Party of Bernalillo County and candidate for the congressional seat, tweeted a now-deleted attack on one of the candidates. The charge being leveled was that Victor Reyes, a former top aide to New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham and one of the candidates for the congres...…

…2-News 14 — Wednesday, April 7, 2021 Opinion The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Online Event: Wednesday, March 31st, 2021 | 4:00 p.m. An online lecture. For more information, visit events.umich.edu/event/81873 or call 734.615.6667 IF THEY ONLY KNEW VINCENT HUTCHINGS Hanes Walton Jr. Collegiate Professor of Political Science and Afroamerican and African Studies Informing Blacks and Whites about the Racial Wealth Gap JOHN TU...…

…In four years at Michigan, Isaiah Livers has scored 987 points, collected 453 rebounds and assisted 110 baskets. In the process, he’s won 94 games, each one helping to earn the University hundreds of thousands of dollars from ticket sales, advertising revenue and TV deals. None of it has gone to Livers. “I just feel like I’m being used a lot,” Livers, who wore a shirt with the hashtag #NotNCAAProperty thr...…

…Michigan advances to National Championships with record tie Michigan goes 2-2 against Maryland, Northwestern Baserunning costs Michigan outs and runs Standing on the edge of the floor before her routine, junior Natalie Wojcik watched as her teammate’s score came in at a 9.950, securing the win for Michigan and advancing it to the NCAA Gymnastics Championships. However, Wojcik still saluted the judges, stepped out on the floo...…

…Third-year Medical student Paris Rollins was in the middle of clinical rotations at Henry Ford Hospital, working 9-hour shifts in the Emergency Medicine Department, when she found out that the University of Michigan’s Medical School would be pulling all students out of rotations. “I felt this dread in the pit of my stomach,” Rollins said. “(The announcement) felt unprecedented in what could happen next.” Two d...…

…2 — Tuesday, April 21, 2020 News The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com At a press conference Monday afternoon, Gov. Gretchen Whitmer announced the creation of a task force dedicated to addressing racial disparities in COVID-19 related deaths. 40 percent of reported coronavirus deaths in the state are Black residents, though Black people make up only 14 percent of the state’s total population. Whitmer said while statewide ...…

…Tuesday, April 21, 2020 — 3 News The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com FINANCE From Page 1 Read more at MichiganDaily.com “So what we’re able to do is educate the public about creative arts that are happening inside prisons.” In addition, students involved in PCAP organized correspondence to people who are incarcerated, among other forms of activism and engagement. Executive board members for PCAP also created a mutual ...…

…W hile many parts of the world are now experiencing emotional darkness and instability, Israeli occupied territory is uniquely vulnerable to a coronavirus outbreak. With only four hours of electricity available each day, the lights have been out in Gaza for 13 years. In 2007, Israel and Egypt imposed a land, air and sea blockade of the Gaza Strip after Hamas took control of the territory, leaving Gaza’s ap...…

…Tuesday, April 21, 2020 — 5 Arts The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com The funny thing is, oranges aren’t really even in season right now. Yet lately I can’t seem to get enough of them. My family has been buying sacks and sacks of oranges; I grab one every time I head out on a walk, the juice making my fingers freeze in the brisk Northeastern April air. Or I have one at 2 a.m., the orange residue working its way under my fing...…

…Tayarisha Poe’s debut feature film “Selah and the Spades” is an ancient, familiar story. It’s about legacy and vice. It’s about power — how you get it, how you keep it, how you lose it. It’s stylish and Shakespearean, featuring crime kingpins, bootleg rackets, snitches and plenty of stitches … but also prom, senior pranks and AP bio tests. As it so happens, “Selah and the Spades” is a mob movie wearing the clothes of your standa...…

…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com 7 — Tuesday, April 21, 2020 Sports ZAKYI, OSMAN From Page 8 Zakyi knows this easily could’ve been him. “I was one of the luckiest that went through and got selected,” he said. “I know there are a lot of talents back home that have so much potential. I know a lot of the guys that went through the tryouts, they all went back home and they go home to nothing. “That’s why it’ll always be ...…

…8 — Tuesday, April 21, 2020 Sports The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com From Ghana to Ann Arbor, Osman and Zakyi don’t forget their past The ball was often makeshift, a few paper bags knotted together or a pile of folded clothes tightly wound by rubber bands. The children kicked it around with their bare feet, the bottoms caked with dust and sand. The street was their pitch, and the kids scurried in and out of oncoming...…

…Since the University of Michigan moved classes online March 11, both students and professors have had to adjust. For professors with families, teaching classes virtually and maintaining research projects has created unique and unprecedented situations when combined with childcare. Meghan Duffy, a professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology who has three children under the age of 10, explained that th...…

…2 — Monday, April 20, 2020 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 $250 and year long subscriptions are $275. University affiliates are ...…

…The question of who will lead LSA SG comes down to code technicalities and a few social media posts. But for the four candidates awaiting the CSJ’s decision, they said in documents and interviews that the decision raises larger questions about power, politics, equal application of rules and free speech on campus. Who posted what and when? Forty minutes after the polls opened April 1, Bazzi sent two identical GroupMe m...…

…Observed by Muslims, the holy month of Ramadan sets forth a month of fasting, spiritual reflection and personal growth. Muslims are intrinsically joined together by group prayers, shared meals and charitable activities, propelling the meaning of Ramadan through connectedness. Exemplifying this connectedness is Dearborn, Mich., one of the largest Muslim communities in the U.S. Encapsulating the unique experience th...…

…A s of April 2020, we can all recognize that Michigan is in a state of turmoil. The protest against Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s stay-at-home decision in East Lansing, Mich. demonstrated the political unrest of some Michigan citizens. COVID- 19 has left our campus a ghost town. The fulfilling sense of community we once enjoyed dissipated beginning in mid- March. Not only are we facing unprecedented obstacles in co...…

…The Strokes are a transportive band, not just in the tongue-in-cheek nostalgia of their stylistic references, but in the way their music can fixate you in memories. Of course, the music we hear at one time in our lives inherently grounds itself in our memories of that time, but this fact could not be more personally applicable to Is This It, the band’s bittersweet debut album, released in 2001. Despite the youthful, incand...…

…7 — Friday, April 17, 2020 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Monday, April 20, 2020 - 7 Study abroad in a pandemic: a timeline MARCH 4 Cases in Spain rose to 228 with 76 in Madrid. It became a habit that everyone would reload the Spanish news websites live-reporting on the current number of cases in the city. Everything in our lives had become “wait and see” and the only concrete information that we could look at ...…

…8 — Monday, April 20, 2020 Multimedia The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com PHOTO ESSAY MARCH 8 202 cases in Madrid, 644 in Spain. Public transport danger became our major topic of con- versation along with the view of health care in the country. We had been told over and over about the difference in person- al space definition in Spain in comparison to the US, and at this point, it became a reason to suspect that Madrid ...…

…The Michigan Fashion Media Summit held its annual conference on Thursday via Zoom webinar. MFMS had rescheduled their original in-person event as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. The student-run group was set to host more than 650 people at the Ross School of Business featuring 16 speakers on March 20. Thursday afternoon’s webinar hosted Caroline Gogolak, vice president of retail at SoulCycle and co-founder of Carb...…

…studies departments at the University. Linh Song, board president of the Ann Arbor District Library, is the sole candidate for Ward 2, the seat currently held by Jane Lumm, I-Ward 2. In Ward 3, Travis Radina, an LGBTQ+ activist, Anthony Brown, the digital distribution manager at WDET and Evan Redmond, a targeting analyst are running for the seat currently held by Zachary Ackerman, D-Ward 3. Ackerman is not running for re-...…

…Friday, April 17, 2020 — 3 News The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com LAB From Page 1 CITY From Page 2 FASHION From Page 1 “It’s been an incredibly wild ride, especially during these crazy times the world is going through,” Gogolak said. “But I’m very grateful to be a part of their leadership team and to help the company through this.” Gogolak said adapting the company to the current situation is about communication. She sa...…

…A fter four hours of driving from my overnight stop in Des Moines, Iowa, I crossed the Big Muddy into my home state of Nebraska. The leafless gray trees paired with the overcast sky made the usually lush riverbank appear strikingly different from how I had always seen it driving to and from my mom’s apartment in Denver. The view was yet another change brought on by the coronavirus’s dizzyingly rapid transformation...…

…Friday, April 17, 2020 — 5 Arts The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com MUSIC BOX FILMS MUSIC REVIEW Given the current circumstances, the future for small music scenes like hardcore is uncertain. Gigs can’t be played and bands can’t be paid, so what are bands to do? Recorded releases give a band an audience, but records are expensive and don’t pay the bills; performances pay the bills, and now bands can’t perform, leaving them...…

…Friday, April 17, 2020 — 6 Arts The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Peter Kispert’s debut collection of short stories is linked together by characters who, in one way or another, lie to their loved ones. These lies are sometimes huge and elaborately maintained for months. The title story, for instance, is about a narrator who makes up a friend so that his boyfriend doesn’t think he’s lonely. When the narrator’s boyf...…

…7 — Friday, April 17, 2020 Sports The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Hold Manuel accountable for mishandling allegations Former Michigan wrestler Tad Deluca wanted a listening ear. He wanted to tell someone what had happened to him, and he wanted accountability. His coach at the time didn’t listen. His athletic director didn’t, either. Deluca was forced to watch as then-wrestling coach Bill Johan...…

…8 — Friday, April 17, 2020 Sports The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com ‘It doesn’t feel real’: ‘M’ Olympians adapting after postponement Maddy Steere was somewhere over the Indian Ocean when her world began to change. She thought she knew what the next five months would hold. For Steere and the rest of the Australian water polo team, those five months were carefully curated years in advance, every action and every ca...…

…On March 20, Acting Provost Susan Collins announced in an email that all undergraduate courses at the University of Michigan would be graded “Pass” or “No Record Covid,” with an option to withdraw from a course until April 21 without the course appearing on their transcript. Students will also have the option to unmask their grades by submitting a request by July 1. In light of the new policy change, many students told T...…

…2 — Thursday, April 16, 2020 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 $250 and year long subscriptions are $275. University affiliates ar...…

…“It already did in those two examples (of hospital and bus troubles), but we know that when people gather that way without masks — they were in close proximity, they were touching one another — that’s how COVID-19 spreads. The sad irony here is that the protest was that they don’t like being in this stay-home order and they may have just created a need to lengthen it, which is something that we’re trying to avoid at all...…

…G oing into the summer, for many of us, means even more changes in an increasingly turbulent pandemic. Coronavirus hotspots are shifting, and those who are left on campus will soon be returning to their hometowns, for better or worse. As Michigan continues to see increasingly deadly days, it is vital that we keep in mind the groups at highest risk, including LGBTQ+ people. Just about everyone is struggling in some for...…