…michigandaily.com Thursday, May 3, 2018 INDEX Vol. CXXVII, No. 115 | © 2018 The Michigan Daily michigandaily.com NEWS .................................... OPINION ............................... ARTS ...................................... MiC......................................... SPORTS................................ MICHIGAN IN COLOR MiC Contributor “Therse are all the things I would like to tell my moth- er someday.” >> SEE PA...…
…Sudoku Syndication http://sudokusyndication.com/sudoku/generator/print/ 1 of 1 9/22/08 2:54 PM 6 9 4 4 5 2 6 9 8 7 8 4 3 1 2 5 9 4 3 7 2 6 2 1 3 9 7 8 1 3 © sudokusolver.com. For personal use only. CLEAR SKIES puzzle by sudokusyndication.com 2 Thursday, May 3, 2018 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com NEWS Interactive mural piques AA interest Downtown winged artwork bolsters U-M social media presence By EL...…
…Sulfaro has since filed complaints with the University, MSU, MPSA and two other professional organizations. After filing the complaint with the University, Sulfaro said Elizabeth Seney, U-M deputy Title IX coordinator, contacted her but never followed up with her or her witnesses. University spokesman Rick Fitzgerald stated the University does not confirm nor deny the existence of the investigation against Jacoby by the Of...…
…4 Thursday, May 3, 2018 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com OPINION 420 Maynard St. Ann Arbor, MI 48109 tothedaily@michigandaily.com Edited and managed by students at the University of Michigan since 1890. W ith many people expecting Democrats to take back the U.S. House of Representatives — and even the Senate — in 2018, it is an opportune time to go over the way Democrats can continue to win and make gains going forward. ...…
…ALI SAFAWI | COLUMN N ame five major pieces of legislation passed by the U.S Congress under the current administration. Having trouble? That’s because this Congress, even though the Republican Party controls both houses and the presidency, is the least effective since the Civil War. While Washington, D.C. is para- lyzed, Lansing is very much in motion. Yet despite the power that state government has to change our everyday liv...…
…6 Thursday, May 3, 2018 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com ARTS ‘Handmaid’s’ is uneven, urgent When Margaret Atwood’s novel “The Handmaid’s Tale” was first pub- lished in 1985, America was in her Reagan years. A fervent, nascent reli- gious right, certain their politics were sanctioned by scripture, set forth to fundamentally reshape American public life. Last spring, Hulu’s TV adaptation of the novel debuted as the Moral Ma...…
…7 Thursday, May 3, 2018 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com ARTS How does one review a film like “Avengers: Infinity War?” To list the cast would take half the article. Describing the plot in any kind of detail would be viewed as a colossal spoiler. It’s not trying to sell itself to newcomers because, by now, the entire world likes superheroes. A movie this big, with this many characters, attempting to make good on ten years w...…
…8 Thursday, May 3, 2018 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com ARTS ACROSS 1 Liberty __ 5 Troublesome types 9 Cleaning tool 13 Any number 15 River through Florence 16 Natural analog of sonar 18 Toyota RAV4, e.g. 19 The best policy, so it’s said 20 VW Golf model 21 Fronded plant 23 Small cube? 25 Facebook __ 28 SDI weapon 31 Jazz singer Laine 32 Ones who have class? 35 Developing, biologically 36 Old General Motors model 43 Literary award wit...…
…9 Thursday, May 3, 2018 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com MICHIGAN IN COLOR On the Words I Can Never Tell My Mother There exists this word, or sentiment, in Vietnamese: “đau khổ.” Individually, the words translate to “pain” and “suffering”, yet together, they form something along the sense of an intense anguish that transcends any attempt at a linguistic description. It’s more than just the sum of both pain and suffering, b...…
…10 Thursday, May 3, 2018 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com SPORTS ‘M’ falls in Big Ten Tournament By BAILEY JOHNSON Daily Sports Writer Mattias Siimar was down 5-3 in the second set of his singles match, and the No. 3 seed Michigan men’s tennis team needed him to win to move ahead of No. 6 seed Wisconsin in the quarterfi- nals of the Big Ten Tournament. The freshman battled back and won four straight games on his way to a 6-4,...…
…Jesse Franklin’s incredible freshman turnaround By THEO MACKIE Daily Sports Writer Before the six home runs in nine games and before the back-to-back Big Ten Freshman of the Week awards, Jesse Franklin sat quietly in the dugout of Jet Blue Park in Fort Myers, Florida, waiting for a pass- ing thunderstorm to sub- side. He was coming off a disappointing junior year and needed to make the most of the summer show- case circuit to imp...…
…12 Thursday, May 3, 2018 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com SPORTS Patterson given immediate eligibility By MAX MARCOVITCH Daily Sports Editor The wait is over — and it’s just the news Michigan has been waiting for. Quarterback Shea Pat- terson will be eligible to suit up right away, providing a sizeable boost to the Wol- verines’ quarterback depth chart. He will have two more years of eligibility, after spending two seasons a...…
…michigandaily.com Thursday, May 10, 2018 INDEX Vol. CXXVII, No. 116 | © 2018 The Michigan Daily michigandaily.com NEWS .................................... OPINION ............................... ARTS ...................................... MiC......................................... SPORTS................................ MICHIGAN IN COLOR Defend DACA Immigrant protections are at risk under Donald Trump >> SEE PAGE 9 NEWS Racist list...…
…2 Thursday, May 10, 2018 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com NEWS Ann Arbor voters approve millage Citizens decide to increase school millage By ALICE TRACEY Summer Daily News Editor The vast majority of Ann Arbor voters Tuesday opted to increase the funds collected by public schools. The millage renewal proposed by the Ann Arbor Public Schools Board of Education passed with 76 percent in favor. A school millage rate is a decid...…
…“In the short term, we wouldn’t be necessarily replacing a mammogram; we would be trying to provide more information to the physician so that they could make better decisions from the results they would get from both this imaging and a mammogram,” Thurber said. “Long term, the idea would be to completely replace (mammograms) because there are many challenges with mammograms that we believe our approach can help overcome.” Providing ...…
…4 Thursday, May 10, 2018 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com OPINION 420 Maynard St. Ann Arbor, MI 48109 tothedaily@michigandaily.com Edited and managed by students at the University of Michigan since 1890. A s a student of political science and international studies at the University of Michigan, I have learned about human rights atrocities across the globe from the Rwandan Genocide to the Rohingya Crisis in Myanmar. In thes...…
…HANNAH HARSHE | COLUMN I ’m standing in the doorway of Shannon’s room. She’s sitting on her bed, her laptop on her lap with an episode of “New Girl” paused on the screen. We’re yelling at each other, over each other, really. Our voices are growing increasingly loud and angry, and people walking down the street outside our apartment are probably wondering whether we’re safe. For the record, yes, we’re safe, but I’m pissed a...…
…6 Thursday, May 10, 2018 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com ARTS ‘Tully’ is fresh Caitlyn Smith discusses her music career, album FILM REVIEW “This album was the end of a long, winding road.” MUSIC INTERVIEW When the next big thing is in front of you, you sit up and take notice. That’s the effect Cait- lyn Smith has on a room: She demands your undivided atten- tion. While she may not be a household name yet, her show at ...…
…7 Thursday, May 10, 2018 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com ARTS For a title as open-ended as “This is America,” one would assume Childish Gambino’s latest single would poignantly capture the racial tensions of the nation, using the Black experience as a vessel for artistic expression. For a listener completely unaware of the clandestinely corny wunderkind that is Donald Glover, they would perceive him to be a yet another (a...…
…8 Thursday, May 10, 2018 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com ARTS ACROSS 1 Bookie’s concern 5 Wedge-shaped bones 10 Elite Eight org. 14 Bygone depilatory brand 15 Cantilevered window 16 Panhandler’s income 17 Start of a business journey 19 Watery defense, perhaps 20 Hustle 21 First name in bike stunts 23 Phased-out Secret Service weapon 24 Way to get from 17- to 39-Across 29 Doce meses 30 Roll of bills 31 Woolly mammal 32 Seasonal song en...…
…9 Thursday, May 10, 2018 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com MICHIGAN IN COLOR Donald Trump, as always, broadcasts his political affairs and opinions on Twitter’s platform. On April 1, he tweeted: “Border Patrol Agents are not allowed to properly do their job at the Border because of ridiculous liberal (Dem- ocrat) laws like Catch & Release. Getting more dangerous. ‘Caravans’ coming. Republicans must go to Nuclear Opt...…
…10 Thursday,May 10, 2018 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com SPORTS Beaubien highlights All-Big Ten selections for ‘M’ In a season where the No. 16 Michigan softball team (18-3 Big Ten, 43-10 overall) reclaimed its spot atop the Big Ten standings, it’s only natural that the acco- lades have come pouring in. Four Wolverines were named to All Big-Ten teams Wednes- day, with freshman left-hander Meghan Beaubien — named Big Ten Pitche...…
…Salter brothers’ final face off For as different as the Michigan and Michigan State baseball teams are, on Wednesday they both had one thing in common: a Salter brother squatting behind home plate donning the num- ber 11 on the back of his jersey. In the non-conference rivalry con- test, the younger brother Harrison and his fellow Wolverines prevailed, as Michigan (14-3 Big Ten, 31-14 overall) trounced Michigan State (8-9, 17-26) 10-2...…
…12 Thursday, May 10, 2018 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com SPORTS Wolverines find glory on Senior Day against rival OSU Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. The essence of the American dream is chasing those ideals as well creating success and opportunity through hard work and dedication. So for the Wolverines, they were liv- ing the dream. On Saturday’s matchup against Ohio State, the No. 14 Michigan soft- ball team cele...…
…michigandaily.com Thursday, May 17, 2018 INDEX Vol. CXXVII, No. 117 | © 2018 The Michigan Daily michigandaily.com NEWS .................................... OPINION ............................... ARTS/NEWS ......................... MiC......................................... SPORTS................................ MICHIGAN IN COLOR I miss the old Kanye The rapper’s fall from grace a disappointment to many, >> SEE PAGE 9 NEWS Ford pr...…
…2 Thursday, May 17, 2018 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com NEWS SHMEDIUM, puzzle by sudokusyndication.com New Ford program funds collaboration Research and public policy program helps students engage with organizations By SAYALI AMIN Daily Staff Reporter Made possible by a $1.5 million gift from the Power Foundation, a new program for the University of Michigan will be housed in the Ford School of Public Policy to engage stu...…
…3 NEWS Thursday, May 17, 2018 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Twenty-six Wolverines named Fulbright Finalists Program funds international engagement By ROB DALKA For The Daily The University of Michigan boasts 19 students and seven alum- ni as finalists for the 2018-2019 Ful- bright Student Program. The Fulbright program was introduced in 1945 when Sen. J. William Fulbright presented a congressional bill that encour...…
…4 Thursday, May 17, 2018 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com OPINION 420 Maynard St. Ann Arbor, MI 48109 tothedaily@michigandaily.com Edited and managed by students at the University of Michigan since 1890. W omen have faced inequality for as long as we have had written history – especially when it comes to female athletes. Today, players on the U.S. Women’s Soccer Team – the No. 1 women’s soccer team in the world – get pai...…
…I ’ll have a second helping of that wonderful fish you got there, Miss Julia.” A man who claims to be named William Shakespeare addresses me with familiarity. He’s a regular at Food Gatherers on West Huron Street, as are many locals who volunteer their time and serve dinner to those who can’t find it elsewhere. “You know I’m from the Caribbean. This meal tastes like home to me.” As I scoop a little extra fish onto the plate of ric...…
…6 Thursday, May 17, 2018 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com ARTS FESTIVAL COVERAGE CANNES INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL Cannes: ‘Leto’ Cannes: ‘Sorry Angel’ delves into the heart FESTIVAL COVERAGE I should have taken French in school. I opted for Spanish, as responsible kids often do in California, for it promised to be more useful. However, I now find myself in the south of France — having miraculously schemed my way into the...…
…7 Thursday, May 17, 2018 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com ARTS The watch list for any academic film course almost always rounds out to something like: a Chaplain comedy, some Technicolor musical, four impenetrable foreign films, two other silent-era juggernauts and Citizen Kane. Which is fine — in order to begin to form an understanding of how cinema has developed and grown and evolved in the past hundred years, it’s absolut...…
…8 Thursday, May 17, 2018 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com ARTS/NEWS 1014 VAUGHN AVAIL Fall 2018 #1 is being rented by the room for $700/m including utilities If you have a group of 5, rent the whole unit for $3100 plus Electric to DTE #2 is a 6 Bdrm for $3720 plus Electric to DTE • 734‑996‑1991 1015 PACKARD 4 Bdrm Apt Avail Fall 2018 2 parking space, onsite laundry, 1st floor $2830 + Electric to DTE • 734‑996‑1991 422 HAMILTON 2 &...…
…9 Thursday, May 17, 2018 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com MICHIGAN IN COLOR I miss the old Kanye As my Black Twitter time- line blew up with Bill Cosby memes and “now this” videos about yet another act of violence against someone Black, my heart dropped to see Kanye West. I had recently seen a picture of him wearing a MAGA hat posing with two other politicians and I feared for anything he might say to make things wo...…
…10 Thursday, May 17, 2018 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com SPORTS Defense critical in success for ‘M’ With one out and a runner on sec- ond in the 10th inning Sunday after- noon, junior center fielder Jonathan Engelmann gathered a flyball on one hop off the wall and fired a perfect throw into relay man Jack Blomgren who then delivered a strike to cut down the potential go-ahead run at the plate. Blomgren exhibited elite range ...…
…Jesse Franklin’s incredible freshman turnaround For the most part, John Morning- star knew what was about to happen. The softball coach was sitting in a suite at a Toledo Mud Hens minor league baseball game with some friends and co-workers watching the Detroit Tigers on a TV at the back of the suite. Detroit was batting with less than two outs and a runner on first, so he figured that the Tigers would try and advance the man on base s...…
…12 Thursday, May 17, 2018 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com SPORTS Five years later, Trey Burke discovers a new beginning Trey Burke lined up across from Corey Person with only winning on his mind. This wasn’t a practice drill between the two guards — Burke a sophomore on his way to winning National Player of the Year, Person a walk-on in his senior year. Nor was it a pickup game after practice. It wasn’t even on a basketbal...…
…michigandaily.com Thursday, May 24, 2018 INDEX Vol. CXXVII, No. 118 | © 2018 The Michigan Daily michigandaily.com NEWS .................................... OPINION ............................... ARTS/NEWS ......................... MiC......................................... SPORTS................................ MICHIGAN IN COLOR Morning Alarm “My people are famous.” Though news of life in Syria seems far away, it’s closer to ho...…
…2 Thursday, May 24, 2018 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com NEWS LEO calls for a close in campus wage gap Dearborn and Flint push for higher wages By ALICE TRACEY Summer Daily News Editor Steven Toth, a chemistry lecturer at the University of Michigan-Flint, loves to teach. According to Toth, his teaching experience at U-M Flint has been incredible, and he enjoys working with students and faculty there. But Toth is considering...…
…3 NEWS Thursday, May 24, 2018 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com “Training for surgery” Michigan Medicine works with patients to prepare for surgery By SAYALI AMIN Daily Staff Reporter For the past five years, the Michigan Surgical and Health Optimization Program at Mich- igan Medicine has been work- ing with patients undergoing large operations, such as can- cer surgeries or transplants, to help them better prepare for ...…
…4 Thursday, May 24, 2018 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com OPINION 420 Maynard St. Ann Arbor, MI 48109 tothedaily@michigandaily.com Edited and managed by students at the University of Michigan since 1890. I ’m several weeks into my first spring semester at University of Michigan, and I still can’t believe it’s actually happening. My mind can’t juxtapose the warm weather and greenery with the formerly bitter atmosphere surrou...…
…I t’s 7:45 a.m. We’re walking down East Liberty Street. I have two rakes in my hand, and Shannon, my roommate, has a drawstring bag on her back that holds a spade, a fork, a hoe and a pair of shears. We’re excited, if not a little bit sheepish, about the adventure that lies ahead of us. I learned early on in my time at the University of Michigan that “wasting time,” which is broadly defined as “doing something that you aren...…
…6 Thursday, May 24, 2018 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com ARTS MOM + POP MUSIC Charly Bliss tour ends with gusto Courtney Barnett asks for sincerity in ‘Tell Me’ COMMUNITY CULTURE REVIEW Courtney Barnett’s second album begins: “Y’know what they say / No one’s born to hate / We learn it somewhere along the way.” Paraphrased from Nelson Mandela, that line from the opener “Hopefulessness” sets the tone for the rest of Tell M...…
…7 Thursday, May 24, 2018 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com ARTS Few recent shows have caused as much controversy and sparked as many discussions as Netflix’s adaption of Jay Asher’s 2007 novel “13 Reasons Why.” It tackles a variety of topics from depression and sexual assault to bullying, while drawing criticism for what some believe to be its graphic depiction of traumatic events and glamorization of topics like su...…
…8 Thursday, May 24, 2018 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com ARTS 1014 VAUGHN AVAIL Fall 2018 #1 is being rented by the room for $700/m including utilities If you have a group of 5, rent the whole unit for $3100 plus Electric to DTE #2 is a 6 Bdrm for $3720 plus Electric to DTE • 734‑996‑1991 1015 PACKARD 4 Bdrm Apt Avail Fall 2018 2 parking space, onsite laundry, 1st floor $2830 + Electric to DTE • 734‑996‑1991 422 HAMILTON 2 & 3 B...…
…9 Thursday, May 24, 2018 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com MICHIGAN IN COLOR Morning Alarm My people are famous. You see them every day on the news- whether they are being evacuated, bombed, chemically attacked, or drowned. If you have not guessed yet, I am Syr- ian. On the day of the Trump attack on Syria, we call my uncle to make sure that every- thing is all right. As he tells us everything is fine, we can hea...…
…10 Thursday, May 24, 2018 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com SPORTS Fahey exits in first round of NCAA Just a couple weeks after the Michigan women’s ten- nis team ended its season, Kate Fahey was back on the court. But this time, the junior wasn’t compet- ing for the team, she was competing for herself. “It’s kind of different going from seeing your five teammates around you to looking at random players around you,” Fahey sa...…
…It’s a play the Michigan baseball team (15-8 Big Ten, 33-19 overall) is all too familiar with. The Wolverines were batting in the bottom of the frame in extra innings with bases loaded and the game on the line. A player stepped up and delivered a sacrifice fly to deep right field allowing the runner at third to score the win- ning run. Michigan then mobbed the hitter who smacked the walk-off fly out. It’s how the Wolverines do...…
…12 Thursday, May 24, 2018 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com SPORTS The end of the road Call it a collapse. Maybe that’s what it was. Losing four out of your last five games — the fifth by squandering a one-run lead in the sixth inning of an elimination con- test — certainly qualifies. But maybe the end for the Michi- gan softball team was less of a collapse and more of an inevitability, a train barreling out of control with noth- ...…
…michigandaily.com Thursday, May 31, 2018 INDEX Vol. CXXVII, No. 118 | © 2018 The Michigan Daily michigandaily.com NEWS .................................... OPINION ............................... ARTS/NEWS ......................... MiC......................................... SPORTS................................ MICHIGAN IN COLOR Real Representation “It’s hard to be a strong woman. Even harder to be a strong Black woman.” >> SEE...…
…2 Thursday, May 31, 2018 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com NEWS U-M responds to free speech lawsuit ‘U’ argues programs and policies are misrepresented By RACHEL CUNNINGHAM Summer Daily News Editor Amid a federal lawsuit filed by the organization Speech First against the University of Michigan’s Bias Response Team, the University has responded, claiming the lawsuit has mischaracterized University policies and programs. Spee...…
