…7 Thursday, June 1, 2017 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com ARTS ‘Pirates 5’ drowns By IAN DAVID HARRIS Daily Arts Writer There was a time when a new “Pirates of the Carib- bean” movie was a cause for excitement. That time has long since passed. “Dead Men Tell No Tales,” the fifth (and hopefully final) entry in the Johnny Depp (“Mordecai”) led franchise is quite possibly the worst one yet. Picking up approximately fi...…
…8 Thursday, June 1, 2017 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com NEWS ACROSS 1 Wines that can be white or red 7 Greetings 10 Lighthouse view 13 Widely recognized 14 Sleep on it 16 Immediate caregiver, briefly 17 Highlighted publication part 19 “All Things Considered” airer 20 Mongrel 21 Brest bestie 22 Howe of hockey 24 Singer DiFranco 25 Halves of some master-servant relationships 27 Little pitchers have big ones, per an old maxim 28 Pioneer...…
…9 Thursday, June 1, 2017 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com MICHIGAN IN COLOR just a word. To me, a name is much more than just a name. My own name represents the connection I have to Indian culture. I can use it as proof that I actually am, in fact, half-Indian. If I were to mispro- nounce my own name — like you mispronounce yours — my con- nection to the culture I care most about would be severed. It doesn’t work the same way ...…
…10 Thursday, June 1, 2017 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com SPORTS Jacob Shames: What happened? BASEBALL The longest game in Big Ten Tournament history — a 13-inning epic between Michigan and Indiana — had just concluded. The triumphant team entered the post- game press conference to revisit the previous four hours and 28 minutes. “We’re almost better with our backs against the wall,” said the player who had delivered th...…
…11 Thursday, June 1, 2017 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com SPORTS Previewing Michigan’s opponents in the Chapel Hill Regional JACOB SHAMES Summer Managing Sports Editor After its winningest regular season since 2008, the Michigan baseball team qualified for its second NCAA Tournament under coach Erik Bakich, and first since 2015. This time, though, the Wolverines had to sweat things out. Two years ago, Michigan qua...…
…BASEBALL ‘M’ earns NCAA berth JACOB SHAMES Summer Managing Sports Editor The Michigan baseball team is going dancing. After the Wolverines went 42-15 during the regular season — their most successful regular season since 2008 — they were selected for the NCAA Tournament, receiving a No. 3 seed in the Chapel Hill regional, hosted by No. 2 national seed North Carolina. Despite a top-20 ranking for most of the season, Michigan’s...…
…One Hundred and TwenTy Five years OF ediTOrial FreedOm Thursday, June 30, 2016 Ann Arbor, MI Weekly Summer Edition MichiganDaily.com INDEX NEWS ................................... OPINION .............................. ARTS ..................................... CLASSIFIEDS......................... SUDOKU................................ SPORTS................................ ARTS Cameron Crowe’s ‘Roadies’ fizzles Writer-director’s look ...…
…2 Thursday, June 30, 2016 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com NEWS 420 Maynard St. Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1327 www.michigandaily.com LARA MOEHLMAN Editor in Chief 734-418-4115 ext. 1251 larakm@michigandaily.com EMILY RICHNER Business Manager 734-418-4115 ext. 1241 errich@michigandaily.com EDITORIAL STAFF Bradley Whipple Managing Editor bmwhip@michigandaily.com Lydia Murray Managing News Editor news@michigandaily.com S...…
…3 Thursday, June 30, 2016 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com NEWS “Ban the Box” may lead to increases in discrimination Reps. criticize congressional inaction on gun regulations ALLISON FARRAND/Daily Congresswoman Debbie Dingell (MI–12) speaks with local entrepreneurs for Start-Up Day Across America at the Ann Arbor SPARK Central Business Incubator on August 20th, 2015. Study shows Black applicants had fewer callbacks after ...…
…I ntimate partner violence is an issue that has long been kept in the shadows of law and media; it wasn’t until 1994 that the Violence Against Women Act was passed, and it was discussed as only a public health concern as late as the ‘70s. Only then did shelters for abused women begin to open in the United States, and laws were passed to protect the rights of abused women and children. Though well-meaning, these laws an...…
…I used to be able to sit down and read, uninterrupted, for hours. Same with movies and award shows — I would intently observe, connect with the material and try my hardest to remember why I liked it so I could tell my friends later. As I began to become more and more captivated by social media and technology, this ability waned. I found myself anxious to tweet my thoughts during a live television event, Snapchat the be...…
…6 Thursday, June 30, 2016 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com ARTS TV REVIEW ‘Lobster’ absurd By SOPHIA KAUFMAN Daily Arts Writer Single guests staying at the hotel depicted in “The Lobster” have three options: They can try to find a life part- ner within 45 days, run away to the city and try to survive as a part of a sham relationship or on their own, or live as Lon- ers in the forest. The second two options are ...…
…7 Thursday, June 30, 2016 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com ARTS Desiigner silences his naysayers — for now MUSIC REVIEW “New England” fails to prove Desiigner has staying power By ANAY KATYAL Summer Senior Arts Editor For a man whose life has changed so drastically since Feb- ruary, Desiigner has managed to keep himself from glorious- ly crashing and burning off of the hype- machine cliff. Congratula- tions are in ord...…
…consistently maintain its spot in the top 10? Many aspects of College of Engineering’s success Engineering Dean David Munson said there are many aspects of the College of Engineering that allow it to maintain its rankings and consistently receive funding year after year. “We have grown a little bit each year in my time as dean,” Munson said. “We’ve hired really exceptional faculty members and, especially during th...…
…a gunman killed 49 people and injured 53 other victims at a gay nightclub. “Not so long ago, Equality Michigan probably wouldn’t have been at this table,” he said. “LGBT individuals are most likely to be victims of hate crimes.” Daniel Edinger, a gun owner who attended the panel, said he the discussion did not allow for alternative ideas and only repeated the same senitments. “I disagree that anything presented here was a ...…
…10 Thursday, June 30, 2016 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com SPORTS A look at the Michigan football recruiting class of 2017 By ORION SANG Summer Managing Sports Editor Jim Harbaugh and the rest of the Michigan football coaching staff are near the end of a month-long satellite camp tour that has taken them across the United States and to international locales such as Australia and American Samoa. The presumable cause: to hel...…
…11 Thursday, June 30, 2016 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com SPORTS Dipping down south Considering their geographic locations, it would be silly to say that Michigan’s much-talked about satellite camps haven’t affected three-star safety commit J’Marick Woods and four-star defensive tackle commit Aubrey Solomon. But while the camps did indirectly help Michigan with both — perhaps more so with Solomon, whose high scho...…
…Steinberg accepted job offer at Arizona State nine days earlier By ETHAN WOLFE Summer Managing Sports Editor The search for a new Michigan men’s tennis coach was quick and painless. In fact, there wasn’t much of a search at all. Nine days after it was announced that Adam Steinberg would resign as the head coach to take the same position at Arizona State, he notified the Sun Devils’ athletic department that...…
…One Hundred and TwenTy Five years OF ediTOrial FreedOm Thursday, June 23, 2016 Ann Arbor, MI Weekly Summer Edition MichiganDaily.com INDEX NEWS ................................... OPINION .............................. ARTS ..................................... CLASSIFIEDS......................... SUDOKU................................ SPORTS................................ SPORTS Glasgow ready to return to gridiron He will be crucial to...…
…2 Thursday, June 23, 2016 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com NEWS SUDOKU MEDIUM 9 5 7 2 2 1 4 6 4 6 5 3 7 9 2 5 6 2 1 5 9 7 6 8 1 2 © sudokusolver.com. For personal use only. Generate and solve Sudoku, Super Sudoku and Godoku puzzles at sudokusyndication.com! Sudoku Syndication http://sudokusyndication.com/sudoku/generator/print/ 1 of 1 3/30/09 10:03 AM Puzzle by sudokusyndication.com WATERMELON POPSICLE Engineering...…
…3 Thursday, June 23, 2016 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com NEWS likely to unintentionally overdose on heroin — with an average age of overdose of 32 — while unintentional prescription opioid overdoses were more common among older white women, with an average age of 51. There is no discernible set of risk factors — such as socioeconomic status, parental occupation or a familial history of drug use — that can be tied to the r...…
…F ather’s Day always sneaks up on me. I’ll be studying or watching TV, and all of a sudden an ad will appear, always saying something like “Here’s the best gift you can get for your dad” or something. The pang that always comes along with seeing stuff father-related doesn’t sting as much as it once did — I’m usually able to move on with my day without any issue. I’ve learned that this type of pain isn’t going away, but I...…
…I ’m a firm believer that relationships of all kinds — be it platonic, sexual, romantic, familial, etc. — take work, as I’m sure most other people are. Someone recently told me, “You don’t seem like the kind of person who’d waste time doing something they’re not good at.” They’re right. It’s why I don’t play basketball or try to be a model with my 4-foot-11- inch stature. It’s why my subpar mathematical abilitie...…
…6 Thursday, June 23, 2016 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com ARTS TV REVIEW ‘Finding Dory’ a swimming hit By ANA LUCENA Daily Arts Writer Watching “Finding Dory” was an early sign that I’m getting old at the oh-so mature age of 19. However, the fact that it cap- tured my imagi- nation 13 years after watching the original is a testament to how strong and enduring Pixar’s brand and sto- rytelling is. The audience had a w...…
…7 Thursday, June 23, 2016 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com ARTS Top Four Games of E3 VIDEO GAMES COLUMN E 3 is a strange beast. It’s often been called the “Super Bowl” of the video game industry. Though it certainly has the commercial- ism to match America’s big- gest sporting event, I’d be more compelled to compare it to the Detroit Auto Show — another tradition of American capitalism, a future-embrac- ing technolo...…
…Engineering than females. Of the total undergraduate students enrolled as of last fall, 3,307 were white, 1,002 were Asian, 296 were Hispanic and only 138 were Black, according to the Office of the Registrar Ethnicity Report. “In a lot of ways, ethnic diversity is a bigger problem than gender diversity,” Fedewa said. In an already white-male- dominated field — despite the increase of Science, Technology, Engineering and Ma...…
…9 Thursday, June 23, 2016 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com NEWS the reason for the tuition increase. Regent Denise Ilitch (D) called out state officials for this lack of prioritization of higher education, pointing to how funding on an individual basis for prisoners is higher than that of students within the state. “The state of Michigan spends roughly 25 percent more on prisons than on education,” she said. “The state of...…
…10 Thursday, June 23, 2016 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com SPORTS After season-ending injury, Glasgow ready to make return By ORION SANG Summer Managing Sports Editor Ryan Glasgow remembers the exact moment he tore his pectoral muscle. The fifth-year senior defensive tackle was chasing down Rutgers quarterback Chris Laviano when his hand got stuck in Laviano’s helmet. The quarterback went one way, Glasgow went the othe...…
…Beilein talks transfers, scheduling Michigan’s non- conference schedule is complete for the 2016-2017 season By ORION SANG Summer Managing Sports Editor It has been an offseason rife with change for the Michigan men’s basketball team. Assistant coaches Lavall Jordan and Bacari Alexander left to take the head coaching jobs at Wisconsin- Milwaukee and Detroit, respectively, while forwards Kam Chatman and Ricky ...…
…12 Thursday, June 23, 2016 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com SPORTS Inside Jim Harbaugh’s camp By ORION SANG Summer Managing Sports Editor If you were to walk by Al Glick Field House or any of its outdoor fields Saturday afternoon, there’s a good chance you wouldn’t have had any idea what was going on. There were moments when dozens of high school football players were running around shirtless playing soccer. There w...…
…INDEX Vol. CXXIV, No. 120 | © 2016 The Michigan Daily michigandaily.com NEWS ..................................... OPINION ................................ ARTS ....................................... CLASSIFIEDS.......................... SUDOKU................................. SPORTS.................................. NEWS Policing the police AAPD Chief questions city council recommendations for civilian oversight >> SEE PAGE 2 O...…
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…3 Thursday, June 16, 2016 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com NEWS Local Sanders supporters remain divided in support of nominee By LYDIA MURRAY Summer Managing News Editor Following the Associated Press’ announcement of Hillary Clinton’s securing of the Democratic nomi- nation for president and the fur- ther affirmation of her place as the presumptive nominee after a series of key victories in Tuesday’s pri- maries, suppor...…
…My throat was as dry as my feet were sore. I wedged my way upstairs through sweaty dancing bodies and walked into the room of a guy I considered a friend. I was just going to grab water and that’s when he grabbed me. He clasped his arm tightly around my waist and pulled me toward his bed, attempting to lock the door behind me. I was close enough to smell the alcohol on his breath and hear his soft slurred plea, “Come on.” That’...…
…I attended my sister’s high school graduation on Sunday, June 12, and listened to speeches on hope and positive societal change in a crowd filled with many about to begin their adult lives. In the same 24 hours, the United States suffered its largest mass shooting in history with a homophobic hate crime resulting in the loss of 50 lives and the injury of 53 others at the Pulse, a gay nightclub in Orlando that was f...…
…6 Thursday, June 16, 2016 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com ARTS TV REVIEW ‘Love’ in the Arb By MERIN MCDIVITT Daily Arts Writer Nichols Arboretum is always teeming with visitors during the summer — among them are picnick- ers camped out near the Huron River, tanners stretched out on sun-bleached towels and kay- akers trying, and failing, to avoid the boul- der everyone seems to get stuck on. On weekend eve- ...…
…7 Thursday, June 16, 2016 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com ARTS Bey’s lively ‘Formation’ CONCERT REVIEW By ADAM THEISEN Managing Arts Editor As I took my seat Tuesday night for Beyoncé’s Formation Tour at Ford Field, my mind jumped to the movie “2001: A Space Odyssey.” Dominating the stage before Bey graced it with her presence was an enormous, bright rectangle that nearly reached the football stadium’s ceiling. It re...…
…ACROSS 1 Alpine racing obstacle 5 Whisks 10 Thought- provoking 14 Arkin of “Argo” 15 Prenatal test, for short 16 Former “Fashion Emergency” host 17 Bug 20 Industrial Revolution power source 21 Kilt wearer’s refusal 22 Destructive insect 23 Bering Sea port 25 Invigorates 26 Bug 31 Cocoon and Posturepedic 32 Parks in American history 33 Cuba libre ingredient 36 Confident 37 Flags down 39 Cuba libre ingredient 40 Decorates with Angel Soft, briefl...…
…9 Thursday, June 16, 2016 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com NEWS “We must continue to stand against violence and stand together as members of communities, as allies and as people affected directly or indirectly by this senseless act of vio- lence,” she wrote. “We are, of course, all affected by this tragedy, often in different ways. We know that many members of our own community share the multiple identities with those direct...…
…10 Thursday, June 16, 2016 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com SPORTS Steinberg resigns as men’s tennis coach By ETHAN WOLFE Summer Managing Sports Editor Just two years after getting hired as the Michigan men’s tennis coach, Adam Steinberg resigned Wednesday to become the new head coach at Arizona State. “We appreciate everything Adam and his family did for Michigan and the men’s tennis program over the last...…
…Ferlic wins championship in 3,000-meter steeplechase By MIKE PERSAK Daily Sports Writer Mason Ferlic landed awk- wardly in the final water pit of the 3,000-meter steeplechase at the NCAA Outdoor Championships in Eugene, Ore., on Friday. All of his momentum had been lost, and the fifth-year senior distance runner knew that he would have to get it back quickly in order to keep his lead and win the national champi- onship. At lea...…
…12 Thursday, June 16, 2016 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Women’s track and field places 20th at NCAA Outdoor Championships By MATTHEW KENNEDY Daily Sports Writer Competing at its final meet of the season, the Michigan women’s track and field team had four athletes earn All-American honors on its way to a top-20 finish. Despite the strong performance, though, not all of the races went as well as planned. Five Wolverines...…
…One Hundred and TwenTy Five years OF ediTOrial FreedOm Thursday, June 9, 2016 Ann Arbor, MI Weekly Summer Edition MichiganDaily.com INDEX NEWS .................................... OPINION ............................... ARTS ...................................... CLASSIFIEDS......................... SUDOKU................................ SPORTS................................10 NEWS Disclosure of train project raises ire City councilme...…
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…3 Thursday, June 9, 2016 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com NEWS See AMTRAK, Page 9 Resolution to disclose Amtrak station study fails in narrow vote City councilmembers criticize lack of project transparency regarding internal report By BRIAN KUANG Daily Summer News Editor The proposed Ann Arbor Amtrak station — which has been long-delayed — came under fire for an alleged lack of transparency from City Council members ...…
…Recently, the University has made a show of support for survivors of sexual assault. Michigan is one of 200 colleges in the United States taking part in the “It’s on Us” campaign — launched by the White House in September 2014 in an effort to end sexual violence on college campuses — and, this past winter semester, it rolled out a newer and more thorough sexual misconduct policy. Unfortunately for the University, these steps fo...…
…The controversial six-month sentencing for Stanford swimmer Brock Turner and the language used by the defendant and the judge have revealed the societal indifference toward rape. In this case, and in current culture in general, there is a dismissal of the credibility of the survivor by questioning whether the survivor’s actions may have provoked or enabled the attack. While these questions are common, they are...…
…6 Thursday, June 9, 2016 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com ARTS Governors Ball brings music and thrills MUSIC FESTIVAL REVIEW Festival features both talent and disappointment By NATALIE ZAK Daily Community Culture Editor NEW YORK, N.Y. — It was the best of times, it was the worst of times — it was a music festival scheduled for three days that only stretched to two. There was music and laughter, giddiness and excitement, b...…
…Strokes’ latest a no-frills record Band returns with much of the same in new EP By MATT GALLATIN Daily Arts Writer For all the traditionalism and tropes that define The Strokes — taut guitars, catchy chords, and an over-the- top rock ‘n’ roll attitude — they too have been a sort of experiment for a new interaction between artists, the public, labels and critics. The explosion of the group in 2001 was propelled...…
…8 Thursday, June 9, 2016 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com NEWS ACROSS 1 Teeth setting 5 Parts of gigs 9 Golf club part 14 Parrier’s tool 15 Rent-a-car choice 16 African city that hosts an annual international film festival 17 Lacks being 18 *Steinbeck novel set in Monterey 20 “Homeland” airer, briefly 21 GPS options 22 Stick homes 23 *Starter 27 “__ the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown” 29 Stumped 30 Viennese “a” 31 Ale serving 32 “Git!” ...…
