…One Hundred and TwenTy Six yearS Of ediTOrial freedOm Thursday, July 27, 2017 Ann Arbor, MI Weekly Summer Edition MichiganDaily.com INDEX NEWS .................................... SUDOKU................................ OPINION ............................... ARTS ...................................... CLASSIFIEDS......................... SPORTS................................. 2 2 4 6 8 10 Vol. CXXVII, No. 78| © 2017 The Michigan Daily ...…
…“Gameful” learning applies video games’ design to online teaching systems By JENNIFER MEER Summer Managing News Editor Day Two of the Gameful Course Design Summer Institute took place Tuesday. Hosted by Academ- ic Innovation’s Gameful Learning Lab, the two-day event took place in the Michigan Union Kuenzel Room and saw approximately 40 attendees — primarily instructors and graduate student instructors from the University of Mic...…
…As Republicans “stray” from platform, Colbeck runs on promise of “principled solutions” By JENNIFER MEER Summer Managing News Editor On Saturday afternoon, over 200 Michigan residents gathered out- side the Yankee Air Museum in Bel- leville to support State Sen. Patrick Colbeck (R) at his official campaign- launch for the 2018 gubernatorial race. Colbeck graduated from the Uni- versity of Michigan with a degree in Aerospace E...…
…4 Thursday, July 27, 2017 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com OPINION NISA KHAN EDITOR IN CHIEF SARAH KHAN EDITORIAL PAGE EDITOR DAYTON HARE MANAGING EDITOR 420 Maynard St. Ann Arbor, MI 48109 tothedaily@michigandaily.com Edited and managed by students at the University of Michigan since 1890. Disabled and disavowed BILLY STAMPFL | OP-ED ANNA POLUMBO- LEVY Appreciate the small things A few weeks ago, in preparati...…
…L ast year, I voted for Sen. Bernie Sanders in the Michigan primary. I was also one of the nearly 7 million small-dollar contributors that fueled the Bern. However, his actions in recent months have had me asking: what’s up with Bernie Sanders? I supported Sanders because I liked that he ran without the backing of a billionaire-funded super PAC and his platform was rife with ideas and policies that I could get behind, like a...…
…6 Thursday, July 27, 2017 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com ARTS Christopher Nolan (“Interstellar”) has wedged himself between two starkly different subgenres of film: cerebral, understated thrillers and large-scale blockbusters. His earlier movies, like the masterful “Memento,” forgo grandiose special effects in favor of mind-bending plots, whereas his recent releases favor mind-bending cinematic techniques rather t...…
…7 Thursday, July 27, 2017 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com ARTS Columbia Records Tyler, the Creator awkwardly gazing Tyler gets serious What’s coming of age really about, anyway? Is it when you finally actualize that vision of “cool” you’ve had since you were 13? Is it supposed to happen right when you turn old enough to rent a car? Or maybe it’s when you realize that the only person thinking critically about your life is...…
…8 Thursday, July 27, 2017 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com NEWS Classifieds Call: #734-418-4115 Email: dailydisplay@gmail.com ACROSS 1 “Dawn of the Dead” (1978) director 7 Street, in Stuttgart 14 *Billboard entry 16 “S’pose so” 17 First of a film series about Damien Thorn 18 Cultural environments 19 Marines NCO 20 *Upright instrument in a bluegrass band 22 Head of Hollywood 24 Switchback feature 25 Bordeaux wine 28 Hankering 30 Mauna...…
…9 Thursday, July 27, 2017 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com MICHIGAN IN COLOR Immigant Sangreet By SAMIHA MATIN Michigan in Color Contributor The taxi driver asks where I’m from I reply Bangladesh And he finds comfort in it somehow. He doesn’t say my English is good Or why am I here? in a curious tone that fringes on people’s privacy. I am a little thankful. He tells me he’s from Nigeria. He asks whether I like the Michi...…
…Thursday, July 27, 2017 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com SPORTS 10 Wagner, Germany finish seventh at FIBA U-20 World Championships Last year, Moritz Wagner passed on the opportunity to represent his native Germany in the 2016 FIBA U-20 European Championship. Instead, he chose to spend the summer in Ann Arbor to continue to develop as a college basketball player, working with strength and conditioning coach Jon Sande...…
…11 Thursday, July 27, 2017 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com SPORTS Peters, O’Korn pushing Speight for starting quarterback job CHICAGO — Wilton Speight began and ended last season as the starting quarterback of the Michigan football team. And, objectively speaking, it was a pretty damn good debut. Speight, now a redshirt junior, threw for 2,538 yards and completed 62 percent of his passes, with 18 touchdowns and 7 int...…
…12 Thursday, July 27, 2017 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com SPORTS that class, very excited about them because everything they’re doing now they’ve already done, they’re doing for a second time. “And the amount of growth that you can have from doing something for the first time and then doing it the next time or the second time, can be the biggest leap they have their entire college year, going from fre...…
…ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY SIX YEARS OF EDITORIAL FREEDOM Thursday, July 20, 2017 Ann Arbor, MI Weekly Summer Edition MichiganDaily.com INDEX NEWS .................................... SUDOKU................................ OPINION ............................... ARTS ...................................... CLASSIFIEDS......................... SPORTS................................. 2 2 4 6 8 10 Vol. CXXVII, No. 78| © 2017 The Michigan Daily ...…
…Bautista received work permit in years following husband’s deportation By JENNIFER MEER Summer Managing News Editor On Tuesday evening, hundreds gathered to protest the deporta- tion of Lourdes Salazar Bautista — a local mother with three U.S.-born children — in Ann Arbor. The event began with a vigil at St. Mary’s Stu- dent Parish before marching to the Federal Building on Liberty Street. Bautista was born in Mexico but move...…
…3 Thursday, July 20, 2017 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com NEWS State lawmakers condemn GOP health care efforts, advocate for Planned Parenthood State senator Rebekah Warren warns against defunding women’s health initiatives By DYLAN LACROIX Summer Daily News Editor State Sen. Rebekah Warren (D– Ann Arbor) and state Rep. Ronnie Peterson (D–Ypsilanti) spoke at the Riverside Art Center in down- town Ypsilanti to over 40 p...…
…4 Thursday, July 20, 2017 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com OPINION NISA KHAN EDITOR IN CHIEF SARAH KHAN EDITORIAL PAGE EDITOR DAYTON HARE MANAGING EDITOR 420 Maynard St. Ann Arbor, MI 48109 tothedaily@michigandaily.com Edited and managed by students at the University of Michigan since 1890. Talley is special for her looks BRENNAN POPE | COLUMN STEPHANIE MULLINGS Unpopular opinion I pride myself on “keeping it rea...…
…H eadlining The New York Times, the morning of Nov. 9, 2016 read the unpredicted results of the presidential election: “Donald Trump Is Elected President in Stunning Repudiation of the Establishment.” For many U.S. citizens and pollsters, these results were shocking. How could someone who defied political correctness, who used abrasive language and who seemed so far away from a presidential standard be elected? Tho...…
…6 Thursday, July 20, 2017 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com ARTS 20th CENTURY FOX Maurice gazes with fear At first glance, “War for the Planet of the Apes” doesn’t resemble a modern war movie. Where most films of the genre trade in bloody action and bountiful shots of brawny men shouting at each other, the final chapter in the “Apes” reboot trilogy is quiet. Contemplative even. Entire sequences pass without a single word of...…
…7 Thursday, July 20, 2017 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com ARTS As children, the “entire world” can be a lot of things. For some, it’s the universe — every solar system in the galaxy. For others, it’s the planet Earth. For a few, it’s the small town, city or village in which they grew up. And for one, it’s a hermetically sealed bunker in the middle of a Californian desert. That one person is James Pope (Kyle Mooney, “Sa...…
…and by the end of his set, it was wholly apparent how he’s managed to remain so relevant — hit after hit, smile after smile, he is impossible not to appreciate. After “Move, Bitch” and “Get Back,” two of his rowdiest tracks, Ludacris left the stage for Tyler to claim. Finally, the crowd was ignited. With his new album Flower Boy (formerly Scum Fuck Flower Boy) due out later this week (it already leaked and had been heard by man...…
…The message of O.J. By JASON ROWLAND Michigan in Color Managing Editor I’m going to ask you three questions, and I need you to answer honestly. First, did you know that Black children are punished more often and more severe- ly than their white classmates? Second, that Black borrowers are much less likely to be granted a loan than their white counterparts with similar credit scores? And third, that employers prefer applicants with “white...…
…Thursday, July 20, 2017 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com NEWS Health care town hall in Plymouth gives voice to Michiganders’ fears over ramifications of possible repeal of Obamacare Nearly 200 people attended a town hall on health care Sunday morning in Plymouth, hoping to receive answers on how their care would change under the Better Care Reconciliation Act, the GOP plan to repeal and replace the Obama administrati...…
…11 Thursday, July 20, 2017 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com SPORTS Dakich to transfer to Ohio State The Michigan men’s basketball team has seen a graduate transfer to a rival Big Ten school in each of the last two seasons. Forward Max Bielfeldt transferred to Indiana in 2015, and guard Spike Albrecht played his final season of college basketball at Purdue last season. That streak will continue this season with ...…
…12 Thursday, July 20, 2017 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com SPORTS Harbaugh supportive of Malone-Hatcher’s decision The Wolverines experienced a recent — and unexpected — departure from the team when freshman defensive end Corey Malone-Hatcher announced July 4 that he would be medically retiring from football. In a statement posted to Twitter, Malone-Hatcher cited an arduous and longer- than-expected recovery fro...…
…MI officials and University professors speak on Russia Donald Trump Jr. tweets out proof of meeting with Russian official during campaign By JENNIFER MEER and NISA KHAN Summer Managing News Editor and Summer Editor in Cheif The Michigan Daily administered a survey to 1,000 randomly selected respondents at the University of Michigan campus. There were 135 respondents. The following article includes data collected in...…
…420 Maynard St. Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1327 www.michigandaily.com NISA KHAN Editor in Chief 734-418-4115 ext. 1251 nisakhan@michigandaily.com JUEUI HONG Business Manager 734-418-4115 ext. 1241 jueuih@michigandaily.com EDITORIAL STAFF Dayton Hare Managing Editor haredayt@michigandaily.com Jennifer Meer Managing News Editor news@michigandaily.com SENIOR NEWS EDITORS: Andrew Hiyama, Kaela Theut Sarah Khan Editorial Page Editor...…
…3 NEWS Thursday, July 13, 2017 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Democratic candidates for Michigan governor and U.S. representative speak at a campaign stop in Bloomfield Abdul El-Sayed, Haley Stevens discuss auto industry, public health issues By NISA KHAN Summer Editor in Chief A crowd of 50 gathered in the Bloomfield Township Public Library to hear from guberna- torial candidate Abdul El-Sayed and Haley Stevens, t...…
…4 Thursday, July 13, 2017 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com OPINION L ate one night when I was five years old, unable to sleep, I wandered out of my bedroom to find my mom watching TV in our living room. Despite her futile protests for me to go back to bed, I sat with her on the couch to see what she was watching. The grainy images from our TV were then quickly etched into my memory as I watched military planes taking off an...…
…5 OPINION Thursday, July 13, 2017 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com N early all last year, every time I would go on Facebook and scroll through my newsfeed, I would see dozens of articles I wanted to read. But as someone who is generally too busy for their own good, I often had to save articles for later. So, 99 percent of the time, I saved the link to the article in a note-taking app on my computer. Finally, this year,...…
…6 Thursday, July 13, 2017 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com ARTS SONY PICTURES Tom Holland stars as Spider-Man “Spider-Man: Homecoming” marks the second reboot of everyone’s favorite webslinger, this one within the Marvel Cinematic Universe in the aftermath of the dumpster-fire-inside-a-trainwreck that was 2014’s “The Amazing Spider-Man 2.” The efforts of Hollywood to get another strong Spider-franchise off the ground...…
…7 Thursday, July 13, 2017 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com ARTS An Interview with Festival Organizer Nick Mavodones Having been raised in Portland, Maine and having lived the bulk of his adult life in Burlington, Vermont, Nick Mavodones III is finally right where he belongs — or at least where I think he belongs — in Detroit, Michigan, as the general manager of up-and-coming venue El Club. Located in Mexicantown, El Cl...…
…8 Thursday, July 13, 2017 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com NEWS Classifieds Call: #734-418-4115 Email: dailydisplay@gmail.com ACROSS 1 Unit of heat energy 6 Like wild boar meat 10 Rock-in-pond sound 14 Bit part 15 Matty of baseball 16 Most Rembrandts 17 Arabian’s head covering? 19 “Concord Sonata” composer 20 Nevertheless 21 Cools quickly 22 Physicist Rutherford 24 Arequipa’s land 25 Pats dry 26 Mounting problem at Churchill Downs? 3...…
…I crossed the ocean twice just to become it. Vietnam was supposed to be this surreal, visceral, place of peace. Two months since, my soul is still roaring into its body. I think I like to get as dark as I can so that I can see my mother’s manual labor on my back. Chi tells me that Me is out of the hospital and that she is asking about when I am coming back. Christine says I should write for pages in Viet. I am at dinner with another ...…
…10 Thursday, July 13, 2017 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com SPORTS Thirteen Wolverines attend NHL camps From June 25 to July 12, 13 members of the Michigan hockey team attended 11 different NHL Development Camps. The camps are typically week-long events intended to simulate an actual NHL training camp for prospects, allowing them to gain valuable experience for a potential professional career in the future....…
…Michigan’s 2018 class taking shape In February, Jim Harbaugh and the Michigan football team inked one of the highest-ranked recruiting classes in team history. The coaching staff reeled in numerous top targets such as five-star prospects Donovan Peoples-Jones and Aubrey Solomon down the stretch to cement a class that 247Sports ranked as No. 5 in the nation. While Harbaugh and company may not sign a class as large...…
…12 Thursday, July 13, 2017 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com SPORTS Deron Irving-Bey over the span of a couple weeks. Similarly, most of Michigan’s top targets this year appear to be waiting to make their decisions after taking official visits in the fall. “Once the season hits, guys want to take their officials,” Lorenz said. “The elite guys, everyone is jockeying for position with those guys, so you’re going to see...…
…Disagreement over impact of gerrymandering in MI Voters see their voice as less effective, since the majority opinion isn’t fulfilled, may breed apathy By CARLY RYAN Daily Staff Reporter Eastern Michigan University junior Allen Maxson looked at a map of Michigan’s congressional districts and saw something “like a map of Europe in the middle of World War 2.” State Rep. Jeremy Moss (D–Southfield) saw “a squiggly mess.” And Way...…
…420 Maynard St. Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1327 www.michigandaily.com NISA KHAN Editor in Chief 734-418-4115 ext. 1251 nisakhan@michigandaily.com JUEUI HONG Business Manager 734-418-4115 ext. 1241 jueuih@michigandaily.com EDITORIAL STAFF Dayton Hare Managing Editor haredayt@michigandaily.com Jennifer Meer Managing News Editor news@michigandaily.com SENIOR NEWS EDITORS: Andrew Hiyama, Kaela Theut Sarah Khan Editorial Page Editor...…
…3 NEWS Thursday, July 6, 2017 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com University faculty member finds link between access to employer-provided health care and employee race, sex Almost every health condition could be impacted by access to health care, researcher says By KENNEDY WERNER Daily Staff Reporter New University of Michigan research find that employment leads to a higher life expectancy for white men. The study empha- s...…
…4 Thursday, July 6, 2017 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com OPINION T here is a scene in the biopic “Malcolm X” directed by Spike Lee that has always stuck with me in one of the most chilling and devastating ways possible. As Malcolm Little, soon to take the last name X, is beginning to adopt the teachings of Elijah Muhammad and the Nation of Islam, he is prompted by one of his mentors to define the words “white” and “bla...…
…5 OPINION Thursday, July 6, 2017 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com A lmost every day, we wake up, roll over in our beds and turn off our alarm*. Sometimes that is in a digital clock*, but knowing our generation, it is most likely a cellphone*. After tapping the screen*, we hop out of bed and turn on the light*. We may run to the restroom, and turn on the faucet* for a glass of water. After that, we might brush our teeth wit...…
…6 Thursday, July 6, 2017 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com ARTS TIDAL New album ‘4:44’ brings us back to ‘Lemonade’ Four-bar looped soul samples, oh how we’ve missed you. 4:44 opens with the dense, layered “Kill Jay-Z.” While a siren reminiscent of “Workinonit” recursively spaces in and out, Hov recounts shooting his brother, stabbing someone over album bootlegs and his intoxication with fame, among other things....…
…7 Thursday, July 6, 2017 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com ARTS TV REVIEW HBO ‘Silicon Valley’ ended its fourth season this past Sunday ‘Silicon’ Season Four finale bids goodbye to Bachman Finale pleases with comedy, disappoints in goodbye to Miller The success of any “Silicon Valley” episode has always started and ended with its characters. When the characters are connecting, the show’s jokes seem to build off of each other...…
…8 Thursday, July 6, 2017 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com NEWS Classifieds Call: #734-418-4115 Email: dailydisplay@gmail.com ACROSS 1 Many opera villains 6 Georgia __ 10 ’70s Israeli prime minister 14 Ration out 15 Antioxidant-rich fruit in smoothies 17 Some earrings 18 Celestial explosion 19 Midwestern pair 21 Japanese prime minister since 2012 22 Cold War weapons 26 Northeastern pair 33 Ready followers? 34 Jumper cable connection 3...…
…By CHRISTIAN PANEDA Michgian In Color Summer Managing Editor Founded in 2009, Pilipino American Unity for Progress is a national nonprofit orga- nizations that invests itself in engaging and empowering the Filipinx and FIlipinx Ameri- can community at large in the United States. UniPro was founded on the mission to pro- vide opportunities for Filipinx students in the United States to explore professional devel- opment, history and...…
…10 Thursday, July 6, 2017 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com OPINION D ear Mr. Carlson, I had not heard of you prior to the “Tucker Carlson Interview Request” I received to my work account last weekend (forgive me, Fox News wasn’t ever really my thing). And then I looked you up a bit. And read about you. And watched some of your videos. I reread the email: We’re looking to discuss the free speech bill that was proposed in...…
…11 Thursday, July 6, 2017 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com SPORTS By BETELHEM ASHAME Managing Sports Editor Less than nine weeks before the start of the 2017-18 season, the Michigan football team has lost one of its top incoming freshmen. Corey Malone-Hatcher, a for- mer four-star defensive end from Saint Joseph’s High School (Mich.), announced on Twitter on Tuesday that he is retiring from football. Malone-Hatcher, who e...…
…12 Thursday, July 6, 2017 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com SPORTS Walton, Irvin adjust to summer league competition By JACOB SHAMES Summer Managing Sports Editor Unlike D.J. Wilson, his former teammate on the Michigan men’s basketball team, Derrick Walton Jr. wasn’t projected to be draft- ed in the first round of the NBA Draft — or even in the second round, for that matter. Despite a collegiate career steeped in accomplish...…
