…3 NEWS Thursday, July 26, 2018 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Admissions drops ACT and SAT writing U-M seeks to reduce costs for applicants By GRACE KAY Summer Managing News Editor Following the lead of uni- versities such as Harvard, Yale, Princeton and Stanford, the Uni- versity of Michigan will no longer require students to complete the optional writing component of the SAT or ACT when the Univer- sity’s application goe...…
…With regard to June’s widely publicized and widely criticized, summit with North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un, President Donald Trump had this to say about his totalitarian counterpart: “I made a deal with him; I shook hands with him. I really believe he means it.” Beyond the narcissistic bluster of such a statement, made in the aftermath of a “deal” that saw the United States trade regional military presence for nothing more...…
…AUDREY GILMOUR | COLUMN D uring October of my freshman year of college, my father bought me a pink can of pepper spray to keep with me at all times. Starting college in 2015, everyone was talking about sexual assault. The statistics were circling, nearly a quarter of women attending college would be sexually assaulted. Across the country, young women were stepping up and sharing stories about the ways their bodies had be...…
…6 Thursday, July 26, 2018 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com ARTS Cloudy, ominous weather wel- comed me to Pitchfork Music Fes- tival this year, and bracing myself for the worst I strapped up in a raincoat and boots for the first day of the fest. But what was originally daunting proved simply unreliable. The weather circled through cloud, rain and shine all weekend while artists dealt with wet equipment and herds of fans waiting ...…
…7 Thursday, July 26, 2018 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com ARTS “Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again” Rave Cinemas, Quality 16 Legendary Entertainment If it were possible to distill joy into liquid form and inject it directly into the vein, it still wouldn’t be as potent or infec- tious a high as “Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again.” Stuffed to the brim with beau- tiful people, colors, happy songs and bright emotions, the sequel to t...…
…8 Thursday, July 26, 2018 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com ARTS ROBERT MANSUETTI Summer Senior Arts Editor The Internet is the hardest band to be a fan of for one simple reason. Not because their music is problematic, not because they make questionable career choices, but because of two simple words: their name. What’s in a name? A lot of social faux pas apparently. On more than one occasion I have mindlessly asked a friend “...…
…9 Thursday July 26, 2018 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com MICHIGAN IN COLOR Eating goes beyond taste Summertime, when the livin’ is easy. The perfect description of my time in Trinidad for a week of warm air, freshly picked mangoes and curried chicken. Adding in the wedding festivities with steel drums beating in the background of a barbeque where the twinkle lights hung low from the pink house whose warm yellow lig...…
…10 Thursday, July 26, 2018 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com SPORTS In the wake of the International Champions Cup showdown between Manchester United and Liverpool, the casual American sports fan may be at a loss as to what to look for. As familiar as the venue might be — Michigan Stadium — the unfolding events may not be as welcoming. To make you seem like you know what you’re talking about on Saturday, the Dai...…
…11 Thursday, July 26, 2018 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com SPORTS Two soccer titans matchup at ‘M’ Manchester United and Liverpool, the two most successful English football clubs, are set to play each other this Saturday at Michigan Stadium. With a combined 38 league titles and eight Champions League crowns between them, the significance of the derby can’t be understated. It’s only fitting that America’s largest sta...…
…John Beilein’s contract extension, announced by the University on Wednesday, will see the men’s basketball coach paid $3.8 million annually. The extension, which will keep Beilein in Ann Arbor through the 2022-23 season, amounts to a raise of roughly $400,000 per season. This maintains Beilein as the second-highest-paid coach based on annual salary in the Big Ten behind Michigan State’s Tom Izzo. It comes just weeks after Beil...…
…michigandaily.com Thursday, July 5, 2018 INDEX Vol. CXXVII, No. 122| © 2018 The Michigan Daily michigandaily.com NEWS .................................... OPINION ............................... ARTS/NEWS.......................... MiC......................................... SPORTS................................ MICHIGAN IN COLOR Ignorance isn’t the right choice “I had forgotten saying something is not always as easy as you think.”...…
…2 Thursday, July 5, 2018 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com NEWS Police task force addresses brutality Citizens identify policy issues around police violence By RACHEL CUNNINGHAM Summer Daily News Editor The city of Ann Arbor held a Police Task Force meeting Thursday evening to discuss and suggest revisions of the policy regarding the Ann Arbor Police Review Board. City Council had finalized the creation of a task force in M...…
…3 NEWS Thursday, July 5, 2018 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com U-M awarded for campus health and safety efforts National org commends work against sex assault, alcohol abuse By ROB DALKA Daily Staff Reporter The University of Michigan was awarded two Prevention Excellence Awards by the Campus Prevention Network in recognition of the Uni- versity’s efforts in sexual assault and alcohol abuse prevention. The annual meeting w...…
…4 Thursday, July 5, 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. Y ou know that episode of “Barbie: Life in the Dreamhouse” where Malibu has a glitter shortage and all hell breaks loose because Barbie is supposed to attend a Hollywood premiere that night and she doesn’t want her fans...…
…JULIA MONTAG | COLUMN N ewton’s third law of motion states every action has an equal and opposite reaction. It implies forces always exist in pairs. For example, if you attempt to push a car uphill in neutral, you can feel it pushing back against you with the same force in the opposite direction. Ever jump off a pool raft? I bet as you lurched forward, the raft recoiled backwards. Action, reaction. President Donald Trump, ...…
…6 Thursday, July 5, 2018 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com ARTS Heaven and Earth Kamasi Washington Young Turks Read more at MichiganDaily.com Jazz can be a little confusing. Since its roots in the early 1920s, listeners’s definitions of jazz have since changed drastically. Known as one of the only true original Ameri- can artforms, its ever expanding characteristics and development of subgenres are truly daunting. This mi...…
…7 Thursday, July 5, 2018 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com ARTS Harry Styles is staring at me, and his eyes are bright green, wide open and beautiful. He’s kneeling down to come closer and his gaze is a straight shot directly down the center of the camera lens, piercing right through the screen to meet mine. “I’ve got a fire for a heart,” he says in a low clear voice, as if the nearly 800 million people watching didn’t alread...…
…8 Thursday, July 5, 2018 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com 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 3 Bdrm Apt Avail Fall 2018 2 parking space, onsite laundry, 1st floor $2250 + $120/month for electric to DTE Call 734‑996‑1991 CE...…
…9 Thursday July 5, 2018 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com MICHIGAN IN COLOR The problem with supporting Kanye West Coming back home for the summer after being away at college is quite an interesting experience. You realize not much has changed and almost everything is the way you left it, yet inside, you feel like you have transformed so greatly within such a short time that you sort of stick out like a sore thumb among t...…
…10 Thursday, July 5, 2018 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com SPORTS On Friday, there was an airplane hovering somewhere over the Midwest. This is not a shocking revelation, but what was in that plane makes the story intriguing. Sitting inside was 285- pound wrestler Adam Coon, a recently-minted Michigan alum who had just qualified for the Senior World Wrestling Team — a glorious position paired with elite company. For any ot...…
…11 Thursday, July 5, 2018 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com SPORTS FILE PHOTO / DAILY The Michigan field hockey team looks to continue its success from a year ago where it advanced to the Final Four Season Preview: ‘M’ Field Hockey When then-junior forward Emma Way tipped a pass between the legs of Northwestern goalkeeper Annie Kalfa on Nov. 12 — completing a hat trick — it all but sealed the Wolverines’ 18th win in a row....…
…In the past few days, Michigan recruiting has continued its rampage on the recruiting trail and added another four elite talents to its 2019 and 2020 recruiting classes. It all began on July 1st with the commitment from four-star running back Eric Gray — the nation’s top-ranked all- purpose back. Picking Michigan over Alabama, Penn State, Texas A&M and others, Gray looks to become a lethal weapon in Wolverine coach Jim Harba...…
…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...…
