…Former President Bill Clinton joined United Auto Workers union members and others for the annual Detroit Labor Day Parade Monday morning aiming to demonstrate the Hillary Clinton campaign’s commitment to working families. The parade began at 9:30 a.m. and marched down Michigan Avenue. Bill Clinton marched, but did not speak during the event which drew thousands of union workers and other prominent state Demo...…
…Starting at the beginning of classes Tuesday, the University of Michigan’s two-year-long transition to Canvas was complete — drawing mixed reactions from faculty over the process and implementation, and overall positive impressions from students. Canvas is an online learning management system that includes features such as assignments, grades and discussion boards. Moving forward, it will be the class platfo...…
…The University of Michigan’s chapter of College Democrats kicked off one of its weekly voter registration drives Wednesday with a special appearance from actor Sean Astin, best known for his role as Sam in Lord of the Rings. Astin spoke to students and community members about campaigning at ground-level events. He also discussed his experiences with Hillary Clinton who he’s known since 1992, calling her one of the...…
…As part of the University of Michigan’s Complex Systems Seminar Series, LSA Dean Andrew Martin spoke Thursday afternoon at West Hall about the “Martin- Quinn” scores, a measurement of the liberal or conservative ideologies of U.S. Supreme Court justices, which Martin researched and developed with Kevin Quinn from the University of California at Berkeley’s School of Law in 2002. Martin and Quinn’s model encompasses ev...…
…On August 4, Nadine Jawad, a Ford junior at the University of Michigan, received a text on the lawn of Magdalen’s campus at the University of Oxford, holding her phone in one hand and playing with a piece of grass in the other. “God, my phone is blowing up because of that stabbing,” she said. “It’s like, I’m fine, mom.” The incident happened earlier that day in London, a city an hour and a half from Oxford by bus. The perpetra...…
…Acclaimed author Peter Kornbluh, an Ann Arbor native, advocated for open negotiations between the U.S. and the Cuban government with several anecdotes about secret meetings and spies at Literati Bookstore Monday evening. Kornbluh spoke to promote his new book, “Back Channel to Cuba: The Hidden History of Negotiations between Washington and Havana,” which he co-wrote with William LeoGrande, professor of governmen...…
…Author Malcolm Gladwell’s lecture on the risks and realities of entrepreneurship Tuesday drew an audience large enough to fill Hill Auditorium. The talk, which explored the careers of scientist Emil Freireich who helped invent modern chemotherapy; Steve Jobs, who founded Apple; and Ingvar Kamprad, who founded IKEA, was part of The Joseph and Sally Handleman Lecture Series hosted by the Ross School of Business. Gladwell chall...…
…Higher education reform has been a hot topic this election season — particularly for Democrats. As opponents in the Democratic primary, now-Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton and Sen. Bernie Sanders (D–VT) lauded their two separate proposals of debt- free and tuition-free college, respectively. Several states already offer free college plans at certain institutions including Maryland, New York, Col...…
…Joe Palca, an award-winning science correspondent from National Public Radio, visited the University of Michigan Thursday afternoon to give a talk titled “Communicating Science for Fun and Profit” at West Hall. The talk focused on how to better communicate science with the general public. Palca, who has worked for NPR since 1992, has covered a large range of science news, such as the new genome editing technology and...…
…The University of Michigan Central Student Government hosted its third sober tailgate Saturday on Elbel Field in an attempt to prevent alcohol- related incidents during late- starting football games. The event was coordinated by LSA sophomore Grant Rivas, CSG’s chief programming officer, who said student safety is the first consideration with a 3:30 p.m. kick off time like the Michigan vs. Colorado game. “We as a university s...…
…While the population in Detroit has fallen over recent decades, the Muslim community in the Detroit area has grown, in part due to the influx of refugees. Sally Howell, director of the Center for Arab American studies and associate professor of history at the University of Michigan- Dearborn, spoke on the long, rooted history of Muslim communities in Detroit at her lecture Monday evening. “I noticed in 2010 that if you lo...…
…The University of Michigan’s Spectrum Center and the Office of Multi-Ethnic Student Affairs hosted their second collaborative open house Tuesday to spread awareness about their activities and services for new students on campus. Program organizers Abby Chien, MESA program manager, and Mark Chung Kwan Fan, assistant director for the Spectrum Center, said they’ve started to realize more of the intersections of the two p...…
…Two lawsuits have been filed in the past month over an alleged sexual assault at a University of Michigan fraternity party in January 2016. The first lawsuit, from a now-former male University student, was filed against several employees of the University of Michigan for wrongfully causing the student leave the University following the alleged assault, according to court documents. “The Appeals Board applied an un...…
…At the University of Michigan Alumni Center Thursday evening, about 80 students, alumni and members of the Ann Arbor community attended the first event of this year’s LatinX Heritage Month celebrations. Sponsored by prominent Latino campus organizations and alumni, the event featured speakers who outlined inclusivity goals and stressed the importance of breaking down institutionalized borders for their on-campus ...…
…While various praises and concerns were voiced by faculty at the fourth and final LSA Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion plan’s feedback forum last Friday evening, most of the night’s attention was on the lack of faculty in attendance. The large MLB Auditorium was mostly empty with about 40 LSA faculty were present. Liz Cole, associate dean for social sciences, led the forum as she had the previous three by guiding the audience ...…
…Ann Arbor residents emphasized several concerns with the city’s plans for a new Amtrak station during two public meetings Monday evening. The city hosted the public meetings to discuss the recently released Alternatives Analysis Report, which suggested four possible sites for the new train station — three of which reside on Depot Street and the fourth on Fuller Road. The locations were chosen based on several criteri...…
…Though the first presidential debate drew wide interest on campus Monday night, that interest may not necessarily have equated to any changes in voter preference, according to a Michigan Daily poll conducted directly after the debate. As part of an ongoing initiative to better gauge the campus political climate, The Michigan Daily sent out a poll to 1,500 students and received 302 responses. Eighty-one percent of resp...…
…According to a recent Michigan Daily poll of a sample of students, support for Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton on campus is high, at almost 75 percent. However, the poll also indicated that nearly 20 percent of respondents plan to vote outside of the two major parties, preferring third-party candidates. Among the third party candidates, Liberterian nominee Gary Johnson, who polled at 13.2...…
…Jewish Family Services of Washtenaw County expects to have resettled about 163 refugees in the county by the conclusion of its fiscal year this fall, nearly doubling its previous year’s caseload, and plans to do so again in the coming year. In a March interview with the Daily, JFS administrators said their resettlement target was still in the 80-person range. However, an uptick in the number of refugees the Obama admin...…
