…10 Thursday,August 6, 2015 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com SPORTS Breaking down the men’s soccer roster LUNA ANNA ARCHEY/Daily Senior forward and team captain James Murphy will lead the team after a disappointing 2014 season. By KEVIN SANTO Daily Sports Editor The Michigan men’s soccer team’s season opener is just 12 days away, and with the Wolver- ines’ matchup against Butler on the horizon. The Daily takes a look at the ...…
…11 Thursday, August 6, 2015 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com SPORTS Interim AD Hackett talks student experience at games By MAX BULTMAN Daily Sports Editor CHICAGO — When Jim Hack- ett played football at Michigan, he remembers looking into the student section, wondering what it would be like to spend a game day there. Now, as Michigan’s interim athletic director, Hackett is work- ing to improve the experience for those wh...…
…12 Thursday, August 6, 2015 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com SPORTS Michigan coach steals show in Chicago before season begins By MAX COHEN Managing Sports Editor CHICAGO — Jim Harbaugh raised his arms, as if celebrating a touchdown, when he headed toward the exit of the Hyatt Regency McCormick Place on Friday evening. He had just completed an entire day as the center of attention at Big Ten Media Days. Harbaugh’s afte...…
…Thursday, July 30, 2015 Ann Arbor, MI Weekly Summer Edition MichiganDaily.com INDEX Vol. CXXIV, No. 115 | © 2015 The Michigan Daily michigandaily.com NEWS .................................... OPINION ............................... ARTS ...................................... CLASSIFIEDS......................... CROSSWORD........................ SPORTS.................................. NEWS Naval Scholarship Engineering student will ...…
…420 Maynard St. Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1327 www.michigandaily.com EMMA KERR Editor in Chief 734-418-4115 ext. 1251 emkerr@michigandaily.com MADISEN POWELL Business Manager 734-418-4115 ext. 1241 madisenm@michigandaily.com EDITORIAL STAFF Derek Wolfe Managing Editor dewolfe@michigandaily.com LARA MOEHLMAN Managing News Editor larakm@michigandaily.com SENIOR NEWS EDITORS: Lea Giotto, Colleen Harrison Melissa Scholke Editorial...…
…protecting the city’s environ- ment. James D’Amour, political chair of the Sierra Club, Huron Valley Group, said the three candidates support the environmental causes they value. “These candidates have been con- sistent in their policies and standing up for fundamental values we are looking for,” he said. D’Amour also commended Kun- selman for being “steadfast in the protection of our parks.” Running against Kunselman is Zacha...…
…S haista Kazmi, a Michigan local, was taking care of her elderly mother-in-law and father when she realized that she could use some help. How- ever, when she called local senior service agencies, she realized there was a problem: the services being provided didn’t meet their cultural needs. Kazmi took initiative to found the company Apna Ghar, Urdu for “Your Home,” which provides homec- are services catered to th...…
…B ack when I used to be not happy, I constantly held within myself a great unease. On campus, the sun-emoji seemed to shine on every person’s keyboard except that of my own cracked, glass perimeter. None of my food emojis looked very appetizing, not even the shish-kabob with the three unidentified blobs of color poked high upon its pointy, wooden spear. The former joy I received from the alien emoji, in what seems like an...…
…‘I Am Cait’ docu-series, practical and powerful TV REVIEW After her Vanity Fair debut, viewers see Caitlyn Jenner By CAROLINE FILIPS Summer Senior Arts Editor “I just hope I get it right,” she says. It’s no makeup o’clock, but she doesn’t mind. She has a story to tell, a mes- sage to share and the voice of an unjustly margin- alized commu- nity to broadcast. It’s 4:32 in the morning, and she can’t help but lame...…
…7 Thursday, July 30, 2015 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com ARTS Actor Alan Ruck talks career & ‘Major Crimes’ ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’ cast member guest stars on TNT By REGAN DETWILER Daily Arts Writer Alan Ruck … you might not know the name but you may know the voice, and you definitely know the face. Ruck is best known for his role in the iconic John Hughes film, “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off,” as Cameron, Bueller’s exi...…
…8 Thursday, July 30, 2015 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com NEWS ACROSS 1 Each 5 Subtly cruel 10 Stock items: Abbr. 14 Couch potato’s aid 15 Bizarre 16 Severely damaged sea 17 “Think you can manage?” 19 Beatle George’s Indian friend 20 Defiant challenge 22 Dishevel 23 Matzo’s lack 25 Approach to a landing? 28 Grass plot around a sundial, in “Jabberwocky” 31 __ chi 32 Would-be immigrant’s concern 35 Believer’s suffix 36 Binding oath 37 “...…
…9 Thursday, July 30, 2015 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com NEWS In memory of rising LSA senior, Josh Brigham University community mourns loss of active member By LARA MOEHLMEN Summer Managing News Editor Early Friday morning, the Uni- versity community lost an active member: Joshua Brigham, a rising LSA senior studying psychology. Brigham, who fatally fell through the glass roof of Nickels Arcade, was originally from...…
…FILE PHOTO/Daily Emina Bektas set the school record with 124 singles wins and was Big Ten MVP. 10 Thursday, July 30, 2015 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com SPORTS Emina Bektas reflects on her storied career By LELAND MITCHINSON Daily Sports Writer When Emina Bektas was looking for a college to continue her tennis career, the most important factor was a tight- knight team atmosphere. At Michigan, she found exactly what s...…
…11 Thursday, July 30, 2015 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com SPORTS Barnes Arico wins gold with USA team By BRAD WHIPPLE Daily Sports Writer Sunday, Michigan women’s basketball coach Kim Barnes Arico watched her players celebrate a championship win. But they weren’t wearing maize and blue. And she wasn’t in America. Instead, she was in Chekhov, Russia, surrounded by the best 19-year-old talent in the world. And ...…
…12 Thursday, July 30, 2015 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com SPORTS FILE PHOTO/Daily Five players from the 2013 NCAA runner-up team are playing in the NBA, while Jordan Morgan is playing pro ball in France. FILE PHOTO/Daily Trey Burke struggled in his second NBA season, but showed potential with the Jazz. Catching up with former Michigan basketball stars By MAX BULTMAN Daily Sports Editor It has been a busy summer for Michig...…
…Thursday, July 23, 2015 Ann Arbor, MI Weekly Summer Edition MichiganDaily.com INDEX Vol. CXXIV, No. 115 | © 2015 The Michigan Daily michigandaily.com NEWS .................................... OPINION ............................... ARTS ...................................... CLASSIFIEDS......................... CROSSWORD........................ SPORTS.................................. NEWS Open Carry Gun rights activist sues Univers...…
…2 Thursday, July 23, 2015 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com NEWS ALEX BODFISH/Daily The new Munger Graduate Residences will open in mid-august. 420 Maynard St. Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1327 www.michigandaily.com EMMA KERR Editor in Chief 734-418-4115 ext. 1251 emkerr@michigandaily.com MADISEN POWELL Business Manager 734-418-4115 ext. 1241 madisenm@michigandaily.com EDITORIAL STAFF Derek Wolfe Managing Editor dewolfe@michig...…
…3 NEWS Thursday, July 23, 2015 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Ann Arbor resident sues ‘U’ to allow open carry Lawsuit claims campus guns ban is unconstitutional By EMMA KINERY Daily Staff Reporter After igniting controversy at Ann Arbor’s Pioneer High School in March for openly carrying a gun to his little sister’s choir concert, Ann Arbor resident Joshua Wade advocated for the right to open carry again by suing the Un...…
…M y dog, Moose, passed away last Saturday night. He spontaneously suf- fered from a punc- tured lung, and there was nothing the veterinarian could reasonably do to save him. If he had tried, Moose would have been subjected to a long, painful recovery — if he made it through surgery. So, my dad and stepmom made the gut-wrenching, soul-aching decision to put him down. Since I was in Ann Arbor, I didn’t have a chan...…
…A rt is a simultaneously freeing and terrifying thing — especially if you’re someone who chooses to pri- marily draw in ink. Whenever I draw, I’m forced to relin- quish the hesi- tant part of myself. Each pen stroke, to a cer- tain degree, demands decisiveness. Drawing can be methodical, and there are rules that govern how to create the subtle gradation of ink as you shade a drawing. But, mistakes are inevitab...…
…From theater to threads: alum Jonathan Parkey FASHION FEATURE University theater alum finds his footing in the fashion world By CAROLINE FILIPS Summer Senior Arts Editor Most collegiate thespians set their sights on New York City after four years of classes, rehearsals and high-energy performances. And that’s just where Jonathan Parkey ended up after his SMDT undergraduate career, but rather than the Garden Theater, Par- key f...…
…7 Thursday, July 23, 2015 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com ARTS I turn to the man to my right and ask, “So where are you camping?” He and the other journalists and photographers at the table start laughing. “We don’t camp out there,” said the woman next to him in a hot pink skort and cowboy boots. I realize I am the only one burnt and unshowered. I’m in the media tent behind the main stage of Faster Horses — one of th...…
…8 Thursday, July 23, 2015 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com NEWS Classifieds Call: #734-418-4115 Email: dailydisplay@gmail.com ACROSS 1 Pros handling returns 5 Nos. that affect connecting flights 9 Like dry mud on cleats 14 1979 DownBeat Hall of Fame inductee, familiarly 15 Beer ingredient 16 “Spider-Man” director 17 Cats’ request on seeing birds through the window? 19 Brother of Miriam 20 Obeyed the doctor 21 Romp 23 Suffix with Capri...…
…9 Thursday, July 23, 2015 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com NEWS Study finds medical marijuana users more addicted High school students less likely to become hooked on illicit weed By ALANA WYGANT Daily Staff Reporter According to a recent Univer- sity study, if you use medical mari- juana and you’re a high school student, you are more likely to become addicted to the substance than from the use of non-medical marijuana. The...…
…10 Thursday, July 23, 2015 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com SPORTS Soccer getting ready for upcoming season By TED JANES Daily Sports Writer The Michigan men’s soccer team reunites in Ann Arbor this week ahead of the upcoming season. The Wolverines begin captains’ prac- tices July 28, a full 20 days before the opening exhibition against Butler in Ann Arbor. The two captains, fifth-year mid- fielder Colin McAtee and senior ...…
…11 Thursday, July 23, 2015 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com SPORTS Nike, Michigan ink $169 million deal The agreement creates the largest college apparel deal in the country By ZACH SHAW Summer Managing Sports Editor One week after announcing that it had agreed to a record-high apparel deal with Nike, the Michi- gan Athletic Department released details this morning about the overwhelmingly popular contract. The highli...…
…12 Thursday, July 23, 2015 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com SPORTS The Michigan coach is making waves, and his boss is loving every bit of it By ZACH SHAW Summer Managing Sports Editor Jim Harbaugh is in France right now. After reviewing restaurants in the city while donning a maize and blue V-neck shirt, he trekked up to the Northern coasts, where on Friday morning he visited the famous Omaha Beach battleground i...…
…Weekly Summer Edition MichiganDaily.com INDEX Vol. CXXI, No. 136 | © 2015 The Michigan Daily michigandaily.com NEWS .................................... OPINION ............................... ARTS ...................................... SUDOKU................................ SPORTS................................. inside 2 4 8 2 11 Artists flock to A2 for 56th annual Art Fair Event organizers and officials prepare for four unique f...…
…2 Wednesday, July 15, 2015 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com NEWS 420 Maynard St. Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1327 www.michigandaily.com EMMA KERR Editor in Chief 734-418-4115 ext. 1251 emkerr@michigandaily.com MADISEN POWELL Business Manager 734-418-4115 ext. 1241 madisenm@michigandaily.com EDITORIAL STAFF Derek Wolfe Managing Editor dewolfe@michigandaily.com Lara Moehlman Managing News Editor larakm@michigandaily.com SENI...…
…3 NEWS Wednesday, July 15, 2015 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Professors analyze Pope’s Latin American tour Nontraditional topics including LGBTQ rights among issues discussed By EMMA KINERY Daily Staff Reporter Pope Francis finished his eight- day tour of the Latin American countries of Ecuador, Bolivia and Paraguay on Sunday. Although Latin America contains the largest Catho- lic population in the world — near- ly...…
…I magine this: It’s Wednesday, 10 a.m. (Thursday if it’s 2016 or later). I watch as a volunteer trips over her feet crossing through two lanes of traffic at the North University and Fletcher Street intersection. She drops a handful of candle wicks in the middle of the intersection as she does a run- walk to the Diag. She’s on her way to the Art Activity Zone, which is sponsoring The Rudolf Steiner School of Ann ...…
…I t’s no secret that some- one presented with both a sweater on sale and the same sweat- er at full price will pounce on the cheaper sweater. No one likes to pay a lot for something they can get for less, especially if it’s not against the law. This seems to be a major contributor to why so many people love streaming ser- vices such as Spotify, Pandora and Netflix. The recent release of Apple Music on June 30 adds to t...…
…I began working at Urban Outfitters last April as a part- time sales associate, but I had been to Art Fair the previous year, and I think the thing I wondered most was, where on earth do all those clothes come from? In the United States, there are 179 Urban Outfitters stores, and, in preparation for Art Fair, we get shipments from near- ly all of them. Boxes of clothes, shoes and accessories come literally by the hundreds — one day, I s...…
…7 Wednesday, July 15, 2015 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com ART FAIR Ann Arbor sculptor, Royce Dubrow practices craft By MATTHEW BARNAUSKAS Daily Arts Writer Sometimes it takes a little while to act on a fascination. Such is the case for local potter and sculptor Royce Disbrow who took time out of his preparations for the Ann Arbor Art Fair to participate in a phone interview. “As a little kid there was a woman on TV w...…
…‘Masters of Sex’ flashes forward to new issues TV REVIEW Season 3 will shape portrayals of feminism and sexuality on TV By KAREN HUA Daily TV/New Media Editor If the pilot and sophomore sea- sons of “Masters of Sex” haven’t aroused modern TV enough, season three penetrates even deeper than before. Eponymously, sexual tension has always been abundant; it’s the inner, personal tension that’s harder to create. Seas...…
…9 Wednesday, July 15, 2015 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com NEWS/SPORTS Diabetic kidney disease treatment found University researchers develop alternative use for arthritis drug By SANJAY REDDY Daily Staff Reporter A drug initially designed to treat arthritis may now be the biggest development in the last two decades in treating diabet- ic kidney disease, according to recent University research. Last week, University M...…
…He explained that, over many years, researchers gathered tissue samples from cohorts of patients and genetically analyzed these samples to identify groups of genes that were activated in the progres- sion of kidney disease. According to Kretzler, these analyses helped establish the connection to arthri- tis. “After identifying these genes, we mapped them into networks of interacting genes, which led us to identify a signal transdu...…
…11 Wednesday, July 15, 2015 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com SPORTS Boo Nieves heads home to New York for Prospect Camp Fifteen Wolverines play at NHL camps By SYLVANNA GROSS Daily Sports Writer TARRYTOWN, N.Y. — It’s been three years since the New York Rangers drafted Cristoval “Boo” Nieves in the second round (59th overall) of the NHL draft. And it’s been two years since he first participated in the annual Rangers Pro...…
…12 Wednesday, July 15, 2015 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com SPORTS Softball stays busy over the summer in pros, world cup Wagner, Romero among softball players on Team USA, NFPL. By CHRIS CROWDER Daily Sports Writer The Michigan softball team ended its 2015 campaign one win away from a national championship. There isn’t much improvement to be made, but with impact seniors like pitcher Haylie Wagner, catcher Laure...…
…Thursday, July 9, 2015 Ann Arbor, MI Weekly Summer Edition MichiganDaily.com INDEX Vol. CXXIV, No. 115 | © 2015 The Michigan Daily michigandaily.com NEWS .................................... OPINION ............................... ARTS ...................................... CLASSIFIEDS......................... CROSSWORD........................ SPORTS.................................. NEWS Tiny Houses Art students collaborate with non...…
…420 Maynard St. Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1327 www.michigandaily.com EMMA KERR Editor in Chief 734-418-4115 ext. 1251 emkerr@michigandaily.com MADISEN POWELL Business Manager 734-418-4115 ext. 1241 madisenm@michigandaily.com EDITORIAL STAFF Derek Wolfe Managing Editor dewolfe@michigandaily.com Lara Mohelman Managing News Editor alyabd@michigandaily.com SENIOR NEWS EDITORS: Lea Giotto, Carly Noah and Colleen Harrison Melissa Sc...…
…3 Thursday, July 9, 2015 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com NEWS Bentley Library compiles University history In preparation for bicentennial, researchers create bibliography By ALAINA WYGANT Daily Staff Reporter In honor of the University’s upcoming bicentennial in 2017, the Bentley Historical Library is com- piling a bibliography of stories, histories, photographs and other artifacts that are representative of the Univer...…
…O n July 4, as people celebrated the United States’ Indepen- dence Day and I watched the smoke settling from the fireworks of the night sky, I could not stop thinking about the fog that looms over the nation. Nine members of the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in South Carolina were shot and killed on June 17 by Dylann Roof. In the aftermath, many were unsure of what to make of the situation. Many peopl...…
…5 Thursday, July 9, 2015 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com OPINION E-mail RachEl at Rdawson@umich.Edu RACHEL DAWSON U nlike previous pieces, this week’s column isn’t really about the physical place of Ann Arbor. After all, I’ve only just returned from a few weeks absence. So, sorry, no profile of the river, or Pita Kabob, or WCBN or any of my other favorite places that I believe everyone should run to this instant...…
…‘Magic Mike XXL’ gives women what they want MOVIE REVIEW Stripper flick treats women as the worthy audience they are By CHLOE GILKE Managing Arts Editor A lot of women love “Magic Mike.” During its first five days in theaters, “Magic Mike XXL” played to an audience com- posed primarily of females — 96 percent of the people seeing the film over the holiday weekend were women. If the movie made $27.1 million and t...…
…7 Thursday, July 9, 2015 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com ARTS MUSIC COLUMN T wo of the best albums of 2015 so far have come out in the past few weeks, and I’m probably one of the few people who loved both of them. This has been a fantastic month for music of all genres. Besides Miguel’s ground- breaking Wildheart we’ve heard fantastic new releases from Kacey Musgraves and Vince Staples, two fast-rising stars in c...…
…ACROSS 1 NFL threes 4 S&L offering 8 Daisylike flower 13 Waikiki wreath 14 Overwhelm in abundance 16 Shoulder accessory 17 Place for the night 18 “Blue Sky” Oscar winner 19 Reliable 20 Wear a long face 22 “Take __ a sign” 23 Geometric products 24 Having left the water 26 ’70s “Laugh-In” regular Ann 28 Fat substitute 30 Panel with gauges 33 Love interest 36 “Rosanna” band 37 Empire founded by Manco Cápac, in legend 38 Baltic capital 39 Feints 4...…
…University lab works to increase flexibility of electronic devices By CHETALI JAIN Daily Staff Reporter Breaking from the traditional rules of material engineering, a research lab at the University is working to effectively bend elec- tronic devices. The Kotov Laboratory at the University is working to give electronic devices increased flexibility. Dr. Nicholas Kotov, a Chemi- cal Engineering professor and member of the Mat...…
… Jim Minick offered to resign, but Jim Hackett refused it By ZACH SHAW Summer Managing Sports Editor After being arrested on suspi- cions of drunk driving May 8 and consequentially being suspended from his post as associate ath- letic director for football on May 13, Jim Minick felt that resigning was the natural next step. Interim Athletic Director Jim Hackett disagreed. “Jim Minick submitted his res- ignation and I refused i...…
…11 Thursday, July 9, 2015 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com SPORTS Hackett unsure of future, but confident in game plan Despite strong fan support, interim athletic director hesitant to commit By ZACH SHAW Summer Managing Sports Editor After firing Brady Hoke, hir- ing Jim Harbaugh and landing a reported record-high apparel deal with Nike, most Michigan fans would happily let Interim Athletic Director Jim Hack- ett drop ...…
