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…BEST OF 2017 B The Michigan Daily | michigandaily.com | Thursday, January 4, 2018 Design by Casey Tin …

…2B — Thursday, January 4, 2018 the b-side The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Writer, director and supreme leader Greta Gerwig’s semi- autobiographical, coming-of- age masterpiece “Lady Bird” is the film of the year — perhaps the decade. “Lady Bird” encapsulates the high school experience, filled with crushes, heartbreak, controlling mothers and everything in between with expert timing, quick wit and undeniable heart. Fol...…

…3B — Thursday, January 4, 2018 the b-side The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Arguably no other show reflected the uncertainty that pervaded 2017 quite like “The Leftovers.” Then again, “The Leftovers” was never about certainty to begin with. It was a miracle the series lasted so long, given its dismal ratings. But what the show lacked in strong viewership, it made up for with an incredible ensemble cast, poetic cinematograph...…

…DAMN. finds Kendrick Lamar running circles around his competition after the critical and commercial successes of Good Kid, M.A.A.D. City and To Pimp A Butterfly, but it doesn’t always feel like a victory lap. While songs like “ELEMENT.” and “LOYALTY.” find Kendrick at his most arrogant, other tracks like “YAH.” and “FEEL.” partially dispel this illusion of confidence, instead portraying his stardom through a lens of paranoia an...…

…5B — Thursday, January 4, 2018 the b-side The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com The Power Center serves as the home for multiple organizations and functions on campus, such as the School of Music, Theatre & Dance, the University Musical Society, the musical theatre troupe MUSKET and more. A building acutely aware of its geometrical design, the Power Center’s architectural layout demands to be noticed: From the outside mirrored ...…

…REGISTER ONLINE AT UM-KCP.EVENTBRITE.COM BEAT THE WINTER BLUES WITH KINESIOLOGY COMMUNITY PROGRAMS Rm 3064 CCRB | 401 Washtenaw Avenue Ann Arbor, MI 48109 734.647.2708 Kerry Winkelseth, Director | kebwink@umich.edu kines.umich.edu/KCP Beginning & Intermediate Tennis • Beginning & Intermediate Swim* Coached Swimming Workouts Tricks and Tips – Improve Your Swimming Strokes WSI: American Red Cross Water Safety Instructor* LG: American Re...…

…The Ann Arbor Police Department is beginning 2018 with a new addition to its force. Tuesday, Jason Forsberg began his tenure as Deputy Chief of Police of the AAPD. Forsberg joins current Deputy Chief Robert Pfannes and will be in charge of the support services division, which includes the administrative services, professional standards and special services sections. The department typically has two deputy c...…

…420 Maynard St. Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1327 www.michigandaily.com ARTS SECTION arts@michigandaily.com SPORTS SECTION sports@michigandaily.com ADVERTISING dailydisplay@gmail.com NEWS TIPS news@michigandaily.com LETTERS TO THE EDITOR tothedaily@michigandaily.com EDITORIAL PAGE opinion@michigandaily.com NATHAN GUPTA Business Manager 734-418-4115 ext. 1241 nathankg@michigandaily.com ALEXA ST. JOHN Editor in Chief 734-418-4115 ext...…

…Creative assisted in putting the data into map form. “Poverty is really widespread across the state,” Naranjo said. “It’s not necessarily concentrated in just Detroit like I think the narrative goes. There’s a lot of rural poverty in this state and a rising amount of suburban poverty.” LSA junior Zachary Tingley, a research assistant for the project, said he noticed his own attitude shift about poverty as a result. “...…

…W hen I arrived at the University of Michigan this past fall, the decision to rush felt preconceived. I am a student surrounded by those of similar backgrounds; a Jewish boy from the suburbs of a big city, anxious to make friends with similarly identified people. Everyone I knew was doing it. It would make sense for me to rush, right? At fraternity parties during Welcome Week, I met different brothers who’d ask if I was...…

…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Arts Wednesday, January 3, 2018 — 5A There’s a moment in “The Last Jedi” when all the sound drops out and complete silence descends. For a few seconds, there is nothing. No music, no white noise, no dialogue. All falls away, and for a franchise that has always been easily recognizable for its iconic sound design and legendary score, it’s a strange moment, yet an undeniably brilliant one....…

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…The Michigan Daily | michigandaily.com | Wednesday, January 3, 2018 Offensive offense Michigan couldn’t establish the run or pass — perhaps because South Carolina knew what to expect. » Page 2B Bye-bye, birdie Backed by a couple unexpected offensive sources, Michigan finally took one in Iowa. » Page 2B ORION SANG Managing Sports Editor Michigan collapses, drops Outback Bowl to South Carolina WEDNESDAY - BLOCKED Mi...…

…2B — Wednesday, January 3, 2018 SportsWednesday The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Michigan offensive miscues due to poor execution and predictability TAMPA, Fla. — There’s a lot of blame that can go around when an offense performs the way Michigan’s did in its 26-19 loss to South Carolina. 203 passing yards on 45 attempts with two crucial interceptions. 33 carries for 74 yards with two backbreaking fumbles. Those four ...…

…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com SportsWednesday Wednesday, January 3, 2018 — 3B Simpson leads ‘M’ past Iowa in crucial road win IOWA CITY — Throughout the season, the point guard position has been a source of limited production for the Michigan men’s basketball team. In their previous game, freshman Eli Brooks and sophomore Zavier Simpson combined for just two points on three shot attempts facing a far-infer...…

…4B — Wednesday, January 3, 2018 SportsWednesday The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Report says Frey set to leave for Florida State Greg Frey’s first stint in Ann Arbor lasted three years. His second? That could be much shorter. According to a report from Josh Newberg of 247Sports.com, Michigan’s offensive tackles and tight ends coach didn’t travel home with the team from Tampa after Monday’s Outback Bowl. Instead, Frey a...…

…statement THE MICHIGAN DAILY | JANUARY 3, 2018 Hustled Out Union renovations strip away 97 years of pool hall history …

…L ike every good story, mine comes with a cup of coffee — an Americano with no room, to be exact. As I start my final semester at the University, finishing two degrees and leading up to what is probably my 2,190th cup of coffee (365 days x 4 years x 1.5 cups on average), I’ve come to appreciate the coffee shop culture in Ann Arbor. It’s contributed to the way I feel a part of the Ann Arbor community — aspiring journalists, novel...…

…3C Wednesday, January 3, 2018 // The Statement Soundtracking: Writer’s block S o I may or may not have stared at a blank Google Doc page for hours on end trying to write this column. I don’t consider this column about not being able to think of a column “phoning it in.” I consider it making the most out of what I was given — which was a laptop, a deadline and early 2000s bops floating around in my brain. Between my essay-steepe...…

…Wednesday, January 3, 2018 // The Statement 4C Wednesday, January 3, 2018 // The Statement 5C The pool hall, hustled out Union renovations strip away 97 years of pool hall history by Will Feuer, Contributor T he room is a labyrinth of ancient tables, antiques still in use. Above each one, fluo- rescent lights puncture maize and blue stained glass to reflect off the phe- nolic resin balls. Blue cue chalk stains the hands of the playe...…

…Wednesday, January 3, 2018 // The Statement 6C My stream of conciousness saved me I found myself completely alone, lacking a soul to call my friend. It sounds melodramatic, but that was my reality. I didn’t choose it, nor—in my view at the time—was there much of an opportunity to escape it. Essentially, the group of guys I had become friends with through association in elementary school and the beginning of middle schoo...…

…Wednesday, January 3, 2018// The Statement 7C Empath in the Wild: Empathy is for everyone BY REGAN DETWILER, COLUMNIST O ver the course of last semester, I wrote five columns about empathy — this one you’re reading now is my sixth and final one. I’ve written about empathy in the context of my Montessori elementary school; I’ve written about it in the context of Americanized yoga; I’ve gone into a somewhat philosophi...…

…Wednesday, January 3, 2018 // The Statement 8C V I S U A L S T A T E M E N T T R A D I T I O N S This issue, The Statement looked at the Union billiards room, a 97 year old tradition at the University. Over the holiday season, our photo staff documented traditions in their own life. Photos by Michigan Daily Photo Staff On our kitchen table we have a “Christmas pyramid,” a German contraption that spins powered by the heat from cand...…

…The Michigan Daily sat down for an interview with E. Royster Harper, vice president for student life, to discuss several current issues on campus, including a likely visit from Richard Spencer and the addition of a Middle Eastern/North African category to University of Michigan demographic data collection. The Daily: The administration has been very clear that safety is the first priority in negotiations with Richard Spence...…

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…Student Advisory Committee so as to have a representative within City Council to speak on issues that may not be involved with the student government, as well as to have a student sit on the University of Michigan’s Board of Regents, a position that has also been pushed for under previous administrations — the legality of which is ambiguous. Opportunity CSG spent this past semester working on resolutions aimed at increasing acces...…

…I recently saw “Battle of the Sexes,” a movie about tennis star Billie Jean King beating self-proclaimed “male chauvinist pig” Bobby Riggs in 1973. I didn’t think the movie was very good, but that’s not what I want to talk about. I want, instead, to point out that the film speaks specifically to the #MeToo campaign and the slew of disgusting men who have been exposed as such in the past several weeks. Rig...…

…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Arts Tuesday, December 12, 2017 — 5 Since the premiere of “Broad City” in 2014, the careers of Ilana Glazer (“Rough Night”) and Abbi Jacobson (“Portlandia”) have taken off. Jacobson has been able to work with the Museum of Modern Art in New York to create a podcast about fine art. Glazer has been getting more work in other films and television series. Life has changed since the duo uploaded th...…

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…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Sports Tuesday, December 12, 2017 — 7 MAX KUANG/Daily Michigan wrestling coach Joe McFarland was pleased with his team’s performance in its dominant 48-0 win over Oregon State on Sunday afternoon. Wolverines flex muscles in win over Oregon State As he stepped onto the mat, fifth-year senior Kevin Beazley knew he had the most daunting challenge of the day. The 197-pounder was the only Wolverine ...…

…8 — Tuesday, December 12, 2017 Sports The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Shea Patterson announces transfer to Michigan It’s official: Shea Patterson is coming to Ann Arbor. Monday afternoon, Patterson announced his intent to transfer to Michigan from Ole Miss, capping off a recruitment that only came to light recently. “Thank you to the wonderful people, teammates and coaches at Ole Miss. It is a special place and I will alw...…

…michigandaily.com Ann Arbor, Michigan Monday, December 11, 2017 ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY-SEVEN YEARS OF EDITORIAL FREEDOM Emma Kinery, editor in chief, The Michigan Daily Journalism is changing tremendously — which, in some ways, makes being the editor of a college paper more difficult than it has ever been — but it’s also pretty exciting. The Michigan Daily operates editorially and financially independent of the University of Mi...…

…2A — Monday, December 11, 2017 News The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com 420 Maynard St. Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1327 www.michigandaily.com ARTS SECTION arts@michigandaily.com SPORTS SECTION sports@michigandaily.com ADVERTISING dailydisplay@gmail.com NEWS TIPS news@michigandaily.com LETTERS TO THE EDITOR tothedaily@michigandaily.com EDITORIAL PAGE opinion@michigandaily.com NATHAN GUPTA Business Manager 734-418-4115 ext. 1241 n...…

…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com News Monday, December 11, 2017 — 3A MAX KUANG/Daily Modati screenprinter Sarms Jabra helps Ann Arbor resident Asa Price make a screen print at the Tiny Expo at the Ann Arbor District Library Saturday. TINY TOTS stereotypical notion of an enslaved Black man working on a cotton plantation and instead offered a picture of society in which the main focus was the slavery of Native American women ...…

…I really just cannot bear it any longer. In the aftermath of the 2016 presidential election, and even somewhat before then, I had heard about this mysterious phenomenon by which Americans became unable to stomach another headline, another minute of CNN programming or another picture of Donald Trump. As a political junkie, though, this phenomenon had never affected me; the palace intrigue, cel...…

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…6A — Monday, December 11, 2017 Arts The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com …

…Shea’s Saturday On Saturday, potential transfer Shea Patterson became the focal point of Michigan’s matchup with UCLA. » SportsMonday Column, Page 2B A potential answer With his 15-point outing against the Bruins, sophomore Zavier Simpson may have brought clarity to Michigan’s point guard battle. » Page 3B MONDAY The Michigan Daily | michigandaily.com | December 11, 2017 B Michigan 78 Michigan tops Bruins thanks to 15-point...…

…2B — December 11, 2017 SportsMonday The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com SPORTSMONDAY COLUMN A Saturday for Shea T he sign was on full display, hoisted by members of the Maize Rage from the first row of section 130. Written across poster board in big script letters were the words “Ole Mich.” Below the script, though, there was a second message that required no interpretation: #WeWantSHEA. And so began the official ...…

…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com SportsMonday December 11, 2017 — 3B Simpson helps lead Michigan to unexpected comeback over UCLA S omewhere amid the hazy, ever-changing point guard battle lies an answer. Only twice in John Beilein’s tenure at Michigan has the starting point guard played fewer than 32 minutes per game. This season, Zavier Simpson has slightly edged out Eli Brooks for the lead in point guard minutes....…

…4B — December 11, 2017 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com SportsMonday Michigan recovers from early deficit to defeat Golden Flashes Kent State’s bench went wild as guard Alexa Golden nailed a buzzer-beater to end the first quarter. The Michigan women’s basketball team’s bench remained quiet. By the end of the opening frame, Michigan’s leading scorer hadn’t made any baskets. Senior guard Katelynn Flaherty was 0-for-3 on 3-poi...…

…White supremacist Richard Spencer and lawyer Kyle Bristow are pressuring the University of Michigan to find a date and “reasonable location on campus” for Spencer’s potential speech on campus by Jan. 15, Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Bristow announced in a press release on Thursday. “Either select a date by January 15, 2018—Martin Luther King Jr. Day—at 5:00 p.m., or else be sued in federal court just like Michigan ...…

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…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com News Friday, December 8, 2017 — 3 safe. Safety is critical to students, and I’m thinking about the ones who came here for the first time, thinking they would be in a university where they could thrive academically and socially, only now to be faced with a speaker who not only denies their humanity, but also would bring others like him to campus,” Wilson said. “This is simply unsafe, and carele...…

…Conyers, who was first elected to Congress in 1964, co-founded the Congressional Black Caucus and sponsored legislation to make Martin Luther King Jr. Day a federal holiday. Conyers also served as ranking Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee for many years and has been a principal supporter of single- payer health care legislation. He has built a robust legacy as a champion of civil rights. The day before his retirement ...…

…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Arts Friday, December 8, 2017 — 5 NETFLIX ‘Easy’ is isn’t alway easy Even as it enters its second season, “Easy” remains one of the year’s most underrated and overlooked TV displays amidst the flood of fresh Netflix originals. The anthology — with each episode presenting different, individualistic characters and storylines — continues on to explore more diverse Chicagoans and their ex...…

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…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Sports Friday, December 8, 2017 — 7 2017 Season in Review: Defensive backs With the Michigan football team’s 2017 regular season in the books, the Daily looks back at the performance of each unit this year and looks ahead to the future in 2018. In this edition: defensive backs. The performance of the secondary might be the biggest surprise of the season for the Wolverines. For a unit tha...…

…8 — Friday, December 8, 2017 Sports The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Wolverines earn 4-0 victory over State In the last game of the 2017 calendar year at Yost Ice Arena, the Michigan hockey team gave its fans two things they had been waiting all season to see. Buoyed by a perfect, 21-for-21 performance between the pipes by sophomore goaltender Hayden Lavigne, the Wolverines (3-4-2 Big Ten, 7-6-2 overall) took down Michigan ...…

…If all had gone to plan on Thursday morning, student employees of the University Unions would be sitting in the Board of Regents meeting room in protest of white nationalist Richard Spencer’s potentially speaking on campus. After a meeting with Unions administrators earlier this week, the employees shifted their efforts to public spaces to avoid risk of termination. As the board convenes two weeks after the University...…