…Pulitzer Prize-winning alumni of The Michigan Daily in an afternoon of panel discussions Friday, September 15th 1 pm in Rackham Auditorium Free and open to the public Featured are Eugene Robinson, Ann Marie Lipinski, Dan Biddle, Amy Harmon, Stephen Henderson, Lisa Pollak, Rebecca Blumenstein and Neil Chase Prize-winning journalists are joined by other distinguished Daily alumni and student staff in discussions of newsroom diversity...…
…FootballSaturday, September 16, 2017 2 STAFF PICKS The Daily football writers pick against the spread to predict scores for the top 25 and Big Ten in the 2017 football season. Betelhem Ashame Ted Janes Orion Sang Kevin Santo Air Force (+23.5) at No. 7 Michigan Air Force Michigan Air Force Air Force Air Force Colorado State (+28.5) at No. 1 Alabama Alabama Alabama Alabama Alabama Alabama Tulane (+35.5) at No. 2 Oklahoma Oklahoma ...…
…3 TheMichiganDaily, www.michigandaily.com What to Watch For: Air Force Coming off a scare against Cincinnati, the No. 7 Michigan football team has faced a fair amount of criticism for allowing the Bearcats to hang around late into the game. Against Air Force on Saturday, the Wolverines have set their sights on putting that performance firmly in the past. With the Falcons rolling into Ann Arbor this weekend, Michigan has a ch...…
…On Aug. 26, the University of Michigan turned 200 years old. One week later, Robert “Pete” Piotrowski celebrated his 100th birthday. Yes, Piotrowski has been around for half of the univer- sity’s existence. Yes, he has seen and heard it all. When he was a child, he lis- tened to the famous sports broadcaster Ty Tyson give play-by-play of Michigan football games on the radio. Piotrowski later rode the same train as Tyson and...…
…bined 5-12. By the end of the 1937 season, Kipke’s tenure was near its end. “Kipke was already let know that he wasn’t going to be rehired,” Piotrowski said. “But none of us knew, nobody knew that. Kipke wanted to hold onto his job, he had Tom Harmon coming up as a freshman then.” That transitory period — and Kipke’s efforts to hold onto his job — seem to have cost Piotrowski his only chance at becoming a starter. According to P...…
…FootballSaturday, September 16, 2017 6 Breakdown: Michigan vs. Air Force About a week ago, everybody seemed to think the Wolverines were unstoppable. An offseason full of questions and concerns was put to rest when the Michigan football team stomped Florida in the biggest season opener it has had in years. Then came the Cincinnati game. It should have been an easier win, but it turned into a reality check instead. The Wolverin...…
…7 TheMichiganDaily, www.michigandaily.com Behind Enemy Lines To gain an inside perspective on the Michigan football team’s upcoming matchup against Air Force, the Daily reached out to Brent Briggeman — the Falcons beat writer for the Colorado Springs Gazette. On Wednesday night, we spoke on the phone with Brent to discuss Air Force’s triple option, Falcons running back Tim McVey and what needs to happen to put Michigan on u...…
…FootballSaturday, September 16, 2017 8 BRENT From Page 7 and catches the pass, or one of the receivers is in single coverage. So yes, they will throw. It’s not a trick play for Air Force to throw the ball, but because the ground game becomes such an emphasis for the defense, that usually when they do go to the air somebody can find a way to get open. TMD: Tim McVey, I feel like he might fly under the radar given that he goes to...…
…More than 100 people showed up Wednesday afternoon at South Hall for a panel with three former general counsels for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, hosted by the University of Michigan Law School’s Environmental Law and Policy Program. The panel, comprising the EPA’s top lawyers during the Clinton, Bush and Obama administrations, intended to review the major environmental challenges during each of their tenures a...…
…1/29/09 1:40 PM Loading “Sudoku Syndication” Page 1 of 1 http://sudokusyndication.com/sudoku/generator/print/ 9 3 4 8 5 6 1 3 6 7 9 4 1 4 2 4 8 2 1 5 4 9 2 5 7 9 1 © sudokusolver.com. For personal use only. Generate and solve Sudoku, Super Sudoku and Godoku puzzles at sudokusyndication.com! SUDOK-ING ME CRAZY. puzzle by sudokusyndication.com 2A — Thursday, September 14, 2017 News The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.c...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com News Thursday, September 14, 2017 — 3A has determined climate change poses a threat to the health and well-being of the citizens it serves. That decision was made in 2007 in a Supreme Court case, Massachusetts v. EPA, in which the court decided, 5-4, that if the EPA made such a finding of endangerment, it was obligated to regulate greenhouse gases under the Clean Air Act. One of the panelists,...…
…Opinion The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com 4A— Thursday, September 14, 2017 REBECCA LERNER Managing Editor 420 Maynard St. Ann Arbor, MI 48109 tothedaily@michigandaily.com Edited and managed by students at the University of Michigan since 1890. EMMA KINERY Editor in Chief ANNA POLUMBO-LEVY and REBECCA TARNOPOL Editorial Page Editors Unsigned editorials reflect the official position of the Daily’s Editorial Board. All othe...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Sports Thursday, September 14, 2017 — 5A Big Ten Breakdown: Week Two No. 5 Penn State Previous result: W, 33-14 vs. Pittsburgh Top performer: Quarterback Trace McSorley — 15-of-28, 164 yards, three touchdowns, one interception Upcoming matchup: vs. Georgia State No. 8 Ohio State Previous result: L, 31-16 vs. Oklahoma Top performer: Running back J.K. Dobbins — 13 carries, 72 yards, o...…
…6A — Thursday, September 14, 2017 Sports The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Drevno emphasizing correctable details ahead of Air Force contest Tim Drevno gets a rush out of the light-bulb moments. Luckily for him, with this inexperienced Wolverine squad, there’s plenty of opportunity for those. “They’re young, which is great, and they’re very talented,” Drevno said. “But every day is a new day. It doesn’t matter if yo...…
…B The Michigan Daily | michigandaily.com | Thursday, September 14, 2017 …
…JASON OWEN-SMITH Barger Leadership Institute Professor & Director Executive Director, Institute for Research on Innovation and Science (IRIS) Professor of Sociology Research Professor, Institute for Social Research UNIVERSITIES AND OUR COMMON FUTURE RESEARCH Thursday, September 14, 2017 Michigan League Hussey Room 4:10 p.m. CREATIVE CAPABILITIES AT SCALE A public lecture and reception. For more information call 734.615.6667 ...…
…DISCOVER A GENEROUS SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM. ©2014. Paid for by the United States Army. All rights reserved. The U.S. Army’s Health Professions Scholarship Program (HPSP) offers qualified medical, dental and veterinary students full tuition for a graduate- level degree at the school of your choice. Y ou’ll receive a monthly stipend and payment for books, equipment and academic fees, as well as the potential to grow as a leader . To lea...…
…4B —Thursday, September 14, 2017 Arts The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com NETFLIX Comedy icon Dave Chappelle Seeing Dave Chappelle: Hip-hop’s favorite comedian hits the road Dave Chappelle — the bold- faced funny man who emerged in the early-2000s as an Afrocentric satirist, unafraid to squeeze risqué racial commentary into his now- legendary sketch comedy show — has long been an important figure in hip-hop. The f...…
…On this particular Friday, little Gilda has plopped herself on a pink shag rug; stuffed toys and dollhouses at her fingertips. She is playing with her Looking For Mr. Goodbar Sleepytime Playset, and an impish grin of delight crosses her face as she dances her Diane Keaton doll around an imaginary singles bar with a plastic businessman. But little Gilda misses the point of this game. Rather than have her dollies boogie the night...…
…THE DEPARTMENT OF ASTRONOMY ORREN C. MOHLER PRIZE LECTURE p i e c e p i e c e Friday, Sept. 15, 2017 Reception 2 pm Lecture 2:30 – 4 pm Dr. Julianne Dalcanton Professor, University of Washington Department of Astronomy Michigan Union Pendleton Room, 2nd Floor 530 S. State Street Ann Arbor, MI 48109 by Should you require any reasonable accom- modations please contact Stacy Tiburzi at 734-764-3440, or stibu@umich.edu. 6B — T...…
…An audience of 3,500 in Hill Auditorium burst into applause at the sight of The New York Times best-selling author Daniel Pink’s “Fear the Khaki” T-shirt on Tuesday evening. Pink donned the shirt as part of the first anecdote during his presentation, “The Mind of the Future: How to Survive an Outsourced, Automated Age.” Pink’s talk highlighted useful lessons on what it takes to be successful in the workplace as society shifts f...…
…2A — Wednesday, September 13, 2017 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com News 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. 124...…
…News The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Wednesday, September 13, 2017 — 3A The idea of autonomous travel discussed by speakers highlighted current issues with automotive transportation and the goals that the Department of Transportation hopes to achieve with the release of their new federal guidance. Bainwol explained that more than 90 percent of crashes are related to human error and the use of driverless cars will primarily ...…
…Opinion The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com 4A— Wednesday, September 13, 2017 REBECCA LERNER Managing Editor 420 Maynard St. Ann Arbor, MI 48109 tothedaily@michigandaily.com Edited and managed by students at the University of Michigan since 1890. EMMA KINERY Editor in Chief ANNA POLUMBO-LEVY and REBECCA TARNOPOL Editorial Page Editors Unsigned editorials reflect the official position of the Daily’s Editorial Board. All oth...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Wednesday, September 13, 2017 — 5 Arts FXX ‘You’re the Worst’ returns for it’s fourth season ‘You’re the Worst’ deals with post-breakup woes FXX show returns for its fourth season with its signature dark comedy delivering laughs with a few stumbles along the way One of the defining characteristics of “You’re the Worst,” Stephen Falk’s brilliantly underrated anti- rom-com, is that it emb...…
…HELP WANTED EARLY CHILDHOOD LICENSED center seeking part-time help for infant toddler room. Playful, experienced, re sponsible person with references needed. Email kozyheart@gmail.com ACROSS 1 Green Angry Birds animals 5 Salon style 9 “Jabberwocky” opener 13 Les __-Unis 15 Eye layer 16 “For __ jolly ... ” 17 Name on a two- liter bottle (and what’s inside) 19 Double-crossers 20 Like microwavable meals 21 Valued caches 23 Independe...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Sports Wednesday, September 13, 2017 — 7 The case for Wilton Speight W hen Wilton Speight steps up to the podium, he exudes a quality few college athletes — let alone students — possess in the face of intense criticism: professionalism. Saturday was no different. Michigan coach Jim Harbaugh described the natural butterflies this youthful team must overcome. Speight is one of a fe...…
…Pulitzer Prize-winning alumni of The Michigan Daily in an afternoon of panel discussions Friday, September 15th 1 pm in Rackham Auditorium Free and open to the public Featured are Eugene Robinson, Ann Marie Lipinski, Dan Biddle, Amy Harmon, Stephen Henderson, Lisa Pollak, Rebecca Blumenstein and Neil Chase Prize-winning journalists are joined by other distinguished Daily alumni and student staff in discussions of newsroom diversity, ...…
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…2B Managaing Statement Editor: Lara Moehlman Deputy Editors: Yoshiko Iwai Brian Kuang Photo Editor: Alexis Rankin Editor in Chief: Emma Kinery Design Staff: Michelle Phillips Emily Hardie Erin Tolar Nicole Doctoroff Managing Editor: Rebecca Lerner Copy Editors: Elizabeth Dokas Taylor Grandinetti Wednesday, September 13, 2017 // The Statement Personal Statement: Four Months at the Helm of the News Desk F or four months...…
…“ Love you and miss you loads! Can’t wait to hear more adventures next week! XOXO...” When was the last time you sent someone a letter? I don’t mean birthday cards or thank you notes. When was the last time you sent a loved one a handwritten letter and kept a correspondence going through snail mail? I would imagine only a few people still communicate through this outdated medium, but letter-writing remains a timeless m...…
…Wednesday, September 13, 2017 // The Statement 4B Wednesday, September 13, 2017 // The Statement 5B Lessons in Silence Navigating our digital world b y R e b e c c a Ta r n o p o l, Editorial Page Editor S ome dreary November day my junior year of high school, I plugged away at a calculus test. As I calculated how quickly the height of water was changing in a tank drain- ing at some fixed rate, I felt it emanating from my right...…
…Wednesday, September 13, 2017 // The Statement 6B Let’s Talk About It: Do you speak English? E nglish is the language my tongue commands with the most power and versa- tility, yet it is the one from which I feel the most estranged — or almost unwelcome. I perform spoken-word poetry in English, I write articles for The Michigan Daily and I plan to teach English in secondary schools. Despite that English is my first and most fluent l...…
…Wednesday, September 13, 2017 // The Statement 7B The Picture Stays in the Kid: Days Off T he last time someone asked me where I was from, the response itself was long enough to be nominated for a writing award (it certainly wouldn’t win, if anything for lack of lucidity). “I’m from the North Shore suburbs of Chi- cago, about 30 minutes on the 94, sort of near Northwestern University in Evanston, in John Hughes territory: You kno...…
…Wednesday, September 13, 2017 // The Statement 8B V I S U A L S T A T E M E N T F O O T B A L L : B E H I N D T H E S C E N E S Photos by Amelia Cacchione Last Saturday, I photographed the Michigan football game against Cincinnati. I left my apartment at 9:30 a.m. and did not get home until 5:30 p.m. In between, I found myself on the field of the Big House, dodging footballs as they flew off the field and snapping over 1000 photos...…
…Imagine a world in which new careers and those that are unheard of today, exist, and those careers that exist today are no longer available. A world where robots have complete control of certain occupations, and where humans have the opportunity to implant knowledge into their brains through the use of technological advancements. On Monday evening, Dr. Kevin LaGrandeur, a professor of English at the New York Institute of ...…
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…News The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Tuesday, September 12, 2017 — 3 MATT VAILLIENCOURT/Daily Members of University ROTC groups stand around the American flag in remembrance of the 9/11 terrorist attacks 17 years ago on the Diag Monday. IN MEMORIAM ‘Don’t worry, I’ve been through that, it’s going to be fine;’ it was a sense of relief, so it was really, really nice for me,” he said. LSA sophomore Allie Batka is studying chemis...…
…Opinion The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com 4— Tuesday, September 12, 2017 REBECCA LERNER Managing Editor 420 Maynard St. Ann Arbor, MI 48109 tothedaily@michigandaily.com Edited and managed by students at the University of Michigan since 1890. EMMA KINERY Editor in Chief ANNA POLUMBO-LEVY and REBECCA TARNOPOL Editorial Page Editors Unsigned editorials reflect the official position of the Daily’s Editorial Board. All other ...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Tuesday, September 12, 2017 — 5 Arts 4AD The National’s newest testifies to age, memory The first time I heard The National I was sitting in my dad’s car. We had just left Barnes & Noble, where he had spent hours pouring over the music and video section, making careful selections, then returning, then selecting again. It was a time when Barnes & Noble’s vast supply of albums in co...…
…ERIKA SHEVCHEK FINGERPRINT RELEASING ‘Home Again’ a contrived, uncomfortable experience “Home Again” follows the bond between Alice, a 40-year- old single mother, and a trio of handsome young filmmakers who stay in her guest house and help raise her children. The film’s cast, spearheaded by Reese Witherspoon (“Big Little Lies”), boasts of actors with success in the realm of romantic comedies: Nat Wolff (“Death Note”), ...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Sports Tuesday, Septermber 12, 2017 — 7 Way scores three, ‘M’ defeats Aggies Emma Way wanted to prove her coach wrong. After starting the first five games of the season, the junior forward found herself on the bench as the buzzer sounded to begin the match at Ocker Field on Sunday afternoon. She was clearly frustrated. Rather than sulk though, she channeled that anger into success. Way anc...…
…Pulitzer Prize-winning alumni of The Michigan Daily in an afternoon of panel discussions Friday, September 15th 1 pm in Rackham Auditorium Free and open to the public Featured are Eugene Robinson, Ann Marie Lipinski, Dan Biddle, Amy Harmon, Stephen Henderson, Lisa Pollak, Rebecca Blumenstein and Neil Chase Prize-winning journalists are joined by other distinguished Daily alumni and student staff in discussions of newsroom diversity, ...…
…Student veterans attended orientation in the Pond room of the Michigan Union Thursday evening and learned about the various resources and initiatives to support them on campus. The orientation was led by Psychology Lecturer Eric Fretz, Philip Larson, program director for the Student Veterans Assistance Program, and members of the Peer Advisors for Veteran Education. The incoming students had the opportunity to famil...…
…4 7 6 3 5 2 7 4 9 2 2 3 1 7 4 5 7 1 9 8 3 6 1 4 8 3 5 8 4 NO SWEAT. puzzle by sudokusyndication.com 2A — Friday, September 8, 2017 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com News CAMPUS EVENTS & NOTES Butler, Bernstein & The Hot 9 Performance WHAT: Join retro-futurist brass man Steven Bernstein and New Orleans piano vitruso Henry Butler for UMS’s season opening event. Tickets on sale at UMS’s website. WHO: UMS...…
…“immediate action” upon notice of harassment at the expense of receiving federal funding. To date, the OCR has conducted 435 investigations into colleges’ mishandling of sexual assault; the University’s case opened in 2014 and remains pending. Upon DeVos’ appointment under President Donald Trump, many braced for a dismantling of stringent guidelines. Jennifer Salvatore, founding partner at Salvatore, Prescott and Porter law f...…
…I t was, by all accounts, an unenviable afternoon at the Jersey Shore. The usually crowded beach was sparsely populated, thanks in large part to heavy gray clouds, rough waves and a chill uncharacteristic of early August. My family and I were perfectly content, though. None of us were particularly invested in our tans that day. Several yards behind us were other patrons who also seemed to be perfectly conten...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Friday, September 8, 2017 — 5A Arts COURTESY OF LOLLAPALOOZA Festival Report: Lollapalooza succeeds in surprising As the first music festival I’d ever been to, Lollapalooza blew all my expectations out of the park; all that food, music, people and excitement, nestled smack dab in the middle of Chicago. My only regret is that I wasn’t able to experience more; I couldn’t mosh to the eclectic ED...…
…FOCUS FEATURES Bewildered, not ‘Beguiled’ This summer saw more of the academic-discourse- permeates-pop-culture phenomenon that’s been snowballing for the past few years, especially on social media; one of the most obvious examples of how polarizing it can get was the discourse surrounding Sofia Coppola’s reboot of “The Beguiled.” And yes, I’m still thinking about it several months after the fact — now that the dust...…
