…Thursday, June 11, 2020 INDEX Vol. CXXIX, No. 120 © 2020 The Michigan Daily NEWS .................................... OPINION ............................... ARTS/NEWS.......................... MiC......................................... SPORTS................................ MICHIGAN IN COLOR The American Dream: Impossible Communities of color perpetually have their inalienable rights restricted from them >> SEE PAGE 9 NEWS Stu...…
…The University of Michigan hosted a virtual town hall titled “Constructive Conversations for Societal Change” on Friday, in soli- darity with the protests that have erupted across the nation against racism and police brutality. The town hall was moderated by Rob- ert M. Sellers, vice provost of equity and inclusion and chief diversity officer, and focused on providing a platform for the University of Mich- igan community to come toget...…
…While many University of Michigan students use the sum- mer months to gain experience from internships and jobs, others engage in various research proj- ects across campus to gain criti- cal skills for career development. But in a matter of weeks, those plans to participate in cutting- edge research at the No. 1 public research university in the U.S. were halted as the COVID-19 pan- demic shut down all non-essential in-person resear...…
…whitewashed and misunderstood, yet are somewhat collectively acknowl- edged as the origin of Pride Month. There continues to be major dispari- ties in rights for the trans community, especially in medical care. There is a higher prevalence of clinical depression, anxiety, somatization, current smokers, former alcohol or drug use to cope with mistreatment and attempted suicides. According to the 2015 U.S. Transgender Survey, about a th...…
…I ’ll be honest — signing a lease next to one of the largest fraternities on campus was a massive mistake, especially as someone unaffiliated with social Greek life. Over the past year, I’ve learned to fall asleep to the thumping of the bass on Theta Chi’s speakers on ran- dom Tuesday nights and adjusted to rou- tinely throwing their trash back into their backyard from mine, only to watch squir- rels and other wildlife rummage through ...…
…Elizabeth Lim’s second novel in the Blood of Stars series, “Unravel the Dusk,” reaches deep into your prefrontal cortex and implants a strong desire to embroider and to create. She makes sewing exciting, infusing time consum- ing, mundane tasks with danger, dignity and purpose. In the world of “Unravel the Dusk,” embroi- dery and tailoring is regarded and honored as capital-A Art. The highest title of Master Tailor is reserved only for...…
…Every time I see someone tread off a beaten trail, crushing plants in their wake, my heart crumples inside. “They’re just plants,” is the usual response I’m met with, words that cut inside me further. Plants may seem insignificant, partly due to their size and their position below our eye level. Humans are fascinated with animals larger than themselves — ele- phants or killer whales, for example — but aren’t thrilled by a small shrub....…
…8 Thursday, July 2, 2020 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com MICHIGAN IN COLOR The overglorified Disney+ Hamilfilm On July 3, Disney+ will be exclusively streaming Lin-Manuel Miranda’s hit musi- cal, “Hamilton,” also known as #Hamilfilm. Ever since 2015, “Hamilton” has been highly praised because it features solely BIPOC singers and actors on the Broadway stage telling the tale of the American Revolution. I myself am a huge fan of...…
…9 Thursday, July 2, 2020 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com MICHIGAN IN COLOR Home is me / Kill me dirty country GABRIJELA SKOKO MiC Managing Editor home is me. stubborn. scared of your own soul. so the Soul maintains itself. unsure if home should be insan- ity or if you are insane. and so only the Soul is main- tained. I know I am insanity because you will not call me citizen. Finding my place: the power of change GRACE GARMO ...…
…10 Thursday, July 2, 2020 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com SPORTS Director of counseling Harden retires after 34 years After 34 years at Michigan, Greg Harden, who served as both executive associate athletic director and director of counseling has retired, Angelique Chengelis from the Detroit News reported Monday. Harden joined Michigan after being hired by Bo Schembechler 1986 and grew the prevalence of the mental well...…
…11 Thursday, July 2, 2020 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com SPORTS ‘The perfect storm’: Mbogo Mwangi speaks on race in America today, and how the lacrosse community needs to do better Growing up on Manhattan’s Upper East Side, Mbogo Mwangi never dealt with race as an issue. St. Stephen of Hungary, the private Catholic school that the junior defenseman attended, was a microcosm of New York City’s melting pot. Because Mwangi and...…
…12 Thursday, July 2, 2020 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com SPORTS Mwangi’s first wave was the product of COVID-19 and the disproportionate mortality rate between Black and white Americans exacerbated by disparities in healthcare access and employment opportunities. The second and third waves were based on the police’s double standard in managing its altercations with Black and white individuals: The absence of aggr...…
…michigandaily.com Thursday, June 25, 2020 INDEX Vol. CXXIX, No. 119 © 2020 The Michigan Daily NEWS .................................... OPINION ............................... ARTS/NEWS.......................... MiC......................................... SPORTS................................ MICHIGAN IN COLOR Avatar: The Last Airbender Looking towards Avatar as a call to cultural unity and effective uprising in a time of national...…
…Over 2,000 people crowded the Diag on Friday to celebrate June- teenth, the day when African slaves in Texas were told they were free –– two years after the Emancipation Proclamation. This event, hosted by Survivors Speak and other local organizers, aimed to incorporate awareness for police brutality into a day of celebration. Event organizer Trische’ Duck- worth, Survivors Speak founder, told The Daily even though June- teenth is a d...…
…Alec Gallimore, University of Michigan dean of engineering, and Laura Blake Jones, dean of students, held a town hall with various student groups involved in plans for the upcoming school year on Monday afternoon following University President Mark Schlis- sel’s announcement regarding fall semester earlier in the day. After walking through informa- tion presented in Schlissel’s email and the new website, Gallimore and Jones answered ...…
…there is a physical difference between the white and black races which I believe will forever forbid the two races living together on terms of social and political equality. And inasmuch as they cannot so live, while they do remain together there must be the position of superior and infe- rior, and I as much as any other man am in favor of having the superior position assigned to the white race.” Simply put, Lincoln was never anti- ra...…
…I f someone ever asked me to describe my experience with sexual assault at the University of Michigan, I would tell them being a female student on a college campus has become a position of anxiety, fear and emotional distress. I would tell them that I have seen countless friends’ lives altered because of sexual assault. I would tell them I have had strangers grab my hips and pull me in close at tailgates in broad daylight. I would t...…
…6 Thursday, June 25 , 2020 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com ARTS ALBUM REVIEW ALBUM REVIEW Bob Dylan reckons with the apocalypse On Dec. 13, 1963, Bob Dylan was given the “Tom Paine Award” by the Emergency Civil Liberties Committee for his political activism. A visibly shaken, and likely drunk, Dylan said he accepted the award on behalf of “everybody that went down to Cuba,” then unleashed a doozy: “I got to admit that the man...…
…The New York City Ballet cancelled its famous five-week run of “The Nutcrack- er” Thursday, citing advice from govern- ment officials and medical professionals regarding dangers of the coronavirus. The nixed Christmas spectacle means the company won’t return to the stage until 2021. The news comes with a certain sense of domino-tipping: Who will be next? The Joffrey Ballet in Chicago already can- celled their version of the show, and Sa...…
…8 Thursday, June 25, 2020 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com MICHIGAN IN COLOR South Asians need to be heldaccountablefortheir Anti-Blackness NITHA ARUN & SUBARNA BHATTACHA- RYA MiC Guest Writers The cold didn’t stop anyone from going out during syllabus week. We went to an event hosted by Sigma Beta Rho, a multi- cultural fraternity mainly made up of South Asian males. The DJ was playing a song and the n-word dropped. Without he...…
…9 Thursday, June 25, 2020 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com MICHIGAN IN COLOR Colonial indoctrination and colorism in India SUNITHA PALAT MiC Staff Writer As the Black liberation move- ment gained traction over the past month, I, like many others, have taken time to learn, understand and reflect on the systemic racial prejudice ingrained in this country against Black Americans. However, from a broader perspective, I’ve also tak...…
…10 Thursday, June 25, 2020 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com SPORTS Michigan reports two positive COVID-19 tests from student athletes Of the 221 COVID-19 tests performed on student- athletes as Michigan began its reintroduction of athletes on campus, two came back positive. The univeristy did not reveal which sport those athletes play, but for now only men’s basketball, women’s basketball and football athletes are allowe...…
…11 Thursday, June 25, 2020 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com SPORTS Joe Donovan and Matt Schmidt sign minor league contracts Junior catcher Joe Donovan and redshirt-senior infielder Matthew Schmidt became the fifth and sixth players from Michigan baseball to join the professional ranks, signing with Cleveland Tuesday and Kansas City Wednesday, respectively, as undrafted free agents. Donovan and Schmidt join the other four Wolve...…
…12 Thursday, June 25, 2020 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com MULTIMEDIA Experiencing my small town’s Black Lives Matter protests I grew up in Chelsea Michigan, a small town 20 minutes away from Ann Arbor. Chelsea is a racially homogenous community, and has very few minorities, so when protests for Black Lives Matter started happening in the end of May, I never thought they would happen in my community. Sure, I expected a few...…
…Chinese students in the U.S. have faced a unique set of challenges amid the pandemic, several of which exceed those of their domestic peers: from dealing with hate speech that wrongfully places blame on Chinese immigrants for the pandemic, to the threat of deportation in light of disruptions to their in-person research and academic pursuits. For Chinese graduate students in STEM fields, they face additional concerns from t...…
…Metro-Detroiters march against police brutality Last weekend, The Michigan Daily reporters went to 11 differ- ent protests, driving 269 miles and speaking to almost 100 people in 10 cities about why they came out. Some said it was their first time protesting. Many more said they were used to protests in big cities, but they never expected protests of this magnitude — or even pro- tests in general — in their subur- ban hometowns. Wh...…
…After temporarily closing all locations for almost two months in light of the COVID-19 pandemic, Espresso Royale Coffee has announced all business will permanently cease, including branch operations, catering and online sales. “Some would say that a company that goes out of business has failed; we don’t think so,” their website said. “Since 1987, Espresso Royale has served excellent coffee to millions of customers...…
…now are nothing new. From many past demonstrations — including the 2014 Ferguson protests in Missouri that ush- ered in the Black Lives Matter move- ment to the 1992 Los Angeles riots to the 1965 Watts riots — we are reminded that the stringent acts of racial profil- ing, oppression and violence enacted by police officers on the Black community is a centuries-old problem. As discussed in a recent editorial, modern policing agencies in ...…
…“ When do you think the protests will stop?” My mother asked me this when we were both sitting in the kitchen a few days ago. “Didn’t they arrest the cop who killed that guy? I don’t understand why there are all these violent protests still. And how does it benefit any- one to vandalize a building?” My mother is the daughter of two Cuban immigrants. My father is the proud son of two Cubans who also came to the United States decad...…
…6 Thursday, June 18 , 2020 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com ARTS Confronting a legacy of racism in country Black squares. Thoughts and prayers. “Love,” heart emojis and hashtags. That about sums up the country music communi- ty’s response to the recent uprisings for racial justice that were sparked by the murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery and so many others. Instead of using their platforms to advocate for...…
…Fourteen-year-old Jalaiah Harmon cho- reographed the famous “Renegade” dance in September 2019. She posted it on the social video app Funimate and by October the bouncy set of moves had been recreated on TikTok. It was quickly popularized by influencer Charli D’Amelio and by early 2020 the dance had reached unprecedent- ed stardom. The choreography floated into seemingly every corner of the internet and many offline dance parties. But...…
…8 Thursday, June 18, 2020 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com MICHIGAN IN COLOR Resentment: the politiciation of emotion to liberate the colonied GABRIJELA SKOKO MiC Managing Edtior The revolutionary nature of Glen Sean Coulthard’s book, “Red Skin, White Masks: Rejecting the Colonial Politics of Recogni- tion,” serves as a salute to radical scholar Frantz Fanon’s postcolonial work through its exposure of Canada’s systematic mar-...…
…9 Thursday, June 18, 2020 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com MICHIGAN IN COLOR A brief history of Black Muslims in America NOOR MOUGHNI MiC Staff Writer The American stigma around Islam often recognizes Muslim Americans as a recent addition to the nation, failing to recognize Black Muslims arrived with the first slave ship to reach Virginia’s coast in 1619. The first large influx of Muslim Americans were Black Muslims ca...…
…10 Thursday, June 18, 2020 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com SPORTS Eastern transfer halted by admissions For the Michigan men’s basketball team, Wednesday delivered yet another hiccup in an already bumpy offseason. Just a month after his surprise commitment to the Wolverines, Purdue transfer guard Nojel Eastern announced that he will no longer be heading to Ann Arbor. “I was not admitted to the University because o...…
…11 Thursday, June 18, 2020 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com SPORTS Jackson fronts dynamic special teams When considering Giles Jackson’s game-breaking speed, a few plays come to mind. Sure, there’s the reverse handoff he took 22 yards for a touchdown against Ohio State. Or the 40-yard reception off a wheel route against Alabama in the Citrus Bowl. But when examining Jackson’s full body of work as a freshman last fall, one ...…
…12 Thursday, June 18, 2020 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com SPORTS Rockies draft Blomgren In the fourth round of the 2020 MLB Draft Thursday, the Colorado Rockies selected junior shortstop Jack Blomgren with the 140th overall pick. The Rockies acquired a two- way shortstop with a knack for getting on-base and dynamic infielding capabilities. Blomgren started almost as soon as his freshman campaign began and though he strug...…
…Thursday, June 11, 2020 INDEX Vol. CXXIX, No. 117 © 2020 The Michigan Daily NEWS .................................... OPINION ............................... ARTS/NEWS.......................... MiC......................................... SPORTS................................ MICHIGAN IN COLOR Mass incarceration and Black American health Analysis of U.S. prisons & detriments to the Black community. >> SEE PAGE 8 NEWS Internatio...…
…The University of Michigan hosted a virtual town hall titled “Constructive Conversations for Societal Change” on Friday, in soli- darity with the protests that have erupted across the nation against racism and police brutality. The town hall was moderated by Rob- ert M. Sellers, vice provost of equity and inclusion and chief diversity officer, and focused on providing a platform for the University of Mich- igan community to come toget...…
…Rackham student Aya M. Waller- Bey was sitting in her room in Munger Graduate Residences when she heard someone else moving around in her suite. She got up to find a maintenance man, who told her that work would be done on two rooms inside her suite. Two new residents were expected to move in in a few weeks. “He’s like, ‘Oh, there’s two rooms here we’re going to work on today and also tomorrow,’” Waller- Bey said. “‘We might be getti...…
…W e all know Karen. She is the minority of 30 to 40-year-old white women whose voice is loud despite how misguided and misinformed she is. She exudes entitlement and a superior “Can I speak to the manager?” attitude. She is unafraid to use her privilege as a weapon. In today’s context, she is audibly doubtful of any new COVID-19 research and public-health protocols, especially when her long-overdue salon appointment is at stake....…
…F ollowing George Floyd’s kill- ing late last month, the news that former police officer Derek Chauvin had been arrested and recently charged with second-degree murder was no doubt a positive development. Many prominent national figures, including former presidential candidate Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., have seen it as a sign of progress and a “first step towards justice.” Even though many, including Mr. Floyd’s family, believe th...…
…6 Thursday, June 11 , 2020 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com ARTS On ‘Creole Giselle’, a re- imagined classic ballet Many ballet stories are weird. Swans falling in love, dolls being mis- taken for humans and the Christmas- time obsession with a nut-cracking device all pass as normal. We accept their quirks because their music and choreography are about more than their stories. Adolphe Adam’s “Giselle” is different. “Giselle” has...…
…Pop culture would have us believe that the Venn diagram between sports fans and art nerds is more or less two separate circles. As a humble representative of the tiny sliver in the middle, I want to introduce my friends on both sides to the world of their culturally prescribed adver- sary. There are some similarities between the two that few would expect to find — similarities that, I argue, allow us to view sport as art. Let’s set the...…
…8 Thursday, June 11, 2020 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com MICHIGAN IN COLOR Mass incarceration and Black American health The criminal justice system is one of the chief systems affect- ing Black American health. The country’s prison system and over- policing strategy is not just a way to keep criminals off the streets, it is a large, for-profit institution that gains strength by perpetuating an endless cycle that is almost imp...…
…9 Thursday, June 11, 2020 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com MICHIGAN IN COLOR A letter to our South Asian community SUNITHA PALAT & PRISHA GROVER MiC Staff Writers Black Lives Matter is a peaceful organiza- tion — created after the killing of Trayvon Martin in 2013 — that fights to support Black innovation and excellence and combat acts of violence, which are the result of systemic racism. While the recent protests are cer- tainl...…
…10 Thursday, June 11, 2020 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com SPORTS ‘We were going to win a national championship. That’s what we were gonna do’: An oral history of the 2005 Michigan softball championship The Michigan softball team was tired of simply making it. Entering 2005, the program had been to the Women’s College World Series seven times in the last 10 seasons, yet never finished above fifth place. In a West Coast-domina...…
…11 Thursday, June 11, 2020 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com SPORTS ORAL HISTORY From Page 10A Ritter: We were all exhausted. Marx: I remember being pretty crushed. I cried on the way back to the hotel. Leutele: We were like there’s no way that can happen again. Leutele: I just remember the grit in Jenny Ritter’s face. We were all like, “If she’s gonna do that, who can stop her?” I really think we rallied around that belief. M...…
…12 Thursday, June 11, 2020 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com SPORTS Another year, same result against OSU November. In college football, it’s the month where opportunities are missed, heroes are made and hearts are broken. Two months of success are nullified by catastrophic late-season failures. A season of mediocrity can be forgotten by a Rivalry Week upset. Or, in those rare and special years, a great team can be immortalize...…
…“No Justice. No Peace. No Racist Police.” Over a thousand people gathered around the Detroit Public Safety Headquarters for the March Against the Police on Friday in response to incidents of police brutality across the nation. As they were social distancing and wearing masks, people chanted “No Justice. No Peace. No Racist Police.” People of all ages, races and backgrounds were present to support the Black Lives Matter movem...…
…With the luxury shopping mall Somerset Collection as a back- drop and across the street from a boarded-up Saks Fifth Avenue establishment, approximately 500 predominantly young protesters of all races broke the typical calm of a Monday afternoon in the Metro Detroit suburb of Troy, Mich., chanting, “No justice, no peace, no racist police.” Almost all donning face masks, they joined hundreds of thousands of people in major cities acr...…
