…O n Sunday, March 8, Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., held a campaign rally on the Diag at the University of Michigan in advance of the March 10 Michigan primary. 10,000 people were in attendance at the rally, which consisted of speeches from local, state and national-level offi- cials, and finally from Sanders at the very end. The content of the speeches touched on progressive national issues, the Sanders campaign platform and a unifor...…
…5 Thursday, May 7, 2020 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com 5 OP PINION S ince the start of the COVID- 19 pandemic, governors have had an integral responsibility to keep their constituents safe. From enacting stay-at-home orders to hold- ing press conferences and advocat- ing for their state to receive medical equipment, governors are working tirelessly to protect their states. While some governors, such as New York Gov. Andrew Cu...…
…ARTS 6 Thursday, May 7, 2020 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com This piece is part of a series on “Art during COVID,” an explora- tion of art forms to keep our idle minds creative during this pan- demic. With many of us at home, our minds have ample time to wander, wonder, and create. This series highlights accessible and immersive art forms to both produce and consume during the pandemic months and beyond. My favorite time to be...…
…7 Thursday, May 7, 2020 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com ARTS Netflix’s catalogue hosts a large range of teenage romantic com- edies, films usually based on arche- types who parrot dumbed-down lines about the “important” parts of high school without experiencing a lot of character growth. They’re short and predictable, and because their sole purpose is entertain- ment, they start to blur together. But when a teen film goes beyon...…
…8 Thursday, May 7, 2020 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com MICHIGAN IN COLOR COURTESY OF KENDALL VAN ALLEN How four men fill the racial gap where the institution fails Societal consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic have entirely altered the world of academica. This speaks to the way of life for all students, but particularly students of color and underrepresented students with fewer resources to accomplish their educational g...…
…9 Thursday, May 7, 2020 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com MICHIGAN IN COLOR Wu schools Hollywood with just representation in ‘The Half of It’ CHERYN HONG Managing MiC Editor NETFLIX An immigrant’s Pursuit of ‘Happyness’ NOOR MOUGHNI MiC Columnist Read more at michigandaily.com On May 1, Netflix released a bildungsro- man film entitled “Half of It,” written and directed by Alice Wu, who is known for her previous film, “Saving...…
…Adrien Nunez’ battle back to relevance Last season, on Nov. 12, Adrien Nunez was thrown to the wolves. Following a wrist injury to freshman phenom Franz Wagner, Nunez — a sophomore that barely sniffed the floor the season prior — was thrust into a starting position. A guard with daunting range and 3-point shooting ability, Nunez was billed as a solid force in Michigan’s offense throughout his career. It was the other side of his game...…
…JACOB KOPNICK Daily Sports Editor Thursday, May 7, 2020 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Guard Cole Bajema enters name in transfer portal After one season, freshman guard Cole Bajema is potentially departing Ann Arbor as he submitted his name to the transfer portal, a program spokesperson confirmed to The Daily. After not seeing the floor much during his first year in college basketball, Bajema has decided to test the tran...…
…Thursday, May 7, 2020 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Schoonbee’s Olympic dreams on hold Jessica Schoonbee is bored. She gets up around 7:30 every day — sleeping in compared to her typical rowing schedule at Michigan. She has an iced coffee and toast with peanut butter for breakfast. She tries to squeeze in a workout either before or after her online classes, still only half the amount of training she does during the school ye...…
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…In the middle of the Michigan League’s Maizie’s Kitchen & Market, a dozen undergraduate students huddled around a laptop to sign in for their canvassing shifts. The small group decided to brave the January blizzard and knock doors for Solomon Rajput, a 27-year-old Ann Arbor native who put his medical studies on hold for a year to challenge Rep. Debbie Dingell, D-Mich., for Michigan’s 12th congressional seat. Dingell has repre...…
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…November has come and gone, and Yandhi left with it. Despite enthusiastic words from Kim Kardashian, it was no surprise that Kanye West’s supposed ninth studio album did not appear on streaming services this Black Friday, a fact his legions had earlier been forced to come to terms with after Mr. West took to Twitter to go back on his wife’s promise. All signs point to Yandhi being a spiritual sequel of sorts to Kanye’s 2013 ...…
…6A — Saturday, May 2, 2020 Michigan in Color The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com The Neutral White Population CYDNEY GARDNER-BROWN 2017 MiC Contributor ‘The white rice was excellent. Followed the directions on the bag perfectly. Way to go.’ Courtesy of Hunter Zhao ARTS over the YEARS Bis etum il ius eliquam usaerum eium velicti comnit dunt, tota que consequo is essunture dolor molesti beriore, il ea ne plab ipsae excero te volor...…
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…8-Sports 8A — Saturday, May 2, 2020 Sports The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Beilein leaves ‘M’ for Cleveland with an unmistakable legacy The last time the Michigan had to replace its head coach, the program was unrecognizable to those familiar with the current Wolverines. Michigan in 2007 had barely scraped relevance since the breakup of the Fab Five in 1993. It hadn’t made the NCAA Tournament since 1998 — an appearance later ...…
…Third-year Medical student Paris Rollins was in the middle of clinical rotations at Henry Ford Hospital, working 9-hour shifts in the Emergency Medicine Department, when she found out that the University of Michigan’s Medical School would be pulling all students out of rotations. “I felt this dread in the pit of my stomach,” Rollins said. “(The announcement) felt unprecedented in what could happen next.” Two d...…
…2 — Tuesday, April 21, 2020 News The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com At a press conference Monday afternoon, Gov. Gretchen Whitmer announced the creation of a task force dedicated to addressing racial disparities in COVID-19 related deaths. 40 percent of reported coronavirus deaths in the state are Black residents, though Black people make up only 14 percent of the state’s total population. Whitmer said while statewide ...…
…Tuesday, April 21, 2020 — 3 News The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com FINANCE From Page 1 Read more at MichiganDaily.com “So what we’re able to do is educate the public about creative arts that are happening inside prisons.” In addition, students involved in PCAP organized correspondence to people who are incarcerated, among other forms of activism and engagement. Executive board members for PCAP also created a mutual ...…
…W hile many parts of the world are now experiencing emotional darkness and instability, Israeli occupied territory is uniquely vulnerable to a coronavirus outbreak. With only four hours of electricity available each day, the lights have been out in Gaza for 13 years. In 2007, Israel and Egypt imposed a land, air and sea blockade of the Gaza Strip after Hamas took control of the territory, leaving Gaza’s ap...…
…Tuesday, April 21, 2020 — 5 Arts The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com The funny thing is, oranges aren’t really even in season right now. Yet lately I can’t seem to get enough of them. My family has been buying sacks and sacks of oranges; I grab one every time I head out on a walk, the juice making my fingers freeze in the brisk Northeastern April air. Or I have one at 2 a.m., the orange residue working its way under my fing...…
…Tayarisha Poe’s debut feature film “Selah and the Spades” is an ancient, familiar story. It’s about legacy and vice. It’s about power — how you get it, how you keep it, how you lose it. It’s stylish and Shakespearean, featuring crime kingpins, bootleg rackets, snitches and plenty of stitches … but also prom, senior pranks and AP bio tests. As it so happens, “Selah and the Spades” is a mob movie wearing the clothes of your standa...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com 7 — Tuesday, April 21, 2020 Sports ZAKYI, OSMAN From Page 8 Zakyi knows this easily could’ve been him. “I was one of the luckiest that went through and got selected,” he said. “I know there are a lot of talents back home that have so much potential. I know a lot of the guys that went through the tryouts, they all went back home and they go home to nothing. “That’s why it’ll always be ...…
…8 — Tuesday, April 21, 2020 Sports The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com From Ghana to Ann Arbor, Osman and Zakyi don’t forget their past The ball was often makeshift, a few paper bags knotted together or a pile of folded clothes tightly wound by rubber bands. The children kicked it around with their bare feet, the bottoms caked with dust and sand. The street was their pitch, and the kids scurried in and out of oncoming...…
…Since the University of Michigan moved classes online March 11, both students and professors have had to adjust. For professors with families, teaching classes virtually and maintaining research projects has created unique and unprecedented situations when combined with childcare. Meghan Duffy, a professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology who has three children under the age of 10, explained that th...…
…2 — Monday, April 20, 2020 News The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com The Michigan Daily (ISSN 0745-967) is published Monday through Friday during the fall and winter terms by students at the University OF Michigan. One copy is available free of charge to all readers. Additional copies may be picked up at the Daily’s office for $2. Subscriptions for September-April are $250 and year long subscriptions are $275. University affiliates are ...…
…The question of who will lead LSA SG comes down to code technicalities and a few social media posts. But for the four candidates awaiting the CSJ’s decision, they said in documents and interviews that the decision raises larger questions about power, politics, equal application of rules and free speech on campus. Who posted what and when? Forty minutes after the polls opened April 1, Bazzi sent two identical GroupMe m...…
…Observed by Muslims, the holy month of Ramadan sets forth a month of fasting, spiritual reflection and personal growth. Muslims are intrinsically joined together by group prayers, shared meals and charitable activities, propelling the meaning of Ramadan through connectedness. Exemplifying this connectedness is Dearborn, Mich., one of the largest Muslim communities in the U.S. Encapsulating the unique experience th...…
…A s of April 2020, we can all recognize that Michigan is in a state of turmoil. The protest against Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s stay-at-home decision in East Lansing, Mich. demonstrated the political unrest of some Michigan citizens. COVID- 19 has left our campus a ghost town. The fulfilling sense of community we once enjoyed dissipated beginning in mid- March. Not only are we facing unprecedented obstacles in co...…
…The Strokes are a transportive band, not just in the tongue-in-cheek nostalgia of their stylistic references, but in the way their music can fixate you in memories. Of course, the music we hear at one time in our lives inherently grounds itself in our memories of that time, but this fact could not be more personally applicable to Is This It, the band’s bittersweet debut album, released in 2001. Despite the youthful, incand...…
…7 — Friday, April 17, 2020 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Monday, April 20, 2020 - 7 Study abroad in a pandemic: a timeline MARCH 4 Cases in Spain rose to 228 with 76 in Madrid. It became a habit that everyone would reload the Spanish news websites live-reporting on the current number of cases in the city. Everything in our lives had become “wait and see” and the only concrete information that we could look at ...…
…8 — Monday, April 20, 2020 Multimedia The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com PHOTO ESSAY MARCH 8 202 cases in Madrid, 644 in Spain. Public transport danger became our major topic of con- versation along with the view of health care in the country. We had been told over and over about the difference in person- al space definition in Spain in comparison to the US, and at this point, it became a reason to suspect that Madrid ...…
…The Michigan Fashion Media Summit held its annual conference on Thursday via Zoom webinar. MFMS had rescheduled their original in-person event as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. The student-run group was set to host more than 650 people at the Ross School of Business featuring 16 speakers on March 20. Thursday afternoon’s webinar hosted Caroline Gogolak, vice president of retail at SoulCycle and co-founder of Carb...…
…studies departments at the University. Linh Song, board president of the Ann Arbor District Library, is the sole candidate for Ward 2, the seat currently held by Jane Lumm, I-Ward 2. In Ward 3, Travis Radina, an LGBTQ+ activist, Anthony Brown, the digital distribution manager at WDET and Evan Redmond, a targeting analyst are running for the seat currently held by Zachary Ackerman, D-Ward 3. Ackerman is not running for re-...…
…Friday, April 17, 2020 — 3 News The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com LAB From Page 1 CITY From Page 2 FASHION From Page 1 “It’s been an incredibly wild ride, especially during these crazy times the world is going through,” Gogolak said. “But I’m very grateful to be a part of their leadership team and to help the company through this.” Gogolak said adapting the company to the current situation is about communication. She sa...…
…A fter four hours of driving from my overnight stop in Des Moines, Iowa, I crossed the Big Muddy into my home state of Nebraska. The leafless gray trees paired with the overcast sky made the usually lush riverbank appear strikingly different from how I had always seen it driving to and from my mom’s apartment in Denver. The view was yet another change brought on by the coronavirus’s dizzyingly rapid transformation...…
…Friday, April 17, 2020 — 5 Arts The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com MUSIC BOX FILMS MUSIC REVIEW Given the current circumstances, the future for small music scenes like hardcore is uncertain. Gigs can’t be played and bands can’t be paid, so what are bands to do? Recorded releases give a band an audience, but records are expensive and don’t pay the bills; performances pay the bills, and now bands can’t perform, leaving them...…
…Friday, April 17, 2020 — 6 Arts The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Peter Kispert’s debut collection of short stories is linked together by characters who, in one way or another, lie to their loved ones. These lies are sometimes huge and elaborately maintained for months. The title story, for instance, is about a narrator who makes up a friend so that his boyfriend doesn’t think he’s lonely. When the narrator’s boyf...…
…7 — Friday, April 17, 2020 Sports The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Hold Manuel accountable for mishandling allegations Former Michigan wrestler Tad Deluca wanted a listening ear. He wanted to tell someone what had happened to him, and he wanted accountability. His coach at the time didn’t listen. His athletic director didn’t, either. Deluca was forced to watch as then-wrestling coach Bill Johan...…
…8 — Friday, April 17, 2020 Sports The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com ‘It doesn’t feel real’: ‘M’ Olympians adapting after postponement Maddy Steere was somewhere over the Indian Ocean when her world began to change. She thought she knew what the next five months would hold. For Steere and the rest of the Australian water polo team, those five months were carefully curated years in advance, every action and every ca...…
…On March 20, Acting Provost Susan Collins announced in an email that all undergraduate courses at the University of Michigan would be graded “Pass” or “No Record Covid,” with an option to withdraw from a course until April 21 without the course appearing on their transcript. Students will also have the option to unmask their grades by submitting a request by July 1. In light of the new policy change, many students told T...…
…2 — Thursday, April 16, 2020 News The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com The Michigan Daily (ISSN 0745-967) is published Monday through Friday during the fall and winter terms by students at the University OF Michigan. One copy is available free of charge to all readers. Additional copies may be picked up at the Daily’s office for $2. Subscriptions for September-April are $250 and year long subscriptions are $275. University affiliates ar...…
…“It already did in those two examples (of hospital and bus troubles), but we know that when people gather that way without masks — they were in close proximity, they were touching one another — that’s how COVID-19 spreads. The sad irony here is that the protest was that they don’t like being in this stay-home order and they may have just created a need to lengthen it, which is something that we’re trying to avoid at all...…
…G oing into the summer, for many of us, means even more changes in an increasingly turbulent pandemic. Coronavirus hotspots are shifting, and those who are left on campus will soon be returning to their hometowns, for better or worse. As Michigan continues to see increasingly deadly days, it is vital that we keep in mind the groups at highest risk, including LGBTQ+ people. Just about everyone is struggling in some for...…
…Thursday, April 16, 2020 — 5 Arts The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com NETFLIX FILM REVIEW Netflix has long been an excellent source of cheesy rom-coms, those delightful 90-minute movies that you can watch all the way through while half paying attention to something else and still feel the satisfaction of a feel-good ending and a dramatic kiss. With “Love Wedding Repeat,” Netflix has delivered another one of these movi...…
…Thursday, April 16, 2020 — 6 Arts The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Throughout my self-isolation during the COVID-19 pandemic, I’ve had a limitless amount of time to read books, do schoolwork and finish household chores. However, instead of doing literally any of those activities, I’ve mainly just lounged around and taken this newfound time to myself to sample different kinds of local, domestic and international bee...…
…Civil rights activist Reverend Al Sharpton called on the University of Michigan to release a report on the number of African Americans involved in the management of the school’s endowment in a letter to University President Mark Schlissel and Chief Investment Officer Erik Lundberg last month. Sharpton, writing on behalf of his organization, the National Action Network, requested diversity data both on University s...…
…2A — Wednesday, April 15, 2020 News The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com The Michigan Daily (ISSN 0745-967) is published Monday through Friday during the fall and winter terms by students at the University OF Michigan. One copy is available free of charge to all readers. Additional copies may be picked up at the Daily’s office for $2. Subscriptions for September-April are $250 and year long subscriptions are $275. University affiliates ...…
…Wednesday, April 15, 2020 — 3A News The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Challengers to Eaton include Jen Eyer, a former journalist for MLive and the Ann Arbor News, and Mozhgan Savabieasfahani, an environmental toxicologist. Erica Briggs and Dan Michniewicz are running for the Ward 5 seat, which is currently occupied by Chip Smith, D-Ward 5. All candidates participated in the forum. Jack Eaton, Democrat for Ward 4...…
