…N obody should have to choose between their vote and their health, but Wisconsin voters faced this decision due to reckless and politically-motivated actions taken by the Republican Party and a complicit United States Supreme Court. As COVID-19 forces stay-at- home orders and social distancing, numerous states have postponed their primary elections in the name of public health. This is the right decision. Having pe...…
…Wednesday, April 15, 2020 — 5A Arts The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com SAM JUNE COMMUNITY CULTURE NOTEBOOK If you’ve been to Rick’s, you’ve probably seen Sam June dancing. A second-year master’s student in electrical engineering, June takes the stage for hours every weekend. Unusually, though, he usually dances alone and sober. While many people go to Rick’s for sloppy make-outs and cheap drinks, he goes to find so...…
…Wednesday, April 15, 2020 — 6A Arts The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com In response to the coronavirus pandemic, “Grey’s Anatomy” halted production on their season, before eventually cutting it short by four episodes. While it wasn’t the ending that was planned, the Season 16 finale of “Grey’s” was a satisfying one. Time and time again, the longest running medical drama in the history of television has proved its ability to piv...…
…statement THE MICHIGAN DAILY | APRIL 15, 2020 ILLUSTRATION BY MICHELLE FAN …
…Wednesday, April 15, 2020 // The Statement 2B Managing Statement Editor Magdalena Mihaylova Deputy Editors Emily Stillman Marisa Wright Associate Editor Reece Meyhoefer Designers Elizabeth Bigham Kate Glad Copy Editors Madison Gagne Sadia Jiban Photo Editor Keemya Esmael Editor in Chief Elizabeth Lawrence Managing Editor Erin White I f there’s one good thing that comes out of this quarantine, it’ll be the litt...…
…3B Wednesday, April 15, 2020 // The Statement 3B O ver the past two weeks, my campus house has had 200 multivitamins, 48 beers, 10 bottles of wine, seven pints of ice cream, four bags of chips, two Monster energy drinks and one gallon of spring water delivered to our doorstep. It’s a grocery haul far too depraved for Instacart or Shipt. We’ve been abusing goPuff, the millennial- catering-convenience-delivery-gig- business, wi...…
…T he muezzin’s call rang out over the masjid speakers, reciting the Islamic kalima, or statement of faith, and my mother grabbed my hand as we separated from my father and brother to answer the call to prayer. It was one of the occasional times my family went to our mosque in Miami, but at age eight, I was already aware that we were walking to the women’s section behind the men’s, separated by a row of dividers across the middle o...…
…Wednesday, April 15, 2020 // The Statement 6B W here are you from?” is a hard question for me to answer. “Do you mean, where do I live right now?” is usually my most common rebuttal. I don’t mean to be difficult, I just want to provide an honest response. For me, it’s tricky to stick to a consistent story, and I try not to get too bogged down in the details. Before I turned 18, I had already lived in 12 different houses and...…
…O n March 11, I sat in my small, dimly-lit apartment watching ESPN as footage came in of health officials sprinting out onto the court of Chesapeake Energy Arena in Oklahoma City, setting off a delay. Minutes earlier there was no official explanation for the delay to the start of Jazz vs. Thunder, but now there was — Jazz center Rudy Gobert tested positive for coronavirus. Sports actualized the threat of COVID-19 to the Ame...…
…Wednesday, April 15, 2020 // The Statement 8B VISUAL STATEMEN T: N A T I O N A L P A R K S BY ALICE LIU …
…Washtenaw County has more than 700 cases of COVID-19 as of this week. While residents who identify as African American or Black make up 12.4 percent of the county population, 48 percent of hospitalized cases are residents who identify as African American or Black. This pattern is consistent in coronavirus cases across that state and the nation. Detroit has almost 7,000 cases of COVID-19 and close to 400 deaths. Of th...…
…2 — Tuesday, April 14, 2020 News The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com The Senate Advisory Committee on University Affairs met Monday afternoon via BlueJeans to discuss a meeting SACUA had with University of Michigan President Mark Schlissel earlier that morning. Members also heard statements from SACUA members running for chair and vice chair. During the meeting with Schlissel, SACUA members said they asked the president ...…
…Tuesday, April 14, 2020 — 3 News The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com ESSENTIAL From Page 1 Read more at MichiganDaily.com COVID-19 From Page 1 Some are our dining hall staff, making sure students who remain in the residence halls can still depend on takeout meals. And some are our bus drivers, ensuring no matter how disorienting the world may get, you can still miss the bus to North Campus. Here are some of the many Univers...…
…4 — Tuesday, April 14, 2020 Opinion The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Alanna Berger Zack Blumberg Brittany Bowman Emily Considine Jess D’Agostino Jenny Gurung Cheryn Hong Krystal Hur Ethan Kessler Zoe Phillips Mary Rolfes Michael Russo Timothy Spurlin Miles Stephenson Joel Weiner Erin White ERIN WHITE Managing Editor Stanford Lipsey Student Publications Building 420 Maynard St. Ann Arbor, MI 48109 tothedaily@michigandaily.com...…
…Opinion The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com 5 — Tuesday, April 14, 2020 ANIK JOSHI | COLUMN EMILY ULRICH | COLUMN S en. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., will not be the Democratic nominee for president in 2020, just as he wasn’t the nominee in 2016. The 2016 run was the first time a number of left-wing ideas were reintroduced in the public square and they (and Sanders) consistently polled well. Though Hillary Clinton won t...…
…“Tigertail” is a triumph. As in the best movies, its characters leap off the screen and will be remembered like old friends. The story in “Tigertail” is so fleshed out, so filled with emotion, that it feels like a memoir, not a fictional narrative. The film tells the life story of Pin-Jui, a Taiwanese immigrant to the US. It flashes between Pin-Jui’s elderly self, played excellently by Tzi Ma (“Arrival”) and his memories — ch...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com 7 — Tuesday, April 14, 2020 Sports ‘One of those classic races’: Kevin Sullivan and the 2000 Olympics Kevin Sullivan stood at the line and took it all in. It was the Canadian’s first Olympic games, and it was electric. 110,000 people filled Stadium Australia on the night of Sept. 29, 2000. They were anxiously waiting to see one of the deepest fields in Olympic history try to capture glo...…
…8 — Tuesday, April 14, 2020 Sports The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Quinten Johnson preparing for bigger role in sophomore year Quinten Johnson knew that he didn’t go to Michigan to star as a freshman. Recruited as a multi-dimensional four- star defensive back in the Wolverines’ 2019 class, he knew he wouldn’t immediately usurp their crop of established starters. What he didn’t know is that he would spend h...…
…LSA senior Jacob Chludzinski has spent the last few weeks hunkered down in the comfort of his family home in Clinton Township, Mich., keeping up with schoolwork, finalizing plans for after graduation and enjoying family time. “Although the current situation is unfortunate, I am glad I have the opportunity to be safe at home with my family,” Chludzinski said. “The main shift has been trying to become accustomed to the ...…
…2 — Monday, April 13, 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 ...…
…Government officials, at both the federal and state levels, have requested that families “stay home, save lives” to slow the spread of COVID-19, and to protect themselves, and those around them. Back in March, Michigan Medicine displayed a graphic showing how we can flatten the curve (slow the spread of COVID-19): if communities work together to slow the spread of this virus, the number of cases will stretch out across ...…
…S helter-in-place: day one. I felt exceedingly optimistic. I was free from the binding shackles of my three jobs and 18 credits, and I now had time to do things I was forced to neglect. During the week, I would be able to devote more time to studying for each of my classes, and I could enhance my understanding of the lecture material by engaging more in-depth. I could dedicate my weekends to self-care and relaxation. I f...…
…A s an introvert, I have been in some way, shape or form preparing for this moment for my entire life. I had used Zoom before a few of my classes made the switch to virtual meetings on the platform, and I was no stranger to the virtual learning world. I used Google Hangouts before it was cool or necessary. I regularly swipe through videos on TikTok, which is apparently a quintessential Generation Z activity. And sti...…
…A camera looks out onto a dimly lit living room. The frame is slightly unlevel, tilted up toward the right. In the bottom corner, a candle flickers; its shadow dances over the comfortable white drapes at the end of the room. Deep piano music starts, and a woman walks into view. She’s dressed simply: just shorts and a tank top. She starts to lunge toward the left, but then the video quickly changes to a different woman. This t...…
…On March 23, University President Mark Schlissel notified the University of Michigan community that spring and summer terms classes would be conducted remotely. Despite the move to continue online instruction, tuition for the spring/summer terms will remain the same, University spokesman Rick Fitzgerald told The Daily. “There will be no changes in tuition and fees for the spring/summer terms,” Fitzgerald wrote in an ema...…
…2 — Friday, April 10, 2020 News The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com In a webinar delivered to more than 2,000 University of Michigan alumni and business professionals, Lindy Greer, associate professor and faculty director of the Sanger Leadership Center, explained how remote working can change a workspace for the better by allowing for productive team communication and organized leadership. In her discussion...…
…electric, and improving energy efficiency in homes, businesses, schools, places of worship, recreational sites and government facilities. Ann Arbor Mayor Christopher Taylor said the plan will be disruptive, but will create a community that better incorporates its values of sustainability and equity. “Ann Arbor 2030 will be materially different than Ann Arbor 2020,” Taylor said. “It’ll be a denser community, a more ...…
…B eing able to witness a pandemic like COVID-19 in our lifetime has been both a dream and a nightmare for me. For many public health students, a real-life pandemic is everything our education has been building toward. In every class, we are reminded of our predecessors who created the polio vaccine and eradicated the source of cholera way back when. We are constantly empowered to work for communities that are the most vu...…
…Friday, April 10, 2020 — 5 Arts The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com BOOKS NOTEBOOK “OK, Boomer,” I mutter, as I follow Laurence Cook, a senile Iowan farmer who foolishly attempts to divide his agricultural empire among his three daughters, with disastrous consequences. If this story sounds familiar, that’s because you’ve likely heard it before: It’s the plot of Jane Smiley’s 1991 novel “A Thousand Acres,” which in turn is an ...…
…Friday, April 10, 2020 — 6 Arts The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com There’s no better time to play “Animal Crossing: New Horizons” than when you’re trapped at home with little to do. The same can be said for most video games, but especially so for “New Horizons”; no better game could have been released on March 20, 2020. Animal Crossing is often called a “life-simulation” game, but calling it a “personalization” or “cu...…
…7 — Friday, April 10, 2020 Sports The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com The complications of playing football this fall Of all the people within college football, Chip Kelly provided a font of wisdom on Thursday. “The governors of the states and mayors are going to be the ones who tell you whether we can (come back),” the UCLA coach told reporters Thursday. “Because the NCAA can say, ‘Hey, you guys are all...…
…8 — Friday, April 10, 2020 Sports The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com What Michigan’s young corps learned from national team tryouts Three players from the 2019 Michigan volleyball roster were invited to the USA College National Team tryouts. In the fall, they accounted for a combined 56.8 percent of the Wolverines’ kills, 48.4 percent of their blocks and 44.6 percent of their serving aces. Another key fact about them: ...…
…For Rackham student Stephanie Pistorius, living on-campus with her husband during the time of COVID-19 has been full of uncertainty. She said she was not prepared for the impact on lab research, though she had been following the news in the weeks leading up to the University of Michigan’s announcement of the cancellation of in-person classes. “(The announcement) felt focused on undergrads,” Pistorius said...…
…News The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com The Central Student Government Student Organization Funding Committee distributes $500,000 to student organizations every semester on a refund system. With student organizations canceling all in-person events following Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s “Stay Home, Stay Safe” Executive Order and the University of Michigan’s recommendation that students return home, it has pivoted to r...…
…Costas Lyssiotis, a molecular and integrative physiology professor and Ph.D. adviser, runs a lab that studies cancer cells in order to form targeted therapies to improve the immune system. Many of these experiments take multiple months and involve mice that need to be periodically monitored. Some of his lab members have set up a Google Calendar and take turns going into the lab in order to keep collecting ...…
…T he future is disturbingly uncertain, yet it’s the only thing to think about. When will things go back to normal? Soon, but also never. This generation of young people will be feeling the effects of the pandemic for a long time and the experience of living through it is going to shape the way they see their lives and the world forever. College seniors — who had their last months on campus and their graduation taken aw...…
…Thursday, April 9, 2020 — 5 Arts The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com MCA NASHVILLE MUSIC REVIEW If you were a country music fan in 2014, you either loved, or loved to hate, Sam Hunt. His unabashed devotion to mashing R&B into country music and his clean cut, city-boy image made for scathing fan debate fodder. Whether you sang along to his clever twists of phrasing out loud or under your breath, Hunt’s music was unavoidable....…
…Thursday, April 9, 2020 — 6 Arts The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Last spring, no one could have predicted the economic downfall we currently find our country in. Meanwhile, broadcast television networks have been developing sitcoms based on the premise that everyone has extended family just one questionable investment or medical misfortune away from being forced to consolidate under one roof. This kind of uncertain econ...…
…In recent weeks, businesses have closed their doors and restaurants have been forced to move to takeout only as residents have taken to self-isolation, all to slow the spread of COVID-19 as the Center for Disease Control and Prevention’s guidelines recommend. However, homeless shelters in Ann Arbor remain open, in full operation and at capacity. Sarah Paspal-Jasinski, director of development at the Shelter Associat...…
…News The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com During the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, students and young professionals from around the world have come together to form a global movement called #Students_Against_ COVID, which is dedicated to bringing students and allies together to spread awareness about the severity of the virus. They strive to facilitate effective and socially responsible collaboration and innovation...…
…Wednesday, April 8, 2020 — 3A News The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com This decision has no impact on Whitmer’s stay-at-home order, which is still set to end April 14. Whitmer told reporters after the vote that the extension isn’t as long as she hoped, but the legislature can always extend it again at a later date, according to the Detroit Free Press. Whitmer said extending the emergency declaration protects the state...…
…M arch 27 marked the day the United States officially surpassed every other country in confirmed cases of COVID-19. That day alone, over 3,000 people died globally, pushing the total death count past 27,000. And yet, as thousands lose their lives every day, I have seen one phrase circulate more than almost any other, second only to “wash your hands” — “we are the virus, and coronavirus is the cure.” Beside insinuating t...…
…Movies are projections. Yes, literally, in the sense of filmstock and screens and projectors and bulbs. But movies can also be projections of ourselves — a momentary snapshot of the internal, the introspective, the metaphysical. Given the circumstances, we as the film beat are seeing less literal projections in movie theaters and doing more projecting ourselves. So what are we thinking about? Among them are “Wicked,” Dcoms (Dis...…
…The music of Rory Ferreira has seen quite the evolution since his debut mixtape in 2012. Under the moniker milo, he’s transitioned from a style of hip-hop tinged with nerdiness to now embracing art and jazz rap. His side project Scallops Hotel was created to develop his more abstruse side, lyrically and in terms of production. He has made the leap from independent artist to founder of his own record label. Throughout his incre...…
…‘Tell your grandparents to vote for Bernie’: a call left unanswered statement THE MICHIGAN DAILY | APRIL 8, 2020 ILLUSTRATION BY CHRISTINE JEGARL …
…Wednesday, April 8, 2020 // The Statement 2B Managing Statement Editor Magdalena Mihaylova Deputy Editors Emily Stillman Marisa Wright Associate Editor Reece Meyhoefer Designers Elizabeth Bigham Kate Glad Copy Editors Madison Gagne Sadia Jiban Photo Editor Keemya Esmael Editor in Chief Elizabeth Lawrence Managing Editor Erin White I t was a Saturday afternoon. My family had been playing mahjong — a complex game...…
…3B Wednesday, April 8, 2020 // The Statement3B W hen my grandpa passed away over two months ago, one of my friends asked if we were close. I remember responding, “You know in school when you’re asked to write about a person who inspires you? He has always been that person for me.” Throughout my life, my grandpa, Charles VanHampler, inspired me in many ways. In the way he patiently raised five daughters in a two bedroom and one b...…
…T here is nothing like a good romantic comedy to make you reevaluate your love life. Watching any movie with a boy- meets-girl plot results in what my mother calls an “I’m going to die fat, broke and alone” moment, as terrible as that sounds. It’s the kind of feeling that makes you want any semblance of validation immediately, especially from a potential romantic partner. In one of these moments during my freshman year of colleg...…
…Wednesday, April 8, 2020 // The Statement 6B I don’t remember when I fell in love with running. I cannot remember my first run or my first pair of running sneakers. Early on, I recall equating running to a mundanity, something I did to stay in shape and keep active as an incredibly uncoordinated individual who failed when it came to team sports. As a child, I hadn’t discovered the runner’s high or that sweaty addiction. But betwe...…
…O n March 25, I boarded a flight from Detroit to Southern California, where I grew up. The airport was eerily empty, the Transportation Security Administration workers wore masks and televisions throughout the terminal were broadcasting the latest fatality numbers of COVID-19. Rolling my suitcase to my gate, the few people in the terminal gave each other a wide berth, exchanging nervous yet empathetic half- smiles. This is weird, ever...…
