…12 Thursday, June 14 2018 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com SPORTS With 100 meters to go in the men’s 10,000-meter national championship race, Ben Flanagan was in second place and on the move. Trailing pre-meet favorite Vincent Kiprop of Alabama, the fifth-year senior on the Michigan men’s track and field team found an extra gear. He began to accelerate, narrowing the gap with each stride. With just 10 meters to go, Flanag...…
…michigandaily.com Thursday, June 7, 2018 INDEX Vol. CXXVII, No. 119 | © 2018 The Michigan Daily michigandaily.com NEWS .................................... OPINION ............................... ARTS/PHOTO ...................... MiC......................................... SPORTS................................ MICHIGAN IN COLOR Why ‘Dear White People’ is impor- tant “I loved every second of it.” >> SEE PAGE 9 NEWS U-M Abroad Ac...…
…2 Thursday, June 7, 2018 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com NEWS Council Discusses Game Day Condos Councilmembers review zoning laws By SAYALI AMIN Daily Staff Reporter On Monday June 4, Ann Arbor City Council convened to discuss a variety of issues, including the Unified Development Code as well as implications of zoning laws on the proposed construction of new game- day condos. The revision of the UDC was first brought up b...…
…3 NEWS Thursday, June 7, 2018 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Event honors community Downtown festival celebrates African American businesses By ROB DALKA Daily Staff Reporter On Saturday, the 23rd annual African American Downtown Festival was held in Kerrytown on the streets of East Ann and North Fourth. Started by Lucille Hall-Porter, the festival is a celebration of African Amer- ican culture and the local African...…
…4 Thursday, June 7, 2018 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com OPINION 420 Maynard St. Ann Arbor, MI 48109 tothedaily@michigandaily.com Edited and managed by students at the University of Michigan since 1890. I spent this past weekend moving into a new house, “new” meaning not yet lived in by me, but old by all other standards. My father and I rolled up our sleeves and got to work, climbing up and down three stories, arms fille...…
…MARLEE BURRIDGE | COLUMN J ust as ticket prices appear to impact the public’s opinion of women’s sports, so does the sports media. There is little to no coverage of women’s athletics and that leads to a lack of investment, interest and education on the part of the public. It becomes extremely difficult to generate support when the big inf luencers in sports media disregard any important events that happen in the female ...…
…6 Thursday, June 7, 2018 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com ARTS I lingered in the Michigan Theater’s main auditorium last Thursday after the screening of Bo Burnham’s directorial debut, “Eighth Grade.” A crowd of teenagers, young adults and retirees had just finished giving Burnham a standing ovation after his short Q&A and were now streaming out the back of the theater while I fought to make my way to the front. Not a ...…
…7 Thursday, June 7, 2018 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com ARTS At risk of sounding nostalgic, I don’t know if there’s anything better in life than re-living a seemingly perfect memory. Your mind might wander to that familiar place, or the feeling is unwittingly triggered, or you consciously recall it. Either way, for several fleeting seconds, our brain is entirely consumed with the unmatched sights, sounds and emotions of ...…
…8 Thursday, June 7, 2018 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com PHOTO 1014 VAUGHN AVAIL Fall 2018 #1 is being rented by the room for $700/m including utilities If you have a group of 5, rent the whole unit for $3100 plus Electric to DTE #2 is a 6 Bdrm for $3720 plus Electric to DTE • 734‑996‑1991 1015 PACKARD 4 Bdrm Apt Avail Fall 2018 2 parking space, onsite laundry, 1st floor $2830 + Electric to DTE • 734‑996‑1991 422 HAMILTON 2 & 3...…
…9 Thursday June 7, 2018 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com MICHIGAN IN COLOR Voices of Hong Kong, Rise Up When I was younger, the modern history of China, or the People’s Republic of China, including the 1989 democracy movement and Tiananmen Square mas- sacre, was briefly taught in schools in Hong Kong. My curiosity about this taboo history of China was sparked, so I casu- ally brought it up in front of my parents. When I as...…
…10 Thursday, June 7, 2018 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com SPORTS To put it bluntly, the bookends of the Michigan baseball team’s season were a disaster. The Wolverines started their season 4-11, a mark they won’t soon forget, and ended it 2-7. However, in the middle portion, Michigan found itself successful in amassing a 20-game win streak. In a rebuilding season, the Wolverines faced almost everything you can experience in b...…
…11 Thursday, June 7, 2018 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com SPORTS KATELYN MULCHAY / DAILY The Michigan baseball team faced almost everything possible on a baseball field from walk-off wins to brutal losses this season Michigan baseball season in reivew Coming off the back of a second NCAA Tournament appearance in three years and their first 40-win season since 2008, head coach Erik Bakich and the Michigan baseball team were looki...…
…12 Thursday, June 7 2018 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com SPORTS After heavy speculation into his rumored departure, Michigan coach John Beilein unequivocally announced his plans to stay with the Wolverines for the foreseeable future. Rumors recently surfaced of Beilein’s potential move further east in the state of Michigan to undertake the head coaching job for the Detroit Pistons. After firing coach Stan Van Gun...…
…michigandaily.com Thursday, May 31, 2018 INDEX Vol. CXXVII, No. 118 | © 2018 The Michigan Daily michigandaily.com NEWS .................................... OPINION ............................... ARTS/NEWS ......................... MiC......................................... SPORTS................................ MICHIGAN IN COLOR Real Representation “It’s hard to be a strong woman. Even harder to be a strong Black woman.” >> SEE...…
…2 Thursday, May 31, 2018 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com NEWS U-M responds to free speech lawsuit ‘U’ argues programs and policies are misrepresented By RACHEL CUNNINGHAM Summer Daily News Editor Amid a federal lawsuit filed by the organization Speech First against the University of Michigan’s Bias Response Team, the University has responded, claiming the lawsuit has mischaracterized University policies and programs. Spee...…
…3 NEWS Thursday, May 31, 2018 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com New dispensary in AA Licensing changes allow for new marijuana facility By RACHEL CUNNINGHAM Summer Daily News Editor Amid a new Michigan licens- ing act and an updated Ann Arbor ordinance, a new mari- juana dispensary has opened near the University of Michi- gan’s campus. Green Planet dispenses medical marijuana to registered patients and is located at 70...…
…4 Thursday, May 31, 2018 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com OPINION 420 Maynard St. Ann Arbor, MI 48109 tothedaily@michigandaily.com Edited and managed by students at the University of Michigan since 1890. I n 2016, it was estimated that opioid overdoses killed more Americans than the Vietnam and Iraq wars combined. The Michigan-OPEN website which keeps track of roughly how many opioid-related deaths occur each day. At the ...…
…A month ago, University of Michigan Jewish leadership organization Hillel was celebrating Israel on the Diag with flags and a photo booth cutout of Israelis riding a camel. Meanwhile, the past few weeks have been a time of suffering and remembrance for Palestine and its diaspora as it reflects on the 70th anniversary of “Al Nakba,” or “The Catastrophe” in Arabic. Al Nakba was the exodus of more than 700,000 Palestin...…
…6 Thursday, May 31, 2018 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com ARTS HOPELESS Rap releases of 5/25 are varied William Ryan Key talks life after Yellowcard, EP MUSIC REVIEW Stepping out as a solo artist can be daunting for a musician, especially for one who has spent over a decade being associated with a particular band. Luckily, Ryan Key is up to the task. Key first gained a footing in the musical scene in the late ‘90s, as a me...…
…7 Thursday, May 31, 2018 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com ARTS Considering the well publicized production issues that plagued “Solo” — which saw its original directors Phil Lord and Chris Miller (“The LEGO Movie”) fired due to creative differences midway through production and replaced with Ron Howard (“Rush”) shortly after — having the finished product be at the least watchable is a victory. And by some miracle, it’s actu...…
…8 Thursday, May 31, 2018 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com NEWS 1014 VAUGHN AVAIL Fall 2018 #1 is being rented by the room for $700/m including utilities If you have a group of 5, rent the whole unit for $3100 plus Electric to DTE #2 is a 6 Bdrm for $3720 plus Electric to DTE • 734‑996‑1991 1015 PACKARD 4 Bdrm Apt Avail Fall 2018 2 parking space, onsite laundry, 1st floor $2830 + Electric to DTE • 734‑996‑1991 422 HAMILTON 2 & 3 ...…
…9 Thursday, May 31, 2018 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com MICHIGAN IN COLOR Upperclass South Asian activism Representation in the media is fought for strongly by many Asians in America, especially Asians who are among those in the upper economic class of the country. From one perspective, it makes perfect sense why any underrepresented group would care so much about their role in media. Media has the largest ...…
…10 Thursday, May 31, 2018 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com SPORTS Hua and Knight finish seasons Runhao Hua charged up the court and hit the ball past the outstretched racket of Texas A&M’s Patrick Kypson. When the ball hit the ground without a return, Hua let out a yell to celebrate his upset win over the fifth-seeded Kypson in the second round of the NCAA individual singles tournament. The senior on the Michigan men’s tennis...…
…11 Thursday, May 31, 2018 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com SPORTS Lavert Hill cames back to 100 percent DETROIT — It’s not often that a Michigan football coach questions one of his players publicly. But that was the method Michael Zordich used when junior Lavert Hill missed at least eight practices with a hip and leg injury earlier this spring. The secondary coach said Hill needs “learn to play with some nicks” in mid...…
…12 Thursday, May 31, 2018 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com SPORTS Charles Matthews announced Wednesday afternoon he has withdrawn his name from NBA Draft consideration and will be returning to Michigan for another season. The announcement comes mere hours before the deadline for early entrants to make a final decision. “After much prayer and discussions with my family and the staff, I am excited to be returning t...…
…michigandaily.com Thursday, May 24, 2018 INDEX Vol. CXXVII, No. 118 | © 2018 The Michigan Daily michigandaily.com NEWS .................................... OPINION ............................... ARTS/NEWS ......................... MiC......................................... SPORTS................................ MICHIGAN IN COLOR Morning Alarm “My people are famous.” Though news of life in Syria seems far away, it’s closer to ho...…
…2 Thursday, May 24, 2018 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com NEWS LEO calls for a close in campus wage gap Dearborn and Flint push for higher wages By ALICE TRACEY Summer Daily News Editor Steven Toth, a chemistry lecturer at the University of Michigan-Flint, loves to teach. According to Toth, his teaching experience at U-M Flint has been incredible, and he enjoys working with students and faculty there. But Toth is considering...…
…3 NEWS Thursday, May 24, 2018 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com “Training for surgery” Michigan Medicine works with patients to prepare for surgery By SAYALI AMIN Daily Staff Reporter For the past five years, the Michigan Surgical and Health Optimization Program at Mich- igan Medicine has been work- ing with patients undergoing large operations, such as can- cer surgeries or transplants, to help them better prepare for ...…
…4 Thursday, May 24, 2018 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com OPINION 420 Maynard St. Ann Arbor, MI 48109 tothedaily@michigandaily.com Edited and managed by students at the University of Michigan since 1890. I ’m several weeks into my first spring semester at University of Michigan, and I still can’t believe it’s actually happening. My mind can’t juxtapose the warm weather and greenery with the formerly bitter atmosphere surrou...…
…I t’s 7:45 a.m. We’re walking down East Liberty Street. I have two rakes in my hand, and Shannon, my roommate, has a drawstring bag on her back that holds a spade, a fork, a hoe and a pair of shears. We’re excited, if not a little bit sheepish, about the adventure that lies ahead of us. I learned early on in my time at the University of Michigan that “wasting time,” which is broadly defined as “doing something that you aren...…
…6 Thursday, May 24, 2018 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com ARTS MOM + POP MUSIC Charly Bliss tour ends with gusto Courtney Barnett asks for sincerity in ‘Tell Me’ COMMUNITY CULTURE REVIEW Courtney Barnett’s second album begins: “Y’know what they say / No one’s born to hate / We learn it somewhere along the way.” Paraphrased from Nelson Mandela, that line from the opener “Hopefulessness” sets the tone for the rest of Tell M...…
…7 Thursday, May 24, 2018 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com ARTS Few recent shows have caused as much controversy and sparked as many discussions as Netflix’s adaption of Jay Asher’s 2007 novel “13 Reasons Why.” It tackles a variety of topics from depression and sexual assault to bullying, while drawing criticism for what some believe to be its graphic depiction of traumatic events and glamorization of topics like su...…
…8 Thursday, May 24, 2018 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com ARTS 1014 VAUGHN AVAIL Fall 2018 #1 is being rented by the room for $700/m including utilities If you have a group of 5, rent the whole unit for $3100 plus Electric to DTE #2 is a 6 Bdrm for $3720 plus Electric to DTE • 734‑996‑1991 1015 PACKARD 4 Bdrm Apt Avail Fall 2018 2 parking space, onsite laundry, 1st floor $2830 + Electric to DTE • 734‑996‑1991 422 HAMILTON 2 & 3 B...…
…9 Thursday, May 24, 2018 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com MICHIGAN IN COLOR Morning Alarm My people are famous. You see them every day on the news- whether they are being evacuated, bombed, chemically attacked, or drowned. If you have not guessed yet, I am Syr- ian. On the day of the Trump attack on Syria, we call my uncle to make sure that every- thing is all right. As he tells us everything is fine, we can hea...…
…10 Thursday, May 24, 2018 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com SPORTS Fahey exits in first round of NCAA Just a couple weeks after the Michigan women’s ten- nis team ended its season, Kate Fahey was back on the court. But this time, the junior wasn’t compet- ing for the team, she was competing for herself. “It’s kind of different going from seeing your five teammates around you to looking at random players around you,” Fahey sa...…
…It’s a play the Michigan baseball team (15-8 Big Ten, 33-19 overall) is all too familiar with. The Wolverines were batting in the bottom of the frame in extra innings with bases loaded and the game on the line. A player stepped up and delivered a sacrifice fly to deep right field allowing the runner at third to score the win- ning run. Michigan then mobbed the hitter who smacked the walk-off fly out. It’s how the Wolverines do...…
…12 Thursday, May 24, 2018 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com SPORTS The end of the road Call it a collapse. Maybe that’s what it was. Losing four out of your last five games — the fifth by squandering a one-run lead in the sixth inning of an elimination con- test — certainly qualifies. But maybe the end for the Michi- gan softball team was less of a collapse and more of an inevitability, a train barreling out of control with noth- ...…
…michigandaily.com Thursday, May 17, 2018 INDEX Vol. CXXVII, No. 117 | © 2018 The Michigan Daily michigandaily.com NEWS .................................... OPINION ............................... ARTS/NEWS ......................... MiC......................................... SPORTS................................ MICHIGAN IN COLOR I miss the old Kanye The rapper’s fall from grace a disappointment to many, >> SEE PAGE 9 NEWS Ford pr...…
…2 Thursday, May 17, 2018 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com NEWS SHMEDIUM, puzzle by sudokusyndication.com New Ford program funds collaboration Research and public policy program helps students engage with organizations By SAYALI AMIN Daily Staff Reporter Made possible by a $1.5 million gift from the Power Foundation, a new program for the University of Michigan will be housed in the Ford School of Public Policy to engage stu...…
…3 NEWS Thursday, May 17, 2018 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Twenty-six Wolverines named Fulbright Finalists Program funds international engagement By ROB DALKA For The Daily The University of Michigan boasts 19 students and seven alum- ni as finalists for the 2018-2019 Ful- bright Student Program. The Fulbright program was introduced in 1945 when Sen. J. William Fulbright presented a congressional bill that encour...…
…4 Thursday, May 17, 2018 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com OPINION 420 Maynard St. Ann Arbor, MI 48109 tothedaily@michigandaily.com Edited and managed by students at the University of Michigan since 1890. W omen have faced inequality for as long as we have had written history – especially when it comes to female athletes. Today, players on the U.S. Women’s Soccer Team – the No. 1 women’s soccer team in the world – get pai...…
…I ’ll have a second helping of that wonderful fish you got there, Miss Julia.” A man who claims to be named William Shakespeare addresses me with familiarity. He’s a regular at Food Gatherers on West Huron Street, as are many locals who volunteer their time and serve dinner to those who can’t find it elsewhere. “You know I’m from the Caribbean. This meal tastes like home to me.” As I scoop a little extra fish onto the plate of ric...…
…6 Thursday, May 17, 2018 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com ARTS FESTIVAL COVERAGE CANNES INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL Cannes: ‘Leto’ Cannes: ‘Sorry Angel’ delves into the heart FESTIVAL COVERAGE I should have taken French in school. I opted for Spanish, as responsible kids often do in California, for it promised to be more useful. However, I now find myself in the south of France — having miraculously schemed my way into the...…
…7 Thursday, May 17, 2018 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com ARTS The watch list for any academic film course almost always rounds out to something like: a Chaplain comedy, some Technicolor musical, four impenetrable foreign films, two other silent-era juggernauts and Citizen Kane. Which is fine — in order to begin to form an understanding of how cinema has developed and grown and evolved in the past hundred years, it’s absolut...…
…8 Thursday, May 17, 2018 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com ARTS/NEWS 1014 VAUGHN AVAIL Fall 2018 #1 is being rented by the room for $700/m including utilities If you have a group of 5, rent the whole unit for $3100 plus Electric to DTE #2 is a 6 Bdrm for $3720 plus Electric to DTE • 734‑996‑1991 1015 PACKARD 4 Bdrm Apt Avail Fall 2018 2 parking space, onsite laundry, 1st floor $2830 + Electric to DTE • 734‑996‑1991 422 HAMILTON 2 &...…
…9 Thursday, May 17, 2018 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com MICHIGAN IN COLOR I miss the old Kanye As my Black Twitter time- line blew up with Bill Cosby memes and “now this” videos about yet another act of violence against someone Black, my heart dropped to see Kanye West. I had recently seen a picture of him wearing a MAGA hat posing with two other politicians and I feared for anything he might say to make things wo...…
…10 Thursday, May 17, 2018 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com SPORTS Defense critical in success for ‘M’ With one out and a runner on sec- ond in the 10th inning Sunday after- noon, junior center fielder Jonathan Engelmann gathered a flyball on one hop off the wall and fired a perfect throw into relay man Jack Blomgren who then delivered a strike to cut down the potential go-ahead run at the plate. Blomgren exhibited elite range ...…
…Jesse Franklin’s incredible freshman turnaround For the most part, John Morning- star knew what was about to happen. The softball coach was sitting in a suite at a Toledo Mud Hens minor league baseball game with some friends and co-workers watching the Detroit Tigers on a TV at the back of the suite. Detroit was batting with less than two outs and a runner on first, so he figured that the Tigers would try and advance the man on base s...…
…12 Thursday, May 17, 2018 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com SPORTS Five years later, Trey Burke discovers a new beginning Trey Burke lined up across from Corey Person with only winning on his mind. This wasn’t a practice drill between the two guards — Burke a sophomore on his way to winning National Player of the Year, Person a walk-on in his senior year. Nor was it a pickup game after practice. It wasn’t even on a basketbal...…
…michigandaily.com Thursday, May 10, 2018 INDEX Vol. CXXVII, No. 116 | © 2018 The Michigan Daily michigandaily.com NEWS .................................... OPINION ............................... ARTS ...................................... MiC......................................... SPORTS................................ MICHIGAN IN COLOR Defend DACA Immigrant protections are at risk under Donald Trump >> SEE PAGE 9 NEWS Racist list...…
