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…people that are not straight, yet there’s just no community.” As president of both the Black Business Society and Out for Business, Sahu has used the tight-knit community of the Business School to find a place for minority groups to come together. Yet, unlike the University’s Black community, which she has been able to find a place in, she finds the LGBT community remains disjointed. Gay spaces do exist in Ann Arbor, including the ...…

…V I S U A L S T A T E M E N T : G l a s s B l ow i n g photos by Max Kuang Wednesday, October 24 2018 // The Statement 8B …

…bv A University of Michigan student reported being sexually assaulted by her Graduate Student Instructor this summer in June. She filed the report, met with a U-M Title IX investigator and submitted evidence to back up her claim months ago. But the University’s investigation of the student’s case has been ongoing for almost four months now — and she’s running out of patience. The School of Music, Theatre & Dance...…

…In a statement released early Monday morning, the Senate Advisory Committee on University Affairs at the University of Michigan addressed the recent letter issued by LSA Interim Dean Elizabeth Cole regarding the retraction of a recommendation letter by Associate Professor John Cheney-Lippold. SACUA stressed the importance of “academic freedom and the rights and responsibilities of academic tenure.” The statem...…

…She attempted to pass it off as a menstrual period to her GSI and her family. However, Taylor does not get her periods regularly and the bleeding became the biggest red flag of a potentially violent experience to her mother. Taylor’s mother then reported the incident to the University. Now, it’s October. Taylor’s evidence is in, and her statements have been collected. But she still doesn’t have a verdict in her c...…

…In a statement released early Monday morning, the Senate Advisory Committee on University Affairs at the University of Michigan addressed the recent letter issued by LSA Interim Dean Elizabeth Cole regarding the retraction of a recommendation letter by Associate Professor John Cheney-Lippold. SACUA stressed the importance of “academic freedom and the rights and responsibilities of academic tenure.” The statem...…

…She attempted to pass it off as a menstrual period to her GSI and her family. However, Taylor does not get her periods regularly and the bleeding became the biggest red flag of a potentially violent experience to her mother. Taylor’s mother then reported the incident to the University. Now, it’s October. Taylor’s evidence is in, and her statements have been collected. But she still doesn’t have a verdict in her c...…

…R ecently, with the marked radicalization of U.S. politics, the discussion of socialism has resurfaced as an actual governmental solution for the problems facing the United States. In fact, just the other day, I was walking across the Diag at the University of Michigan and a large banner read that “capitalism has failed” and “socialism has the answer.” Initially, I had just scoffed at it, thinking of it as just another one of ...…

…STEPHEN SATARINO Daily Arts Writer After scouring through the perfectly aesthetic and thought-out Instagram feeds of fashion icons and style bloggers from across the world, I often think to myself: What is my personal aesthetic? How do I stand out and speak about who I am through the way I appear? This is a question that puzzles many of us, especially as young adults who are still learning to navigate the complex maze that is...…

…By Mark McClain ©2018 Tribune Content Agency, LLC 10/23/18 Los Angeles Times Daily Crossword Puzzle Edited by Rich Norris and Joyce Nichols Lewis 10/23/18 ANSWER TO PREVIOUS PUZZLE: Release Date: Tuesday, October 23, 2018 ACROSS 1 Colorist’s concern 4 Light brown pear 8 Hillary Clinton, née __ 14 Horace’s “__ Poetica” 15 “The Mammoth Hunters” author Jean 16 Low-scoring tie 17 Big wheel, briefly 18 Controversial coal-extraction meth...…

…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Sports Tuesday, October 23, 2018 — 7 STUDY BREAK WEEK 12—4PM OCTOBER 23—24, 2018 Find us near the ENGINEERING ARCH to grab some food and take a break from exams! SPONSORED BY COMET COFFEE, AUM YOGA, ESPRESSO ROYALE, AND BARRY BAGELS! presents... Michigan wraps up road-trip with weekend split The No. 13 Michigan women’s volleyball team hit the road to take on two Big Ten foes this past wee...…

…8 — Tuesday, October 23, 2018 Sports The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Harbaugh doubles down about pre-game antics The controversy around Saturday’s pre-game rituals didn’t end before the game Saturday. Nor did it end after. Apparently, it’s still not over. Monday afternoon, during his weekly media availability, Michigan coach Jim Harbaugh doubled down on his claim that Michigan State and its head coach Mark Dantonio orc...…

…LSA senior Kia Schwert was captivated by the research opportunities at the University when she attended the Michigan Community College Summer Research Fellowship as a fellow in 2017, inspiring her to transfer to the University to study sociology and women’s studies. She got involved as a research assistant in Profs. Elizabeth Armstrong and Sandra Levitsky’s Title IX lab in the Sociology Department, which involved LS...…

…students participated in the 2014 midterms. Initiatives like the Big 10 Voting Challenge and Turn Up Turnout have aimed to mitigate voter turnout gaps in hopes that more students will vote in the upcoming election. “I was a little worried after the Kavanaugh hearings that enthusiasm was going to die out,” Lounds said. “So I’m hoping this (event) will hype people up, get everybody ready and make these last 18 days of (Get Out t...…

…I am a dancer. I worry what you hear when I say that is I like dancing. Which to be fair, I do. I love going to Brown parties and busting out all the latest Bollywood moves, or trying to see if my muscles remember the motions from long ago ballet classes, or trying and failing to imitate those cool K-Pop routines. But that’s not what I said. I said, I am a dancer. Specifically, I am an Indian classical dancer trained in the North ...…

…S ome things are out of our control, like gas prices and traffic. You can’t control what others do or say, just like you can’t pick who’s in your family. Unfortunately, most of us assume we cannot control climate change. Eyebrows have furrowed and anxiety levels have risen since the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released a report earlier this month, outlining the treacherous path Earth is taking toward increased temper...…

…By Ed Sessa ©2018 Tribune Content Agency, LLC 10/22/18 Los Angeles Times Daily Crossword Puzzle Edited by Rich Norris and Joyce Nichols Lewis 10/22/18 ANSWER TO PREVIOUS PUZZLE: Release Date: Monday, October 22, 2018 ACROSS 1 Online auction venue 5 Waffle House competitors 10 Mine extracts 14 Wind-driven device 15 Complete extent 16 City founded by Pizarro 17 Simple __ of kindness 18 Cause of squinting 19 Sometimes-puffy I’s? 20 E...…

…After nearly a decade of E-commerce business, Jean Jean Vintage needed a physical space. The vintage and antique jewelry store had previously lived exclusively on Etsy, but owner Emily Duffelmeyer was constantly fielding requests for in-person appointments. In a phone interview with The Daily, Duffelmeyer opened up about her business. “I was getting more and more requests for appointments, especially from people who were ...…

…Bitter Rivalry is Better Michigan and Michigan State showed on Saturday why their rivalry is the best, most entertaining one either program has going. » Page 2B In-state Split The Wolverines beat Western Michigan on Friday then fell to the Broncos on Saturday. » Page 4B SPORTSMONDAY The Michigan Daily | michigandaily.com | October 22, 2018 Design by Jack Silberman Katelyn Mulcahy & Alexis Rankin/ Daily Michigan holds on for big...…

…2B — Monday, October 22, 2018 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com SportsMonday Saturday shows why Michigan, Michigan State rivalry is great During his weekly teleconference Sunday night, more than 24 hours after it happened, Michigan State coach Mark Dantonio was asked about Saturday’s pregame fracas between his team and Michigan. “I’m not gonna bother commenting on it,” Dantonio said. “The whole thing to me was so...…

…STUDY BREAK WEEK 12—4PM OCTOBER 23—24, 2018 Find us near the ENGINEERING ARCH to grab some food and take a break from exams! SPONSORED BY COMET COFFEE, AUM YOGA, ESPRESSO ROYALE, AND BARRY BAGELS! presents... The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com SportsMonday Monday October 22, 2018 — 3B It’s time to believe EAST LANSING — It was a scene not even Michigan State coach Mark Dantonio himself could have scripted. Rain ...…

…4B — Monday, October 22, 2018 Sports The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com The Michigan Daily Top 10 Poll Each week, Daily sports staffers fill out bal- lots, with first-place votes receiving 10 points, second-place votes receiving nine and so on. 1. Alabama: It’s hard to get Tua creative with this one. 2. Clemson: Are we really going to allow a team whose best win is at home against NC State to make the playoffs? 3. Notre Dame: Th...…

…Four years ago, the Black Student Union launched the online campaign #BBUM, or Being Black at the University of Michigan, and gave the University seven days to respond to seven demands. Some of the demands included more affordable campus housing, an increase in Black representation on campus and a digitization of documents in the University’s Bentley Historical Library. Now, four years after BSU put forward its initi...…

…administration informed her if she taught a course on the history of photography, she would not be allowed to show images of sex, children, violence, drugs or “complicated emotional imagery.” Poor scheduled a meeting with the prison warden and another department secretary and, after describing her curriculum, was granted permission to teach the class as she originally intended. The men in the facility were not allo...…

…know where I was from,” Offendum said. “When I’d tell them I was from Syria, I’d get a weird joke about breakfast cereal or something. Now you can’t turn on the news without hearing about it at least once a day.” Rackham student Yahya Alami Hafez, a graduate student instructor for Introduction to Arab-American Studies, said Offendum’s presentation showed how current artistic mediums such as rap actually trace back to a ...…

…W hen I arrived at the University of Michigan at the beginning of freshman year, my friends and I discovered Bird electric scooters on the Diag. I’d never ridden e-scooters since they had not yet made it to my native New York City, where Citi Bike and Uber reign supreme. “Pick up and drop off anywhere,” the app promised, for only 15 cents per minute. We took them for a spin. Soon we were hooked. We used Bird to get to class on...…

…From enigmatic plot to disconcerting characters, normality is but a common thread in Katya Apekina’s debut novel, “The Deeper the Water the Uglier the Fish.” Coming from a mother who swallows her loved ones whole and a narcissistic father, two daughters are torn between the chaotic obsessions and depressions of their parents. After Edith and Mae’s mother, Marianne, attempts to hang herself they are taken under the wing of thei...…

…The Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre was buzzing with excitement, as the audience was antsy to see another spectacular performance put on by the University’s School of Music, Theatre & Dance (SMTD). The energy in the room bounced off the bright red curtain that fell so elegantly, covering the floral, colorful, ’60s flower-power set of “Sweet Charity.” “Sweet Charity” is a musical based on an original screenplay by Frederico Fellini, writt...…

…OCTOBER 19, 2018 Preview of the 2018-2019 Michigan Hockey Team Photo by Katelyn Mulcahy …

…Friday, October 19, 2018 // FACEOFF 2018 2B Vermont Waterloo (ex.) U.S. NTDP (ex.) Western Michigan at Western Michigan St. Lawrence at Lake Superior State Notre Dame at Penn State Wisconsin at Michigan State Michigan State Minnesota Great Lakes Invitational Oct. 6 Oct. 7 Oct. 12 Oct. 19 Oct. 20 Oct. 26, 27 Nov. 2, 3 Nov. 9, 10 Nov. 16, 17 Nov. 23, 24 Nov. 30 Dec. 1 Dec. 7, 8 Dec. 30, 31 Jan. 5 Jan. 8 Jan. 11, 1...…

…Friday, October 19, 2018 // FACEOFF 2018 3B Let it go H opefully, by now, you’ve regained your senses after the Michigan hockey team’s roller-coaster of a season last year. The Wolverines started in the shadow of Red Berenson’s retirement and low expectations, struggled to escape the darkness until mid-January, then finished seconds away from a spot in the National Championship game. Not to mention this all happened in ...…

…OCTOBER 19, 2018 Preview of the 2018-2019 Michigan Hockey Team Photo by Katelyn Mulcahy …

…Friday, October 19, 2018 FACEOFF 2018 4B Hayden Lavigne: No longer a mystery Written by Tien Le H ayden Lavigne is currently reading a mys- tery book. It should come to no one’s sur- prise, though. After all, he’s a mys- tery himself. Talk to people around Lavigne and two common themes emerge. One is that he’s a serious, intense guy. Two is that no one can ever tell what he’s thinking — he’s just an e...…

…Friday, October 19, 2018 FACEOFF 2018 5B Hayden Lavigne: No longer a mystery Written by Tien Le Photo Credits: Top - Katelyn Mulcahy / Bottom - Alec Cohen through 16 games, Lavigne’s per- formance proved uninspiring, especially with his competition including the current Mike Rich- ter Award winner and Notre Dame goalie, Cale Morris, who posted a .937 through 28 games. “When I was in the USHL, I got cut from ...…

…Friday, October 19, 2018 // FACEOFF 2018 6B Big Ten Breakdown: Entire conference hoping to maintain success of last season, when three teams made Frozen Four When the No. 11 Michigan hockey team starts Big Ten play against Notre Dame three weeks from now, it will have a chance at redemption. In last year’s Frozen Four semifinal, a last-second Fighting Irish goal ended the Wolverines’ tournament run and their surprisingly succes...…

…Friday, October 19, 2018 // FACEOFF 2018 7B See ROSTER, Page 8B BY THE NUMBERS Big Ten Hockey 75 % Ohio State returned 75 percent of its production from last season’s Frozen Four team. 128 Ohio State forward Mason Jobst is the active leader in career points in the NCAA 8 Notre Dame won the regular season Big Ten Championship by eight points last season .001 Minnesota missed out on the NCAA Tournament last season by .001 points, fa...…

…Friday, October 19, 2018 // FACEOFF 2018 8B KATELYN MULCAHY/Daily Sophomore forward Will Lockwood was the second-highest scorer for Michigan in the 2016-17 season but suffered a season-ending shoulder injury last year. Now he has returned to the Wolverines’ lineup. pairing of Hughes and Cecconi is returning for this season. Both had the option of making the move to the NHL but chose to remain in Ann Arbor for another go-around. Hughe...…

…Two prominent educational and professional institutions — the American Association of University Professors and the American Political Science Association — are urging the University of Michigan to reconsider sanctions imposed on American Culture professor John Cheney- Lippold. Cheney-Lippold recently became ineligible for a salary raise for one year and ineligible for sabbatical credits for two years after res...…

…the water we’re delivering to our customers is safe,” Steglitz said. “We’ve been piloting new technology, a new granular activated carbon media in our filters, and we’ve been finding it to be successful at removing two of the PFAS compounds, PFOS and PFOA, that are part of the EPA’s health advisory. Because we’ve been piloting it and it’s been successful, we decided to put it in all of our filters.” Laura Rubin, vice chair of t...…

…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com News Thursday, October 18, 2018 — 3 computer science, including the invention of dynamic instruction scheduling, a method in which computer hardware can issue instructions out of order, as well as pioneering the revolution in very large- scale integration design. Many years prior to joining University faculty in 1985, Conway worked at IBM Research, where she was fired when she began h...…

…T he line “If voting could change anything it would be made illegal!” is often misattributed to Mark Twain, and disputably attributed to anarchist Emma Goldman. The first confirmed appearance, if it matters, was from The Lowell Sun in 1974. Regardless of who said it, the phrase carries a sentiment shared by many Americans: Why bother voting if it doesn’t seem to affect anything? Of course, one vote does have some effect ...…

…FILM NOTEBOOK Horror has always been a genre of extremes. It’s something of a self-fulfilling prophecy; it’s difficult to evoke fear from that which is familiar, so horror filmmakers find themselves locked in a never-ending search for the bloodiest, the goriest and the scariest. This proverbial arms race has led the genre to feel a bit oversaturated, with many horror films prioritizing shock value over quality and d...…

…By Roger and Kathy Wienberg ©2018 Tribune Content Agency, LLC 10/18/18 Los Angeles Times Daily Crossword Puzzle Edited by Rich Norris and Joyce Nichols Lewis 10/18/18 ANSWER TO PREVIOUS PUZZLE: Release Date: Thursday, October 18, 2018 ACROSS 1 Cartman on “South Park” 5 John follower 9 European farewell 14 Default takeback 15 Formal agreement 16 Two-time Argentine president 17 Famous __ 18 Keys for Elton 20 They may be added to soup...…

…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Sports Thursday, October 18, 2018 — 7 Too skilled to sit, Brazdeikis to learn multiple positions Ignas Brazdeikis is officially listed as a forward. Don’t let that fool you. The top-40 prospect, who headlines the men’s basketball team’s 12th-ranked recruiting classes, per 247Sports’ compos- ite score, is firmly behind red- shirt junior Charles Matthews at small forward. That’s more a product of M...…

…8 — Thursday, October 18, 2018 Sports The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Warriner with different perspective on Saturday’s game Saturday will be nothing new for Ed Warriner. In fact, there’s not much anymore that is new for Warriner. Michigan’s offensive line coach remembers coaching as a graduate assistant in the Michigan-Michigan State rivalry “30-something years ago.” Now he’s on the other side coaching a much...…

…About 60 people convened Monday at Palmer Commons for a Senate Assembly forum to discuss University of Michigan Board of Regents candidate platforms for the upcoming Nov. 6 election. Incumbents and first-time candidates covered topics such as financial aid, academic freedom, the recent reprimanding of Prof. John Cheney-Lippold for his refusal of a recommendation letter and more throughout the event. The forum was designed t...…

…allow students and faculty hear each candidate’s position on various issues and participate in an open Q&A discussion. The meeting began with each of the five candidates outlining their platforms. Incumbent Regents Andrea Fischer Newman (R) and Andrew Richner (R) spoke with challengers Jordan Acker (D), Paul Brown (D) and Kevin Graves (Green Party) to outline each of their respective platforms. There are two open ...…

…offers the greatest possible safeguards to Michigan’s waters while maintaining critical connections to ensure Michigan residents have the energy resources they need,” Gov. Rick Snyder wrote in a press release. “The historic agreement will result in eliminating nearly every risk of an oil leak in the Straits and provide added protections to the Great Lakes. It also will allow for multiple utilities to be housed and prot...…

…T hough Facebook is the most commonly cited bad guy when it comes to misuse of its users’ personal information, especially in the wake of the Cambridge Analytica scandal or the recent breach affecting 50 million accounts, this week Google joined its ranks following a massive data exposure incident of its own. The main issue with this recent data incident is not its size or the fact that it even happened at all. The ethical problem...…

…I read “Anna Karenina” on the school bus when I was 13. I took it a chapter a ride, shining a flashlight I kept in my backpack over the pages in the winter when the mornings were dark. It was my favorite part of the day — a stolen quiet moment, with just me and Anna and Kitty and Vronsky. I knew pretty much immediately that this would become the best book I would ever read, and even though 13-year-old me was wrong about a lot of ...…