…As part of Transgender Awareness Week, the Spectrum Center and TransForm, a student organization that focuses on transgender activism and support, held a panel discussion Thursday where speakers at the University of Michigan who identify as transgender women or transgender femme shared their experiences on campus. At the discussion, attended by about 35 students, panelists told stories of when they struggl...…
…A diverse crowd of about 100 people filled the Michigan Union Rogel Ballroom Wednesday night to listen as male and female survivors of sexual assault shared their stories at the Sexual Assault Prevention and Awareness Center’s 30th annual Speak Out event. The event was organized by SAPAC’s Networking, Publicity and Activism Volunteer Program, led by LSA senior Alyssa Dunbeck and LSA junior Srinidhi Subramania...…
…A project created by Christopher Ruf, professor of atmospheric science and electrical engineering at the University of Michigan, will culminate with the launch of a $151 million Cyclone Global Navigation Satellite System Dec. 12. The launch was announced Friday by the University. CYGNSS, whose inaugural flight will be from Cape Canaveral Air Force Base, has been a collaborative effort between Ruf’s team and NASA. ...…
…Martha Pollack, provost and executive vice president for academic affairs at the University of Michigan, has been appointed Cornell University’s 14th president, according to a Cornell press release published Monday afternoon. Pollack has served as the University’s provost since 2013, acting as the chief budgetary and academic officer overseeing all teaching and research in each of the University’s 19 schools and ...…
…michigandaily.com Ann Arbor, Michigan Monday, November 14, 2016 ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY-SIX YEARS OF EDITORIAL FREEDOM IOWA CITY — It seemed like it would be Michigan’s special teams that would win the day. Instead, it was Iowa’s. After fifth-year senior kicker Kenny Allen booted a career- long 51-yard field goal midway through the fourth quarter to put the Wolverines up, 13-11, and after senior cornerback Channing Stribling picked...…
…Many staffers from the Ginsberg Center, the Sexual Assault Prevention and Awareness Center and the Office of Student Life joined graduate students to discuss responses to the presidential election results Thursday afternoon. The discussion, labeled the “Post-Election Dialogue: Impact, Perspective-taking and Moving Forward,” took place at the Michigan League ballroom as part of the 10th annual Professional Development ...…
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…ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY-SIX YEARS OF EDITORIAL FREEDOM In a large upset victory, Republican nominee Donald Trump won the presidential election after capturing Wisconsin, North Carolina and Pennsylvania, which Democrats had considered crucial to their victory. The race was called at 2:30 a.m. by the Associated Press. On campus, which largely voted against Trump, his election sparked some celebration, but also significant anx...…
…ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY-SIX YEARS OF EDITORIAL FREEDOM WARREN — On the eve of Election Day, Donald Trump Jr. said Michigan residents could change the deceptive nature of politics by voting for his father, Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, for president of the United States in a stop in the state. More than 100 supporters attended the event, which was held at the Ukrainian Cultural Center in Warren, Mich., includi...…
…ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY-SIX YEARS OF EDITORIAL FREEDOM 76% Hillary Clinton 13% Donald Trump Projected Student Candidate Choice: Nov. 6 Source: Michigan Daily student survey (rounded to nearest percent) 6% Gary Johnson 1% Jill Stein 4.4% Other During the lead up to the presidential election, The Michigan Daily is polling students about campaign issues every two weeks. This is the fourth and final iteration of the survey. Ove...…
…Though the presidential election has drawn a lot of the focus on campus, local elections are ramping up in the building to Nov. 8 as well. The Washtenaw County sheriff’s race between incumbent Sheriff Jerry Clayton (D), who has now served two four-year terms, and Ken Magee (R) will culminate with residents casting their votes on Election Day. Clayton previously served in the sheriff’s office for 20 years prior to re...…
…Last year, LSA sophomore Lauren Schandevel and Sociology Prof. Dwight Lang had an informal discussion about the absence of social class in University of Michigan class curriculum. Schandevel and Lang both noted that though the University has a Women’s Studies Department and a Department of Afroamerican and African Studies, which intersect with social class, there is no major that focuses solely on socioeconomic st...…
…Though campus is abuzz about the presidential election, international students, many of whom have never experienced the American political process firsthand, are bringing a new perspective to the contentious race. Noting political discourse among students has been tense at times during the election season, Business sophomore Jonathan Cheng, who is from Hong Kong, said he thinks Americans should first recognize what a privileg...…
…Detroit-based bakery Avalon International Breads is expanding outside the city by opening a brand new cafe in downtown Ann Arbor. The bakery closed a deal last Monday to secure the location of the former Mezzevino Mediterranean Kitchen and Bar on 129 E. Liberty St. The retail bakery will be named Avalon Hearth and Soul Café and is on track to be open by the end of this year. University of Michigan alum Jackie Victor, co...…
…The University of Michigan Bicentennial Office released their plans Monday morning for the anticipated year-long celebration of the University’s bicentennial in 2017, which include festivals, lecture series and themed semesters. Both LSA semesters of the year are slated to be themed. Next year’s winter semester will focus on “Making Michigan,” or the history of the University, while the 2017 fall semester centers around...…
…There are five Ann Arbor City Council positions up for re-election this November, but Ward 5 on the city’s northwest side is the only contested race. Incumbent Councilmember Chuck Warpehoski (D), who has served four years on City Council, is running against political newcomer David Silkworth (I), an insurance claim representative for homeowners and businesses. In the August Democratic primary election, Warpehoski defeated...…
…Black student enrollment at the University of Michigan decreased in this year’s freshman class of 2020, according to enrollment figures released by the University Wednesday morning. The new class of students is overall more diverse than last year’s class, however. Enrollment of Black freshmen fell from 5.1 percent in 2015 to 4.6 percent this year. 13.8 percent of the class comes from underrepresented minority backgrounds — ...…
…University of Michigan alumni Frances and Kenneth Eisenberg, as well as the Eisenberg family overall, donated $10.75 million last Thursday to the University’s Depression Center to fund research projects for mental illnesses such as depression and bipolar disorder. Kenneth Eisenberg said in a press release his family’s goal was to find solutions to meaningfully treat this widespread disorder, emphasizing the need ...…
…About 100 people gathered in the Ford School of Public Policy Monday to hear personal experiences and reactions to the Flint water crisis from a diverse group of panelists, including activists and government workers. The Flint water crisis occurred after a state- appointed emergency manager decided to cut costs by changing the source of city water to more corrosive sources, which caused lead from the pipes to le...…
…LSA junior Heather Martin was just 17 when her older sister Angie fatally overdosed in their family home, following a seven-year struggle with opiate addiction. Martin said her sister, throughout her life, was always a bubbly, amiable person. As The captains of the Michigan football team and women’s basketball team, as well as former men’s basketball Fab Five member Jimmy King, were among those present at the first- ever ...…
…Growing up on Detroit’s West Side, Walter Stevenson, an engineering junior at the University of Michigan, never saw anything wrong with the Detroit Public Schools district. From kindergarten through sixth grade, he thought all schools wouldn’t let students stray too far from the playground because it was centered in a rougher neighborhood. He thought all schools had books that were “not only outdated, (but) us...…
…Wednesday afternoon, more than 40 people — the majority from the University of Michigan Romance Language and Literature Department — participated in a demonstration on the Diag as a part of the “Ni Una Menos” movement, with the aim of exposing violence toward women in Latin America and the United States. The event was one of many of its kind that took place Wednesday across the United States to commemorate the ...…
…Last week, a new school faculty transition team was appointed to plan the transition from the School of Natural Resources and Environment to a new School of Sustainability. An internal faculty committee proposed in September 2016 that the University of Michigan create a new school of sustainability to replace the School of Natural Resources and Environment and increase interdisciplinary collaboration across...…
…After meeting with a group of student government leaders at the Cube Monday, University of Michigan president Mark Schlissel discussed his administration’s response to anti-Black, anti-Muslim and anti-LGBTQ posters discovered over the past week. Last Monday, anti-Black and anti-women posters were found in University buildings. Today, more offensive posters were found posted around campus from the white-supremacist gro...…
…During a community conversation on race and campus climate Sunday, University of Michigan President Mark Schlissel listened to student concerns and emphasized the impact he hopes the upcoming release of a University-wide Diversity, Equity and Inclusion plan will have on campus. The conversation, announced on Wednesday, was planned in response to racially charged fliers that were hung in Mason and Haven Halls last week. Th...…
…Jewish Family Services of Washtenaw County expects to have resettled about 163 refugees in the county by the conclusion of its fiscal year this fall, nearly doubling its previous year’s caseload, and plans to do so again in the coming year. In a March interview with the Daily, JFS administrators said their resettlement target was still in the 80-person range. However, an uptick in the number of refugees the Obama admin...…
…According to a recent Michigan Daily poll of a sample of students, support for Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton on campus is high, at almost 75 percent. However, the poll also indicated that nearly 20 percent of respondents plan to vote outside of the two major parties, preferring third-party candidates. Among the third party candidates, Liberterian nominee Gary Johnson, who polled at 13.2...…
…Though the first presidential debate drew wide interest on campus Monday night, that interest may not necessarily have equated to any changes in voter preference, according to a Michigan Daily poll conducted directly after the debate. As part of an ongoing initiative to better gauge the campus political climate, The Michigan Daily sent out a poll to 1,500 students and received 302 responses. Eighty-one percent of resp...…
…Ann Arbor residents emphasized several concerns with the city’s plans for a new Amtrak station during two public meetings Monday evening. The city hosted the public meetings to discuss the recently released Alternatives Analysis Report, which suggested four possible sites for the new train station — three of which reside on Depot Street and the fourth on Fuller Road. The locations were chosen based on several criteri...…
…While various praises and concerns were voiced by faculty at the fourth and final LSA Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion plan’s feedback forum last Friday evening, most of the night’s attention was on the lack of faculty in attendance. The large MLB Auditorium was mostly empty with about 40 LSA faculty were present. Liz Cole, associate dean for social sciences, led the forum as she had the previous three by guiding the audience ...…
…At the University of Michigan Alumni Center Thursday evening, about 80 students, alumni and members of the Ann Arbor community attended the first event of this year’s LatinX Heritage Month celebrations. Sponsored by prominent Latino campus organizations and alumni, the event featured speakers who outlined inclusivity goals and stressed the importance of breaking down institutionalized borders for their on-campus ...…
…Two lawsuits have been filed in the past month over an alleged sexual assault at a University of Michigan fraternity party in January 2016. The first lawsuit, from a now-former male University student, was filed against several employees of the University of Michigan for wrongfully causing the student leave the University following the alleged assault, according to court documents. “The Appeals Board applied an un...…
…The University of Michigan’s Spectrum Center and the Office of Multi-Ethnic Student Affairs hosted their second collaborative open house Tuesday to spread awareness about their activities and services for new students on campus. Program organizers Abby Chien, MESA program manager, and Mark Chung Kwan Fan, assistant director for the Spectrum Center, said they’ve started to realize more of the intersections of the two p...…
…While the population in Detroit has fallen over recent decades, the Muslim community in the Detroit area has grown, in part due to the influx of refugees. Sally Howell, director of the Center for Arab American studies and associate professor of history at the University of Michigan- Dearborn, spoke on the long, rooted history of Muslim communities in Detroit at her lecture Monday evening. “I noticed in 2010 that if you lo...…
…The University of Michigan Central Student Government hosted its third sober tailgate Saturday on Elbel Field in an attempt to prevent alcohol- related incidents during late- starting football games. The event was coordinated by LSA sophomore Grant Rivas, CSG’s chief programming officer, who said student safety is the first consideration with a 3:30 p.m. kick off time like the Michigan vs. Colorado game. “We as a university s...…
…Joe Palca, an award-winning science correspondent from National Public Radio, visited the University of Michigan Thursday afternoon to give a talk titled “Communicating Science for Fun and Profit” at West Hall. The talk focused on how to better communicate science with the general public. Palca, who has worked for NPR since 1992, has covered a large range of science news, such as the new genome editing technology and...…
…Higher education reform has been a hot topic this election season — particularly for Democrats. As opponents in the Democratic primary, now-Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton and Sen. Bernie Sanders (D–VT) lauded their two separate proposals of debt- free and tuition-free college, respectively. Several states already offer free college plans at certain institutions including Maryland, New York, Col...…
…Author Malcolm Gladwell’s lecture on the risks and realities of entrepreneurship Tuesday drew an audience large enough to fill Hill Auditorium. The talk, which explored the careers of scientist Emil Freireich who helped invent modern chemotherapy; Steve Jobs, who founded Apple; and Ingvar Kamprad, who founded IKEA, was part of The Joseph and Sally Handleman Lecture Series hosted by the Ross School of Business. Gladwell chall...…
…Acclaimed author Peter Kornbluh, an Ann Arbor native, advocated for open negotiations between the U.S. and the Cuban government with several anecdotes about secret meetings and spies at Literati Bookstore Monday evening. Kornbluh spoke to promote his new book, “Back Channel to Cuba: The Hidden History of Negotiations between Washington and Havana,” which he co-wrote with William LeoGrande, professor of governmen...…
…On August 4, Nadine Jawad, a Ford junior at the University of Michigan, received a text on the lawn of Magdalen’s campus at the University of Oxford, holding her phone in one hand and playing with a piece of grass in the other. “God, my phone is blowing up because of that stabbing,” she said. “It’s like, I’m fine, mom.” The incident happened earlier that day in London, a city an hour and a half from Oxford by bus. The perpetra...…
…As part of the University of Michigan’s Complex Systems Seminar Series, LSA Dean Andrew Martin spoke Thursday afternoon at West Hall about the “Martin- Quinn” scores, a measurement of the liberal or conservative ideologies of U.S. Supreme Court justices, which Martin researched and developed with Kevin Quinn from the University of California at Berkeley’s School of Law in 2002. Martin and Quinn’s model encompasses ev...…
…The University of Michigan’s chapter of College Democrats kicked off one of its weekly voter registration drives Wednesday with a special appearance from actor Sean Astin, best known for his role as Sam in Lord of the Rings. Astin spoke to students and community members about campaigning at ground-level events. He also discussed his experiences with Hillary Clinton who he’s known since 1992, calling her one of the...…
…Starting at the beginning of classes Tuesday, the University of Michigan’s two-year-long transition to Canvas was complete — drawing mixed reactions from faculty over the process and implementation, and overall positive impressions from students. Canvas is an online learning management system that includes features such as assignments, grades and discussion boards. Moving forward, it will be the class platfo...…
…Former President Bill Clinton joined United Auto Workers union members and others for the annual Detroit Labor Day Parade Monday morning aiming to demonstrate the Hillary Clinton campaign’s commitment to working families. The parade began at 9:30 a.m. and marched down Michigan Avenue. Bill Clinton marched, but did not speak during the event which drew thousands of union workers and other prominent state Demo...…
…One Hundred and TwenTy Six yearS Of ediTOrial freedOm Thursday, August 11, 2016 Ann Arbor, MI Weekly Summer Edition MichiganDaily.com ARTS Lindsey Stirling at the Michigan Theatre Violinist has electrifying performance >> SEE PAGE 6 NEWS New tobacco law irks local business Raising age for tobacco sale may hurt business, owners say >> SEE PAGE 3 NEWS Augmented reality games at Mott Patients at children’s hospital find therap...…
…One Hundred and TwenTy Five years OF ediTOrial FreedOm Thursday, August 4, 2016 Ann Arbor, MI Weekly Summer Edition MichiganDaily.com ARTS In the room where it happens Experiencing the “Hamilton” phenomenon in the greatest city in the world >> SEE PAGE 6 NEWS In memory of Kellie Halushka LSA senior passed away in July is remembered >> SEE PAGE 9 NEWS Profiles of Ross faculty research Sustainable enterprise is highlighted in ...…
…One Hundred and TwenTy Five years OF ediTOrial FreedOm Thursday, July 28, 2016 Ann Arbor, MI Weekly Summer Edition MichiganDaily.com ARTS The Versatile style of Hillary Clinton A look at her fashion over her long political career >> SEE PAGE 7 NEWS City Council election previews Contested races in Wards 1 and 5 >> SEE PAGES 2 and 3 NEWS ‘Ban the Box’ may cause discrimination Employment reform has unintended consequences >> S...…
…One Hundred and TwenTy Five years OF ediTOrial FreedOm Thursday, July 21, 2016 Ann Arbor, MI Weekly Summer Edition MichiganDaily.com INDEX NEWS .................................... SUDOKU................................ OPINION ............................... ARTS ...................................... CLASSIFIEDS......................... SPORTS................................. 2 2 4 6 8 10 Vol. CXXVI, No. 125| © 2016 The Michigan Daily ...…
…Thursday, July 14, 2016 Ann Arbor, MI MichiganDaily.com INDEX NEWS ................................... OPINION .............................. ARTS ..................................... CLASSIFIEDS......................... SUDOKU................................ SPORTS.................................. 2 4 6 8 2 11 Vol. CXXVI, No. 124| © 2016 The Michigan Daily michigandaily.com Nationwide police brutality sparks dialogue on local law...…
…One Hundred and TwenTy Five years OF ediTOrial FreedOm Thursday, July 7, 2016 Ann Arbor, MI Weekly Summer Edition MichiganDaily.com INDEX NEWS ................................... OPINION .............................. ARTS ..................................... CLASSIFIEDS......................... SUDOKU................................ SPORTS................................ ARTS Mayer Hawthorne returns to A2 Artist performs homecoming...…
