…On this particular Friday, little Gilda has plopped herself on a pink shag rug; stuffed toys and dollhouses at her fingertips. She is playing with her Looking For Mr. Goodbar Sleepytime Playset, and an impish grin of delight crosses her face as she dances her Diane Keaton doll around an imaginary singles bar with a plastic businessman. But little Gilda misses the point of this game. Rather than have her dollies boogie the night...…
…THE DEPARTMENT OF ASTRONOMY ORREN C. MOHLER PRIZE LECTURE p i e c e p i e c e Friday, Sept. 15, 2017 Reception 2 pm Lecture 2:30 – 4 pm Dr. Julianne Dalcanton Professor, University of Washington Department of Astronomy Michigan Union Pendleton Room, 2nd Floor 530 S. State Street Ann Arbor, MI 48109 by Should you require any reasonable accom- modations please contact Stacy Tiburzi at 734-764-3440, or stibu@umich.edu. 6B — T...…
…An audience of 3,500 in Hill Auditorium burst into applause at the sight of The New York Times best-selling author Daniel Pink’s “Fear the Khaki” T-shirt on Tuesday evening. Pink donned the shirt as part of the first anecdote during his presentation, “The Mind of the Future: How to Survive an Outsourced, Automated Age.” Pink’s talk highlighted useful lessons on what it takes to be successful in the workplace as society shifts f...…
…2A — Wednesday, September 13, 2017 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com News 420 Maynard St. Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1327 www.michigandaily.com ARTS SECTION arts@michigandaily.com SPORTS SECTION sports@michigandaily.com ADVERTISING dailydisplay@gmail.com NEWS TIPS news@michigandaily.com LETTERS TO THE EDITOR tothedaily@michigandaily.com EDITORIAL PAGE opinion@michigandaily.com NATHAN GUPTA Business Manager 734-418-4115 ext. 124...…
…News The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Wednesday, September 13, 2017 — 3A The idea of autonomous travel discussed by speakers highlighted current issues with automotive transportation and the goals that the Department of Transportation hopes to achieve with the release of their new federal guidance. Bainwol explained that more than 90 percent of crashes are related to human error and the use of driverless cars will primarily ...…
…Opinion The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com 4A— Wednesday, September 13, 2017 REBECCA LERNER Managing Editor 420 Maynard St. Ann Arbor, MI 48109 tothedaily@michigandaily.com Edited and managed by students at the University of Michigan since 1890. EMMA KINERY Editor in Chief ANNA POLUMBO-LEVY and REBECCA TARNOPOL Editorial Page Editors Unsigned editorials reflect the official position of the Daily’s Editorial Board. All oth...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Wednesday, September 13, 2017 — 5 Arts FXX ‘You’re the Worst’ returns for it’s fourth season ‘You’re the Worst’ deals with post-breakup woes FXX show returns for its fourth season with its signature dark comedy delivering laughs with a few stumbles along the way One of the defining characteristics of “You’re the Worst,” Stephen Falk’s brilliantly underrated anti- rom-com, is that it emb...…
…HELP WANTED EARLY CHILDHOOD LICENSED center seeking part-time help for infant toddler room. Playful, experienced, re sponsible person with references needed. Email kozyheart@gmail.com ACROSS 1 Green Angry Birds animals 5 Salon style 9 “Jabberwocky” opener 13 Les __-Unis 15 Eye layer 16 “For __ jolly ... ” 17 Name on a two- liter bottle (and what’s inside) 19 Double-crossers 20 Like microwavable meals 21 Valued caches 23 Independe...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Sports Wednesday, September 13, 2017 — 7 The case for Wilton Speight W hen Wilton Speight steps up to the podium, he exudes a quality few college athletes — let alone students — possess in the face of intense criticism: professionalism. Saturday was no different. Michigan coach Jim Harbaugh described the natural butterflies this youthful team must overcome. Speight is one of a fe...…
…Pulitzer Prize-winning alumni of The Michigan Daily in an afternoon of panel discussions Friday, September 15th 1 pm in Rackham Auditorium Free and open to the public Featured are Eugene Robinson, Ann Marie Lipinski, Dan Biddle, Amy Harmon, Stephen Henderson, Lisa Pollak, Rebecca Blumenstein and Neil Chase Prize-winning journalists are joined by other distinguished Daily alumni and student staff in discussions of newsroom diversity, ...…
…statement THE MICHIGAN DAILY | SEPTEMBER 13, 2017 …
…2B Managaing Statement Editor: Lara Moehlman Deputy Editors: Yoshiko Iwai Brian Kuang Photo Editor: Alexis Rankin Editor in Chief: Emma Kinery Design Staff: Michelle Phillips Emily Hardie Erin Tolar Nicole Doctoroff Managing Editor: Rebecca Lerner Copy Editors: Elizabeth Dokas Taylor Grandinetti Wednesday, September 13, 2017 // The Statement Personal Statement: Four Months at the Helm of the News Desk F or four months...…
…“ Love you and miss you loads! Can’t wait to hear more adventures next week! XOXO...” When was the last time you sent someone a letter? I don’t mean birthday cards or thank you notes. When was the last time you sent a loved one a handwritten letter and kept a correspondence going through snail mail? I would imagine only a few people still communicate through this outdated medium, but letter-writing remains a timeless m...…
…Wednesday, September 13, 2017 // The Statement 4B Wednesday, September 13, 2017 // The Statement 5B Lessons in Silence Navigating our digital world b y R e b e c c a Ta r n o p o l, Editorial Page Editor S ome dreary November day my junior year of high school, I plugged away at a calculus test. As I calculated how quickly the height of water was changing in a tank drain- ing at some fixed rate, I felt it emanating from my right...…
…Wednesday, September 13, 2017 // The Statement 6B Let’s Talk About It: Do you speak English? E nglish is the language my tongue commands with the most power and versa- tility, yet it is the one from which I feel the most estranged — or almost unwelcome. I perform spoken-word poetry in English, I write articles for The Michigan Daily and I plan to teach English in secondary schools. Despite that English is my first and most fluent l...…
…Wednesday, September 13, 2017 // The Statement 7B The Picture Stays in the Kid: Days Off T he last time someone asked me where I was from, the response itself was long enough to be nominated for a writing award (it certainly wouldn’t win, if anything for lack of lucidity). “I’m from the North Shore suburbs of Chi- cago, about 30 minutes on the 94, sort of near Northwestern University in Evanston, in John Hughes territory: You kno...…
…Wednesday, September 13, 2017 // The Statement 8B V I S U A L S T A T E M E N T F O O T B A L L : B E H I N D T H E S C E N E S Photos by Amelia Cacchione Last Saturday, I photographed the Michigan football game against Cincinnati. I left my apartment at 9:30 a.m. and did not get home until 5:30 p.m. In between, I found myself on the field of the Big House, dodging footballs as they flew off the field and snapping over 1000 photos...…
…Imagine a world in which new careers and those that are unheard of today, exist, and those careers that exist today are no longer available. A world where robots have complete control of certain occupations, and where humans have the opportunity to implant knowledge into their brains through the use of technological advancements. On Monday evening, Dr. Kevin LaGrandeur, a professor of English at the New York Institute of ...…
…Sudoku Syndication http://sudokusyndication.com/sudoku/generator/print/ 1 of 1 10/27/08 1:10 PM 8 6 7 3 5 7 2 5 5 8 3 6 1 4 6 5 7 9 1 4 2 1 7 3 9 3 1 8 7 © sudokusolver.com. For personal use only. Generate and solve Sudoku, Super Sudoku and Godoku puzzles at sudokusyndication.com! BACK TO SCHOOL puzzle by sudokusyndication.com 2 — Tuesday, September 12, 2017 News The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Tweets Follow...…
…News The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Tuesday, September 12, 2017 — 3 MATT VAILLIENCOURT/Daily Members of University ROTC groups stand around the American flag in remembrance of the 9/11 terrorist attacks 17 years ago on the Diag Monday. IN MEMORIAM ‘Don’t worry, I’ve been through that, it’s going to be fine;’ it was a sense of relief, so it was really, really nice for me,” he said. LSA sophomore Allie Batka is studying chemis...…
…Opinion The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com 4— Tuesday, September 12, 2017 REBECCA LERNER Managing Editor 420 Maynard St. Ann Arbor, MI 48109 tothedaily@michigandaily.com Edited and managed by students at the University of Michigan since 1890. EMMA KINERY Editor in Chief ANNA POLUMBO-LEVY and REBECCA TARNOPOL Editorial Page Editors Unsigned editorials reflect the official position of the Daily’s Editorial Board. All other ...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Tuesday, September 12, 2017 — 5 Arts 4AD The National’s newest testifies to age, memory The first time I heard The National I was sitting in my dad’s car. We had just left Barnes & Noble, where he had spent hours pouring over the music and video section, making careful selections, then returning, then selecting again. It was a time when Barnes & Noble’s vast supply of albums in co...…
…ERIKA SHEVCHEK FINGERPRINT RELEASING ‘Home Again’ a contrived, uncomfortable experience “Home Again” follows the bond between Alice, a 40-year- old single mother, and a trio of handsome young filmmakers who stay in her guest house and help raise her children. The film’s cast, spearheaded by Reese Witherspoon (“Big Little Lies”), boasts of actors with success in the realm of romantic comedies: Nat Wolff (“Death Note”), ...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Sports Tuesday, Septermber 12, 2017 — 7 Way scores three, ‘M’ defeats Aggies Emma Way wanted to prove her coach wrong. After starting the first five games of the season, the junior forward found herself on the bench as the buzzer sounded to begin the match at Ocker Field on Sunday afternoon. She was clearly frustrated. Rather than sulk though, she channeled that anger into success. Way anc...…
…Pulitzer Prize-winning alumni of The Michigan Daily in an afternoon of panel discussions Friday, September 15th 1 pm in Rackham Auditorium Free and open to the public Featured are Eugene Robinson, Ann Marie Lipinski, Dan Biddle, Amy Harmon, Stephen Henderson, Lisa Pollak, Rebecca Blumenstein and Neil Chase Prize-winning journalists are joined by other distinguished Daily alumni and student staff in discussions of newsroom diversity, ...…
…Student veterans attended orientation in the Pond room of the Michigan Union Thursday evening and learned about the various resources and initiatives to support them on campus. The orientation was led by Psychology Lecturer Eric Fretz, Philip Larson, program director for the Student Veterans Assistance Program, and members of the Peer Advisors for Veteran Education. The incoming students had the opportunity to famil...…
…4 7 6 3 5 2 7 4 9 2 2 3 1 7 4 5 7 1 9 8 3 6 1 4 8 3 5 8 4 NO SWEAT. puzzle by sudokusyndication.com 2A — Friday, September 8, 2017 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com News CAMPUS EVENTS & NOTES Butler, Bernstein & The Hot 9 Performance WHAT: Join retro-futurist brass man Steven Bernstein and New Orleans piano vitruso Henry Butler for UMS’s season opening event. Tickets on sale at UMS’s website. WHO: UMS...…
…“immediate action” upon notice of harassment at the expense of receiving federal funding. To date, the OCR has conducted 435 investigations into colleges’ mishandling of sexual assault; the University’s case opened in 2014 and remains pending. Upon DeVos’ appointment under President Donald Trump, many braced for a dismantling of stringent guidelines. Jennifer Salvatore, founding partner at Salvatore, Prescott and Porter law f...…
…I t was, by all accounts, an unenviable afternoon at the Jersey Shore. The usually crowded beach was sparsely populated, thanks in large part to heavy gray clouds, rough waves and a chill uncharacteristic of early August. My family and I were perfectly content, though. None of us were particularly invested in our tans that day. Several yards behind us were other patrons who also seemed to be perfectly conten...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Friday, September 8, 2017 — 5A Arts COURTESY OF LOLLAPALOOZA Festival Report: Lollapalooza succeeds in surprising As the first music festival I’d ever been to, Lollapalooza blew all my expectations out of the park; all that food, music, people and excitement, nestled smack dab in the middle of Chicago. My only regret is that I wasn’t able to experience more; I couldn’t mosh to the eclectic ED...…
…FOCUS FEATURES Bewildered, not ‘Beguiled’ This summer saw more of the academic-discourse- permeates-pop-culture phenomenon that’s been snowballing for the past few years, especially on social media; one of the most obvious examples of how polarizing it can get was the discourse surrounding Sofia Coppola’s reboot of “The Beguiled.” And yes, I’m still thinking about it several months after the fact — now that the dust...…
…September 9, 2017: Cincinnati …
…FootballSaturday, September 9, 2017 2 STAFF PICKS The Daily football writers pick against the spread to predict scores for the top 25 and Big Ten in the 2017 football season. Betelhem Ashame Ted Janes Orion Sang Kevin Santo Cincinnati (+34.5) at No. 8 Michigan Michigan Michigan Michigan Michigan Michigan Fresno State (+43.5) at No. 1 Alabama Alabama Alabama Alabama Alabama Alabama No. 5 Oklahoma(+7) at No. 2 Ohio State Ohio Stat...…
…3 TheMichiganDaily, www.michigandaily.com Behind Enemy Lines: A conversation with Cincinnati’s football beat writer By BETELHEM ASHAME Managing Sports Editor To gain an inside perspective on the Cincinnati football team, the Daily reached out to our counterparts at The News Record, the student-run newspaper at the University of Cincinnati. On Thursday, we spoke on the phone with Jason Szelest — the sports editor at The News Recor...…
…IN COACH’S OFFICE Ted Janes, Daily Sports Writer In December, Mason Cole had a chance to leave for the NFL Draft. Now, he’s Michigan’s captain. Mason Cole, all 6-foot-5 of him, sat down in his coach’s office. Beside him was his dad, John, who had flown up to Ann Arbor from Tampa, and sitting across the room at his desk was offensive coordinator Tim Drevno. But the maestro in the room, Jim Harbaugh, was standing, pacing ar...…
…parents to tell them the news. Mason’s parents, John and Maggie, were at a business conference in Banff, Alberta when they found out their son was going to start. They had promised him that if he were starting, they would go to every game. They just didn’t know it was going to happen that quickly. Against Appalachian State in September 2014, Mason Cole became the first-ever true freshman at Michigan to start a season ope...…
…FootballSaturday, September 9, 2017 6 Breakdown: Michigan vs. Cincy By KEVIN SANTO Managing Sports Editor This one has all the ingredients to be a laugher. Cincinnati will travel to Ann Arbor this Saturday coming off a narrow 26-14 win over Austin Peay. To put that in perspective, the Governors have not won a game in FCS competition since Oct. 14, 2014. No. 8 Michigan, on the other hand, is heading into its home opener w...…
…7 TheMichiganDaily, www.michigandaily.com Breakdown: Michigan vs. Cincy Edge: Michigan Special teams The Wolverines have finally seen an inexperienced special teams unit in action, and they should be pleased with the results. Redshirt freshman kicker Quinn Nordin converted on four of his six field-goal opportunities — two of which were from 50-plus yards — and did so in high-pressure situations. Freshman Donovan Peoples- J...…
…FootballSaturday, September 9, 2017 8 What to Watch For: Cincinnati By ORION SANG Daily Sports Editor Michigan quieted some of its naysayers last week with a resounding 33-17 victory against then-No. 17 Florida at AT&T Stadium. The Wolverines are back in Ann Arbor this weekend, where they’ll play their home opener against Cincinnati. Michigan will find a familiar face on the opposing sideline in first-year head coach Luke Fi...…
…Students at the University are taking “going green” to another level. With the recent construction of two solar pavilions, students will now be able to socialize while powering their phones, laptops and tablets on renewable energy on campus. The two pavilions are located near Palmer Commons on Central Campus and the Bob and Betty Beyster Building on North Campus, respectively. Business junior Grant Faber, vi...…
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…students that deviating from this policy has adverse consequences for some of our students,” Martin continued in the email. “This a special emphasis of the dean’s office this year, making clear that it is our expectation that exams are administered during the times established by the Registrar’s Office.” LSA junior Meghan Clark said she is concerned whether the new emphasis on changing exam times will affect travel plans fo...…
…S tephen Bannon’s ouster from the White House brought the sort of speculation we’ve heard a number of times before: Is the Trump administration stable enough to continue functioning? Core members are in and out at the president’s whim, staff members lie, cheat and steal for a slim personal advantage and the work atmosphere is more “Game of Thrones” than “The West Wing.” I am inclined to believe that Bannon’s remova...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Thursday, September 7, 2017 — 5 Arts ATLANTIC Lil Uzi Vert in a crowd Lil Uzi Vert’s ‘Luv is Rage 2’ is the new emo Lil Uzi Vert returns on his newest release and exposes his mastery of hip hop and emo despite the album’s weak links Above all else, Lil Uzi Vert’s new album Luv Is Rage 2 is present. It is simultaneously the best indicator of where rap is today and a perfect harbinger of where i...…
…6 — Thursday, September 7, 2017 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com NETFLIX Stars of Netflix’s ‘Wet Hot American Summer’ revival Ian Harris: The problem with neverending shows How the resounding influence of ‘Sherlock Holmes’ and ‘Wet Hot American Summer’ turns to beating a dead horse “Let’s all promise that in ten years from today, we’ll meet again, and we’ll see what kind of people we’ve blossomed into.” These words, spoke...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Sports Thursday, September 7, 2017 — 7 In new role, Jay Harbaugh doesn’t run to form Tyrone Wheatley may have left Michigan’s coaching staff for the Jacksonville Jaguars, but very little has changed. Now under the tutelage of Jay Harbaugh, Michigan’s running backs have been quick to point out how interactive their new position coach is. Stereotypes may suggest an authoritarian relations...…
…8 — Thursday, September 7, 2017 Sports The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Secondary adapting to new defensive scheme Of all the position groups Michigan had to rebuild on the defensive side of the ball, the secondary was expected to have the most pieces to replace. When it came to the defensive backfield — especially at safety — the picture was blurry, to say the least. The two new starters — junior Tyree Kinnel and sophomor...…
…Tuesday evening, Central Student Government hosted their first meeting of the school year under new administration, with LSA senior Anushka Sarkar as president. Despite the brief interruption of a fire alarm in the Michigan Union, the meeting continued, focusing on welcoming members back to campus. A major focal point of the meeting involved the Trump administration’s announcement this morning of the dissolution of th...…
…It offered undocumented immigrants who came to the United States as minors the opportunity to receive deferred action from deportation and eligibility for a renewable, two-year work permit. To qualify, applicants must have all lived in the United States before the age of 16, not having any felonies or serious misdemeanors and living continuously in the United States since July 15, 2007. One of these individuals is ...…
…agency personnel to avoid conducting enforcement activities at sensitive locations unless they have prior approval from an appropriate supervisory official or in the event of exigent circumstances,” he said. “The locations specified in the guidance include schools, places of worship and hospitals.” According to the Frequently Asked Questions page of the Department of Homeland Security’s website, DACA individuals’...…
