…Junior cornerback passes Marlin Jackson, Leon Hall for all-time mark By MAX COHEN Managing Sports Editor When Michigan defensive coordinator D.J. Durkin arrived alongside Jim Harbaugh last winter, he noticed a flaw in the defense he inherited. The Wolverines’ defense had struggled to create turnovers in 2014, something Durkin felt was unacceptable. So Durkin implemented a reward system, one that starte...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com SportsMonday November 9, 2015 — 3B BATTLE OF THE BEILEINS LeVert’s onslaught helps Wolverines rout Le Moyne in exhibition game By JACOB GASE Daily Sports Editor For a fleeting moment Friday night — after the Michigan men’s basketball team missed four straight 3-point attempts and Le Moyne’s Qwadere Lovell sank a free throw to give his team a one-point lead — it appeared Patrick Beile...…
…4B — November 9, 2015 SportsMonday The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com THE MICHIGAN DAILY TOP-10 POLL 2. OHIO STATE: Jake Butt is the Buckeyes’ No. 1 fan. 1. CLEMSON: #Soybeanwind has his team in the top spot. Maybe he is paying his players, after all? 9. LSU: I’m Leonard Fournette against Alabama, and I have cable. 3. ALABAMA: Those reporters who wrote the Crimson Tide off after their loss to Ole Miss must feel really, rea...…
…michigandaily.com Ann Arbor, Michigan Friday, November 6, 2015 ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY-FIVE YEARS OF EDITORIAL FREEDOM Sam McGuffie’s path from football to bobsledding » INSIDE Football Saturday MATT VAILLIENCOURT/Daily Black Lives Matter protesters gather in front of Ann Arbor City Hall on Thursday evening to honor the one year anniversary of the death of Ann Arbor resident Aura Rosser. Demonstrators held signs calling for the firing o...…
…Police have identified the man who stabbed four people at the University of California’s Merced campus as 18-year- old freshman Faisal Mohamma, CNN reported. Mohamma used an 8 to 10 inch knife in the attack. 2A — Friday, November 6, 2015 News The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com THREE THINGS YOU SHOULD KNOW TODAY The Michigan football team will play host to Rutgers on Saturday. The Wolverines enter the game as heavy favorites c...…
…outlined the University’s plan to reduce carbon emissions. He said the University aims to cut emissions by 25 percent by 2025. One of the biggest contributors to that goal will be the new turbine, which uses natural gas to produce electricity. Once in place, Robben said, the turbine will increase Central Campus’ power plant efficiency significantly. The plant is currently fueled by both gas and oil. “The central power plant is ...…
…Opinion JENNIFER CALFAS EDITOR IN CHIEF AARICA MARSH and DEREK WOLFE EDITORIAL PAGE EDITORS LEV FACHER MANAGING EDITOR 420 Maynard St. Ann Arbor, MI 48109 tothedaily@michigandaily.com Edited and managed by students at the University of Michigan since 1890. Unsigned editorials reflect the official position of the Daily’s editorial board. All other signed articles and illustrations represent solely the views of their authors....…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Arts Friday, November 6, 2015 — 5A Arctic Monkeys: A perf teen band Alex Turner turned me on to British indie power-snark By ADAM THEISEN Senior Arts Editor Arctic Monkeys had every- thing you want out of music when you’re just becoming a teenager: relatable lyrics, huge choruses and a hot-as-hell lead singer with an accent. They caught on ridiculously quick in the U.K., where Whatever Peo...…
…Classifieds Call: #734-418-4115 Email: dailydisplay@gmail.com have fun doing the sudoku. xoxo ACROSS 1 They’re bought and soled 6 Educational foundation 10 Lowest part 15 Make like a tree, facetiously 16 “Uh-huh” 17 Butyl acetate, e.g. 18 AAEGIMRR 21 Balkan region 22 Wild period 23 Edible tuber 24 __ Plantation, site of the world’s largest maze 26 Sun Valley locale 28 AACDEINNV 35 Sea sound 36 One of Suetonius’ “Twelve Caesars” 37 ...…
…Father, son match wits in exhibition By LEV FACHER Managing Editor John Beilein doesn’t typically invite opposing coaches over to his house after games, but Friday will prove an exception. After all, the Michigan men’s basketball coach is going up against the school that employed him for nine years. Odder still, the man now running the show at Division II Le Moyne College is Beilein’s son, Patrick. “I’m...…
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…November 7, 2015: Rutgers From the gridiron to the snow …
…FootballSaturday, November 7, 2015 2 STAFF PICKS The Daily football writers pick against the spread to predict scores for the top 25 and Big Ten in the 2015 football season. Max Bultman Max Cohen Jake Lourim Zach Shaw Rutgers (+25) at No. 17 Michigan Michigan Michigan Michigan Michigan Michigan No. 16 Florida State (+12) at No. 1 Clemson Clemson Florida State Clemson Florida State Clemson No. 2 LSU (+6.5) at No. 4 Alabama Alabama...…
…3 TheMichiganDaily, www.michigandaily.com Wolverines have opportunity to reassert dominance vs. Rutgers Scarlet Knights struggling heading into first trip to Michigan Stadium By JAKE LOURIM Managing Sports Editor Four weeks have passed since the No. 17 Michigan football team’s 38-0 rout of Northwestern, the last game the Wolverines played that wasn’t close. Their two games since then have hinged on the final pla...…
…Sam McGuffie, seven years removed from Michigan, works toward Olympic dream By MAX COHEN Managing Sports Editor When he was growing up in Texas in the 1990s and early 2000s, Sam McGuffie made sure he never missed the gymnastics events in the Summer Olympics. He’d sit in his living room every four years and watch all of the routines, just like millions of other Americans. But what McGuffie did between the routines separated h...…
…FootballSaturday, November 7, 2015 6 Breakdown: ‘M’ owns advantage The Wolverines enter Saturday’s game as heavy favorites By ZACH SHAW Daily Sports Editor The No. 17 Michigan football team plays Rutgers on Saturday in a game not expected to be close. The Scarlet Knights have a first-year quarterback, the 111th-best defense in the country and a coaching staff riddled with violations and controversy. Oh, and they’ve been ...…
…7 TheMichiganDaily, www.michigandaily.com What to Watch For: Peppers, quarterback, the ‘carry fairy’ By MAX BULTMAN Daily Sports Editor Last season, the Michigan football team was the victim of Rutgers’ first-ever Big Ten win, when the Scarlet Knights topped the Wolverines, 26-24, in Piscataway. Rutgers fans stormed the field, celebrating a momentous victory in school history. Saturday, the Scarlet Knights will take the fiel...…
…FootballSaturday, November 7, 2015 8 Behind Enemy Lines: Leonte Carroo By MAX BULTMAN Daily Sports Editor If last season’s loss at Rutgers was a nightmare for Michigan, it was a dream come true for the Scarlet Knights. Their first- ever Big Ten win led fans to storm the field after the game ended. Now in their second season in the conference, the Scarlet Knights are struggling to match their 2014 output, which was char...…
…michigandaily.com Ann Arbor, Michigan Thursday, November 5, 2015 ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY-FIVE YEARS OF EDITORIAL FREEDOM A look at the Blind Pig’s annual Halloween Band Masquerade » INSIDE the b-side Five additional school districts could offer tuition scholarships By EMMA KINERY Daily Staff Reporter Michigan state legislators are pushing to expand a program that currently provides free under- graduate college tuition to certai...…
…Immunotherapy, a type of therapy that has been researched extensively in recent years and aims to employ the body’s immune sys- tem to fight off some cancers, was a focus of the research led by Weiping Zou, the Univer- sity’s Charles B. de Nancrede professor of surgery, immunol- ogy and biology and the direc- tor of translational research. Zou said the fields in which the study was based — tumor biology and immunotherapy — ar...…
…gram to “reduce human health and safety risks and property damage” caused by deer within city limits. If the moratorium is approved, the cull will be carried out largely by Wildlife Services, a program within the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service. A resolution authorizing the city’s involvement with Wildlife Services will also be presented at Thursday’s meeting. Amendment to Clean Energ...…
…Opinion JENNIFER CALFAS EDITOR IN CHIEF AARICA MARSH and DEREK WOLFE EDITORIAL PAGE EDITORS LEV FACHER MANAGING EDITOR 420 Maynard St. Ann Arbor, MI 48109 tothedaily@michigandaily.com Edited and managed by students at the University of Michigan since 1890. Unsigned editorials reflect the official position of the Daily’s editorial board. All other signed articles and illustrations represent solely the views of their authors....…
…Classifieds Call: #734-418-4115 Email: dailydisplay@gmail.com ACROSS 1 Luxurious 5 Decorative bedroom item 9 As such 14 Morales of “Jericho” 15 Improbable 16 Without stopping 17 What a party crasher may get 20 French room 21 Signifies 22 Nuggets’ org. 23 Air traveler’s concern, briefly 25 Mil. group that “teaches you to lead” 27 19th-/20th- century South African conflicts 33 “Stupid me!” 34 Unlikely prom king 35 Chocolate- covered caramel tr...…
…6A — Thursday, November 5, 2015 Sports The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com ‘M’ regroups; Defense coming together Four of six freshmen making transition from USHL to college By MINH DOAN Daily Sports Editor With four top defensemen returning from last season — juniors Michael Downing and Nolan De Jong and sophomores Zach Werenski and Cutler Martin — plus the addition of a highly touted freshman class, there was...…
…B The Michigan Daily | michigandaily.com | Thursday, November 5, 2015 the b-side NAILED IT: the Blind Pig’s Halloween Band Masquerade by Melina Glusac, Daily Arts Writer Photo by Virginia Lozano | Design by Mariah Gardziola …
…2B — Thursday, November 5, 2015 the b-side The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com My whiskers are melting off my face from sweat. I am a last minute, Rite Aid-eared cat, and any bit of feline allure I once had has flown out the window by this point. As I’m squeezing my way past Alex from “A Clockwork Orange,” Tom Cruise from “Top Gun” and a disarmingly good Edward Scissorhands, I can’t stifle the thought that I look a little basic...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com the b-side Thursday, November 5, 2015 — 3B By MARIA ROBINS -SOMERVILLE For The Daily Five family members gather around a makeshift dining room table, angrily snapping open pistachios and hurl- ing scowls and swear words across the tabletop. Direc- tor Greg Strasser, a School of Music Theatre & Dance senior, pauses his actors to ask: “Have you guys ever watched an episod...…
…4B — Thursday, November 5, 2015 the b-side The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com CONCERT REVIEW It’s not too late for Norah Jones Jones disappoints at Michigan Theater show By ADAM DEPOLLO Managing Arts Editor I wrote my last full-blown con- cert review almost exactly one year before the one that you’re currently reading, shortly after I saw L.A. producer/musical savant Flying Lotus play in front of a full house at the Royal Oak...…
…michigandaily.com Ann Arbor, Michigan Wednesday, November 4, 2015 ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY-FIVE YEARS OF EDITORIAL FREEDOM INDEX Vol. CXXV, No. 24 ©2015 The Michigan Daily michigandaily.com NEWS......................... 2A OPINION.....................4A ARTS.......................... 5A SPORTS ......................7A CL ASSIFIEDS...............6A T H E S TAT E M E N T. . . . . . . .1 B NEW ON MICHIGANDAILY.COM No Filter: ‘Beasts of No ...…
…Gessen argued that people need to take the repercussions of totalitarian regimes seriously, no matter how preposterous they seem, rather than risk the great tragedy that can occur if Western countries ignore them. “We’re so rational we don’t like to believe in things that are preposterous, and it gives us a lot of satisfaction to feel more intelligent and just sort of sniff at things,” she said. “But it is so much better to ha...…
…venues for students to weigh in on several amendments, includ- ing the addition of an honor pledge, include statement edu- cation during new student orientation, specification of a consistent 3-year amendment cycle, specify the scope of viola- tions and formalize the Univer- sity president’s need to chose amendments before the end of the school year. CSG president Cooper Charl- ton, an LSA senior, said CSG General Counsel Jacob P...…
…Opinion JENNIFER CALFAS EDITOR IN CHIEF AARICA MARSH and DEREK WOLFE EDITORIAL PAGE EDITORS LEV FACHER MANAGING EDITOR 420 Maynard St. Ann Arbor, MI 48109 tothedaily@michigandaily.com Edited and managed by students at the University of Michigan since 1890. Unsigned editorials reflect the official position of the Daily’s editorial board. All other signed articles and illustrations represent solely the views of their authors....…
…5A — Wednesday, November 4, 2015 Arts The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com FILM REVIEW ABC “You used to call me on my cell phone.” No redemption for ‘Wicked City’ New ABC drama negates feminist progress on TV By SHIR AVINADAV For The Daily Ed Westwick broke “Gos- sip Girl” ’s fans hearts as Upper East Side playboy, Chuck, and does it again in ABC’s new thriller, “Wicked City” as suave serial killer Kent. Like Chuck...…
…Classifieds Call: #734-418-4115 Email: dailydisplay@gmail.com ACROSS 1 See-through kitchen supply 6 Mythical king of the Huns 10 Kitchen spray 13 Flared dress 14 Ancient Greek theater 15 Land in l’océan 16 *Sneaky blow 18 Some kitchen appliances 19 Did a slow burn 20 Passengers in flight, often 22 Cyberspace marketplace 23 Snobbish 24 Chopper 27 Mount Hood’s state 29 Prominent periods 30 Keep the censor busy 31 The NBA’s Kevin Love, e.g. 34 ...…
…7A — Wednesday, November 4, 2015 Arts & Sports The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Shared universe takes over at CW TV NOTEBOOK The CW’s superhero series show pros and cons of crossovers By BEN ROSENSTOCK Daily Arts Writer Next January, the CW will launch “DC’s Legends of Tomorrow,” a spinoff series taking place in the same narrative universe as the channel’s other popular superhero shows, “Arrow” and “T...…
…8A — Wednesday, November 4, 2015 Sports The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Michigan defense reflects on errors Wolverines seek improvement after recent lapses in performance By JAKE LOURIM Managing Sports Editor For weeks, the Michigan football team’s defense picked out the smallest mistakes to fix. After back-to-back victories in which the Wolverines gave up seven points in each, they vowed to prevent their opponent from ...…
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…2B “(When choosing universities) I was talking to someone and they said you can make a big school small but you can’t make a small school big. My other college option was a really small school, and when looking at it that way, Michigan has so many cool things that I thought it would be good to come and get involved in a community instead of getting lost in a big school.” –LSA junior RICHARD WU Wednesday November 4, 2015 // The Stat...…
…This week’s Statement Magazine looks into the lives, struggles, and triumphs of first-generation college students at the University. Here are a few other inspiring first-gens. 3B Magazine Editor: Ian DIllingham Deputy Editor: Natalie Gadbois Editor in Chief: Jennifer Calfas Managing Editor: Lev Facher Copy Editors: Hannah Bates Laura Schinagle Emma Sutherland THE statement THE LIST HOWARD SCHULTZ The lauded CEO of Starbuck...…
…Wednesday, November 4, 2015 // The Statement 4B Wednesday, November 4, 2015 // The Statement 5B Faces of an invisible identity: First-generation student experiences G rowing up on the west side of Detroit, most of Katie Thomas’ high school classmates didn’t go to college. But the Kinesiology senior was a stellar student: she consistently earned As in her classes, and she enjoyed going to school. So when she applied to college, the Un...…
…Wednesday, November 4, 2015 // The Statement 6B “We know that students who are first-gen students enter college less prepared,” she added. “We know that students are often unfamiliar with the culture and the mechanics of col- lege life and they don’t have family members who they can call and ask questions. And we know that they tend to have more complex family structures and that pulls their attention and their time away from their work...…
…Wednesday, November 4, 2015 // The Statement 7B I notice the red holes in my sneakers as I walk into an outlet mall’s T.J. Maxx. Wearing a $10 graphic tee purchased on clearance, I wade through aisles of affordable clothing. I’m looking for a particular shirt. I move around the men’s section until I lay eyes on my intended purchase: a blue polo shirt with a yellow Ralph Lauren logo embroidered in the top right corner. I quickly grab ...…
…Wednesday, November 4, 2015 // The Statement 8B I t won’t take long into getting to know me to know how much I love the rapper Drake. He’s in my Twitter bio. He’s the background on my phone. I once changed the all com- puter screens at The Michigan Daily news desk to mirroring images of his face. When friends describe me to people they know, they often bring up my obsession with Drizzy. It’s become my “niche.” Interestingly, however, no ...…
…michigandaily.com Ann Arbor, Michigan Tuesday, November 3, 2015 ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY-FIVE YEARS OF EDITORIAL FREEDOM Discussion points to special interests as detriment to the collective good By DANIEL OH For the Daily Hundreds filled Rackham Auditorium on Monday to hear Naomi Klein, a noted Canadian author and social activist, discuss her new book, “This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate.” The book dis...…
…and evaluation experts — to determine whether the current course evaluation instrument is in line with best practices. If it is not, the committee will be charged with recommending a new instrument. According to Weineck, University Provost Martha Pollack wants the issue of how and when to release course evaluation data to be decided by faculty and students. “(Pollack) seemed very, very open to having students and facult...…
…it is not uncommon for institutions with expertise on a certain issue to submit briefs to the Supreme Court. He said in this particular case, the University can draw on its own experience to help the court make a sensible decision. In 2006, Michigan voters approved an amendment to the state’s constitution, called Proposal 2, which banned colleges and universities from granting preferential treatment to any student based...…
…Opinion JENNIFER CALFAS EDITOR IN CHIEF AARICA MARSH and DEREK WOLFE EDITORIAL PAGE EDITORS LEV FACHER MANAGING EDITOR 420 Maynard St. Ann Arbor, MI 48109 tothedaily@michigandaily.com Edited and managed by students at the University of Michigan since 1890. Unsigned editorials reflect the official position of the Daily’s editorial board. All other signed articles and illustrations represent solely the views of their authors....…
…5 — Tuesday, November 3, 2015 Arts The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com LITERATURE COLUMN Exploring ‘Jest’ T he start of my enthrall- ment with David Foster Wallace would have infuriated the deceased, reclu- sive author — it began when I watched someone else espouse his ideas in a film version of his life. I found his persona fascinating in “The End of the Tour,” the movie adaptation of last few days of the “Infinite Jes...…
…Classifieds Call: #734-418-4115 Email: dailydisplay@gmail.com CHECK OUT OUR COOL www.michigandaily.com WEBSITE. ACROSS 1 Woman who turns up in Rick’s gin joint 5 41st or 43rd president 9 National park in the Canadian Rockies 14 __-chef 15 One of Pittsburgh’s three rivers 16 Like a loud crowd 17 Just swell 19 Itsy-__ 20 Generous __ fault 21 Serious romantic outing 23 Hot beverage server 26 Personal ad abbr. 27 Sawmill input 28 Pursue and c...…
…Sports The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Tuesday, November 3, 2015 — 7 After moment in spotlight, Speight no longer unknown Teammates laud quarterback’s poise in leading comeback against Minnesota By MAX COHEN Managing Sports Editor Just a few months ago, Wilton Speight was a relative nobody on the Michigan football team. He had arrived in Ann Arbor in the winter of 2014 as a highly touted quarterback, but one who had to ...…
