…(Regarding OIE’s priorities in investigations,) that’s a little bit of a difficult question because I would say our priority of course is always to address all of the matters, right. And as quickly as possible, which is difficult to do, especially as we’ve had really significant increases over the last couple of years and the number of reports that we’ve received, and to do them again in that fair and appropriate way, make sure th...…
…Opinion The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com 4 — Tuesday, April 23, 2019 Zack Blumberg Joel Danilewitz Emily Huhman Tara Jayaram Jeremy Kaplan Magdalena Mihaylova Ellery Rosenzweig Jason Rowland Anu Roy-Chaudhury Alex Satola Erin White Ashley Zhang Timothy Spurlin Nicholas Tomaino FINNTAN STORER Managing Editor Stanford Lipsey Student Publications Building 420 Maynard St. Ann Arbor, MI 48109 tothedaily@michigandaily.com Edited and m...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Arts Tuesday, April 23, 2019 — 5 I stopped watching football last year. Even before Kap took a knee, the NFL had been driven by a certain noxious brand of culture warring: the massive penalty flags, a collective shoulder shrug at domestic violence. The “clean hits” didn’t feel especially clean. The tackles seemed to be getting louder. Or maybe it was just me. The sad thing about sports is th...…
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…‘M’ extends losing streak in tightly contested battle With under four minutes remaining in the game’s final quarter, Decker Curran swept across the the top of the box towards his right and dodged down the alley, firing an overhand shot past the head of Rutgers goalkeeper Max Edelman to bring the Wolverines within one goal, 10-9. His second of the day, Curran’s goal brought hope to the Michigan men’s lacrosse team that it c...…
…8 — Tuesday, April 23, 2019 Sports The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Michigan’s star recruiting class from 2018 continues to deliver Some referred to them as the best recruiting class in program history. The Michigan baseball team’s 2018 incoming class received plaudits nationwide for its talent and balance. It was ranked No. 10 in the country — the highest ranking a Big Ten recruiting class has ever received — and tallied sev...…
…About 50 people gathered Friday night in the Forum Hall of Palmer Commons for the 2019 Mental Health Monologues, sponsored by the University of Michigan’s chapter of Active Minds. This is the fourth year Active Minds, an organization dedicated to raising awareness about mental health among college students, has put on the show. Students and alumni prepared monologues about their personal struggles with mental health. Nu...…
…PA SSOVE R SE DE R 2A — Monday, April 22, 2019 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com News CARTER FOX/Daily The table is set for a Passover Seder hosted by students in coordination with Michigan Hillel Saturday night. DESIGN BY VIVIAN HARBER MOLLY WU puzzle by sudokusyndication.com TUESDAY: By Design THURSDAY: Twitter Talk FRIDAY: Behind the Story WEDNESDAY: This Week in History MONDAY: Looking at the Numbers Stanford Lipsey Student...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Michigan in Color Monday, April 22, 2019 — 3A wq“Kayleah... Kayleah… KAYLEAH.” My mother always repeated her statements in threes, louder each round, without any care if I had responded or not. It didn’t matter to her whether it was at the dinner table, the grocery store, in the quiet aisles of the library, or while driving on the freeway with me in the car… sitting next to her. And with every ...…
…Opinion The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com 4A — Monday, April 22, 2019 Zack Blumberg Joel Danilewitz Emily Huhman Tara Jayaram Jeremy Kaplan Magdalena Mihaylova Ellery Rosenzweig Jason Rowland Anu Roy-Chaudhury Alex Satola Erin White Ashley Zhang Timothy Spurlin Nicholas Tomaino FINNTAN STORER Managing Editor Stanford Lipsey Student Publications Building 420 Maynard St. Ann Arbor, MI 48109 tothedaily@michigandaily.com Edited and m...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Arts Monday, April 22, 2019 — 5A If you’re familiar with Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan at all, you’ve probably heard him sing alongside Pearl Jam’s Eddie Vedder in a rendition of Neil Young’s “The Long Road” in the 1995 Tim Robbins film of the same name. Or, like me, you grew up with parents who practically worshipped the man. Either way, you’re familiar with a voice that is stunningly beautiful...…
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…Katelyn Mulcahy & Alec Cohen / Daily Design by Jack Silberman As the first of two games on Sunday wound down, it wasn’t entirely clear which team would come out on top. It was tied, 2-2, in the seventh inning, and neither Michigan nor Northwestern had mustered any offense. Then, junior center fielder Christian Bullock sprung to action. For the second time that game, he worked his way to third base after stealing second and advan...…
…2B — April 22, 2019 SportsMonday The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com E very email I’ve ever sent to the sports staff has ended with some varia- tion of “I love you.” To some, that probably seems like an unpro- fessional, aggressive overuse of the term “I love you.” Under other circum- stances, I might agree. But I don’t agree here, because: a) it’s absurd for anyone to limit their allotted number of “I love yous” in this l...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com SportsMonday April 22, 2019 — 3B McCallum wins national title as Michigan finishes in fourth place Anthony McCallum stood at the end of the runway, visualizing himself sticking his Tsukahara double pike vault. Five seconds later, he landed it, for the final time in his Michigan men’s gymnastics career, with his feet glued to the floor. All gymnasts strive for stuck landings, and this time, it...…
…4B — April 22, 2019 SportsMonday The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com It was easy to be skeptical a month ago. Jim Harbaugh has adapted, but he has never given up control, at least not in this way. Michigan’s offense has always been his, and before that, so was the 49ers’, Stanford’s and the University of San Diego’s. Hiring Josh Gattis to be his offensive coordinator was one thing. Letting him coordinate the offense was, entirel...…
…Thursday night, about 100 Kessler Scholars gathered to listen to Lt. Gov. Garlin Gilchrist II in the Michigan League Ballroom for their annual banquet. The banquet serves as a final celebration of the scholars’ hard work throughout the year. In his address, Gilchrist discussed his path from engineer to politician and the resilience he learned along the way. The Kessler Presidential Scholarship Program was created by Fre...…
…Thursday, the city of Ann Arbor and the Ann Arbor District Library held a forum at the library on race and class equity in Washtenaw County as the final event of its annual sustainability series. Approximately 100 students and community members attended the event. Teresa Gillotti, Washtenaw County Office of Community and Economic Development director, emphasized the difficulty of the commute for much of the city’s Bl...…
…Following the reception, LSA junior Ayah Kutmah, MRAP Vice President of External Affairs, delivered the opening remarks, using statistics to highlight the extent of the refugee crisis. According to Kutmah, the current refugee crisis is the worst in modern history, and the U.S. has limited the number of refugees to the lowest since the U.S. standardized the refugee-accepting process following the Refugee Act of 1...…
…Opinion The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com 4 — Friday, April 19, 2019 Zack Blumberg Joel Danilewitz Emily Huhman Tara Jayaram Jeremy Kaplan Magdalena Mihaylova Ellery Rosenzweig Jason Rowland Anu Roy-Chaudhury Alex Satola Erin White Ashley Zhang Timothy Spurlin Nicholas Tomaino FINNTAN STORER Managing Editor Stanford Lipsey Student Publications Building 420 Maynard St. Ann Arbor, MI 48109 tothedaily@michigandaily.com Edited and ma...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Arts Friday, April 19, 2019 — 5 In the run-up to “Avengers: Endgame,” I’m running down every movie and TV show the MCU has ever put out and ranking them based on how well they tell their stories with the means available to them. This is part three of a four part series. 22. “Marvel’s Luke Cage”: Season one (2016) As with many Marvel projects on both TV and on film, what makes the first season of “Luk...…
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…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Sports Friday, April 19, 2019 — 7 “You’re no longer the underdog” How Michigan women’s lacrosse learned how to win Before the start of the season in February, coach Hannah Nielsen set up a board with challenging but attainable goals for her team. Finish over .500. The Michigan women’s lacrosse team, in its five years of existence, had never had a winning season. A winning record in Big Ten play. ...…
…8 — Friday, April 19, 2019 Sports The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Michigan prepares for nationals In order to be the best, you have to compete against the best. The best teams can thrive under pressure. And thrive when it is super close. Can’t break steel. Bev Plocki has been giving her team of 14 gymnasts these nuggets of wisdom all season, and for the thirty years she’s been Michigan’s women’s gymnastics coach. But this yea...…
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…2 — Thursday, April 18, 2019 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com News Dr. Mark Schlissel @DrMarkSchlissel Thanks to @TheBSU student activists our @UMich Trotter Multicultural Center is a new home for unity, learning, reflection & hope. It shows the potential of what we can be as a great institution & what we must do together to advance excellence, diversity, equity, and inclusion. The Black Sheep Michigan @blacksheepmichigan it’...…
…Ken Kollman, a professor of political science, is familiar with constitutional law and believes it’s best for free speech to be uninhibited until it becomes threatening. “I think like most faculty I’m generally in favor of free speech unless it’s dangerous and incites violence,” Kollman said. “When possible, when there’s no threat to the people or the public order, then it’s better to allow people to speak on campuses.” The second...…
…Opinion The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com 4 — Thursday, April 18, 2019 Zack Blumberg Joel Danilewitz Emily Huhman Tara Jayaram Jeremy Kaplan Magdalena Mihaylova Ellery Rosenzweig Jason Rowland Anu Roy-Chaudhury Alex Satola Erin White Ashley Zhang Timothy Spurlin Nicholas Tomaino FINNTAN STORER Managing Editor Stanford Lipsey Student Publications Building 420 Maynard St. Ann Arbor, MI 48109 tothedaily@michigandaily.com Edited and ...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Arts Thrusday, April 18, 2019 — 5 In the short span of three years, Sally Rooney has evolved from essayist to fiction writer to “the first great millennial novelist.” Sally Rooney got a New Yorker interview in January, told The Guardian that she “do(esn’t) respond to authority very well” and has a 10-minute YouTube video on writing and Marxism. She’s a veritable cultural event, heralded...…
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…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Sports Thursday, April 18, 2019 — 7 Z avier Simpson started with a cliché. “It was tremendous,” the junior guard said. “I’m blessed to be a part of the season. A winning sea- son. Definite- ly extremely glad I was able to be in the position to help my team. Next year, hopefully we can make more noise. Get more success for the University, get more suc- cess for next year, winning some cha...…
…8 — Thursday, April 18, 2019 Sports The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com From Fleet Feet to Michigan: The Fenty family and a culture of exercise Phil Fenty runs. He bikes. He swims. Fenty runs ultramarathons — 100-mile races that can take nearly 24 hours to compete. “What’s even more crazy is that he did them twice,” said Andrew Fenty, his grandson. “And to qualify for that event you have to run numerous 50 mile events.” Phil...…
…Housing disputes tend to be between a landlord and a tenant, but in LSA junior Samantha Goldstein’s and her roommates’ case, their disagreement found them allied with their landlord and fighting against their neighbor’s landlord. Now, Goldstein and her landlord, Kaveh Esmael, are speaking out about their neighbor’s abusive proprietor. Goldstein and her six roommates live in a house on South University Avenue between Wal...…
…On Tuesday evening, the University of Michigan Central Student Government held its second-to-last meeting of the semester in the Michigan League to discuss resolutions for moving Assembly meetings to Thursday evenings and codifying Wolverine Consulting Group, a free consulting service provided by CSG to student organizations. The Assembly also approved a resolution organizing healthy snack distribution in campus libraries ...…
…“This year we really wanted to build up the festival,” Singh said. “So really focusing on what different sections we want, so arts and music, live service, sustainability and so on … . We really wanted to focus on bringing out more interactive organizations — we want this to be more about showcasing what exactly your org has to offer to the University and what community value you bring to campus.” Singh also said the group inv...…
…Opinion The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com 4A — Wednesday, April 17, 2019 Zack Blumberg Emma Chang Joel Danilewitz Emily Huhman Tara Jayaram Jeremy Kaplan Magdalena Mihaylova Ellery Rosenzweig Jason Rowland Anu Roy-Chaudhury Alex Satola Timothy Spurlin Nicholas Tomaino Erin White Ashley Zhang FINNTAN STORER Managing Editor Stanford Lipsey Student Publications Building 420 Maynard St. Ann Arbor, MI 48109 tothedaily@michigandaily.com...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Arts Wednesday, April 17, 2019 — 5A Sally Rooney entered the literary scene in 2015 with “Even if You Beat Me,” a nonfiction essay published in the Dublin Review recounting her years as a champion debater. A year later, Rooney made the jump to fiction with “Mr Salary,” a short story picked up by the literary magazine Granta and quickly shortlisted for the Sunday Times EFG Short Story Award, the rich...…
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…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Sports Wednesday, April 17, 2019 — 7A Big game woes T he Michigan baseball team is 24-11 overall and stands third in the Big Ten. The Wolverines have scored 100 more runs than their oppo- nents, only one regular starter has an on-base per- centage less than .300 and the team has 38 total home runs. They’ve won five games by double digits, 16 by four or more runs and have a defense tha...…
…8A — Wednesday, April 17, 2019 Sports The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Michigan football freshmen experiencing benefits of early enrollment There’s a phrase ringing around Schembechler Hall: Michigan’s early enrollees “should be at high school prom.” Cornerbacks coach Mike Zordich described them as “raw” and “green.” Certainly, they’re not ready for college football, not yet. This is what spring ball is for thos...…
…statement THE MICHIGAN DAILY | APRIL 17, 2019 ILLUSTRATION BY LAUREN KUZZEE “In-State”: A reflection on the U.P., its students and the University of Michigan …
…Wednesday, April 17, 2019 // The Statement 2B Managing Statement Editor Andrea Pérez Balderrama Deputy Editors Matthew Harmon Shannon Ors Designers Liz Bigham Kate Glad Copy Editors Miriam Francisco Madeline Turner Photo Editor Annie Klusendorf Editor in Chief Maya Goldman Managing Editor Finntan Storer statement THE MICHIGAN DAILY | APRIL 3, 2019 G aining a solid foundation in grammar was one of the hall- marks of m...…
…3B “Congratulations, you won!” have become words to fear in the age of robocalls. Nearly every cell phone owner is familiar with the feeling of answering what looks like a local number, but hearing a cold, robotic voice awarding us a free Hawaiian cruise, or warning us of a vendetta from the IRS. When taken for face value, robocalls seem to exist for the sole purpose of malicious irritation, but a closer look reveals that they have s...…
…“In-State”: A reflection on the U.P., its students and the University of Michigan People in Houghton, a town in the Upper Peninsula, only wake up at 4 a.m. to do one of three things: plow snow, watch the sunrise or catch one of the two daily flights from Houghton County Memorial Airport to Chicago O’Hare. My intention to watch the sunrise drew me to wake up at 4 a.m. in July 2017. I gathered my siblings to drive “up north” — an hour ...…
…I have heard it all. About how there’s nothing in the world quite like walking to Michigan Stadium with your friends on game days — when jubi- lant music floods the streets and Ann Arbor is indisputably wide awake. About hunching over crinkled papers and half- finished lattes in the library late at night. About the fading intensity of homesick- ness as you find the friends that’ll speak at your wedding someday and the growing sense o...…
…Wednesday, January 16, 2019 // The Statement 7B Wednesday, April 17, 2019 // The Statement 7B A love letter to “U” I decided to go to the University of Michigan without ever hav- ing stepped foot on this campus. I had a really good feeling about it, and for some reason, my gut knew. I loved what people had to say about U-M grads — that they are wicked smart and successful, but also extremely friendly, kind and humble. From the beg...…
…VISUAL STATEM ENT VISUAL STATEM ENT “IF YOU WOULD HAVE TOLD ME FRESHMAN YEAR THAT I WOULD BE CHASING JORDAN POOLE AND THE MICHIGAN BASKETBALL TEAM AROUND A COURT IN WICHITA, KANSAS AND THEN SPEND THE NEXT 15 HOURS (AND MANY RED BULLS) DRIVING BACK TO ANN ARBOR, THEN SPEND 6 HOURS MAKING A NEWSPAPER, THEN SOMEHOW MAKING IT BACK TO MY BED, I WOULD HONESTLY NOT BELIEVE YOU. BECAUSE I STILL FIND HARD TO BELIEVE TODAY ALL OF THE INCREDIBLE E...…
…On Monday evening, about 50 students attended a fireside chat hosted by Lean In at University of Michigan in the Ross School of Business. The event discussed women in politics, and panelists included local Michigan state representatives as well as politically active campus leaders. The event began with each panelist talking about her own background. Michigan state Rep. Rebekah Warren, D-Ann Arbor, discussed the insp...…
…A group of approximately 50 students, faculty and community members gathered Monday night in the ballroom of the Michigan League for an open mic night, showcasing the stories and experiences of Asian/Pacific Islander Americans. Multi-Ethnic Student Affairs hosted the open mic night as a part of the Asian/Pacific Islander American Heritage Month. The event, titled “hAPIness: Open Mic Night,” was co-hosted by ...…
…According to Warren, her experience as the only female Democrat in the Michigan Senate for four years has made her realize female perspectives are essential. “We tend to fight amongst each other for one seat at the table, but we need to stop fighting for that one seat and start demanding the five spots at the table that we deserve,” Warren said. “Women’s voices at the table change conversations.” Other panelists said it ...…
