…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Sports Tuesday, February 5, 2019 — 7 Michigan accelerating into 2019 The sport of lacrosse is speeding up, and Michigan is poised to capitalize on new shot- clock regulations as it amps up for the 2019 season. In an attempt to accelerate the pace of the game and facilitate a more exciting, aggressive play strategy, NCAA rulemakers have followed professional lacrosse leagues by implementing an 8...…
…8 — Tuesday, February 5, 2019 Sports The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Steve Pikiell and the unenviable task of building Rutgers basketball Back in October, when the Big Ten was a mystery and Rutgers’ place in it a foregone conclusion, Steve Pikiell sat at a round table near the edge of a hotel ballroom in Rosemont, Ill., trying and failing to dissuade reputation. The Scarlet Knights, who had won a combined nine conference games...…
…On Feb. 1, the city of Ann Arbor awarded a $15,000 Sustaining Ann Arbor Together grant to A2 STEAM at Northside Elementary School. The school will use the grant to fund the implementation of a solar curriculum for students in kindergarten through eighth grade to support educational efforts about clean energy and its use. During the 2017-2018 school year, students at A2 STEAM began fundraising for the installation of 60 solar panel...…
…DOWNTOWN DETROIT 2A — Monday, Febrary 4, 2019 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com News MAX KUANG/Daily Visiting the historic Fox Theatre, located in downtown Detroit, before the Michigan Democratic Party Convention Saturday morning. DESIGN BY VIVIAN HARBER Educator and activist Yavilah McCoy joined Michigan Hillel for a Shabbat dinner on Friday to talk about social activism and the role Judaism plays in activism. The event, ...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Michigan in Color Monday, February 4, 2018— 3A Photo courtesy of the author Photo courtesy of the author Founded on the mission for Latinx students to reclaim, uplift and properly represent the Latinx community, Latinidad is a new magazine that is forging its ways among the intersection of creative expression and social justice. LSA seniors Jacqueline Delgado and Daniel Lopez developed the v...…
…Opinion The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com 4A — Monday, February 4, 2019 Emma Chang Joel Danilewitz Samantha Goldstein Elena Hubbell Emily Huhman Tara Jayaram Jeremy Kaplan Sarah Khan Lucas Maiman Magdalena Mihaylova Ellery Rosenzweig Jason Rowland Anu Roy-Chaudhury Alex Satola Ali Safawi Ashley Zhang Sam Weinberger FINNTAN STORER Managing Editor Stanford Lipsey Student Publications Building 420 Maynard St. Ann Arbor, MI...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Arts Monday, February 4, 2019 — 5A By Winston Emmons ©2019 Tribune Content Agency, LLC 02/04/19 Los Angeles Times Daily Crossword Puzzle Edited by Rich Norris and Joyce Nichols Lewis 02/04/19 ANSWER TO PREVIOUS PUZZLE: Release Date: Monday, February 4, 2019 ACROSS 1 Gather in a pile 6 City transport 9 Assume the role of 14 Dashed in the direction of 15 Fireplace remnants 16 Baseball’s home __ 1...…
…‘The Collected Schizophrenias’ Esmé Weijun Wang Graywolf Press Feb. 5, 2019 6A — Monday, February 4, 2019 Arts The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com We’ve known for decades now that R. Kelly is an abuser, a child molester and a sexual predator. How has it continued for so long? Megastar R. Kelly has long been revered as the king of R&B, at times being one of the world’s best- selling recording artists. He has millions upon million...…
…SHOOTING STRUGGLES CONTINUE AGAINST IOWA’S ZONE Annie Klus / Daily Design by Jack Silberman INSIDE SPORTSMONDAY See Page 2B afoul ran Foul trouble exposes lack of depth as U-M drops second game of the year The Michigan Daily | michigandaily.com | February 4, 2019 SPORTSMONDAY MICH 59 IOWA 74 …
…2B — February 4, 2019 SportsMonday The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Jon Teske picked up his second foul with 11:42 left in the first half of Michigan’s game against Iowa on Friday. The Hawkeyes were up 12-11 after the ensuing free throws, and that’s when redshirt sophomore center Austin Davis subbed in for the junior center. The Wolverines went on a 6-0 run immediately afterward. If that had been the beginning ...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com SportsMonday February 4, 2019 — 3B Wolverines take down Badgers, 76-70 After its game against Iowa was moved a day back due to weather, the Michigan women’s basketball team had less than 48 hours to prepare for Wisconsin. That proved to be enough time, as the Wolverines (14-9 overall, 5-6 Big Ten) defeated the Badgers (11-12, 2-9), 76-70, Sunday afternoon in Madison despite a slow start. Just o...…
…4B — February 4, 2019 SportsMonday The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com MINNEAPOLIS — Across the first 10 games of the season, Michigan’s power play scored 15 goals. In the ensuing 17 games, the Wolverines tallied just five goals on the man advantage. This weekend against Minnesota, the Michigan hockey team had 12 opportunities on the power play, including three with a two-man advantage. But in the 27 minutes the Wolverines sp...…
…Katie Wolberg returned to campus after winter break filled with anticipation. As a second- semester LSA freshman, she resolved to explore her developing interest in consulting, excited by the prospect of what joining a firm offered her: a network, a group of friends and a community at the University of Michigan. Despite Katie’s interest in data analytics and consulting, her anticipation quickly turned into disappointment when she w...…
…2 — Friday, February 1, 2019 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com News ALEC COHEN/Daily We can transition knowledge to students we are traning and they can contribute to the important topic of nuclear nonproliferation and safeguarding. BE HIND TH E STORY Stanford Lipsey Student Publications Building 420 Maynard St. Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1327 www.michigandaily.com ARTS SECTION arts@michigandaily.com SPORTS SECTION sports@michigand...…
…As Robinson noted, the campaign has a great deal of data at its disposal. According to Robinson, 42 percent of U-M Dearborn and 39 percent of U-M Flint students qualify for the Pell Grant, a federal grant awarded to high-achieving students with financial need, yet none are covered under the Go Blue Guarantee, the University’s offer of free tuition for in-state families with incomes under $65,000, because this is offered only to ...…
…Opinion The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com 4 — Friday, February 1, 2019 The left’s folly in Medicare-for-all Emma Chang Joel Danilewitz Samantha Goldstein Elena Hubbell Emily Huhman Tara Jayaram Jeremy Kaplan Sarah Khan Lucas Maiman Magdalena Mihaylova Ellery Rosenzweig Jason Rowland Anu Roy-Chaudhury Alex Satola Ali Safawi Ashley Zhang Sam Weinberger FINNTAN STORER Managing Editor Stanford Lipsey Student Publications Building 420 ...…
…The first two days of the 2019 Sundance Film Festival felt a lot like the first two days of college. I was alone in an intimidating, new environment, surrounded by people I didn’t know, struggling to acclimate to a tight routine and figure out how to get from place to place. As someone in their final semester, I found this change to be especially jarring. But as the days went by, the Sundance experience slowly became less about try...…
…By David Alfred Bywaters ©2019 Tribune Content Agency, LLC 02/01/19 Los Angeles Times Daily Crossword Puzzle Edited by Rich Norris and Joyce Nichols Lewis 02/01/19 ANSWER TO PREVIOUS PUZZLE: Release Date: Friday, February 1, 2019 ACROSS 1 They may be scraped off in bars 6 Hamlet’s “A little more than kin, and less than kind,” e.g. 11 Cut short 14 Atlas box 15 Got a lode of 16 Half a pair 17 Up-tempo music lover’s aversion? 20 Tune ...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Sports Friday, February 1, 2019 — 7 The polar vortex already canceled classes for Wednesday and Thursday. Now, it’s postponed tonight’s Michigan women’s basketball game against Iowa. The game will now be played on Friday at noon. The game is set to be an exciting one, with the nation’s leading scorer Megan Gustafson coming to town. The matchup between Gustafson and Wolverine cente...…
…8 — Friday, February 1, 2019 Sports The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com With the Michigan football team’s 2018 regular season in the books, The Daily looks back at the performance of each unit this year and peers ahead to the future in 2019. In this edition: wide receivers. Amid a disappointing 8-5 season in 2017 that was marred by inconsistent play from the quarterback position, Grant Perry led all Michigan wide receivers wit...…
…With the renovation of the Michigan Union underway, stu- dents and faculty will decide on which three vendors will move into the space when it reopens in the winter of 2020. Members of the University of Michigan community expressed con- cern regarding the potential of Wendy’s moving back into the building due to employee labor conditions. Washtenaw Solidarity with Farmworkers, a community and student-based group, has been lobby...…
…The partial government shutdown — which ended temporarily on Sunday as lawmakers work to create an agreeable budget — directly impacted the ability of re- searchers at the Cooperative Institute for Great Lakes Re- search to publish their find- ings. Professor and ecologist at the University of Michigan’s School for Environment and Sustainability, Bradley Car- dinale serves as director of the CIGLR, a research orga- nization sponsore...…
…In October, Daley discov- ered the Michigan Union and Office of Procurement have begun the process of accepting bids for vendors. Daley said she was concerned because of the Union’s lack of transparency regarding the bids. Kim Broekhuizen, Univer- sity Public Affairs spokes- woman, described the bidding process, which last- ed from Oct. 24 to Dec. 31. Broekhuizen expects final selections to be made “soon”. “The University is engage...…
…Opinion The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com 4 — Thursday, January 31, 2019 M ore than four years since the start of the Flint water crisis, thousands of residents still have lead pipes. Flint is in the process of finding and replacing those pipes, but it is challenging. City records are spotty, making locating at-risk homes somewhat of a shot in the dark. However, simply digging up all the lines in the city would be costly a...…
…The Huron River It’s July in Michigan: A roasting sun hangs high over the Huron River while lazy, college students stretch out on the rowing docks. They sip on Oberons and blow up inner tubes. The river is murky, but it still glistens in the sunlight and is a temperature that is just perfect enough for a swim. Ann Arbor wouldn’t be Ann Arbor without this place. Located two miles from the Diag are the well-known docks of the Huron...…
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…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Sports Thursday, January 31, 2019 — 7 Postition review: running backs With the Michigan football team’s 2018 regular season in the books, The Daily looks back at the performance of each unit this year and peers ahead to the future in 2019. In this edition: running backs In the two weeks leading up to Michigan’s 41-15 Peach Bowl loss against Florida, with Karan Higdon having announced he wou...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Sports Thursday, January 31, 2019— 8 Trash talking in basketball comes with a set of unwritten, but impossible-to-forget rules. Among the most important of these dictums: it doesn’t leave the court. In the second half of Michigan’s 65-49 win over the Buckeyes on Tuesday, Zavier Simpson fell to the court after being on the business end of a hard screen from Ohio State’s Kaleb Wesson. As ...…
…In light of sub-zero temperatures and extreme wind chills predicted for Wednesday and Thursday, the University of Michigan has decided to cancel all events and classes on campus, beginning 12 a.m. Wednesday and intends to resume activity 7 a.m. Friday. This will be the third time in 40 years the school has closed due to weather. The University Record announced classes were canceled at 3:30 p.m. on Tuesday. The las...…
…ALIGNE D INVESTING GLOBAL THIS WEEK IN HISTORY: STUDENTS SIT IN TO PROTEST RESEARCH January 27, 1978 WICKED BLIZZARD BITES EAST, MIDWEST Winter dealt Michigan a cruel arctic blow yesterday as a severe storm--fueled by furious winds and the lowest barometric readings on record--whipped parts of the’ state with over a foot and half of snow. Governor William Milliken declared a state of emergency, and ordered the National Guard int...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com News Wednesday, January 30, 2019 — 3A LANGUAGE From Page 1A ARCHITECTURE From Page 1A Read more online at michigandaily.com LIBRARY From Page 1A After Ann Arbor residents voted in November to approve Proposal A, an amendment to the city charter that required the city to retain ownership of the Library Lot, City Administrator Howard Lazarus sent a letter to Core Spaces in December ...…
…Opinion The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com 4A — Wednesday, January 30, 2019 Emma Chang Joel Danilewitz Samantha Goldstein Elena Hubbell Emily Huhman Tara Jayaram Jeremy Kaplan Sarah Khan Lucas Maiman Magdalena Mihaylova Ellery Rosenzweig Jason Rowland Anu Roy-Chaudhury Alex Satola Ali Safawi Ashley Zhang Sam Weinberger FINNTAN STORER Managing Editor Stanford Lipsey Student Publications Building 420 Maynard St. Ann Arbor,...…
…If Gwyneth Paltrow was a wiry, indiscriminately-aged young man with the heart of a prophet and the social skills of a well-trained ferret, the result would most definitely be Hark Morner, the titular character of Sam Lipsyte’s new novel “Hark.” When I initially picked this book up off the Arts desk a few weeks ago, the rest of the writers were both shocked and delighted that someone had decided to dive into its bizarre mythos. And ...…
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…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Sports Wednesday, January 30, 2019 — 7A Luce, Martin bring stability to inconsistent Michigan defense To say the Michigan hockey team’s defense has been inconsistent this season is an understatement. The Wolverines have given up the fourth-most goals in the Big Ten this season with 77 goals against — 24 more than No. 4 Ohio State, which has allowed the fewest goals in the conference. Th...…
…8A — Wednesday, January 30, 2019 Sports The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Position review: Quarterbacks With the Michigan football team’s 2018 regular season in the books, The Daily looks back at the performance of each unit this year and peers ahead to the future in 2019. In this edition: quarterbacks. Coming off a 2017 season handicapped by poor quarterback play — one which ended with John O’Korn in tears at the podium ...…
…statement THE MICHIGAN DAILY | JANUARY 30, 2019 Dispatches from the Night Shift ILLUSTRATION BY CHRISTINE JEGARL …
…E veryone remembers the kid who sat next to you in high school and conveniently turned his head toward your Scantron to “cough” during an exam. Even worse are the ones who peer pressured you into letting them copy the entirety of your homework. Copycats are a nuisance — a fly you just can’t seem to swat for good. Even in the team-oriented corporate world, there are colleagues who ride the coattails of your work. But what happens wh...…
…A short appreciation for The French New Wave BY KATE GLAD, STATEMENT DESIGNER Wednesday, January 30, 2019 // The Statement 3B F ilms are meant to, among other things, transport their audience. It is an art form with the ability to invite viewers to spend a night in the humid Hong Kong air, heavy with stolen glances and stolen spouses. Or hold the audience’s hand through the many dialects of the Chinese language as the director e...…
…Wednesday, January 30. 2019 // The Statement 4B Wednesday, January 30, 2019 // The Statement 5B BY EMILY CONSIDINE, CARTOONIST ILLUSTRATION BY MICHELLE FAN ” T his past summer, I found out that my Bursley Residence Hall housing assignment had been moved from a mixed-gender hall to a same-gender hall. It really wasn’t a big deal — I knew it might happen and I still had a decent room. But I was still struck with this irrational nerv...…
…Wednesday, January 30, 2019// The Statement 6B W e were walking through the Diag when Lauren first told me that her mom walked in on her losing her virginity. Life went on around us in Ann Arbor: Diag noises. Whir of a bike tire. The stir of leaves on a tree. The way she spoke was almost blasé, with the laugh I’ve grown to know well. Initially, I didn’t believe her. She’d been my best friend for more than a year, and yet this story ...…
…A 21-year-old man and my childhood friend, whom we will call “X,” had a serious girlfriend for two years in college, and was very happy with her (evident in his Instagram feed with recur- ring captions: “Grateful for my best friend”). But he was actively approaching other women and professing his feelings for them. As an outsider, I would con- demn him as a hypocritical womanizer. I always held the blunt belief that infidelity is ...…
…V I S U A L snow day BY MADELINE HINKLEY S T A T E M E N T Wednesday, January 30, 2019 // The Statement 8B …
…Around 8 p.m. on Monday night, the Michigan Student Power Network created a petition called #UMichColdShoulder demanding the University of Michigan cancel classes. “The University of Michigan - Ann Arbor must close campus during harsh weather conditions - not just in extreme circumstances,” the petition reads. “A refusal to do so is classist and ableist, with disproportionate effects on workers, low income community memb...…
…On Monday evening, Carrie Bishop, chief digital services officer for the City and County of San Francisco, spoke on promoting technological change in government at the Ford School of Public Policy. The talk was co-sponsored by the Public Policy School’s Science, Technology and Public Policy program and the School of Information. Bishop moved to San Francisco from the United Kingdom in 2017. Before coming to the U.S., Bis...…
…and readily observable.” As such, Teodoro argued if a water system is run by the local government, then it will naturally focus on reducing the price of water to appease residents — a stance that will also inadvertently lead to lower water quality. “The goal of every politician who wants to get re-elected wants to minimize price and maximize quality,” Teodoro said. “However, because of how much more visible prices are than qualit...…
…Opinion The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com 4 — Tuesday, January 29, 2019 “ Thank you for sharing,” the class would say in robotic unison. The disgruntled student would then proceed to sit down back in the circle and await the next brave soul to share their feelings aloud with the class. Yes, this was how we spent every Wednesday afternoon in my fourth-grade classroom. Sitting cross-legged on the faded navy...…
…The protagonist in Maurice Carlos Ruffin’s novel “We Cast A Shadow” does not have a name. The absence of his name is hardly noticeable throughout the story, except for the first line in which he narrates, “My name doesn’t matter. All you need to know is that I’m a phantom, a figment, a man who was mistaken for waitstaff twice that night.” In many ways, his name really doesn’t matter. It is his experiences as a Black American and a...…
…6 — Tuesday, January 29, 2019 Arts The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com By Frank Virzi ©2019 Tribune Content Agency, LLC 01/29/19 Los Angeles Times Daily Crossword Puzzle Edited by Rich Norris and Joyce Nichols Lewis 01/29/19 ANSWER TO PREVIOUS PUZZLE: Release Date: Tuesday, January 29, 2019 ACROSS 1 Tricky road curves 6 Too hasty 10 “Boy, am I dumb!” 13 Bowl over 14 Valpolicella wine brand 15 Suffix with project or percent 16 *Ki...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Sports Tuesday, January 29, 2019 — 7 W ith less than two minutes left in the game, fresh- man forward Naz Hillmon notched a crucial layup to give the Michigan women’s bas- ketball team hope. The bucket cut the Wolver- ines’ deficit against No. 23 Michigan State to just four points. That defi- cit had reached as high as 15 in the third quarter, and thus Michigan’s comeback seemed destined...…
