…michigandaily.com Ann Arbor, Michigan Wednesday, November 13, 2019 ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY-NINE YEARS OF EDITORIAL FREEDOM In the weeks leading up to the Ohio State University football game, University of Michigan staff and students are participating in the 38th annual campus-wide “Blood Battle” blood drive to out-donate OSU. Though the University suffered a defeat against the Buckeyes on the field last year, Michigan students secu...…
…When LSA junior Fareah Fysudeen heard the University of Michigan would be hosting one of the presidential debates in the fall of 2020, she said she assumed it was for publicity. Upon thinking about it further, she felt like the University was not considering the potential impacts of this decision on marginalized communities. “It’s a way to establish ourselves as a good school and as the kind of school that would host such ...…
…This shift has primarily been driven by younger generations, Waxman added. She said they are more conscious of human rights and make more mindful purchasing decisions. “While the fight to improve working conditions is far from a new one, it is clear today’s up-and- coming generations are far more aware and mindful of social issues, including the treatment of workers,” Waxman said. Waxman then explained one way the Fair ...…
…Opinion The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com 4A — Wednesday, November 13, 2019 Alanna Berger Zack Blumberg Emily Considine Emma Chang Joel Danilewitz Emily Huhman Krystal Hur Ethan Kessler Magdalena Mihaylova Michael Russo Timothy Spurlin Miles Stephenson Nicholas Tomaino Joel Weiner Erin White 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, November 13, 2019 — 5A When most people think of the phrase “clams casino,” they think of the popular clam dish. In this case, clams casino is a clam on the half shell, covered in butter, garlic, peppers, bacon and breadcrumbs. It is an exceedingly popular appetizer in New England, and who can blame them? If you like clams and bacon and peppers and butter, I’m sure it’s the perfect d...…
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…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Sports Wednesday, November 13, 2019 — 7A EAST LANSING — Cody White has only one message for Michigan State’s underclassmen this week. “Going into this week, we know we have a mission to do and that’s to win the football game,” the wide receiver said Tuesday. “At any means possible, win the football game, so I feel like that’s what we’re gonna drive through every day in practice until t...…
…AN EVENING WITH SAFA AL AHMAD NOVEMBER 19, 2019 | 7:30 P.M. | RACKHAM AUDITORIUM FREE | NO REGISTRATION | WALLENBERG.UMICH.EDU The Michigan basketball team knew its early-season matchup against Creighton would be telling. In the wake of a program- altering offseason that saw a head coaching change and the departure of three players that accounted for over half of the Wolverines’ offense last season, questions arose. On Tuesday night,...…
…statement THE MICHIGAN DAILY | NOVEMBER 13, 2019 FOOD FOR THOUGHT PHOTO BY DANYEL THARAKAN …
…Wednesday, November 13, 2019 // The Statement 2B Managing Statement Editor Andrea Pérez Balderrama Deputy Editors Matthew Harmon Shannon Ors Associate Editor Eli Rallo Designers Liz Bigham Kate Glad Copy Editors Silas Lee Emily Stillman Photo Editor Danyel Tharakan Editor in Chief Maya Goldman Managing Editor Finntan Storer statement THE MICHIGAN DAILY | NOVEMBER 13, 2019 I t was a typical Oxford Monday mornin...…
…I didn’t get to know Elixir Vitae Coffee and Tea until it was almost too late. In the Ann Arbor coffee shop scene, Elixir Vitae is an outlier. Maybe it’s the location, tucked away on Maynard Street, a part of Ann Arbor that only gets frequented by student traffic on Saturday nights when the Scorekeepers line stretches into the parking garage. Or the storefront, unassuming and almost drab. But it’s something else, too — it feels like ...…
…Wednesday, November 13, 2019 // The Statement 4B 5B Wednesday, November 13, 2019 // The Statement T he old adage goes, “You eat with your eyes first.” This happened to be the case for my mom when she skimmed the Food Network magazine and discovered a picture of cookies that looked irresistible. With gooey chocolate chunks and crunchy oat flakes, they were worthy of a “phone eats first” Instagram post. She immediately turned the page fo...…
…T he day after Thanksgiving my senior year of high school, I board- ed a 15-hour flight from San Fran- cisco to Sydney, Australia. On my shoulder I carried a pink Adidas sports bag with eight carefully folded leotards, four pairs of satin pointe shoes, and a metal container full of bobby pins. In my left hand I held the top of a suit bag — borrowed from my dad — where I’d hung a sparkling white costume dress that would inevitably shed...…
…Wednesday, January 16, 2019 // The Statement 7B Wednesday, November 13, 2019 // The Statement 7B T here is a bar in Berlin, hidden in one of my favorite neighbor- hoods, that I would have over- looked if someone had not pointed it out to me. The lighting was dim, not because the owners were trying to set a mood, but because the bar had no lights. The chairs all looked like they had come from dump- ster diving adventures. It was always ...…
…BY RITA VEGA VISUAL STATEMENT: NYAH PROJECT, BALI THE NYAH PROJECT BELIEVES THAT “TRAVEL AWAKENS LEADERS”. THIS SUMMER I TOOK AN ALL-EXPENSES PAID TRIP TO BALI, INDONESIA THROUGH MY FELLOWSHIP WITH THE PROJECT. NYAH MEANS PURPOSE, AND THROUGHOUT MY TIME IN BALI, I COULD DEFINETLY SAY I’VE FOUND MY PURPOSE IN LIFE. BEING SURROUNDED BY THE BALINESE CULTURE AND PEOPLE I NOW CALL MY FAMILY MADE THIS TRIP ONE I’LL NEVER FORGET. Wednesday...…
…Vice President of Student Life E. Royster Harper, is retiring from the University of Michigan after 20 years in her current position. In an email to the University community Thursday morning, Harper announced her retirement, which will be effective at the beginning of the Winter 2020 semester. She cited wanting to spend more time with her family and enjoying other life pursuits as the reason for her retirement. “I read a sta...…
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…“Dr. Harper has done this through an innovative student-centered approach that has been modeled at other higher education institutions throughout the nation.” Panhellenic Association president Taylor Fegan, LSA senior, said working with Harper on FSL matters was a privilege. “Working with VP Royster Harper has been one of the best aspects of my term as president,” Fegan said. “She is dedicated, kind and one of the bigges...…
…Opinion The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com 4 — Friday, September 13, 2019 Zack Blumberg Emily Considine Emma Chang Joel Danilewitz Emily Huhman Krystal Hur Ethan Kessler Magdalena Mihaylova Max Mittleman Timothy Spurlin Miles Stephenson Finn Storer Nicholas Tomaino Joel Weiner Erin White FINNTAN STORER Managing Editor Stanford Lipsey Student Publications Building 420 Maynard St. Ann Arbor, MI 48109 tothedaily@michigandaily.com Edi...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Arts Friday, September 13, 2019 — 5 For as long as music streaming services have existed, I have resisted the call to join them. I’ve argued with friends, family and in this column that streaming music is bad for artists, bad for the consumer and bad for listening. In many a long car ride I’ve ranted against what I call “media socialism”: the idea that no individual should purchase songs or mov...…
…6 — Friday, September 13, 2019 Arts The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com By Steve Faiella ©2019 Tribune Content Agency, LLC 09/13/19 Los Angeles Times Daily Crossword Puzzle Edited by Rich Norris and Joyce Nichols Lewis 09/13/19 ANSWER TO PREVIOUS PUZZLE: Release Date: Friday, September 13, 2019 ACROSS 1 Pretend to be 4 Center 9 Foot, in zoology 12 “Isn’t __ Lovely”: Stevie Wonder hit 13 Toyota until 2006 14 Posted 15 Time for an O...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Sports Friday, September 13, 2019 — 7 Twenty hours before the plane containing delegates representing 11 different Big Ten volleyball teams touched down on foreign soil, all the players met up for a brief practice in Chicago. There, they spent 45 minutes familiarizing themselves with one another before flying to Japan on June 14 for two weeks for the 2019 Big Ten Volleyball Foreign Tour...…
…8 — Friday, September 13, 2019 Sports The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com C O M M E M O R AT I N G MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 2019 University of Michigan Law School, 1225 Jeffries Hall 4:10–5:30 p.m. Sponsored by U-M Office of the Provost A CONVERSATION WITH U.S. REPRESENTATIVE JUSTIN AMASH Glasgow making impact at WILL Don Brown knows you’ll think he’s crazy, but he doesn’t much care. After all, he’s been around the block a time o...…
…Thursday, June 13, 2019 INDEX Vol. CXXVIII, No. 11 © 2019 The Michigan Daily NEWS .................................... OPINION ............................... ARTS...................................... MiC......................................... SPORTS................................ MICHIGAN IN COLOR Discovery Cultural and culinary dis- covery in “Always be my Maybe” and poetry by Nada Eldawy >> SEE PAGE 9 NEWS Diversity in...…
…2 Thursday, June 13, 2019 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com NEWS SUDOKU MEDIUM 5 8 7 1 1 2 9 5 7 6 8 5 1 3 7 3 9 1 4 6 6 2 8 7 3 5 3 7 8 © sudokusolver.com. For personal use only. Generate and solve Sudoku, Super Sudoku and Godoku puzzles at sudokusyndication.com! Sudoku Syndication http://sudokusyndication.com/sudoku/generator/print/ 1 of 1 2/12/09 12:08 PM CHOCOLATE puzzle by sudokusyndication.com Scientists...…
…3 NEWS Thursday, June 13, 2019 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Though the future of affirmative action remains in question, pre-med students are decisive: According to a Kaplan survey of over 245 pre-med students, 80 per- cent agreed it is important for the American medical profession to be demograph- ically representative of the general patient population. Kaplan’s survey comes in the wake of an April deci- sion by Texas Tec...…
…4 Thursday, June 13, 2019 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com OPINION 420 Maynard St. Ann Arbor, MI 48109 tothedaily@michigandaily.com Edited and managed by students at the University of Michigan since 1890. ERIN WHITE Editorial Page Editor 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 Toma...…
…5 OPINION Thursday, June 13, 2019 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com 5 OPINION I sn’t that headline so ironic, given that our president gained so much immediate coverage and support because he is, in fact, a celebrity? I know that we have had celebrity-politicians before, including but not limited to Arnold Schwarzenegger and Ronald Rea- gan. If Donald Trump and Ronald Reagan aren’t two great examples of why we shouldn’t put ...…
…No TV show addresses pain in all its forms quite like HBO’s “Big Lit- tle Lies.” In fact, deep physical and emotional distress plays such a large part in the show that it’s almost its own character. In Monterey, Cali- fornia, pain permeates. It lingers. It digs deep into the skin of the women it afflicts, making itself known in every aspect of their lives. As we come to understand in Season 1, our five main characters, Madeline (Ree...…
…7 Thursday, June 13, 2019 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com ARTS Songs with a political bent seem to skew one of two ways: satirical or serious. As for satirical, think “Elected” by Alice Cooper (“I’m your Yankee doodle dandy in a gold Rolls Royce, I want to be elected”) or Prince’s “Ronnie, Talk to Russia” (“You can go to the zoo, but you can’t feed guerrillas”). More earnest songs, like Bright Eyes’s “When the Presi- dent Tal...…
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…9 Thursday, June 13, 2019 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com MICHIGAN IN COLOR In the opening scenes of “Always Be My Maybe,” Sasha Tran (Ali Wong) makes herself a lonely din- ner. But soon, she leaves for her best friend Marcus’s (Randall Park) house, where his mom makes kimchi jjigae, the classic, spicy stew brim- ming with kimchi, tofu and more. My mouth watered at the sight; it reminded me of all the times my own mom made kim...…
…10 Thursday, June 13, 2019 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com SPORTS Erin Finn finishes 12th place in her final race as a Wolverine Thursday night marked the culmination of collegiate distance running as well as the final 10,000 meters of sixth-year senior Erin Finn’s illustrious career as a Wolverine. Twenty-four of the nation’s best assembled at Mike A. Myers Stadium in Austin, Texas to represent their schools in the NC...…
…SPORTS 11 Thursday, June 13, 2019 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Henry, four other Wolverines selected in 2019 MLB Draft As the sun set in Corvallis on Monday night, the Michigan baseball team was celebrating — they had just beat Creighton in the NCAA Regional final game, 17-6, on the back of its potent offense. Then, they were given another reason to celebrate: within minutes of each other, the two junior Michigan ace...…
…12 Thursday, June 13, 2019 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com SPORTS Tommy Henry shines when it matters most for the Wolverines The bottom of the seventh inning got off to a rocky start for Michigan. With the count at 1-2 and his team trailing, 3-2, UCLA freshman catcher Noah Cardenas smacked a leadoff double into the gap against the Wolverines’ junior left-hander Tommy Henry. The energy in the stadium intensified, while Henry c...…
…On Tuesday, a coalition of left- leaning organizations hosted a teach-in titled “Umich is Complicit in East Quad Residence Hall” to highlight what they called the University of Michigan’s history of inaction against white supremacy. The event was held in response to Young Americans for Freedom’s invitation to Ben Shapiro, a conservative political commentator, to speak at the University. Shapiro addressed a crowd of more than 1,00...…
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…Shapiro said he regularly seeks out perspectives contrary to his own. “I actually like multiple opinions,” Shapiro said. “I am in favor of hearing multiple points of view.” Shapiro’s discussion focused heavily on the threat of government compulsion. He said the current political climate champions a government that extends too far into citizens’ lives. “When government is activated to invade the rights of other people, e...…
…Opinion The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com 4A — Wednesday March 13, 2019 Emma Chang Joel Danilewitz Samantha Goldstein Emily Huhman Tara Jayaram Jeremy Kaplan Elias Khoury Magdalena Mihaylova Ellery Rosenzweig Jason Rowland Anu Roy-Chaudhury Alex Satola Ashley Zhang Erin White FINNTAN STORER Managing Editor Stanford Lipsey Student Publications Building 420 Maynard St. Ann Arbor, MI 48109 tothedaily@michigandaily.com E...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Arts Wednesday, March 13, 2019 — 5A In the next week, the Book Review will be featuring works from Gimmick Press, a independent publisher of niche literature and art based in Detroit, Michigan. Gimmick was established in 2015 by Josh Olsen and Katie MacDonald with a commitment to diversity and inclusion of both subject matter and voice throughout all aspects of their work. Gimmick publishes dig...…
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…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Sports Wednesday, March 13, 2019 — 7A First tough competition brings mixed results for Wolverines When the No. 23 Michigan baseball team (9-4) hopped off their plane at LAX on Feb. 27, there were a lot of questions to answer. The Wolverines were undefeated. Their bats were hot. Their pitchers were dominant. But the only competition the Wolverines had faced were virtual pushovers in Binghamton ...…
…‘It’s really slowed down for me’: How Jon Teske grew beyond his height Jon Teske warms up down below as his grandfather sits. It’s a Sunday in mid-January at Crisler Center and Jim Zuidema is up in the corner wearing a Michigan pullover, sitting near the aisle. Zuidema grabs his phone and pulls up his texts, looking for one in particular. It’s to his grandson and it’s a message to play “Teske basketball.” Three hours later, a victor...…
…statement THE MICHIGAN DAILY | MARCH 13, 2019 Creative writing issue ANNIE KLUS/ Daily …
…Wednesday, March 13, 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 | MARCH 13, 2019 There is a man who listens to no song twice. Or a woman, as always thei...…
…Wednesday, March 13, 2019 // The Statement 3B i. I’ve been feeling more and more lately that there are two girls trapped inside of me. Like the proverbial angel and devil on each shoulder, this conflicting two wage constant battle and I find myself deeper pulled into their tangled web as each day passes me by. There is the good girl. If you’ve met me before, this is the one you likely came across. She wears a smile on her face, may...…
…Wednesday, March 13. 2019 // The Statement 4B 5B Wednesday, March 13, 2019 // The Statement T he rapping is light, light enough that Otis wouldn’t have heard if he wasn’t (gasp- ing) awake. Fortunately (unfortunately), Otis hasn’t been sleeping since the incident, so he stumbles across the dark apartment to reach the door even as fair knuckles brush against peeling wood again. Maple, maybe. Or pine. Otis doesn’t care much for details....…
…Wednesday, March 13, 2019// The Statement 6B O n Saturday, he came for the ticket at 3:15 and she came at 4. He went towards that way and she went towards the other way. The event was in a week. It required sun, which he hoped for. She wanted rain. He spent the Sunday with nobody to tell jokes to and she spent it with no one to laugh at. Sometimes he would tell a joke out loud, to the dense, green trees, just for fun, and take the sound...…
…Wednesday, January 16, 2019 // The Statement 7B Wednesday, March 13, 2019 // The Statement 7B Between us and the sun T he outer planets don’t have phas- es. The moon has phases, and Venus and Mercury have phases, because they sometimes come between us and the sun. To us, they are sometimes made partially of shadows. But the outer planets are too far away. They could care less about us, let alone what lies between us and their sun. ...…
…It was weird being the lucky type of cancer patient. Everyone gives you sym- pathy and you have to go through most of the same stuff as the other kids with cancer, but it’s like getting a sample. I did intravenous treatments for three months. I stayed in the hospital for a total of about four weeks. I attended a depressing sup- port group twice. My condition never got bad enough that I went to church or made right with my enemies. Ther...…
