…Campus community members gathered Monday morning to commence the 2023 University of Michigan Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Symposium Memorial Keynote Lecture. Hosted in Hill Auditorium, The Symposium was co-sponsored by the Office of Academic Multicultural Initiatives, the Ross School of Business and the Stephen M. Ross Athletic Campus, and centered around the theme — “(R)evolution: from Segregation to Elevation.” The ...…
…It’s nearly impossible to walk through the the University of Michigan’s Diag without seeing a number of squirrels roaming around. While these furry little pals have come to be a central part of the identity of the University for many U-M students, the squirrels are facing an important issue: hair loss. In an interview with The Michigan Daily, LSA freshman Rosemary Frederiksen said she was shocked when she first s...…
…While The Michigan Daily Film Beat is full of film lovers and film reviewers, our actual taste in movies can often vary quite a bit. And every once in a while, we need to encour- age each other to step out of our comfort zones and try something new. The Movie Swap series does just that: It gets writers to watch movies they otherwise wouldn’t and explore these new genres and flicks with one another. “The Godfather” (1972) When Mi...…
…It’s a rare feat when a band’s discography is 100% certified bangers. It’s also a bit easier to do that when a band’s only ever released seven songs. Coming out with its first indie rock EP A Constant State of Ohio in 2017 as well as follow-up tracks “Saint Bernard 2” and “Saint Bernard (Sam Means Remix)” a couple of years ago, Lincoln is the “shitty lil egotistically named band” led by Lincoln Lutz. The artist is credited with pr...…
…Wednesday, January 25, 2023— 5 S T A T E M E N T The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Note: All names have been changed, and stories have been truncated when appropriate to avoid the possibility or implication of repeating the message relevant in each encounter. As a student at the University of Michigan, I’ve rarely witnessed overt homophobia on campus, though I know it exists. Still, I feel inexplicably unsafe in most spaces ...…
…S T A T E M E N T Wednesday, January 25, 2023— 6 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com More details about inauguration events and tickets will be available soon! myumi.ch/inauguration President Ono’s Inauguration Poster Session Award Students Can Receive Up to $5,000 to Pursue a Project During President Ono’s inauguration on March 7, a poster session at Stamps Auditorium will give U-M students the opportunity to present and discuss ...…
…Michigan in Color The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Fifty Palestinian flags rose upon Kamala Harris’s arrival Wednesday, January 25, 2023 — 7 University of Michigan students, led by a Students Allied for Freedom and Equality initiative, gathered in protest of Vice President Kamala Harris’s arrival at the University on Thursday. Protestors assembled in front of Hill Auditorium and marched towards Rackham Auditorium — the site...…
…Michigan in Color 8 — Wednesday, January 25, 2023 Learn to say no Being able to say I was busy used to be my pride and joy. If you were to ask me how I was freshman year, I would most likely respond with a “good — just busy with school.” I abided by the unspoken laws of being a “productive college student” and said yes to every oppor- tunity I came across. It took a semester of burnout and fatigue to realize that my idealization o...…
…Opinion Wednesday, January 25, 2023 — 9 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com L ast month, University of Michigan President Santa Ono revealed the University’s plans to construct a new undergraduate residence hall on Elbel field, which is located southeast of the South Quad Residence Hall. It will primarily house incoming freshmen, with a proposed capacity of 2,300 students. The building’s location on Central Campus is intended ...…
…T he “clean” aesthetic — matcha, 20-step skincare routines, gua sha, 4:30 a.m. yoga, minimalist makeup and nude-toned shapewear — went viral in 2022. It’s a stark difference from the pouty lips, bold eyebrows and spray tan aesthetic of the 2010s. Coupled with the rise in social media, the new trend to be as natural-looking and dewey as possible has elevated criticisms of cosmetic enhancements. Our favorite celebrities that...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Wednesday, January 25, 2023 — 11 Michigan escapes pesky Minnesota, 60-56 JACK GLANVILLE Daily Sports Editor Gophers are pesky. Always ruin- ing the perfectly-kept lawns of homeowners, messing with under- ground sprinkling and doing, well, whatever else it is that gophers do. And while the Michigan men’s basketball team’s metaphorical lawn is far from perfect this season, the Golden Gophers pr...…
…After heartbreaking Friday finish, Michigan delivers in overtime thriller JOHN TONDORA Daily Sports Writer GOLDEN GOLDEN GOALS SPORTS WEDNESDAY M INNEAPOLIS — The two-minute intermission before overtime Saturday night had an eerie feeling. It was a grim feeling, a dooming feeling, an ‘it’s going to happen again’ feeling. A feeling, that for the No. 8 Michigan hockey team, was all too familiar. The Wolverines had been ...…
…Content warning: This article contains mentions of sexual misconduct Peter Chen, professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Michigan, has returned to teach at the University after a Washtenaw County jury found him not guilty of criminal sexual conduct. University spokesperson Kim Broekhuizen wrote in an email to The Michigan Daily that Chen returned to teach Friday after having been on paid a...…
…Since Santa Ono took office as the president of the University of Michigan 88 days ago, the football team beat Ohio State for a second time, the 2022 fall semester finished and Ann Arbor experienced a frigid winter blast. Ono’s presidency marked a hopeful change for many organizations on campus, but has Ono lived up to his expectations in his first semester as U-M president? Rackham student Amir Fleischmann, Gradua...…
…The year 2022 has come and passed. A snowy winter turned into a gentle spring, and the subsequent glowing summer settled back into a bone-chilling fall. The Earth has again wound itself around the molten Sun, and once again we have aged, mourned and loved through the world’s exhaustion. Alongside the ebb and flow of our annual heartbreaks, deadlines and other varieties of fresh experiences, books have followed. We’ve allowed ourse...…
…Arts The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com 4 — Wednesday, January 18, 2023 The biggest trends of 2022 As we move into 2023, it’s important to reflect on our experiences and discoveries during 2022, to continue the things we like and scrap the things we don’t. The most important reflections, of course, are those about fashion. It’s clear that 2022 was a year of fashion successes or, more controversially, “fashion fails.” Our style ...…
…S T A T E M E N T In the last 24 hours, my six friends and I collectively sent 374 texts in a group chat coming up on its five-year anniversary. And this was a slow day. Calling Tinder matches “pen pals,” all-caps play-by-play reactions to the new “Matilda” movie, pictures of people we haven’t spoken to in years that seem to reappear all too often. Texts like “im wearing a headband” and “a grown man is sitting next to me on the ...…
…Wednesday, January 18, 2023— 6 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com S T A T E M E N T Going public with picky eating Content Warning: Mentions Disordered Eating It shocked my parents when their little girl, the kid who frowned at “Spongebob” boxed macaroni and cheese and lied about having a peanut allergy to avoid peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, tore apart a small filet of smoked fish, leaving behind only a plate of bones. ...…
…Michigan in Color The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com New Year, new me I awoke to the sound of meowing and an itch in my eye. As I regained consciousness, I began to remember where I’d fallen asleep. I took stock of my friend’s apartment bedroom. The slight weight of a hang- over bore down on my head as it started to ache, compounded by the fact I had definitely got- ten too little sleep. I groggily pulled my phone off the char- ...…
…I realize how burnt out I feel from all of my activities and school work. I’m finding it hard to remember my schedule, what I did last week, what I ate yesterday, and I have to look at my calendar to remember everything. It is not a good feeling. I can’t truly enjoy my activities and daily life anymore without feeling dread. What is your advice? -L Dear L, I completely understand where you are coming from. Burnout is such a n...…
…S ometimes, life can feel a little too settled, and too many good things can become a boring thing. A bad grade, stepping in some gum or even plucking your eyebrows a little too thin can completely ruin an otherwise good week when you have nothing else going on. But when you and your roommate are in an all-out turf war or you just impulsively kissed your best friend, those small inconveniences can be brushed off. Creating drama ...…
… 10 — Wednesday, January 18, 2023 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Sports Michigan women’s track and field posts a strong showing at the Michigan Invitational Although the Michigan Invi- tational was a non-scoring per- formance, Michigan displayed both dominance and need for improvement. The track athletes were successful but the Wolver- ines faltered in their field events. The track athletes took first in seven of the nine event...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Wednesday, January 18, 2023 — 11 Sports Michigan dominates in-state rival Michigan State, 70-55 In its last four games, the No. 17 Michigan women’s basketball team has alternated wins and losses. Returning home to Crisler Center with over 10,000 fans in attendance for the second straight game — a program first — the Wolverines were looking to build off their win at Purdue in a bid to start a ne...…
…With Harbaugh and Corum back, Michigan is set to contend again O f all the moments that defined the Michigan football team’s 2022 season, there’s one that I keep circling back to. Sixty-six minutes before the Wolverines’ clash with Ohio State — a bout for Big Ten East supremacy — Jim Harbaugh and Blake Corum emerged together from the tunnel that led to Michigan’s locker room. They walked in lockstep, head coach and sta...…
…University of Michigan President Santa Ono announced the University’s plan to build a new residence and dining hall targeted at serving first-year students on Central Campus at the Board of Regents meeting Thursday. The new residence hall will be built on the site of Elbel Field and is planned to have the capacity to house 2,300 students. Ono cited a stagnant supply of housing for undergraduate students amidst growing enrollme...…
…On their Instagram page, The Side Door pop-up restaurant boasts impeccable service, an intimate ambiance and gourmet cooking. It might sound like any other high-end eatery in downtown Ann Arbor, but there’s one caveat. The business is run by three U-M students out of an unfinished basement. Public policy senior Chris Wong, Business and Public Policy junior Daniel Zhang and Engineering junior Vineet Dongre are the foun...…
…With the new year comes new goals, new hopes, new dreams. For many, “read more books” is near the top of resolution lists, which is both commendable and conventional in this day and age. Nevertheless, it can be difficult to set your tasks and technology aside to dive into a book. Whether you spent New Year’s Eve finishing your Goodreads Reading Goal (I finished my “Daisy Jones & The Six” reread just before midnight) or you’re onl...…
…Arts The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com 4 — Wednesday, January 11, 2023 puzzle by sudokusnydictation.com By Tom Pepper & C.C. Burnikel ©2023 Tribune Content Agency, LLC 01/11/23 Los Angeles Times Daily Crossword Puzzle Edited by Patti Varol and Joyce Nichols Lewis 01/11/23 ANSWER TO PREVIOUS PUZZLE: Release Date: Wednesday, January 11, 2023 ACROSS 1 Bit of pond growth 5 Snatches 10 Map out 14 Earsplitting 15 Anti-harassment movem...…
…This is the companion piece to “Scratching the surface of ChatGPT.” After introducing myself to ChatGPT, its functions, capabilities and restrictions, and brainstorming how I could present discussions ChatGPT raises in an interesting way, I came to the conclusion that I was able to interview this Artificial Intelligence. Every single word of ChatGPT’s response is intentional due to how it forms its responses, and this interview wi...…
…Opinion Wednesday, January 11, 2023 — 6 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com This November, voters in Michigan approved Proposal 1, which changed the legislative term limits for the Michigan House of Representatives and Michigan State Senate and greatly expanded the financial disclosure rules for state politicians. These are two very important changes that will help to ensure ethics and accountability in Lansing. Prior to...…
…T houghts and prayers. After years of mass shootings and gun violence, all the country has to show for the bloodshed is a long stream of condolences. Following shootings in Parkland, Oxford, UVA and countless other locations, legislators nationwide have advocated for strong reform, only to repeatedly come up short. Support for legislation curtailing access to some types of firearms draws support from 71% of Americans, yet the...…
…O ver Winter Break, I spent a few hours researching possible careers in journalism. Columnist for The New York Times, reporter for The Wall Street Journal, fact-checker for The Washington Post — I skipped past examining the third. A career analyzing politicians and trying to decipher the truths from the lies sounds like torture. It’s not just speechwriters fudging the numbers or candidates exaggerating anecdote...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Wednesday, January 11, 2023 — 9 Michigan shuts out CSU Bakersfield as Big Ten season looms COLE MARTIN Daily Sports Writer In the first period of the Michi- gan wrestling team’s dual meet against CSU Bakersfield on Sun- day, No. 2 heavyweight fifth-year senior Mason Parris wasted little time. Not even two minutes in, Par- ris earned a near-fall on Jake Andrews before mercifully end- ing his night...…
… 10 — Wednesday, January 11, 2023 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Sports 500 wins and counting: examining Kim Barnes Arico’s legacy so far After beating Nebraska on Dec. 28, Michigan coach Kim Barnes Arico only wanted to talk about her players. In two postgame interviews, the Michigan women’s basket- ball coach praised individual efforts from fifth-year senior wing Leigha Brown and sopho- more guard Laila Phelia, delving into ...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Wednesday, January 11, 2023 — 11 Sports SportsMonday: Holier than none, Michigan needs to forget the moral high ground It’s time to drop the superior- ity act. For years — decades, even — the University of Michigan and its athletic department has tried its best to cultivate a specific image that it desperately wants you to believe in: “Leaders and best.” While that phrase may have once been an acc...…
…brother OH, OH, EMMA MATI/Daily Michigan blows opportunity to in- state rival, loses nail-biter at MSU E AST LANSING — Michigan State’s disdain for the Michigan men’s basketball team radiated through Breslin Center. Showers of boos greeted the Wolverines when they took the floor, and ecstasy filled the air when they left it. Michigan’s recent struggles in East Lansing, paired with the downright hostility of the Sparta...…
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…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com News 2 — Wednesday, January 26, 2022 GOVERNMENT BUSINESS Over 20 members of the Ann Arbor for Public Power (A2P2) protested in front of Larcom City Hall Tuesday night ahead of an Ann Arbor City Council vote to implement a feasibility study in creating a municipal energy utility. The non- profit organization advocates for the city to municipalize its energy utilities, meaning ensuring energy ...…
…University of Michigan stu- dents turned out in record num- bers for the November 2020 election, with 78.1% casting a ballot, according to a report by the Institute for Democracy & Higher Education at Tufts Uni- versity. This outpaces the 66% turnout across all of the campuses included in the report and mirrors the 79% turnout in Washtenaw County. Nevertheless, student voters at the University have historically demonstrated low t...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Arts 4 — Wednesday, January 26, 2022 Campus Culture is committed to serving the students of the University of Michigan and providing them with everything they need to know about stu- dent culture. Needless to say, we have opinions that need to be aired out like Necto at two a.m. (so damp…). An Ins and Outs list is a necessity for the culture — Campus Culture, that is. Yik Yak barely begins to fl...…
…Wednesday, January 26, 2022 — 5 Arts The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com 2021 was the year artists pulled out the big guns. Some of the industry’s heaviest hitters released albums that will undoubt- edly become classics in the years to come. In addition, many new and lesser-known artists exploded onto the scene last year with groundbreaking releases. While in no particular order, here is a short list of what The Michigan Daily’s ve...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com 6 — Wednesday, January 26, 2022 The Orange Bowl game was playing on a television behind me, visible through a reflection on a picture frame. Though I couldn’t make out the details of the players, or their movements, I turned and looked back at the screen hanging over the bar periodically, watching with disappointment as Georgia’s score increased at an exponentially greate...…
…S T A T E M E N T The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Wednesday, January 26, 2022 — 7 I’ll bite: Giving into the ‘Twilight’ renaissance RILEY HODDER Statement Correspondent Design by Francie Ahrens Page Design by Sarah Chung The day I moved into my dorm and my family left me, I felt completely and utterly alone. My roommate didn’t move in until the next day, and I had just been ab...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Michigan in Color 8 — Wednesday, January 26, 2022 The normalization of President Biden’s necropolitics is as new as the sky is blue. Already, I can hear the neoliberal back–to–brunchers briskly brandishing their rational- izing remarks — their ostentatious retorts of “reform.” Yet what these prideful preachers fail to grasp is the sheer fact that the Biden abomination — sorry, administration...…
…M y whole life I’ve struggled with mental health. As a child, sometimes I would start feeling really sad and I wouldn’t know why. When I was about 8 years old, my parents got me a royal blue iPod Nano. It had my Dad’s music library — mostly dad rock and some stuff from the 90s. Among the selection was U2’s 1988 hybrid live/studio album Rattle and Hum. The album’s final song, a ballad called “All I Want Is You,” is a...…
…W hen I returned from break, after three weeks of not seeing the people I had spent every second with for five months, you can imagine there was a lot to catch up on. Besides updates about life back home and the exchange of new schedules, there was one change that stood out amongst the other news: many of them had decided to change their major. I found it very strange to see so many of my friends returning to campus with...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Sports Wednesday, January 26, 2022 — 11 At Indiana, Caleb Houstan’s role is finally realized LANE KIZZIAH DAVID WOELKERS Daily Sports Writer SportsWednesday: In Bloomington road win, Wolverines look like the team they could have been Penn State dominates Michigan, 29-6, as Michigan drops many tight bouts Holman, Women’s track team lead the day at Michigan Invitational As redshirt-sophomor...…
…B LOOMINGTON — Capitalizing on momentum has been a difficult task for the Michigan men’s basketball team all season. On the heels of a blowout win against Maryland, the Wolverines looked to finally build some by going on the road and defeating an upstart Hwoosiers team to grab their first quadrant one win. Michigan (9-7 overall, 3-3 Big Ten) did just that, defeating Indiana (14-5, 5-4), 80-62, on Sunday afternoon. Showing a gus...…
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…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com News 2 — Wednesday, January 19, 2022 CAMPUS LIFE At the foot of the Harlan Hatcher Graduate Library, two microphones were set up. A group of students congregated around a small table, serving themselves hot chocolate, while clusters of families and students began to arrive. For the past 16 years, the Michigan Community Scholars Program has honored the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. o...…
