…With 13 days until the general election, tensions were high as Michigan’s gubernatorial hopefuls convened for their final debate Wednesday night. Democrat Gretchen Whitmer, former state Senate minority leader, and Republican Bill Schuette, state attorney general, exchanged blows over immigration, higher education, environmental issues and infrastructure. Whitmer’s campaign frames her as a pragmatist, is currently ...…
…including Michigan, Ohio, Kentucky and Tennessee, thus requiring them to reconfigure their procedures for sexual assault hearings and investigations In the University’s amended policy, the in-person hearing will be facilitated by a trained officer. The details of the policy expected to be released later this fall are still being ironed out. As of now, officials offer students involved in sexual misconduct cases, as ...…
…deadline to produce documents explaining why he was detained. During this time, the Knight-Wallace Fellowship, a University program managed by Wallace House that allows mid-career journalists to spend an academic year at the University, advocated for his release and accepted him as a fellow for the 2018- 2019 school year. Gutiérrez and his son have been living in Ann Arbor since the beginning of his fellowship in Septem...…
…Y ou could go swimming right now, but you didn’t necessarily plan on it. You knew it was going to rain, but did you expect giant puddles to swallow the sidewalk, the road or your shoes for that matter? In this beautifully constructed city that we call home, the last thing that we think about is its imperfection. Ann Arbor, new and old, consists of aesthetic, impressive architecture and infrastructure that not only meets the log...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Sports Thursday, October 25, 2018 — 5A ‘B’ team strong ahead of Big Ten Championships As freshman Anne Forsythe lined up at the Hudson Mills Metropark course Friday in Dexter, Mich., she recalled all the ins and outs of the land in front of her. Having raced on the course multiple times throughout her high school career, the Ann Arbor native had plenty of experience to draw on — not to mention ...…
…6A — Thursday, October 25, 2018 Sports The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Michigan players using different methods to improve mental strength Assistant coach DeAndre Haynes preaches the importance of having a short-term memory on the court. When Isaiah Livers first heard the advice, the sophomore forward found it so striking, he wrote it on his shoe. That way, every time Livers looked down, he would remember to forget, develop...…
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…2B —Thursday, October 25, 2018 b-side The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com What democracy looks like: The intersection of art and activism When politics are brought up, it invokes a series of reactions. Some may jump at the term, desperate for any chance to share their bona fide beliefs. Others will recoil, either because of their discomfort in disclosing their political dispositions or embarrassment at their ignorance of ...…
…For comedy writers and late- night personalities, the Trump presidency seemed to come with a silver lining: It was an unexcavated gold mine of material. Unless the nuclear holocaust arrived faster than expected, his four-year term would be commemorated by hilarious impressions, quotable moments and general buffoonery. The blissful avoidance of the ramifications of Trump’s election that marked the television immediately...…
…2-BSide 4B —Thursday, October 25, 2018 b-side The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Marc Evan Jackson only plays a demon on TV, or so he told me. The man behind the all-knowing judge of all matters in the afterlife is Marc Evan Jackson. Despite his role as the devil in charge Shawn on “The Good Place,” Mr. Jackson is anything but evil and, like me, a self-professed, incurable, devout improv nerd. In a phone call with The Daily,...…
…The most worthwhile aim of director George Tillman, Jr.’s (“Notorious”) ambitious adaption of Angie Thomas’s multifaceted 2017 YA novel “The Hate U Give” is its complex portrayal of modern- day activism. Though the film often struggles against the constraints of homage to its source text, the film still succeeds in making this eloquent political statement all its own, and such a statement could not have come at a better ...…
…his campaign slogan “Make America Great Again” is meant to be an act of reclamation, the execution leaves something to be desired. In fact, many of these ridiculous soundbites have become commodified into t-shirts, hats and other forms of apparel. When these words are converted into vehicles for corporate exploitation, the value of retaliating against Trump’s malicious words is essentially neutralized and lost. The same goe...…
