CELEBRATING ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY-FIVE YEARS OF EDITORIAL FREEDOM
Each week, The Michigan Daily’s news desk will be publishing a most-read wrap up of the previous week’s most popular articles based on the number of online reads each article received. Here are the five most-read from Sept. 17 to Sept. 23:
Racial slurs written on dorm door name tags
Last weekend, students discovered racist writing on their dorm name tags in West Quad.
Following a night of protests over University President Mark Schlissel’s lack of a formal response to racially charged incidents on and around campus, Schlissel and other administrative faculty members — including Martin A.
UPDATE: This story has been updated with comments from the Division of Public Safety and Security
A fight broke out between two individuals following a rally and protest Wednesday night outside the Michigan Union, resulting in the arrest of one unidentified man.
The man was released Thursday morning pending an arrest warrant for disorderly conduct, University Division of Public Safety and Security spokeswoman Diane Brown confirmed.
If I hadn’t already known that graduate student Ary — who requested her last name not be published — was recovering from several years of alcohol and drug abuse, I wouldn’t have guessed it from her appearance. As we talked last Wednesday in my most comforting setting (the Daily newsroom) I quickly caught onto her dedication to her studies and noticed the bright smile on her face, much like that of any other student.
Each week, The Michigan Daily’s news desk will be publishing a most-read wrap up of the previous week’s most popular articles based on the number of online reads each article received. Here are the five most read from Sept. 10 to Sept. 15:
It has now been mere months over 200 years since the University of Michigan's inception.
Two hundred years worth of innovation, academic renown and multidisciplinary excellence, as a nationwide example and world leader, and of student activists, up-and-coming politicians, surgeons, CEOs, intellectuals and altruists. Two hundred years of those who have studied history and those who have helped make it.
In recent years, big data emerged as a powerful tool, spurring the University of Michigan to dedicate an initiative and institute to its study and implementation.
In a statement in 2015, Jack Hu, vice president for research at the University, wrote that big data — exorbitantly large data sets that can be parsed to show trends and associations — was “revolutionizing research in extraordinary range of disciplines.”
Erin McBrien remembers Detroit as quiet for most of the summer of 1967. Her father’s position as a police officer required the family live within the city’s confines.
“We were not in the thick of things,” McBrien said. “We were on the outside edges. Of course, we didn’t go down in that area … We were kids. It was quiet in our neighborhood.”
Racial discrimination during one’s youth can predict long-term negative mental health consequences in Black men, one University of Michigan researcher found. However, these consequences later in life differ between males and females.