On Friday afternoon, as part of Heal-Move-Shift’s weekly seminar “Break a Sweat!” a group of students from Ann Arbor’s Central Academy practiced an array of physical exercises alongside a group of University of Michigan students. Heal-Move-Shift is a nonprofit organization founded by U-M alum Ahmad Hider and LSA junior Tariq Mekkaoui, a Michigan Daily Student of the Year, to educate the greater Detroit and Ann Arbor area on three tenants of health: cardiovascular, mental and nutritional.
Sunday, April 15, 2018 - 9:54pm
Tuesday, April 10, 2018 - 10:37pm
New Central Student Government president and vice president, Public Policy junior Daniel Greene and LSA sophomore Izzy Baer, were sworn in for their first meeting Tuesday night.
After their win on March 22, in which representatives from MVision also won a plurality of assembly seats, Greene said he planned to work with the other parties to ensure their ideas reached fruition under his leadership.
Tuesday, February 20, 2018 - 11:48pm
As students gear up for the University of Michigan's Central Student Government elections on March 21 and 22, The Daily sat down with executive candidates to talk platforms, vision, and plans. In this installment, we profile the MomentUM party, headlined by presidential candidate AJ Ashman and vice presidential candidate Charlie Bingham.
Tuesday, February 20, 2018 - 11:47pm
As students gear up for the University of Michigan's Central Student Government elections on March 21 and 22, The Daily sat down with executive candidates to talk platforms, vision, and plans. In this installment, we profile the True Blue party, headlined by presidential candidate Arathi Sabada and vice presidential candidate Marianne Drysdale.
Tuesday, February 20, 2018 - 11:46pm
As students gear up for the University of Michigan's Central Student Government elections on March 21 and 22, The Daily sat down with executive candidates to talk platforms, vision, and plans. In this installment, we profile the MVision party, headlined by presidential candidate Daniel Greene and vice presidential candidate Izzy Baer.
Wednesday, January 17, 2018 - 10:35pm
Approximately 40 students gathered in the Alumni Center Wednesday night to listen as a diverse cast of panelists — many of them recent University of Michigan graduates — shared their personal experiences and answered questions regarding power dynamics and intersectionality of identities in the workplace.
Wednesday, January 3, 2018 - 2:06pm
The Interfraternity Council at the University of Michigan will begin to restore social event privileges to fraternities this semester, according to a statement released on the organization’s website Wednesday morning. The announcement comes after a two-month self-imposed ban. Recruitment this semester for the IFC fraternities will continue as scheduled.
Tuesday, January 2, 2018 - 6:10pm
Engineering senior Kyle Winstanley is choosing Bitcoin over his bachelor’s degree.
Winstanley plans to pursue cryptocurrency trading full time instead of graduating college. Partnered with his classmate, LSA senior Spencer Porter, the pair amassed around $15,000 by Dec of last year, and have now collected almost $70,000 to date to contribute to their trading hub.
Friday, December 15, 2017 - 6:15pm
Central Student Government President Anushka Sarkar, an LSA senior, vetoed resolution A.R. 7-026, which called for the use of University of Michigan funding to compensate CSG members for their work. In a statement released Friday afternoon, Sarkar expressed concerns of potential power dynamics created by intergovernmental payment systems as well as the public release of student financial records.
Thursday, December 7, 2017 - 7:05pm
Despite issuing a letter signed by over 715 faculty and staff members, the #WeExist campaign — consisting of students from all three University of Michigan campuses — faced conflicting opinions in response to their request to implement a Middle Eastern/North African identity category to University documents at the Regents meeting Thursday afternoon.