Daily Digest

Tuesday, February 14, 2017

In a year marred with injuries, disappointment and a longing for the past, it is sadly fitting that Michigan’s best hope for a victory may already be in the rearview mirror.

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Dear subscribers,

Today, we have a reflection on the Michigan hockey team's disappointing season. The Senate Advisory Committee on University Affairs met with University of Michigan President Mark Schlissel to discuss the selection of the new provost. The Michigan men's basketball team's play is starting to improve this season. In the wake of several instances of hate speech, the University must interpret the blurry line between free speech and hate speech in each case. Finally, a reflection on Jeremy Scott's fall-winter 2017 show at New York Fashion Week.

All the best,
The Michigan Daily

Michigan’s post play becoming well rounded

Playing in a hostile environment like Assembly Hall and going cold from the floor would doom the Wolverines earlier in the season, but this time Michigan’s post men made a big impact to claim a victory.

SACUA discusses search for new provost

The Senate Advisory Committee on University Affairs met with University of Michigan President Mark Schlissel and the Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs Search Advisory Committee Monday afternoon to discuss the selection of the new provost.  

NYFW: The American Paradox that is Jeremy Scott’s 'Cult of Personality'

Perhaps the paradox presented in Scott's “Cult of Personality” mimics that of our country.

University tackles free speech issues

In the last year there have been several instances of hate speech and targeted verbal attacks against different minority groups on the University of Michigan campus. However, the line between hate speech and free speech remains blurred for the University to interpret in each individual case, as the balance between maintaining free speech and a safe environment for students continually remains a precarious one.

Diversity Next! Series: Dr. Kyra Gaunt - Black Music Matters: On the Power of Shared Song Leading and Silence in Mass Protests @ East Quadrangle - Room 1405 at 6:30PM

Dr. Gaunt’s current work examines performance of musical blackness and digital ethnography on YouTube. As both a scholar and a performer, she brings a committed advocacy for empowering emerging adults to become consumers of their own productivity—great citizens and professionals now, not when you graduate—while demonstrating the value of a diverse and communal intellectual and cross-ethnic engagement that needs to be cultivated in our gadget-distracted age, especially in higher education.