Daily Digest

Through four games, the Bulldogs have been outscored 13-8 by their opponents.

Robin Wright, an internationally renowned journalist and author, spoke on her experience in the Middle East as one of a few female journalists to a crowd of about 400 in the Michigan Union Ballroom Thursday.

This is the second lecture Wright has given in connection with the Margaret Waterman Alumnae Group’s Town Hall Celebrity Lecture Series, which raises scholarship money for University of Michigan students. The Waterman Alumnae Group has organized Town Hall lecture series for 43 years, and this year's series includes four lectures.

A ballot proposal seeking to extend the term of office for Ann Arbor city officials by two years has drawn pushback from some residents and City Council members who believe this will be a self-serving convenience for incumbents, decrease constituent accountability and impede independent candidates running for city office.

Fundamentally, the divide is between two visions of an ideal city electorate: those who see maximization of voter turnout as ideal, and those who prefer a smaller electorate that is more vested in local issues. 

Michigan’s starting defensive linemen have spent the past few days of practice coaching the younger players below them on the depth chart.