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Despite facing a 15-point deficit at one point, the Michigan men’s basketball team rallied late to force overtime and then ran past UCLA in a 78-69 win.
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State Theatre reopens after yearlong, $8.5 million renovations Transformation effort includes two new screens, elevator, modern seating with leg room LEAH GRAHAM Daily Staff Reporter
Hours before the State Theatre opened Friday afternoon after a year-long renovation, construction workers made last minute
adjustments to the double door entryway and cut holes into red sheet metal beneath the neon marquee on State Street. The Michigan Theater Foundation — a nonprofit that oversees the operation of both the Michigan Theater and State Theatre — managed the transformation renovation
effort, which included the addition of two new screens, an elevator, modern seating with increased leg room, new movie projectors and new sound systems. Russ Collins, executive director of the Michigan Theater Foundation, said the new State Theatre offers “all of
the bells and whistles of a great movie experience.” “The State Theatre has gone from a kind of quirky, fun but problematic place to watch a movie to what we think may be the best place in town to watch a movie,” Collins said. “The decorative f lourishes that See THEATRE, Page 3A
Mike Allen emphasizes importance of prioritizing readers and data analytics EMMA KINERY & MIKE ALLEN
Daily Editor in Chief & Axios Co-founder
Emma Kinery, editor in chief, The Michigan Daily Journalism is changing tremendously — which, in some ways, makes being the editor of a college paper more difficult than it has ever been — but it’s also pretty exciting. The Michigan Daily operates editorially and financially independent of the University of Michigan; coming into the role of editor in chief, I didn’t realize there would be such an emphasis on the business side of things and on monetizing content, but that’s a necessary shift. When
Bias Incident Report Log illustrates Professor pens book trends and problems around campus
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on slavery in Detroit
Most of the 80 cases reported this semester involve race, religion or national identity
Tiya Miles highlighted topics from her books at Rackham on Friday
The classroom, dorm rooms and hallways, or even in passing walking around campus: That’s where University of Michigan students are most likely to fall victim to a bias incident, according to a log of self-reported data collected by the University’s Bias Response Team. The team’s online log tracked 80 individual bias incidents since this September, with 16 additional prior events occurring over the summer. Most cases in the log involve race, religion or national identity. Encompassed in the BRT’s scope are any instances in which a student is targeted for their identity, including but not limited to race, color, ethnicity, national origin, sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, disability, age or religion. At the close of a semester rocked by highprofile incidents of racism, the BRT records illustrate the majority of bias incidents are commonplace experiences that do not always make headlines. Most of the reports are attacks expressed verbally or in written form, either via email or graffiti. “Regarding trends, there have been an increase in reported bias incidents that occur on-campus (vs off campus) since 2014,” University spokeswoman
SAMANTHA SMALL For the Daily
Distinguished author Tiya Miles, professor of American Culture and Afroamerican & African Studies spoke at the Rackham auditorium Friday to discuss her new book on racial history in the city of Detroit. In “The Dawn of Detroit: A Chronicle of Slavery and Freedom in the City of the Straits,” Miles offers an alternative origin story of Detroit. The book, according to her, “allows us to see Detroit’s beginning and industrial age ‘progress’ and recognize Detroit’s invisible ancestors.” Miles argued that Detroit, which has a population that is over 80 percent Black, still “feels the aftershocks of systematic racism and white supremacy” prevalent in the 18th century. For context, she presented African-American and Native American stories of enslavement as two adjacent entities that worked together to shape the dogma of the time. She discussed the See BOOK, Page 3A
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Kim Broekhuizen wrote in an email. “What you see reported is a testament to how much the community cares about reporting and supporting each other.” Results from a campus climate sample survey administered last year found one in five students reported experiencing a discriminatory incident in the last year, with Black and Hispanic students
519 percent and 132 percent more likely to experience discrimination, respectively. Out of 21 incidents occurring in residence halls, West Quad Residence Hall surpasses all other residence halls with four incidents in the last three months, followed by Bursley Residence Hall and then Mary Markley residence hall on the Hill. A Central Campus Diversity Peer Educator who
requested to stay anonymous due to University Housing policies explained dorms might be commonly cited locations of bias incidents due to strict policies in Housing surrounding reporting. DPEs are student residential staff members serving as social justice educators and developers of each hall’s community identity. The See BIAS LOG, Page 2A
80 bias incidents reported on campus this semester 15 incidents involved a University employee 16% virtual
1% mail 9% off campus 14% classroom building
21% residence hall
14% not reported
26% diag/outside on campus
most frequent incidents:
1. Verbal 2. Graffiti/Written 3. Online
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Vol. CXXVII, No. 46 ©2017 The Michigan Daily
I first began at The Daily, we were discussing whether to prioritize print or digital, and we had just launched our new website. Now, there isn’t a discussion about whether to put digital first — it’s a given. It’s about creating compelling content, as well as thinking about how students and the community interact with The Daily. Newsrooms all over the country that have much greater resources and experience than we do are tackling these same issues, but the benefit of being a studentrun paper is that there is greater leeway to take risks and make mistakes. The Daily is unique in that we serve as the only five-day circulation paper in all of See AXIOS, Page 3A
GOVERNMENT
Weekly MI state house legislative wrap-up Bills introduced around deer culls and municipal employee retirement plan LYDIA MURRAY Daily News Editor
Each week, The Michigan Daily will be publishing a wrap-up of the most important bills proposed in Michigan Legislature over the past seven days: HB 5321: State Rep. Triston Cole, R-Mancelona, introduced legislation which would prohibit the sterilization of deer as a method of population control. Cole told the Detroit Free Press he believes hunting is a more humane approach to the issue, as the tranquilization process causes stress for the animal. “I was a hunting guide, so I strongly support the use of sportsmen for this activity. They pay to help manage wildlife species and that’s the direction that I want to continue to see the (Department of Natural Resources) use,” Cole said. “It’s the most cost-effective and efficient way to manage wildlife species, particularly in urban environments.” In Ann Arbor, the deer cull See WRAP-UP, Page 3A
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