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Babysitting startup connects U-M students and Ann Arbor families
3+ hour, 47+ min ago (679+ words) Business senior Lucy Gold founded Gold Student Sitters in October 2025. The network bridges the gap between University of Michigan students seeking babysitting jobs and Ann Arbor families searching for child care by providing a platform for students to advertise their…...
What was the Law School Student Senate up to in 2025?
5+ day, 7+ hour ago (667+ words) This piece is part of a project exploring the role of college-level student governments at the University of Michigan. " Within the walls of Hutchins Hall " found in the Law Quadrangle " lies a boardroom where law students meet biweekly for animated…...
What was the School for Environment and Sustainability student government up to in 2025?
5+ day, 7+ hour ago (350+ words) This piece is part of a project exploring the role of college-level student governments at the University of Michigan. Within the Samuel T. Dana Building, the School for Environment and Sustainability's student government has 17 representatives of elected graduate students who are…...
Basil Twist talks contemporary puppetry in ‘The Alchemy of Puppetry’
6+ day, 4+ hour ago (355+ words) More than 500 people gathered in the Michigan Theater Thursday evening to attend "The Alchemy of Puppetry," an event presented by the Stamps School of Art & Design and hosted by artist Basil Twist, who showcased and discussed his puppets. Twist opened…...
I can never go back to Roblox
1+ week, 4+ hour ago (166+ words) Or maybe I can, a little bit. But it's just not the same. My life is a busy one. During the week, I find myself constantly rushing between classes and work, filling my downtime with studying and internship applications. While…...
What universities owe students when they can’t say yes
2+ week, 4+ day ago (191+ words) This objection misunderstands what students are asking for. Definitions of transparency in higher education emphasize "active, accessible, and timely disclosure" of policies, outcomes, and institutional procedures so that students and other stakeholders can interpret and use that information to make…...
Pro-Palestine activists silently protest at engineering career fair
3+ week, 3+ day ago (326+ words) In an interview with The Michigan Daily, Engineering junior Jonathan Zou, a member of TAHRIR, said the protesters didn't believe companies supporting or benefiting from Israel's military campaign in Gaza " which has killed more than 70,000 people and was classified as…...
Let’s talk professional fraternities
3+ mon, 1+ week ago (499+ words) So when you're a freshman desperate for community in an unfamiliar state, where almost everyone you know is talking about rushing a professional fraternity, it feels like that's the natural place to start." Despite the dread of going to rush…...
What negative theater kid stereotypes say about social values
3+ mon, 1+ week ago (607+ words) When I was fifteen, I loved three very fundamental things: eyeliner, slam poetry and the 2016 revival of the hit Broadway musical "Falsettos." I had poorly cut dyed-red hair, I was socially off-putting and I auditioned for every single high school…...
Put the humanities and social sciences on a mandatory grading curve
3+ mon, 2+ week ago (408+ words) But the closer average grades get to a perfect 4.0, the less margin for error students have. With median admit GPAs at top law schools now above 3.90, a bad performance in a single class can tank your GPA and hinder your…...