Something to celebrate:
Getting through 2020-21 with flying colors!
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Congratulations to our graduating seniors, who got through this year with style and smarts
Despite needing to make adjustments in publication schedules, paper prints, and distribution methods, our student leaders accommodated deadlines and kept the presses (digital and otherwise) rolling. ABOVE: SHEI Magazine meets for their wrap-up of the semester on the Diag, in what was probably one of the most unique editorial team meetings in history -- masked and socially distanced in colorful fashion. They shared their enthusiasm for each other's strengths with "paper-plate awards."
SHEI editor-in-chief Natalie Guisinger describes their "Exhibition" themed Winter 2021 print issue as, "an interactive narrative approach that immerses the reader in a museum-like experience. Each image and article reclaims different art movements and eras from the past, present, and future in an attempt to redefine art. With this personal journey, your interactions with each “exhibit” will prompt you to engage in inner dialogue and reflect on our claims, as well as your own."
Publisher Colleen Jones noted at a recent Board meeting that for the first time, all membership dues will be paid by SHEI fundraising efforts -- thanks to generous student, alumni and family support during several fundraisers, including Giving Blueday! Their goal in the coming year or so is to eliminate dues forever!
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SHEI released their semester-end magazine with a Diag launch party on April 25th, with Editor-in-chief Natalie Guisinger (above), holding the "Epiphany" print issue, and Photo Print Editor Katie Corbett showing off "Exhibition" and the cover she photographed in the UM Museum of Art. Digital editions as well as Street Style features are issued several times a semester. Browse all versions on their website. SHEI offers both print and digital magazines for free.
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SHEI in action: (left to right) Publisher Colleen Jones, Operations Director Drisha Gwalani, and Marketing Director Kira Mintzer, on the Diag handing out copies.
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Michiganensian CXXV is the 125th anniversary edition!
Our historic yearbook—designed, photographed and written completely remotely amidst the ongoing coronavirus pandemic—reflects the urgent global and national social movements echoed on our campus. While showcasing many ways in which U-M students persevered through trying times, we also capture our institution's commitments and achievements in athletics, academics, research, student-led organizations, the visual and performing arts and much more. Further, we strove to uplift marginalized voices within our community in an effort toward inclusive journalism that more accurately represents the diversity on our campus. These facets, along with retrospective spreads of the past 125 years, make Ensian 125 one of our best yearbooks yet. Very proud of the Michigan Yearbook team led by two-term EIC Anirudh Hirve ('21) and Business Manager Lily Jin ('22)—congratulations!
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Welcome to the Daily's Summer EIC: Calder Lewis |
With plans for Fall 2021 still uncertain on campus, one thing is for sure, says incoming Daily Summer EIC Calder Lewis. "The Michigan Daily's dedication to our readers."
In a recent article, he outlined the Daily's plans for the next couple of months: no print editions until late August, but daily digital news. That means on the website, but also on four social media platforms. And delivery straight to your email's inbox with the Weekly Roundup, new biweekly University Insider, and the upcoming A2 Outlook focused on city issues.
There will be special print editions, including Orientation Guides and New Student Editions, to be mailed out to welcome students. Today our annual Graduation Issue is distributed around town and on campus, and it includes the 52-page insert featuring 190 "Baby Ads" placed by proud parents (who were mailed three copies of the issue). Cover design, at right, was by Molly Wu ('21) who is The Michigan Daily Businessperson of the Year for 2020!
"Our tireless summer staff will continue to cover the University and Ann Arbor’s evolving response to the pandemic and, most importantly, keep you informed of it all," Lewis wrote.
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Anything? Anything? Gargoyle? Gargoyle? |
Gargoyle news is difficult to come by, as this secretive society has gone underground during the pandemic. But rumor has it that new issues will be posted soon on their website. If you are curious, check them out at gargmag.com. (Don't blame us if this turns out to be fake news.)
A new website is in the works, and will debut soon, or at least in time for the annual Gathering o' the Gargs on Friday, Nov. 5, 2021, at the Michigan League (pandemic-dependent). Interested in attending? Email Lisa Powers and she will put you in touch with the GargAlums in charge of general reunion chaos.
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Editorial cartoonist takes the prize
Maddy VerVaecke, of the Daily
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“It’s probably been the wildest and funniest bits of news I’ve ever gotten,” is how Maddy VerVaecke describes the moment she was handed an envelope with a signed copy of her own artwork. All she’d heard was that someone had purchased a high-quality file of a cartoon depicting Gretchen Whitmer, Dana Nessel, Jocelyn Benson, and Dr. Joneigh Khaldun. “So my friends and I were joking like, “Oh, haha, I bet it’s Gretch!” Then she opened the envelope to find out, “yeah, it actually was the governor.”
The senior from Livonia was thrilled. “That cartoon with them all in the boat was my first real shot at an original political cartoon, and while I wish I could change so many things about it, the response it got back in the fall and now -- being presented with this incredible gift -- really makes me proud of it.” When she posted an image of the signed artwork on her Twitter feed last week, Dana Nessel herself responded with some joking feedback.
“In my last year here at the university I’ve gotten to interact with so many cool people working over in Lansing because of my cartoons in The Daily. A few of my other cartoons were ordered as prints as well; former Michigan House minority leader Chris Greig ordered a print for herself and every representative featured in a cartoon...poking fun at then Speaker Lee Chatfield (well, okay, she got one for every representative featured save for Chatfield.) The whole response to that one probably made it my favorite cartoon I did for The Daily. It was a whole circus.
“My state senator also purchased a print she was put in that was mocking Laura Cox. She actually has the original artwork now!"
"It’s really been a blast contributing to The Daily’s Opinion section, and I really hope to do more work like it in the future.”
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College Newspaper of the Year! |
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The Michigan Daily was named Division 1 College Newspaper of the Year in the annual Michigan Press Association contest. With 2,100 points, the Daily's score included a sweep for "Best Writer," taking all four places, led by Julianna Morano; as well as a clean sweep of "Investigative Reporting," with 1st going to Zayna Syed and Sammy Sussman who looked into sexual harassment at Savas - which also earned the duo a Stanford Lipsey Merit Award for Investigative Reporting. Learn more from the press release.
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SPJ Awards for the Daily! |
Region 4 of the Society of Professional Journalists announced the winners of The Mark of Excellence Awards, with The Michigan Daily earning prizes for In-Depth Reporting (winner was Francesca Duong for coverage of pandemic housing issues); Breaking News Photography (Dominick Sokotoff for coverage of George Floyd protests in Detroit last year); General News Photography (winner Annie Klusendorf); and Feature Photography (Tess Crowley), amongst others. Sokotoff, who serves as the Photo Editor of the Ensian, too, also won for COVID-19 Digital Photography.
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The Daily headlines in art & video |
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The Daily as fine art
Lisa Feiner, a NYC artist and UM alumni created a mixed media acrylic homage to her alma mater and amore. Titled LOVE, it's crafted with hand-painted song lyrics in the background, overlaid with Michigan Daily clippings of personal significance forming the letters.
On social media for her SweetGraceArt business, she noted, "I contacted the newspaper from the college I met my husband at...They thought I was nuts but the @michigandaily came thru!"
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Keep up with all happenings of the Board for Student Publications on our website, where Meeting minutes and other news is posted.
If you have ideas for newsletter stories, please email them to Lisa Powers, Daily alum (Summer '84) and our Stewardship & Alumni Relations Officer.
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If you prefer to send a check, please make it out to 'The University of Michigan' and, in the memo line, write the name of the scholarship or fund you are donating to, and then mail it to:
Office of Student Publications
c/o U-M Gifts & Records,
3003 S. State Street, Suite 8000
Ann Arbor, MI 48109
Also, please email me to let us know it's on the way and I'll watch for it, thank you!
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