Daily Digest
Wednesday, November 8, 2017
After leading the Wolverines with 12 special teams tackles in 2016, Jordan Glasgow focused this offseason on the improvements that would make him a better candidate at defensive back.
Dear subscribers,
Today, we take a look at redshirt sophomore Jordan Glasgow's role on the Michigan football team. Tuesday, Claude Steele, a psychologist known for his work on stereotype and social identity threat, gave a keynote address for the Office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion's diversity summit. Additionally, we look at an email from University Regent Ron Weiser, obtained by the Daily, in which Weiser expresses his opinion on prominent white supremacist Richard Spencer. We also have a reflection on the experience of being half-Chinese. Finally, we have a piece of creative non-fiction from The Statement's Creative Writing Issue.
All the best,
The Michigan Daily
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Weiser: Richard Spencer is "disgusting"
In an email obtained by The Michigan Daily, University of Michigan Regent Ron Weiser (R) expressed his desire to deny the request of prominent white supremacist Richard Spencer to speak on campus.
âSpencer is a disgusting and dangerous man. This has been expressed by many members of the University community,â Weiser wrote. âI hope we are successful in keeping him off Campus.â
Wai guo ren: reflections on being a halfie
When people learn that I am half-Chinese the reaction is like watching someone figure out that math problem they had been stuck on: some mixture of a new revelation and old knowledge that they finally combined. Itâs as if my race is some ambiguous thing to be discovered. Iâm exotic looking, vaguely ethnic, somehow different â Iâm not quite white.
With this, in the years I spent in majority white institutions I got the full spectrum of Asian jokes and stereotypes.
Creative Nonfiction: High Risk
Edward meets me at the bus stop on campus with our standard greeting: smiling and clapping his hands slowly, letting out a whooping, âO-K, O-K.â He looks like he always has, wide-eyed and enthusiastic but stifling a perceptible weariness, in a hoodie, skinny jeans and white Vans.