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Currently, ''The Michigan Daily'' is published five days a week, Monday through Friday, during the Fall and Winter semesters. It is published weekly as a summer edition from May to August. Mondays generally contain a lengthy ''SportsMonday'' Sports section (reminiscent, and probably derived from, '' The New York Times ''), while Thursdays contain the release of a Magazine, originally titled ''Weekend Magazine.'' In fall 2005, the newspaper renamed the section ''The Statement,'' in reference to Tom Hayden 's '' Port Huron Statement .'' Daily print circulation is currently over 17,000 copies, with over 230,000 unique visitors per month to its website. In 1952 , the Soviet delegate to the United Nations , F.A. Novikov , singled out the newspaper as emblematic of American warmongering. Activist and politician Tom Hayden , an author of the '' Port Huron Statement '', later came to personify the publication's editorial philosophy. The paper was the subject of national press coverage when, in 1967 , it urged the legalization of Marijuana . In the 1988-89 school year, the paper published what some groups labeled a series of anti-Israel editorials. The Anti-Defamation League wrote, "The editorials included support for a " Zionism is Racism " statement, censure of a Jewish group that tried to call attention to Arab Terrorism , and an accusation that Israel had been behind the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 . These comments prompted a protest by 200 members of the Jewish student community. Alumni of the publication include editors and reporters at newspapers and magazines including '' The New York Times '', '' The Washington Post '', '' The Wall Street Journal '', '' The New Republic '', '' Chicago Tribune '', '' Baltimore Sun '', '' Associated Press '', '' Roll Call '', and '' Detroit Free Press ''. EXTERNAL LINKS |
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