The Michigan Daily -- Friday, January 26, 2001 -- 7 Dear Mrs. Landlady, The critter dwelling in my ceiling is aking my nights hell. It gnaws the shit out of the house and makes it very difficult for me to sleep. Please, please send an extermi- nator. DAN WILLIAMS SPORTS STAFF Hello baby, I'm gone, good-bye ... half a cup of rock and rye. I'd just like to thank the Daily for giving me the opportunity to tell orty thousand people to "take three tabs of cid or a few hits from the crack pipe," JOHN UHL ARTS STAFF How the paper gets out everyday - I will never understand. How the paper gets distributed everyday - I will never know. But of all the things that I will always emember is that ... WEEKEND ROCKS!!! Furthermore, GO WEEKEND!!! ELIZABETH PENSLER WEEKEND, ETC. EDITOR I told myself I wouldn't hit the delete key this time around. I've made too many ,efforts to begin this - the last time my words will appear in the Michigan Daily and the first time they'll appear under my wn name. Since the day in September 997 when I walked into edit board just in time to meet some friendly guests from 8AMN, working for the Daily has been a -strange and wonderful adventure, and I will treasure the memories (and my single byline) forever. The rest is silence. LEA FROST EDITORIAL STAFF The Daily's been fun, is not the spawn of satan, and is even welcoming of some conservatives (relatively speaking). While I'm often the odd man out (be it by being conservative or the only one sober writing his sign off), the Daily has nonetheless provided an enjoyable experience. For the record here is where the Daily has been 100 percent wrong, positions the Daily should've taken instead: Abortion is mur- der; the electoral college is a good idea; a collection of liberal yuppies - diversity does not make; Bush won the election and deserves some respect; there is a God (he goes by the name of Jesus); and "We agree with Scott". Looking forward to all the h a t e m a i I (no hatemail please(,lycos.com). Much thanks to IV, CCC and a very special lady JUSTIN HAMILTON EDITORIAL STAFF As time tends to blend together, I came to the Daily a long time ago on a really cold night with no clue where the Student Publi- cations Building was. Wondering around near the Frieze Building, I finally found the building and was sucked into it. Not even wanting to go into journalism, I've still enjoyed every second of putting a paper out, writing articles and seeing my name in the paper the next day. While it's been a ton of work, I couldn't imagine turn- ing memories of the Daily in for anything. While I'll be sticking around until the end of a semester to finish my column (Warning: Self-promotion - Read it!), I'll truly miss the Daily when I leave. Thanks everyone there for all the great times. LINDSEY ALPERT NEWS WRITER moods. You guys are what kept me sane. To the staff of the Daily: The first thank you is for helping me find my life's work. One of the things I most regret in my college career is not coming to the Daily sooner. You guys have been my family and I'm sorry for being the bratty child. Please know that for every time I complained, what I really wanted to say was thank you for letting me be a part of this your lives and this amazing thing called the Daily. JEN FISH NEWS STAFF I bow in thanks to those who hired me and helped me along the way. I never got to P.T. Anderson but I did learn just how far a press kit can fly when thrown across the room (quite a ways, if you put your arm into it). MATTHEW BARRETT ARTS STAFF I don't like green bananas or anything "shiek" but I love the Daily. This paper shaped my college life and myself as a per- son. I have worked at "professional" papers but I have never found the idealism and committment that I found here. If you work here, you will find yourself hated by every- one outside of the building because your articles are fair. But it's all worth it. I once threw up a green banana. They wouldn't let me write about ponies in the articles so,. are ponies made into dogfood like horses, or tuna? KULA Continued from Page 1 CK: And what about writers over the years? Daily alums have gone on to work at essentially every major publication in the U.S. - does any- one in particular stick out as especially talented? TMD: Without a doubt, that would have to be Miller. CK: Oh, playwright Arthur Miller? Sure, he was an editor during- TMD: No, I meant James Miller. from Miller on Tap. Man, that guy had some great columns. Say what you want about "Death of a Salesman," but "Songs that make the white girls dance"? Genius, CK: What about current Daily staffers? How do they measure up? TMD: Mostly in feet and inches, but some- times they go metric. CK: Actually, I meant in terms of work ethic. TMD: Right, right. Frankly, I don't think they get the respect they deserve. People have no idea how much work these kids put in day after day, on top of their classes, on top of their social lives. These staffers choose to put me first, and when they start to do that, they're committing to some- thing a lot greater than they may at first realize. CK: What do you mean by that? TMD: Well, your average college student goes to class during the day, works a few hours at a part-time job, maybe goes to a student group meeting, and then they get to go home and catch re-runs of Seinfeld in syndication. But for these Daily kids, that's when they're just getting going, just getting started on their work. And I don't mean studying for their classes- I mean the real work that will actually benefit these kids down the road. Think about it: They're writing, editing and designing a real newspaper five days a week. There are professional journal- ists getting paid thousands of dollars to do the exact same thing, and they don't have to then go home at 2 a.m. and start a poli-sci paper that's due in seven hours. CK: I see these Daily staffers every day, work- ing under deadline, learning communication skills, ethics, you name it. It's some of thelbest job training you could ask for, and they're doing it all on their own terms. There aren't any profes- sors or advisors walking around the newsroom -- everything these kid:; earn, they learn from their older peers, and they all learn from experi- ence. And that's how it should be. You have gradu- ates coming out of these formal, supposedly "acclaimed" journalism schools who've learned about election coverage from their textbooks; Daily staffers learned about it on the campaign trail. When editors at a school-run college paper need to make a decision, they ask their professor; when Daily staffers need to make a decision, they decide for themselves. And when that decision is to dedicate them- selves to the Daily, they choose a lot of long nights, a lot of Wendy's and a lot of thankless efforts. But they also choose one of the best edu- cational experiences the University has to offer and, you know what, that's something they'll never regret. CK: The Michigan Daily, I think I love you. TMD: I know, my son, I know. - Chis Kula can be rcached via email at e/wla('a ai l'h.edu. ROBERT GOLD NEWS STAFF Obviously, I've lost it, sir, since I'm not leaving yet. But I'd like to say thanks to Cdog and Berka for helping me through hard times here. Thanks also to the seniors. And to everyone else, see you on Sunday. "Your piss-ant soldiers make me laugh when they try to act tough. If Matrix were here, he would laugh too." MIKE KERN SPORTS STAFF I joined up for the free stuff. Forget about writing, editing and the people I was going to meet. CD's, concerts, movies. As far as I was Before I get too mushy, I would like to thank "the civilians" in my life for being putting up with my long hours and foul A few "thanks" are in order: To my Dad: My hero and my best friend. He gave me the tools. To the US Army and the 1st Ranger Battalion: Who turned a boy into a man. To all my friends, especially the men of the Sigma Chi Fra- ternity: It would have been dull without y'all. To James "Miller on Tap" Miller: I wouldn't be here without you, bro. Last, and most importantly, to everyone out there who has ever read my column. Love it or hate it, as long as I made you think, I'm happy. I will miss you more than I can say. FILL THIS SPACE? REDRAW THE PAGE? AT TIS HOUR? YEAH, DIDN'T THINK SOo 810 S. 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