BON VOYAGE ESA, there's always hope --2Friday, February 1, 2002 - 7 The vodka wall There once was a freshman who There was beauty in this place. I wanted to draw cartoons for The hope I gave more than I destroyed. Michigan Daily. Three bad submis- To everyone I know: I'm sorry I was sion pieces, political scandals, a late. I was making a paper. new millennium, an election, burn- To the someone else: One day we ing couches, campus issues, college won't apologize. life jokes, countless pens, and three- - MANISH RAIJI and-a-half years later, I still love it. Associate Editorial Page Editor, Columnist Thanks to everyone who has ever offered encouragement, criticism, or I want to tell that my pipey is not a suggestions- even if they occasion- beaver. But sometimes, beavers have ally got me in trouble. I'm glad to to eat a cherry. And the truth is that all have had the opportunity to draw my love goes to a beaver, a pipey, a "Tentatively Speaking" and to make wrinkle, a cherry and thank god I have people smile in the process. mad cow disease. A special "Thank You" to Jack, DAVID "BAD" ROCHKIND Dave and Jeff, Emily, Nick and Mike, Photographer, 2008 Johanna, and everyone at the Daily who works so hard at making the kind What can I say, I wanted to be a of quality paper that a guy is proud to journalist. The Daily was just another have his work run in every week. way to achieve that goal. But what I TOM KULJURGIS realized in about three days is the best EditorialCartoonist part of the Daily is the people that challenged me intellectually, philo- sophically, and honestly. I feel like a Everyone hates goodbyes. You better person for it, and I wish I could hate to say goodbye to your parents give back to the Daily as much as it when you pack up for college. You gave to me. If you haven't already, join hate to say goodbye to your friends the Daily and do your part. You'll when you go off on that summer thank me for it. internship. This goodbye, though, is JIM SECRETO especially bad because we're done. Editorial Page Writer This is it. It's time to grow up and face the world outside of Ann Arbor, Maderchodon...Tumhara baap tum and for us, that means outside of the se mukhateb hai. Samjhe, gushtiyon Daily. I am so glad I had the experi- aur gushtoron. Baap. Meaning Daddy. ence of the Daily to get me through Mujhe byebye kehne ka shoq naheen, college. Things wouldn't have been mugur aik cheez zuroor boloon gaa. half as fun. It wouldn't be half as Chodo. Jeeto. Aage barho. bhund hard to say goodbye to college. maaro. Dil do, dil lo, mugur haar Thanks Mom, Dad, and all my kabhi, kabhi na mano. Buss. Khudah friends out there that I've forced to se dostee karo, mushikil se mohobbat read my articles. Lots of love. karo, sachai se yaari lagao. Yaaron ke Robyn. yaar, dushmano ke dushman bano. ROBYN MELAMED Ishq karo, zulm ko toro. Doubt rules. Associate Arts Editor Deal with it. Michigan Daily paind- abad. Pakistan zindabad. More than anything else, what the WAJAHAT SYED Daily has taught me is to perfect the Columnist, Kabul Bureau Chief art of procrastination. I can now guilt- lessly go home after spending 10 What with the threatening e-mails to hours laboring over the next day's fellow staffers and the rash proclama- paper and sit down to watch television tions claiming I had been wronged, I instead of starting a paper that was due made my own bed at the Daily. And last week. If my GPA were charted now I'm crawling out of it. since my freshman year, it would But the truth is that I learned a lot resemble a graph of Enron's stock about ... oh, journalism, and ... Jessica value. I'm really glad the University Curtin's state of mind. I also learned doesn't send report cards home any- valuable life skills from the Daily's busi- more. ness manger, who, for over eight years, JEREMY W. PETERS hadn't wrestled with anything more dif- News Editor ficult than a bucket of chicken wings. I also learned about The Daily's building In the long run, we're all dead. manager, who, over the course of two -It's unfortunate to steal profundity years, preserved his job by doing noth- from somone else, but I'm not feeling ing more than shaving his beard. profound. These are all unpleasant images of a the michigan daily prolonged adelescence. Fun somehow. But these are s concerns, so never you mind I learned the most from cheerleading careerists who( the flow of information int Through them, I learned that a lot like the real world, onl the kiddies smoke pot. If you join the Daily, you': the world a favor. And y something in return I guarantee it.* JOSH W *Guarantee of something it "With home being on the of the world, I should haveI my parents. Focus on studies ,early and return home. I di that. Instead, I've spent th( years at The Michigan Daily ing lines of code, or dea servers. You hate it, you o life would not be complete w To all those who prec thanks for teaching me and r a better person. To my online staff, "B Chris A., thanks for putting crazy editor. But most of all, to The] Daily: thank you for being away from horne. PA ManagingC On this bittersweet occasi to thank the following; I want to thank the guy wh a death threat from a Hotm because he made me feel1 important. You know you' good job when people star you were dead. To the people who perio mail me to tell me that they for my eternal soul: Than means a lot, really. These folks will be p know that I have indeed the Lord as my savior a have a very personal rel with Him. In fact, I ma umich.edu e-mail account. ever feel like saying a lit prayer to Jesus Christ, yo never be afraid to drop hi via me - sinner that I jchrist@umich.edu. Yours in the light of Christ NICK Editorial Page Edit ctioning ... I remember when I decided to go enior year to the Daily's mass meeting in Sep- l. tember of '98. Then I looked out my a band of window at the storming rain, and controlled thought better of the idea. "I'll go this town. tomorrow," I told myself. Tomor- college is row was warm and sunny, and when y some of friends began assembling a football game on Palmer Field, (Surprise!) ll be doing "I'll go tomorrow" raced through you'll get my head again. Luckily my brother, all the way in Cambridge, Mass., called me to tell me that I needed to go to the meeting. ICKERHAM He always knew when I was Columnist about to make a mistake. n return not Nearly four years later, I sit here guaranteed. in the Daily remembering some of the best times of my life. Stopping other side at a gas station to find out if listened to Charleston Chews are called s, graduate Charleston Chew in Charleston, d none of N.C.(they are). Partying with Eddie e last four Money on New Year's in Orlando either fix- ("I don't do it for the Money, I do it ling with for the fans!"). Knowing Rick Piti- ove it, but no was coming to Michigan iithout it. (Oops!). eded me, These moments forged bonds making me with friends who I'll never forget, and memories that I'll always ibik" and remember. up with a I came to the Daily dreaming of covering games in Cameron Indoor Michigan Stadium, Husky Stadium and the my home Rose Bowl (that one never hap- pened. Thanks Drew.) UL WONG I leave remembering not these Online Editor memories, but the friends I made. Thanks Sam. RAPHAEL GOODSTEIN on I'd like Sports Editor KIMITSU YOGACHI/Friend of a friend of a friend of a Daily person M-Dog and mgrass celebrate the vodka wall. The innocent have been protected by black boxes. 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