S 0 Q 3B The Daily Dish James David Dick- son tabs about college journalism. 3B The List Weekend happen- ings around town. 4B Youth movement How the Ukraine is rebuilding its society. 6B ShopEatDrink Zanzibar. 7B Point/Counterpoint Should loyd Carr get fired? 8B Nike Town A closer look at the Univer- sity's contract with Nike. 13B ShopEatDrink American Apparel. 14B Columnists Aymar Jean and Joseph Kilduff discuss style and campus life. 16B A Portrait Photos from the Ukraine. IrII& ff ANDOM STUDENT T NTERVT- EW UKRAINE Continued from page 5B Random invents emo song title By Doug Wemert / Daily Magazine Editor e hi Michigan Daily: Hi, I'm calling from The Michigan Daily, and you've been selected to do this week's Random Student Interview. Are you up for it? Random: Yeah, sure. TMD: Cool. Do you even know what this is? R: Well, I've read The Michigan Daily but not the interview section. TMD: Yeah, it's just a thing that appears in the magazine section of the Daily every Thurs- day. We call somebody and just them a whole bunch of random questions. Do you still want to do it? R: Sure. TMD: Great. What's your name? R: Alyssa. TMD: Cool. First question: How was your weekend? R: Busy. TMD: What was so busy about it? R: Homework. Lots of homework. TMD: Oh, already? And you still do all of it? R: I try. TMD: Oh, you will learn, Alyssa, not to do that. What do you think the bigger party error is: vomiting on the host or stealing the keg? R: Stealing the keg. TMD: What would make that worse? R: The party stops. TMD: Well, not for you. R: Wait, if I steal the keg? Well, I don't know. We'll say vomiting on the host. TMD: Yeah, that would be worse. Do you have a livejournal or a blog? R: No. TMD: Do you ever read other people's live- journal to see them lamenting about their love life? R: Not really. TMD: Why not? It's very interesting. R: Because I think sometimes people have livejournals to have people feel sorry for them and get some sympathy. I've read some bad live- journals. TMD: Do you think "Lover's Lament" is a good name for a song by an emo group? R: Yeah, I can see it being a song. TMD: Yeah, unless it has been taken. You never know with these emo groups. Can you think of any other good emo song titles? You can just take a couple of sad sounding words and put them together. R: Hang on ... "Melancholy Massacre." TMD: "Melancholy Massacre?" What would that be about? R: Haha, I have no idea. TMD: I bet the first line would be like "The battle has been lost" or something like that. What's your favorite bad movie? R: What do you mean by bad? TMD: Like a movie that nobody likes but you really like. R: "Freaky Friday." TMD: Oh, that's a good one. What did you like so much about it? R: Chad Michael Murray. TMD: Oh, and you think he's ... uh ... R: Gorgeous. TMD: Gorgeous. So say Chad Michael Mur- ray called you up right now. What would you say to him? R: I really couldn't say what I wanted to say because he just got married. TMD: What would you say to him if he wasn't? R: Um ... I don't know. TMD: Come on! This is Chad we're talking about here. R: But you're not Chad. TMD: Well, right, but we're pretending that I am. R: Hmmm ... no. TMD: Why can't I be Chad Michael Murray? Is my voice not sexy enough? R: Not quite. TMD: Well, I'll work on it. Maybe my voice will change. Have you bought any of Britney Spears's new perfume? R: I already have. TMD: You have? Really? She says that there are hints of cupcakes in it. Is that true? R: Haha, I haven't really noticed that. TMD: Well, you should check that out. Who doesn't like cupcakes? R: Cupcakes are delicious. TMD: But what about in a perfume? Would that be any good? R: Are you talking about Curious or another kind? TMD: Oh, I'm talking about Curious. R: I don't smell the cupcakes in it. TMD: Well, maybe Britney Spears is a liar. R: Maybe she is. TMD: Have the guys commented on it? R: A few. TMD: What do they say? R: "You smell good." TMD: Well, that's about as deep as guys go. How are your classes working out for you? R: Not bad. TMD: Do you have any crazy professors or any hot people in your class? Is there a Chad Michael Murray in any of your classes? R: Not a Chad Michael Murray. TMD: What's a step below Chad Michael Murray? Like Justin Timberlake? R: Do you know who Brandon Boyd is? He's the lead singer of Incubus. There's some of them. TMD: Oh really? Do you give them the eye? R: Yeah. TMD: And what happens? R: I've studied and stuff with some of them. TMD: Oooh. Do you put on the Incubus when you're studying to get in the Mood? R: No, not really. TMD: Well, you should do that. Last ques- tion: would you rather be blind or be a midget? R: Be a midget. Because if I was blind, I wouldn't be able to look at Chad Michael Mur- ray. TMD: That is a good answer! A very good answer. OK, that's it. Thanks for doing this. R: No problem. TMD: Take it easy. man, Yushchenko, had lost the election. There were rumors of widespread voter intimidation and fraud, so Yushchenko supporters, most of them college students, boarded trains for Kiev. "When we first heard that Yanukovych had won, we just went to Kiev. I felt like I could change something," Chop said. One day after the election, Stepan and other Yushchenko supporters had shown up in Kiev to protest what they viewed as a fraudulent election. They wanted to see Yanukovych's victory repealed. "We didn't even know where we would stay," Chop recalled. "I spent the first night in the October Palace. The whole floor was full of people. There were thou- sands of us in the city." Those same people who arrived in Kiev to protest the election results started banding together. Viktor Yushchenko urged them to make a stand against Yanu- kovych and the incumbent government's illegal theft of the presidency. The people responded in a way that hadn't been seen in Eastern Europe since the Solidarity Movement in Poland in1980. Hundreds of thousands of frustrated Ukrainians, most of them young and motivated, gathered in the city center, camping out and protesting day and night. Soon a tent city developed, turning the central square into a sea of orange, the color of Yushchenko's cam- paign. The people sat there through the bitter cold nights of the Ukrainian winter, refusing to leave until their voices were heard. Over the next weeks, the Orange Revo- lution, a democratic and peaceful fight for justice, emerged. Because the country was almost evenly split into Yushchenko and Yanukovych supporters, the possibility of violence was also hanging in the balance. Chop, who became the media coordi- nator for the tent city, recalled an incident where 25 busloads of police approached a rally during the first few days of the revo- lution. "Everybody wanted to fight," he said, "but thankfully the police showed up and turned back." Not everything worked out well for Yushchenko and his supporters. At the height of the revolution, Yushchenko was poisoned with dioxin, which left him with severe facial deformations. Rather than this incident ending the protest, it only spurred on the revolution and hardened Yushchenko's will to go on. The protesters were able to organize and create a huge international buzz, and certainly the poisoning helped bring atten- tion to their cause. Soon, the government had no choice but to rule the first election illegal and call for a revote. Under the intense scrutiny of the inter- national press, the next set of elections featured much less corruption. This time Yushchenko came out on top, leading many Ukrainians to believe that their country was on the brink of economic and political rejuvenation. A Country Divided Ukraine celebrated its 14th year as an independent nation this past August, and it provided the people a chance to reflect on the results of the revolution that occurred eight months before. Yuri, a 17-year-old who participated in the Orange Revolu- tion, was in Kiev to celebrate his country's breakaway form the Soviet Union. After President Yushchenko addressed the crowd, which was much smaller than the one that got him the revote, Yuri spoke about how proud he was. "My country is ready to become great," he said, "We will soon join the EU and the people will be happy." Whether or not that turns out to be true remains to be seen. Not everyone is as happy as Yuri. The country was divided before the election and still is today. Many people feel that Ukraine would be better off if was more closely aligned with the Russians, who are fellow Slavs with similar outlooks on life. "The independence day should be a day of mourning, not a celebration," said Dimitry Grigorenko, a Ukrainian who had spent the last four years in New York studying and had returned to see his coun- try changed. Grigorenko believes that Ukrainians have sacrificed their morals and values by embracing capitalism and democracy. He points to the frequent displays of pub- lic intoxication and high levels of unem- ployment, both things not tolerated under Soviet rule, as indicators of his country's wayward turn toward the West. There are many people who agree with Dimitry, and many more who feel that Yushchenko hasn't lived up to his prom- ises. While the president has only been in office since December, his supporters are disappointed he hasn't done more to bring them Western-style wealth. It's a slow process, turning around a country, but many people just aren't that patient. The Ukrainian people have dealt with a lot in the past, and now they seem to be dealing with the fact that even leaders who preach of democracy and transparency often aren't what they seem. Even Stepan Chop, who had supported Yushchenko from the start, had his doubts about the future. "The Orange Revolution did great things for Ukraine. We have freedom in I come ma waves V I ROCK the BOAT! Canoes * Kayaks * Rentals River Trips * Near UM Campus Gallup Park Open everyday 3000 Fuller Road,(734) 662-9319 Argo Park Open weekends 1055 Longshore Drive, (734) 668-7411 jra2gov.orglcanoe grk > r .e.:tcatiu ... we have. GE's LM2500 marine gas turbines power cruise ships by using a highly efficient process and quality fuel that emits nearly 67 percent less nitrogen oxide than average pass call this ecomagination. At GE we invite you to launch your ecomagination through a career finance, manufacturing, sales and marketing, human resources, or information technology. 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