2 - Tuesday, October 2, 2007 THURSDAY: Before You Were Here An unexpected visitor POKER C FRIDAY: The Extremist "AME Yesterday morning, my room- " mate texted me to let me know See something that embod- that a boy from California had ies the Ann Arbor or Univer- followed her home from her sity of Michigan experience? weekend at Michigan State Uni- E-mamicsubmhigandasgily.com. versity and was sleeping on our futon in South Quad. Upon arriving home, I met fore enthusiastically greeting Claude "Kip" Henry Miller, a each other. Kip later told me freshman at the University of that his friend from the elevator California at Los Angeles and had been his partner on his high a former track teammate of my school Physics Olympiad team. roommate's friend. They had not seen each other in Kip and I decided to go out to years. Big Ten Burrito for lunch. After a tour of the city, and a On the elevator ride down, promise from Kip to visit again Kip told me about the different soon, my roommate and I put our places he had lived, including new random friend on a shuttle Mexico City and Los Angeles. to the airport that afternoon. "When I was growing up," he ALLISON GHAMAN said, "I lived in Novi, Michigan for a while." Out of the blue, another pas- .r senger from across.the elevator A a flair called back, "Oh, hey, I lived in .a Novi, too."forfashion Kip and the stranger stared at each other for a momentbe- One afternoon my aunt, uncle and three young cousins came to visit me. My uncle went to the Uni- versity for graduate school and he wanted to show his kids the campus and take me out for cof- fee. We were walking through the Diag, seeing the sites that it has to offer when the "Bra Guy" rode by on his bike - you know, the skinny blonde man who's often hanging around outside of Village Corner or the Diag Party Shoppe and who wears a bra. My cousins and aunt were rather taken aback by his alter- native attire. Everyone was quiet for a mopnent, then my uncle broke the silence. "You know, Kerry?" he said. "I think you have that same bra. It's from Victoria's Secret. Right? Hmm, he probably wears the same size as you." PAGE REDFORD LSA sophomore Alan Chern and Engineering junior Bill Kolodzey play poker in the Michigan Union yesterday night. The game was part of a free weekly tournament. 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