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The Michigan Daily - Wednesday, February 6, 2008
ABOUT CAMPUS

Wednesday, rebruary 6. 2i - ly
QUOTES OF THE WEEK

ILLUSTRATIONS BY JOHN OQUIST

He was our prophet, seer
and revelator. He was an
island of calm in a sea of
storm."
- THOMAS S. MONSON, the newly-
appointed president of The Church of Jesus
Christ of Latter-day Saints, on former Mor-
mon leader Gordon B.sHinckley, who died last
week. Monson was an adviser to Hinckley
and is now the 16th president of the Church

"But you know, it's much
easier to take a political hit
than to be run over by one
of those linebackers."
- PRESIDENT BUSH, in an interview with
Fox Super Sunday about the Super Bowl, when
asked to draw a comparison between football
and politics. Bush initially said that they were
both "contact sports"

Serving the sloshed
Views from the other side of
the late-night pizza counter

there's another who's making out
against the counter.
Griffin said the crowd drawn
from the nearby club Necto on Fri-
day night - the bar's gay night - is
the most promiscuous one of the

When campus bars close at 2 a.m., week.
drunken University students take to "I don't see guys and girls make
the streets like a flood of children out as much as I see guys and guys,"
rushing out of elementary school Griffin said.
for recess. Though some students Sometimes, though, things can
stumble right home, many aren't get too hot. Griffin said couples
quite ready to call it a night. Fortu- will routinely lock the bathrooms
nately fo: them, near-by pizza joint so they can have sex. The women's
employees have their spatulas ready bathroom was out oftcommission for
and waiting. weeks after two people getting inti-
But while the post-bar pizza mate on top the sink caused it to rip
scene is most often seen through the out of the wall.
blurred lenses of students anxious Any business that stays open late
for food to soak up the Long Island quickly gets accustomed to inebria-
Ice Teas in their stomachs, employ- tion-induced antics, Griffin said, but
ees of late-night restaurants have a dealing with the swarm of kids from
much different account of the night- Scorekeepers Bar and Grill, located
ly feeding frenzies. right around the corner from NYPD,
It's hard not to, said Clara Grif- can be "misery."
fin, manager of the William Street "It's just like, 'Oh my god, shut
NYPD,whenkids routinelyyell "I'M up!"'she said.
SO DRUNK" throughout the night. And amid the backdrop of binge
"A lot of the drunk people haven't drinking, things can turn destruc-
quite gotten over the thrill of being tive.
drunk," Griffin said. "For alot of these kids, it's a con-
Griffin said the overly enthused sequence-free environment," Griffin
night crowd tends to wear their said.
hearts on their sleeves and not keep She said she's found pizzasmeared
too quiet about it. against the walls, a toppled-over
Amongthe congealed salad dress- gumball machine and condoms
ing, spilled Coca-Cola and discarded left in "conspicuous spots" around
pizza crusts littering the floor of NYPD.
NYPD are the shattered hopes of The restaurant once had a mes-
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and get high and mighty o
gotten ranch packet.
"People's sense of en
and brattiness comes out u
drink," Griffin said. "Peo
like ranch dressing whe
drunk, too."
With alcohol
comes aggression,
but employees of
late-night restau-
rants said fights are
rare.
"I would say 95
percent of the time,
everyone's just in
a good mood," said
David Root, the
general manager
at Backroom Pizza
on Church Street.
A couple years ago,
Root said, a student
who thought he
wasn't given enough
change peed all over
the counter. But that
was the worst of the worst
Joey Zeer, the owner of
Pizza on East Universit
said he's grown used to t
occurrences of weird e
public affections and
drunken behavior.
"I'm just like, 'Alright, fi
said.
Although he tries to ig
of the banter and explicit
he said, some stuff is har
Once, Zeer said, a drunke
er took a liking to a large
a woman promoting a b
"The guy just took it ai
making out with it," Zeers
Root said it's hard no
clips of rowdy patrons'
tions.
"It's always the play-'
what just happened at th
said.
And for many students
Griffin said, the restaurar
ditch effort to meet a (ter
special someone.
"It's the last chance for
get someone to go home w
Root said. "Everyone's ext
ing."
He said that while<
pick-ups lines over pizz,
down, he's witnessed o
verifyeachother's names
making out in line.
But while it's safe to sa
night customers tend to t
to handle than their dayt

'ver a for- terparts, their business is much
relied upon. On weekend nights,
titlement most campus pizza spots have lines
when they to the door - at least. Root said
ple really between 2 a.m. and 3 a.m. is their
n they're busiest time of night.
"Basically, all day long is waiting
t. for the night to happen," Root said.
In 'N' Out On their busiest nights, Backroom
y Avenue, can sell over 800 slices of pizza in
he nightly just one hour after the bars close
xchanges, their doors.
generally Anna Grillo, whose sons own both
NYPDs on campus, agreed. Grillo
"ne,' Zeer said that while there is a solid lunch
hour, the restaurants are undoubt-
nore most edly most crowded past midnight.
behavior, But even though fights break out
d to miss. and the restaurants get trashed,
n custom- Grillo, an elderlyItalian woman who
cut-out of came to the United States 22 years
eer brand. ago, has fun watching students eat
nd started their pizza with friends.
said. "Despite of all the beers they are
t to catch very polite to me," she said. "If they
conversa- don't do the crazy stuff now, when
are they gonna do it?"
by-play of -LISA HAIDOSTIAN
se bar," he
Root and H
nt is a last- High noon in the
mporarily) Hopwood Room
r people to Hopwood hopefuls rush to
ith them,"
tra charm- deliver work by12 p.m sharp
oftentimes Nicholas and Timothy... or was it
a get shot Timothy and Nicholas?
ne couple This was the question LSA senior
inbetween Jordan Rossen asked himself last
night around 3:00 a.m. Tuesday in
By that late the Fishbowl. Due to a combination
be tougher of stress of an approaching deadline
ime coun- and lack of sleep, Rossen began mix-

ingup the names of the main charac-
ters in the short story he planned on
submittingfor the Hopwood compe-
tition.
"At the last minute I chose (a sub-
mission) that I wasn't planning on
choosing," Rossen said. "I changed it
a ton, and it's way better,
but my fear is that, even
though it's way better,
there's more typos now.
At one point I started
switching my main char-
acters, but I think I fixed
them all."
Rossen's anxietyis one
that many student felt
Tuesday as they raced
to finish their manu-
scripts before the strin-
gent 12 a.m. deadline of
the Hopwood Program's
graduate and undergrad-
uate contest, awarded
bi-annually to students.
Everyyear,the Hopwood
Program grants awards
totaling close to $150,000 to a few
gifted winners.
The rest of the contest's appli-
cants get only the memory of the
agonizing self-editing, experimental
printing formats and paper cuts that
got them to the deadline.
For RC junior Beenish Ahmed,
the madness started last night after
a friend told her that the deadline
wasn't at the end of February, but
tomorrow.
"I said to myself, 'Oh shoot, I have
a really long night ahead of me,' "
Ahmed said.
And a long night it was. Ahmed,
who has won four times in the Hop-
wood contest for freshmen and
sophomores, managed to "explode"
8 pages of non-fiction prose into 16
pages, revise 5 pages of poetry and
compose 7 more pages of poetry.
Miraculously, she still got an hour
of sleep.
"It was really crazy, and I have no
idea how it happened," Ahmed said.
"Probably a lot of the stuff is really
terrible and I just dreamt that it was
good, because I definitely convinced
myself that it was good."
Ahmed wasn't the only one who
threw together her portfolio last
night. LSA senior Amanda Bruce
has been working on her short story
submission for the past month, but
spent the entire night creating an
ending she was happy with. As the
wee hours of the night overcame
See ABOUT CAMPUS, Page 8B

TALKING
POINTS
Three things you can talk about this week:
1. Marijuana vending machines
2. The Beatles in space
3. Snowstorms in the Middle East
And three things you
can't:Y
1. Free and fair elections
in Russia
2. Hillary's politically-
motivated crying
3. Your favorite Super
Bowl ads
BY THE NUMBERS
Percent annual inflation in Zimbabwe
Percent annual inflation projected in independent estimates
Cost of a Zimbabwean newspaper, in Zimbabwean dollars
Source: CNN

"I was just trying to put the ball on the green."
- LEO FIYALKO, a 92-year-old man who is legally blind, on a hole-in-one he got while playing at
Cove Cay Country Club in Florida. Fiyalko used a five iron on the 110-yard hole

YOUTU BE
VIDEO OF
THE WEEK
Forget your studies
and enjoy life
Why do we all go to college? To
get into a good graduate school, of
course. And why all those hellish
internships? To get a good job, obvi-
ously.
But to British philosopher Alan
Watts, the goal-driven life we live
didn't make too much sense. In one
of his spoken word recordings, Watts
described the way children and
adults alike are pulled along through
life, the promise of success dangling
over their heads.
"South Park" creators Trey Parker
and Matt Stone, who are never shy
about challengingthe cruel and arbi-
trary rules of modern society, cre-
ated an animation to go with Watts's
recording. It shows a young man
moving from grade to grade and job
to job, bent on achieving success but
without any idea why.
And then he's 40 years old, having
a midlife crisis and wondering why
he wasted all those years in class-
rooms and cubicles.
"There was a hoax. A dreadful
hoax," Watts says. "They made you
miss everything."
So forget your GPA, your resume,
your summer job. The snow's falling
on the Diag. Dive in.
- GABE NELSON
See this and other
YouTube videos of the week at
voutube.com/user/michigandaily

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economy and popular president of that decade.
They want the biggest national problem to be
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STUDY OF THE WEEK
People who are lonely more likely to believe in God
People who are lonely are more likely to believe in some form of the
supernaturallike God, miracles or angels, accordingto a study published
in the journal Psychological Science.
In the study, the researchers tried to elicit feelings of loneliness to
gauge its effects on people's thoughts about religious figures or pets.
In one part of the study, college students were shown clips from the
movies "Cast Away," "The Silence of the Lambs" and "Major League" in
order to arouse certain emotions within them. The were asked to empa-
thize with the main character to the best of their ability.
After watching the clip, the students were told to rate their belief
in the devil, angels, ghosts, God, miracles and curses. The researchers
found that those who watched "Cast Away," which was supposed to
induce feelings of loneliness and isolation, were the strongest believers
in the supernatural.
- BRIAN TENGEL

bar-goers whose nights didn't turn
out right. Oftentimes, Griffin said,
men angry about ending up alone
after the bar vent their frustrations
in between ordering their slices.
"All the pent-up emotions from
the bar ooze out in a trail," she said.
"All these guys are at the counter
saying, 'Fucking bitch, I fucking
bought her so many drinks."'
But for every guy who's disap-
pointed that he's still with his boys,

sage board customers could write
on, but this proved tobe a mistake.
"Every bar rush, people would
write dirty little messages and draw
penises," she said.
Between the slurred orders and
drunken mishaps also comes a dis-
position that an otherwise sober
customer probably wouldn't display.
Customers will claim they've paid
when they haven't, take a bite of a
piece and try to trade it for another