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THE EDITOR'S NOTEBOOK with JESSICA VOSGERCHIAN
A look at the big news events this week and how important they really are. Conveniently rated from one to10.
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Editor in Chief:
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MARCIA, MARCIA, BETTY FORD
A 52-year-old Maureen McCormick, who played Marcia Brady on "The Brady Bunch,"
came out with a memoir Tuesday detailing the secret life of debauchery she led while
playing TV's quintessential girl next door. In her book, "Here's the Story: Surviving Marcia
Brady and Finding My True Voice," McCormick discusses her romance with Barry "Greg
Brady" Williams, parties at the Playboy Mansion and the times she traded sexfor drugs
tilling in the blanks for the adolescent fantasies of 50-year-old men everywhere. if your
father uncharacteristically attends a book signing this month, do yourself a favor and
don't ask who the author is.
OBAMA RUMORMONGER
The man who is credited with starting the rumor that Barack Obama is secretly a Muslim
has reached mainstream TV from the murkiest depths of the blogosphere. Andy Martin, the
creator of an anti-Obama website, appeared on the Fox News Channel last week where he
claimed that Obama had trained to overthrow the government. Aftergraduating law school,
Martin was blocked from admission to the Illinois bar because ofta pyschiatric diagnosis
of "moderately severe character defect manifested by well-documented ideation with a
paranoid flavor and agrandiose character." A grandiose personality and a flair for vindictive
rumors? Someone's positioned to be the Karl Rove of a McCain cabinet.
So Michigan Football lost to a Mid-American Conference team and
might not even make a bowl game. But not all Wolverines are losers.
Try basing your self-esteem on the victories of these teams instead.
Mike Dolsen I Daily Staff Writer
THE FOLEY CURSE
After a segment by ABC News reported Rep. Tim Mahoney (D- Fla.) paid a former
staffer $121,000 to avoid a sexual harassment law suit, the accused congressman
called on the House ethics committee to investigate his own behavior. Of course,
5 Mahoney would want to differentiate himself as much as possible from his congressio-
nal seat predecessor, former Rep. Mark Foley, who resigned in 2006 after his own sex
scandal involving inappropriate interaction with male House pages. Said one Demo-
cratic operative: "The irony is not lost on any of us." But as the Florida Department of
Law Enforcement just let Foley off without charges, lets see if the Dems are ready for
the irony of Mahoney's self-induced investigation getting him jail time.
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The University Ballroom Dancing Team placed first in 31 out of 38
categories in a competition last year.
BALLROOM DANCING
The University Ballroom Dance Team is a prime exam-
ple of a team that is striving to continue the University's
legacy as an athletic powerhouse. In the nine years since
it was founded, the team has won three national champi-
onships.
The team competes as pairs in four dance categories
- American Smooth, International Standard, American
Rhythm and International Latin - against teams from Big
Ten schools. Last year, at the Eighth Annual University of
Michigan Ballroom Dance Competition, the University's
team placed first in 31 of the 38 categories.
Purdue beat out Michigan in the other seven categories.
Team Captain Eric Yu said that Purdue has always been
the team's biggest rival, particularly because their team
has a lot of Latin American dancers who dominate the
International Latin category.
Yu, an LSA senior who began dancing competitively
after beingtold that he was a "pretty good dancer" during
free salsa lessons, said his team's rivalry with the Purdue
team is intense.
During a 2005 competition, the team was significantly
lagging behind the then-superior Purdue team the Ohio
Star Ball. Yu said former captain Kostas Varsos gath-
ered the team together and pumped up the dancers, a la
Remember the Titans.
"He told us that we really need to step it up and focus,"
Yu said. "After the next two events, we didn't only beat
them but by far beat them. That was the last year that we
were a small organization."
ULTIMATE FRISBEE
Frisbee might seem like an activity just for frequent patrons of head shop Forty-Two Degrees, but the University's
MagnUM Ultimate Frisbee Team is made up of former high school sports stars and renowned frisbee phenoms.
Nearly half of MagnUM's 25-man squad was recruited from top Ultimate Frisbee programs across the country, Mag-
nUM Assistant Coach Ryan Purchell said.
In 2008, MagnUM placedfirst out of eight teams in the Michigan Indoor, first out of 30 at the Mudbowl, first out ofl16
at the Great Lakes Regionals and tenth out of 16 atthe Ultimate Players Association College Championships.
The men of MagnUM are exemplary of the athlete ideal, on and off the field. Last season, while traveling to Texas for
a tournament, 16 members of the team were left stranded in Detroit due to a severe winter storm. Instead of calling it
quits, these guys drove down to Cincinnati to catch alternate flights.
"We ended up on Saturday upsettingcthe previously unbeaten national champion," Purcell said. "The team that hadn't
lost in 16 months, and we gave them their first loss of the season."
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