V V V V a 0 W.. 0 w w w - "0" Magazine Editor: Jessica Vosgerchian EditorinChie. Gary Graca Managing Editor; Courtney Ratkowiak Photo Editor: Sam Wolson The Junk Drawer: Brian Tengel Center spread design: Maureen Stych Cover photo: Anna Bakeman new rules rule 203: If your roommates left a bunch of stuff for you to move out in August, you have the right to keep it all. rule 204: Demand rubbing alcohol for your beer pong water as long as the Swine Flu is afoot. . rule 205: Don't plant a garden if you're not going to care for it. If everything dies, it ceases to be environmental. IS YOUR BREW THE BEST? Are you currently storing a beer fermentation tub in your bathroom? Are you collecting bottles to fill with your recipe? If so, The Michigan Daily wants to sample your concoction as part of a competition for the University's best home brew. Please e-mail vosgerchian@michigandaily.com with your name, the name of your brew and the nearest date you can have a batch ready. The Statement is The Michigan Daily's news magazine, distributed every Wednesday during the - E-mail rule submissionsto academic year. TheStatement@umich.edu Like what you see? Want to be a part of it? Come to 420 Maynard St. tonight at 8 p.m. for The Michigan Daily mass meeting. Mustachioed Michigan men Football fans sport lip covers for the season opener A strange correlation of sports fandom is that the more diehard the fan, the more dignity to sacrificed to support his or her team of choice. Grown men paint their entire bod- ies primary colors, dress as animals and chant rhymes like their lives depend on it. But one group of Michigan foot- ball fans has taken the reverential humiliation one step farther. You might have seen some of its mem- bers at Saturday's game - they were the guys who looked like they just stepped off the set of a'70s porno. Mustaches for Michigan is a movement started by a group of University alums who think the best way for diehard Michigan fans to support their team at the first game is to bear their alle- giance on their upper lip. "This is kind of our response to being all in for Michigan," said Keith Patterson, who helped found the movement with three alumni who are also living in Los Angeles. "It's just kind af samething that started among us four that's like, 'Let's grow a mustache for that opener,' and it kind of grew from there." Along with Patterson, musta- chioed Michigan men Jeff McKib- ben, Will Bransdorfer and Joel Morgan spread the word to other fans through a blog they have diligently tended since July. The message: grow a beard throughout August and shave it into a luxuri- ous 'stache for game day. The posts on Mustachesfor- Michigan.com are a combination of anticipatory enthusiasm for the start of the season and advice on mustache care. "Have you thought about what style ofmustacheyouwillbesport- ing on Sept. 5?" reads a post on Sept. 1that linked to an illustrated styling guide. "Hopefully, you've taken into consideration shaving and grooming into account as you fantasized about this coming Sat- urday. So allow us to be the first to tell you, if you don't already know - there are bunches of ways to ABOUT CAMPUS ILLUSTRATIONSBYJOHN OQIT ILLUSTRATION BY LAURA GARAVOGLIA style the 'stache! Will it be the clas- just chose to trim his usual facial sic (and white trashish) chevron? A hair to meet the movement's call. handle-bar? The pencil mustache? His eight-person football group Decisions,decisions." all followed suit, with all the Paul Cummings, a graduate stu- men growing mustaches and one dent in the College of Engineering, woman sporting a fake one. But mustaches made appear- ances elsewhere besides Ann Arbor. At a Michigan alumni gathering in Washington D.C., 2007 LSA gradu- ate Dan Taylor said he ran into other bewhiskered fans. "We went downto the alumnibar down in D.C. yesterday, and every 10 or 11 people you'd see with a mus- tache and you'd give them a high five or a handshake," Taylor said. Sadly, Taylor's whiskers were short-lived, since his wife was not a fan and Taylor suspected that his consulting clients wouldn't be either. But Taylor plans to continue the tradition and sport a nice, thick handlebar for next year's season opener. To the Mustaches for Michigan founders, the lip cover is the appro- priate symbol of support for Michi- gan football - and the ultimate expression of strength and style. "It almost harkens back to the tale of Samson and Delilah in that one's power grows as one's mus- tache increases," Morgan said. I Find the Lowest Textbook Prices with . dick! "Delilah shaved Samson's head, he lost all his power. I'd like to think that if my mustache were shaved off of me in the middle of the night then I'd feel like less of a man in the morning." It's hard to predict the future of fashion - the handlebar mustache may very well never grace the pages of Vogue as one of the season's high fashions. But if it does, the Mus- taches for Michigan founders have one unanimous sentiment: "God help us." Regardless of what fashion dic- tates, we probably haven't seen the last of the Michigan mustache. In a postgame e-mail, Patterson wrote howhe thoughtSaturday was a success - for both Michigan foot- ball and the supporting'staches. "We had a solid mustached show- ing," he wrote. "Our team won, and definitively so. Does one have any- thingto do with the other? Only our mustaches know the answer to that question." -DANIEL STRAUSS - I :.. . 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