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MagazineEditor:
Trevor Calero
Editor in Chief
Jacob Smilovitz
Managing Editor:
Matt Aaronson
Deputy Editor:
Allie White
Designers:
Corey DeFever
Sara Boboltz
Photo Editor:
Jed Moch
Cover photo:
Max Collins
The Statement is The Michigan
Daily's news magazine, distributed
every Wednesday during the
academic year. To contact The State-
met e-mail trevorcalero@gmail.com
THEJUNKDRAWER
random student interview
It's great to be a Michigan Wolverine ... sometimes. The aughts have been some of the most tumultuous years in
Michigan football history. Under Lloyd Carr, the Wolverines went 73-27 in regular season games. Then the team lost
to Appalachian State. During the 2007 Capital One Bowl, Carr's Wolverines defeated the Florida Gators, the previous
year's national champions. And then came Rich Rodriguez, the electrifying spread offense and hopes of landing Ter-
relle Pryor, who was going to lead Michigan football to glory. But Pryor never
arrived, reality soon set in, and under Rich Rod the team went a dismal
8-16 in two seasons, arguably the worst stretch in Michi-
gan football history. Here's to twenty ten, and the
hope that Rodriguez will find his stride in the new
decade. If not, we might see some "Rich Rod
wears Uggs" T-shirts in the near future. u e',
Hi. Is this Kelsie?
Yes it is. Who is this?
Kelsie, my name's Trevor Cale-
ro. I'm the magazine editor at The
Michigan Daily and we're doing
this new thing called Random
Student Interview. You're the
first one. I was wondering if you'd
be willing to do an interview with
me? Yeah, I guess that's OK. I'm in
the car right now but I have a little
bit of time.
Are you driving? Yes I am.
I don't want you to get into a car
accident because you're talking
on the phone. Oh no, it's fine. Don't
worry about it.
OK. What were your new years
resolutions? One was to exercise
every day.
You and every other student at
the university. Yeah, I know. That's
annoying. Because the gym is always
packed the first month of the year.
Why do you think that is? Just
cause everyone falls off their resolu-
tion.
Are you going to fall off? I hope
not. What's your resolution?
Mine's just as lame as yours, to
eat healthier, which is extreme-
ly ambiguous and really means
nothing.
[Laughs.]
And also to go to the gym more,
so I'll be seeing you there.
[Call cuts out.]
[Ring, ring, ring.]
Hey sorry I think I cut out.
No, that was my fault, someone
was calling and I tried to ignore
them but I just turned the phone
off. So are you curious how I got
your number? I'm guessing it was
off of the umich directory.
No. So I was randomly Face-
booking people and trying to
find people who published their
phone numbers online, but
it's harder than I thought. But
one of my friends went on one
of those, I-lost-my-phone-so-
can-you-give-me-your-number
Facebook groups, Mandy (last
name removed), my friend knows
Mandy, and you are friends with
Mandy. Oh, wait, that's so creepy.
Mandy and I went to middle school
together.
Well, you gave Mandy your cell
phone number on Facebook. Wow,
I'm not going to lie, that's a little
creepy.
It's a little creepy. How does it
make you feel that some random
guy can look up your number on
the Internet? I think I might take
it off.
So who's this girl on your Face-
book profile pic? Oh, that's one of
my friends. This is really creepy.
Yeah. But I guess everybody
Facebook stalks.
Do you Facebook stalk? Of
course you do. Whats the worst
Facebook stalking you've ever
done? The worst?
Yeah, the thing you'd most
regret if other people knew. The
most time I Facebook stalk is when I
have a big exam and...
Oh I'm not talking about that.
I'm talking about, like, creeping
on some boy, or an ex-boyfriend...
I think that creeping on an ex-boy-
friend is understandable.
Have you ever met someone and
all you know about them is their
first name and what they look like,
andthenyou spendhours onFace-
book tryingto find their profile? I
don't think I've ever done that.
Yeah, I've done that.
[Awkward laughing.]
So if you meet a girl, and you
learn her first name and you know
who she's friends with ... so you
kind of have this trail to track
her down. But then it's, like, she
doesn't remember me, and she
obviously didn't want to remem-
ber me cause she didn't give me
her last name, so do you friend
her? I don't know. It's very tricky.
That's true.
I'll let you go now, you probably
have to be somewhere.
- Kelsie is an LSA junior. She has 809
friends on Facebook
Civil Rights Initiative. At one time, the
state of Michigan believed in diversity,
allowing its public universities to prac-
tice affirmative action. Then in Nov.
2006, voters passed the statewide Civil
Rights Initiative, or Proposal 2, forcing state
universities to do away with race-based admis-
sion practices. The University, always priding itself
on its diverse student body, suddenly saw a seven per-
cent decrease in the number of minority students admitted.
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The new kid on the block. Although the election of Barack Obama as the first black
president of the United States will undoubtedly go down as some of the biggest news
of the last decade, the University community had one of its own presidential firsts. In
August of 2002, Mary Sue Coleman became the 13th president of the University and,
more notably, its first female president. Though not quite as outspoken as some of the
former presidents, Coleman has helped redefine the role of a university presi-
dent by placing a greater emphasis on development efforts at the
University. The Coleman-led Michigan Difference campaign, which
ended in 2008, raked in $3.2 billion, making it the largest capital
campaign by any public university in the country.
PHOTO BY JED MOCH
- By Daniel
Strauss and Allie
White, Magazine
Staff Writers
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The joys of (social) networking. Remember life before Facebook? Didn't think so. Don't worry, we can't either.
Love 'em or hate 'em, social networking sites have become so ingrained in our lives that it's almost impossible
to live without them. From the now-prehistoric MySpace in 2003 to Facebook's launch in 2004, and right on
through to the 140-character-phenomenon that is Twitter. While the economy may have been crashing right out-
side our bedrooms, these Internet megaliths were booming within the confines of our Firefox windows, giving us
such well-known phrases as "unfriending," "tweets" and "STFU." Who knows where social networking will go in
the next decade, but we sure as hell want to be there.
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The bong strikes back. Oh, Michael Phelps. What a career you've had. As the Univer-
sity's one-time golden boy, Phelps was the most adorable thing to don a swim cap since,
well, ever, attended the University, trained in Ann Arbor for years and will go down as
one of the greatest athletes of all time. After winning six gold and two bronze med-
als at the 2004 Athens Olympics, Phelps continued his reign in Beijing in 2008
by bringing home eight first-place titles. And then it was over. In 2009, Phelps
got caught by a camera phone and a capitalizing party-goer. With a bong in
hand, Phelps got high. While this smear on Phelps' reputation probably won't be
remembered 10 years from now, we'd be lying if we said we won't be name drop-
ping when Phelps makes his fifth Olympic appearance in 2020.
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