I I 2c The Statement Wednesday, January 6, 2010 w v w w w w I Wensa, aur 6 00//TeSatmn statement 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. i feJichiganSailu P R E S E N T S 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 . . . . . . . FEEL LIKE YOU'RE WITTY ENOUGH TO WRITE FOR THE STATEMENT? Come to one of our mass meetings. MONDAY, JANUARY 11TH AT 8 PM WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 13TH AT 8 PM SUNDAY, JANUARY 24TH AT 6 PM 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. i i SICK OF THE DORMS? CAN'T FIND A PLACE TO LIVE? Visit michigandaily.com/classifieds to see all of the great houses and apartments Ann Arbor has to offer on a convenient map! Also be sure to check out the Classified Pages for other great properties. 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. FILE PHOTO/DAILYr . . ...... .. . 2\ tkZ v" 5 a'id'.. . ."5. ,