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The Michigan Daily | michigandaily.com | Thursday, February 12, 2015
the b-side
University improv group
refuses to write scripts
Washed-up novelist
tries to recapture old
glory
Rome barely good
enough for Daily Food
Snob
see pg 3B
see pg 3B
see pg 4B
Unable to reach wider
audience, Every Three
Weekly featured in The
Michigan Daily
As students walk through the Diag in the
middle of the day, they may come across a familiar
scene of two or three figures holding newspapers.
The figures are saying something, and as you get
closer, you begin to make out their voices, shouting
“Every Three Weekly!”
Some students ignore them and walk right
by. Others approach them and take a copy — they’ve
eagerly awaited the newest edition of the Univer-
sity’s student-run newspaper that specializes ex-
clusively in humor and satire. They chuckle at the
clever headlines and stuff the newspaper in their
backpacks, looking forward to reading the full ar-
ticles after class. Regardless of how the students on
the Diag respond, the Every Three Weekly staffers
never complain as they stand in the sometimes blis-
tering cold, presenting the beautiful copy they’ve
been working so hard on for three weeks.
No other University publication makes use of
such a direct method of distribution — one way the
Every Three Weekly separates itself from the pack.
“We like to have this opportunity to interact
with our readers,” said the E3W’s Editor in Chief,
LSA junior Marie Michels, when asked why they
used this method. “It’s a time when we can talk to
them face to face. We can often tell jokes as we’re
passing out the issue, which is exciting.”
This personal method of distribution is
smart, as many students may not have the time or
energy to seek out copies on their own. And, ulti-
mately, it is a testament to the Every Three Weekly
staff’s pride in their work.
“After we’ve spent three weeks putting to-
gether an issue, we’re so excited about the content
we’ve produced, and we’ve worked so hard to put it
all together,” Michels said.
The Every Three Weekly was founded in
1997 by a group of students in the College of Engi-
neering who hoped to create a medium for humor
about life at the University. Inspired by The Onion,
the newspaper format is easily digestible for read-
ers. But learning to write in that style requires a bit
of a learning curve.
By MICHAEL FLYNN
Daily Arts Writer
“Better than sex,
twice as often.”
See E3W, Page 2B