…e ifri$Wc46F 1 oaIi4 at1m Ann Arbor, Michigan Thursday, November 19, 2009 michigandaily.com FROMICE BLOCK TO BLOCK 'M' FINANCING YOUR EDUCATION Debate over Promise still simmering SAM AN T HA TR AU BEN/Daily LSA junior David Shlecter, a member of the Michigan Ice Carving Team, carves an ice sculpture in the Diag yesterday. The sculptures were being carved for the Michigan football game against Ohio State during the Student Group Performa...…
…2A - Thursday, November 19, 2009 MONDAY: TUESDAY: In Oether Ivory Towers Off the Beaten Path WEDNESDAY: Campus Clubs SCHOLARSHIP MESSAGES When students spot A loss to Ohio State this Saturday would keep Michigan one win short of receiving bowl eligibility, but it would not be the first time the Buckeyes have kept the Wolverines out of the post- In 1973, wheo the two teams met, Michigan - ranked number four at the time - had held the oumbe...…
…The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.c0m Thursday, November 19, 2009 - 3A The Michigan Daily - michigandailycom Thursday, Nsvemher 19, 2009 - 3A NEWS BRIEFS NEW ORLEANS, La. Court rules Army at fault for Katrina flooding A federal judge has ruled thatthe Army Corps of Engineers' failure to properly maintain a navigation channel led to massive flooding in Hurricane Katrina. U.S. District Judge Stanwood Duval late Wednesday ruled in fa- vor of ...…
…4A - Thursday, November 19, 2009 The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.com 74L e firIC4topan + Edited and managed by students at the University of Michigan since 1890. 4 420 Maynard St. Ann Arbor, MI 48109 tothedaily@umich.edu GARY GRACA ROBERT SOAVE COURTNEY RATKOWIAK EDITOR IN CHIEF EDITORIAL PAGE EDITOR MANAGING EDITOR Unsigned editorials reflect the official position of the Daily's editorial board. All other signed articles and illustrati...…
…The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.com Thursday, November 19, 2009 -5A The Greatest Rivalry in Sport The Victors! From the Editor: We hope you're enjoying our look back at the Dai- ly's game coverage from famous Michigan-Ohio State games. The Wolverines topped OSU in 1997 en route to a National Championship. By ALAN GOLDENBACH Former Daily Sports Editor Charles Woodson's grin stretched longer than usual, even for the confident All-American....…
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…8A - Thursday, November 19, 2009 The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.com Paz's 19 kills help. 'M' in five-set win AARON AWGSBURGER/Daly Junior Veronica Hicks will be key if the Wolverines hope to hold off the Lady Eagles. Blue hopes t build on fast start tonight By MARK BURNS Daily Sports Writer Mark Rosen had never recruit- ed a junior college volleyball player before - until Juliana Paz. Last year, Terry Gamble, then- coach of Iowa Wester...…
…i '' -_ i .s fur ,, ; ; ; , c; i . :I : t 1 0 The Michigan Daily ( michigandaily.com ( Thursday, November 19, 2009 weekend essentials Nov. 19 to Nov. 22 CONCERT Bust out that banjo and chomp down on some tumbleweed - Old Crow Medicine Show is comin' on down to the Michigan Theater Friday night, and it should be quite the hootenanny. Com- plete with the only professional guit-jo (a banjo-like instrument) player in the United States, it's ...…
…2B - Thursday, November 19, 2009 iPHONE APP .17 SURVIVING HIGH SCHOOL Remember the timeless fear of walk- ingdownthehallinhighschool?Would the punks beat you up? Would your dream crush find that out you secretly pine to get into their pants? Well, you might not fuck the prom queen at the end, but if you play your cards right in this adventure, you can be the high school rock star you never were. The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.com INTERWE...…
…The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.com Thursday, November 19, 2009 - 3B Giving thanks for celebs Found Footage Festival founders Nick Prueher and Joe Picket have been collecting tapes since high school. Pric ess ootage The Found Footage festival unearths decades worth of hilarious VHS clips By KAVI SHEKHAR PANDEY Daily Arts Writer The age of the VHS tape is long gone. Hell, even DVDs are being phased out by Blu-ray Found discs and direct F...…
…*I 4R - Thursdav November 19. 2009 The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.com HAIR From Page 1B in Iraq - and how these themes are tied into the material. "It's funny - when I first found out I was going to be directing 'HAIR,' I got a lot of questions or suggestions about where I should set it," Wigfield explains. "(People said) 'You should set it in 2009 in Iraq and make the hip- pies hipsters!' And I was like,'Well, that'd be quite redundan...…
…We Midigan BaiI& NEHUN E)-NINEI) "TEEN YEARS OF EDITORIAL FREEDOM Ann Arbor, Michigan Thursday, March 19, 2009 michigandaily.com Canton residents Dan Gottschalk, Colleen Carefell and Joshua Carefell explore a showcase in the Exhibit Museum of Natural History last week. Exhibiting financial restraint As budgets tighten, local families head in droves to campus museums By MALLORY JONES DailyStaffReporter Looking for an inexpensive alternativ...…
…N ews 4 2A - Thursday, March 19, 2009 The Michigan Daily - michigandailycom w .. .. 3 .. , ,~yF. . F _ .: , Humble beginnings It's hard to imagine foot- hall Saturdays without the presence of the Michigan Marching Band, hut the hand wasn't always part of the football experience. The hand hegan as a stu- dent-run organization with no outside support, accord- ing to the Michigan March- ing Band's wehsite. Harry dePont, the march- inghand'...…
…The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.com Thursday, March 19, 2009 - 3A The Michigan Daily - michigandailycom Thursday, March 19, 2009 - 3A NEWS BRIEFS LANSING Stimulus to give boost to food stamp aid in Mich. The federal stimulus package will boost food stamp benefits and nutrition services in Michigan. Michigan families eligible for the federal food assistance pro- gram will get a 13.6 percent boost in their monthly benefits starting in Apri...…
…. . w '" . . 4 4A - Thursday, March 19, 2009 The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.com Edited and managed by students at the University of Michigan since 1890. 420 Maynard St. "x Ann Arbor, MI 48109 tathedaily@umich.edu GARY GRACA ROBERT SOAVE COURTNEY RATKOWIAK EDITOR IN CHIEF EDITORIAL PAGE EDITOR MANAGING EDITOR Unsigned editorials reflect the official position oftthe Daily's editorial board. All other signed articles and illustrations rep...…
…T h i e D hT The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.com Thursday, March 19, 2009 - 5A Blue ready to start dancing in Kansas City By JASON KOHLER Daily Sports Writer He's never been there before, but he's notnervous. DeShawn Sims doesn't get ner- vous. Well, at least not before and during games. And when the Michigan men's basketball team, the No. 10 seed in the South region, faces No. 7 seed Clemson in the first round of the NCAA Tournament to...…
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…The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.com Thursday, March 19, 2009 - 7A The Michigan Daily - michigandailycom Thursday, March 19, 2009 - 7A ing cuts - Princeton University ENDOWMENT recently announced it could trim From Page 1A as much as $82 million from the next fiscal year's budget - the The University of Michigan has University of Michigan has large- experienced similar difficulties. ly shielded itself from the imme- Here, the school's end...…
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…The Michigan Daily michigandaily.com I Thursday, March 19,2009 woo vI r101W ,., 1;weekend essentials Mar.19 to Mar. 22 TELEVISION Craig Ferguson, the exaggeratedly Scottish host of "Late Late Night with Craig Ferguson," * has a new stand-up special called "Craig Ferguson: A Wee Bit 0' Revolution" airing Sunday on Comedy Central at 10 p.m. The " t humor should be a wee bit of Scottish national pride and a whole lot of vulgarity as the late-nigh...…
…4 2B - Thursday, March 19, 2009 The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.com Today 3.19.09 Distinguished Visitors Series, Marina Abramovic At the Michigan Theater Free David Mason Poetry Reading 5 p.m. At East Quad Auditorium Free Ari Heat 8 p.m. At the Ark $5 500 Years of American Grapes arj Wines: A Remarkable Journey 1 p.m. At the William Clements Library Free Tomorrow 3.20.09 Albert Herring, University Open Theater 8 pm. At the Mendelssohn T...…
…The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.com Thursday, March 19, 2009 - 3B The Michigan Daily - michigandailycom Thursday, March19, 2009 - 3B Finding a sense of place in literature Bear with me: A lot of undergrad- uate students end up writing theses to conclude the best four years of our lives (college, supposedly). But I completed (and finally printed, . bound and turned in) my English the- sis earlier this week, and am only now emerging from ...…
…0 4B - Thursday, March 19, 2009 The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.com THE VAULT I THE REPLACEMENTS 'TIM' (1985) An irreplaceable hit 4 The Michigan Theater is the venue for almost every Fi FILM FESTIVAL From Page 1B film, but in terms of the last 50, 60 years of art." Even though the majority of Conner's work was produced between the 1960s and '70s, Harrison assured viewers that "his retrospec- tive is going to be ... as cutting-edge to...…
…c jRltc4ian 4 atF,7 SAnn Arbor, Michigan Thursday, February 19, 2009 ROCKIN' THE CAMPUS michigandaily.com STEM CELL RESEARCH Post-Prop. 2, researchers confident about future For a sldeshow of last night's Ben Folds ZACHARY MEISNER/Daly A packed crowd awaits the start of a Ben Folds concert in the Michigan Theatre last night. During the concert, Folds concert, go to michigandaily.com. played a combination of his classic fan favorites and a...…
…2A - Thursday, February 19, 2009 The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.com 4 Ml In Other IN THE SPIRIT OF MLK Revenge on the Daily In October 1979, in the midst of his legendary career as head coach of the Michi- gan football team, Bo Schem- bechler brought his game plan for a strong defense off the field and aimed it at a Michi- gan Daily reporter. Dan Perrin, a senior sports editor covering football for the Daily at the time, was pri- vate...…
…The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.com Thursday, February 19, 2009 - 3A NEWS BRIEFS LANSING, Mich. Michigan's 'wish list' for stimulus Obama pitches $75B lifeline for Cole discusses militant uprising in Iraq conflict funds goes online homeowners Gov. Jennifer Granholm's administration created a Web site yesterday that broadly outlines her priorities for spending Michi- gan's share of the federal stimulus money. The site includes a 1,200-...…
…4A - Thursday, February 19, 2009 The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.com L7i1L 1Mvld~l*jan4 3al~j Edited and managed by students at the University of Michigan since 1890. 420 Maynard St. Ann Arbor, MI 48109 tothedaily@umich.edu GARY GRACA ROBERT SOAVE COURTNEY RATKOWIAK EDITOR IN CHIEF EDITORIAL PAGE EDITOR MANAGING EDITOR Unsigned editorials reflect the official position of the Daily's editorial board. All other signed articles and illustra...…
…The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.com Thursday, February 19, 2009 - 5A TWELVE BOLD PREDICTIONS THE DAILY HOCKEY WRITERS WEIGH IN ON HOW MICHIGAN WILL FARE DOWN THE STRETCH MICHAEL EISENSTEIN Sophomore forward Matt Rust and senior forward Travis Turnbull will both score at least 10 goals in the regular season. They have seven and eight right now, respectively. Michigan will not let up another power-play goal the rest of the regular season. ...…
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…The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.com Student service group attends Clinton summit Will Work For Food Moneyfr organizat leaders spoke with Steven of Will v former president group's by Clinto By VERONICA MENALDI sity's 20 Daily StaffReporter In the sp the role Most campus groups spend tion can p their time promoting their causes unstable handing out fliers on the Diag. But "(Cline last weekend Will Work for Food spark of got to pitch their i...…
…8A - Thursday, February 19, 2009 The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.com I FROM WALK-ONS TO CAPTAINS 4 Fifth-year seniors Lee and Merritt lead the Wolverines with hard work and heart By JASON KOHLER Daily Sports Writer Before last Tuesday's game againstthen-No. 9 Michigan State, fifth-year senior guard C.J. Lee strutted across the court during warmups, yelling to teammates, "Let's go! Let's go!" Nearby, fellow fifth-year senior David Merrit...…
…weekend essentials Feb. 19 to Feb. 22 S D - Z m r c s4 k G7 q Y {' 3 F 5'3.; '. l j F h S . scene TV This Friday an era ends on NBC at 12:35 a.m. (OK, so it's actually Sat- urday). Conan O'Brien does his last "Late Night" before his big move to L.A. to take Jay Leno's place as host of the "Tonight Show." Loved for his semi-erotic dance moves and Irish pale- ness, it's possible Conan will have to tone down his antics for an older crowd once h...…
…2B - Thursday, February 19, 2009 The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.com The Daily Arts guide to upcoming events in Anr and the surrounding are rbor Today 2.19.09 Arts and the Environment Installation Project: Earth 12 p r. At the Duderstadt Center Free 500 Years of American Grapes and Wines: A Remark- able Journey 1 e.. At the Wlliam Clements Library Free "Unveiling a Black Hole at the Center of Our Galaxy" 7:30 p.m. At 1800, ChemistryBuil...…
…The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.com Thursday, February 19, 2009 - 3B Short films, high hopes Hard days for print media By ANDREW LAPIN and EMILY BOUDREAU Daily Film Writers Every year around Oscar nomi- nation time, there are at least 10 recognized films the general pub- lic will have never heard of: the five live-action and five animated shorts nominated in the Acad- emy's "Best Short Film" catego- ries. But it doesn't have to be that ...…
…4B - Thursday, February 19, 2009 The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.com T THE JESUS AND MARY CHAIN 'HONEY'S DEAD' (1992) Irreverently essential By DAVID WATNICK ManagingArts Editor "I wanna die just like Jesus Christ." That's how The Jesus and Mary Chain jumpedinto their 1992 album, Honey'sDead.Andifoffendedlisten- ers hadn't turned the disc off by the time irreverent opener "Reverence" got around to "I wanna die just like JFK," they probab...…
…THE BLOGGERS TAKE OVER How mgoblog has changed the way we follow Michigan sports. See the Statement, inside 1:CI £d4igan Baly Ann Arbor, Michigan Wednesday, November 19, 2008 michigandaily.com LIGHTS, CAMERA, CAMPUS LECTURER ACCUSED OF FRAUD Greene, assailed r inreport, drops out Citing health, lecturer stopped teaching just before TV report questioning his ethics aired By JENNA SKOLLER and ESHWAR THIRUNAVUKKARASU Daily Staff Reporters Ju...…
…2A - Wednesday, November 19, 2008 TOPPING IT OFF' Hitting the slopes? Grab a tray Some daring students still do it today, but "Traying" - the act of stealing a cafeteria tray to use as a sled - was a popular University pas- time in the winter in the 1970s. University alum Jim Weintraub said he used to steal trays from Mary Markley Residence Hall and use them to slide down hills in Nichols Arbore- tum. Around Thanksgiving in 1974, he broke h...…
…The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.com Wednesday, November 19, 2008 - 3A NEWS BRIEFS ANCHORAGE Stevens loses Alaska senate race Sen. Ted Stevens, the longest serving Republican in Senate history, narrowly lost his re- election bid yesterday, marking the downfall of a Washington political power and Alaska icon who couldn't survive a con- viction on federal corruption charges. His defeat by Anchor- age Mayor Mark Begich moves Senate Democrats ...…
…4A - Wednesday, November 19, 2008 The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.com Edited and managed by students at the University of Michigan since 1890. 420 Maynard St. Ann Arbor, MI 48109 A tothedaily@umich.edu ANDREW GROSSMAN EDITOR IN CHIEF GARY GRACA EDITORIAL PAGE EDITOR GABE NELSON MANAGING EDITOR Unsigned editorials reflect the official position of the Daily's editorial board. All other signed articles and illustrations represent solelyt...…
…The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.com Wednesday, November 19, 2008 -5A Is Bond the same man? Jt always alarmed me when female friends of mine said they'd never seen a James Bond film. That was sacrilegious in my book. It was also com- F pletely unfath- , omable, as if they were tell- ing me they'd never eaten a steak. I mean, BRANDON the Bond. CONRADIS franchise is an institution by now. How could anyone go so long without seeing at least ...…
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…The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.com Wednesday, November 19, 2008 - 7A The Michigan Daily - mithigandailycom Wednesday, November19, 2008 - 7A r ELECTIONS From Page 1A MSA to make a positive impact on campus. But it can't be achieved until we have the right people up at the plate," she said. "We need students to read the platforms, pick out which ideas they think are good, pick out which can- didates they believe can really achieve the pot...…
…8A - Wednesday, November 19, 2008 The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.com 0 Rich Rod's biggest regret Berenson lassos his first Texan "I think we took more of a busi- nesslike approach to it at the start, as opposed toa more personal approach. And that's something, in retrospect, I'd probably have done differently. "They had no idea what our coach- es were really like. They didn't know us. "Sometimes you get caught up [in the business aspe...…
…- - . .- S.. 0 0 0 Baits won aving no knowledge of the University's campus when I opened my housing packet to find Baits I on my contract, I turned to the Internet for information. "Baits is an amazing community that allows you to get involved and build lasting friendships during your first year at Michigan" reads a description on the housing website. Whoever wrote that could have drafted speeches for Donald Rums- feld during the run up t...…
…U U U U U U U V U U U U I 0 0 a 0 a 0 0 0 a 0 I 2 Te MchganD.ly - er.eday.Nvemer 9, 00 Magazine Editor: Jessica Vosgerchian Editor in Chief: Andrew Grossman Managing Editor: Gabe Nelson Photo Editor: Chanel Von Habsburg- Lothringen Junk Drawer: Brian Tengel Center spread design: Lan Truong Cover photo: Sam Wolson The Statement is The Michigan Daily's news magazine, distributed every Wednesday during the regular semester. new rules ru...…
…0 0 " i 6B The Michigan Daily - Wednesday, November 19, 2008 Wednesday, November 19, 2008 - The Michigan Daily QUOTES OF THE WEEK . M BULLSH ITTI NG I touched her hand and she smelled like cherries." - DYLAN MCAFEE, Georgetown Day School second grader, about Michelle Obama after the future first lady toured McAfee's school last week.-Obama has been touring private schools in the Washington D.C-area to decide which the first children will...…
… 0 0 S 0S0 0 0 I 4 Te icign Dil -Weneday Nve be 1, 00 I Wednesday, November 19, 2008 - The Michigan Daily I QU( ERRLOUDE THE MINUTE ANALYSIS AND BRAZEN FANDOM OF SOME MICHIGAN SPORTS BLOGS HAVE TRADITIONAL SPORTS WRITERS SWEATING UNDER THEIR COLLAR " t U nlike professional journalists, Brian Cook doesn't have to worry about the decline of print media and the buyouts and layoffs that have accom- panied it. A graduate from the Universi...…
…Illic i an, at Ann Arbor, Michigan Friday, September 19, 2008 michigandailycom PARKING ON CAMPUS Regents OK plan to add parkingnear hospital Neighbors speak out against planned $48-million structure By JAKE SMILOVITZ Daily Staff Reporter Despite strong opposition from city residents and offi- cials, the University Board of Regents unanimously approved a proposal for a free-standing parking structure, office build- ing and transit center n...…
…2 - Friday, September 19, 2008 The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.com 2 - Friday, September19, 2008 The Michigan Daity - michigandailycom The paperless project More than one million library materials on campus have been digitized through the Google Michigan Digitization Proj- ect over the past few years, but because the technology remains a closely guarded secret, the project remains a mystery to many. The goal is to have all 7.5 mil- lion...…
