…4B — January 6, 2016 SportsWednesday The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Five Things We Learned By ZACH SHAW Daily Sports Editor For the first time since 2011, the Michigan football team ended its season with a win. In one of their most complete efforts of the season, the 14th-ranked Wolverines (6-2 Big Ten, 10-3 overall) dominated No. 19 Florida (7-1 Southeastern Conference, 10-4 overall) through and through, putting a...…
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…2C Wednesday, January 6, 2016 // The Statement THE GUN CONTROL DEBATE ON THE RECORD “Every time I think about those kids, it gets me mad. And by the way, it happens on the streets of Chicago every day.” — PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA in a public address calling for increased background checks at gun shows and other measures to prevent gun violence *** “An armed people are a free people. If our forefathers were not armed before the Ame...…
…3C Magazine Editor: Karl Williams Deputy Editors: Nabeel Chollompat Victoria Noble Design Editor: Shane Achenbach Photo Editor: Zoey Holmstrom Creative Director: Emilie Farrugia Editor in Chief: Shoham Geva Managing Editor: Laura Schinagle Copy Editors: Emily Campbell Alexis Nowicki Jose Rosales THE statement Had this column been due a few weeks before, you would’ve gotten 500 words of scathing analysis about the state ...…
…Wednesday, January 6, 2016 // The Statement 4C Wednesday, January 6, 2016 // The Statement 5C Editor’s Note: The name of a student has been changed to protect the privacy of a source currently involved in the FlexMed admissions process, denoted with an asterisk. “Just about here, in the second paragraph, you write that when you got to college you decided to work harder for better grades.” My pointer finger was hovering over a piece of ...…
…I ’m not religious — but I like to pretend I am. Sometimes, when I’m alone, I like to watch “It’s A Wonderful Life” or “What Dreams May Come” and believe, if only for a few hours, that someday my reality will suddenly melt away and an angel will come visit me and show me all the mistakes I could make, or maybe I’ll be hit by a car and I’ll wake up in a painting and soar around the sky with Robin Williams and I’ll meet every- one I lo...…
…Wednesday, January 6, 2016 // The Statement 7C ILLUSTRATION BY EMILIE FARRUGIA Personal Statement: I know all the word’s to Eminem’s ‘Lose Yourself’ H igh school. For me, it wasn’t anything that I thought it was supposed to be. Wasn’t it supposed to be filled with rites of passage? At the very least there were supposed to be one or two moments of intense experience from which I could learn. There were supposed to be moments and expe...…
…V I S U A L S T A T E M E N T : F R O M T H E E D I T O R S Statement Photo Editor Zoey Holmstrom and Creative Director Emilie Farrugia share photos from their winter breaks in Michigan and Connecticut. I’ve always loved watching the Detroit Red Wings, so I was ecstatic to add this new ornament to our family’s Christmas tree. Members of the children’s choir draw between scenes of “A Christmas Carol” put on by the St. Joseph First Unit...…
