The Statement
New rules
By: Magazine staff
rule 221: If you’re going to fall asleep in class, don’t sit in the front of the lecture hall. Your drooling might distract the professor.
rule 222: Don’t be annoyed when you explain your esoteric Halloween costume several times and people still don’t get it.
rule 223: Sexy nurses and sailors aren’t that sexy when they’re shivering. Wear a coat or a fall appropriate costume.
Junk Drawer
By: Brian Tengel
Personal Statement: The drug den next door
By: Roger Sauerhaft
The problems ensued from day one. Excruciatingly loud, violent confrontations took place on a nightly basis between residents in the other apartments in my house. Shady characters entered the house — by either invite or force — at all hours of the night and compounded the violence through what were obviously illicit drug deals.
Should you live in Kerrytown?
By: Jessica Vosgerchian
There are many student enclaves in the residential area around campus, but the most obvious divide is the Diag. Most student renters live south of South University Avenue — in the area affectionately deemed the student ghetto. But a subset chooses to split from the horde and settle in the north near Kerrytown. While the rental houses north of Huron Street are often just as run down, Kerrytown offers a different way of life. Which side should you choose?
The trap of luxury: over-priced student apartments
- File Photo/Daily
By: Trevor Calero
Ann Arbor's most expensive student apartment complexes — 4 Eleven Lofts, Zaragon Place and the Courtyards — really aren't worth the cost.
Declaration of the rights of tenants
- Jake Fromm/Daily
By: Jessica Vosgerchian and Sam Wainwright
Any student renter in Ann Arbor has heard horror stories about exploitative and negligent landlords. Students are too often at a disadvantage in lease agreements because they don’t know what rights housing laws afford them. It's time for that to change — read on for an explanation of tenants' rights and duties.
Junk Drawer
By: Brian Tengel
New rules
By: Statement staff
rule 218: Just because you have a Blackberry doesn’t mean you can expect everyone else to text 75 word responses, too.
rule 219: Even if it’s not your chore to clean the bathroom, you can’t leave your grody stuff all over it.
rule 220: Whether fighting or sexing with your boo, keep the volume low for your roommates’ sake.
Ahh! Real Ann Arbor ghost stories
By: Jessica Vosgerchian
If hauntings are your guilty pleasure, “Ann Arbor Area Ghosts” is the book for you. We’ve picked out the highlights so you won’t have to be seen reading it.
James Duderstadt: The former president who is reshaping higher education
By: Imran Syed
It will be up to others to figure out how education, democracy and intellectual humanity are shaped in the future. But as long as he is around, James Duderstadt continues to have the will, insight and influence to ensure we at least know what we’re in for.
