The Statement
New rules
By: Magazine staff
rule 227: Incense is only relaxing for people who like the smell. Ask your roommates before you light up your putrid “lilac” sticks.
rule 228: It’s OK to ask sick people to sanitize any surface contaminated by their used tissues. Just be nice about it.
rule 229: “Getting Ricksy” has its time and place: Rick’s, Saturday night. That’s it.
Junk Drawer
By: Brian Tengel
Personal Statement: Midnight in the Arb
By: Hamdan Azhar
The Arb is a welcoming place by day, but at night it transforms into a surreal and eerie dreamscape.
About Campus: The law student "party" house behind West Quad
- Illustration by Laura Garavoglia
By: Nicole Aber
Nestled between South Quad and West Quad is a house that remains a mystery to many students. Its large, brick frame and massive white columns have the appearance of an old-time Southern estate, despite being surrounded by plain-styled dorms on two sides.
Scalping the golden ticket: OSU-Michigan football seats
- Sam Wolson/Daily
By: Roger Sauerhaft
The rivalry between Michigan and Ohio State is known as “The Game,” but in Ann Arbor every other year, it’s about much more than just athletics. With masses of people buying and selling tickets to see the adversaries face off, the phenomenon creates a self-contained, informal economy.
The best of our brewers
- Said Alsalah/Daily
By: Jessica Vosgerchian
Meet the two winners of our three categories, Ian Stines and Mike Elchinger. Stines won two categories and took Best of Show.
Bottle Royale: The Michigan Daily's first student brewer contest
- Jake Fromm/Daily
By: Jessica Vosgerchian
ABC’s Tap Room served as the setting for The Michigan Daily’s first home brewing competition, in which students submitted their own beer to be judged by a panel of local experts: Matt Greff, owner of ABC, Ron Jeffries, owner of Jolly Pumpkin, and Alex Petit, a member of the Ann Arbor Brewers Guild.
Junk Drawer
By: Brian Tengel
New rules
By: Magazine staff
rule 224: Don’t chew with your mouth open. (Not original, we know, but that smacking sound is as disgusting now as ever.
rule 225: You’re under no obligation to be Facebook friends with married people who share an account.
rule 226: It’s OK to pretend that football season’s over after basketball season starts. Or because it’s cold out and you’ve grown indifferent.
The students who shoot for the stars
- Sam Wolson/Daily
By: Lara Zade
The final frontier has lost its allure for the majority of Americans and NASA still struggles with funding woes. But at the University, more students than ever have enrolled in the Department of Aerospace Engineering where new, less expensive technology allows them to develop projects on the professional level.
