The Statement
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.
About Campus: Weekend alternatives to walking
By: Sutha K. Kanagasingam
There are so many decisions to make before you go out at night. What will you wear? At whose apartment will you pregame? Which bar will you go to? How drunk will you get?
Personal Statement: A mysterious illness, a massive change of plans
By: Ashlyn Gurley
Whether we like it or not, our decisions in life are often made because of issues we can’t control. I had to learn this the hard way when I didn’t get to come to the University of Michigan my freshman year. It started my senior year of high school, when my health rapidly deteriorated. I went from being an active, athletic teenager to not being able to climb a flight of stairs without help.
Eating local when the fields freeze over
By: Sara Lynne Thelen
When winter comes, you might think your opportunity for eating Michigan-grown food has passed. But Ann Arbor producers have you covered all year round — if you’re willing to alter your diet.
A box full of feminist mementos
By: Ashlyn Gurley
The University's chapter of Mortar Board received a box full of memorabilia that chronicle the group's origins as a female honor society struggling for women's rights on a male-dominated campus.
New rules
By: Statement staff
rule 215: Don’t wear a football shirt with a pledge to stay all four quarters unless you’re actually going to stay.
rule 216: If you must ride your bike in the street, obey the rules of the road. Sharing goes two ways, asshole.
rule 217: Don’t say “we need to hang out soon.” If that were true, you wouldn’t have a problem finding time to hang out.
Junk Drawer
By: Brian Tengel
