The Statement
About Campus: Life in the time of swine flu
- Laura Garavoglia/Daily
By: Lara Zade
H1N1 mania has hit the University, and there isn’t a place you can go on campus that won’t remind you of that.
Forget the Campus Inn — stay here, instead
- Sam Wolson/Daily
By: Ashlyn Gurley and Jessica Vosgerchian
Vitosha Guest Haus on Washtenaw Avenue is not the typical bed and breakfast. On the outside, it's a historical European-style mansion. On the inside, it's one eccentric Ann Arborite's personal dollhouse. All around, it's worth a visit.
How Michigan marijuana patients get their medicine
- Sam Wolson/Daily
By: Jessica Vosgerchian
As it stands right now, the Michigan Medical Marijuana Program presents a catch-22 for patients: You can smoke weed, but it’s up to you to figure out how.
Junk Drawer
By: Brian Tengel
New rules
By: Statement staff
rule 206: If you just have a cough, you definitely don’t have H1N1. But you do have an excuse to miss class.
rule 207: It’s OK to pretend not know someone you had haven’t talked to in more than a semester.
rule 208: Print double sided until your professor literally threatens to lower your grade if you do it again.
Personal Statement: My black mother's validation in a daughter at Harvard
By: Daniel Strauss
If I reduce my mother and sister’s college experiences to just a few sentences, they have similar profiles. Both were admitted into elite private universities (Harvard for my sister, Williams College for my mother), both were (or are) serious students and both are people of color. But there are a few important differences.
About Campus: Serious work on the set of "Trivial Pursuits"
- Illustration by Laura Garavoglia/Daily
By: Sara Lynne Thelen
University film students put in long hours on the Ann Arbor-based set of "Trivial Pursuits" in the hopes of getting a toe into the film making business.
Thrifty sophistication: swanky cocktails on the cheap
- Sam Wolson/Daily
By: Jessica Vosgerchian
The broke college student's ticket to feigning sophistication in Ann Arbor's martini bars: no one they have their drink specials.
Is AnnArbor.com the new face of news?
- Max Collins/Daily
By: Lara Zade
AnnArbor.com has a bold plan, one that tries to find a silver lining in the otherwise consistent doom and gloom of faltering newspapers across the country. But as a business, the road to prosperity is laden with obstacles.
New rules
By: Statement staff
rule 203: If your roommates left a bunch of stuff for you to move out in August, you have the right to keep it all.
rule 204: Demand rubbing alcohol for your beer pong water as long as the Swine Flu is afoot.
rule 205: Don’t plant a vegetable garden if you’re not going to care for it. If everything dies, it ceases to be environmental.
