The Statement
The Junk Drawer
Students of the Year
New rules
rule 197: Don’t bully your friends into getting season football tickets. You’ll feel like a jerk when they cop out of most of the games next fall.
rule 198: Only ask your housemate to turn down music if he went to bed alone. In the other case, wait 15 minutes until the sex is over.
rule 199: Vegans don’t have the right to bitch about the soap you have in your bathroom.
Students of the year: Ashwin Lalendran
- Chris Dzombak/Daily
By: Daniel Strauss
For an organization that collaborates with the University, part of MPowered’s mission statement seems counter-intuitive: “…engineers aren't spinning their class projects into businesses and art students aren't dropping out of school to run their own clothing line. And that's the problem.”
Students of the year: Moustafa Moustafa
- KRISTA BOYD/Daily
By: Kelly Fraser
The weekend before finals last December, LSA junior Moustafa Moustafa wasn’t studying for his anatomy exam that Monday. He was driving a rental truck to Chicago through a snowstorm.
The truck contained medical supplies that the interfaith campus group Children of Abraham had collected and Moustafa was rushing to get the supplies on a container bound for Iraq.
Students of the year: Julia Samorezov
- Clif Reeder/Daily
By: Stephen Ostrowski
Engineering senior Julia Samorezov likes to spread herself thin. Involved in the engineering honor society Tau Beta Pi, the Engineering Ambassadors and a service sorority, Samorezov has the immediate collegiate community covered. Now, she’s looking beyond Ann Arbor.
Students of the year: Jose Nunez
- Jed Moch/Daily
By: Roger Sauerhaft
After pledging the fraternity Chi Psi as a freshman, LSA senior Jose Nunez learned of the tragic story of Lynn “Gordie” Bailey.
Bailey, a Chi Psi pledge in 2004, died after a night of binge drinking with fellow pledges in what was recently judged an act of hazing after a four-year lawsuit.
Students of the year: Laura Misumi
- Ben Simon/Daily
By: Jessica Vosgerchian
The life of a campus activist can be a lonely one. There is power in numbers — but without that, there is only frustration. And when just a handful of people show up to your social justice rally, it can be hard not to throw in the towel.
Students of the year: C.J. Lee
- Max Collins/Daily
By: Jason Kohler
Before Michigan’s first-round game in the NCAA Tournament, fifth-year senior guard C.J. Lee sat alone — waiting.
He had been waiting a long time.
All of his hard work led him to this moment. He was a starting captain on an NCAA Tournament team. As his teammates waited for Lee's name to be called as Michigan's last starter, all eyes were fixed on their leader.
