The Statement
Students of the year: Abdul El-Sayed
- SAM WOLSON/Daily
By: Emily Barton
There are a few things that incite an inferiority complex in University students when comparing themselves to their Ivy League peers. One is the dismal number of Rhodes Scholars named at the University.
This year, though, Abdul El-Sayed was named the University’s first Rhodes Scholar since 2004.
Students of the year: Katie Helegda
- Chanel Von Habsburg-Lothringen/Daily
By: Kara Morris
On her first day as president of Nakamura Co-op, LSA junior Katie Helegda had to face the possibility that Nakamura might not exist for much longer.
On Sept. 28, Helegda received notice that the Inter-Cooperative Council (ICC), the governing body of Ann Arbor’s student co-ops, had put Nakamura on house priority status, a status similar to probation.
Students of the year: Eric Plourde
- ROB MIGRIN/Daily
By: Jillian Berman
At the age of 20, LSA senior Eric Plourde has already made his first political gaffe.
Before a televised debate against Ann Arbor mayor John Hieftje on Oct. 14, the Libertarian mayoral candidate compared himself to a certain infamous vice-presidential nominee — “I feel like Sarah Palin,” he said.
Students of the year: David Requiro
- Zachary Meisner/Daily
By: Ben VanWagoner
Popular culture promotes an image of the musical prodigy: the young virtuoso, standing erect and regal with his instrument, isolated from the world in equal parts by technical genius and social infancy.
The Statement Humor Issue: Make your own adventure - Post-graduation
- Illustration by Laura Garavoglia
Congratulations! It’s graduation day and all your friends and family are here to celebrate. Grandma wants to know what you’re doing now that you’re done with school. You cringe, shrug your shoulders and say, “It’s not quite what I wanted, with the economy and all, but I’ve decided to ___.”
New rules
rule 194: Your study abroad stories aren’t any more interesting than other study abroad stories. Keep them short.
rule 195: The “ironic mustache” isn’t ironic when every scenester creep has one.
rule 196: If you ask a second semester senior to do something for you, don’t be surprised when they get drunk instead.
The Statement Humor Issue: Open letter to dorm hall assholes
- Jed Moch/Daily
By: Stephen Ostrowski and Jessica Vosgerchian
The economy is in a slump. Apparently, so is humanity, because you and I were somehow shat into the same collegiate latrine called on-campus housing. I must have been a huge dick in a previous life, or else I would be enjoying a more favorable social lot, perhaps as a witch doctor or platypus or javelin thrower. Instead, Providence, undoubtedly plastered, played poker with our lodging logistics and dealt me the royal flush of douchebaggery in having to live a few doors down from you.
The Statement Humor Issue: Please don't hurt this man
- Clif Reeder/Daily
By: Andy Reid
One Daily editor sets out to punk Ann Arbor, struggles with his conscience and almost gets his ass kicked while wearing a banana suit.
