Stories by Paige Pearcy
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Conversations: Advice for the University newbie
- Teresa Mathew/Daily
BY THE STATEMENT STAFF
University Provost Phil Hanlon — who has been a University faculty member since 1986 — and Manish Parikh, Business senior and current Central Student Government president, met in Daily's newsroom to look back on their time at the University. Parikh graduates this spring, and Hanlon will leave to serve as president of Dartmouth College.
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The Literary Issue
- Illustration by Alicia Kovalcheck
BY PAIGE PEARCY
In all of my previous columns regarding books — all two of them — I’ve said in some way or another that I have no authority to really judge the literary pieces I write about, and, yet, here I am, at the helm of this issue, selecting the pieces that go inside.
DP Day takes 1,400 volunteers to Detroit WITH VIDEO
- Ruby Wallau/Daily
BY PAIGE PEARCY
From 10:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., parts of Detroit looked like Ann Arbor with the amount of students wearing maize and blue.
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The Scientific Club: By invitation only
- Paul Sherman/Daily
BY PAIGE PEARCY
When I was handed the list, it had a tinge of holiness to it — University holiness, if that exists. The names ranged from past and present University presidents to various professors with named professorships or deanships or both — the top scholars on campus.
LSA program receives largest donation ever made to college
BY PAIGE PEARCY
While colleges around the country are coming to terms with lessened support from governments, the LSA Masters of Fine Arts in Creative Writing program today received the largest monetary gift in the college's existence — $50 million, the third largest donation in the University's history.
The Statement
Paige's Pages: Revisions, revisions
- Illustration by Megan Mulholland
BY PAIGE PEARCY
I chose to read Smith’s first novel for two reasons: One, because I admire the essays and literary journalism that I’ve already read by her and two, because I was told that she always revises her work, even during public readings. And considering I re-wrote this column five times and have been editing it for two weeks, that sounded all too familiar.
Regents to approve West Quad redesign
BY PAIGE PEARCY
At the University Board of Regents meeting Thursday, the board will seek approval for proposed renovations to West Quad that will amount to $114.5 million.
The Statement
Paige's Pages: The books that bind
BY PAIGE PEARCY
You don’t have to believe that just because my name is the same word as those that fill my favorite objects that I have any authority to deem a book worthy or not worthy. But, I am an English major, if that credits me at all.
The Statement
A way from addiction
- Teresa Mathew/Daily
BY PAIGE PEARCY
St. Patrick’s Day: a marathon of skipping classes, being drunk before 10 a.m. and taking long naps. But maybe it’s not. For then-LSA senior Paige, Saturday, March 17, 2012 was hard.
NHL cancels Winter Classic
- File Photo/Daily
BY PAIGE PEARCY
The Bridgestone NHL Winter Classic scheduled to take place New Years Day in the Big House has been cancelled, the National Hockey League announced Friday.
