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Changing how fans follow Michigan football

By Andy Reid
Daily Sports Editor

In just a few years, Brian Cook’s website mgoblog.com has overthrown the ranks of professional journalists who cover the team, representing the drastic change in the culture of news coverage — in this case, the coverage of Michigan football, a change to which most major newspapers have yet to adapt.

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Personal Statement: Baits won

By William Petrich

“Baits is an amazing community that allows you to get involved and build lasting friendships during your first year at Michigan” reads a description on the housing website. Whoever wrote that could have drafted speeches for Donald Rumsfeld during the run up to the Iraq War. I don’t know who Vera Baits was or what atrocity she committed, but it must have been terrible for the University to punish her as they have, naming their most disgraceful installation in her memory.

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Visual Statement: WWOOFing in Italy

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Glimpses of alumni past

By Mike Dolsen
Daily Staff Writer

The University has had a slew of famous alumni — the man who voiced Darth Vader and Mufasa from “The Lion King,” a modern-day Charlie’s Angel, a president, a famed playwright, several notorious murders. Traces of these four illustrious alumni still survive on campus today, but rather than namesake libraries or theatres, it’s the smaller artifacts that reveal what these alumni were like in their formative days at the University.

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The last puff: how close is Michigan to banning indoor smoking?

By Trevor Calero
Daily Staff Writer

When Henry Cohen opened the Black Pearl on Main Street in September, he had to make a decision about the identity of his martini bar.

As an ex-smoker who takes the damaging effects of second-hand smoke seriously, Cohen wanted to make his bar a non-smoking establishment.
“I think (smoking) makes it unpleasant for people who are nonsmokers,” he said. “In fact I know.”

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Abandoned battleground: Why Michigan's no longer in the limelight

By Julie Rowe
Daily Staff Writer

At a rally in Detroit in March, Hillary Clinton declared that the road to the White House goes through Michigan in 2008. Six months later, both the Republican and Democrat nominees stopped campaigning in the state as they make their final cases elsewhere. How did this happen?

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Personal Statement: Me for mayor

By Eric Plourde

"You’re running for what? Mayor? Why? He’s kidding right? Oh, you’re serious? Can you do that? Tell me about it!”

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Visual Statement: The Imagery of the Elections

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About Campus: Taking abuse at Telefund

By Sara Lynne Thelen

In about 2.6 million calls to members of the Alumni Association, more than a hundred student workers at Michigan Telefund, the University's telemarketing-style fundraising program, help to collect about $3 million in donations every year. Behind the impressive fundraising, though, is the reality of telemarketing — assertively asking for money coupled with frequent rejection.

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The art of bullshitting

Bullshitting is an art form. Do it right and you’ll score an A and a place in your professors’ good graces. Do it wrong and everyone will know that you’re an asshole — or you’ll cross the line into cheating. Here’s how to do it right.

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Pot watch: Michigan's medical marijuana

By Jessica Vosgerchian
Magazine Editor

A resounding 63 percent of Michigan voters passed an initiative that made Michigan the 15th state to allow for the use of medical marijuana.

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Personal Statement: A history of apathy

By Matt Emery

Last week, a sea of students flooded the Diag chanting “O-bam-a! O-bam-a!” and singing “The Star-Spangled Banner,” as we wrote our own chapter in Diag history.

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Snack food snobbery

These student have strong opinions about campus's best burrito, cheap beer and convenience store pizza. But can they tell their favorites in a blind taste test?

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About Campus: Halloween as news commentary

By Jessica Vosgerchian

On the surface, Halloween is an excuse for students to wear something outrageous — or even just something outrageously skimpy — and drink more than they would dressed in their usual weekend attire.

But take a moment to look past the fake blood and bare knees, and the holiday can be a window into campus’s collective consciousness.

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