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-- From my first editorial, on Marge Schott's suspension from Major League Baseball, Feb. 8, 1993. I still believe it.

Darren Everson
Sports Editor
When LSA senior Seth Baldwin described a certain Michigan student organization as a `very cohesive, self-perpetuating entity,' he was probably referring to the fencing club, of which he's a member.

It may well be, but it's got nothing on the Daily --except some really sharp swords, I guess.

James M. Nash
Editorial Page Editor
"Forget the anti-incumbent electoral climate, city voting patterns and the coattail effect of Gov. John Engler. David Stead is going to win the Ann Arbor mayoral race because he's more `cuddly' than the city's last Democratic mayor, Liz Brater."

-- From my news story, Oct. 28, 1994. Stead lost the race.

Andrew Taylor
News Editor
"Health care is the most complicated problem I have ever messed with."

-- Bill Clinton, at a town meeting I covered in Southfield on Feb. 10, 1993, during his first trip outside the beltway as president.

Jonathan Berndt
News Editor
"Shootings, lootings and serial rapists, plea bargains and furlough programs -- all have people concerned about crime."

-- From an analysis of the 1994 gubernatorial and congressional races, Nov. 7, 1994

Nate Hurley
Managing News Editor
"People sometimes need to step away from it all -- and laugh. With the depressing news of death and violence, which just becomes more and more unreal, there is often no way to rationalize it -- no emotion fits."

-- from Better Nate Than Never, Nov. 10, 1994

Antoine Pitts
Managing Sports Editor
The Michigan men's cross country team returns to action this weekend for Sunday morning Michigan Invitational. This meet represents an important moment in the season for the Wolverines.

"This is a key time for us because I have to start making decisions on who's going to run in the Big Ten meet," Michigan coach Ron Warhurst said.

-- From my first story, October 16, 1992

Lisa Dines
News Editor
"Making the wrong decision in a hurry is not better than the right one slowly."

-- Chemistry Prof. Tom Dunn on the administration's decision-making policies, March 1, 1993

This is from coverage on my first beat -- faculty.

Brent McIntosh
Sports Editor
In On the Road, Jack Kerouac wrote:

"I realized these were all the snapshots which our children would look at someday with wonder, thinking their parents had lived smooth, well-ordered, stabilized-within-the-photo lives ... never dreaming the raggedy madness and riot of our actual lives."

The Daily is my snapshot.

Michael Rosenberg
Editor in Chief
"... Egos are also a big problem at the Daily. Let's start with Mr. Rosenberg's ego. ... Mr. Rosenberg thinks he's a sportswriter and a comedian? Now that's truly funny."
-- Nelson Peralta, then second-year Law student, in response to my first-ever article for the Daily.

Scot Woods
News Editor
I have had no better lessons or teachers than those at the Daily. I enter a world of possibility which I owe to my days at this paper.

So here is my quote (I forget the author):

"A critic is like a eunuch in a harem. He know's how it's done; He's seen it done a thousand times. But he can't do it himself."

I hope I have always been an able defender of the Daily, for this is a wonderful college paper and she has been good to me.