It's 2:30 a.m. and you're hungry: Where can students go for late-night, hangout fun?
The scenarios are few and familiar: The party is over, or fizzling to a slow death (which means, if you happen to be on or near Hill Street, that the keg has run dry), and all that remains is the treacherous walk home, over miles of mid-Michigan perma-frost.
Wrestler Faarooq discusses career, state of the WWF
Oh yeah, baby! The World Wrestling Federation is coming back to the Motor City. Connotations abound: testosterone-rampant fans with more teeth than IQ points, well-oiled behemoths with cartoon-ish monikers shouting about upcoming destruction in the "squared circle," and, for those of us who followed the WWF in the '80s, the phenomenon known as "Hulkamania.
I scream, you scream, the 'U' screams for ice cream!
Judging by the patrons in campus ice cream shops, students seem to scream for ice cream - even in the winter. Ice cream remains one of the world's most popular treats, no matter what the weather. Fortunately for us, there is an abundance of good ice cream in our own backyard.
New TV shows to premiere while old ones enjoy hiatus
The February rating sweeps conclude Wednesday, signaling not just the end of TV's latest exercise in hype and hysteria but also the start of another kind of high-stakes chess game.
In a seemingly chaotic array of moves that could frustrate viewers, the networks will make wholesale lineup changes right after sweeps. A dozen series will premiere over the next few weeks, several more will shift to new time periods and some of prime time's most-watched shows - including "ER," "NYPD Blue" and a fading "Murphy Brown" - will take sabbaticals almost until the next audience survey period begins in late April.
Thank 'U' for nothing
In two months and a week, I am going to drive out of Ann Arbor with my $80,000 diploma buried in a cardboard box in the back of the car. But the question still floating around in my mind after 7 1/2 semesters at the University is whether my Michigan education was worth its hefty price of $80,000.
Spring break with campus leaders
It's been a rough few weeks for some campus leaders.
First of all, MSA members urge an investigation into the allegations that Vice President Probir Mehta illegally slipped $500 dollars to a student group. Then, word comes that MSA President Fiona Rose spent a chunk of dough - more than 100 bucks - on a Franklin Planner.
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