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Ronnie Glassberg
Editor in chief
Perhaps my most memorable experience at the Daily was receiving a call from News Editor Tim O'Connell at 9:30 a.m. (I had gone to sleep at 5 a.m.) telling me that our paper had been "cancelled today due to racism." It shocked me that anyone would express their own views by silencing others.
Brian A. Gnatt
Arts editor
My Daily memories are not the countless hours I spend at 420 Maynard St. when I should be doing my school work. My memories are more about the people. The time I had B-Real from Cypress Hill pass me the bowl on the band's tour bus - that was a memory. But it is more about the people I rubbed elbows with at the Daily that made my college journalism experience more memorable than drinking free beer with Tony Bennett. It's the people who spend their days and nights writing articles instead of papers; the people who read articles for tomorrow's paper instead of reading articles for tomorrow's test. We do it for you, Mr. and Ms. Reader. I hope you enjoy it, because I sure did.
Jennifer Harvey
Staff reporter
My favorite moment at the Daily was catching the Rev. Jesse Jackson's cold during my interview with him. I was sitting with him on his Rainbow Coalition bus and he was coughing and feverish. I knew he was contagious, but I didn't care - I was elated to be that close to him.
Adrienne Janney
Editorial page editor
There's no such thing as an unsigned editorial when your name is on the masthead. The first summer I was editor, Mary Lou Antieau called me at 9 a.m., woke me up, and told me exactly what she thought of my editorial in the paper that day. I was a little scared of the woman, but it felt good to know that people read us. Besides, it wasn't half as bad as the day Michigan Student Assembly President Fiona Rose tried to strangle my co-editor for what we wrote about her.
Amy Klein
Managing news editor
University president's last days
A clandestine search a bolder lawsuit and an anti-climactic selection
Wintry primaries and a November election
Unabomber undone
GEO walkout
Daily theft with a front-lawn effigy, newsprint staining the sky
from which tragedies crashed
Countless hours of daysides, nightsides, just "hanging"
out.
Some year.
Andy Knudsen
Daily sports writer
One my favorite Daily memories was a road trip to Sault Ste. Marie during its rare no-snow season. While there, I saw 13 hockey players crowd into the penalty box, and I earned more money in two hours at a casino than I ever made at the Daily in a month. But most important, I received great journalism experience despite the University's decision not to teach such classes anymore. I hope nobody interested in journalism feels their only viable option is going to Michigan State, as one University administrator suggested.
Will McCahill
Sports editor
John Steinbeck describes my experience at the Daily better than I could ever hope to: "Well, here's your box. Nearly everything I have is in it, and it is not full. Pain and excitement are in it, and feeling good or bad and evil thoughts and good thoughts - the pleasure of design and some despair and the indescribable joy of creation.
"And still the box is not full."
Tim O'Connell
News editor
I will remember most the Wednesday morning last year when I arrived at work at 9 a.m. only to find many of the papers pilfered and replaced with a message saying: "The Daily has been cancelled today due to racism." My first thought was, "What a poorly written flier." My second thought was, "Now I know how Daniel Patrick Moynihan feels."
Greg Parker
Weekend, etc. editor
While I'm no Tom Hayden, I'd say the Daily presented a second world to me - a Daily world, where everyone cares, as opposed to the daily world, where few care. I'd never trade being a part of the former world -thanks Daily.
Zachary Raimi
Editorial page editor
Before I came to the University, my mother told me it would be important to find a "niche" at this large and impersonal institution. I began my search at the Daily four years ago and never looked further.
Behind the photographs and newsprint are the most talented, intelligent and creative people I have ever met. A day never passed when I was not humbled by and in awe of my colleagues, who became my good friends. Without question, the Daily was the best experience of my undergraduate education. I will miss it deeply.
Megan Schimpf
News editor
Sitting around a table a few days before the day the country would elect a president and the University would select a president, the five news editors tackled a news puzzle unlike any that had come before and unlike any that will ever come again.
How we produced that paper is the most valuable memory I will take away from the Daily. Working together on that is worth more than our successes apart.
Through all the long hours and all the late nights during the previous year, we learned to work with each other. But beyond even that, we became close enough to think with each other.
To the four of you, best of luck in the many paths we shall take from here.
Barry Sollenberger
Sports editor
Back in mid-September on the Big Ten teleconference, I began to ask Michigan football coach Lloyd Carr about a particular play. But before I could finish, Carr interrupted me.
"That's the play you called me bonehead on!" he boomed.
He, of course, was right. I had chastised him in print just a couple of days earlier. Only on this occasion, I had no response. I was dumbstruck.
Being thundered at by a big-time college football coach in front of the nation certainly isn't my favorite memory of my four years at the Daily. But it's my most memorable one.
Michelle Lee Thompson
News editor
It's 5:30 in the morning and I'm surrounded by the other editors, photographers and reporters, drinking champagne. We had just finished the best Daily I've ever seen. We just found out that Lee Bollinger was the next president of the University, and that Bill Clinton was continuing as president of the nation. We all wrote, edited and placed the stories. We did it together, and it was beautiful.
Katie Wang
Staff reporter
Not a week passes me by, when I don't think about the angry 250 people clamored outside of the Daily accusing us of being racist. I remember feeling torn and confused, especially being one of only a handful of minorities on staff. I think that was one of the most defining moments for me as a reporter and as a person, because it was a loud reminder that the power of the press may not be as strong as the power of its readers.
Joe Westrate
Daily photographer
Cal Ripken, Barry and Willus, drink, food, miles, "I promised myself I wouldn't do this you're from Michigan," bang bang ... these are just some of things the Daily has given me. I'll never forget it.