Editor's Note
As you step through the threshold of your dorm room, you may feel as though you finally have arrived. You may see coming to the University as an opportunity to set yourself free of parental encroachment, a means to find your true calling in life, or a place to find intellectual stimulation.
Act flaky - it's part of the routine
Affirmative action vital to 'U' welfare
Imagine a university where everyone looks exactly alike. No people of color - a homogenous body of students who have little to exchange about different cultures through peer contact. If anti-affirmative action advocates have their way, this is precisely what the University of Michigan could become.
Students should wait to go Greek
The University is notorious for the many divisions of which it is composed - Greek or independent, athlete or academic, LSA or Engineering, out-of-state or in-state - the list goes on and on. Perhaps due to the sheer size of the student body or perhaps because of the highly independent and self-motivated students the University attracts, it is next to impossible to cross these stereotypical boundaries.
Code skirts law, tries to replace parents
Though you probably do not know it, you may have violated a University policy already. During Orientation or the first week of classes, you may have headed out to the nearest frat house to drink out of a freshly tapped keg of cheap beer. That, according to the University Board of Regents, is not kosher with the University's "academic community.
Student regent is plausible - if modified
On the third Thursday and Friday of every month, eight men and women of various political persuasions gather in the Fleming Administration Building.
Joined by a couple dozen University administrators, students, faculty members and newspaper reporters, this group sets out to make some of the most important decisions on campus. They guide the University's policy, its academic direction and in many ways, students' lives.
AAPD programs reach out to the community
Police officers nationwide often find themselves the subject of criticism, be it from community activists, rap artists or the lawbreakers they apprehend.
While some of these complaints are justified, they often overshadow the fine service police departments perform for their communities.
Some people say there are no guarantees in life. They're wrong. Now that you're here at the University of Michigan, you should know that one thing is an undeniable certainty: In the next three, four or five years that you are here, you will make decisions and encounter situations that will reveal who you are, what you will become, and in general, change your life.
Even when everything changes, stay in control
In high school, it's all about image. Any actions you took during those four fateful years had the potential for either elevating or destroying your reputation.
Conversion to fanatic is powerful
Books and bathrobes: Living-learning programs not for all students, choose wisely
Our university is a behemoth of an institution. Even though we're not as large as our Big 11 brethren Ohio State and Michigan State, the University has in the neighborhood of 35,000 students and an army of faculty and staff. We also have enough land in the middle of Ann Arbor to parcel out into fiefs.
Engler forgets his support of term limits, wavers on too many key issues
Earlier this summer, Gov. John Engler completed a 10-day, 39-city tour entitled "Michigan First in the 21st Century Bus Tour." With this tour, Engler officially began his campaign to become Michigan's governor for a third term.
Engler's decision to seek the governor's position contradicts a promise he made eight years ago to serve only two terms. For a political figure to maintain his or her integrity, it is important that he or she follow through on campaign commitments. Engler's latest change of mind illustrates the lack of integrity that prevents him from being a commendable governor.
Violence, tragedy can be avoided
On the evening of Sept. 23, the University community lost a little bit of its innocence. Tamara Williams, an LSA senior who excelled in a pre-law curriculum, was murdered by her boyfriend Kevin Nelson in front of her North Campus apartment.
Classes large enough to require discussions tend to be filled with all different types of people. In such an environment, one has the opportunity to see fellow classmates up close and personal and become privy to their innermost intellectual thoughts and personal emotions regarding the subject matter of the class.
Anatomy of a class discussion: Nietzsche disciples, hippies and butt-smoochers
Won't you be, won't you be ... please won't you be ... my roommate.
No, I'm not Mister Rogers. I never give my shoes that little, playful toss when I take them off. My mailman would probably beat me up if I called him Mr. McFeely. I don't even have a trolley running through my living room. 
Roommates can be fun, even if they're strangers
I must admit. The day I moved into my college dorm room, I was a wreck.
I was sick. The humidity added a thick, sticky fog to the air. Earlier that morning, my boyfriend and I had said our goodbyes to each other before he left for school hundreds of miles away, and before I left for Ann Arbor.
First day is always a roller coaster of emotion
Legalized marijuana would solve issues
Ann Arbor's marijuana-possession law is under fire. Sen. Mike Rogers (R-Brighton) wants the city to repeal its lenient marijuana-possession penalty or else face state budget sanctions. Ann Arbor's marijuana-possession law is the only municipality statute in the state of Michigan that is lower than the state standard in its penalty confines.
Daily continues to report campus news
For more than a century, the victories, tragedies, surprises and most talked-about people and events have found their way into The Michigan Daily. Some of these personalities and events have commanded bold headlines and large photos, others saw only a few inches of fame.
In the interest of honesty, here's a disclaimer: I am probably not the ideal person to be giving anyone advice.
I'm speaking from the highly confused vantage point of a senior without a thesis topic, who is all too soon to be an English graduate without a job. I've begun to think, in fact, that all these advice columns really ought to be written to people like me.
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Honorable department should be Goss' legacy
The joke still lingering around campus the past several months is that Athletic Director Tom Goss should quit because things cannot get better than his first year as the A.D. While only the future will tell if Michigan can have a better season than 1997-98 - in which the football and hockey teams won national championships - Goss has so far shown that he can give the athletic department the direction needed to achieve success.
Bo raises money for cancer research through celebrity golf
For years, Bo Schembechler roamed the sidelines at Michigan Stadium, solidifying the football program's status as one of the country's best.
He left the game as Michigan's winningest coach, with a record of 194-48-5 and 10 Rose Bowl trips.
The question really is funny when you think about it. 'Why did you come to the University?' It's a question you'll be asked about a million times before you leave school, and I think I've heard every answer there is.
Ann Arbor's atmosphere makes the 'U' unique
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Minutes after arriving at Orientation, the first thought racing through your mind was probably, "Wow, this really sucks."
This information is based on good, solid research. After all, this is what happened to everyone we know.
All you wanted to know - but were afraid to ask
09-08-98
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