University of Michigan - Michiganensian Yearbook (Ann Arbor, MI)

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Beyond the classroom: Students tell their stories An alarm blares and a hand reaches out from underneath warm blankets, groping blindly for the auto-off switch. Padding silently down the winding staircase and into the kitchen, Pam Blumpson packs her lunch. It is 5:30 am. and for this junior nursing student, Monday morning will be spent in the obstectrics ward at Saint Joseph Hospital. On another part of campus, Shauna Ryder is still sleeping. In fact, she probably has not been dreaming long. As a resident advisor in East Quad, Shauna usually does not turn in until 3 a.m. or 4 a.m. She believes hersoewy schedule is primarily due to her open door policy. I never close the door. As a result, I usually have a rush of people in my room at 2 a.m. eating my food, drinking my coffee and talk- ing, she said. By 9 a.m., Tom Sullivan LSA senior, is sitting in his statistics class. He attends classes until 5:30 p.m when he heads for work at the Center for Transplant and Health Policy. Here, Tom researches family backgrounds and medical histories to help locate organ doners and recipients. At 5 p.m. in a brief ceremony on the front lawn of North Hall, two cadets lower the flag. One, is Christie Richards, a LSA junior and a ROTC student. As part of her ROTC duties, earlier A jolly group of students skate out from Angell (BENTLEY HISTORICAL LIBRARY) in the day, Christie donned an impeccable uniform and carried out a general inspector inspection. In the Michigan Union, in the Michigan Student Assembly offices, MSA President Aaron Williams and his staff are preparing for a meeting. The clacking of typewriter keys can be heard above the noise of people shuffling in and out shouting questions and debating campus politics. By 7:30 p.m., Aaron and his staff must be in the MSA chambers to begin the official meeting which could last from 15 minutes to six hours. And on 420 Maynard Street, on the second floor of the Student Publications Building, news editor David Schwartz is just winding up his night-side. Schwartz has been here since 4 p.m. re- writing articles and laying out the next day ' s paper. The news- room is always hectic with late- breaking stories and Schwartz said, A calm nightside is the exception. They begin early and end late. They are carried out in thousands of different ways ,and in thousands of different places. They all go far beyond classrooms and textbooks. They are the minutes and the hours of Michigan life. by Lisa Perczak

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MICHIGAN LIFE It consists of long days and sometimes endless nights. It is challenging, frustrating, exhausting and somehow the best time of a lifetime. It hap- pens in a small town in southeastern lower Michi- gan better known as Ann Arbor and the site ofMICHI- CAN LIFE. LISA PERCZAK Editor MICHIGAN LIFE 11

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Opposite left: An anxious crowd heads towardU-M stadium for the annual game with Notre Dame. On the pages in the Michigan Life section there are survey results compiled by the Michiganensian staff and filled out by seniors during senior picture ses- sions. The survey is not scientific and does not fol- low any official statistical meas- urements. It is not meant to be repre- sentative of the en- tire student body. Rather, it aims only at recording the views of these seniors and hope- fully provides a few points of interest. Results are ranked in or- der of votes re- ceived. (BILL Woon) Opposite right: A street vendor sells her wares in the Ann Arbor sunshine. (MARKZAW.SA) Top: U-M Marching Band takes a break during rehersal. (B,,L WOOD) Above: A perfect day in the sun on the Diag. (LBUEMCKB.VK) Above: Freshman LSA student Matt Chatchick unlocks his bike in front of Alice Lloyd. (TANYA MATHB m