The Crier
The week of January 28, 2007
Spending Green
Eugene Morrow · The Empiricist
It’s official: Capitol Hill has been moved to a Southern climate zone. As politicians join with activists to counter global warming, spending a little extra money at home could help win a greener future.
Welcome to the Crier
Adrian Drake · Featured
The Crier has arrived, fueled by caffeine and a simple combination of ideas: technology is here; student media should use it. We are here to discuss issues that drive student life. Not necessarily those that other publications can’t or won’t talk about. Just those that they don’t.
In Limbo at Oosterbaan
Jack Bruce · Sport
Who are the most committed athletes at the University of Michigan? Is it the football team with their lobster dinners and all-expenses-paid credit cards? Is…
Student Despotism Made Easy
Eli Walker · The Consul
A homespun dictatorship is within your grasp. Make your wildest autocratic fantasies reality — and get a sweet desk in the Union while you’re at it.
La Revolucion de Café
Barb Chaterjee · The Gastronomist
Why settle for weak coffee and shoddy cappuccino? You deserve better. Connoisseurs, unite: The Revolution will be caffeinated.
The Good Fight
Forest Casey · Tech
A few weeks ago, in a showing of unbridled benevolence, my ex-boss and surrogate father drove his yellow Mini Cooper down to Ann Arbor to…
Public Secrets
Forest Casey · Ann Arbor Secrets
This is a very odd column. In no other field does the topic of a piece of writing cease to be a part of that…
Buy Your Professor’s Book. No, Seriously.
Michael Butterscotch · Cultured
So, the last piece you read by a University of Michigan writer was “Death of a Salesman” in 12th grade AP English, right after you…
Why Tally Hall Just Might Make It
Tobias Dodge · Amused
By now, most people who recognize the name “Tally Hall” have heard at least one of two songs: Good Day (winner of the John Lennon…
Golden Smoke Rings
Alex Dziadosz · The Exchange
Americans have a knack for popularizing foreign cultural traditions. Could the hookah lounge duplicate the coffeehouse’s remarkable success?
The New Guy
Katie Garlinghouse · The Pasquinade
The Fine Art of the Porter
Marlon Jackson · Hops’n’Scotch
This week we review porter, an old English style of dark ale. Porter is a common style in craft brewing; all three Ann Arbor brewers…
