And so Irving Berlin sang. And so how I felt after I stumbled upon an old photograph in a computer at home.
I am feeling a little bit melancholy at the moment. I miss Michigan badly. Sigh…
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[1126] Of Star Wars versus Star Trek!
The Michigan Marching Band played the Star Trek theme while being led by Patrick Stewart.
No wonder we lost to Ohio State last year. It is even worse when Ohio State played this:
But hey, at least we have Sith on campus!
Heh!
It is disheartening to see the Sunni-Shiite divide is occurring at a place where diversity is so highly cherished:
Last year, a Sunni student at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor sent a screed against Ashura to the Muslim Student Association’s e-mail message list. The document had been taken off SunniPath.com, one of many Web sites of Islamic teachings that Shiite students said regularly spread hate disguised as religious scholarship.
Azmat Khan, a 21-year-old senior and political science major, said that she, like other Shiites on campus, was sometimes asked whether she was a real Muslim.
“To some extent, the minute you identify yourself as a Shiite, it outs you,” Ms. Khan said. “You feel marginalized.”
I was never active in the association while I was an undergraduate at Michigan. I have always been disinterested in religious activities since I was a teenager and so, the active inactivity is easily comprehensible. In fact, I think I became a member through sheer accident.
The only time when I could be seen at the Muslim Students’ Association-organized event was during Ramadan, when the association organized fast-breaking event at the Wedge Room of West Quad. And from time to time, when classes or World of Warcraft started to demand the usual time slot for Friday prayer up north, or the cold and the wind was simply absolutely intolerable, I chose to do my Friday prayer together with MSA-organized congregation at Kuenzel Room, Michigan Union.
Through my limited experience with the MSA, I do not remember hearing the divide as pronounced as reported by the NYT.
If it had not been for the earthquake, I had wanted to listen to the Rose Bowl online. Alas, the earthquake severed the the internet in this part of the world and thus, prevented me from listening to the game.
Perhaps, it was a blessing because Michigan lost to USC 32 – 18 in the Granddaddy of Them All:
PASADENA, Calif. (AP) — There were no Heismans or national titles up for grabs in this one for Southern California. It was hard to tell, though, given the way Dwayne Jarrett, John David Booty and that suffocating USC defense played.
Jarrett, the sensational USC receiver, caught 11 passes for 205 yards and two touchdowns to help the eighth-ranked Trojans finish their season with a statement Monday in a 32-18 Rose Bowl romp over Michigan.
When was the last time Michigan won a bowl game?
I cannot remember.
The NYT describes the Rose Bowl record of the Wolverines and the Trojans:
PASADENA, Jan. 1 — No game in college football’s postseason has more historical resonance than the Rose Bowl. Southern California’s 32-18 victory against Michigan on Monday maintained two long-standing hallmarks of this prestigious event.
No team has won this game more than the Trojans, who raised their Rose Bowl record to 22-9 since their first appearance in 1930. And no team has lost this game more than the Wolverines, who fell to 8-12 since their first trip here in 1902, the first time the game was played.
Bah! I just hope the Buckeyes would screw Florida through and through in the national championship.
Rest in peace, fellow Wolverine.