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His family back home safe, local Haitian calls earthquake, ‘God’s grace’

Matt Thompson

Staff Writer

Haitian Lee Gilles went one… two… three… four brutally long days without speaking to his family in Haiti. He listened to the radio, read every newspaper and was glued to CNN. He didn’t know if his brother, sister and her husband and their child survived an earthquake that killed tens of thousands. He didn’t know if they were crushed beneath the rubble or needed treatment.

He didn’t know.

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WCC looking to expand – but not on campus

Elizabeth Ross

Editor

Washtenaw Community College administrators want to expand classes in Ann Arbor beyond Huron River Drive. But with multiple options, they’re trying to decide what would work best for students.

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Diversions

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Ann Arbor restaurants prepare for the Artini Martini Crawl

Quinn Davis

Staff Writer

You might compare some downtown Ann Arbor businesses to Tibetan monks hunched over a Sand Mandala. They’ve spent hours, maybe even months creating a delicate piece of art. Once it’s finished, they plan to get rid of it.

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Yoga at Washtenaw Community Colleges Health and Fitness Center

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A life transformed – by Yoga

Marcela Toledo

Staff Writer

When she enters, her beautiful presence illuminates the room. And, in a soft voice and kind eyes, instructs by example the discipline that changed her life. Nobody would imagine how different she was before she encountered yoga.

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Voices

Olympics just bring a lot more confusion to sports illiterate

Elizabeth Ross

Editor

I don’t really like sports. I don’t like playing them, watching others play them or talking about them, so naturally, I don’t know much about them.

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I’m sorry, but if you’re married and cheating you’re still an idiot

Nicole Bednarski

News Editor

When I started working for The Washtenaw Voice in August, my main goal was to create a newspaper that everyone on campus felt compelled to read.

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Sports

Michigan pins faint hopes on season’s stretch drive

Matt Thompson

Sports editor

Deshawn Sims’ last second shot against Michigan State hit the backboard, then the rim, and then fell worthlessly to the ground as time expired in the most heartbreaking loss of a frustrating season.

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Rich Rod gives UM fans renewed hope after another glittering recruiting class

James Highsmith

Sports Writer

With just two years under his University of Michigan coaching belt, Rich Rodriguez just isn’t the right fit for fans used to seeing their team compete for Big Ten titles year after year.

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Wildcard

part-time biology professor Susan Starr

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Anatomy – the hands on method
WCC students learn anatomy by studying cadavers

Nicole Bednarski

News Editor

Andreus Vaselius is best known as the father of modern human anatomy for his studies into the dissection of the human body in the 16th century. Lydia Marie Adams DeWitt conducted her research on the anatomy of the human body nearly 300 years later.

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