From All Over the State, What Makes Michigan Great

2012 Winter Carnival Winners: Air Force ROTC

Overall Winners

Sigma Phi Epsilon

Fraternities
1st Place

Theta Chi Epsilon

Women's Groups
1st Place

Northern Alliance

Residence Halls
1st Place

Air Force ROTC

Student Organizations
1st Place

Phi Kappa Tau

Fraternities
2nd Place

Alpha Gamma Delta

Women's Groups
2nd Place

Mama's Boys

Residence Halls
2nd Place

Army ROTC

Student Organizations
2nd Place

Sigma Tau Gamma

Fraternities
3rd Place

Delta Zeta

Women's Groups
3rd Place

Raptor House

Residence Halls
3rd Place

Cru

Student Organizations
3rd Place

Month-Long Statue Winners

Phi Kappa Tau

Phi Kappa Tau

Fraternities

Theta Chi Epsilon

Theta Chi Epsilon

Women's Groups

Northern Alliance

Northern Alliance

Residence Halls

Air Force ROTC

Air Force ROTC

Student Organizations

All-Nighter Statue Winners

Tollhouse

Tollhouse

Residence Halls

NAHB

NAHB

On Campus

Good Shepard Lutheran

Good Shepard Lutheran

Off Campus

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Special Events Winners

Sigma Phi Epsilon

Fraternities

Theta Chi Epsilon

Women's Groups

Northern Alliance

Residence Halls

Air Force ROTC

Student Organizations

Stage Revue Winners

Sigma Phi Epsilon

1st Place

Army ROTC

2nd Place

Alpha Gamma Delta

3rd Place

Sigma Phi Epsilon

Audience Choice

January 1-28

Monday, January 9 Month-long Statue construction begins

January 29-February 4

Sunday, January 29 10:00 a.m. Curling Calumet Drill House
Tuesday, January 31 9:00 p.m. Broomball Campus
9:00 p.m. Ice Bowling Dee Stadium
Wednesday, February 1 10:30 p.m. Broomball Campus
10:30 p.m. Ice Bowling Dee Stadium
Thursday, February 2 9:30 p.m. Broomball Campus
9:30 p.m. Ice Bowling Dee Stadium
Friday, February 3 6:00 p.m. Curling Calumet Drill House
Saturday, February 4 8:00 a.m. Ice Fishing Chassell Bay
8:00 a.m. Skating Dee Stadium
10:00 a.m. Snow Volleyball SDC Practice Fields
10:00 a.m. Curling Calumet Drill House
11:00 a.m. Yooper Sprint SDC Practice Fields
1:00 p.m. CC Skiing Tech Trails
7:00 p.m. Queens Coronation Rozsa Center

February 5-11

Sunday, February 5 10:00 a.m. Curling Calumet Drill House
10:00 a.m. Snow Volleyball SDC Practice Fields
Tuesday, February 7 9:30 p.m. Broomball Campus
9:30 p.m. Ice Bowling Dee Stadium
Wednesday, February 8 4:00 p.m. All-nighter Construction Begins
Thursday, February 9 9:00 a.m. Statue Judging Begins
9:30 a.m. Sleigh Rides Outside DHH
1:00 p.m. Beards Competition Fisher 135
2:00 p.m. Banner Contest SDC
7:00 p.m. Stage Revue Performance Rozsa Center
Friday, February 10 8:30 a.m. Campus Tours Admissions Office
9:30 a.m. Sleigh Rides Outside DHH
10:00 a.m. Snow Volleyball SDC Practice Fields
11:00 a.m. Sled Dog Rides Outside DHH
11:00 a.m. Human Dogsled SDC Practice Fields
11:00 a.m. Tug-o-War SDC Practice Fields
12:30 p.m. Downhill Skiing Mont Ripley
3:00 p.m. Snowboarding Mont Ripley
7:07 p.m. Varsity Hockey vs. Nebraska Omaha MacInnes Ice Arena
Saturday, February 11 8:30 a.m. Big Foot Snowshoe Event SDC Multi-Purpose Room
9:30 a.m. Sleigh Rides Outside DHH
10:00 a.m. Broomball Pictures Broomball Rinks
10:00 a.m. Sled Dog Races Outside DHH
10:00 a.m. Kids' Sled Dog Rides Outside DHH
11:00 a.m. Hot Chocolate Warm-up and Book Sale J.R. Van Pelt and Opie Library
12:00 p.m. Campus Tours Admissions Office
1:00 p.m. Women's Basketball vs. LSSU
3:00 p.m. Men's Basketball vs. LSSU
5:07 p.m. Varsity Hockey vs. Nebraska Omaha MacInnes Ice Arena
8:30 p.m. Torchlight Parade Mont Ripley
8:45 p.m. Fireworks Mont Ripley
9:00 p.m. Awards Ceremony MUB Ballroom A
9:00 p.m. Comedian Bo Burnham Rozsa Center
9:00 p.m. Snow Ball MUB Ballroom

February 12-18

Thursday, February 16 12:00 p.m. Community Luncheon MUB Ballroom A

What makes Michigan great?

Michigan Technological University!

Michigan Tech is a public research university located in Houghton. Its main campus sits on 925 acres on a bluff overlooking Portage Lake. Michigan Tech was founded in 1885 as the first post-secondary institution in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, and was created to train mining engineers to operate the local copper mines.

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Quincy Mine!

The Quincy Mine is an extensive set of copper mines located near Hancock, Michigan. The mine was owned by the Quincy Mining Company and operated between 1846 and 1945, although some activities continued through the 1970s. The Quincy Mine was known as "Old Reliable," as the Quincy Mine Company paid a dividend to investors every year from 1868 through 1920.

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Birthplace of Professional Ice Hockey!

The Copper Country, in Michigan's Western Upper Peninsula, is considered the birthplace of organized professional ice hockey and home of the world's first all-professional ice hockey team.

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Escanaba in da Moonlight!

Escanaba in da Moonlight is a 2001 movie starring Jeff Daniels. It is a comedy about hunting and hunting traditions and is set (and filmed) in the Escanaba, Michigan area. The movie is the film adaptation of the play of the same name, which premiered at Jeff Daniels' Purple Rose Theatre in Chelsea, Michigan.

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Mackinac Bridge!

The Mackinac Bridge is a suspension bridge spanning the Straits of Mackinac to connect the Upper and Lower peninsulas of Michigan. Opened in 1957, the bridge is the third longest in total suspension in the world and the longest suspension bridge between anchorages in the Western hemisphere.

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The Mythbusters' Jamie Hyneman!

James Franklin "Jamie" Hyneman (born in Marshall, Michigan on September 25, 1956) is an American special effects expert, best known for being the co-host of the television series MythBusters. He is also the owner of M5 Industries, the special effects workshop where MythBusters is filmed.

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The Stooges' Iggy Pop!

Iggy Pop (born James Newell "Jim" Osterberg, Jr.; April 21, 1947 in Muskegon, Michigan) is an American singer, songwriter, musician, and actor. Though considered an innovator of punk rock, Pop's music has encompassed a number of styles over the years, including pop, metal, jazz and blues.

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Red Hot Chili Peppers' Anthony Kiedis!

Anthony Kiedis (born November 1, 1962 in Grand Rapids, Michigan) is an American vocalist/lyricist, and occasional actor best known as the lead vocalist of the Grammy-winning and 2012 Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame inductees, Red Hot Chili Peppers.

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Bozo the Clown!

Bozo the Clown is a well-known character to kids across the country, but Detroit had its own unique relationship with the man beneath the makeup, Art Cervi. Bozo the Clown was a franchised character originally created by Alan Livingston for Capital Records in the 1940s.

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Serena Williams!

Serena Jameka Williams (born September 26, 1981 in Saginaw, Michigan) is an American professional tennis player and a former world no. 1. The Women's Tennis Association has ranked her world no. 1 in singles on five separate occasions. She is considered to be one of the greatest women's tennis players of all time.

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Ford Model T!

The Ford Model T (colloquially known as the Tin Lizzie, Flivver, T‑Model Ford, or T) is an automobile that was produced by Henry Ford's Ford Motor Company from September 1908 to May 1927. It is generally regarded as the first affordable automobile, the car that opened travel to the common middle-class American.

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City of Detroit!

Known as the world's traditional automotive center, "Detroit" is a metonym for the American automobile industry and an important source of popular music legacies celebrated by the city's two familiar nicknames, the Motor City and Motown. Other nicknames arose in the 20th century, including City of Champions beginning in the 1930s for its successes in individual and team sport, The D, D-Town, Hockeytown, Rock City, and The 313.

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Cherries!

Today, the US cherry industry produces more than 650 million pounds of tart and sweet cherries each year. Much of the cherry production is concentrated in Michigan and the Northwest. Michigan grows about 75 percent of the tart cherry crop.

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Google co-founder Larry Page!

Lawrence "Larry" Page (born March 26, 1973 in East Lansing, Michigan) is an internet entrepreneur who, with Sergey Brin, is best known as the co-founder of Google. As of April 4, 2011, he is also the chief executive of Google. As of 2011, his personal wealth is estimated to be $16.7 billion.

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Sugar Ray Robinson!

Sugar Ray Robinson (born Walker Smith Jr., May 3, 1921 - April 12, 1989 in Detroit, Michigan) was an African-American professional boxer. Frequently cited as the greatest boxer of all time, Robinson's performances in the welterweight and middleweight divisions prompted sportswriters to create "pound for pound" rankings, where they compared fighters regardless of weight.

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Domino's Pizza!

Domino's Pizza is an international pizza delivery corporation headquartered in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Founded in 1960, Domino's is the second-largest pizza chain in the United States and has over 9,000 corporate and franchised stores in 60 countries and all 50 U.S. states.

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Motown!

Motown is a record company originally founded by Berry Gordy, Jr. and in Detroit, Michigan, on April 14, 1960. The name is also a nickname for Detroit. In the 1960s, Motown and its soul-based subsidiaries were the most successful proponents of what came to be known as The Motown Sound, a style of soul music with a distinct pop influence.

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The voice of Darth Vader!

James Earl Jones is an American actor born in Mississippi, but raised in Michigan. He is well known for his distinctive bass voice and for his portrayal of characters of substance, gravitas, and leadership. Jones is also well known as the voice of Darth Vader in the original Star Wars trilogy.

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