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Name: Craig D. Barker
Nickname: CDB
Active: 1997-2000
Last Known Location: Livonia, MI
College/Major: LS&A/History
Hometown: Livonia, MI
Previous School Attended: Adlai E. Stevenson High School (Livonia, MI)
Quote:"Allow for the possibility that, from time to time, other people are at least as smart as you are." – Natalie Hurley, SportsNight




Name: Ezequiel Berdichevsky
Nickname: Zeke, Titleboy Junior
Active: 1999-2005
Last Known Location: West Lafayette, IN
College/Major: Rackham/English Language and Literature
Hometown: College Park, MD
Previous School Attended: University of Maryland College Park (College Park, MD)
Quotes: "Heinrich von Kleist is the shit."
"Custom of the Country, Motherfucker!"
"I would rather be at home [having fun] and reading Benet's"




Name: Ryan Blay
Nickname: Forgot About B.L.A.Y.
Active: 1999-2003
Last Known Location: Loyola School of Law, Chicago, IL
Major: Psychology/English
Hometown: Chelsea, MI
Previous School Attended: Winston Churchill High School (Livonia, MI)
Quote: "We ain't, go-in nowhere, we ain't, goin nowhere/We can't be stopped now, cause it's Bad Boy for life" – P. Diddy




Name: David Bykowski
Nickname: Byko, Crack B.
Active: 2000-2002
Last Known Location: Greenville, SC
College/Major: Rackham/Computer Science
Hometown: No
Previous School Attended: Furman University (Greenville, SC)
Quote: "Green ideas sleep furiously." – Noam Chomsky




Name: Mark Calaguas
Nickname: The Second-Best Player in the Program
Active: 1999-2003
Last Known Location: Chicago, IL
College/Major: LS&A/English and Comparative Literature
Hometown: Bloomfield Hills, MI
Previous School Attended:  Brother Rice High School, (Bloomfield Hills, MI)
Quotes:"As we all know, there is a kind of lazy pleasure in useless and out-of-the-way erudition" – Jorge Luis Borges
"Scooby snack Jurassic plastic gas booby trap/ Ten years workin' for me, you wanna tear up shit?/ Bung-bung-bung your bell went rung-rung-rung/Stapleland's where the ambulance don't come" – Dennis Coles, AKA Ghostface Killah




Name: Michael Davidson
Nickname: Zizou, MF
Active: 1998-2002
Last Known Location: Colorado
College/Major: LS&A/Film and English
Hometown: Waterford, MI
Previous School Attended: Detroit Country Day School (Beverly Hills, MI)
Quote: "Horseness is the whatness of allhorse." – James Joyce




Name: Noel Erinjeri
Nickname: King of the Impossible
Active: 1998-2001
Last Known Location: Lost in the Valley of the Spartans
College/Major: LS&A/Physics
Hometown: Flinttown, MI
Previous School Attended: Powers Catholic HS (Flint, MI)
Quote: "These clowns can't spell 'integral', let alone do one." – Referring to 1Ls




Name: Paul Litvak
Nickname: Mr. "I Can't Believe It's Not Knowledge", Satan
Active: 1998-2004
Last Known Location: Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
College/Major: LS&A/Philosophy
Hometown: Mequon, WI
Previous School Attended: Homestead High School (Mequon, WI)
Quote: "You haven't had shit until you've eaten my mom's borscht!"


Name: Ed Markman
Nickname: We're working on it.
Active: 1997-2001
Last Known Location: Undisclosed
College/Major:Cellular Molecular Biology and History
Hometown: Canton, MI
Last School Attended: Plymouth-Salem High School (Canton, MI)
Quote: None at this time



Name: Brandy Shattuck
Nickname: Scully
Active:1998-2002
Last Known Location: Albany Medical College, Albany, NY
College/Major: LS&A/RC/Honors/BioPsychology/Pre-med
Hometown: Newaygo, MI
Previous School Attended: Newaygo High School (Newaygo, MI)/Grand Valley State University
Quote: "To others we are not ourselves but a character in their lives in a role we do not even know we are playing."




Name: David Thorsley
Nickname: Da Mole
Active: 2000-2006
Last Known Location: University of Washington, Seattle, WA
College/Major: Rackham/College of Engineering/Electrical Engineering Systems: Control Systems
Hometown: London, ON
Previous School Attended: University of Western Ontario (London, ON)
Quote: "I can't help it if I am not stupid enough to be good company." – Robertson Davies




Name: Geoff Zmyslowski
Nickname: Z-Man, Boom-Boom
Active: 1999-2004
Last Known Location: Grand Rapids, MI
College/Major: Engineering/Aerospace Engineering
Hometown: Grosse Pointe Woods, MI
Previous School Attended: Grosse Pointe North High School
Quotes: "I like it when they throw fish at me; I feel like I'm on 'The Real World'." – Ed Robertson
"Kids were very different then. They didn't have their heads filled with all this Cartesian Dualism." – April Simnel (Michael Palin)