Author: Rob

Some activists are organizing a mass meeting for people concerned with the SAPAC re-organization and student services funding cuts more generally. The group, calling themselves “Our Voices Count,” has called the meeting for 8:15 PM Monday night in MSA chambers on the third floor of the Union.

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If you have a Comcast cable modem and use a lot of bandwidth, you might surpised to find out the “unlimited” service isn’t actually – Comcast has recently begun sending letters to heavy users telling them to cut their use or face termination. The only problem? The limit is secret. “SAN JOSE, Calif. – By […]

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Leading the charge to keep the AATA’s The Link service alive: the city’s elderly citizens: … “The parking’s so terrible, I drive back to Birmingham and do my clothes shopping,” said Thomas, 64. That’s about to change. Thomas was one of nine members of the Viva Club, a social group of active people over 50, […]

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The Michigan Daily’s “jeopardy” or annual joke edition was today, the last day the old editors are involved before handing the operations off to a new set of editors. The tradition grew out of the practice of graduating seniors slipping small jokes into an otherwise normal paper, and has now grown into an entire paper […]

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The word on the street: Prof. Matthew Lassiter was wearing a Howard Dean button in class today.

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“… Let’s stop the hysteria and honestly ask ourselves what is sprawl? “Sprawl” is the unfortunate pejorative title government planners give to economic development that takes place in areas they can’t control. In reality, “sprawl” is new houses, new school buildings, new plants, and new office and retail facilities. “Sprawl” is new jobs, new hope […]

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