My friend Mike Grass, on the DC Edge City of Bethesda, MD: “… It was as if I were back in Michigan, driving after midnight, with nowhere to go. The slow depressingly comfortable lyrics guided me through the darkened forested exurbs. Using the Hillandale Road shortcut, I emerged at the south end of downtown Bethesda. […]
Here’s the website of Connerly’s anti-affirmative action proposal: Michigan Civil Rights Initiative. The coalition opposing the proposal is called “Citizens for a United Michigan,” and I haven’t been able to find their website, but there is some information here.
“Liberal Academe”? Thanks to a vigilant reader, who pointed out in today’s print edition of the Ann Arbor News, the “Talk About Town” column playfully points out that the staff at the University of Michigan are among the most generous in higher education in their giving to George W. Bush’s re-election campaign: “Indeed, U-M faculty […]
The president of the League of Conservation Voters, Deb Callahan, will speak on campus this Thursday from 4:30 to 6:30 PM in the SNRE auditorium.: Many believe the Bush Administration has no time to think about our environment because the situation in Iraq. Yet the Administration continues to systematically dismantle key environment protections, such as […]
The Michigan Student Assembly has begun promoting their online book selling website, DogEars.net. > Daily: “Online book buying saves bucks for cash-conscious students”
Mark your calendars: Each year, the U-M MLK Symposium hosts a number of events surrounding the Martin Luther King holiday. The day off classes, as well as the symposium, were both born out of student activism in the early 1990s. Here are some of the events that have caught my eye to be held on […]
Here’s some information about an event to be held tomorrow, featuring the sisters named in the Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court case: “- What: An interactive panel talk with the sisters whose father was the lead plaintiff in the historic Brown vs. Board of Education Supreme Court case that outlawed segregation in the […]