Below, for your reading pleasure, is the complete text of a lawsuit filed against Michigamua and the University of Michigan last week in Washtenaw County Circuit Court. The formatting is a bit screwy — sorry, this was a rush file conversion job.
This looks interesting, too bad I won’t be able to make it:
Michigamua EXPOSED!!!!!
An educational art exhibit sponsored by students from Art & Design 310
Thursday, December 15th
9 pm
Michigan League UndergroundWhat is Michigamua? Why are they called a “secret society”? Why is it called racist? Why did students occupy the tower of the Union for 37 days? Who is in Michigamua today??
Find out the answers to these questions and much, much more! See you at Michigamua Exposed on 12/15
Questions? Email michigamuaexposed at umich.edu
*Please forward to interested individuals/organizations
Good question. It’s the apartment I lived in while in Ann Arbor, and now it is available to rent. This email is being circulated:
Are you a hip activist on campus looking for an apartment for next year?
The Hobbit Hole alums are looking for renters for next year that will carry on the Hobbit Hole’s tradition of good conversation, quirky parties, and liberal politics. See below for more info and email hobbitholealums@umich.edu if you are interested! Act QUICK as the apartment may have to be rented to random people very soon!
WHAT IS THE HOBBIT HOLE?
It is an apartment at 306 Thompson St. As an apartment it is affordable, centrally located, but certainly not luxurious: the space is carved out of what was once an attic and contains two bedrooms, a kitchen, a bathroom, and a small sitting area. Laundry facilities are in the basement of the building across the street and the location puts you just steps from any of the businesses in the State and Liberty Street areas. Rent and utilities works out to be around $500 per person per month.However, what the apartment lacks in amenities it makes up in atmosphere and history. For six years the apartment has been home to a variety of journalists, activists, RC’ers, and politicos. The current residents, two RC students, are looking to pass the apartment on to worthy inheritors in true Hobbit Hole tradition. Residents are expected to hold fun parties, invite interesting people over, and put good books on the built in bookshelves. Are you interested? Drop us a line at hobbitholealums at umich.edu.
The name Hobbit Hole, comes from a small door on the fire escape which resembles a Hobbit Hole
2005-2006 Chase and Elena
2004-2005 Sam Woll and Devon Brown
2003-2004 Rob Goodspeed and Ari Paul
2002-2003 Ari Paul and Jeremy Wardle
2001-2002 Mike Grass and Nick Woomer
2000-2001 Mike Grass and Nick Woomer+ miscellaneous other tenants, subleters, and overnight guests
From a friend:
i just found out that there was a fire at 4:00am on arbor street… the daily has yet to post anything but more info is available at mline/aa news- the house is gone and one student had to jump from the third floor and is badly burned, cut and in critical condition at the hospital. sorry to bring you the bad news, but i thought you might want to know
The photo was posted to flickr by Marty Kinnavy. See his other photos. A great example of citizen reporting, if Arborupdate posts anything …
The Princeton Filibuster, which I helped bring to D.C., was selected by Mother Jones magazine as the protest of the year: “The 384-hour gabfest wrapped up with a ‘fili-bus-tour’ to Washington, D.C., where guest bloviators Senators Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) and Jon Corzine (D-N.J.) joined in.”
Also making the list of notable campus activism: anti-Coke activism, a living wage protest at Wash. U, and protests of Bush’s commencement speech at Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Michigan. The most striking sounds like this protest at U-C Berkeley:
Invisible Freshmen Last November, 250 African American UC Berkeley students staged a daylong “Blackout” to protest the precipitous decline in black student enrollment since Cal banned affirmative action a decade ago. Out of last fall’s 3,600 incoming freshmen, only 3 percent were African American. Dressed in black, the protesters silently interrupted classes to distribute fliers demanding the school step up its efforts to recruit black students. “It’s hard being the only black person in the class,” said senior Raniyah Abdus-Samad. “It’s not a good feeling.”
3% ?! The same thing could happen at Michigan if the “Michigan Civil Rights Initiative” (also a project of anti-civil rights activist and University of California Berkeley Regent Ward Connerly) passes. Check out the website of the folks leading the opposition: Citizens for a United Michigan.
Finally, they also selected the hard work of many people I know in Ann Arbor registering people to vote:
That’s Why They Call It the Blues University of Michigan students gave new meaning to their school’s rallying cry, “Go Blue,” by registering 10,000 voters in a monthlong registration drive in the lead-up to the 2004 presidential vote. The effort produced record youth-voter turnout in Ann Arbor, keeping Michigan in Kerry country, even though unprecedented numbers of college-aged voters across the nation failed to turn the crimson tide.
I’ll be in Ann Arbor this weekend. Schedule is tight but you’ve got my number.
Jason Pesick has been thinking about Drinking Liberally … and blogging … and local politics. The overall piece is a bit convoluted, but I appreciate his mentions to some of my pet issues.
The Daily also has this long op-ed on student voting which I haven’t made my way through yet, but I hear is good.
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