Category: College Park

Technology and Urban Development College Park

Update, 10/24/06: Please visit the new blog Rethink College Park College Park wants to be more “college town.” It turns out the home of the University of Maryland isn’t very college-town-y: it’s part auto-based sprawl, part dismal inner-ring suburb, and nothing like Tuscon, Ann Arbor, Madison, or any other of the country’s great college towns. […]

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Hipsters and Urban Planning

My friend Jim recently told me he had read Urban Planning referred to as a very hipster thing to study in the New York Times recently. I did some searching to try to find the article and could just turn up this article from March about a couple Williamsburg residents who became politicized after hearing […]

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Affirmative Action On the Ballot In Michigan

Blogger Chetly Zarko wrote to me earlier this week to point out the so-called “Michigan Civil Rights Initiative,” which would ban affirmative action in Michigan, will appear on the ballot in November in that state. Another friend reminded me of this story which the Detroit Metrotimes printed in January, but I forgot to post here, […]

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ACLU Town Hall On Presidential Power

The ACLU is sponsoring a live webcast on Monday, February 20th at 11 a.m. EST on the topic of presidential power. The presenters include: * Anthony D. Romero, Executive Director, American Civil Liberties Union * John W. Dean, former White House counsel * Laurence H. Tribe, Carl M. Loeb University Professor and Professor of Constitutional […]

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Studying Political Organizing and Activism

I got this email about a class being offered at the University of Michigan Residential College next semster on community organizing. The course is being taught by RC Seniors Sarah Barcus and Ryan Bates and supervised by Professor Helen Fox. Here’s the description: RCIDIV 351 Section 5 Community Organizing: Theory and Praxis Instructors: RC Seniors […]

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The Jack Lessenberry Show

Longtime Detroit journalist Jack Lessenberry, known in recent years for his acerbic Metro Times column Politics & Prejudice, has launched a new radio program on Michigan Radio called the Jack Lessenberry Show. In addition to the standard on-air broadcast the show has a comprehensive blog which features show audio and additional commentary from Jack and […]

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