Once in a while, somebody at the New York Times shows a little spine, but it’s usually only after everybody else is doing the same … “‘Slime and Defend’By PAUL KRUGMAN On July 14, Robert Novak published the now-famous column in which he identified Valerie Plame, the wife of former Ambassador Joseph Wilson, as a […]
LSA Honors to Revise Admissions Criteria The Daily shines a bright light on a huge black mark at the University: the enormous bias towards wealthy white students in admissions to the “honors” program, something that engendered a lively debate when I posted posted about it in July. In short, the honors program until recently used […]
The Downtown Development Authority, the private entity that runs the parking structures and pays for downtown improvements without democratic control or oversight has voted 7-1 to support the mayor’s greenbelt proposal. Also, this from the Ann Arbor News police beat: “A taxi driver said he was pulled from his cab early today and assaulted by […]
The community organization working in solidarity with Border’s employees trying to create a union, Borders Readers United, has started a blog.
I just added this year’s “Academic Freedom Lecture” to the calendar. The lecture is held each year to honor three U-M professors who told McCarthy to take a hike, causing two to be fired by the University. This year’s speaker is David Cole, a professor of law at Georgetown, and he will be speaking on […]
It seems the Borders employees who are seeking to get a union at that bookstore’s flagship downtown Ann Arbor store are trying to ratchet up the pressure. Organizers have started an online petition to complement the more than 4,000 they have already collected, and political students are holding a show of support this Saturday: ” […]
Michigan Democrats are planning a Democratic presidential debate in Detroit’s Fox Theatre on October 26, which will be broadcast as a 90-minute program on Fox News. Also, the Michigan state quarter will feature an outline of the state – and not a Model T. The quarter will be released next year.