Here’s a letter it today’s Daily about a vague story they printed last week: “To the Daily: Last week, the Daily published an article about some flyers that were posted around campus in the early hours of Thursday morning (‘U,’ DPS finish flyer investigation, 03/12/04). These flyers contained accusations of sexual harassment by a member […]
BALLOT QUESTION WOULD MAKE LSA-SG PRES. AND VICE PRES. INTERNALLY SELECTED POSITIONS“It’s moving toward autocracy.” A ballot question which, if passed, would remove LSA President and Vice President from the ballot in future years has been added to the ballot for this week’s MSA election by a vote of 15 to 3 of the current […]
And boy, is the truth strange.
The Detroit News published an editorial last Friday alleging the University of Michigan isn’t doing enough to protect the rights of the people trying to get petition signatures to add to the state’s constitution an amendment which would end all government affirmative action programs in the state. BAM-N has launched something they’re calling “Operation King’s […]
This is why I’m intrigued by Richard Florida’s “Cool Cities” business: according to his theories, being serious about participating in the creative economy means taking serious civil rights for all your citizens. In an excellent column in the Ann Arbor News, Rick Haglund argues that the state legislature’s flirtations with a ban on gay marriage […]
The Associated Press has just released an interesting study of Mexican workers in the United States: “The jobs that lure Mexican workers to the United States are killing them in a worsening epidemic that is now claiming a victim a day, an Associated Press investigation has found. Though Mexicans often take the most hazardous jobs, […]
There’s an election upcoming in the online role playing game The Sims Online, and U-M Philosophy professor Peter Ludlow, the editor of a popular blog about the game called the Alphaville Herald, is wondering what it all means: ” … Ludlow looks at the Alphaville election with an academic perspective. Given that the winner takes […]