Will you need a ride from Detroit Metro Airport to Ann Arbor after returning from your spring break trip? Don’t forget about MSA’s Airbus service, which has scheduled 25 trips to Ann Arbor over the next two days – no reservation required – at the low cost of $8.
Sound Familiar? “Columbia University’s president, Lee C. Bollinger, yesterday condemned a series of race-related incidents on campus, including the publication of a racially offensive cartoon in an alternative student newspaper last Friday. In a message sent to the Columbia community, he said several statements and events that demeaned blacks and other minorities “have proved unusually […]
The Detroit News has started a “Decision 2004 Weblog”.
Happy Spring Break “200 block of North Ingalls Street, 12:39 p.m. Monday. No signs of forced entry; a laptop computer, TV and stereo taken. Total value: $2,000.” (AANews)
Detroit’s Metrotimes has picked up a BAM-N press release in an entry in their news hits section reporting that a Michigan-based KKK organization has “Endorsed” the Michigan Civil Rights Initiative, or the proposal connected to University of California Regent Ward Connerly that would ban all forms of public affirmative action in the state. The MCRI […]
An anonymous community member has launched another website protesting the proposed cuts at the University’s SAPAC office. Titled “SAPAC Must Stay … AS IT IS” the website features a detailed testimonial about the author’s experience with SAPAC as a survivor of sexual assault: ” … It is my position that anyone who truly understands what […]
The new Borders in downtown Detroit is apparently a strategy of Borders Incorporated and other major retailers to move into “underserved” urban neighborhoods before they fully gentrify. I see this as an ambiguous trend – it could be part of a pattern of donut development where economic activity in the metropolis is either “downtown” or […]