In an update I posted on February 17 titled “Healthy, Secular, and Political,” I interpreted the results of a survey of college freshman that U-M participates in that seemed to show students at the University were more political, healthy, and engaged than ever. Nationally, the picture isn’t so bright, but this editorial by the Los […]
Have a Michigan driver’s license? Your personal information is now part of a highly secret, potentially illegal multistate database operated by a private corporation. What’s wrong with that? Let’s not forget the only reason Bush is president is that in 2000, Republican operatives in Florida including that State’s Secretary of State Katherine Harris expunged tens […]
Ralph Nader has announced he will be running for president, again, but this time as an independent. My firm and unwavering opinion: Bush must go. So when November rolls around, if you live in a state so red it’s dripping republicanism, vote Nader (if he’s on the ballot). If you vote anywhere you’ll vote actually […]
Like a naive child struggling to keep perspective as it learns about the world, the Ann Arbor News recently discovered the U-M’s Office of Property Disposition. The Property Disposition office is a little-known entity that sells the University’s extra stuff on the cheap. Yes, the series raises some interesting questions regarding whether the University could […]
Graduating in May? The University’s “Graduation Guide” website has lots of information for graduating seniors and applications for the student speaker at spring commencement are due Wednesday, March 3rd. The Michigan Union is also sponsoring their annual “Grad Fair” to be held on the ground floor of the Union on March 10th and 11th featuring […]
The UAW is seeking funds to construct a Labor History Museum in Flint to commemorate the famous 1936-37 sit-down strike of General Motors which led to the creation of the United Auto Workers. > AP: “Tribute raises more than $40,000 for possible labor museum” “NASCAR Dad”? “In the 1940s, workers at UAW Local 598 in […]
Former Air Force Lieutenant Colonel Karen Kwiatkowski, who quit her job at the Defense Department about a year ago, isn’t too happy with the Bush administration.