Sam Woll has posted an updated version of her viewpoint in yesterday’s Daily on her blog, and her sister has a letter to the editor in today’s Daily about it.
I’ve received this feedback from Peter Mooney, an opinion staffer at the Michigan Daily in 1985 and 1986, opinion editor in 1987, and a city beat news reporter in 1988. Although it sounds as if BAM-N has attempted to meddle with the Daily in the past, they had nothing to do with last year’s boycott. […]
U-M history professor and middle east expert Juan Cole wants to translate the “classics of American thought and literature” into Arabic through something he’s calling the “The Americana in Arabic Library”: “The classics of American thought and literature have been little translated into Arabic. Worse, even when they have been translated, they have appeared in […]
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Rendezvous culture … “Drunken man makes scene at coffeehouse A 51-year-old Ann Arbor man was arrested on a charge of disorderly conduct Wednesday evening after he demanded a cup of coffee for a quarter and created a large scene when employees at a coffeehouse refused, Ann Arbor Police said. Employees at Rendezvous Cafe on South […]
The U of M might be forced to turn over hospital records to the Department of Justice, but an Illinois judge – citing federal and state law – has blocked a similar request at Northwestern. “A move by U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft to subpoena the medical records of 40 patients who received so-called partial-birth […]
My friend Sam Woll has a viewpoint in today’s Daily on the participation of the American Movement for Israel in the V-Day event on the Diag titled “Strange bedfellows? Israel activism and V-Day”: “Tomorrow in the middle of a rally that is being held to celebrate V-Day, and is in fact the symbol of a […]