Leading the charge to keep the AATA’s The Link service alive: the city’s elderly citizens: … “The parking’s so terrible, I drive back to Birmingham and do my clothes shopping,” said Thomas, 64. That’s about to change. Thomas was one of nine members of the Viva Club, a social group of active people over 50, […]
The Michigan Daily’s “jeopardy” or annual joke edition was today, the last day the old editors are involved before handing the operations off to a new set of editors. The tradition grew out of the practice of graduating seniors slipping small jokes into an otherwise normal paper, and has now grown into an entire paper […]
The word on the street: Prof. Matthew Lassiter was wearing a Howard Dean button in class today.
“… Let’s stop the hysteria and honestly ask ourselves what is sprawl? “Sprawl” is the unfortunate pejorative title government planners give to economic development that takes place in areas they can’t control. In reality, “sprawl” is new houses, new school buildings, new plants, and new office and retail facilities. “Sprawl” is new jobs, new hope […]
A Letter From the Editor A few months ago, a friend of mine was telling me that although they liked my website, they rarely posted comments because of the “machismo.” I was troubled – they were an involved, political, well-informed person, and I certainly wanted them to feel they could participate. Part of my goal […]
The Greeks Fight Back Things are certainly heating up when it comes to the University’s administration’s dealings with undergraduates. The Greek community, upset by a plan concocted with little or no input from them which would institute a number of changes including delaying fall rush, making houses substance-free, and requiring live-in advisors, has organized a […]
Did somebody say, “Student Activism and Social Change”? “As the sexual freedom of the 1960s and 1970s gave way to campuswide concern about women’s physical safety, sexual harassment and rape became major student issues. The old in loco parentis rules had become unenforceable, which provided both an opportunity for greater exploitation of women and genuine […]