During the 2000 Michigan Union Tower Occupation, names of the current Michigamua members were made public in part because the group had been using the (at the time) public directory.umich.edu website for their email lists. After the lists were reported about they were quickly deleted. Now, an anonymous tipster implies the group has made a […]
Michigamua Update
I recently learned that well known University of Michigan campus activist Sam Woll has joined Michigamua, an organization I have spent time publishing information about on my website. To complicate matters, we have a personal relationship and I consider her a friend. I have decided I must publish it — as I publish all names […]
Gordon Hall
I have never heard of it before. Apparently it’s owned by the University of Michigan, and its future is uncertain: The 9,900-square-foot, 22-room mansion was built by the founder of the village, Judge Samuel Dexter, a former U-M regent and noted abolitionist. Historians say slaves seeking freedom entered through a trap door on the veranda […]
U-M Library’s Books in Google Print
The University of Michigan has announced the first large collection of books from their library has been scanned and uploaded into Google Print‘s indexes.
The More Things Change …
I was excited to hear that BAM-N is being confronted for their confrontational and counter-productive tactics. Apparently BAM-N relied on an old tried and true tactic – hijack another meeting to use it as a platform to try to provoke conflict and strife. When I was on MSA we got pretty good at shutting them […]
BAMN Criticized by Campus NAACP Group
Alex Moffett, vice president of the NAACP, said BAMN tokenized and presented black students in a bad light when it bused in hundreds of black middle- and high-school students from Detroit for the Thursday rally on the Diag. During the rally against the Michigan Civil Rights Initiative, a proposal that could ban the use of […]
Affirmative Action On the Ballot in Michigan
From One United Michigan, some good talking points: What Is This All About? A ballot proposal, deceptively named the “Michigan Civil Rights Initiative,” is headed for the November 2006 election. If passed, all state and local affirmative action programs will be immediately eliminated, including opportunities for equal access to education, jobs and contracts for women […]