As a number of people have emailed to tell me, the ACLU announced that two peaceful Michigan political groups – BAM-N and Direct Action – were mentioned in an FBI report about domestic terrorism: The document released today is an FBI report labeled, “Domestic Terrorism Symposium,” and describes a meeting that was intended to “keep […]
BAM-N Activist Killed In Detroit
The Ann Arbor News reports that Joe Wagner, a 21-year-old Ann Arbor man who was an organizer for BAM-N in Detroit has been killed. The details surrounding the killing are unclear. (Via) —–
Searching U-M Salary Data
So you heard the Daily has posted the 2004 salaries. Now you can search the data online thanks to C. Gansen. Via a comment by Donn on Arborupdate. Here’s a few I pulled: Mary Sue Coleman: $484,500 Marvin Krislov: $247,491 E. Royster Harper: $221,708 Ralph Williams: $98,150 H.D. Cameron: $85,050 Diane Brown: $61,100 Matt Lassiter: […]
Inviting BAM-N To Speak
According to an email I was forwarded, the featured speaker at a fundraiser in for MARAL Pro-Choice Michigan in Ann Arbor Thursday is non other than Miranda Massie. Miranda was the lead attorney for one group of student intervenors (the law students – not the undergrad intervenors) in the Grutter v. Bollinger affirmative action case. […]
2004-2005 University of Michigan Employee Salaries
The Michigan Daily has posted the spreadsheet. Kudos to them, signs of intellegent life at 420 Maynard are popping up left and right. Of course, its after I posted the same data for previous years. Update, 2/7/06 The UM library has posted the data for each year from 2002-2006 as a spreadsheet on this website. […]
The Chronicle on Liberal Academe
The Chronicle of Higher Education has an interesting free story about the University of Georgia, concluding the school’s more liberal tendancies cause fewer tensions with the mostly Republican state government and student body than expected, and the University actually has good relations with state government. In my experience to a lesser extent the same is […]
‘There is something profoundly ethical about this generation’
“There’s something profoundly ethical about this generation.” I attended the University’s Honors Convocation on Sunday, and was struck by the speech given by the student speaker, LSA Senior Eric Shieh. I emailed Mr. Shieh, and he sent me the text of his speech and gave me permission to post it here. Eric ShiehMar. 13, 2004 […]