The Goodspeed Update

In what amounts to a slap on the wrist, a captain on the U-M basketball team, Bernard Robinson Jr. was sentenced to one year probation for groping a student in West Quad:“Washtenaw County Circuit Court Judge Donald E. Shelton lectured Robinson at his sentencing Tuesday afternoon, questioning the player’s attitude toward women and saying Robinson […]

Work by a U-M graduate student caught the eye of New York Times education reporter Michael Winerip. PhD Candidate Laura Haniford has investigated the coverage of the “achievement gap” in test scores between white and black students by the Ann Arbor News, concluding that while the problem has stayed the same since the mid 1980s, […]

The Lecturers’ Employee Organization vote has been tabulated - 82.4% of lecturers across the three U-M campuses voted for the creation of the union. The totals: 631 “Yes” votes, 135 “No”, and 51 challenged or spoiled ballots. Read the LEO Press Release here.

The Michigan State Senate seems poised to pass a third late-term abortion ban. Two other similar laws, signed by Engler, were overturned by the courts because they were unconstitutional. The ACLU has said: “Medical testimony on both sides in the previous cases revealed that a ban like this would prohibit many second-trimester abortions. Some doctors […]

I’ve just helped my friend Dumi create a blog: While You Were Sleeping. He’s a graduate student in Sociology and Public Policy, and I think it’ll be very interesting.

Today is Free Cone Day at Ben & Jerry’s on State Street - at 1 p.m. the line extended all the way up the street to Amer’s. Stucchi’s, not to be outdone, has a handmade sign in their window: “Buy one get one free.”

U-M Department of Public Safety crime alert 4/28/03:
“Date: April 28, 2003 at about 7:38 PMLocation: 300 block S. StateOffense: Armed RobberySummary: Off-campus business was robbed at closing by two masked subjects. Money taken from safe at gunpoint. No one injured. Suspects fled on foot. Under investigation.Suspect: #1) White male, 20-24 yrs., 6′, slender build, blonde […]