According to this New York Times article, the man in charge of food at camp X-Ray in Guantanamo Bay Cuba is longtime U-M dining services employee James Kluck:

“The detainees are served at least two hot meals a day and some are rewarded with treats like ice cream and dates when they cooperate, said Chief Warrant Officer James Kluck, the food service director, who in civilian life looks after the food needs of a dormitory at the University of Michigan.”

Lee Bollinger’s plan to revitalize the Columbia School of Journalism is ripped in this article by Washington Post Columnist Robert Samuelson titled “Snob Journalism”. “Bollinger’s vision amounts to snob journalism: journalism by an elite for an elite” writes Samuelson. “Bollinger says the label [professional] is needed to create “stronger standards and values” against nasty commercial pressures. How condescending. Most good journalists already believe in accuracy, independence and fairness.”

The U-M Credit Union Michigan Union branch is set to open next Monday, where the video rental store and arcade used to be.

Detroit has landed its very own Hard Rock Cafe, located in the new Compuware building now under construction. Here’s the company’s press release announcing it.

A friend of Jessica Smith, the U-M student who was murdered last weekend, has told me the viewing for Jessica will be held on Thursday 2pm to 4pm and 6pm to 9pm at McCade Funeral Home in Canton (851 N. Canton Center Rd.), and the funenral will be held Friday at 11am at St. Thomas a’Becket Catholic Church in Canton.

Also, the Daily has posted a longer article about the death, but the only people they seem to have spoken to were Jessica Smith’s mother and U-M spokesperson Julie Peterson.

The Daily finally posted something: an Associated Press story about the killing.

A reader alerted me to the death of a 23-year old U-M student apparently murdered by a 47-year old Belleville man who then committed suicide. He wrote: “What surprises me is that the Daily hasn’t done any web updates (since it is a pretty big story concerning a student) nor has the University sent out any of their standard “for grieving help, see CAPS” emails.”

Ann Arbor News coverage:
April 21: “Police seek suspeect in shooting death”
April 22: “Police think killer committed suicide”
April 23: “Murder-suicide case takes bizarre turn”

Free Press – April 23: “Cops look for man’s daughter”

Local 4 : “Letter: Canton murderr suspect’s daughter bured in fruit cellar”
7 News: Police search foor murder suspect’s missing daughter”