The Michigan Tech students sued by the RIAA for setting up an on-campus MP3-swapping network have settled: each will be paying between $12,000 and $17,000 in fines to the record labels and promise not to download illegal music, although the students did not admit any wrongdoing. It’s not clear with this might mean for U-M […]
A friend of Jessica Smith, the U-M student who died last weekend, dedicated part of her blog to Smith.
The Ann Arbor News ran a story about the ‘U’ budget cuts today. Here’s the list of cuts by Department. The story doesn’t include anything about the cuts to various multicultural offices that I have heard of. The Daily story “New office created to addrerss affirmative action in workplace” is about this – cutting costs […]
If you win too much at Detroit’s Greektown casino, it seems you may just get banned. Also, read Doctor and U-M Professor Tim Johnson’s letter to the Michigian Senate Judiciary Committee about the ban of some abortions protected under Roe the Senate passed today. Excerpt:“Such an extreme, broad ban blatantly disregards women’s health and lives. […]