The woodshop closing has made the AP wire:FREEP: “Budget forces University of Michigan to close woodshop” (MLive)
The Ann Arbor News ran a story about the closing of the U-M Student Woodshop today: “U-M woodshop to be axed by cuts in student services” According to the story, the annual budget for the woodshop not including insurance and utilities is $53,000. That figure constitutes 7.5% of the $700,000 in student services cut this […]
Many expect the Supreme Court decision in the U-M admissions lawsuits this Monday. Read the email BAM-N has sent their members here, (or here) and their official positions to possible Court rulings here.
STUDENT WOODSHOP UPDATEAccording to Andrew, an Ann Arbor News reporter and photographer will be visiting the Student Woodshop at 5:00 PM today. The Woodshop was closed suddenly without warning by the University earlier this week. I’ve been told the Daily has been contacted about this story, and I hope the cover it – it’s a […]
It’s time to join the U-M chapter of Students for Kucinich! For a taste of this candidate for president, here’s Dennis Kucinich’s ten key issues:“[1] Universal Health Care with a Single Payer Plan[2] Full Social Security Benefits at Age 65[3] Withdrawal from NAFTA and WTO[4] Repeal of the “Patriot Act”[5] Right-to-Choose, Privacy, and Civil Rights[6] […]
A judge has dropped the obstruction of justice charges faced by Chris Webber, although he will still face trial for perjury. The Business Direct Weekly (local business paper) follows up on the Ann Arbor News article last week about the artists displaced from the future site of the YMCA moving to Ypsilanti with this story: […]
“During the 1970s, the neoconservative sociologist Nathan Glazer was one of affirmative action’s leading critics. Now, with the U.S. Supreme Court expected to hand down a decision this month determining the future of affirmative action in university admissions, Glazer has signed onto a friend-of-the-court brief along with six other social scientists defending the University of […]