Oakhurst Dairy, a small Maine dairy, was sued earlier this summer by the Monsanto Corporation because they dared to put a label on their milk cartons reading: “No Artificial Growth Hormones.” According to Oakhurst, a trial date has been set for January 5, 2004, and they have won a small victory: the judge refused Monsanto’s […]
Honors Director and Prof. Stephen Darwall has been thinking about the honors program, which, he proposes really ought to be called the “Really Intrinsically Valuable Program” since the honors program should be more about being ‘worthy’ of honor, not simply receiving honor. He gives a number of examples of “what I think this program is […]
SUMMERTIME GIVING While the students are away, it’s common practice for the University to tidy up a bit, which unfortunately this summer included closing the student woodshop and firing all of the residence hall librarians. It’s also apparently time for many U-M administrators, and also students and staff to open up the checkbook and give […]
It seems the only thing holding back the U-M athletic department from a $100 Million orgy of new and upgraded facilities on the athletic campus is a lack of cash, and an unwillingness to go into serious debt like rival Ohio State University. The result? Teams and coaches are increasingly expected to fundraise and recruit […]
The events calendar (see right) has been updated … feel free to send more suggestions.
“It shows that the economics of the suburbs are out of phase with the original purpose of the suburbs,” said Robert Fishman, a professor of urban planning at the University of Michigan and the author of “Bourgeois Utopias” (Basic Books, 1989), a history of suburban growth. That purpose was to take women and children out […]
REUTERS: “U.S. Troops Shoot Dead Reuters Cameraman in Iraq” “BAGHDAD (Reuters) – U.S. troops shot dead an award-winning Reuters cameraman while he was filming on Sunday near a U.S.-run prison on the outskirts of Baghdad. Eyewitnesses said soldiers on an American tank shot at Mazen Dana, 43, as he filmed outside Abu Ghraib prison in […]