Jesse Jackson was arrested today for blocking traffic with 30 others at a Labor Day protest at Yale University, telling the media:“This is the site of national Labor Day outrage. This is going to be for economic justice what Selma was for the right to vote.”
The New York Times features several U-M students in an article today about college students and sleep deprivation:“Lack of Sleep takes its toll on student psyches” Like many college students, Jenny Waller, 21, is something of a night owl. In her first weeks at the University of Michigan a few years ago, Miss Waller rarely […]
“… Neocons envision a world in which the United States is the unchallenged superpower, immune to threats. They believe that the US has a responsibility to act as a “benevolent global hegemon.” In this capacity, the US would maintain an empire of sorts by helping to create democratic, economically liberal governments in place of “failed […]
Part 2 of Inside the Daily has been posted: “Shortly after the incident above, which occurred on September 25, 2002, a strange man walked into the Michigan Daily newsroom. Excited, he said that he had been a former writer for the Daily, and was now employed by the University. He wanted to speak to the […]
[…] “I think it’s safe to say that most motivated, intelligent, creative young students that come to the Daily end up leaving. … The newspaper is run with an extraordinarily rigid hierarchy, which undoubtedly dissuades many writers who wouldn’t like to spend two years of their college career as the equivalent of someone’s literary bitch. […]
” […] I suspect that much of this effort is being undertaken to make the admissions system more opaque, not to make it better. In June, Justice David Souter’s argument that Michigan’s point system deserved “an extra point” for frankness rather than requiring a system where the “winners are the ones who hide the ball.” […]
“I think the city does need to allow more high-density developments that include low-income housing — but not exclusively low income development “projects.” We don’t need seven story buildings with million dollar condos on crowded side streets.” Writes my friend and 4th Ward candidate for Ann Arbor City Council Scott Trudeau about the impact of […]