Think the Daily would report about a student attacked near campus over the weekend? Think again, the Ann Arbor news runs this in their police beat today. Although I’ll note, in my experience as a crime reporter, the Ann Arbor police were notoriously difficult to get information from. The officer assigned to speaking to the […]
When Rights Liberalism Backfires Or, the Daily goes where many wealthy white “liberals” have gone before … and violating their informal rule of “No Daily in the Daily” in the process. I guess she never got the memo about how many different ways there are for majority communities to support and respect minority communities. This […]
Recently, the Michigan Daily has quietly posted their bylaws on their website, although they’ve disabled the comment feature on that page. Yes, that means they’re partly done with suggestion number four from the “Agenda for Change” part of my Inside the Daily series. To their credit, I’ve heard there are some discussions ongoing about creating […]
This Thursday, the President’s Task Force on Purchasing Ethics and Policies will hear public comments as part of their process of formulating a Code of Conduct for university vendors, which if properly drafted could mean the University telling anti-union or otherwise unethical contractors to shape up or risk losing their contract with the University. It […]
The Ann Arbor News details a growing debate in Ann Arbor about whether the city should approve the construction of taller buildings in the city in their story today “How tall is too tall for Ann Arbor?”. I think that taller buildings, appropriately placed at certain places in the city, could increase the vitality of […]
The Michigan blog scene continues to expand, but not in so much in Ann Arbor. From Ypsilanti, there’s the political if eye-straining “The Bunker,” and a similar site “Seat of the Revolution.” I’ve also stumbled across something called “Hyaline Skies,” offering a sensitive portrait of freshman year, for those who thought that impossible.
A group of professors, including Prof. Matt Lassiter, who teaches the popular History 364: History of American Suburbia, are planning a lecture series featuring some very well known professors and authors: “We are delighted to announce a new, year-long, interdisciplinary colloquium series — the Michigan Colloquium on Race and Twentieth-Century American Political Development The series […]