UNIVERSITY PARTY OPPOSES BORDERS’ WORKERS RESOLUTION With the MSA election approaching, it’s time to start thinking about student government politics, something I relish. As I can feel some of the more reactionary elements of my readership reacting against my headline, I’ll start by pointing out that neither Students First or the University Party have a […]
The Daily covers the Borders’ employees plans to strike this Saturday at 9:00 AM. An interesting sidelight to the story: the Michigan Student Assembly failed to pass a resolution in support of the union, proving once again that even in student government, politics matters. “… Dave Pratt, an employee at Borders for over five years, […]
Planting 20,000 daffodils in the Arb sounds like a great way to get a master’s degree to me! That is, actually, exactly what artist Susan Skarsgard has done – but there’s not much to see until the flowers bloom sometime in “late April.” See the University Press release, the project’s webpage, or a Free Press […]
The next speaker in the colloquium organized by professors Anthony S. Chen, Matt Lassiter, and Robert Mickey that brought Tom Sugrue to campus earlier this semester is planned for this week. Harvard Professor Lizabeth Cohen will be giving a talk called “The Racial Politics of Mass Consumption in the Consumers’ Republic” on Friday from 12:00 […]
Election Coverage Wrap-Up Michigan Daily> “Voters Welcome Greenbelt”> “Despite efforts, student fail to get council seats” Ann Arbor News> “Greenbelt Proposal Wins Landslide Voter Approval”> “City Runs out of Ballots”> “Republican voice holds on”> “Voters retain rule for council”> “Ann Arbor Township Voters Approve Proposal” Detroit Free Press> “Ann Arbor Voters OK Tax to Buy […]
The union representing employees at Ann Arbor’s Liberty Street Borders will be going on strike this Saturday, November 8 at 9:00 AM after struggling for nearly a year to negotiate a contract with Borders Incorporated management. Below is a message the union is circulating. They’re planning a folk and rock fundraiser at the Ark next […]
“… Prop B is a good start, although not enough to reverse the seemingly inexorable sprawling of America, which can be stemmed only with considerably higher land and fuel pricing, as well as new zoning, regional and urban growth and redevelopment policies. It picks relatively low-hanging fruit that will only get harder to reach with […]