Two Ohio State fans were taken to the U-M hospital after being assaulted outside the Brown Jug on South University 1 AM Sunday morning. Welcome to Ann Arbor, home of the Leaders and the Best(TM)!

Also, a busy weekend for theft. I wonder where all these hot laptops end up?

“800 block of East University Avenue, 7:13 p.m. Sunday. No signs of forced entry; laptop computer, Xbox and electronic games taken. Total value: $3,250.

700 block of South State Street, 12:14 a.m. Saturday. Apartment door kicked in; recording mixer, video games, 60 DVDs and a TV taken. Total value: $1,750. “

A 21-year-old Ann Arbor woman came home from the bar, took a shower, and passed out in the bedroom. The only problem? The resident of the Tappan St. apartment was quite suprised - she was in the wrong apartment.

Thank God for California

They’re going to require all voting precincts equip electronic voting machines with a printer to produce a written record of the votes. Too bad the rule doesn’t take effect until 2006.

Attention Honors Freshman

My Winter 2004 course “Student Activism and Social Change at the University of Michigan” now has a website. The course is open to first year honors students only.

We might pay her more than any other president of an American public university, but Mary Sue Coleman and her husband certainly give back, planning a $500,000 donation over five years to fund work at the Trotter House, a life sciences lecture fund, the expansion of the U-M art museum, among other projects.

Planada Parking Garage Announced

“… $13 million, 500-car parking structure in the 1100 block of East Ann Street to provide parking for the growing demand for parking facilities in the medical campus area. … The project costs will be paid using parking revenues. The design work is scheduled to begin next month. The location until recently was the site of the old Planada apartments, which U-M bought with the intention of razing. … “ (AANews)

Perhaps the garage will include rentable retail space on the ground floor so that the small businesses can serve the needs of all the Hill Dorm students and the employees of the new medical buildings under construction, in addition to supplying some part-time jobs I’m sure students would love to have. Or maybe they’ll be expected to drive somewhere for lunch, creating the “need” to construct more parking structures over historic buildings …

The University of Michigan goes another year without winning a Rhodes scholarship (See the U-M nominees), although Johns Hopkins University student and West Bloomfield native Wen Shi won one to pursue his dream to cure cancer.