The University is letting me teach a course next semester. Well, a seven week 1-credit mini-course for honors freshman, but a course nonetheless. It’s titled “Student Activism and Social Change at the University of Michigan,” and will be offered January 12 through March 8th. The class will meet on Mondays from 4-5 PM. If any […]
The Students First Engineering candidate Pedro Perez-Cabezas is sending the following email, suggesting he supports a Pizza Hut or Taco Bell in Pierpont Commons: “Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2003 13:59:58 -0500 From: pedromp Reply-To: pedromp Subject: Hey XXX , vote for me today/tommorrow Hey XXX, support your fellow Engineer, Pedro Perez-Cabezas, and vote for me […]
“Land use has been a divisive issue in our state, but good land use decisions are also often good economic decisions for communities and businesses,” Granholm said. “In order to make Michigan a magnet state for new business development and jobs, we must make a conscious effort to invest in our already existing infrastructure.” > […]
Of all the candidates running for an MSA-LSA seat, I am able to suggest voting for three: Ashwini Hardikar, Sam Woll, and Paul Spurgeon. As a reminder, only LSA students will be able to vote for them, and the polls will be open from now until Thursday midnight at www.umich.edu/~vote. Ashwini Hardikar (Students first – […]
I’ve just sent a short questionaire to the 26 candidates for 9 open LSA representative seats on the Michigan Student Assembly. I’ll post the results at about 11:00 PM tonight. Voting begins at 12 midnight. Here are the candidates: Adam de Angeli: ( adeange ) Defend Affirmative Action PartyMonica R. Smith: ( monistar ) Defend […]
“Less than a week after workers struck at Borders’s downtown Ann Arbor, Mich., store, employees at one of country’s major indies also went on strike. Last Wednesday, more than 300 unionized workers at the seven Powell’s Bookstore locations in Portland, Ore., went on strike to protest a slow down in contract negotiations. Powell’s workers unionized […]
So, I received this anonymously … “I think that it is quite obvious what Mr. Nolan is trying to achieve with his letter to the Daily. This statement of the the post-Nolan/Cash Michigan Student Assembly is as, if not more, tactical than Chelsea Clinton’s grounbreaking Oxford-era interview with Talk magazine, which is a passive treatise […]