As if the Markley Flu weren’t enough: “Students living in Mary Markley Residence Hall will have to alter their walking routes to Central Campus after spring break, due to upcoming School of Public Health renovations. On Feb. 23, the University will close Washington Heights Street between Observatory Street and the east end of the SPH […]
Jennifer Gratz spoke in the Union yesterday amid a general melee organized by BAM-N as part of their general tactic of encouraging angry personal confrontations to spark the revolution instead of building a diverse and thoughtful pro-affirmative action community on campus. Gratz, to her credit, seems to have been respectful: “I don’t agree with them, […]
Sam Woll has posted an updated version of her viewpoint in yesterday’s Daily on her blog, and her sister has a letter to the editor in today’s Daily about it.
I’ve received this feedback from Peter Mooney, an opinion staffer at the Michigan Daily in 1985 and 1986, opinion editor in 1987, and a city beat news reporter in 1988. Although it sounds as if BAM-N has attempted to meddle with the Daily in the past, they had nothing to do with last year’s boycott. […]
U-M history professor and middle east expert Juan Cole wants to translate the “classics of American thought and literature” into Arabic through something he’s calling the “The Americana in Arabic Library”: “The classics of American thought and literature have been little translated into Arabic. Worse, even when they have been translated, they have appeared in […]
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Rendezvous culture … “Drunken man makes scene at coffeehouse A 51-year-old Ann Arbor man was arrested on a charge of disorderly conduct Wednesday evening after he demanded a cup of coffee for a quarter and created a large scene when employees at a coffeehouse refused, Ann Arbor Police said. Employees at Rendezvous Cafe on South […]