The Daily reports today about a couple new auction websites targeting U-M students: theDiag.com and UMToday.com. UMToday seems more ambitious, even including a U-M specific “hot or not” feature. “… University alum Zach Price started the auction website TheDiag.com this week, in response to demand for a venue to advertise products for students that were […]
The logo of the Jamaican Jerk Pit, a new restaurant located at 314 South Thayer (across from Hill Auditorium) has been drawing some attention by those who think the cartoon in its logo too closely resembles the racist “Mammy” stereotype from Blackface Minstrel Shows, popular in the United States in the middle of the 19th […]
In a tense negotiating session at Trotter House yesterday, student activists seem to have be taken seriously by administrators in their demands for increased funding of student services, which experienced deep cuts this year. Although the administration didn’t make any concessions or agree to any of the activist’s demands, I think the students are well […]
Michigamua “Pride” of 1999: Andrew D. BerenzweigAndrew R. PottsBobby L. Scales IIChristopher W. BuntCory J. FrylingDelano M. WhiteDon M. Chamberlin IVDwane Q. FuquaErik W. RankaEvan M. MeyersFrank J. LodesertoGerald B. OlivariGregory R. DaddarioJeffrey SmokevitchJonathan W. JansenJoseph C. TaylorManuel F. MunguiaMichael C. FairPinkey L. OliverRahul M. ShahRobert D. HayesRyan D. FreidrichsSpencer F. PreisThomas A. Malchow
Although Froogle, Google’s new product search engine might think I’m selling LSA Senior Jackie Bray on my website, they are in fact mistaken. ($1.70 seems entirely too low … ) She did, however, contribute to a book which was recently issued by Indyvoter.org called “How to Get Stupid White Men Out of Office: The Anti-Politics, […]
Just another day in our fine city: “Gunman robs store on Washtenaw Ave. A gunman dressed in black with a bandana pulled over his face robbed a clerk at gunpoint at an Ypsilanti Township party store Sunday evening, the Washtenaw County Sheriff’s Department reported. The 42-year-old clerk said the robber entered the Huckleberry Party Store […]
A member of the radical environmental organization the Earth Liberation Front has pled guilty to charges he caused $2.5 million in damages after participating in the fire bombing of new SUVs in Los Angeles, and faces a prison sentence of 25 years to life: > AP: “Student pleads innocent in SUV vandalism, firebombing spree in […]