The Goodspeed Update

The owner of Biener’s Wieners, the hot dog stand which has been at the corner of State Street and North University of over 20 years, died on St. Patrick’s Day of heart disease, although his partner will continue the business. Interestingly, on the day he died he experienced chest pains, but didn’t go to the […]

“The Trial of the Century”
A new book about the case of Dr. Ossian Sweet was released this week. Dr. Sweet was a wealthy and successful black doctor in Detroit in the 1920s. While attempting to move into a home he had purchased in an all-white neighborhood in 1925, the Sweet family and some of their […]

On The Slow Death of Student Journalism at Michigan
Yes, part of the changing ideology of the editorial page of the Michigan Daily is an institutionalized and regular hostility towards student activists. I first wrote about this phenomenon on February 2 after reading editorial page editor Jason Pesick’s signed editorial announcing the beginning of his term […]

U-M Alumni Friendster
The U-M Alumni Association has purchased software developed by Stanford Alumni and plans to launch a Friendster-like service targeting only U-M alumni sometime this spring. Here’s what Stanford had to say about the software, called “Affinity engines,” on their “customers” page which includes the University of Michigan:
Stanford University
“Affinity Engines helped the Stanford Alumni […]

This website was featured in the April 2004 Ann Arbor Observer in a short “guide” to local weblogs published on pages 14 and 15. Read more about the coverage on Arborblogs, Airbeagle (and co-author Brandhast), srah blah blah, and commonmonkeyflower. Meanwhile, Hillary’s The Bunker, and Steve’s Seat of the Revolution resent being characterized as Ann […]

“There’s a new University of Michigan team on campus. It held tryouts, signed on the three top players, has a roster of coaches, and practices weekly.
But it will be brains - not brawn - that determine if this team is a winner.
The team is called The Mighty Hackers and it left Saturday for the Czech […]

Here’s some more on the Thompson street home invasion:
“A University of Michigan student said she screamed and fought in fear as an intruder ripped at her clothing after climbing through a window in her Ann Arbor apartment early one morning last week.
She later learned he is suspected in a series of similar incidents - including […]