It’s not just me: thefts are up – Daily: “A2 crime rate falls, but thefts increase” The Daily also runs a letter from Laura Davis, co-chair of the campus chapter of Young Americans for Freedom, who concludes: “The University, however, is not a nursery school, a babysitter or a project in social engineering. The University’s […]
WANTED: MICHIGAMUA “PRIDES” OF 2004 AND 2005 Can you help? Send me an anonymous email at rob at goodspeedupdate dot com. Michigamua selects (“taps”) their new members around the first week in April each year – my directory doesn’t include the people selected last year or who will be selected very soon.
Want to hear about Ward Connerly’s ballot initiative? This event schedule for Thursday, April 1 has your name all over it.
An organization I am a member of, the Urban Issues Collective, is sponsoring an event this Friday which I think will prove very interesting. We have invited two leaders of an Ann Arbor organization which advocates for New Urbanism in the city to come and speak, they’ll be discussing Granny Flats, the Greenbelt, mixed-use development, […]
The Lecturers’ Employee Organization has authorized a vote among their membership about whether to stage a walk-out on April 8: > Daily: “LEO authorizes vote to walk out”> See the LEO website The RIAA is targeting a few hundred students nationally in their latest round of lawsuits, including 9 U-M students: > Daily: “RIAA will […]
” … “We don’t see how colleges teaming with beer advertisers is in the best interests of students,” said George Hacker, director of the Alcohol Policies Project for the Center for Science in the Public Interest. The center is asking 1,200 colleges and universities to sign what it calls The College Commitment, a pledge to […]
Let’s Make U-M #1 In Moveon.org’s College Fundraiser The activist web organization Moveon.org is working with the “Click Back America” website, which is encouraging college students to sign a petition protesting the impact of the massive budget deficits racked up by President Bush will have on education. For each college student who participates, the Click […]