Ballot Initiative Results MSA question: “The William Monroe Trotter Multicultural Center provides programs and services designed to enhance student experiences while at the University of Michigan. In order to fix the infrastructure of the William Monroe Trotter Multicultural Center, would you be willing to pay an additional one-dollar ($1.00) of student fees to be allocated […]
LSA-SG Results The following people won seats on LSA-SG: “School Position Candidate Name #votes/weighted votesLSA-SG President and Vice President Lauren May and Ryan Ford 1372 /1372 LSA-SG Representative Meta Brown 1041 5893LSA-SG Representative Reggie Gates 1008 5880LSA-SG Representative Andrew Yahkind 1015 5644LSA-SG Representative Brittany Jackson 976 5618LSA-SG Representative David Arnstein 941 5171LSA-SG Representative Jeff Monahan […]
MSA Results The first number following each name is the number of votes, the second, the number of “weighted” votes. “MSA President and Vice President Jason Mironov and Jenny Nathan 2261 2261 The other slates:MSA President and Vice President Tim Moore and Anita Leung 1201 1201MSA President and Vice President Kate Stenvig and Cyril Cordor […]
Yesterday’s protest in the media: > DetNews: “U-M students protest budget cuts”> AANews: “Assault center shift raises ire”> Daily: “Students protest service cuts at Regents meeting”> Freep: “U-M to Limit Tuition Hike to 2.4%”
“… The monumental growth Northland helped to engender has made southeastern Michigan’s quilt of counties, cities, townships and villages the most dominant collection of suburbs in the United States. In no other major metropolitan area do the suburbs overshadow their central city like the suburbs here dominate Detroit. The build-out never stops. Development daily pushes […]
After nearly an hour of students presenting to the Regents what was clearly for some very personal issues, just before adjuring for a break, Republic Regent Andrew C. Richner quipped, “I think that we need to have everybody at the basketball game tomorrow night.” Which, as you might expect, didn’t go over particularly well.
“Right now we’re in the midst of a crisis.” The demonstration at today’s regent’s meeting was an outstanding success. I’ve posted a few photos here if you missed it. I’ll also be blogging more about the meeting later tonight. After a number of impressive student speakers, Regents Olivia Maynard, Larry Deitch, and Andrea Fisher Newman […]