Dean to Visit Campus Friday Democratic presidential candidate Howard Dean is coming to Ann Arbor this Friday. Although the details are tentative, he’s scheduled to speak on campus “midmorning” somewhere on campus, most likely the Michigan Union or League.
The fifth of the eight public lectures in the “Michigan Colloquium on Race and Twentieth-Century American Political Development” organized by professors Matt Lassiter, Tony Chen, and Robert Mickey is this Thursday. Professor Mae Ngai will be giving the lecture “Impossible Subjects: Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern America” in Angel Hall B on Thurday […]
Keeping track of the embittered former members of government who are now making a career of criticizing the Bush administration on the lecture circuit and/or working for a democrat? Well, in addition to former director of the Office of Faith-Based Initiatives John J. Dilulio, former counter-terrorism specialist at the National Security Council Rand Beers, add […]
The suggestions from this town hall meeting held on the future of north campus sounds remarkably similar to a design project conducted by Dean Douglas Kelbaugh called North Campus Redux, completed with grant money given him by B. Joseph White during his interim presidency. Maybe it’s because Mr. Kelbaugh himself seems to have been in […]
“… Tripp was asked to speak about the campus environment before BAM – a separate group from today’s BAMN – began its efforts in the late 1960s. BAM’s protests of the University led to the creation of programs designed to increse racial diversity. As a student, Tripp was not alone in his efforts to promote […]
I’m excited about this series of events: “Join the Black Student Union, Multi Ethnic Student Affairs and the Center for Afro-American and African Studies as we “Rediscover the Legacy”: Black Activism at the University of Michigan Keynote SpeakerAlexa Canady,U-M Activist AlumnaFirst Black Female Neurosurgeon in the United StatesMonday February 26 p.m.“The power of activism”Henderson Room, […]
Frequent commenter T.J. Wharry has announced his “retirement” from this website.