Of all the candidates running for an MSA-LSA seat, I am able to suggest voting for three: Ashwini Hardikar, Sam Woll, and Paul Spurgeon. As a reminder, only LSA students will be able to vote for them, and the polls will be open from now until Thursday midnight at www.umich.edu/~vote. Ashwini Hardikar (Students first – […]

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I’ve just sent a short questionaire to the 26 candidates for 9 open LSA representative seats on the Michigan Student Assembly. I’ll post the results at about 11:00 PM tonight. Voting begins at 12 midnight. Here are the candidates: Adam de Angeli: ( adeange ) Defend Affirmative Action PartyMonica R. Smith: ( monistar ) Defend […]

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“Less than a week after workers struck at Borders’s downtown Ann Arbor, Mich., store, employees at one of country’s major indies also went on strike. Last Wednesday, more than 300 unionized workers at the seven Powell’s Bookstore locations in Portland, Ore., went on strike to protest a slow down in contract negotiations. Powell’s workers unionized […]

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So, I received this anonymously … “I think that it is quite obvious what Mr. Nolan is trying to achieve with his letter to the Daily. This statement of the the post-Nolan/Cash Michigan Student Assembly is as, if not more, tactical than Chelsea Clinton’s grounbreaking Oxford-era interview with Talk magazine, which is a passive treatise […]

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I’ve been nominated by the mayor to serve on Ann Arbor’s “Cool Cities Task Force,” according to the “current packet” available on the city’s website. The other nominees are Eugene Yue-Hin Chan, an LSA student and a native of Canada who lives in West Quad, Brandt Coultas, who works for SNRE, engineering student Melissa Schulte, […]

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The Daily covers the continuing Borders strike: “The living wage in Ann Arbor is $10.40 without employee benefits and $9.45 with benefits, said Brad Bachelor, Borders bookseller and employee for three years. Currently, starting wages are $6.50 for cashiers and $7 for floor clerks at Borders, he added. “We do get benefits at the moment […]

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If you don’t want to miss any of the campus intrigue in today’s Daily, you better set aside some extra time: the newspaper is jammed with goodies. Yes, if Matt Nolan’s name makes you retch, as it does many, you should be warned: MSA’s attempt to patch up an oversight of the assembly to prepare […]

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