Borders Readers United has posted on their blog some photos and other information about the Borders’ Strike, which began today.
N.Y. Times Columnist Paul Krugman To Speak on Campus Economist, New York Times columnist, and frequent critic of the Bush administration Paul Krugman will be speaking on campus next Wednesday, at 8:00 PM in the School of Education’s Schorling Auditorium. Krugman was originally planning to come to Ann Arbor to attend book signings of his […]
“I’m impressed you got this many people to come out on a Friday. I’m not sure we would do as well at Harvard, in fact I’m sure we wouldn’t.” Said Harvard Professor Liz Cohen at her modestly-attended lecture today in Angell Hall Auditorium A for the Colloquium on Race and Twentieth-Century American Political Development. I’ll […]
UNIVERSITY PARTY OPPOSES BORDERS’ WORKERS RESOLUTION With the MSA election approaching, it’s time to start thinking about student government politics, something I relish. As I can feel some of the more reactionary elements of my readership reacting against my headline, I’ll start by pointing out that neither Students First or the University Party have a […]
The Daily covers the Borders’ employees plans to strike this Saturday at 9:00 AM. An interesting sidelight to the story: the Michigan Student Assembly failed to pass a resolution in support of the union, proving once again that even in student government, politics matters. “… Dave Pratt, an employee at Borders for over five years, […]
Planting 20,000 daffodils in the Arb sounds like a great way to get a master’s degree to me! That is, actually, exactly what artist Susan Skarsgard has done – but there’s not much to see until the flowers bloom sometime in “late April.” See the University Press release, the project’s webpage, or a Free Press […]
The next speaker in the colloquium organized by professors Anthony S. Chen, Matt Lassiter, and Robert Mickey that brought Tom Sugrue to campus earlier this semester is planned for this week. Harvard Professor Lizabeth Cohen will be giving a talk called “The Racial Politics of Mass Consumption in the Consumers’ Republic” on Friday from 12:00 […]