This New York Times column on study of school vouchers released during the 2000 election suggests its conclusions were wrong: vouchers didn’t help raise the test scores of any group that participated: “Princeton economist, Alan B. Krueger, took the offer, and after two years recently concluded that Professor Peterson had it all wrong — that […]

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President Coleman and her executive cabinent will be foregoing pay raises next year to help meet the budget crisis. According to the article, the budget plan currently means cutting 50 faculty – 20 from LSA. And this:“Coleman said that despite the LS&A cuts, U-M is reallocating faculty to ensure easier access to high demand courses […]

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Democrats in the Michigan State Senate are trying to prohibit redlining, the practice where insurance companies set rates based only on address. The description of last week’s Comerica Bank robber has changed somewhat, according to this story: “He is described as an Asian male, 40 to 45 years old, with a stocky build and white […]

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The Daily covers the closing of Decker Drugs in their article this week: “Drugstore closes due to high rent, competition“, documenting the latest victim of the slow continued gentrification of the State Street Area as high-volume restaurants and fast food chains replace locally-owned and independent businesses. I don’t think it’s quite time to despair: Cafe […]

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In a blog post today, Dumi Lewis writes about a hate e-mail recieved by the Students of Color of Rackham, and reports the Ginsburg center’s affirmative action banner was stolen in the middle of the night.

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From today’s University Record: > 51 people at the Institute for Social Research lost their jobs, victims of a contraction in federal research spending.> The Record’s LEO headline:“Lecturers vote in favor of employee organization” I suppose ‘union’ was too strong a word.>The Regents approved a schematic design for a new engineering and computer science building.> […]

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‘Tis the season for blogging. The latest local blog to come online is U-M sociology graduate student Andrew Vanalstyne’s “Ravings of a Graduate Student” about “Politics, Baseball, etc.” You may know him from Mustaches for Peace.

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