As expected, the Naked Mile was a flop. The Ann Arbor News has declared the death of the tradition: “Seems Naked Mile has run its course”, and the Free Press ran this AP story apparently written by someone who didn’t venture outside: “Police: Five arrests, few spectators, at ‘Naked Mile’” From the N.Y. Times’ obituary […]
NAKED MILE TONIGHTAccording to tradition, today being the last day of classes, the 17th annual Naked Mile is set for around 10 p.m. at the intersection of South University and Washtenaw Avenue. HISTORY:> 2003: Daily: “Officials take hands-off approach to Naked Mile”> 2002: Photos, Daily: “Runners turnout for Mile despite increased security efforts”> 2001: AANews: […]
I’ve heard both of the controversial resolutions MSA was set to vote on were tabled tonight: the gag rule, and the resolution about the Caterpillar Corporation. (See: “MSA postpones taking stance on Caterpillar Corp.” )
There’s one clear loser in the Iraq war: history. See The 2003 Iraq War & Archaeology page, and the Archaeological Institute of America has posted an “Open Declaration on Cultural Heritage at Risk in Iraq”.
A U-M graduate student is claiming a new Michigan law has made his PhD thesis illegal: “It’s very difficult, reading the law, it makes basically everything that I do illegal,” says Provos The law, part of a number of state-level “Super DMCA” laws makes it illegal to merely posses certain types of security technology. Also, […]
MSA to vote on gag rule tonight> More discussion about MSA politics here The Daily finally ran a story about the AATU’s demise today: “AATU ends student services due to lack of MSA funding”. From the article:“Newly-elected MSA General Counsel Jason Mironov said MSA will conduct a cost benefit analysis of the AATU and make […]
I’ve recently been told that tomorrow MSA will be voting on a proposed gag rule to prohibit the Communiciations Committee and Peace and Justice Commission from taking any points of view, or “carry out its duties in a fair and equitable manner to all constituents while refraining from promoting itself, or the Michigan Student Assembly, […]