The University administration told representatives of Students Organizing for Labor and Economic Equality (SOLE) that they will be cancelling their contract with Morgan Linen, the Ohio laundry service hired by the U-M business school. (Here’s today’s Daily story about the meeting: “SOLE optimistic about Coleman’s response”, and a December 5 editorial) Also, yesterday the Daily […]
The U.S. Supreme Court has released audio of oral arguments twice in its history: in Bush v. Gore, and in Grutter / Gratz v. Bollinger. C-SPAN has made the U-M cases’ audio avaliable online here.
If anyone cares, the Rackham Student Government election results were released today. (Thanks for the forward)
If you have walked by the Liberty Street Borders since Friday, you saw some people with petitions. The Ann Arbor News ran this story today about the new union which is trying to negociate their first contract. The story quotes an organizer saying “We’re going to do whatever it takes, up to and including a […]
The two best accounts I could find of how the oral arguments went today in the U-M admissions lawsuits are the New York Times’ story “On affirmative action, high court seeks nuance”, and MSNBC’s “High court weighs affirmative action”. Overall, it sounds like the arguments went well since both articles conclude the justices’ questions seemed […]
This post is a bit late due to technical difficulties out of my control.Over 800 U-M students loaded 11 MSA and SSAA busses, and 4 BAMN busses last night to travel to Washington, D.C. to participate in a protest rally at the Supreme Court. Here’s a Washington Post story about the U-M campus filed yesterday. […]
AP:“Kerry has staked out varying positions on affirmative action”