Michigamua Confronted During Initiation Week Rituals What began as a leaked tidbit of information about the meeting time of Michigamua, Michigan’s most controversial secret honor society, ended yesterday night with nearly a dozen student activists confronting Michigamua members about their organization’s extensive history of abusing Native American culture. Using cellular phones and a tip that […]
Phoenix Classes of 2004 and 2005 Here’s some information I was able to get about Phoenix, one of the other “Tower Societies” that used to be all female until both it and Michigamua went co-ed in the 1990s. I’ve heard “4 to 5” people turned down “taps” for the 2005 class, and their names are […]
Michigamua “Pride” of 1999: Andrew D. BerenzweigAndrew R. PottsBobby L. Scales IIChristopher W. BuntCory J. FrylingDelano M. WhiteDon M. Chamberlin IVDwane Q. FuquaErik W. RankaEvan M. MeyersFrank J. LodesertoGerald B. OlivariGregory R. DaddarioJeffrey SmokevitchJonathan W. JansenJoseph C. TaylorManuel F. MunguiaMichael C. FairPinkey L. OliverRahul M. ShahRobert D. HayesRyan D. FreidrichsSpencer F. PreisThomas A. Malchow
WANTED: MICHIGAMUA “PRIDES” OF 2004 AND 2005 Can you help? Send me an anonymous email at rob at goodspeedupdate dot com. Michigamua selects (“taps”) their new members around the first week in April each year – my directory doesn’t include the people selected last year or who will be selected very soon.
“Right now we’re in the midst of a crisis.” The demonstration at today’s regent’s meeting was an outstanding success. I’ve posted a few photos here if you missed it. I’ll also be blogging more about the meeting later tonight. After a number of impressive student speakers, Regents Olivia Maynard, Larry Deitch, and Andrea Fisher Newman […]
The Tappan Oak, a large oak tree located between Haven Hall and the Graduate Library and traditional location of the annual Michigamua induction ritual has been vandalized, apparently as a protest to that organization’s continued presence on campus. According to the Ann Arbor News, some suspects have been interviewed, but no charges have been filed. […]
John Kerry and President Bush share something unusual: membership in Yale’s ultra-secret society Skull and Bones. Unlike Michigamua, which a reader correctly pointed out is mostly elitism lite, Skull and Bones seems worth examining closely: ” … Both President President Bush and his all-but-certain Democratic opponent, Sen. John Kerry of Massachusetts, were members of the […]