The Ann Arbor News reports on turnout expected tomorrow. In the past it varies widely: from 40% in 2002 to 8.4% in 2001. However, the fact that 1,830 absentee ballots have already been received, “many more” than in 2001, indicates the News might be right to imply turnout will be high.
Been tracked lately? No doubt because they can be easily disabled if stolen (stolen and fraudulent parking passes is an endemic problem at the University, and constitutes one of the major uses of the Code of Student Conduct) the University will begin converting employee parking passes to electronic chips that automatically communicate with the parking […]
This event sounds interesting, no doubt about Michigamua, part of a series on our “Native American Heritage”:“Native Americans and Secret Societies at the University of Michigan7 p.m. Nov. 18 Angell Hall, Room TBADiscussion about the University’s history with the Native community.”
If you’ve seen the ads in the Daily, you know the administration is a little worried about the “R” word. Yes, that’s right: rioting. A story in today’s University Record describes efforts by the university to reign in drunken crowd behavior at football and hockey games, but gets to the point with refreshing honesty at […]
“Anyone who has struggled with an interactive display in a museum knows how dodgy touchscreens can be. If they don’t freeze, they easily become misaligned, which means they can record the wrong data. In Dallas, during early voting before last November’s election, people found that no matter how often they tried to press a Democrat […]
What were you for halloween? Sparky, the penguin creation of Tom Tomorrow, was a Diebold voting machine. That’s pretty scary! ” … Diebold has become a favorite target of advocates who accuse it of partisanship: company executives have made large contributions to the Republican Party and the chief executive, Walden W. O’Dell, said in an […]
“ANN ARBOR, Mich. (AP) — A 43-year-old man faces charges after he smashed a bird-feeder and threw a pumpkin through the window of a house where his young son said he didn’t get any Halloween candy. Police reports show the man was taking his son trick-or-treating about 6:30 p.m. Friday when the child went to […]