Author: Rob

In commemoration of the second anniversary of September 11, 2001, I’ll remind my visitors of the permanent 9.11.01 photo gallery on this website.

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It appears the University did not win their bid for the creation of an Army Biotechnology Center on this campus, although they did get a more mundane-sounding but similar “Midwestern Regional Center of Excellence (RCE) for Biodefense and Emerging Infectious Diseases Research.” The University has been quiet about it, and neither the Daily nor the […]

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AAPD Crack Down on U-M Students “Party patrol hands out 142 tickets Ann Arbor Police issued more than 140 citations during the second weekend of a crackdown on drinking around the University of Michigan campus, a 40 percent increase over the same weekend last fall, authorities said. The effort, called party patrol, includes 10 extra […]

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Former president and U-M alum Gerald Ford and former secretary of the treasury Paul O’Neill will participate in two programs in the Rackham Building on September 18 to dedicate the planned construction of the School of Public Policy. > URecord: “Gerald Ford to attend Ford School dedication”

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“… The issue of Israel moved some neoconservatives – like Podhoretz – to the conservative side to be sure. But to write a piece whose central claim is that neoconservatives are Jewish nationalists out to control American policy in behalf of Israel is merely to mouth the false and hateful propaganda of the Islamic jihadists. […]

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According to USA Today, Arnold Schwarzenegger has told a TV station that he opposes the racial information ban, or Proposition 54, in California. If passed, the initiative would prohibit the state from collecting information about race: “Democratic Lt. Gov. Cruz Bustamante, in an attempt to defuse criticism of the big contributions he’s received from Indian […]

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“Personally, the idea of an American – me – and a group of Brits coming to Iraq to open a publication was fraught with concerns about cultural imperialism. I feared we would be granting legitimacy to an invasion and occupation that I consider to be illegal. But after careful thought and having published seven issues […]

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