[…] “I think it’s safe to say that most motivated, intelligent, creative young students that come to the Daily end up leaving. … The newspaper is run with an extraordinarily rigid hierarchy, which undoubtedly dissuades many writers who wouldn’t like to spend two years of their college career as the equivalent of someone’s literary bitch. […]
” […] I suspect that much of this effort is being undertaken to make the admissions system more opaque, not to make it better. In June, Justice David Souter’s argument that Michigan’s point system deserved “an extra point” for frankness rather than requiring a system where the “winners are the ones who hide the ball.” […]
“I think the city does need to allow more high-density developments that include low-income housing — but not exclusively low income development “projects.” We don’t need seven story buildings with million dollar condos on crowded side streets.” Writes my friend and 4th Ward candidate for Ann Arbor City Council Scott Trudeau about the impact of […]
In the spirit of constructive criticism that forms a cornerstone of American journalism, today begins my one-week series on the Michigan Daily. I hope my efforts prove fruitful by sparking a community-wide discussion of that newspaper’s strengths and weaknesses, and perhaps even stimulate a little change. In that spirit, each entry I post is followed […]
I plan on posting part one of my Inside the Daily series around midnight tonight.
Keep your eye out for Ann Arbor’s latest publication – something called the “Ann Arbor Paper.” They bill themselves as “the new alternative weekly covering Ann Arbor’s art, culture and society …” We’ll be watching.
A U-M grad and friend of mine wrote to me about my suggestion that the University incorporate private commercial space and perhaps even housing in their new buildings in the medical campus: “You have hit on something that a group of students is working on for North Campus that could really benefit the UM community. […]