Long-time Detroit News Columnist George Cantor has been fired after nearly 40 years of service under unclear circumstances. In 1998, Cantor’s daughter Courtney died after falling out of a window in Mary Markley Hall, and an autopsy revealed the date-rape drug GHB in her blood stream. Cantor made a $100,000 settlement in a lawsuit with […]
ITCS has announced they are now blocking the Sobig.f virus sent to any “@umich.edu” email address, and “ITCS is very close to implementing a full antivirus blocking capability for the umich.edu mail-relay hosts. We will inform the campus as soon as we have this capability in place.” They are also warning people who purchased services […]
I’ve spent most of today putting the finishing touches on what will hopefully prove the last word for me about the Michigan Daily: a special week-long series titled “Inside the Daily.” I’ve posted an introduction and a listing of what to expect – I’ll be posting it in five sections the week of September 1 […]
“Summers was an impressive candidate from the outset. … But Summers’s temperament was troubling to some members of the corporation. The word from Washington was that he could be peremptory, condescending, impatient with lesser mortals. He had, as Robert Rubin, Summers’s mentor and predecessor as treasury secretary, delicately put it, ”a rough-edges issue.” Rubin says […]
“John Kerr, owner of Wazoo Records of 33612 State St., said he has been told the two-way traffic would increase business because cars would travel slower and notice businesses more often. “I’m real curious to see if it has the desired effect,” Kerr said. “It will be a lot easier to give directions and a […]
… “The University of Illinois has canceled 1,000 classes on hundreds of subjects this year. Up to 1,000 students at the University of North Carolina will be shut out of beginning Spanish. The University of Colorado has eliminated academic programs in journalism, business and engineering. The University of California has put off opening an entire […]
The Ann Arbor Police are excited about their new Tasers, devices that shoots two small darts up to 20 feet, penetrating the skin by “no more than one-fourth of an inch” that then zap people with enough electricity to make them collapse and curl into a ball involuntarily. In the Ann Arbor News article, Chief […]