STUDENT WOODSHOP CLOSEDThe Goodspeed Update has learned that the Student Woodshop has been closed as a victim of budget cuts. Operating since 1968, today’s closing came to a surprise to the woodshops’s eight part-time employees. The woodshop was jointly operated by Royster Harper’s Office of Student Affairs and the Michigan Union Arts and Programs Office. […]
I’m planning to attend this meeting tonight:“Community forum regarding the USA PATRIOT Act and the proposed Ann Arbor City Council civil liberties resolution.DATE: Wednesday, June 11, 2003TIME: 7:00 p.m.LOCATION: Ann Arbor District Library, Multi-Purpose Room (343 S. Fifth Avenue, downtown Ann Arbor)SPEAKERS: Featured speaker is Noel Saleh, Post 9/11 Fellow of the American Civil Liberties […]
NATIONAL MINUTEThe U.S. Army has patented technology that can dispense “biological and chemical agents” over unruly crowds, further reason they need a biotechnology research center at the U of M – to protect U.S. “warfighters.” The AP estimates 3,240 civilian deaths in Iraq. (According to a February 2003 Zogby Poll, 54% of Americans said they […]
200 CAMERAS AT THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN“A similar installation of cameras at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor has also met no student opposition, according to campus officials, though some students have complained about the cost of security enhancements. The university is in the process of installing cameras at every entrance to its 16 […]
Michigian Squirrels are changing color?5.23.03 Free Press: “Let’s hope this one’s not the butt of jokes”6.30.03 Free Press: Brown-butt squirrels all over Michigan
The Cleveland Plain-Dealer breathlessly anticipates this year’s Art Fairs, warning that “Trying in one day to see everything within its 25 linear blocks of merchandise can put you on a crafts death march.” The article also has this to say about our fair town: “Downtown Ann Arbor is cosmopolitan for its size, offering a United […]
Was Leon Trotsky a neo-conservative?“I’ve talked to Wolfowitz about all of this,” Schwartz notes. “We had this discussion about Shachtman. He knows all that stuff, but was never part of it. He’s definitely aware.” The yoking together of Paul Wolfowitz and Leon Trotsky sounds odd, but a long and tortuous history explains the link between […]