The Dateline Special hosted by Tom Brokaw about the U-M admissions lawsuits is tonight at 8:00 PM. Today’s Chronicle of Higher Ed. contains a series of articles about affirmative action here at the U of M. The reporter picks up on BAMN’s unpopularity among student activists – the first time I have every seen a […]
While I support mixed use development, I’m frustrated when it’s only built for the wealthy. A proposed 20-condo project at Kingsley and North Ashley could sell units for the ‘high $300,000s’ but not quite hit the ‘Ann Arbor luxury market’ according to this story in the Business Direct Weekly.
From this USA Today op-ed:“… But until I reviewed my class directory, I had forgotten how unrepresentative and undemocratic law schools were before affirmative action began. My directory listed 243 graduates. Examining the names and calling upon my best recollection, here is its composition: Four women. One (possibly two) African-American. One Hispanic surname. The remainder […]
In addition to the entire republican delegation, U.S. Represenatives from Michigan John Dingell, Dale Kildee, and Bart Stupak all voted for the recently passed, illegal abortion ban. See the complete vote here. The two top editors at the Times, Howell Raines and Gerald Boyd, have resigned in the wake of the Jayson Blair scandal. Here’s […]
While this website may not look a whole lot different, I’ve been tinkering under the hood. It should load more quickly now, and the links section at the bottom has been removed. Please leave comments! (See website history here)
While Salon may have dubbed Al-Muajaha (“The Iraqi Witness”) ‘Baghdad’s only independent newspaper,’ it will be joined next week by the paper U-M student Dave Enders is helping write, the Baghdad Bulletin. Hopefully these new english-language papers will help get some information out about Iraq that doesns’t make it into the New York Times. Meanwhile, […]
Finding some odd-looking emails in your inbox? The W32/Sobig.c@mm virus is currently spreading around U-M systems, be suspicious of emails with subject lines including “Re: Application”, “Re: Approved”, and “Re: Your Application” among others. This virus also spoofs the return email address, so the return address isn’t necissarily the person with the infected computer. See […]