I’ve always felt we’re not getting the whole story when it comes to the Ed Martin scandal. See this from the N.Y. Times story about the sanctions: “N.C.A.A. Bars Michigan From Another Postseason”:“This is one of the three or four most egregious violations of N.C.A.A. bylaws in the history of the association,” said Thomas E. […]
This Indymedia story has some photos and information about the May Day protest at the downtown Borders, where employees have voted for a union and are trying to negotiate their first contract. Here’s the Ann Arbor News story about the protest. Meanwhile, the Minneapolis, MN store also trying to negotiate a contract held a successful […]
The U-M College Democrats have released this statement about the local Lyndon LaRouche activists that stormed a College Dems meeting last spring and have been leaving their loony litereature around campus. This article from the Washington Post: “Ideological Odyssey: From Old Left to Far Right” from 1985 gives a historical perspective on this quasi-political cult. […]
The NCAA Infractions committee decided that the voluntary punishments taken by the U-M basketball program for the Martin scandal weren’t enough, announcing today they would ban the basketball team from participating in the postseason for one year, reducing the number of scholarships Michigan can provide, and placing the program on probation for one year:Freep.: “U-M […]
“Everybody came to the Book-Cadillac,” the Free Press writes in their article about the developing story to re-open the historic Book-Cadillac Hotel in downtown Detroit. That’s not exactly true. For years after it was constructed in 1924, the Book-Cadillac and many of Detroit’s other hotels, hospitals, and other public accomodations were white only. (Black doctors […]
Last week’s Detroit News editorial slamming the Wayne State Student Council for passing a resolution requsting the University divest from corporations that did business in Israel elicited a number of responses in the letters section yesterday: Paul Massaron, chair of the WSU Board of Governors wrote a letter rejecting the resolution, U-M student activist Fadi […]
This New York Times column on study of school vouchers released during the 2000 election suggests its conclusions were wrong: vouchers didn’t help raise the test scores of any group that participated: “Princeton economist, Alan B. Krueger, took the offer, and after two years recently concluded that Professor Peterson had it all wrong — that […]