The Michigan Tech students sued by the RIAA for setting up an on-campus MP3-swapping network have settled: each will be paying between $12,000 and $17,000 in fines to the record labels and promise not to download illegal music, although the students did not admit any wrongdoing. It’s not clear with this might mean for U-M […]
A friend of Jessica Smith, the U-M student who died last weekend, dedicated part of her blog to Smith.
The Ann Arbor News ran a story about the ‘U’ budget cuts today. Here’s the list of cuts by Department. The story doesn’t include anything about the cuts to various multicultural offices that I have heard of. The Daily story “New office created to addrerss affirmative action in workplace” is about this – cutting costs […]
If you win too much at Detroit’s Greektown casino, it seems you may just get banned. Also, read Doctor and U-M Professor Tim Johnson’s letter to the Michigian Senate Judiciary Committee about the ban of some abortions protected under Roe the Senate passed today. Excerpt:“Such an extreme, broad ban blatantly disregards women’s health and lives. […]
In what amounts to a slap on the wrist, a captain on the U-M basketball team, Bernard Robinson Jr. was sentenced to one year probation for groping a student in West Quad:“Washtenaw County Circuit Court Judge Donald E. Shelton lectured Robinson at his sentencing Tuesday afternoon, questioning the player’s attitude toward women and saying Robinson […]
Work by a U-M graduate student caught the eye of New York Times education reporter Michael Winerip. PhD Candidate Laura Haniford has investigated the coverage of the “achievement gap” in test scores between white and black students by the Ann Arbor News, concluding that while the problem has stayed the same since the mid 1980s, […]
The Lecturers’ Employee Organization vote has been tabulated – 82.4% of lecturers across the three U-M campuses voted for the creation of the union. The totals: 631 “Yes” votes, 135 “No”, and 51 challenged or spoiled ballots. Read the LEO Press Release here.