“Liberal Academe”? Thanks to a vigilant reader, who pointed out in today’s print edition of the Ann Arbor News, the “Talk About Town” column playfully points out that the staff at the University of Michigan are among the most generous in higher education in their giving to George W. Bush’s re-election campaign: “Indeed, U-M faculty […]
The president of the League of Conservation Voters, Deb Callahan, will speak on campus this Thursday from 4:30 to 6:30 PM in the SNRE auditorium.: Many believe the Bush Administration has no time to think about our environment because the situation in Iraq. Yet the Administration continues to systematically dismantle key environment protections, such as […]
The Michigan Student Assembly has begun promoting their online book selling website, DogEars.net. > Daily: “Online book buying saves bucks for cash-conscious students”
Mark your calendars: Each year, the U-M MLK Symposium hosts a number of events surrounding the Martin Luther King holiday. The day off classes, as well as the symposium, were both born out of student activism in the early 1990s. Here are some of the events that have caught my eye to be held on […]
Here’s some information about an event to be held tomorrow, featuring the sisters named in the Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court case: “- What: An interactive panel talk with the sisters whose father was the lead plaintiff in the historic Brown vs. Board of Education Supreme Court case that outlawed segregation in the […]
“All in all, I think it’s significant to say that we got the first starting wage increase in nearly a decade. If Borders decides to raise it a tad for everyone else and pretend they were always going to do that, I think what we’ve done is well worth it. Every year at this time […]
Here’s an article in Crain’s Detroit Business about the end of the Borders strike: “Borders union ratifies deal settling Ann Arbor strike”