The University of Michigan recently unveiled a master plan for the University’s rapidly growing medical campus, which is explained in an article in today’s University Record. I am glad to see the university inching towards the realization that the medical campus that currently exists is a positively hostile place for pedestrians esthetically, visually, and literally. […]
BAM-N Activist Killed In Detroit
The Ann Arbor News reports that Joe Wagner, a 21-year-old Ann Arbor man who was an organizer for BAM-N in Detroit has been killed. The details surrounding the killing are unclear. (Via) —–
Florida’s Fading Stardom
I finally got around to reading the Post’s review of Richard Florida’s most recent book, Flight of the Creative Class, which came out in April. The reviewer makes it sound like a warmed-over version of his Rise of the Creative Class which I thought was thought-provoking, if not the most rigorous social science research, saying […]
Reading
I just finished Kevin Boyle’s excellent book Arc of Justice. Up next: James and Grace Lee Boggs’ Revolution and Evolution in the Twentieth Century —–
What They’re Worth
The WaPo on some notable members of the House and Senate. Look up how much the pols are worth on Opensecrets. —–
Vote For Eugene Kang August 2
Eugene Kang is a native Ann Arbor resident who is running for Ann Arbor’s City Council from Ward 2. He is a 21-year-old University of Michigan senior. If elected, he would be the first undergraduate on the City Council in many years. He is running against a former Republican mayoral candidate Stephen Rapundalo in an […]
Paulo Freire on ‘the Word’
Not sure why I’ve been thinking about this recently. This is the first few paragraphs of chapter three of Paulo Freire’s Pedagogy of the Oppressed: As we attempt to analyze dialogue as a human phenomenon, we discover something which is the essence of dialogue itself: the word. But the word is more than just an […]