Michigamua Confronted During Initiation Week Rituals What began as a leaked tidbit of information about the meeting time of Michigamua, Michigan’s most controversial secret honor society, ended yesterday night with nearly a dozen student activists confronting Michigamua members about their organization’s extensive history of abusing Native American culture. Using cellular phones and a tip that […]
The Lecturers’ Employee Organization, a new union representing lecturers on the U-M campuses, is planning a walkout next Thursday, April 8th. Students Organizing for Labor and Economic Equality (SOLE) are organizing a corresponding student strike of classes: “================================================Students Are Taking Action to Support the Lecturers’ (LEO) as theyDemand for Fair Wages, Job Security and Benefits […]
The University Library has created a special website dealing with how the budget cuts will effect their resources. Here’s an excerpt from a letter sent by the University Librarian to the heads of U-M’s schools and colleges: “As a result of these and other forces, our librarians and subject specialists are beginning to review a […]
Phoenix Classes of 2004 and 2005 Here’s some information I was able to get about Phoenix, one of the other “Tower Societies” that used to be all female until both it and Michigamua went co-ed in the 1990s. I’ve heard “4 to 5” people turned down “taps” for the 2005 class, and their names are […]
The Daily reports today about a couple new auction websites targeting U-M students: theDiag.com and UMToday.com. UMToday seems more ambitious, even including a U-M specific “hot or not” feature. “… University alum Zach Price started the auction website TheDiag.com this week, in response to demand for a venue to advertise products for students that were […]
The logo of the Jamaican Jerk Pit, a new restaurant located at 314 South Thayer (across from Hill Auditorium) has been drawing some attention by those who think the cartoon in its logo too closely resembles the racist “Mammy” stereotype from Blackface Minstrel Shows, popular in the United States in the middle of the 19th […]
In a tense negotiating session at Trotter House yesterday, student activists seem to have be taken seriously by administrators in their demands for increased funding of student services, which experienced deep cuts this year. Although the administration didn’t make any concessions or agree to any of the activist’s demands, I think the students are well […]