The U-M Department of Public Safety issued this crime alert today, the second this spring and the second since December 2002. See the Ann Arbor News police beat for more information – the victim apparently took his organic chemistry exam before reporting the crime.: “CRIME ALERTDEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETYUNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN Date: May 19, 2003Location: […]

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In addition to a Detroit Hardrock Cafe, the Compuware building in downtown Detroit may include an 8,000-square foot Borders bookstore. Meanwhile, Free Press columnist John Gallagher doesn’t like the “suburban” architecture of the new building, set to open at the end of the summer. Also, ITCS has introduced two new online services: a file manager […]

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In a feedback below, “Josh” denies Tim Wise’s claim that “In just the last several years, over a half-dozen white journalists have been busted for plagiarism or fabricating stories … yet none provoked this kind of outrage.” Josh writes: “Were they really in the same scope as this guy? Maybe they were, if so I’d […]

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Perhaps the University’s most persistant FOIA gadfly, Chetly Zarko has penned an op-ed piece about his findings in the Wall Street Journal. While I disagree with his conclusions, I do suspect the University does everything it can to keep certain things secret. To see the University’s response to his allegations, see this reply sent to […]

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Tim Wise, an activist and speaker that visited campus last semester, has written an excellent column about the Jayson Blair debacle.

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The Michigan Indymedia center has posted a version of my article about the Institute for Collaborative Biotechnologies.. The leaders of local public Universities appealed to the state legislature for more funds. The latest from President Coleman:“[Coleman] said that U-M’s enrollment has increased 4,500 students since 1985, about 13 percent, to its current total of nearly […]

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Want to know how much your professors earn?See Earnings at the University of Michigan

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