There’s one clear loser in the Iraq war: history. See The 2003 Iraq War & Archaeology page, and the Archaeological Institute of America has posted an “Open Declaration on Cultural Heritage at Risk in Iraq”.
A U-M graduate student is claiming a new Michigan law has made his PhD thesis illegal: “It’s very difficult, reading the law, it makes basically everything that I do illegal,” says Provos The law, part of a number of state-level “Super DMCA” laws makes it illegal to merely posses certain types of security technology. Also, […]
MSA to vote on gag rule tonight> More discussion about MSA politics here The Daily finally ran a story about the AATU’s demise today: “AATU ends student services due to lack of MSA funding”. From the article:“Newly-elected MSA General Counsel Jason Mironov said MSA will conduct a cost benefit analysis of the AATU and make […]
I’ve recently been told that tomorrow MSA will be voting on a proposed gag rule to prohibit the Communiciations Committee and Peace and Justice Commission from taking any points of view, or “carry out its duties in a fair and equitable manner to all constituents while refraining from promoting itself, or the Michigan Student Assembly, […]
CNN’s website has a well-designed Iraq war section, including a list of confirmed coalition casualties – which currently stands at 149. Although it’s not often reported, during Gulf War I, an undercover journalist discovered the Pentagon underreporting U.S. casualties by 400%.Here’s an article by the reporter that discovered that while the Pentagon was claiming 55 […]
The Review’s James Justin Wilson agrees with me that Michigan Madness is “awfully crass,” and did his best to track down its authors. The website has added a lengthy “Terms of Service” agreement to the website, where the first round of voting has completed.
The Daily has a story about the naked mile in today’s paper: “Tradition of Naked Mile labeled with negative reputation”. Here’s my information page about the event. The forecast for Wednesday: high 63 / low 36, partly cloudy.