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CultureBlack students file discrimination complaint against U-MDumi posts about this at BlackatMichigan.com: So I figured once enough people asked about it, then I’d post. Here are the top five questions about the recently filed complaint by Black graduate engineering students: >The Superspade Comment [1] CampusSecret Society Sued for Violating AgreementThe good people at Goodspeedupdate beat us to the punch. Michigamua, the University secret society, has been sued. A former University of Michigan student has sued the university and Michigamua, a secret honorary society, claiming they have violated the civil rights of Native American students, staff and faculty. Comment [2] NationalBush calls bloggers terrorists??See today’s Daily Kos, Bush Tags Bloggers As Terrorists! ,“Homeland Security completed its ‘Cyber Storm’ wargame to test how our government “would respond to devastating attacks over the Internet from anti-globalization activists, underground hackers and bloggers. ...’Participants confirmed parts of the worldwide simulation challenged government officials and industry executives to respond to deliberate misinformation campaigns and activist calls by Internet bloggers, online diarists whose “Web logs” include political rantings and musings about current events.’ ...” Comment [10] CampusInteresting MSA election race developments(Welcome back to Arbor Update, by the way! I hope the server holds out…)It is fascinating to see that the upcoming Michigan Student Assembly race may be competitive for once, see, e.g., the Daily’s S4M defector to run for president with new party: Rese Fox and running mate Walter Nowinski to take on dominant party , ”...The Michigan Progressive Party announced its first slate of MSA candidates….MSA Rep. Rese Fox, who ran for her current seat with S4M, will run for president. Her running mate will be Walter Nowinski, the founder of the party. MPP will attempt to unseat the currently dominant S4M, which announced its candidates last week. ...Because she is already a visible presence on the assembly, Fox could bring credibility to an MPP slate that is otherwise largely composed of outsiders. Before Fox’s nomination, observers had speculated MPP could be seen as too inexperienced to run the assembly. ...” I agree that MPP could have serious problems if it weren’t for Fox’s “defection”. (And, in Hollywood terms, “defection” is a good “story arc”, i.e., something which draws interest. Think of Zell Miller jumping from supporting Democrats to supporting Republicans, or Teddy Roosevelt jumping from Republicans to the new Bull Moose party, etc.—And another name for “Bull Moose” was “Progressive”!!, as per MPP.) MSA election history is littered with the corpses of new parties which quickly died off after challenging the reigning Blue/Students 1st/Students 4 Michigan monoliths, as I recall. Maybe things will be different this time? Whether students choose to be “down with MPP” or not will depend on many factors, of course, including the MPP platform, public image of the candidates, etc. (I’ll note Rese Fox was nice enough to respond to my very first AU post, Where are the Fall ‘05 MSA election results? , with results info.)But this year’s election process should be interesting to watch, no matter whom you support. Best of luck to all! (And Students 4 Michigan, Defend Affirmative Action Party, and any other parties or independents, will all no doubt have some good candidates to run.) (This author has no plans to endorse anybody, by the way.) Comment [3] Site AnnouncementsWe're BackSome time on Thursday the server on which Arbor Update was hosted went down. I’m not sure exactly what happened, but I’ve moved the site to a new location (an overdue transition) and seem to have recovered the entirety of the site. I’ll be upgrading the software that powers the site shortly and if I have time, I’ll try to investigate what happened at the old server. Sorry we were gone and we’re glad to be back. Comment [7] EventsWCBN presents the Books March 15 for FREEFree tickets for the WCBN-presented show by the Books will be available at MUTO this Tuesday (2/14). WCBN and UMMA present Comment [3] BusinessWhere's that damn bus?A Googlemaps repurposing allows those with internet access to again see where the busses are in real time, just like in the Blake! While the AATA formerly featured a similar application, it was removed (speculation: due to the fact that it was unstable and often inaccurate?). No matter. Comment [7] CultureThe Next Four Days (in Fliers)There’s a lot happening these next few nights in Ann Arbor: Comment [4] • Read More » InternationalJapanese Womens Solidarity TourThis is a friend’s project. Tomomi is a person that brought focus on international students within GEO, the Graduate Employees Organization at U of M before I worked there. Thirty Years of Sisterhood Comment [2] LocalFinal Calthorpe Public Hearing MondayThe third and final public hearing on the Calthorpe report will be held during the City Council Meeting this Monday (February 6), in the Council Chambers on the second floor of City Hall, 100 North Fifth Avenue. The meeting begins at 7:00 pm. The agenda for the meeting can be found here. Comment [26] |
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