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Black students file discrimination complaint against U-M

Posted by MarkDilley on 13. February 2006

Dumi 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:
1) Dumi, what do you know about this?
2) Dumi, do you know this guy or are you one of the people who is filing?
3) Dumi, have you seen the complaint?
4) Dumi, how you gonna say you saw the complaint but not tell use about it?


>The Superspade

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Secret Society Sued for Violating Agreement

Posted by Ari Paul on 13. February 2006

The 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.

Christopher Bell, an attorney from Ann Arbor, filed the lawsuit on behalf of himself and another former student identified only as John Doe.

The suit, filed Mondayin Washtenaw County Circuit Court, alleges that the organization didn’t abide by an agreement signed in 1989 that it wouldn’t demean Native Americans.

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Bush calls bloggers terrorists??

Posted by David Boyle on 13. February 2006

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.’ ...”

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Interesting MSA election race developments

Posted by David Boyle on 12. February 2006

(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.)

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We're Back

Posted by Scott Trudeau on 12. February 2006

Some 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.

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WCBN presents the Books March 15 for FREE

Posted by Jason Voss on 8. February 2006

Free tickets for the WCBN-presented show by the Books will be available at MUTO this Tuesday (2/14).

WCBN and UMMA present
The Books
Wednesday March 15th 8:00 PM
at The University of Michigan Museum of Art

WCBN is proud to announce the fourth installment in its concert series at the University of Michigan Museum of Art- New York musicians The Books!

The Books (aka Nick Zammuto and Paul de Jong) have earned considerable praise for their unabashedly postmodern approach to musical composition, employing in any given song a mixture of live strings, gritty electronics, field recordings, vocals, and other sonic debris underscored by a wry sense of humor. They have released three acclaimed full-lengths, apart from various side projects and notable collaborations with the likes of Prefuse 73 (Warp Records).

Tickets for this event will be released on Valentine’s Day, Tuesday February 14th. The Tickets are very free, very limited, and available exclusively from the Michigan Union Ticket Office at 530 S. State St. in Ann Arbor. Limit two per person.

Questions about the event can be emailed to thebooks@umich.edu

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Where's that damn bus?

Posted by Josh Steichmann on 8. February 2006

Oh, there it is

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.
Now… if there was only a dashboard widget…

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The Next Four Days (in Fliers)

Posted by Brandon on 8. February 2006

There’s a lot happening these next few nights in Ann Arbor:

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Japanese Womens Solidarity Tour

Posted by MarkDilley on 7. February 2006

This 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

On the US tour of a Japanese documentary film by Yamagami Chieko and Seyama Noriko, “Thirty Years of Sisterhood: Women of the 1970s Women’s Liberation Movement in Japan” in Feb. 2006.

The screening of the film, as well as the panel discussion with the directors and feminists featured in the film, will be held in the following university campuses and community locations in Feb, 2006.

Feb 10 (Fri)—University of Chicago
Feb 11 (Sat)—University of Iowa
Feb 12 (Sun)—Grinnell College
Feb 15 (Wed)—Yale University
Feb 16 (Thu)—LGBT Community Center, NYC
Feb 19 (Sun)—Bluestockings Books, NYC
Feb 21 (Tue)—University of Michigan
Feb 23 (Thu)—University of Minnesota
Feb 27 (Mon)—University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Feb 28 (Tue)—Washington University in St. Louis

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Final Calthorpe Public Hearing Monday

Posted by Juliew on 5. February 2006

The 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.

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