Swarms of fans packed into the scenic backyard at the corner of South University and Washtenaw Avenue on Saturday morning to witness the 82nd and perhaps most tensely anticipated edition of the Mud Bowl. The host squad, The Flying Eagles, soared to a hard-fought victory in the annual mud-soaked touch football match, as serene conditions and […]
Category: Campus
Fighting for Free Speech on the Diag
On Friday, September 18th, a group of students gathered on the Diag to celebrate the constitution and encourage freedom of expression on campus. Armed with a giant beach ball, sharpies, and constitutions, members of the Students for Liberty chapter at the University of Michigan worked to foster an understanding of first amendment rights on campus. […]
On UM’s New Alcohol Policy
Is Michigan’s new plan to reduce alcohol harm on campus potentially dangerous for first-year students? I am afraid it might be. The University’s new plan includes a pilot program that would, “Notify parents of first-year students when a student under the age of 21 has had a second alcohol or drug violation or when a […]
Campus Reactions: SCOTUS and Gay Marriage
Today, the Supreme Court ruled 5-4 that states would not be allowed to make gay marriage illegal.
optiMize Social Innovation Challenge: The Final Showcase
This Thursday, the five finalists from this year’s optiMize Social Innovation Challenge will take the stage and look to impress campus and the judges with their pitches. 7pm Rackham.
American Sniper: Response to SAFE and the MSA
So when is it acceptable to question the arguments of a minority group without being labeled an oppressor?
Students Work to Reform Medical Amnesty Policy
In a recent push to improve campus safety, one group of students is working to expand the University of Michigan’s current medical amnesty policy to cover students seeking medical assistance in instances involving drug use as well as alcohol. Medical amnesty laws provide legal protection to individuals who seek medical attention in life-threatening situations where […]
“Activism” Class at University of Michigan Teaches Capitalism Should Be “Overthrown”
A textbook used for an “activism” class at the University of Michigan teaches that capitalism should be “overthrown” – claiming “capitalism means waste, poverty, ecological degradation, dispossession, inequality, exploitation, imperialism, war and violence.” The textbook, “Beautiful Trouble: A Toolbox for Revolution,” is assigned as mandatory reading for “Organizational Studies 203: Activism,” a class at the […]
STOLEN: CONSERVATIVE STUDENTS’ CAMPUS AD FOR JONAH GOLDBERG’S ‘THOUGHT POLICE’ TALK
“The biggest irony is on the front of the poster it says ‘thought police,’” Audia said in an interview with The College Fix. “So a warning on thought police was censored. It’s pretty ridiculous.”
*Sigh* I Guess It’s … Fratgate
Fraternities (and sororities) nowadays have become havens for and enablers of a prolonged and destructive adolescence. They are, to put it mildly, utter cesspools of immorality—veritable “dens of iniquity.”