Well at least not to Tehran any time soon.
An article in today’s Washington Post, indicates that the comments of Columbia President, and former U-M President, Lee Bollinger in introducing Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad are still reverberating in Columbia’s community.
Ahmadinejad extended an invitation to Bollinger to speech in Tehran, after Bollinger accused the Iranian government of suppressing free speech. Bollinger has turned down that request.
Bollinger told the Post that:
“I have an interest in going,” Bollinger said in an interview, “but I decided that it’s just not appropriate to send anyone now.”
Interestingly, some faculty at Columbia have since accused Bollinger’s indicting intorduction of Ahmadinejad as a tool to woe NYC city council members, who opposed Ahmadinejad’s visit, to ease his hopes of expanding the school into Harlem.
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Michigan Student Assembly (MSA) President Zack Yost stepped down from his position at tonight’s meeting. Yost will not be retiring from public life, as he stated his intention to serve on MSA’s Disability Committee. This committee is currently defunct but there have been calls to restart it in the wake of the events that lead to Yost’s resignation.
“Together we have never been through anything worse; I’m holding myself personally responsible for the spot that all of us are in,” said Yost.
The move comes after it was revealed at a meeting last week that Yost had made disparaging comments about MSA representative Tim Hull who has Asperger’s Syndrome. The comments were made in a private Facebook group revealed to the Assembly by appointed representative Kenny Baker, the group’s only other member. Baker announced his intent to resign his post shortly after the group that appointed him declared that it would hold a trial to determine if action should be taken against him.
The event took place not in MSA Chambers, where meetings are regularly scheduled, but instead in the Hussey room of the Michigan League. The room’s fifty or so seats, which are few more- albeit more comfortable- seats than would be available in chambers, were full for the resignation.
Yost apologized both to campus and to Hull directly. “Tim I have put you in the worst position of all,” said Yost. He further commented that the posting in the Facebook page do no accurately represent his feelings about Hull.
“I hope we can evolve our conversation about diversity to include disabilities,” said Yost, just before announcing his desire to continue work with MSA committees. He further referred to disabilities as “a major campus issue.” Yost made clear that he made the decision as the best move for the Assembly to move forward.
“In no way am I being forced out of MSA,” said Yost. The Michigan Daily wrote an editorial yesterday calling for Yost’s resignation and a small group of students, lead by LSA student Aghogho Edevbie, called for the same.
Yost concluded his speech by stating his faith in MSA Vice President Mohammad Dar, who was sworn in as President after the speech, to lead the Assembly.
Upon concluding his speech, Yost hugged Dar and shook hands with members of MSA, many teary-eyed before exiting the room. Yost and Hull did not personally interact at the meeting.
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MSA, as well as LSA-SG and Rackahm student government elections began this morning. This year’s election has received little to no attention in campus press.
For those of you who actually want your right of suffrage you can vote by clicking here to go to the voting page. You have until Friday at midnight to review your ballot and cast your votes.
So you did not hear about this election. That may be in part due to a shift of focus toward using Facebook among campus’ cloistered chattering class, Even with two days of front page stories in the Daily about MSA (ironically about a scandal” on Facebook) neither the Daily or MSA President Zack Yost bothered to mention that elections are today. So while LSA-SG begins procedures to remove Ken Baker from his post due to his involvement in the Facebook scandal, students could give both bodies a hearing by voting in the election.
“It’s certainly a down year in terms of publicity. But I would not say that in the dorms among student groups that we have had any less interest,” Michigan Action Party Chair Alex Blouin told The Review in a phone interview. Blouin also blamed the low level of publicity on the multiple times that election date has moved this term. Originally scheduled for early this month the election was pushed back twice before settling on the current dates. Blouin stated that the move positioned the election just after Thanksgiving and just before finals, a bad time to vie for media or student attention.
One of MAP’s platform goals for this election was to “Encourage voting for student government by more accessible resources.” Blouin said this included a two-prong effort of recruiting a good group of candidates and reaching out to student groups.
A quick look at the website of the ruling Michigan Action Party, reveals a list of goals that looks much like those of previous campaigns, like expanding Entree Plus off-campus and getting course syllabi online early to let students order books online.
MAP has done a good job of running a full-slate of candidates. The party is running 10 students for the 10 open seats on MSA-LSA and 9 for the 10 open seats on LSA-SG, a move that with one independent leads to exactly 10 students for 10 slots.
“We don’t let who we are running against affect how we run. If we were running with no one else we would still be out meeting with students,” said Blouin, continuing that MAP has done its best to attract the best candidates this year.
I should not forget to mention that the Defend Affirmative Action Party also has a full slate for the MSA-LSA elections. Although to my knowledge, no DAAP party member has won a contested election since at least 2004. The party has done best in schools like Rackham where the field is often uncontested. This year there are six Rackham candidates, 3 of them from DAAP.
A handful of independents and two members of a group calling itself the Michigan Independent Party are also running for MSA-LSA.
Among the smaller schools represented on MSA, many schools have no contest at all. MAP is the only party running candidates in the schools of engineering, business, Nursing, and Public Policy. While DAAP is the only party running in the School of Public Health. Programs in Dentistry, Music, Medicine and Pharmacy, all of which have one seat on MSA have no candidates at all.
Write-in candidates are allowed in all races.
On the heels the Supreme Court’s decision to hear a gun rights case and a recent gun raffle by the College Libertarians, Michigan Daily columnist Mike Eber decided to showcase that liberals can like guns just as much as conservatives. Regardless of one’s position of the gun issue (full disclosure: I used to be part of the College Libertarians and helped to coordinate a similar gun raffle several years ago), Eber’s piece showcases a mixture of bombast and ideological rigidity that only detracts from any debate on the gun issue.
Eber begins with a lengthy attempt at reconciliation between his liberalism and his gun enthusiasm.
“I felt a bit alienated from other liberals. This experience has forced me to re-evaluate what it truly means to be a liberal,” states Eber about his experience with gun issues. While Eber quotes Ben Franklin and John Locke in his defense of gun rights as liberal, he does little to examine his alienation. Instead he presents political ideology as a with-us or against-us choice, where one only gets to liberal if one accepts every stricture passed down by pundits and party hardliners.
While Eber’s failure to challenge the false ideological dialectic that oversimplifies the political landscape is disappointing, it’s his jump to extreme cases in defense of gun rights that should disturb readers. In attempting to make the ‘guns a defense against bad governments’ argument, Eber jumps directly to Nazi Germany. He cites a law prohibiting Jews from owning guns and, well, leaves us to infer the implications of the policy. Sadly, the comment neglects to mention that some did take up arms, effacing the rise of Jewish partisans and uprisings such as the one in the Warsaw ghetto. People did violently resist that oppression. To simply state that a law made resistance impossible negates the argument that guns can be used to fight oppressive regimes.
From a cursory look at one of the world’s worst genocides, the column shifts to a glib examination of the 2000 elections. Eber tells liberals that John Locke told them they could take up arms when governments undertake “systematic abuse of its power.” Sure, liberals, or any group for that matter, could have taken up arms but was a disappointing election result (one where all the recounts agreed with the Court’s decision) really worth starting a violent coup over.
I have no problem advocating revolution if one is going to be honest about it. But doing that requires that one not say of the election that “Instead, liberals stood by willingly after the ruling, acting as if they had just lost a close football game.” That comparison may be more apropos than Eber would like to admit, given that the fact that the country did not erupt in bloodshed after the contested election hinted at the stability of the United States rather than a shift toward tyranny.
Sure Presidential elections are somewhat more important than the outcome of the UM-OSU game but the fact is that in a democracy we should react to both losses in much the same way: express our sadness for our candidates, figure out where we went wrong and how to improve, and redouble our efforts for the next time around. Going to DC, or Columbus, with loaded semi-automatics is not a showcase of right against oppression it’s the act of a lunatic.
Maybe all this election talk is Eber hoping to reclaim some of the credibility with liberals that he so exasperatingly fears his stance on guns will cost him rather than effectively showcase the best use of guns.
There are a number of valid claims to be made in defense of gun ownership from personal protection, to Constitutionality, and yes, ever as protection against government. Yet presenting glosses on fascism and calling for bloodshed because your party lost a really important “football game” does not make those claims well.
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In the continuation of a story the Review brought you last year, a women who was arrested last year in connection with protests at the Michigan League will begin trial tomorrow. The incident occurred last November when the student chapter of the American Movement for Israel hosted author Raymond Tanter as a speaker. Several people attended the event to protest the speaker. Several of the protesters were detained by DPS and the AAPD was brought in to arrest them.
One of those arrested, Dr. Catherine Wilkerson, will stand trial tomorrow on two counts of attempting to assault/resist/obsturt “a person performing his or her duties”, according to a release put out by a group that has formed in defense of Wilkerson. The group, The Committee to Defend Catherine Wilkerson, is asking that Washtenhaw County Prosecutor, Brian Mackie, drop all charges against Wilkerson. The organization claims that Wilkerson’s actions were intended to offer medical aid to another man who had been detained by police. “Dr. Wilkerson had an obligation to protest and advise” states a letter the group is asking be sent to Mackie.
The case is a rare instance when the Ann Arbor Police have been called to handle protesters on University property.
The trial will begin at 1pm tomorrow and continue each day afterwards at 8:30am at the district court on Main and Huron.
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A new guerrilla marketing campaign has hit campus this week. Fortunately, it’s not for the latest energy drink or telling students we are all damned to hellfire. Sadly, it’s not much better. The new campaign, in posting at the Bell Tower and chalking outside the Fleming Administration Building, asks simply “Where’s the Diversity?”
As the Michigan Daily reported, the question is responding to marginal changes in the admittance of black, Hispanic, and Native American students in this year’s freshman class. The campaign reduces diversity to racial bean counting. Not to mention that targeting an administration headed by a president who has declared that “We are Michigan;We are diversity” and gone to court to prove it can only be preaching to the choir.
First, students should consider that the changes in the racial composition of this year’s class are marginal, including a drop of two Native American students this year opposed to last. A story in the next week’s Review will show that even the admissions office is not distressed over it slightly modified processes.
Second, consider the amount of diversity that is to be found on campus. This weekend alone a prominent member of the ACLU will speak, cellist Yo-Yo Ma will perform, and the opera La Boehme will premiere. If we take the scope of just a week we will recall that the Indian American Student Association (a racial group that no one has discussed in connection to “diversity numbers”) sold out Hill Auditorium for its annual cultural show and the Chinese ambassador to the US will be here next week.
If one looks around, I think diversity is all over campus.
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In preparation for this week’s football game against MSU, a small fortification has emerged around the large block M on the center of the Diag. A square of assorted couches and a tent make up the barricade that has been guarded around the clock since last night and will continue through Saturday’s game.
“People actually do try things,” said LSA junior Edward Kramkowski. Kramkowski is a member of the Theta Xi fraternity whose members, and furniture, have made protecting the M a tradition since 2001. The group reserved the Diag space for these days to protect the M from defacement.
When several Spartan fans stopped by and inquired about the encampment, they asked if State fans were doing the same for their Spartan statue in East Lansing. “They better be,” joked Kramkowski. While good-natured, the tradition of guarding the M is not without seriousness. Several years ago, the M had a green S scrawled over it the week before the U-M, MSU game.
The tradition has even garnered support from local businesses. Locales such as BTB, Washtenaw Dairy, and Espresso Royale have all donated food to the cause.
When asked about expectations for the game, all those protecting the M were enthusiastic. “We’ll win, no question, asserted Karmkowski.
Today was the first day of the U-M Muslim Student Association’s Islam Awareness Week. A series of events this week, including having group members on the Diag this week to answer questions and clear up misconceptions about their faith, hopes to “battle ignorance about this religion.” Every night this week the group will be sponsoring events on issues from Hip hop and religion to Muslim women and minorities.
In the first event of the week Professor Ralph Williams of the Department of English, who served as the Director of the Program on Studies in Religion from 96 to 99, spoke about the connections between the Abrahamic faiths: Islam, Christianity, and Judaism. Speaking before a crowd of about 100 people in Hutchins Hall, Williams tried to envision ways that religions could coexist.
Williams began by explaining that interest in Islam is quite new, referring to his interactions with the religion while growing up in Canada as “sketchy.”
” It is only here in the West in recent years, and out of contestation, that there has been increased interest in understanding Islam,” said Williams. In the first section of his speech, Williams reminded listeners of what these three monotheist religions share. He gave the example of the role that Isa(an Islamic term for Jesus) plays in Islam. He explained that Muslims do believe in Jesus as a prophet. Many Christians find this offense and recognize a “problem of the just,” where constructing Jesus as “just” a prophet attempts to undercut their beliefs.
“Each of these religions sees itself as a revelation from God. Each believes itself to be right and the others to be wrong,” he continued. These exclusive claims to truth makes religions unwilling to compromise.
“Yet we are in America and the genius of democracy is compromise,” said Williams, pointing out that religion can pose problems when it tries to impose itself in law. Arguing that the US has never been a country associated with any religious movement, he instead indicated that religious faith can be “an offering to civic understanding.”
Williams concluded, as he has done elsewhere, by looking with hope to younger generations. “You cannot live what you cannot imagine,” he said calling on his audience to envision new means of religious tolerance. These comments were directed generally, proposing tolerance for Muslims, Christians, Jews, Atheists, etc. Much of the latter section of the speech hailing the “American Project” strayed from discussing Islam singularly and instead tackled it as one of many belief systems that Williams envisions coexisting in the American public space.
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Students at U-M are slightly below the national average when it comes to knowledge of American history and civics according to a new test by the Intercollegiate Studies Institute (ISI). Students at fifty schools around the country took a sixty question quiz that asks questions about history, political philosophy, and the development of the US government.
Out of the fifty schools, U-M ranked 25th in valued added, as measured by the difference in performance between freshman and senior students. As the Ann Arbor News explains, U-M seniors correctly answered 51 precent of the questions and freshman answered 47 percent correctly, this compares to national averages of 54 and 50 percent, for seniors and freshman respectively.
The study, Failing our Students, Failing America, criticizes universities policies for educating students on civics. In a press release the group concludes, “If parents and students believe a college education ought to increase a student’s knowledge of America, then clearly they are not getting their money’s worth from most schools in the survey.”
The sixty question quiz can be found here.
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Welcome to our new website, the latest iteration of The Michigan Review Online.
Our new site is administrated by College Publisher, and our blogs are run by WordPress.
We made this switch hoping that our website, blogs, and stories are more navigable and accessible for our readers; to that end, I’m sure this will be the case.
On our new site, you’ll see more photo content, and will notice a few new features, too. For instance, we have an editor’s blog, which I will write, and an Arts & Culture blog (written by staff) to accompany our long-standing Day in Review blog. Additionally, we have a forthcoming podcast project, the first of its kind (as far as I know) for a college, conservative newspaper.
If you have any suggestions as to how the website can be improved, feel free to email me at mpobrien@umich.edu. As always, comments on the issue are welcome at mrev@umich.edu.
Hope you enjoy the new website. I’ll see you around campus.
-Michael O’Brien, Editor-in-Chief
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