The price of protest: City, KKK should re-evaluate positions
Ann Arbor erupted into violence June 22, when the Ku Klux Klan came to town to rally. Angered by the Klan's views, the National Women's Rights Organizing Coalition and the Ann Arbor Organizing Against the Klan staged a counter-demonstration. Emotions flared and violence erupted. Now, several months after the incident, the city is opening the issue again.
A voluntary mandate: 'U' should not expand living-learning
The Division of Student Affairs believes that every first-year University student has got to live and learn - but in a sheltered environment. A Student Affairs' task force recently proposed introducing several new living-learning programs into nearly every residence hall, touting these programs as the wave of the future. Participation in these communities would not be mandatory, but strongly encouraged. Despite their voluntary nature, the plan would undermine the University's credo of diversity and academic exploration.
High tuition threatens education
During the first week of classes, students have many things to worry about, such as getting phone numbers from recently moved friends, picking classes for the next four to five months, decorating pathetically small apartments with the most basic of human necessities and spending their last few hours of warm weather in the basement of the bookstore. For many students, one worry that overwhelms these smaller dilemmas is the rising cost of tuition.
The benefits of tabloid culture
"Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy." -- F. Scott Fitzgerald
With these words, Fitzgerald may have captured the essence of popular culture in America, both in his era and today. It seems that our so-called heroes are built up, praised and admired, and then they are demonized and destroyed. Some deserve it; others do not.
Letters to the Editor
Jim Lasser's Sharp as Toast
09-13-96