Editorial

Squeezed: In 'U' housing, students pay more for less

Even in Ann Arbor's bloated real estate market, $667 per month could rent a nice-sized, one-bedroom apartment. However, giving the University this amount entitles students to squeeze into painfully small residence hall rooms - with another person.

Pulling purse strings: Hood wages latest attack on 'U' funding

Too often in recent years, the issue of state appropriations for the University has turned into a political game, as Lansing attempts to impose its values upon Ann Arbor.

Strangeways, here we come

James Joyce wrote that he expected his readers to spend their entire lives trying to fully understand his work. Oh, readers! I seek but a few minutes each week. In this, my final column, I ask for nothing.

Letters to the Editor

Michigan Daily wins national awards in journalism contests

Staff members of The Michigan Daily won 19 Gold Circle Awards, one of the highest awards given to collegiate newspaper reporters, in the 1997 Columbia Scholastic Press Association's national competition. Announced last month at CSPA's annual conference in New York City, the Gold Circle Awards recognized outstanding journalistic accomplishment among the nation's top collegiate newspapers.

04-22-97

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