Campaign trails on: 'U' should continue focused fundraising
Thanks to a record-setting fundraising initiative, University coffers are teeming with cash. The Campaign for Michigan began five years ago, with a goal of raising $1 billion. It exceeded even these lofty expectations - collecting almost $1.4 billion. The funds make additional scholarships, departmental funding and facilities possible - and puts the University's endowment on par with those at other premier higher learning institutions.
A stab in the back: Gerlach, Gartner threaten college journalism
This week, The Michigan Daily celebrated 107 years of editorial freedom, but college newspapers around the country face a less promising future. The Ames Daily Tribune, a 10,000 circulation paper in Ames, Iowa, sued the Iowa State Daily, claiming that the Daily, a recipient of Iowa State University funds, is a source of unfair advertising competition. This lawsuit creates a chilling scenario, not only for the Iowa State Daily, but for college papers nationwide.
If graduation is approaching, why am I still dumb as dirt?
It hit me just the other day - I don't remember what I was doing and I don't remember where I was because the gravity of my realization burned out all other details of the moment.
I take that back, because I remember my girlfriend Julie was there (and yes, she is real, not just one of those literary-device women made up to add character to a boring anecdote) and I blurted out my weird little epiphany. I told her, "I just had the weirdest little epiphany .
There are no benets to alcohol use
To the Daily:
In the wake of yet another student death due to alcohol (Scott Krueger of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology), I ask this: How many more need to die before we understand the seriousness of drinking? In the Daily's article about underage drinking ("Alcohol common for students under 21," 9/30/97), I read shocking statistics about the percentage of campus crimes and other problems that are alcohol related, yet I perceived no sign of concern from the students quoted on the matter.
10-03-97
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