Making amends
Forty-four years after the infamous suspension of three University professors surrounded by speculation about their Communist sympathies, University President Lee Bollinger, endorsed by the University Board of Regents, has finally offered financial support to the annual Davis, Markert and Nickerson Lecture Series on Academic and Intellectual Freedom. While this sort acknowledgement of prior bad practice is good, the University still has many amends to make for ignoring the issue for decades.
Plagued by the past
With all the election hubbub of the past few weeks, it is easy to miss the important, precedent-setting issues hidden within partisan politics. Oregon's ballot on Tuesday contained such an issue - an initiative that would release original birth certificates to all adult adoptees. This measure will provide adoptees with the names of their birth parents and allow them to potentially begin a search to track them down.
Letters to the Editor
Megan Schimpf: People will make new house a home
Halfway back to Ann Arbor, it hit me. I had walked out of my home for the final time. After two days of packing most of my 23 years in boxes, I
had moved most into the new house that will be "home" the next time I make the journey.
11-06-98
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