A tenuous connection
University students often complain they are treated like guppies in a sea of 37,000 fish. Despite the relatively good job that the University administration does to run its bureaucracy efficiently and cut down on red tape to make students feel at home, the University as a whole is succumbing to a national trend in higher education - a reduction in the number of tenured faculty members caused by slowly substituting them with non-tenure track professors and part-time faculty members.
Getting better
Ever since the University expanded its enrollment in the 1950s, housing-related issues have been a constant sore spot between students and the University's administrators. This problem is not unique to the University, though, as many other large universities face the same concerns with respect to living arrangements. Housing problems also pit incoming students against upperclassmen who might want to live in the residence halls, especially when space is limited, and it causes additional strain on overcrowded classes.
Letters to the Editor
MSA can't work unless students vote in next week's election
In one of my very first encounters with the Michigan Student Assembly, then-Vice President Sam Goodstein said to me: "I don't think the position of MSA has a great impact.
11-13-98
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