Cancer education
Last Thursday, University Students Against Cancer honored Breast Cancer Awareness Day by distributing pink ribbons and information on the Diag. As Breast Cancer Awareness Month comes to a close, it should be noted that the University community has made a valiant effort to heighten consciousness about the disease.
Abuse behind bars
Michigan's attorney general's office dropped its suit against the New York-based organization Human Rights Watch last week. The suit was intended to force the group to release the names of the plaintiffs in Nunn v. Michigan Department of Corrections, a class-action suit filed by inmates at Michigan's two women's prisons that alleges widespread sexual abuse by male prison guards. The attorney general's attempts to obtain this information were - with all possible understatement - quite brazen considering the state's track record on this issue.
Letters to the Editor
Lack of interest in protest does not equate to apathy
In the 1960s, student activism was all the rage. The University's campus - along with many others across the country - was filled with students angry about the war in Vietnam, the Civil Rights Movement and the women's liberation movement, among many others.
10-20-98
should be sent to: daily.letters@umich.edu | should be sent to: online.daily@umich.edu |