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U-M Livingston Awards Announced for Young Journalists—No Michigan Journo Wins

The Ann Arbor Independent Editorial Team Jun 20, 2014 0

STORIES ABOUT THE misuse of taxpayer money to fund private schools, life-threatening delays in blood testing of newborns and the plight of political asylum seekers won the Livingston Awards today. The $10,000 prizes for journalists under…

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U-M Lecturers’ Union Prez Calls Administrative Pay Scheme “Opaqueness by design”

The Ann Arbor Independent Editorial Team Jun 11, 2014 0

The University of Michigan employs 1,500 non-tenured faculty. In 2013, while several top-level administrators were secretly given six-figure incentives, bonuses and pay supplements, unionized lecturers received no salary increase due to…

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U-M President Stonewalls Public & Faculty Whistle Blowers About Secret Administrative Pay Doled Out

The Ann Arbor Independent Editorial Team May 27, 2014 0

by Donna Iadipaolo The Chronicle of Higher Education published information provided by a group of U-M tenured faculty that exposed millions in secret incentive and bonus pay given to top-level administrators. Faculty call for dialogue;…

Arts

CULTURE VULTURE: An Interview With Kodi Scheer—The Fragile Nature of Life

The Ann Arbor Independent Editorial Team May 27, 2014 0

Kodi Scheer is a talented storyteller with a gift for writing untraditionally about the fragile nature of life. The stories in her debut collection, Incendiary Girls, are shocking, heartbreaking, humorous, and delicate. None of them is…

Health/Science

New Study: Your Brain on Speed—You Actually Can Walk and Chew Gum

The Ann Arbor Independent Editorial Team May 24, 2014 0

WHEN WE’RE STROLLING down memory lane, our brains recall just as much information while walking as while standing still—findings that contradict the popular science notion that walking hinders one’s ability to think. University of…

Opinion

EDITORIAL: Defending Alleged Fraud With a “No Comment” is An Insult to Faculty, the Public & Legislators

The Ann Arbor Independent Editorial Team May 14, 2014 0

THE HEADLINE IN The Michigan Daily says it all: “University won’t take action at this time on faculty letter to Regents.” By not taking action, U-M officials are, of course, choosing to continue with a multi-million dollar bonus and…

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EDITORIAL: The University of Michigan’s Secret Pay Enhancement Scheme Must Stop

The Ann Arbor Independent Editorial Team May 9, 2014 0

DR. MARY SUE COLEMAN went to Lansing in 2011 to sing the praises of her university and to stave off threatened cuts to the $316 million dollar allocation the state of Michigan made to the University of Michigan in 2010. In her testimony,…

A2Politico

A2POLITICO: The AAATA Bus Pass Blue Light Special

The Ann Arbor Independent Editorial Team Apr 28, 2014 0

by P.D. Lesko THE PRESIDENT OF Washtenaw Community College recently endorsed AAATA’s proposed $22 million tax hike. In a statement, WCC President Rose B. Bellanca said, “The AAATA is a valuable resource for our community and for…

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U-M Student Task Force Report: “University failed to meet ‘recommended 60-day period of time’ between sexual misconduct complaints and school investigations”

The Ann Arbor Independent Editorial Team Apr 25, 2014 0

Student Task Force alleges football coach Brady Hoke “knowingly issued false statements in December 2013 concerning the status of Gibbons.” ACCORDING TO A report released on Monday April 14 by the U-M Central Student Government,…

Enviro

Dispose of Old, Broken Computer Equipment at April 26 Event Co-Sponsored by U-M and AAPS

The Ann Arbor Independent Editorial Team Apr 19, 2014 0

SO YOU FINALLY got that upgrade you’ve been longing for or that must have computer gadget you didn’t think you could live without. It’s all unpacked and the only thing in the way of setting it up is your old dated machine it will be…

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