A public hearing was held Friday, April 20 to review all 84 complaints that were filed during the most recent University of Michigan-Dearborn Student Government election. UM-D Professor Leslie Thornton, and students Michael Sidor, Yolanda Haynes, Awais Alam and Shady Shebak acted as the review committee appointed by Vice Chancellor Stanley E.
Four days before the anniversary of the 1999 Columbine shooting in Colorado, a student at Virginia Tech opened fire on his fellow classmates and professors. Thirty-three died in what will go down as the worst campus shooting in American history. Although tragedy does not discriminate in its victims, students across the nation were hit hardest by the loss of their peers. On Wednesday, April 16, the University of Michigan-Dearborn's Student Activities Office, along with several student leaders on campus, organized a candlelight vigil for Virginia Tech.
Where are Michigan college graduates going after graduation? According to New United Van Lines Data, Michigan tops the nation in 2007 for the rate of outbound moving grads. This means more recent graduates living in Michigan are leaving the state in greater numbers than anywhere else in the country.
Last Thursday, public interest lawyer/consumer advocate/author/politician Ralph Nader came to speak at the campus' Fairlane Center. The talk was featured in dining rooms B and C of the hall, and was attended by around 100 people. It started around 1:30 p.m.
Members of the Lecturers' Employee Organization (LEO) held an informational picket outside of offices and classrooms in the CASL building last week in order to draw attention to important issues of the group. Holding signs that read "Seniority Counts," the lecturers were attempting to make notice of the grievances they are fighting against the university, citing cancelled course sections of Lecturer II faculty members this year at UM-D.