Kit Bennett
After a long weekend wrangling 5,000 high school scullers at the Midwest Scholastic Rowing...
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Education
Jeanice Swift’s Decade
No one was expecting a global pandemic in November 2019, when voters passed a twenty-year, $1...
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New Dorms at Last
In February 2022, the regents voted to build a 1,200-bed dorm on North Campus. Less than ten...
Read MoreQuestion Corner | January 2023
Q. What is the background to the memorial for Edward Lorraine Walter in the U-M Grad Library? The inscription on the stained-glass window reads “Lost at Sea.” A. Walter was a U-M professor of languages, born in Litchfield,...
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Playing the Academic Game
Playing the academic game: The life of an academic can be difficult. There’s the challenge of...
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Boards and Judges
After sorting through thirteen candidates, voters last month returned twenty-year vet Susan...
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Plays at Pathways
In his eleven years at CHS, Strassel taught acting and produced thirty-three shows for the...
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That’s the Ticket
The digital age is tough for memorabilia collectors like Ken Magee. The law enforcement consultant...
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Contests and Consequences
Control of city council was effectively decided in August, when candidates supported by mayor...
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Before the Color Line
In 1882, Moses Fleetwood Walker led the U-M baseball team to a 10–3 season. The next year, he...
Read MoreQuestion Corner | September 2022
Q. Why does campus have a Diag? Was it planned from the start? A. An 1854 map of campus shows a dozen university buildings placed on the edges of the campus, but no Diag. The pastoral campus interior was without trees, allowing...
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Missing Trustee
“On Friday, a bulletin board taken over by the Youth Activism class that [we] are a part of was...
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Class Gifts
It’s a tradition that goes back to the school’s first graduating class, in 2000: the five seniors...
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Welcome to Commie High
Welcome to Commie High was aired last month on PBS stations throughout Michigan and thirteen more...
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Leveling the Reading Field
“Ordinarily, second- and third-graders will be expected to read chapter books,” says Nathans, a...
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Masks at School
Washtenaw County let its mask mandate in K–12 schools expire at the end of February, but as the...
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Drug Overdose?
GlaxoSmithKline delivered the bad news in February: as of April 1, it was cutting Michigan...
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Nursing Scholarship
“Our belief is that nurses … are the backbone of a hospital, even if doctors are...
Read MoreMichigan Radio?
Q. Michigan Radio now broadcasts from five signals across the Lower Peninsula. Are there plans for additional growth? Is Michigan Radio still managed from Ann Arbor? A. There are no current plans for additional signals. Michigan...
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