Crain’s Detroit Business editorializes on the new state investment fund for Michigan startups – they like it, in part because of the “smart” advisory board members, including UM’s Tom Kinnear, who leads the Zell-Lurie Entrepreneurial Institute. [Source]
The NP Communicator site, run by the Community Media Workshop at Columbia College in Chicago, interviews the leader of a new Ann Arbor group called the Arab American Cultural Center of Washtenaw County. [Source]
Sports Business Journal reports that UM has sold its media rights to IMG College for $86 million over 12 years. The article says it “marks the first time Michigan has bundled all of its media rights into one package and marks the continuation of a trend where colleges are hiring companies, such as IMG College, to maximize revenue from those rights.” [Source]
passed Conference Bike headed west on Liberty out of 7th and Liberty intersection; acceleration not the CB’s strength
Tom Brandt, on The Penultimate Word, posts a couple of pix and some observations about the recent filming in Ann Arbor of “Youth in Revolt,” starring Michael Cera and Steve Buscemi, among others. [Source]
UM prof Vincent Hutchings is among those interviewed for an LA Times article on race in the presidential election: “Race plays a role in American politics in a lot of different ways,” he says. “It’s not just Ku Klux Klan-style racism. When a large number of African Americans decide to support Barack Obama on the assumption he’d be a better vehicle for pursuing their interests, that’s taking race into consideration.” [Source]
David Cole of Ann Arbor’s Center for Automotive Research gets quoted again on the ailing auto industry, this time in the New York Times in an article about the fate of GM, Ford and Chrysler. “Things are pretty bad, and the river is getting deeper, faster and wider. The question is, can they get to other side before the cash runs out?” [Source]
A Detroit News editorial takes aim at Ann Arbor City Council’s proposal to ban plastic bags in the city, noting that the effort “could do more harm than good.” Citing the energy it costs and pollution it generates to produce paper bags, “Ann Arbor may want to conserve its energy for environmental projects with more definitive benefits.” [Source]
Jim Jones of the North American Students of Cooperation in Ann Arbor is interviewed for a Boston Globe article on living in co-ops. “That kind of an in-between phase of people’s lives (after college and before marriage) has contributed to the recent surge in popularity of what we’re doing,” he says. [Source]
WWJ reports that about 300 Triumph owners will have their annual convention in Ypsilanti, starting Tuesday. Blake Discher, the group’s president, said: “Frankly the economy was a bit of a concern but our Triumph owners are very dedicated to their hobby and many attend this event every year and plan for it well in advance.” [Source]
Voters lie to pollsters – that’s the gist of a Wall Street Journal article that quotes Arthur Lupia, a UM prof and chief investigator for a study about national election outcomes. Lupia explains how he and fellow researchers at the UM Survey Research Center try to figure out what voters really believe. [Source]
The Ypsi blogger Frenzied Wren chronicles the past year’s worth of work on an historic downtown home. The list format ranges from “ant wall” to “garbage outta the woods.” [Source]
WDIV Local 4 News has a feature on UM’s top athletic administrators – Lloyd Carr, Bill Martin and Red Berenson – crusading against skin cancer. [Source]
