REVIEW CELEBRATES 15 YEARS

EDITOR'S NOTE:

This is obviously somewhat of a different front page than most people expect. However, we thought it important to note that 15 years ago, in December of 1982, Publisher Thomas Fous and Editor-in-Chief Ronald J. Stefanski headed up a team that printed and distributed the first issue of The Michigan Review to the University of Michigan .

How things have changed in fifteen years. Leftist ideology, which was already waning in the early 1980s, lies gasping for breath on the floor of history. Both houses of Congress are controlled by the GOP: would this have been even thinkable in 1982? Our President is a Democrat who acts like a Republican: it was amazing to see Clinton side with the GOP against his own party on the "Fast Track" trade legislation. Again, who would have thought? We even seem to be entering a period with incredibly low unemployment and inflation, and this is something that supposedly can't be happening. That would definently shock a citizen living in 1982.

A lot has changed around campus too, and I can't help but think at least part of it was due to everyone who devoted time to the Review. Reading through the archives, one realizes just how it has changed around here, even from just a few years ago. Can you imagine today's student government taking a trip to the West Bank? Can you imagine the Freshmen Orientation being even worse than it is now? For that matter, what happened to those funky 80s­era Diag shanties? (What is a Diag shanty?)

And it has been a long while since the University tried to implement a speech code, although they still have the Code of Student Conduct.

Things are a lot better than they were fifteen years ago or even just ten or five years ago.

The Review will continue working to make sure that things keep getting better. We will do our best to serve the students of the University of Michigan by working to provide hard hitting news, editorial, arts, and music coverage, keeping up a 15 year tradition of excellence. And as a special treat for Finals Week try to Find Bollinger in the illustration. He is there. MR