Table of Contents for Summer 1998

U-M Summer News
BAMN, NWROC Members Arrested
by Lee Bockhorn

Leaders of the Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action By Any Means Necessary (BAMN) and the National Women's Rights Organizing Coalition (NWROC) have been arrested for their actions during a protest of the Ku Klux Klan's May 9th rally in Ann Arbor. LSA Senior Jessica Curtin of BAMN faces charges of rioting and malicious destruction of property. NWROC leaders Shanta Driver and Luke Massie, both of Detroit, turned themselves in to Ann Arbor police on July 14th to face charges of misdemeanor property destruction. NWROC members staged a protest at city hall as Driver and Massie arrived.

U-M Summer News
Judges Deny Student Interventions in U-M Affirmative Action Lawsuits
by Lee Bockhorn

Two judges have denied motions by student coalitions to intervene in the lawsuits challenging the University's affirmative action policies.

Lanterns & Lances
Go North, Young Freshmen!
by Lee Bockhorn

You're running hard, hoping you won't hit a patch of ice that would send you down for the count. You've spotted the big blue vision of a U-M campus bus fifty yards away, and you're dashing like mad to catch it so you can make your Chem exam on time. You're almost there when the bus pulls away with a screeching roar and a thick belch of diesel smoke, oblivious to your plea to let you board, and leaving you to wait another ten minutes in the bitter wind and regret having stopped to buy that candy bar...

Lanterns & Lances
An Out-of-Staters Guide to Michigan
by Lee Bockhorn

So, you did it. Was it the fight song, the football helmets, or an obsessive desire to follow in the footsteps of your idols -- James Earl Jones, Madonna, and the Unabomber? Whatever it was, you decided to leave your home state and pay the princely sum of $20,000+ a year to join the "leaders and the best" as an out-of-state student at the University of Michigan. So what is there to know about becoming an authentic "Michigander"?

Lost in the Eighites™
Looking Back, Moving Forward
by Benjamin Kepple

Professors and administrators expect freshmen at the University of Michigan to act as sponges, to suck up all the lies and propaganda fed to them without complaint. This is most evident in the Orientation program conducted by the University. As many of you already know, this morass of a program is nearly impossible to escape from psychologically unscathed, although it can be done if one drinks heavily enough. But most hideous of the stulifying sessions freshmen are placed in at Orientation are the godawful Group Sessions: those blatant exercises in indoctrination where incoming freshmen are expected to kowtow to the politically and demographically correct mercenaries that stuff the bloody things.