University of Michigan Campuses Both Charming and Not Charming.
The University of Michigan network has good things about it and bad things about it. On the plus side of the ledger, the Wolverines beat Penn State by a touchdown this weekend, handing the team from the most worthless campus in America their third loss of the season. That's two more than our beloved Pittsburgh Panthers, who have now won four in a row and are currently a heartbreaking 26 in both the AP and USA Today Polls.
Unfortunately, the University of Michigan system also has the Dearborn campus. And here's where things kind of start going downhill. You see, the Dearborn area and the Dearborn campus are kind ofanti-Semitic anti-Zionist anti-Semitic. They tend to raise virulent anti-Semites and the campus tends to act at least very anti-Semiticish.
The blog My Not So Random Thoughts, maintained by US-expat and Israeli resident Michael, has been following developments on that campus extensively. A very cursory glance at the blog seems to indicate that there are two kinds of posts there. The first category is basically daily life in Israel type stuff, with an emphasis on the small city of Karmiel. Karmiel is a city very close to our hearts: we have very dear and immediate relatives there, the city has a competent mall, and the residents got shelled pretty badly during Lebanon II. Nonetheless, we hate Karmiel. Hate it with a passion. The entire city is realistically maybe 20 or 30 streets, and we have spent well over 8 hours just outright lost there. Outright. The place makes the 3-D clusterfuck that is Haifa traffic look like a Salt Lake City-style grid. Israelis are uniformly awful at giving directions, but there's something in the air in the Galilee that makes them especially bad up there.
The other kinds of posts that Michael has are about the different clusterfuck that is the UMich Dearborn campus. He's posted on the subject as recently as a few days ago, but there are ten or so posts throughout October. Many of the posts are extensive, and they give the kind of on-the-ground who's-who insight that's so critical in understanding American campus politics. Several points for depth and breadth, although everal thousand points off for using the phrase "merely rhetorical" in a denigrating way. Nonetheless, well worth your time if you're concerned about the swamp that is American campus activism. If you click through to the main link and scroll down, you'll bump into them in a couple of seconds or so.
Unfortunately, the University of Michigan system also has the Dearborn campus. And here's where things kind of start going downhill. You see, the Dearborn area and the Dearborn campus are kind of
The blog My Not So Random Thoughts, maintained by US-expat and Israeli resident Michael, has been following developments on that campus extensively. A very cursory glance at the blog seems to indicate that there are two kinds of posts there. The first category is basically daily life in Israel type stuff, with an emphasis on the small city of Karmiel. Karmiel is a city very close to our hearts: we have very dear and immediate relatives there, the city has a competent mall, and the residents got shelled pretty badly during Lebanon II. Nonetheless, we hate Karmiel. Hate it with a passion. The entire city is realistically maybe 20 or 30 streets, and we have spent well over 8 hours just outright lost there. Outright. The place makes the 3-D clusterfuck that is Haifa traffic look like a Salt Lake City-style grid. Israelis are uniformly awful at giving directions, but there's something in the air in the Galilee that makes them especially bad up there.
The other kinds of posts that Michael has are about the different clusterfuck that is the UMich Dearborn campus. He's posted on the subject as recently as a few days ago, but there are ten or so posts throughout October. Many of the posts are extensive, and they give the kind of on-the-ground who's-who insight that's so critical in understanding American campus politics. Several points for depth and breadth, although everal thousand points off for using the phrase "merely rhetorical" in a denigrating way. Nonetheless, well worth your time if you're concerned about the swamp that is American campus activism. If you click through to the main link and scroll down, you'll bump into them in a couple of seconds or so.
