This is my second post as an alumni blogger and a trend has begun to emerge.  Since graduating I have moved into Detroit to live, work, and learn.   I will plan to continue to write about the city, but will provide this explanation as to why I think its issues are relevant to the University of [...]

Last Tuesday was the State of the Union address. I was confident everyone was aware of this until I was sitting in a lecture the following Thursday and my professor asked how many students watched the address. Of the approximate 200 students in the lecture hall only six raised their hands, and more than a few gave [...]

It has been nearly a year since I submitted my last post as a staff member to the Consider blog, and since then I’ve graduated from college and have been lucky enough to go off to study in France for a year on a Fulbright grant.  As Wonderful as that is, it’s often easy to feel far [...]

Today is the second day of elections for your student government(s) here at Michigan. For those of you who are unfamiliar with the system, many [but not all] colleges have their own student governments (i.e. The Engineering Council and LSA-SG); there is also the Central Student Government, where representatives from all of the different colleges [...]

I think we’ve all read more than enough about why the Republicans lost last week’s election and how the party needs to change in the future. Still, everyone seems to be focusing on demographic changes: embracing immigration reform to appeal to Latino voters, taking a softer stance on the social issues that young Americans have [...]

If anything deserves a moment of reflection after Tuesday’s election, it’s not Obama’s win, but Romney’s loss, and what it will mean for the future of the Republican Party. And if anything surprised you about Tuesday’s election, I hope it wasn’t President Obama’s reelection. Because the polls were clear. Call me crazy, but unlike many [...]