Writers & Staff

Writers:

Issue: Employed or Shut Out?

Kyle Eggerding is a Junior from Cincinnati, Ohio. He will be graduating a year early in April 2012 and is majoring in Econ and Political Science. He hopes to go on to work in consulting, Wall Street, or wealth management fields.

Sonja Karnovsky and Adam Watkins are both sophomores at the University of
Michigan, and are currently the co-directors for the Roosevelt Institute’s Center on Economic Policy.

Issue: Scientific Method, Flawed?

Adam Becker is a sixth-year Ph.D. student in the Physics Department at the University of Michigan. His blog is online at www.FreelanceAstrophysicist.com.

Ryan Dougherty is a junior in LSA. He blogs at themindexperience.tumblr.com which aims to make neuroscience and psychology more accessible to the public.

Issue: Battling for Blood: Should Gay Men Give?

Casey Pence is a volunteer at the University of Michigan Spectrum Center. He is O+.

Max Warhol is a student at the University of Michigan studying Political Science and Philosophy

Issue: I Hate Free Speech

Carl Cohen is a professor of Philosophy at U of M.

Christina Ley is currently a sophomore dual-enrolled in Screen Arts Culture and the School of Art and Design.

Issue: For Sale

Colin is an LSA Honors student hailing from the wild lands of the Pacific Northwest. He spends his time on an IV drip from the internet, exploring interests from modern fiction to fluid physics. Karolina is an LSA honors student, planning on majoring in Neuroscience. She enjoys web design, writing, and tennis. Colin and Karolina are both a part of a seminar on the commodifcation of the human body.

Carol Leigh has been a sex worker and activist since the late seventies. In 1978, she coined the term “sex worker.” Leigh is a member of SWOP-USA, Desiree Alliance, COYOTE, and is also the co-founder of BAYSWAN. She founded and directs the San Francisco Sex Worker Film and Arts Festival. Leigh won a settlement in 1993 from the University of Michigan law School for the censorship of Porn’im’age’ry: Picturing Prostitues, an exhibit curated by Carol Jacobsen which included Leigh’s video “Outlaw Poverty, Not Prostitutes.”

Issue: Israel and Palestine at the UN: Is Unilateral Action the Answer?

Naomi Scheinerman is an LSA senior majoring in Political Science and Philosophy and is Israel Chair at Hillel and a former board member and treasurer of the American movement for Israel. She blogs for Consider and is an associate editor for the Journal of Political Science.

Bilal Baydoun is a senior at the University of Michigan, the co-chair of Students Allied for Freedom and Equality (SAFE), and a lifelong advocate of freedom and equality for all disenfranchised people of the world.

Issue: Halloween Costumes: Who Decides?

Katie Sauter is a junior at U of M, studying Women’s Studies and Political Science. She is passionate about ending gender inequalities through her involvement with SafeHouse Center, the Women’s Issues Commission of MSA, and the CIAM Cancun Partnership.

Libby Howard is a sophomore at Lewis & Clark College, She is a spoken word poet and was Colorado Youth Slam champion two years in a row. For Halloween, she is going to be a gnome.

Issue: Restricted Travel

Issue: The Last Drop

Emma Erickson is a recent graduate of the University of Michigan. She majored in Chemistry and minored in Program in the Environment (PitE).

Avery Robinson is a senior in PitE (focusing on sustainable urbanism), Hebrew and Jewish Cultural Studies, and Cultural Anthropology. He is the schmoozalufugus at Michigan (president of Schmooze, the Jewish culture club) and involved in verious groups and activities through Hillel.

Issue: Is America Failing?

Eric Rutkoske was a senior concentrating in Honors Economics at Michigan

Chris Foote was a third year graduate student in the Economics Department at Michigan.

Issue: Is Ann Arbor Safe?

Brianna Smith is a senior studying Women’s Studies at the University of Michigan. She has done extensive work with Planned Parenthood and SAPAC in the Ann Arbor Community.

Dr. Sarai Aharoni is a Schusterman Visiting Israeli Professor at the Frankel Center for Judaic Studies. She published articles on gender, peace and conflict in Israel and also co-edited “Where Are All the Women? U.N. Security Council Resolution 1324: Gender perspectives of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict.”

Issue: Liberal Arts Education: Can You Really Study It All?

Len Penzo runs the irreverent, eponymous personal-finance blog, Len Penzo dot Com. The blog covers money with a strong emphasis on personal responsibility. It was honored by Kiplinger as a Best Money Blog in 2010.

Lindsay Nieman graduated from the University of Michigan in 2010 with a BA in English

Issue: CONSIDER: THE ENVIRONMENT

Tommy Held is a senior in the Ford School of Public Policy, with a focus area in International Environmental Policy.

Ryan Doughtery is a sophomore in LS&A studying psychology. He wants to be a researcher and writer.

Issue: April Fools

The Gargoyle was founded in 1909 by University of Michigan students Lee A. White and Abraham Van Helsing with the vision of bringing joy and laughter to the Michigan campus and eradicating Ann Arbor’s substantial vampire population. The organization has yet to succeed at either of these tasks. Its office in the Student Publications Building is home to many treasures, including two WWII bombshells, a shopping cart, and all that shit Ariel was whining about in “The Little Mermaid.”

The Every Three Weekly is the official humor publication of the University of Michigan and has been recognized by the New York Times and Wall Street Journal, among others, as the finest newspaper in the world.

Issue: The Marijuana Issue

Connor MacHugh is a senior at the University and an active member of the Inter-Cooperative Council of Ann Arbor. He is currently a History major in the College of Literature, Science and the Arts and plans to participate in the Peaces Corps. Sebastian Swae-Shampine is a second-year student of Spanish and Latin American and Caribbean Studies. They are both members of U-M’s Students for Sensible Drug Policy.

Noel Gordon is a sophomore at the University of Michigan majoring in Political Science and double-minoring in Moral & Political Philosophy as well as Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer & Sexuality Studies. He is a co-founder of the Michigan Political Union.

Issue: Stereotypes

parker cronin is a junior at the University of Michigan majoring in History and Anthropology. He one day plans on becoming a lofty member of the academy by studying the history of history.

Michael Bloom is a sophomore History major from Iowa City, Iowa. He is also a member of University of Michigan’s Debate Team.

Issue: The Censoring of Nigger

Edith Freyer is a junior at the University of Michigan majoring in Dance and Communication Studies. She plans to pursue a career in modern dance and performance and is very interested in presidential history.

Bill Peschel wrote a book called Writers Gone Wild: The Feuds, Frolics, and Follies of Literature’s Great Adventures, Drunkards, Lovers, Iconoclasts, and Misanthropes.

Issue: To Infinity and Beyond

Dr. Christopher McKay is a planetary scientist at NASA Ames Research Center, studying planetary atmospheres, astrobiology, and terraforming. He has been actively involved in planning for future Mars missions including human settlements.

Dr. Margaret R. McLean is Associate Director for the Markula Center for Applied Ethics and Senior Lecturer in Religious Studies at Santa Clara University in Santa Clara, California, and an avid watcher of the night sky.

Issue: Torn Over Reform

Gerardo Villarreal is an international student at the University of Michigan. He is a Mexican national and has been involved in immigrant rights student groups, such as Migrant and Immigrant Rights and Awareness (MIRA) and OneMichigan.

Emily Smalligan is currently in her third year at UM studying Arabic. Last summer, she spent time on the US-Mexican border in both Tucson, AZ and Nogales, Mexico providing humanitarian aid and learning about immigration reform.

Issue: The Internet Issue

Carly Goldberg is majoring in Environmental Economics and Policy through Program in the Environment. She currently serves as the Vice President of the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts Student Government.

Jason Raymond is a University of Michigan senior in the Stephen M. Ross School of Business and the Vice President of the Michigan Student Assembly.

Issue: Fat and Fit

herine Kraus is an LSA senior majoring in Communications and Linguistics. Perry is a lifelong Michigan fan and laments the fact that his four years at UM have been some of the worst four years in Michigan football history.

Michelle Allison is a sophomore at the University of Michigan majoring in history and anthropology.

Issue: The Pluses and Minuses of Grades

Ruth Scodelis the D.R. Shackleton Bailey Collegiate Professor of Greek and Latin and Chair of the Department of Classical Studies.

E.D. Rothman is a professor of Statistics and Director of the Center for Statistical Consultation and Research.

Issue: Returning Native American Artifacts

Dr. Carla Sinopoli is a Professor of Anthropology at the University of Michigan and the director and curator of Asian Archeology and the Museum of Anthropology.

Kate Heflick is now concentrating in Program in the Environment, but had an original major in Anthropological Archaeology. She has participated as a student and a research assistant in an archaeological field course with Professor Meghan Howey, a scholar on Native American issues, at the U-M Biological Station.

Issue: Rich Rod or Ditch Rod?

Parker Suarez is an LSA senior majoring in Communications and Linguistics. Perry is a lifelong Michigan fan and laments the fact that his four years at UM have been some of the worst four years in Michigan football history.

parker cronin is a sophomore at the University of Michigan majoring in history and anthropology.

Issue: Making the Best Use of Our Dollars: Entrepreneurship or Government Intervention?

Ankit Mehta is a junior studying communications studies and linguistics with an interest in persuasion and acculturation. Outside of academia, Ankit is the President of MPowered Entrepreneurship.

The Roosevelt Institute Campus Network is a student policy organization that engages new generations in a unique form of progressive activism that empowers young people as leaders and promotes their ideas for change. The Economic Development Policy Center facilitates and promotes policy proposal, analysis, and advocacy concerning local, regional, national, and global economic systems among undergraduate students.

Issue: Can the Tea Party Win?

Ben Reed Zakarin is a Senior at the University of Michigan and the Editor-in-Chief of the Michigan Journal of History.

Michael Brendan Dougherty is a contributing editor for The American Conservative and was a 2009-2010 Philips Journalism Fellow. He blogs at The Unreal.

Issue: Land of the Free?

Jason Brennan is Assistant Professor of Philosophy Research at Brown University. he is the author of The Ethics of Voting (forthcoming from Princeton University Press, 2011) and with David Schmidtz, A Brief History of Liberty (Wiley-Blackwell, 2010).

David Schmidtz is Kendrick Professor of Philosophy and joint Professor of Economics at the University of Arizona. He is author of Rational Choice and Moral AgencyElements of Justice (Cambridge) and Persons, Polis, Planet (Oxford). (Princeton),

Elizabeth Anderson is the Arthur F. Thurnau Professor and John Rawls Collegiate Professor of Philosophy and Women’s Studies at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. She writes extensively in moral and political philosophy and the philosophy of the social sciences.

Issue: Facebook: 500 Million Users or 500 Million Used?

Kevin Lane is starting his third year as an undergraduate student at the University of Michigan, double-majoring in Philosophy and Cell and Molecular Biology. Kevin is a member of the Michigan Ethics Bowl Team and the Pre-Medical Club and works in the Cellular and Developmental Biology department of the Biomedical Science Research Building.

Cameron Dean is University of Michigan senior studying Anthropology and Russian. He enjoys photography and tinkering. He does not have a Facebook.

Issue: Are We Ready For Gender Neutral Housing?

Allison Horky is a graduate student in the School of Social Work and is co-chair of the Spectrum Center Student Advisory Board. She has been involved with the Gender Neutral Housing Campaign for some time now and is currently working on a report to be presented to the University’s Board of Regents.

Anya Nona is an associate professor of English at the University of Illinois. His most recent book, Milton and the Post-Secular Present, will be published by the Stanford University Press in Fall 2011.

Issue: Where Does Religious Freedom STOP?

Feisal G. Mohamed is an associate professor of English at the University of Illinois. His most recent book, Milton and the Post-Secular Present, will be published by the Stanford University Press in Fall 2011.

Issue: Hooking Up: Worth It?

Mark Regnerus is an associate professor of sociology at the University of Texas at Austin. He is the author of Premarital Sex in America: How Young Americans Meet, Mate, and Think about Marrying (Oxford University Press, 2011.)

Tabitha Berry is a recent graduate with a BA in Creative Writing and a minor in German from the U of M Residential College. She is a sex-positive feminist with strong interests in gender and sexuality. She likes painting, photography, printmaking, and (attempting) simple living.

Issue: Does School Keep Getting in the Way of Your Education?

Steve Benson is a senior in LSA, and is the LSA Student Government President. He is actively involved in his fraternity, Sigma Alpha Mu, is a participant in Dance Marathon, and is also a campus day leader where he gives tours to admitted students. If you have any questions for Steven, please feel free to email him at sbens@umich.edu

Tim Dodd is the director of the Newnan LSA Academic Advising Center at the University of Michigan. Prior to coming to Michigan in July, 2007, Tim had served as the executive director of the Center for Academic Integrity at Duke University, associate dean of undergraduate studies at Case Western Reserve University, associate dean for academic advising at Gettysburg College, and director of academic resources and advisement at St. Lawrence University. Tim missed only one class in his four years as an undergraduate — a Spanish class –which, he recalls, was his only class on a particularly monsoon-swept Friday afternoon.

Issue: Should Anthropologists be a Part of Military Operations?

Scott Atran, Ph.D., is a visiting professor of psychology at the University of Michigan and Directeur de Recherche, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris. His comments are an adaptation of his testimony before the Senate Armed Services Subcommittee on Emerging Threats & Capabilities on
March 10, 2010.

Gabriel Tourek is a senior in the Ford School of Public Policy. He is the former managing editor of Consider.

Issue: Does North Campus Suck?

Dylan Stec is a freshman at U of M, pursuing a degree in International Relations. He hopes to, one day, lead the vast right-wing conspiracy.

Hannah Frey is a sophomore in the college of engineering who currently has too much free time, hence her helping out Consider. Many of her works have been inspired by lolcatz and her sexy deep voice has the ability to lull men to sleep.

Issue: Global Climate Change: Where to Next?

Lilly Zoller is a graduating senior in the college of LSA. She has a major in Program in the Environment with a specialization in sustainable solutions to global climate change and a minor in Peace and Social Justice.

Brian Ford is an LS&A senior with a major in Screen Arts and Culture and a minor International Studies. He cannot be trusted.

Issue: Should Obese Airline Passengers Pay Extra?

Jae H. Chung is a graduating senior in the College of LSA. He is studying economics, political science, and entrepreneurship.

Robert Hinck is a junior in the College of LSA. He is studying political science.

Issue: Selling Kidneys for Cash

Robert L. Houbeck, Jr. (UM ‘72,’74,’75) is Director of the Frances Willson Thompson Library at the University of Michigan-Flint, and Adjunct Lecturer in Flint’s American Culture and Honors programs. He speaks regularly on bioethical issues.

Mark J. Perry is a professor of Economics at the Flint campus of the University of Michigan, and visiting scholar at the American Enterprise Institute. He writes daily on his blog Carpe Diem (mjperry.blogspot.com).

Issue: Student Volunteers in Haiti: Harmful or Helpful?

Brad Detjen is a Senior in Chemical Engineering and an Executive Board member of Health In Action. HIA is an interdisciplinary student society that promotes sustainable development and service learning at volunteer sites in rural Guatemala and urban Detroit.

Rebecca R. Cheezum, MPH, is a doctoral candidate in the department of Health Behavior and Health Education at University of Michigan School of Public Health. She is Co-Founder of Tet Ansanm Ak Ayiti (TAAA).

Issue: I’m Gay: Should I Get Married?

parker cronin is a sophomore at the University of Michigan majoring in history and anthropology. He one day plans on becoming a lofty member of the academy by studying the history of history

Sara Burke is a junior at U of M majoring in psychology and English with the intention of pursuing a Ph.D. in social psychology and conducting research on intergroup relations and prejudice. She occasionally writes about political and social issues in her blog at seburke.wordpress.com.

Issue: Should Porn be Legal?

Lexie Tourek is a sophomore majoring in Mathematical Biology and Women’s Studies. She hopes to find a way to combine both of her interests as a feminist mathematician, a mathematical feminist, or something in between.

Rachel Yung is a senior majoring in Cultural Anthropology and minoring in LGBTQS Studies and Asian/Pacific American Studies. Born and raised in Ann Arbor, she’s a queer vegan liberal feminist secular humanist; she’s an artist, a museum docent, and an activist.

Issue: Limits on Life: When Should Death be a Decision?

Katelin Davisis a University of Michigan junior in the Program in The Environment. Her passions include plants, animals, people and the energy that exist among them. She also likes small and medium brown paper bags.

Avni Mehta is a University of Michigan senior majoring in sustainable development systems and policy. She is a writer and a locally-renowned chef. Clark Baxtresser is a University of Michigan senior majoring in music and a member of the Men’s Glee Club. He is currently researching the psychology of cigarette smokers on campus.

Issue: Is Revitalized Detroit Worth the Effort?

Issue: Has the New Michigan Smoking Ban Gone Too Far?

Eric Eaton is a senior at the University of Michigan majoring in English. He currently measures his life in coffee spoons and cigarette butts but will learn to adapt to Michigan law in May.

Gabe Tourek is a senior at the University of Michigan majoring in Public Policy with a concentration in development and health.

Issue: Nuclear Power Without Nuclear Proliferation?

Omeed Firoozgan and Ben Woll are graduating seniors in the Political Science Department. They represent Global Zero at U of M, one of many national chapters part of an international initiative to eliminate nuclear weapons, supported by hundreds of world leaders and activists.

Alec Thomas is a professor of nuclear engineering and radiological sciences in the UM College of Engineering. His research interests include laser-plasma interaction at relativistic intensities and particle acceleration with intense lasers.

Issue: Greek Life: Should You Pledge?

Lauren McGlothlin is a pre-law junior from Maryland majoring in Political Science and English. She is an active member of Chi Omega Sorority and LSAStudent Government and also a writing tutor at the Sweetland Writing Center.

Charles Stone is a junior at the University, majoring in History. Born in Royal Oak, Michigan, his interests include Detroit Tigers baseball, “Family Guy”, and “Jeopardy!”

Issue: Adderall: Panacea or Delusion?

Robert Vine is a junior at the University of Michigan majoring in Political Science. He spends most of his time building canoes and testing paddles on the Huron River.

Danielle Foley is a senior at the University of Michigan majoring in English and Philosophy. She is interested in educational issues and leads creative workshops for high school girls in a correctional facility.

Issue: What is the Role of Student Government?

Michael Rorro is a senior at the University of Michigan, majoring in Economics and Near Eastern Studies. He is currently the Vice President of the Michigan Student Assembly.

Kate Stenvigis a graduate student in the School of Education, and a Rackham Representative on the Michigan Student Assembly. She is also a leader and organizer with the Defend Affirmative Action Party and BAMN.

Issue: Making News: The Role of a Student Publication

Imran Syed is a second-year law student at Michigan Law School and a columnist for The Michigan Daily. He graduated with a Bachelor’s in political science from Michigan in 2008, and has served terms as editorial page editor and summer editor in chief of the Daily.

Lindsay Miars is a senior at the University of Michigan studying Comparative Literature and Communication Studies. She is the current editor-in-chief of The Michigan Independent, and secretary of the College Democrats. She spent the past summer interning at the PBS headquarters in Washington DC, and tutoring children in Quito, Ecuador. She hopes to pursue journalism as a career.

Issue: Green Technology

Nils Stannik is a U of M student from the Philadelphia area. He is studying engineering and German at Michigan with the goal of pursuing a career in renewable energy technologies. Nils is involved with the Michigan Solar Car Team, as well as the Student Clean Energy Coalition.

Gareth Collins is a senior at the Ford School of Public Policy, with a focus area of economic policy in the developing world, and a minor in Chinese. Born and raised abroad, Gareth has strong ties to Asia and Australia, but calls Chicago home. He currently chairs U of M’s environmental chapter of the Roosevelt Institution, a national, student-run policy think thank.

Issue: Eat Local?

Kate Heller is a University of Michigan senior majoring in Anthropology and minoring in the Program in the Environment. She is part of the Michigan Sustainable Foods Initiative through which she works to encourage dorms, university programs, students, and staff to rethink their consumption and consider its effects on community and environment.

Remy Elbez graduated with a master’s degree in Physics and Economics from Ecole Polytechnique in France, and is currently a PhD student in Applied Physics at the University of Michigan.

Issue: Is a Fat Tax Fair?

Tali Fisher graduated from the University of Toronto with an honors degree in Architecture.

Leonard Cleveland graduated from the University of Michigan Law
School in 2007.

Issue: Google too big?

Kevin Bunkley graduated from The University of Michigan in 2008, and worked as an editorial columnist for The Michigan Daily. He has since discovered that Google and the rest of the job market is not friendly to History majors. Later this year he will go to work in Washington, D.C. for very little pay and the thrill of adventure. He lives in Kalamazoo, Michigan, where he spends his time regretting his choice of a career path, and missing the world of a liberal college campus.

Sean Malone is a Senior English Major with a Classic civilizations Minor at the University of Michigan. His interests are Writing, Reading, Music, Greek Mythology, and Roller Coasters. In the future he hopes to be a writer, but which field is not yet determined. While he stills thinks Google is a helpful resource now, he hopes that this article will help to keep large businesses in check and make people aware of the cost of convenience.