Recently, Ann Arbor Sucks complained
Recently, Ann Arbor Sucks complained that the Daily didn’t give an accused racial harasser a chance to comment. Could this be part of a bigger pattern? Let’s take a look at some of today’s front page stories.
“‘U’ urged to divest from Israel.” This story quotes four pro-divestment students. The only disagreement comes from a sentence in an e-mail sent to the University community by President Mary Sue Coleman over a week ago.
“Students sue to prevent conference.” This story, about a lawsuit filed to prevent a pro-Palestinian conference on campus, quotes the two students behind the suit and their attorney. It also quotes a University spokeswoman and two students as being opposed to the suit, not including a leader of the group sponsoring the conference, who declined to comment.
“Physicist gives new theories on universe.” The theories of maverick Stephen Wolfram, the physicist this headline refers to, are thought by many in the scientific community to be not in fact new. Yet the only person quoted as questioning Wolfram in the piece is an LSA freshman, despite the skeptical and almost hostile tone of the questions Wolfram was asked after his talk at the Rackham auditorium yesterday.
Ann Arbor Sucks’ point is not that the Daily is anti-Israel (pro-Wolfram, maybe), but that perhaps they should keep an eye on these kind of inconsistencies.