ann arbor is overrated.

So, the Ann Arbor Tenants Union, whom we’d been looking forward to calling next year to see what we could do about the 50-degree temperatures in our first-floor bathroom, is ending its services due to lack of funding from the Michigan Student Assembly, after the $20,000 they had received last year ran out.

We don’t know if the MSA general counsel’s statement that the AATU is “an ineffective service” is accurate. We don’t know much about how MSA funds are allocated at all, in fact. So feel free to take it as an ill-informed swipe when we ask, what was the MSA thinking when, “in conjunction with” Students Supporting Affirmative Action, it spent about $12,000 on transporting students to Washington for admissions-case protests?

We think the money would have a better chance of helping sway our landlord than Antonin Scalia.