In order for the wheel to turn, for life to be lived, impurities are needed, and the impurities of impurities in the soil, too, as is known, if it is to be fertile. Dissension, diversity, the grain of salt and mustard are needed: Fascism does not want them, forbids them, and that’s why you’re not…
Category: Opinion
Looking a Little More Deeply into C.C. Little
I’ve been both pleased and concerned to see the recent attention to Clarence Cook Little, president of the University of Michigan from 1924 to 1929. Pleased, because while in my own research I have found him both admirable and objectionable, I have always found him fascinating. Concerned, because the recent attention to Little seems less…
Why the C.C. Little Building Should be Renamed
This post was originally published on April 12, 2017. In January 1928, Clarence C. Little delivered an address at the Third Race Betterment Conference in Battle Creek, Michigan, on the strides being made by scientists committed to the ideas and objectives of eugenics. Espousing the belief that society could and should be improved by stimulating…
Why I Marched for Science
I am a Pathways Master’s student in the Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology. In my lab we study biofilm formation in E. coli. Biofilms are made of individual cells that stick to one another and form a complex structure that is difficult to break apart. These communities can be up to 1000x more…
Are we building a wall?
By Anita Gonzalez, Professor of Theatre and Drama University of Michigan at Ann Arbor Are we building a wall? My friends and associates wonder what will be accomplished by cordoning off good will between us. The xenophobic anxiety of our current administration and its electorate, stands in stark opposition to a lived history of collaboration. One…