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Tensions were high as the Student Government Council presidential debate took place last Tuesday. The debate was held on the third floor of the UCEN and was between president hopeful Owen Agho and vice president hopeful Nic Josey for the R.E.A.L. Party and president hopeful Greg Schulkey and vice president hopeful Ian Mays for the NEW Dynamic Party. The debate was moderated by Wade Merrill, coordinator of elections. …
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As part of the ongoing efforts to rebuild the downtown area, school officials have recently discussed extending Kearsley Street to run through campus. The proposal, initially discussed as part of the SASAKI Master Plan in 2003, would allow for a two-way street to be constructed between the Murchie Science Building and the new campus housing facilities.…
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A Week of Decades Many students at the University of Michigan-Flint decided to put on different attire last week. Dressing in everything from side ponytails and leg warmers to frizzy hair, sorority and fraternity members pulled out their outfits from the 70s, 80s, 90s, and 2000s during the Winter Semester Greek Week.…
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(FLINT) -- The body of a man believed to be in his forties was pulled from the Flint River near the Hamilton Dam on the campus of the University of Michigan-Flint at approximately 8 a.m. today (April 11).
Four residents of the nearby "Carriage Town" found the body while they were walking along the river outside the William S.…
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Owen Agho and Nic Josey of the R.E.A.L. Party have won the 2008 Student Government Council elections, according to an unofficial count. Agho and Josey, the assumed president and vice president-elect, respectively, defeated Greg Schulkey and Ian Mays of the NEW Dynamic Party by a vote total of 425-230…
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When Halo Burger Cafe in the UCEN was closed the majority of the day Monday and all day Tuesday, it was no April Fools' Day joke. The floor of the popular eatery, however, caused a speed bump for employees - quite literally.
"It happened right around 10:45 a.m.…
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University of Michigan students at Flint and Dearborn will get lower priority for football tickets than students in Ann Arbor, under a new U-M athletic policy. UM-Flint students, and at least one administrator, are protesting the change to discriminate between students of the three campuses.…
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For a lot of financially strapped college students, the dream of starting a business one day is more of a pipe dream than a reality. But at UM-Flint, that notion is beginning to change.
Joel Rash is the manager of Launch, the UM program designed to give creative, business-minded students a place to flesh out their ideas.…
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More than 150 students spent the night together recently-at the UCEN.
Usually snoozing at night, the UCEN jolted awake with student life March 27 for a "24-7" party, held from 7 p.m. to 7 a.m., and presented by Students Moving the UCEN Forward (SMUF). The party, hosted by various student organizations including the Campus Activities Board, Video Gamers Club, Table Top Gamers Club and Dungeons and Dragons Club, included dancing, video games and even a pair of bounce houses.…
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University of Michigan-Flint's Interium Chancellor, Jack Kay, appeared at the University of Michigan-Dearborn's BorgWarner Auditorium to give a lecture on hate on the Internet. The lecture was part of the UM-D's Chancellor's lecture series.
Kay also serves as the provost and vice chancellor for academic affairs at UM-F, and is also a communications professor at the school.…
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