Right now the Detroit River is a moat, and the Ambassador Bridge is a drawbridge guarded by a greedy old troll. Moats and drawbridges aren’t built to welcome traders but to discourage invaders. This is a problem for Detroit, considering the bridge connects a trade partner in Canada to our economically troubled manufacturing and agricultural...
Month: November 2012
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Elections have consequences: women, sex, and voting
“Y our first time shouldn’t be with just anybody. You want to do it with a great guy,” Lena Dunham says in a new campaign ad for President Obama. The minute-long YouTube clip features the star of the popular show “Girls” as she explains why young voters, particularly women, “are ready” to vote for Obama....
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Skateboarding on Campus
There is a wheeled craze on campus, and it has taken many guys by force, no matter how hard they fall. The phenomena of skateboarding, longboarding, penny boarding — the whole gamut — exploded across campus this semester. Junior Whittaker Dunn, the veteran boarder that many newer skateboarders credit as their inspiration to start boarding,...
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Stories by night and hunting by day
South of Botswana, Africa, near the Limpopo River is the Eland ranch, an expansive game reserve on a plateau high above the city of Johannesburg. The land here is covered in Acacia trees, bush veldt, and thorny waitabit bushes. Sophomore Marshall Gobba is stalking a herd of blue wildebeests. The wind has changed several times...
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A firm foundation
You wouldn’t know that the waitress recommending fish was in the midst of gaining full custody of her son. Or that the hostess has been widowed for five years. Or that the server bussing tables is a recovering alcoholic. When Jack Mosely opened Tastes of Life this summer, his primary motive was not to bring...