“Mary Sue Coleman, you’re no Lee Bollinger”

         Not even meaning it as an insult, maybe, just a fact: see, e.g., DetNews today, Students stage sit-in at U-M president’s office to protest sweatshops,

         “…Former U-M President Lee Bollinger established a contractor’s code of conduct following a 51-hour student occupation of the same office, calling for the university to contract only with vendors who meet basic humanitarian principals [sic] in dealing with workers. …”

         I think it was less than 10 hours after the occupation today, before the arrests started. What’s going on?

         I’m not sure how much sympathy the protesters had from the community, but the early, very early (compared to the laid-back L. Bo, see above) arrests might generate even more sympathy than there’d have been otherwise. We’ll see.

         “MS Co.≠L. Bo.” There’s an equation for you, sort of the “E=mc2” of UM administration…

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