 The Michigan Journal goes one on one with Four Year Strong
by Michigan JournalJan 01, 2013“MJ: Where are you guys from?
FYS: We're from Massachusetts, Worcester to be exact.
MJ: Where did the band name Four Year Strong come from?
FYS: It's a pretty lame story actually The Get Up Kids had a song with the lyrics five year strong and we just changed it to four.”
Black History Month Series
by Michigan JournalJan 01, 2013“The story of Harriet Tubman is a familiar one. Tubman was the fierce-minded abolitionist who led many slaves to freedom during a time when over a million African Americans were in bondage. Sojourner Truth is another female leader whose name is well known in African American history.”
Student Government Elections Approaching
by Michigan JournalJan 01, 2013“The members of Student Government at the University of Michigan Dearborn are gearing up and preparing for upcoming elections. The election determines SG's president, vice-president, and the number of seats each party, slate, or independent, holds in the senate.”
Four Year Strong packs The Magic Stick
by Michigan JournalJan 01, 2013“As the smoke rose to the rafters the house lights dimmed and the stage lights came up.
After hours of anticipation the crowd burst into a chant "Four Year Strong! Four Year Strong! Four Year Strong!" and without further delay the band from Worchester, Mass.”
Play Review: August Osage County
by Michigan JournalJan 01, 2013“Steppenwolf's "August: Osage County" comes to the Fisher Theatre February 19 - 21, starring Estelle Parsons, best known to television viewers as the mother on Roseanne. Telling the bitingly funny and sensationally entertaining tale of the Weston family of Pawhuska, Oklahoma, August: Osage County comes to Detroit for five performances only.”
UM-D hockey beats Eastern Michigan
by Michigan JournalJan 01, 2013“The wins just keep coming for the Michigan-Dearborn hockey team as they extended their winning streak to six games last weekend, with a pair of wins over rival Eastern Michigan.
The crowd amassed in Romulus for the kickoff of the final regular season series of the season.”
COLUMN: Vancouver Games
by Michigan JournalJan 01, 2013“Although it seems like the world just watched Michael Phelps swim his way to an Olympic record eight gold medals, it has actually been almost a year and a half. Now it is time for the Winter Olympics.
I absolutely love watching the Olympic games whether it's winter or summer games.”
Text and talk; the new equivalent of drunk driving
by Michigan JournalJan 01, 2013“This generation is the age of technology. It's as if cell phones and computers are attached to the hands of students and children, even forcing the "old school" into adopting cell phones and learning the use of Internet.
Everyone wants to be connected. Social network sites, e-mails from important clients, text messages from significant others, keeping in touch with friends out of state in different time zones- there are countless reasons that people feel the need to stay on top of technology but rarely are the reasons to remain responsible when using such devices are brought up.”
The myth behind multitasking
by Michigan JournalJan 01, 2013“We live in a society where multi-tasking is the key to getting anything done. If you walk around campus you see students working on homework, while typing messages to their friends on Facebook, and listening to their favorite song on their iPod. It's natural to this generation and those coming behind us to work this way, however, we're not as good at multi-tasking as we would like to think.”
COLUMN: The new American slavery
by Michigan JournalJan 01, 2013“Too bad the hand of the 13th Amendment isn't long enough. The Immigration and Customs Enforcement collaborated with Signal International to promote human trafficking and slavery in Mississippi. The matter is currently being investigated by Homeland Security and the Justice Department.” | News Topics
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