Last Spring, a slate of pro-Palestinian candidates calling themselves the “Shut it Down” party ran for the student council at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor and won their elections. At that time, they threatened to defund student groups, including the student council, unless the school administration divested endowment funds from Israel and military weapons manufacturers. They did this at the end of the school year.
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As school begins in Ann Arbor, the student council hasn’t budged, and the $1.3 million in funds for groups as diverse as a frisbee team and a ballroom dancing group are left out in the cold because they didn’t get a subsidy from the school to carry on with their activities. The university regents are
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