Articles tagged: Dwight Lang
column: First-generation college students at the University of Michigan share their stories
Posted: Apr 19, 2013by Danielle Boshers, Anna Garcia, Melody Ng, Chris Reynolds, Dwight Lang During the 2007-08 academic year. a small group of University of Michigan undergraduates began meeting informally to share common experiences of being first in ... Read more »
COLUMN: Whole Foods parking lot encounter: Was it my car or just the way I was dressed?
Posted: Jan 30, 2012After turning onto Stadium Boulevard, I headed east toward Washtenaw Avenue. It was still sunny and around 2:30 p.m. First stop would be Planet Fitness behind the Big Boy restaurant in Ypsilanti for a vigorous ... Read more »
column: In the wake of heart attack and bypass surgery, I imagine life after my death
Posted: Nov 18, 2011Through spring and summer of 2010 I felt uncertain and disorganized. My imagination got the better of me. After nearly dying from an unexpected heart attack on the evening of May 17, 2010 and during ... Read more »
Column: A desk tells its tale of life with a variety of owners in Ann Arbor
Posted: Oct 05, 2011I’m just a simple desk in a university town where countless stories are waiting to be told. Recently I arrived at my 72nd home at the northeast corner of Granger Avenue and Packard Street — ... Read more »
Column: Quizzes and the right thing to do at the University of Michigan
Posted: Jul 06, 2011All of us have probably had a good day at work. Perhaps this feeling persisted for weeks or even months. Everything just seems worth the effort. My first interaction with Anne occurred during a snowy ... Read more »
Heart attack and open heart surgery at the University of Michigan Hospital a life-changing experience
Posted: Sep 19, 2010At 6:30 a.m. on May 18, I was headed down a hallway to the University of Michigan Cardiovascular Center. I had surrendered to medical technology and the expertise of hospital staff. An IV injection swept ... Read more »
essay: New University of Michigan North Quad dorm stirs emotions, analyses
Posted: Jul 13, 2010As is usually the custom, the chair and associate chair of the sociology department were sponsoring the annual late March lecturer’s luncheon at the Campus Inn restaurant. I left my office in the University of ... Read more »
opinion: This Central Ann Arbor neighbor wonders about snowy sidewalks, shoveling motivations
Posted: Mar 04, 2010The other morning my wife, who walks to work from our house near Packard and Wells, called from her office in the North Ingalls building on Catherine Street. She mentioned that so many more sidewalks ... Read more »
The Rio Lindas Rush Limbaugh never knew
Posted: Feb 02, 2010When Rush Limbaugh entered a Hawaiian hospital on December 30th suffering from severe chest pains I wondered how this event might affect him. Death is hard for anyone to contemplate. After extensive tests proved negative ... Read more »
Burns Park neighborhood gathering shows off Eberbach House's new sunroom
Posted: Dec 16, 2009On Dec. 13, neighbors in and around Woodlawn Avenue, Wells Street, and Forest Avenue - just off Packard Street near Granger Avenue - gathered at the home of Christa and John Williams. The event was ... Read more »
Tackling issues faced by first-generation students at the University of Michigan
Posted: Dec 10, 2009Like all universities, the University of Michigan has always enrolled students who are first in their families to attend college. Today many first-generation students are undergraduates (approximately ten percent or 2500 students), while others study ... Read more »
Will Wolverines fly with Ducks?
Posted: Dec 08, 2009Like thousands of other Ann Arborites I attended last month’s Michigan/Ohio State Big House classic. My ears still ring from the amazing jet fly-over. I sat with a good friend - an OSU alum - ... Read more »
First year of Skyline High School cost Ann Arbor school district more than $2.5 million
Posted: Dec 02, 2009The price of running Ann Arbor's Skyline High School in its first year? Just over $2.5 million. That’s well within the range school officials established for the costs as the school was being built, Superintendent ... Read more »
A rite of passage and 'The Dress' in Burns Park
Posted: Nov 04, 2009Social rituals have been practiced for thousands of years and remain important as 21st century families and neighborhoods change over time. Recently I witnessed a young lady’s rite of passage here in Burns Park on ... Read more »
Dude, where's my bar - at Circle K
Posted: Oct 24, 2009I usually stop by the Packard and Stadium Circle K gas station to fill’er up and get some essential food items. Now and then I’ll even pick up two Hostess Snowballs - one red and ... Read more »
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