The Michigan Review is an independent, student-run journal dedicated to reporting on campus affairs and featuring unique voices at the University of Michigan. Our goal is to broaden university dialogue by providing the student body with a diversity of campus news outlets. We publish uninfluenced, non-partisan university news and uncensored, diverse student opinions that you won’t find anywhere else. Our team of editors works hard to publish contributions to subjects in Economy, Law, Politics, Campus News, and Sports. We are a Section 501 (c)(3) non-profit organization.
The Michigan Review was founded in 1982 by Thomas Fous and Ronald J. Stefanski. “Nurtured by a generation of idealists,” our founders sought to pierce a campus establishment stagnant since the 1960’s with a dissenting, counterculture narrative. Ignited to mesh rational order with the spirit of reform, our founders and their successors were able to make their mark on UM’s history. The Michigan Review stood against the University of Michigan’s speech code, which was then struck down as unconstitutional by federal courts in 1999. In 2006, The Michigan Review played an important role in covering the Michigan Civil Rights Initiative, a ballot initiative passed in 2006 that bans the use of racial and gender preferences in the state of Michigan. Staff for The Michigan Review have garnered widespread attention for their efforts, including through interviews on national and international news and articles published in national outlets like the National Review, the Christian Science Monitor, and The American Spectator.
Review alumni have achieved success in the national arena, working for media outlets including the National Review, The Weekly Standard, The American Spectator, The Hill, and Investor’s Business Daily; and writing speeches for President George W. Bush.
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