CSG met on October 29th, 2024, for the first time without an endless, erroneous budget fight. Neither President Chowdury nor Vice President Atkinson attended the meeting, which has been a consistent feature of CSG’s weekly meetings, according to multiple sources. With over half the Assembly and CSG’s Student General Counsel demanding the resignation of Chowdury […]
Tag: Central Student Government
The Precedent is Clear: the CSG Leadership Must Resign
To resign is to take responsibility for one’s actions. Ever since SHUT IT DOWN took power in CSG in April 2024, its leadership has mixed incompetency with actual malice toward the U-M community. It’s time that the President and Vice President of the Central Student Government take responsibility for their misdeeds and depart their offices […]
CSG: ‘SHUT IT DOWN’ IN SHAMBLES: Recalls, Budget Bills, and Flame Wars
Members were recalled at the 15th meeting of the 14th assembly, which was scheduled at 7:30 on October 22nd, 2024. This was the first meeting of the Fall semester held entirely on Zoom, due to numerous Central Student Government (CSG) members reporting harassment, intimidation, and one allegation of assault at the October 8th meeting on […]
Students File Challenge to Anti-Israel Party’s CSG Election Victory
The lawsuit charges SHUT IT DOWN with an unprecedented number of Elections Code violations.
May the Best Man Win, Please?
A high-enthusiasm CSG election shows that electoral reform is more important than ever.
Student Governments Must Implement Electoral Reform
The student body is unfit for ranked choice voting.
Central Student Government’s Lies About Israel
As a Jewish student at the University of Michigan, the last two weeks have been extremely stressful and frightening. I have witnessed the active curtailment of the Jewish voice on campus. Square boxes with acontextual information, videos of rocket explosions and burning buses, and infographics with unverifiable figures are all being used to diminish the […]
Jewish students outraged after UMich student government accuses Israel of ethnic cleansing, war crimes
Disclaimer: This article was first published in The College Fix on May 12 and has been republished here with the permission of the editors. It remains unaltered aside from this note. Leaders of the University of Michigan’s Central Student Government issued a strongly worded statement Monday night accusing Israel of “inhumane, international war crimes” toward […]