I wrote about this situation in August and now it has seen a surprising turn. The backstory here is that pro-Palestinian activists at the University of Michigan took a novel approach to forcing the school to agree to their divestment demands. They ran a slate of candidates and effectively took over the student government. As promised during their campaign, the activists immediately shut down the funding of all student groups on campus.
The defunding started during the summer but it wasn’t until most students returned to campus in the fall that people got upset. After all, the money in question didn’t come from the school, it was a fee which each student had to pay to fund activities. So the students payed and yet none of their groups had any funds.
“It feels a little silly to me to refuse to hand out money that’s coming from students to help students,” said Gabriel Scheck, a…
