Order of Angell - Recent Reforms

Recent Reforms

After the organization agreed to stop using Native American practices in 1989, some members began to slowly steer the group toward progressive reforms. By the late 1990s, each class included at least a few progressive members. Today, most of the Order's members are either athletes or progressive campus leaders.

In April 2006, the group released a list of its most recent members and stopped using the name "Michigamua." In the following year, it chose the name Order of Angell, after founding University president James Burrill Angell, as its new name, despite supposed reservations expressed by some members of the Angell family.

Along with announcing its new name, Order of Angell announced in February 2007 that it would register as an official University student group and that it would institute a policy of releasing the names of all new members in the future. The group also released a list of its active honorary members. (This had been a sticking point for some on campus, who had criticized the group for releasing a list of its current members while keeping its honorary members secret.) As of February 2007, Order of Angell's active honorary members are Michael Brooks, executive director of Michigan Hillel; Jim Toy, a long-time LGBT and social-justice activist; and Rich Rogel, co-chair of the University of Michigan's Michigan Difference fund raising campaign.

== Prominent members == (most of the administrators and coaches who were members were honorary members but were never members of Michigamua as students)