Friday FOCUS: The Fleming Flux
A black cube spins perpetually outside the Fleming Administration Building.
The cube continues turning on the same axis day after day, but leadership inside the administration building is not as constant.
House bill may relax search rules
The Michigan House Higher Education Committee approved two bills yesterday intended to allow more secrecy in the way universities select their presidents. The bills, approved 4-3 and 4-1, would exempt searches for university presidents from Michigan laws dealing with open meetings and public records.
President announces national security team
WASHINGTON - President Clinton, laying the foundation for his second-term Cabinet, nominated U.N. Ambassador Madeleine Albright yesterday to be the first female U.S. secretary of State and picked retiring Sen. William Cohen (R-Maine) to be secretary of Defense.
Cabinet choices show consistency
WASHINGTON - President Clinton made a dramatic statement about the importance of diversity, loyalty and personal chemistry in the construction of a second-term Cabinet. But in unveiling his new national security team yesterday, he left unanswered the question of where he hopes to take foreign and defense policy the next four years.
Photo: Ringing in the Season
Winters faces charges in court today
Michigan football player Charles Winters plans to turn himself into the Detroit police today to face felonious charges of assault with intent to do great bodily harm and malicious destruction of property, said his attorney Steve Fishman.
Womack to leave legacy of 'financial strength'
With an almost $3-billion annual budget spreading from the Athletic Department to the Zoology museum, the University's complexity can be seen through its financial statistics. The man behind the money has less than a month to oversee the University's finances. Farris Womack, executive vice president and chief financial officer, plans to step down Dec. 31 after steering the University to its current financial strength - at a time when universities nationwide are struggling with declining budgets.
ME expo features student inventions
While some students spent their semester reading poetry or practicing French, Robin Yeasting helped develop the world's first heat-raised Braille printer. Yeasting was only one of the 50 Engineering seniors from Mechanical Engineering 450 to display her group project from this semester at the fifth annual Mechanical Engineering Senior Design Expo.
Rockefeller Center hit by explosion in Christmas rush
Three people were injured in the blast, which appeared to have originated in a restaurant on the building's second floor. They were hospitalized in stable condition, said Mike Raciopo, a fire department spokesperson.
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Galens Tag Days to kick off today
In his short life, 9-month-old Anthony has received two liver transplants due to a malformation of the bile duct system called biliary atresia.
The roughly 120 medical students who make up the Galens Medical Society will be out in force on the streets of Ann Arbor today and tomorrow to collect donations that will benefit Anthony and other children like him in Washtenaw County.
RHA security panel suggests safety changes
Eight weeks ago, the Residence Halls Association formed the Security Task Force. Last night, the task force reported back to RHA with their recommendations concerning campus security, especially security in and around the residence halls.
Better watch out for winter crimes
When many students vanish from campus for winter break, they might want to bring home more than their laundry.
Ann Arbor Police Department Sgt. Phil Scheel said there is no sure-fire way to keep burglars out of apartments and homes, so students should take most of their valuables home.
Official warns against tough EPA standards
The new federal standards for ozone and particulate matter are being proposed to better protect the nation's health, according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
But state Environmental Quality Director Russell Harding said scientific evidence disputes that the changes will make much difference, at least when it comes to ozone.
Photo: Peep show
Committee votes to open records of sex offenders
LANSING (AP) - Patrick and Kathy Urbin believe the abduction, rape and slayings of their two teen-age daughters five years ago by a convicted sex offender could have been prevented.
Under a bill approved yesterday in a House committee, the Urbins could have found out about Williams' past crimes and where he lived. Without the measure, that information is confidential - and anyone who divulges it would be guilty of a $500 misdemeanor.
Photo: Shots in memory
Classic toys return this holiday season
The Allentown Morning Call. It's a refrain heard often at this time of the year.
"They don't make toys like they used to."
Fatal car crashes with teen drivers drop nationwide
But the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said yesterday that crashes are still the top killer of youths between 15 and 20 and urged parents to be the road police in states where the laws aren't in place.
Catholic church still under seige in Northern Ireland
The Rev. Eamonn Cowan, like the other three priests who live in the parish house beside the Roman Catholic church, sleeps somewhere else each night.
"We couldn't take the risk, you know, of being burned alive," says Cowan, who serves a dwindling Catholic minority in Harryville, on the south side of this mostly Protestant town.
New state marijuana laws concern ofcials
WASHINGTON - Federal and state officials are struggling to respond to new marijuana laws in California and Arizona that critics say are so loosely written that even people suffering from sinus headaches could legally possess the drug.
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