MDS to appeal copyright case to high court
Michigan Document Services plans to appeal a decision to the U.S. Supreme Court regarding the use of copyrighted materials in coursepacks.
A decision handed down Friday by the 6th Circuit Court of appeals in Cincinnatti requires MDS and similar copyshops to provide compensation to publishers for reproducing copyrighted materials.
Regents approve Bollinger
Somewhere in his reading of Robert Frost's poem, "Spring Pools," may lie the essence of Lee Bollinger, the next University president.
When the Board of Regents officially welcomed him yesterday as the 12th University president, Bollinger read the poem with his note-worthy intellectual inspiration. His self-described deep, "intelligible and consequential" love for the University shone through Frost's words - words the American poet wrote while living in Ann Arbor.
Hundreds killed in jet crash over India
KHEDI SANSWAL, India - Two commercial airliners from Saudi Arabia and Kazakstan collided in clouds near New Delhi yesterday with a burst of fire, killing at least 349 persons in the deadliest midair crash in history.
The Saudia Boeing 747, carrying 312 passengers and crew bound for Saudi Arabia, had just taken off from New Delhi's Indira Gandhi International Airport at about 6:30 p.m. when it collided with a Kazak Airlines Ilyushin Il-76 about 60 miles to the west. Thirty-eight persons were reported aboard the Kazakh plane, which was arriving from Shymkent in the former Soviet republic of Kazakstan.
Neal talks issues with MSA
Last night's meeting saw the Michigan Student Assembly re-examining the past so it can move ahead into the future.
Interim President Homer Neal dropped by to reflect on his presidency and answer questions from assembly members - then the assembly moved to reaffirm its commitment to the students and their concerns.
Neal plans to address MSU grads next month
The competition and rivalry between the University and Michigan State University may end on the playing field - at least in the eyes of MSU's administration.
At the request of MSU President Peter McPherson, University interim President Homer Neal will speak at MSU's fall commencement ceremony and also will receive an honorary degree.
Schmitz convicted of lesser murder charge
But jurors spared Jonathan Schmitz from life behind bars without parole by convicting him of a lesser second-degree murder charge, rather than the first-degree murder conviction sought by prosecutors.
Juror Joseph Wurm said deliberations concentrated almost entirely on Schmitz's state of mind the morning he shot Scott Amedure. Schmitz shot his gay admirer three days after Amedure revealed a crush on him during a March 9, 1995 taping of the talk show. The show never aired, but was shown in court.
Senate rejects vote on assisted suicide
"This is not a finger-in-the-wind kind of issue," nor can it be regulated, said Sen. William Van Regenmorter (R-Hudsonville). "It's an issue of morality. It is time to stand up and be counted."
The Senate, by voice vote, rejected a proposal to let the voters decide whether to legalize assisted suicide in Michigan.
U.S. cautiously eyes mission to Zaire
WASHINGTON - The Pentagon dispatched a 40-member team to Central Africa yesterday to assess supply and security needs, as Clinton administration officials said the United States is likely to participate in an international military rescue mission to aid Rwandan refugees in Zaire.
Senior officials said, however, that no U.S. forces would be committed to such an effort until crucial questions have been answered about how a force would be organized, who would lead it and what its objectives would be.
Deadlock remains in Hebron
CAIRO - Making what is probably his last trip to the Middle East before retirement, Secretary of State Warren Christopher failed yesterday to break the deadlock in Palestinian-Israeli negotiations over a long-delayed Israeli troop pullback from the West Bank city of Hebron.
But in a valedictory speech to several thousand business people and diplomats gathered for a major regional economic conference here, Christopher said a Hebron deal is "very close at hand,'' and he expressed optimism that the "traumas" of the past year - beginning with the assassination last November of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin - could be overcome.
Army instructors charged with sexual misconduct
The charges were announced five days after a sex scandal broke at the military's Aberdeen Proving Ground in Maryland.
The three soldiers at Fort Leonard Wood face charges ranging from consensual intercourse to indecent assault, or touching. Army regulations ban sexual relationships between commanders and subordinates. The recruits were 21 years old on average and were undergoing basic training.
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