Board votes to fund students' child care
The University Board of Regents voted Friday to help student parents by using general fund money for child care grants.
The money for the child care scholarships also will come from a $1 per term increase in student fees that students voted for last spring. The University will match the $73,000 generated by the student fee with money from the general fund, totaling about $150,000 annually. General fund money comes mainly from state appropriations and tuition.
Interim CFO to keep 'U' running
With the arrival of a new University president, the departure of other executives impending and interim officials filling many top administration slots, it almost takes a scorecard to keep track of who is coming and going from the Fleming Administration Building.
A new interim administrator will soon be stepping into one of the University's top positions. Chandler Matthews, former associate vice president for finance, will serve as interim executive vice president and chief financial officer of the University starting Jan. 1.
Parties look to tweak language requirement
The nearly 17,000 LSA students on campus have different interests and backgrounds - but most have at least some courses in common, thanks to the four-semester foreign language requirement.
That could change after Wednesday and Thursday's Michigan Student Assembly elections. Six of the eight parties vying for the assembly's 24 vacant seats want to see the requirement modified, if not done away with altogether.
Rwandan refugees return to homes: Thousands starving on 20-mile stretch of road
GISENYI, Rwanda - And still they came.
For the third straight day, through drenching rain and blinding sun, all day long and through the cold night, crowds of refugees returning from Zaire cascaded through this border town yesterday and poured into western Rwanda in an unbroken stream that stretched as far as the eye could see.
'Taste' of Puerto Rico begins heritage week
A celebration of Puerto Rican history and culture brought the Latino/a student community together as Puerto Rican Week began yesterday.
The week started with a "taste" of Puerto Rican culture at Trotter House yesterday afternoon. More than 50 students gathered to sample Puerto Rican cuisine like arroz con pollo, guava paste, and mofongo, a dish made with plantains.
Wixom shooting becomes tragic for 'U' student
NOVI - A man who prosecutors said was rebuffed by security when he tried to propose to an auto plant worker was charged Friday with murder and 25 other crimes in a plant shooting that killed one man and wounded three.
Gerald Atkins of Wixom was arraigned Friday on a charge of first-degree murder in the death of Darrell Izzard, killed in Thursday's shooting spree at Ford Motor Co.'s Wixom plant 30 miles northwest of Detroit. He is being held in the Oakland County Jail without bond.
Troops cut communications: Bosnian Serb army officers capture key transmitter
TUZLA, Bosnia-Herzegovina - In an escalating power struggle, mutinous Bosnian Serb army officers loyal to indicted war crimes suspect Gen. Ratko Mladic have disrupted TV broadcasts for days after seizing a key transmitter, rival civilian officials said yesterday.
Nat'l College GOP president stumps for '98
With the 1996 elections just over, College Republicans aren't wasting any time gearing up for the 1998 election season.
Joe Galli, national College Republicans president, addressed about 30 members of the University chapter Friday in the Michigan League. Galli praised their high level of involvement in this year's elections and solicited help for 1998.
SNRE, 'U' restate commitment to environment
Recent questions on whether the University is truly sincere about its commitment to the environment were answered for some last month with the advent of a new endowed chair position.
The School of Natural Resources and Environment's Theodore Roosevelt Professorship in Ecosystem Management was made possible through a $1.2 million donation from University alums William and Sally Searle - and is the first such position in the United States.
Student mediation program selects, trains new members
A group of University students and community members spent a large portion of the past two weeks learning how to resolve problems at the University.
The Student Dispute and Resolution Program, a year-old campus group that mediates conflicts between students, welcomed 19 students and two local residents as mediators yesterday at a convocation ceremony.
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Proposal in the works to let governor appoint judges
It might be one of the last times you'll get a chance to decide who your judges should be.
The wheels are starting to turn on a proposal that could result in Michigan scrapping its policy of electing judges and Supreme Court justices in favor of an alternative method, such as appointment by the governor.
Explosion kills 22 in Russian apartment building bombing
Although dozens of people were rescued alive, at least 33 people were still missing, including the unit commander and his deputy, the ITAR-Tass news agency said. Interfax said the number of missing was closer to 40.
The pre-dawn explosion Saturday destroyed at least 41 of the apartments in the building in Kaspyisk, a town on the Caspian Sea in Dagestan, a southern Russian republic neighboring Chechnya.
Clinton may alter Rwandan policy
WASHINGTON - The Clinton administration may be able to scale back planned U.S. military action to ease the humanitarian crisis in central Africa and may wind up helping to provide aid to refugees inside Rwanda instead of securing an airport as a base of assistance operations in neighboring Zaire, senior U.S. officials said yesterday.
A formal decision on the nature of the U.S. aid will be reached Wednesday, at a meeting with European nations, officials said. They said they were cheered by the continuing exodus of refugees to their homes in Rwanda from camps in Zaire, but that U.S. military forces could still play a role by helping aid reach them in Rwanda.
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