Mideast conference hushed but hopeful
WASHINGTON - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat huddled privately yesterday at a White House luncheon that stretched nearly three hours on the first day of talks that the Clinton administration described as a halting but hopeful step toward restoring peace in the Middle East.
MSA looks to hike student fee to $4.19
During the Michigan Student Assembly elections in November, students will have the opportunity to vote on whether to raise their own student fee by $1.50 - a 55.8-percent increase.
The $1.50 increase per term would go to fund Project Serve and the Black Volunteer Network, bringing the total student fee to $4.19 per term.
RHA discusses plans for dining center
Some of the most common complaints among students about residence hall life are the quality of cafateria food and the dining experience.
University Housing is trying to eliminate these complaints with a newly proposed dining center for the Hill residence halls, which will seat 2,100 students per meal and replace the Couzens, Alice Lloyd and Stockwell dining halls by fall 1999.
MSA's budget committee doles out dollars to groups
If student groups take the time to fill out an application and appear at a hearing, chances are they will receive some money from the Michigan Student Assembly.
The assembly's Budget Priorities Committee has been allocated $90,000 of the $200,000 internal budget - and, "if groups go through the motions we very, very rarely give them no money," said BPC Chair Karie Morgan. "We have $7,000 more than last year and that means we can fund a lot more student groups."
Neal letter to explain secret salary deals
Chemistry Prof. Thomas Dunn said yesterday that faculty members have been "wanting to know" the facts about the compensation agreements former University President James Duderstadt made with top administrative officers before he left office.
Interim President Homer Neal will formally respond to questions about the benefits packages in a five-page letter he plans to send to the faculty this week.
High court to rule on right to die case
Six years after recognizing a constitutional right to refuse lifesaving treatment, the court said it will decide by July whether doctors can be barred from actually giving life-ending drugs to mentally competent, terminally ill patients who no longer want to live.
Most states have such laws, but lower courts this year struck down assisted-suicide bans imposed by New York and Washington state. By reviewing those two rulings, the justices are expected to set national guidelines.
Afghan rebels shake up neighbors
MOSCOW - The deadly triumph of Taliban rebels in the Afghan capital, Kabul, has frightened Russia and former Soviet republics in Central Asia, prodding nervous leaders who once backed a Communist regime there to call yesterday for action to halt the spread of bloodshed and Islam at their borders.
With 25,000 Russian troops deployed along the volatile Tajik-Afghan frontier, the Kremlin has long considered events in the Central Asian country - which it tried and failed to conquer - to be of the most serious, direct political interest.
Mideast summit a far cry from 1993
WASHINGTON - The differences could not be greater between the current Middle East summit and the euphoric meeting of Arab and Israeli leaders here almost exactly three years ago that launched the now-troubled peace process.
The first was a celebration that floated on a giddy feeling of hope and success. The current meeting is spattered in blood and spawned by despair.
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WASHINGTON - The differences could not be greater between the current Middle East summit and the euphoric meeting of Arab and Israeli leaders here almost exactly three years ago that launched the now-troubled peace process.
The first was a celebration that floated on a giddy feeling of hope and success. The current meeting is spattered in blood and spawned by despair.
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Pesticide chemical examined for dangers
University students, faculty and visitors to campus may be exposed to a chemical that some studies have found causes long-term memory loss, visual distortion and possible paralysis.
That chemical is chloropyrifos, an organophosphate that is used in many of the pesticides on campus.
NWROC offshoot holds first meeting
Angry cries describing unfair treatment of the National Women's Rights Organizing Coalition and police brutality during a June 22 Ku Klux Klan rally rang throughout the Kessler Library in the Michigan League last night.
A small group of 20 met for the first time to form a group called Anti-Racist Action, a spin-off group of NWROC that hopes to bring awareness of racist injustices to Ann Arbor.
Program aims to mix kids, science
Living on a college campus makes it easy to forget that not everyone falls into the 18-25 age group. Seeing a young face on campus is a rarity worth announcing to a friend. Or at least it used to be.
In the coming months, the Exhibit Museum of Natural History's Explorations! program will draw approximately 40 children between the ages of 6 and 12 for Saturday classes spread throughout the school year.
Families fight life sentences for drugs
LANSING (AP) - Gary Fannon, newly released from prison after a judge reversed his conviction under Michigan's toughest-in-the-nation drug laws, brought the crowd to tears.
The 27-year-old Westland man was sent to prison for life when he was 18 under the state's mandatory sentencing laws, which allow no parole for some drug convictions.
Berkeley watches out for mountain lions
The University of California at Berkley is addressing a problem that most students would never imagine they would face: mountain lions on campus.
Israelis rally for peace
TEL AVIV, Israel - Singing peace songs and cheering the leaders of the Israeli left, thousands of demonstrators gathered here yesterday to denounce the hard-line policies of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and voice support for the faltering Middle East peace process.
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