President may be picked by Nov.
The name of the next University president will most likely be announced as early as Thanksgiving, the search committee said yesterday.
The Board of Regents, meeting as the Presidential Search Committee, will begin interviewing finalists next Thursday.
MSA votes to condemn anti-gay, hate slurs
After Sunday night's chalking and changing of another group's chalked messages, College Republicans were ready to bury the hatchet - but members of the Queer Unity Project did not want the issue to go away so quietly.
The Michigan Student Assembly, while not addressing Sunday's chalking dispute specifically, took steps to make sure events like it do not happen again on campus.
50 students to join national Latino/a rally
Almost 50 University students will be up earlier than usual Saturday morning.
And if everything goes as planned, more than 99,000 others will join them.
New coordinator takes over AATU
The chief tenant of the Ann Arbor Tenants Union has just moved out.
Saying she feels "at once free and bereft," Pattrice Maurer, coordinator of AATU, stepped down from her post last week after four years serving as the organization's chief officer.
Student sexually assaulted in S. Quad
A female University student was sexually assaulted in her South Quad dorm room Sunday evening, the second sexual assault reported to the Department of Public Safety over the past weekend. The assailants also stole personal property.
Judges refuse to hand down mandated sentences
WASHINGTON - Over the last decade, worries about racial disparity in criminal sentencing have erupted in furious debate, with black leaders loudly demanding that long-ignored disparities be confronted and federal officials insisting that reforms have all but eliminated discrimination in the length of prison terms.
VP candidates get ready for debate
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. - Vice President Gore and Jack Kemp last night wrapped up three days of preparation for today's vice presidential debate, an event that many will view more as a warmup for the 2000 presidential campaign than a significant development in the Nov. 5 election.
More students take Chinese, Arabic
WASHINGTON - Chinese and Arabic are the fastest-growing foreign languages on college campuses.
Chinese enrollment rose by 36 percent and Arabic by 28 percent between 1990 and 1995, according to a survey by the Modern Language Association of America being released today.
Nobel prizes in economics awarded
NEW YORK - An American economist with unorthodox ideas - among them that "it's insane to try to balance the budget" - yesterday shared the Nobel economics prize with a British professor.
William Vickrey, professor emeritus at Columbia University, and James Mirrlees of Cambridge University in England were cited for explaining how governments as well as consumers use incomplete data to make decisions.
Tax exemptions at risk in Colo.
FORT COLLINS, Colo. - Nodding to the beat of Irish folk ballads on the tape deck of a motor home plastered with political slogans, John Patrick Michael Murphy plied Colorado's interstates recently to preach his gospel: Churches and most nonprofit organizations should no longer be exempt from property taxes.
IRA admits to British bombing
BELFAST, Northern Ireland (AP) -The Irish Republican Army claimed responsibility yesterday for the double car-bomb attack on the British army's headquarters here, which wounded 31 and brought Northern Ireland back to the brink of conflict.
Yeltsin shows resolve; wields power of office
MOSCOW (AP) - It's a lesson his rivals never seem to heed: Don't write off Boris Yeltsin too quickly.
Roused by a new political threat from security chief Alexander Lebed and charges he wasn't really in control, the ailing president has made a flurry of top-level firings, promotions and maneuverings to show he still wields power.
Higher Ed Notes
MSA members drop NWROC-backed proposal
Last week, the Michigan Student Assembly passed two resolutions supported by the National Women's Rights Organizing Committee. Last night's meeting was a different story.
MSA members dropped an NWROC-backed resolution when they failed to get even the two members required to call for a vote on the measure.
National issues enter local race
Amid the confetti and slogans of the national campaigns, voters often forget that all politics is local.
The hometown race this fall - the Ann Arbor mayoral race - lacks the publicity, but not the impact, of national races.
Students smoke stress away
As students head into the long study hours and grueling exams of midterms, they prepare to get reacquainted with some old friends - tobacco and caffeine.
"I smoke a lot when I am working and under a lot of stress," said LSA sophomore Danielle Franco.
Student OK after leaping from window
A 19-year-old University student remains in good condition with multiple cuts at the University Medical Center after jumping out of a ground-floor window early Saturday morning.
The Department of Public Safety is investigating the incident, and officers have not determined if the student was under the influence of drugs or alcohol.
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