Judge instructs 'U' to open meetings about candidates
Ruling yesterday that final stages of the Board of Regents' planned search process were illegal, Washtenaw County Circuit Court Judge Melinda Morris put new limitations on the search for the 12th University president. After seven hours of legal discussions and debates, Morris issued a preliminary injunction against the regents that now prevents them from holding some closed meetings. They also must release almost all documents pertaining to presidential candidates.
Students blast anti-affirmative action measure
There is strength in numbers. More than 150 students came to last night's Michigan Student Assembly meeting in the Michigan Union Ballroom to show their support for affirmative action.
Jordan's Hussein travels to W. Bank
Hussein, the first Arab leader to travel to the autonomous Palestinian area, said his landmark visit was intended to help speed the pace of Israeli-Palestinian negotiations over Israel's overdue withdrawal of its troops from the West Bank city of Hebron. But the king, who has been critical of Israeli delays in the Hebron redeployment, said he was not trying to pressure the government of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Tatum speaks of developing student racial identities
Students at the University are often exposed to the term "multicultural courses," but yesterday, one of the University's own came to speak about them. Beverly Tatum, who graduated from the University in 1984 and is a professor of education at Mt. Holyoke College in South Hadley, Mass., gave a public lecture yesterday afternoon about the racial identities students can develop through studying race in multicultural courses.
Computer fraud may victimize students
SEATTLE - Tens of thousands of students will be victimized by fraudulent companies posing as legitimate foundations this fall, according to the Federal Trade Commission. Jodie Bernstein, director of the FTC's Bureau of Consumer Protection, said, "Bogus scholarship search services are just a variation on the 'You Have Won' prize-promotion scam, targeted to students and their parents who are anxious about paying for college."
National Report
Court sets up key ruling on religious issues
The justices said they will decide the constitutionality of a 1993 law - the Religious Freedom Restoration Act - that makes it harder for government to interfere with religious practices. The court's ruling, expected by July, could clarify just when government is allowed to do so.
Calif. proposal a quiet subject in '96 race
A student in a red T-shirt covered with anti-racism slogans rose and strode toward the Klansman-turned-politician, shouting insults that were lost in a cacophony of competing cheers and boos as he was hustled away by security officers.
The rest of the debate between Duke and a black activist over a ballot proposition that would curtail affirmative action in California was peaceful enough - inside the hall. Outside, however, dozens of protesters bent on disruption chanted, pounded on windows and skirmished with police. By day's end, the detritus of battle - hurled rocks and bottles, torn placards and the lingering odor of tear gas - clung to the normally placid campus of California State University, Northridge, like beach debris after a storm.
World Report
Higher Ed Notes
Journalism program receives $3.25M grant
Thanks to a grant from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, the Michigan Journalism Fellows program will be at least $3.25 million richer.
Of the five-year grant, $2.25 million is slated to endow three general fellowships and $1 million will be devoted to covering expenses related to the director's position, according to a Knight Foundation statement.
Third-party candidate speaks of social issues, injustices
Monica Moorehead realizes she will not end up in the White House
Anger-filled cries of political unfairness and the need for the end of capitalism rang out through the third floor of the Trotter House last night.
Law limits teens' driving to cut down on crashes
One of Colette's friends - also 15 and driving with a learner's permit but without the required adult - had run a stop sign, sending the car into the truck's path. The impact spared only a 17-year-old boy in the back.
In the 14 months since, Colette's parents have filled some of the emptiness with a crusade trying to prevent other families from the same tragedy. Lynda and Scott Barnes helped push a new law they think could have saved their daughter by making sure the driver was better trained.
State moves to three steps for licensing
The new system begins earlier than now - when teens are 14 years, 9 months old, instead of 15 - but doesn't end until after they are 17.
Teens could qualify for a level-one license allowing them to drive only with a parent or someone over 21 with a parent's approval after completing driver training and a writing test.
South may be key to Senate
And then, the way they like it in Louisiana, there was time for just a taste of politics during the parade. Dodging the candy that revelers tossed Mardi Gras-style from the floats rolling down Parkerson Avenue, Republican Woody Jenkins and Democrat Mary Landrieu got a workout Saturday as they hurried up and down the parade route, shaking every hand they could reach in the crowds that lined the sidewalks.
Jenkins and Landrieu are both sweating out the final three weeks of a sprint-to-the-finish race to succeed retiring Democratic Sen. J. Bennett Johnston Jr. And, with their eyes on the battle for the Senate, both party hierarchies in Washington are sweating right along with them.
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