Leaders harmonize with music groups
Two students - two top spots among University musical groups. Ramon Johnson nursed a stress fracture in his foot last week. After marching on asphalt for an hour and a half, five days a week, not to mention the hours of marching on game Saturdays, it's no surprise.
Candidates tout visions for health care
Public officials elected this fall will have to deal with serious health care issues during their terms, including making decisions about health care delivery, programs, initiatives and possible cuts. Candidates are campaigning vigorously about health care issues, trying to tell voters their plans.
Bollinger returns to vie for presidency
Today is a unique sort of homecoming in the career of former Law Dean Lee Bollinger. Last Saturday, thousands of University alums remembered their pasts in Ann Arbor, but at Bollinger's homecoming this morning, he will present a vision for the University's future.
Afghan Taliban gunners shell foes
HUSSEIN KOT, Afghanistan - Pushed back to within 15 miles of the Afghan capital's heart, the Taliban yesterday showered their foes with artillery shells, rockets and tank rounds in a stubborn bid to bar the route to Kabul, the Islamic militia's greatest prize.
Protester sets herself on fire at U. Penn
No one seemed to listen. On Tuesday, the students couldn't help but notice. On that day, the 46-year-old Change calmly walked to a large metallic peace symbol in the heart of the campus, doused herself with gasoline and set herself on fire. The suicide, carried out in front of 50 people, was meticulously planned as a final, last-gasp attempt to draw attention to her beliefs.
Nobel Prize winner speaks about adhesion: French professor fills Rackham Amphitheater yesterday with students, staff
There wasn't a vacant seat in the Rackham Amphitheater yesterday as people sat tight in the aisles to hear Nobel Laureate for physics, Prof. Pierre-Gilles de Gennes, talk about the way things stick together. De Gennes was this year's speaker for the Ta-You Wu lecture - an annual event put on by the department of physics in honor of Wu, who graduated from the University in 1933 and went on to reform science education in China and Taiwan.
AIDS benefit founder to run
Forced to deal with testing HIV-positive, Ann Arbor resident Don Hubbard chose to fight back with his feet rather than surrender. Hubbard, a nationally recognized mid-distance runner in the 1960s, will fulfill a lifetime dream by running a 26.2-mile marathon in a benefit called "Go The Distance" on Saturday. The founder of the benefit, Hubbard's run will be solo.
Smart thieves lift books at campus libraries
Keeping track of the more than 6 million volumes in the Shapiro Undergraduate Library is no easy task. The only way the library staff knows if an item is lost or stolen is through student search requests.
Exhibit displays survivors' suffering
In a place on campus where there is usually silence, the voices of survivors can now be heard. An exhibit of artwork by female survivors of dating and domestic violence, rape and incest is on display in the Art Lounge of the Michigan Union.
Soup kitchen will cater to kids
Kids' Cafe is to open in January, Michigan's first soup kitchen strictly for children, says Stephanie Kotrofi of Second Harvest, a Chicago-based nonprofit agency that serves 181 food banks nationwide. The kitchen will offer help with homework, recreation and a warm meal.
Mich. roads crumbling apart
The Road Information Program, or TRIP, said a lack of money has delayed scheduled construction while urban congestion and traffic deaths are rising. "Michigan has a high level of deterioration," said Jim Fahey, assistant research director for TRIP, a Washington, D.C., organization that researches data on highway transportation.
GM, auto workers resume national contract talks
The Canadian Auto Workers held eight meetings in Ontario and Quebec to explain the tentative agreement to its 26,300 GM workers. The deal, reached Tuesday, was approved by 89 percent of those voting.
Protesters react to abortion law
"I had to come for my own conscience, and I had to come for the sake of my children," said the mother of four, kneeling on the cold pavement in prayer. "I've always considered the commandment, 'Thou shall not kill,' something that cannot be interpreted in any other way." Wilk was among the tens of thousands of Poles who came to the capital yesterday to protest parliamentary plans to liberalize the country's 3-year-old abortion law, the most restrictive among former East Bloc countries and second in all of Europe in its stringency only to Ireland.
Campaign redraws electoral map
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - Nothing better illustrates the upside down world of the 1996 campaign than the scheduled appearances in Alabama today of President Clinton and Republican Bob Dole. Alabama hasn't voted for a Democratic nominee since supporting fellow Southerner Jimmy Carter in 1976, and before that you have to go back to John F. Kennedy's victory here in 1960. By this time in a normal presidential year, the Democratic candidate has given up the state for lost and the Republican nominee has stopping worrying about it.
Cargo plane crash kills 24 in Ecuador
QUITO, Equador - A Boeing 707 cargo plane crashed shortly after takeoff Tuesday night in the downtown section of an Ecuadoran port, killing the crew of four and at least 20 others on the ground, according to local radio reports. Witnesses said the plane struck the bell tower of the La Dolorosa church and broke up in flames, setting fire to surrounding houses in Manta, a town of 150,000 people that is about 160 miles southwest of Quito on the Pacific coast.
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