A2 polls visit students in dorms: Democrats speak with students about issues, importance of voting
While the media spotlight has highlighted candidates for president and U.S. Senate, students in East Quad and Mosher-Jordan focused yesterday on three Democratic candidates for local office.
Faulkner up next for pres. interview
When the Wolverines easily defeated the Illini at the beginning of the season,
Larry Faulkner, provost at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
watched the game at Michigan Stadium.
Clinton to stop at EMU campus
President Clinton's second visit to Michigan in two weeks is scheduled to take
place right next door to Ann Arbor.
Clinton will visit Eastern Michigan University in Ypsilanti, in the district of
Rep. Lynn Rivers (D-Ann Arbor), who is running in a tight race for re-election
this season, campaign officials said yesterday.
'U' students make a difference in Detroit: Make a Difference Day reaches out to undergrads for help
Thanks to a new program, University students are working to make a difference in Detroit.
Costume sales up, stores say
All over campus, students are transforming into ghouls and beasts and their homes
are being overwhelmed by spirits.
It seems that in Ann Arbor, anything goes when it comes to costume ideas,
according to students and local Halloween-related businesses.
Zaire torn by renewed ethnic massacres
KIGALI, Rwanda - Advancing Tutsi rebel forces captured new territory yesterday in
eastern Zaire as heavy fighting sent Zairian troops and panicked civilians in
chaotic retreat and increased tensions in an area suffering the worst fighting in
months in strife-torn Central Africa.
Harvard prof. speaks on human well-being
Maybe Harvard really is the Michigan of the East.
Thomas Scanlon Jr., the Alford professor of natural religion, moral philosophy
and civil polity at Harvard University, delivered the University's annual Tanner
Lecture on Human Values this weekend.
Meeting builds gamers' abilities
The Wolverine Gaming Club sponsored the University Convention this weekend at the
Michigan Union - but participants didn't go hunting for furry animals. Instead,
about 700 people went to test their skills at role-playing and battle games.
ROTC's haunted hall helps charity
There were plenty of things going bump in the night in the basement of North Hall
this weekend.
Sword-fighting pirates battled to the death near the tombstones that decorated
the North Hall yard. Creeping hands grabbed for feet and Hannibal the Cannibal
was electrocuted. A maniac armed with a chain saw came less than a foot in front
of the faces of those who braved the dark.
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INS to announce results of crackdown: Record number of deportations marks 34-percent increase
WASHINGTON - The Immigration and Naturalization Service is expected to announce this week that it deported a record 67,000 illegal immigrants during the past year, a 34-percent increase over 1995, as part of a continuing government campaign to crack down on illegals.
Israel, Palestinians race clock to reach Hebron
agreement: Warnings by militant groups continue to threaten process
JERUSALEM (AP) - U.S. envoy Dennis Ross shuttled between Jerusalem and the Palestinians' Gaza Strip headquarters yesterday, trying to finesse a deal to start an overdue Israeli withdrawal from Hebron.
Food supply may be in jeopardy for 21st
century
Agronomists and other scientists say yes, and they want more money to research
everything from milk cows that also pull plow to hybrid potatoes.
Population activists and some social scientists say no, and they believe the only
solution is to limit the mouths to feed.
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