Faulkner: 'U' needs agenda
With a calm, Midwestern directness, Larry Faulkner described the University presidency yesterday as a "bully pulpit kind of job" - a position he seeks only because of the University's high status.
Regents to meet in private to set future of search process
After a week of open public interviews with finalists for the University presidency, the Board of Regents will once again close its doors to the public today.
The board will meet privately with its attorneys at 9:30 a.m. to discuss the future of the search process. During the last week, the board interviewed the four candidates recommended by the Presidential Search Advisory Committee.
Candidates for mayor speak at MSA forum
Incumbent Republican mayoral candidate Ingrid Sheldon and Democratic candidate Chris Kolb defended their political positions last night in a debate arranged by the Michigan Student Assembly, amid an irritated crowd of activists.
Though the audience of about 25 was larger than organizers had expected, the majority of the attendees were members of the National Women's Rights Organizing Coalition, who had come to press the candidates about recent community incidents - including police brutality in local high schools and the impending charges against protestors arrested at last summer's KKK rally.
Student robbed on S. Forest
Ann Arbor police officers apprehended a 17-year-old male who attempted to rob a male University student in the 900 block of South Forest Avenue at gunpoint late last night.
"The suspect was spotted on (South Forest Avenue) and chased to South University," said Ann Arbor Police Department Lt. Donald Leach. "He was apprehended at South University, and he still had the gun with him."
Students enjoy rare piano at Cook
From the lobby of Martha Cook, the sounds of Beethoven, Brahms and Chopin waft through the air on a regular basis. But many residents are unaware that their fingers are tickling the ivory of an exceptional piano.
Unlike other residence halls, Martha Cook has a piano that is worth about $200,000 and is the only one of its kind - in the world.
Afrmative action not 'hot-button' issue in Michigan
Affirmative action is one of the touchiest points of contention this election season - but it isn't as fiercely debated in Michigan as it is in other parts of the country.
"Affirmative action doesn't seem to be as much of a hot-button issue in Michigan as it is in places like California," said Danny Hoffman, coordinator of the University's Labor Studies Center and an affirmative action researcher.
Clinton takes credit for large decit drop
UNIVERSITY CITY, Mo. - President Clinton claimed credit for another drop in the federal budget deficit yesterday as he mocked GOP opponent Bob Dole's warnings about voter apathy in a final swing through three Midwestern states.
Whirling through a battleground where polls show he clearly holds the upper hand, Clinton hailed newly released figures showing that the federal budget deficit will close 1996 at $107.3 billion, a decline of 63 percent from its 1992 level and the lowest figure in 15 years.
Provost talks values, diversity with faculty
In a time when increasing technology is affecting conventional methods of teaching, faculty members received reassuring words at yesterday's Senate Assembly meeting on North Campus.
"The capabilities of our faculty never cease to amaze me," said Provost J. Bernard Machen, who was invited to speak at the meeting.
24-hour casino set to open
The new Soaring Eagle Casino will offer a glittering array of 4,000 slot machines and 100 gaming tables for blackjack, poker, craps and roulette - all beckoning players around the clock.
It's three times the size of a football field and the current Indian run casino of the same name. It includes a 523-room hotel, a convention center, a parking complex and golf course.
NWROC brands 'U' Housing racist
Members of the National Women's Rights Organizing Coalition charged the University's Housing administration with racism during a protest at Mary Markley residence hall yesterday.
The group is objecting to an investigation about a swastika that was drawn on LSA first-year student Daniel Lis's door. NWROC members marched outside Markley Coordinator of Residence Education T. Rose Roane's meeting with LSA first-year student Delacie Johnson and LSA first-year student Ronald James Jr., two black students accused of the vandalism.
Union group revives mini-course program
Mini-courses have been revived at the Union, thanks to Michigan Union Arts and Programs.
The mini-course program at the Union appeared to be in jeopardy when the University Activities Center announced it would not be offering courses this semester due to personnel changes and time restrictions. But then MUAP stepped in.
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International hour helps to bridge nationalities
A few years ago, a group of students from abroad approached the University with a problem.
"They came to us saying they had a hard time meeting other international students in social and informal atmospheres," said I-Lun Ellen Chang, who works for the University's International Center.
GM talks set to start again today
UAW President Stephen Yokich said yesterday that the union had no immediate plans to strike after weekend negotiations failed to produce an agreement by the union's midnight Sunday deadline.
While Yokich said he was committed to reaching an agreement at the bargaining table, he also left open the possibility that some UAW-GM locals could call strikes at individual plants.
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