'U' to overhaul campus life
Administrators plan new dorm, Hill dining hall in extensive expansion
Students to live and learn
First-year students spend hours each day in residence halls. They go there to eat, sleep or spend time with friends.
But a report released to The Michigan Daily yesterday may provide the best evidence that residence halls could soon be a place where all first-year students can not only socialize, but also learn.
Klan to sue A2 in wake of protest
Ann Arbor city officials recently sent out two hefty bills - for $36,000 each.
One unhappy recipient, the Ku Klux Klan, said it intends to reply by slapping the city with a lawsuit. The National Women's Rights Organizing Coalition will be protesting at the next City Council meeting.
Perot settles for Choate as VP
Choate is a protectionist and was a strong Perot ally in opposing the North American Free Trade Agreement. He was Perot's coach for a televised NAFTA debate the Texas business executive had with Vice President Al Gore.
Senate bill to prevent same-sex marriages
WASHINGTON - The Senate overwhelmingly approved legislation yesterday that is designed to prevent gay marriages, sending the election-year measure to President Clinton and a promised signature, while narrowly defeating another bill that would have outlawed job discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation.
Feature Photo: Reusing old news
Employee Salahud Deen sorts unusable newspapers at the Material Recovery facility. The facility is celebrating its first anniversary this year.JOSH BIGGS/ Daily
Kurds flee Iraqi-held territory
ISTANBUL, Turkey - Although Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein and his allies offered them the olive branch of an amnesty, thousands of Kurds yesterday began fleeing areas that have collapsed into the control of a Baghdad-backed Kurdish faction.
Engler names Saginaw officer as new drug czar
When Darnell Jackson takes over as the state drug czar Oct. 7, it will mark the first time a police officer is at the helm of the state Office of Drug Control Policy.
MSA returns to party fighting
Michigan Student Assembly Vice President Probir Mehta admitted before last night's meeting that he was nervous about having to act as the meeting's chair in the absence of the president.
Higher Education Notes
A Northwestern University registration employee was fired last Friday after uttering racial slurs to an Asian American senior during student registration, according to the The Daily Northwestern, the school's student newspaper.
Clean-up, investigation continues after lab fire
Dressed in a soot-covered lab coat and yellow rubber gloves, research associate Celeste Malinoski wiped down a computer. A bucket of black water was on the floor next to her feet.
Local NAACP branch plagued by debt, lack of support
A series of failed fund-raisers has forced the Ypsilanti-Willow Run branch of the NAACP into debt, leaving the agency hoping for sufficient donations to avoid bankruptcy.
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Ailing Yeltsin passes defense powers to prime minister
MOSCOW - As he prepares for open-heart surgery, Russian President Boris Yeltsin has handed over responsibility for security and national defense to Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin, but Yeltsin will keep his own finger on the "nuclear button" his spokesperson said yesterday.
Hortense kills 8 in Puerto Rico
Half the dead were children, including an 8-year-old girl swept from her father's arms as her 13-year-old sister drowned. Despite valiant rescue attempts across the island, police said the death toll could rise once they reach areas cut off when the hurricane passed over southwest Puerto Rico before dawn yesterday.
Russia opposes strikes on Iraq for economic reasons
WASHINGTON - Most countries don't like to admit it when they act for economic reasons. But Russian officials are frank about why they so strongly opposed last week's American missile attacks against Iraq: There's a lot of money at stake.
Lawmakers warn of computer crisis in 2000
WASHINGTON (AP) - Unless the government moves fast, Americans may return from celebrating the new millennium to find that their drivers' licenses are expiring, their tax returns aren't being processed and their Social Security checks are far from being in the mail, lawmakers said yesterday.
State House approves minimum-wage increase
Five months ago, state Republicans said in response to Democratic calls for action on Michigan's minimum hourly wage that there was no need to raise it. But now, with the November election approaching and a newly enacted federal increase, the GOP-controlled Legislature is hurrying through a Democratic bill to lift the rate to $5.15 from $3.35.
Mrs. Dole speaks in Mich. of husband's life
Mrs. Dole stepped away from the speaker's platform and strolled the aisles around the crowd while emphasizing virtues such as patriotism and love of God she said make up her husband's character.
"This election is about the vision and values that will shape America as we move into the next century. It's about the character of the person who will lead us there," she said.
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