Dollars and sense: MSA should pass proposed budget
The Michigan Student Assembly may never completely erase the negative reputation it earned in the 1980s when the student fees it collected were misspent on exorbitant trips and self-serving committees. However, MSA President Fiona Rose and Vice President Probir Mehta are trying to set that reputation aside. This year's budget, which Rose and Mehta proposed last Tuesday, favors prudent and student-centered policies.
Abortion showdown: Senate must uphold Clinton's veto
Once again, demagoguery has overshadowed facts in the abortion debate.
Last Thursday, the U.S. House of Representatives voted 285-137 to overturn President Clinton's veto on a bill banning intact dilation and evacuation abortions - the "partial-birth abortion." The vote was a mere four votes more than the necessary two-thirds majority needed to override a presidential veto.
A generation at risk: Youth and HIV infection
Karen is an honors student at a Big Ten university, majoring in journalism. Raised in an upper-class suburb of Chicago, she was valedictorian and a star tennis player in high school. In college she studied a little, drank a little, and had a little sex. Sound pretty much like you? Well it is, pretty much. The difference is that Karen is HIV-positive. Straight, upper-middle class and HIV-positive.
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09-24-96