Groups gather for campus safety walk
Students and community members surveyed campus streets from the athletic campus to North Campus last night in an effort to raise awareness about campus safety issues.
The Michigan Student Assembly initiated yesterday's Campus Safety Walk and then combined efforts with eight other campus organizations. Organizers designated 11 different campus areas to visit, including two locations on North Campus.
'U' Hospitals predicting fiscal gain for 1997
With three months remaining in fiscal year 1997, University Medical Center officials are predicting an annual gain - a stark contrast to its balance sheet one year ago.
Larry Warren, interim executive director of University Hospitals, reported yesterday that the Medical Center grossed a $2.8-million operating gain through the month of February. Last year, the hospital reported a loss of $11 million during the same time frame.
Holocaust humanitarian celebrated
Even though University alumnus Raoul Wallenberg disappeared from public view more than 50 years ago, his face will soon resurface at post offices across the nation.
In an attempt to keep the memory of Holocaust hero Wallenberg alive, the U.S. Postal Service will honor him with a 32-cent stamp, which begins circulation April 24.
'U' president highest salaried in Michigan
Thirteen of the 15 presidents at state universities in Michigan receive salaries above the national average of $119,219 for university presidents, according to statistics recently released by the College and University Personnel Association.
'Virtual university' sparks discussion
Can technology actually hurt the University?
University professors tried to answer that question at a forum on the "virtual university," held yesterday at the Institute for Social Research.
Fruit causes hepatitis outbreak
DETROIT (AP) - Her family thought it was just a stomach virus. Then Amanda Bischoff began vomiting constantly and the little girl's eyes turned yellow.
"She looked like a daffodil," Patty Bischoff said of her daughter.
Clinton at center of fund-raising efforts
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Clinton was the Democratic Party's projected $50 million man - one minute the marquee draw at a fund-raiser, the next chiming in on the smallest of money-raising details, documents released yesterday show.
Around the Nation: Pentagon to favor noncombat missions
WASHINGTON - The Pentagon's strategic blueprint for the next decade will increasingly emphasize the military's expanding - and controversial - noncombat roles, from peacekeeping and drug interdiction to humanitarian aid, officials said yesterday.
Around the World: Mexico government condemns U.S. law
MEXICO CITY - A ruling-party legislator called for a Mexican boycott of American goods.
A leftist lawmaker urged the Mexican government to declare President Clinton persona non grata - just weeks before Clinton's scheduled visit here.
Commission to request next step for condos
The Ann Arbor City Planning Commission plans to recommend construction approval by the Ann Arbor City Council for a condominium complex, reserved especially for University faculty and staff over the age of 55.
After 10 years of planning, the University Commons project is taking another step forward. The living community is slated to include 95 living units and a common space available to active and retired University faculty and staff seniors.
Gender, body, mind highlighted
As students search for classes for the fall semester, LSA officials hope to offer an alternative perspective to regular classes.
This fall's LSA theme semester, "Genders, Bodies and Borders," offers 45 classes in 24 different departments.
NWROC rallies for homeless
"We will march! We will fight! Decent housing is our right!"
Those words echoed in downtown Ann Arbor last night as the National Women's Rights Organizing Coalition and Homeless Power Union participated in their "March for Homeless Rights."
Groups, ofcials join against suicide
DETROIT (AP) - Suicide is a top cause of death nationally, underscoring the importance of acting quickly to help people in trouble, mental health experts said as National Suicide Prevention Month began.
"By knowing the signs, changes in behavior or expressions of suicide, you can intervene and get the person to some help. Suicide is always about ending pain, usually emotional pain," said Tony Rothschild, president of Pontiac-based Common Ground Crisis Center.
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FCC to mandate digital television
WASHINGTON (AP) - Federal regulators are prepared to approve a plan today to begin rolling out cinema-quality digital television to the public in 24 months.
The Federal Communications Commission's plan caps 10 years of work to clear the way for the biggest industry advance since color in the 1950s.
'U' prof recounts personal stories from the Reagan years
When former President Ronald Reagan walked into rooms, people stood up and when he would laugh, others would laugh.
"He would ask, 'Don't you people have minds of your own?'" said political science Prof. Raymond Tanter, who served as one of Reagan's security advisers. "That's the problem with power."
Tornado season swirls in Michigan
Springtime.
Budding trees, blossoming flowers.
And tornadoes.
Prof. Peter Sousounis, who works in the department of atmospheric, oceanic and space sciences, estimates that Michigan gets 16 of these devastating dervishes a year.
Grand Funk Railroad band to play for Bosnian children
TRAVERSE CITY (AP) - They may be an American band, but their hearts go out to children everywhere.
That's why the members of Grand Funk Railroad are planning three concerts to benefit the children of Bosnia.
Judge dismisses antitrust suit against Detroit newspapers
DETROIT (AP) - A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit that accused the Detroit newspapers of violating antitrust laws by publishing combined weekday editions for the first nine weeks of the 19-month strike against the papers.
U.S. District Judge John O'Meara wrote that the plaintiffs - including former Mayor Coleman Young and City Council President Maryann Mahaffey - had not shown they were injured by the publication of the joint edition.
Russia, Belarus move toward reunication
MOSCOW (AP) - Russia and Belarus signed a treaty yesterday meant to bring their people, economies and armies closer together, in a first step toward reintegration by two former Soviet republics.
President Boris Yeltsin, who signed the accord with his Belarusian counterpart Alexander Lukashenko, stressed the two Slavic nations will remain sovereign and separate.
Study links heart disease, swelling
BOSTON (AP) - Inflammation that smolders for years inside the arteries, perhaps as a result of an infection, appears to be a powerful trigger of heart attacks and strokes and may even be as bad as too much cholesterol.
A new study found that after several years of this low-level inflammation, men are three times as likely to suffer heart attacks and twice as likely to have strokes. The inflammation is so subtle that it shows up only on blood tests, and seemingly normal levels may be hazardous.
Civil War relics deteriorating
GETTYSBURG, Penn. - Gray-green mildew streaks the leather flap of an Union Army cartridge pouch; "red rot" crumbles another in the steel storage drawer. Rust spots pock muskets and swords, warning of worse to come.
NY bar ordered to halt the dancing: Bar known for drawing celebrities must get cabaret permit
NEW YORK (AP) - Hey, Julia Roberts - get down off that bar! And Drew Barrymore - don't shake your booty like that!
City officials have put a halt to hoofing at Hogs & Heifers, a downtown honky-tonk known for its collection of celebrity bras donated by visitors like Roberts, Barrymore and Darryl Hannah.
04-03-97
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