House works on budget plan: Final funding vote next week
LANSING - On an already delayed schedule, state legislators say they hope to present a plan for state university funding next week.
In their final stages of meetings, the state house higher education appropriations subcommittee began yesterday to finalize its budget recommendations for state universities for fiscal year 1998.
GSIs stage grade-in protest
More than 20 graduate student instructors graded homework assignments outside LSA Associate Dean John Cross's office in the LSA Building yesterday.
The grade-in was an attempt by the GSIs, who teach in the Romance language and literature department, to demonstrate how much time and effort is spent on grading work turned in by undergraduate students in their classes.
Investigation into urology chief handed over to prosecutor's office
The Washtenaw County Prosecutor's Office has taken charge of the case against the University's Chief of Urology Joseph Oesterling.
Oesterling was suspended indefinitely on March 19. He is currently being investigated for financial improprieties involving possible expense account abuses and consulting fees that he received from drug and medical companies, an anonymous source told the Detroit Free Press last month.
To the Pointe: Local suburb featured in film
When "Grosse Pointe Blank" opens in theaters this Friday, nice-guy actor John Cusack will help instill the name of the affluent Detroit suburb into the collective consciousness of the national movie-going public - just don't expect him to know anything about Grosse Pointe.
Greek Week event hosts kids living with AIDS
A lone candle burned defiantly at the conclusion of Greek Week's Educational Forum last night as a reminder of friends lost to the AIDS virus and as a symbol of the hope for a better future.
The single burning candle has become a tradition at Camp Heartland, the nation's largest summer camp for children infected with the AIDS virus. Neil Willenson, the founder of the camp, along with some former campers, counselors and family members, brought their experiences to the Michigan Union last night.
Future Hong Kong gov't unveils new plans
HONG KONG (AP) - In the most detailed blueprint yet of the limits that could be put on Hong Kong's freedoms, the government-in-waiting unveiled plans yesterday to require police approval for protests and allow political parties to be banned.
Around the Nation: Senators issue 10 new subpoenas
WASHINGTON - Senators investigating campaign-finance abuses agreed yesterday to issue 10 new subpoenas, including one for documents from the failed presidential campaign of Republican Bob Dole and five others sought by committee Democrats.
Around the World: Zaire's president fires prime minister
KINSHASA, Zaire - President Mobutu Sese Seko had soldiers pull the prime minister off the streets yesterday as his reign appeared to crumble even further. The White House urged him to make way for a democratic government, calling his three-decade dictatorship "a creature of history.
'U' students to enter solar-powered car in Sunrayce
It's a naked skeleton of wires, teflon, and stronger-than-steel, space-age materials. Its three wheels are arranged in a reverse triangle. It can accommodate anyone shorter than 5-foot-7. Once covered by a molded yellow body and coated with Siemens solar cells, the "Wolverine" solar car will be unveiled and entered by a group of University students in Sunrayce '97.
Proposal would 'hide' college applicants' names
A proposal at the University of California would hide college applicants' names in favor of identifying them by their Social Security number. But officials said the University of Michigan doesn't plan to follow California's lead.
Court upholds HIV woman's sentence: HIV-positive woman to be jailed for not informing partners
MUSKEGON, Mich. (AP) - The state appeals court has upheld a prison sentence given to a woman who had sex without informing her partners that she carried the AIDS virus. The court dismissed Brenda Jensen's constitutional challenges and said any errors during the Muskegon County trial were harmless.
The Calendar: What's happening in Ann Arbor today
15 protest at local park for contracts
Before placing a road barricade that blocked one of only three entrances to the Barton Hills Village section in Ann Arbor, roughly 15 newspaper strikers planned their protest strategy in nearby Bandamer Park.
"Our main purpose always is to get word out that we are locked out," said Dia Pearce, unit chair for the Newspapers Guild at the Detroit News. "Our goal is to get contracts."
Engler launches pilot program for at-risk school districts
DETROIT (AP) - A new, privately funded education institute that is modeled after a successful pilot program was announced yesterday by Gov. John Engler as a resource for troubled school districts. The nonprofit Institute for Education Reform, to be housed at Eastern Michigan University in Ypsilanti, will focus on helping school districts that struggle with low test scores and other problems to improve.
GMAT test to hit computer screens this October
Scantron sheets and No.2 pencils will soon go the way of the dinosaur for aspiring business students taking the GMAT.
By October, the Graduate Management Admissions Test will be given only by computer and will be renamed the GMAT-CAT, or Computer Adaptive Testing. The last day the paper test will be administered is June 21.
Engler won't rule out tax increase
LANSING (AP) - Saying "I hate raising taxes," Gov. John Engler again yesterday called for more federal funds and other moves to provide money for Michigan's battered roads. Still, he refused to rule out a gasoline tax increase, if it proves to be needed. That brought his position a quick endorsement from the head of an association of Michigan cities and villages.
More clashes erupt in Mideast
HEBRON, West Bank (AP) - The funeral of a Palestinian drew thousands to the streets yesterday in more West Bank rioting, and protesters hurled rocks and firebombs at Israeli soldiers - who answered with tear gas and rubber bullets.About 30 people were injured as Palestinian police formed human chains, searched rooftops, and blocked streets with trucks, struggling to separate protesters from the soldiers and prevent more deaths after the funeral of Nader Isseid, 24, one of three Palestinians killed a day earlier.
Cloning may lead to medical cures
WASHINGTON (AP) - Lost in the uproar over Dolly the cloned sheep is a biological feat that doctors say might someday allow them to grow new bone marrow for cancer victims, fight sickle cell anemia and other genetic diseases or even heal spinal cords.
'U' alum, activist loses bid for L.A. mayor
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Mayor Richard Riordan, who told voters he delivered on his promise to turn the nation's second-largest city around, was re-elected to a second term yesterday over '60s radical-turned-legislator Tom Hayden. With all absentee ballots counted and 28 percent of the city's precincts reporting, Riordan had 88,070 votes or 61 percent of the vote, to Hayden's 50,338 or 35 percent.
Corpse too tall to fit into coffin; family files lawsuit
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Clarence Freeman Jr. was a very tall man who is now 6 feet under in an eternal squeeze. As the family tells it, his 6-foot-9 body was bent like a pretzel and stuffed into a too-short casket in an everlasting indignity to the man.
Egyptian archaeologists put finishing touches on Sphinx
CAIRO, Egypt (AP) - The Egyptian workmen let out a groan as they hoist a limestone block, suspended by rope from a pole across their shoulders, and start shuffling up a wooden ramp beside the Sphinx. Slowly, carefully, the eight robed workers haul the 440-pound stone to the Sphinx's left flank and ease it into place, mimicking the technique of the beast's builders 4,500 years ago.
Group claims UFOs are coming
JAMUL, Calif. - From a hillside east of San Diego, William Proctor points to a distant strip of ocean between the Earth and sky. Straight ahead is El Cajon, and beyond layers of ridges to the northwest is Rancho Santa Fe, where 39 people laid down and died in an eerie attempt to enter what they believed was Heaven's Gate.
04-10-97
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