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Commencement speaker named: Sources confirm Bollinger will deliver keynote address

Sources close to the University Board of Regents said yesterday that the regents plan to invite President Lee Bollinger to deliver the keynote address at next month's Spring Commencement ceremony. The source said Bollinger will accept the invitation.

Hartford addresses 'U' housing difficulties

Vice President for Student Affairs Maureen Hartford delivered the first of a three-part presentation on University housing at yesterday's meeting of the University Board of Regents, and she admitted that the University must make some changes.

Board hears public concerns

The University Board of Regents confronted more issues at its monthly meeting than outlined in its agenda, as protesters outside the Fleming Administration Building demonstrated against financial cuts in the University Hospitals budget.

Groups use jeans to rally for rights

Members of the Queer Unity Project hoped to force people to take a stand - even one of indifference - on lesbian, gay and bisexual rights yesterday by proclaiming the day as a a time for supporters to wear jeans. Organizers said they understand that wearing jeans is not exactly the most self-sacrificing form of activism.

Students plan Earthweek events

Students passing through the Diag today may see more garbage than usual. A display of trash, designed to draw attention to wastefulness on campus, will be set up from noon to 6 p.m. as part of Earthweek, which starts today and runs through Earth Day, April 22.

Students experience weightless flights: Three 'U' students try life without gravity

Three University students are readjusting to civilian life after spending a week as astronauts-in-training and two daunting days in experimental flight. Engineering seniors D.J. Kroeger, Amber Thweatt and John Korsakas traveled to NASA's Johnson Space Centerfield at Ellington Field, Texas, to test their VORTEX microgravity experiment in a modified airplane. The VORTEX is an experiment in fluid dynamics that produces drops of liquid in a weightless environment.

Around the Nation: Gingrich to pay fine with Dole loan

WASHINGTON - In a startling bid to close the books on his ethics case, Speaker Newt Gingrich announced yesterday he would borrow $300,000 from retired Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole to pay a sanction imposed for violation of House rules.

Around the World: Israeli leader says he won't resign

JERUSALEM - Insisting "the truth will triumph," Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said yesterday he wouldn't resign in the face of his country's burgeoning political corruption scandal.

In an afternoon speech just two days after police investigators recommended he be indicted for fraud and "breach of trust," Netanyahu said he was not going away so quickly or quietly.

MSA brings student voice to regents' meeting

Former Michigan Student Assembly President Fiona Rose brought a bit of classroom academia to her second semiannual MSA address to the University Board of Regents. Rose used Latin root words to help recap her year as student body president while emphasizing the challenges that lie ahead at a changing university.

Chicago officials address A2 universal parking problems: Downtown parking faces shortages and traffic problems

Although much has been said about Ann Arbor's parking dilemma and impending parking shortages, problems of traffic, parking and energy utilization are not unique to Ann Arbor. These universal questions brought representatives from the Chicago Regional Support Office of the efficiency branch of the U.S. Department of Energy to Ann Arbor yesterday to present solutions other cities have implemented or will implement to attack the problem.

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