Fire erupts in South Quad: Football players' room burns; keg left among charred items
A fire broke out last night in South Quad residence hall at about 7 p.m., destroying one room and keeping 1,200 residents out of their rooms for more than two hours.
The fire began in Room 6710, where Michigan football center Steve Frazier and tight end Aaron Shea live.
Regents confirm Bollinger as speaker
The University Board of Regents formally invited University President Lee Bollinger on Friday to deliver the keynote address for next month's Spring Commencement ceremonies.
"We wanted to give the new president, at his first commencement, an opportunity to set out his views to graduating students and to the University community," said Regent Philip Power (D-Ann Arbor). "The tradition here is the incoming president is given the opportunity to speak at the commencement ceremony.
Student speaker announced
The largest crowd LSA senior Jeffrey Keating has ever spoken to was 200 people.
This will change in two weeks.
Gramlich may be nominated to Fed: If confirmed, Public Policy Dean will sit on Federal Reserve Board
Public Policy Dean Edward Gramlich is expected to be nominated to the Federal Reserve Board, Provost J. Bernard Machen announced at Friday's meeting of the University Board of Regents.
Gramlich, if appointed to a Fed governor position, would serve a 14-year term and fill one of two vacant spots on the Fed. If Gramlich is nominated by President Clinton and accepts the position, he will have to resign from his position at the University, Machen said.
Biking for the environment: Cyclists ride to provide alternatives to automobiles
For once, cyclists had the right of way on State Street.
About 50 cyclists and a few roller-bladers participated in the Critical Mass Bike Race, a demonstration promoting the use of bikes for traveling short distances.
Around the Nation: Air Force may have plane wreckage
EAGLE, Colo. - A helicopter crew hovering beside a sheer cliff in the central Rocky Mountains found what is likely the wreckage of a missing bomb-laden warplane, but saw no sign of the pilot, the Air Force said yesterday.
Around the World: India selects Gujral as prime minister
NEW DELHI, India - Hoping to end a three-week political crisis and reluctant to call new elections less than a year after the last national vote, India's president yesterday accepted Inder Kumar Gujral as the country's new prime minister.
Pollack pushes for environmental activism
Chair of the Michigan Environmental Council Lana Pollack tried to shatter the popular notion that a clean environment is incompatible with a vibrant private sector
During a campus discussion yesterday Pollack encouraged environmental activism in her speech, titled "State Environmental Issues and Student Action," before a sparse crowd of 15 students gathered in the Michigan Union as part of Earth Week. Pollack's appearance was sponsored by the campus chapter of the College Democrats.
Campus College Republicans help clean up 'U': Ann Arbor Mayor Ingrid Sheldon works with group
Student political groups are notorious for plastering University buildings with campaign stickers. But on Saturday, the campus College Republicans tried to work against that stigma.
About 20 members of the group sacrificed their Saturday afternoon to remove bumper stickers and fliers - both of Democrats and Republicans - that have covered the campus since last November's campaign season.
U-Move offers stress-free classes during finals time
Students feeling stressed by the pressures of final exams can find some relief thanks to U-MOVE. As part of U-MOVE's Finals Fitness Frenzy, students can attend any of its classes for $1.
U-MOVE is a program in the University's division of kinesiology. It sponsors not-for-credit classes in step aerobics, hip-hop aerobics, tai-chi, yoga, weight lifting, tae kwon do, shiatzu massage and ballroom dancing, among others.
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'U' alum gives Staebler lecture
University alumnae Beverly Godwin, a key member of President Clinton's Reinventing Government initiative, noticed one major change on campus during her visit Friday.
"There are many more coffee bars now than when I was a student here," Godwin said.
Lecturer warns of overpopulation
Someday, the world may be home to more than 11 billion people.
John Bongaarts, an expert on world population problems, spoke about his speculations for population growth and the problems inherent with this century's phenomenal growth of humankind during a lecture sponsored by John Snow Incorporated.
Town hit with floods, fires
GRAND FORKS, N.D. - Ravaged first by record flooding and then by huge fires that spread unchecked in the swamped downtown district, most of this beleaguered North Dakota city was under mandatory evacuation orders and a 24-hour curfew yesterday. Authorities threatened to use National Guard troops to arrest residents who have refused to leave their homes.
Kerrey puts CPI issue in stark generational terms: Senator says small decrease in inflation index will aid future
WASHINGTON (AP) - To Sen. Bob Kerrey, the debate over devising a more accurate measure of inflation isn't a mathematical abstraction.
In his view, the matter boils down to whether older Americans - political giants in Washington - will accept losing some of their federal retirement benefits to help a new generation attend college without swamping themselves in debt.
Netanyahu escapes indictment in scandal, still faces political crisis
JERUSALEM (AP) - Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu escaped indictment in an influence-peddling scandal yesterday, with prosecutors saying they lacked evidence to try him on charges of fraud and breach of trust despite his "puzzling" conduct.
Treasury ethics watchdog gave friend no-bid contract
WASHINGTON (AP) - Shortly after becoming the Treasury Department's ethics watchdog, Valerie Lau arranged a no-bid contract for a longtime acquaintance who had written the White House recommending her for her job.
Lau's involvement has prompted a rare congressional inquiry into a department's inspector general, an official whose normal duties are policing the conduct of others and guarding against waste, fraud and abuse.
Zaire president clings on despite insurmountable losses: As opposition to president mounts, many prepare to flee
KINSHASA, Zaire (AP) - Walk into Western embassies in Kinshasa and chances are there will be a stack of passports belonging to wealthy Zairians, all looking for an exit.
If the stories swirling through the teeming streets of the capital and dark corridors of parliament are true, those closest to President Mobutu Sese Seko have booked 400 hotel rooms across the river in the Congolese capital, Brazzaville, in case they have to flee.
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