'U' ordered to pay legal fees from trial loss
Mounting bills for last fall's presidential search grew even higher yesterday after Washtenaw County Circuit Court Judge Melinda Morris rescinded a decision that previously favored the University.
Morris ordered the University to pay the $27,495 in the plantiff's attorney fees accrued in a lawsuit initiated by The Ann Arbor News, Detroit Free Press and The Detroit News last October.
Poet, activist talks about experiences with AIDS
Poet River Huston dazzled the audience gathered at the Michigan Union Ballroom last night with her vivacity and humor as she related the sobering stories of her experience as a person living with AIDS.
Huston, an AIDS activist, gave her speech as part of the University's AIDS Awareness Week.
Reported rapes on campus higher than national rate
The rate of rape among women nationwide has dropped 10 percent since 1990, according to a Department of Justice report released Sunday.
But contrary to the national statistics, the University has seen an all-time high this year in rape reports.
NPR show to air on campus today
According to National Public Radio's Ray Suarez, broadcasting a radio show from a new location is no simple task.
"It's something we only do a couple of times a year. It's very demanding technically, it's costly, so we don't do it too often," Suarez said Tuesday from his Washington, D.C. office.
NWROC hails verdict
The aftermath of a discrimination suit won against the University on Tuesday led to picketing and protesting yesterday by the three victorious plaintiffs and members of the National Women's Rights Organizing Coalition.
Dawn Mitchell, Delano Isabell and Theresa Atkins sued the University and Dental School supervisor Linda Vachon DeMarco on charges of discrimination in a 1995 firing.
Feature photo: A surge of spirit
'U' lends helping hand to student parents
Student parents can pick up an application today for a new University program that provides compensation for daycare expenses.
The University's Student Child Care Subsidy Program, which was approved by the Board of Regents in November, will provide an estimated $150,000 a year to students with child-care expenses.
Muslim students prepare for end of Ramadan
As the end of Ramadan nears, Muslim students reflect on the meaning of the monthlong religious observance, which includes daily fasting and prayer.
"I believe that Ramadan allows us to feel the pangs of hunger and thirst that so many people who are less fortunate than ourselves feel everyday," said Asif Harsolia, president of the Muslim Student Association.
State senators propose bill to limit genetic information
In a time of medical breakthroughs in the field of genetics, two state Senators are proposing legislation to safeguard individuals' privacy in that area.
Senators Alma Wheeler Smith (D-Salem Twp.) and Dianne Byrum (D-Onondaga) will propose six bills to the state financial services committee that prohibit health insurance companies from discriminating against individuals based on genetic information, prevent any party from receiving an individual's genetic information without permission and require DNA samples to be discarded after genetic testing, except in legal situations.
Feature photo: Contemporary Concentration
Correction
Rep. Lynn Rivers (D-Ann Arbor) was misidentified in Monday's Daily.
Baby on board: Stork spaces added at Busch's
Shoppers at Busch's Valu Land grocery stores now have eight fewer spaces in which they can park.
Unless they're pregnant.
Engler to crack down on liquor sales in state
LANSING (AP) - The state will get more money to run sting operations to catch teens who try to buy alcohol and retailers who illegally sell to them under a proposal by Gov. John Engler.
The governor's fiscal 1997-98 budget - to be unveiled today - will reflect his desire to put an additional $200,000 into such enforcement efforts, state Management and Budget spokesperson Maureen McNulty said yesterday.
Clinton launches campaign for education program
AUGUSTA, Ga. - President Clinton launched a bully-pulpit campaign yesterday to sell a key element of his second-term agenda, a proposal to create broad new subsidies for middle-class parents worried about rising college costs.
Traveling to Augusta, Ga., Clinton turned the spotlight on a state that has done what he hopes to do for the nation by offering the equivalent of a higher education entitlement for millions of middle-income Americans.
02-06-97