'U' to get $7.5M raise: Engler allocates 2.5-percent increase for all state colleges
Gov. John Engler allocated $309,454,933 to the University in his proposed budget for the next fiscal year - $7.5 million more than the University received last year.
Clinton: Balanced budget in 5 years
WASHINGTON - President Clinton sent Congress yesterday a five-year plan to balance the federal budget for the first time since man set foot on the moon, even as he proposed a bounty of middle-class tax cuts, sizable new social program spending and a vastly expanded national role in education.
AIDS Memorial Quilt unfolds
The University's Track and Tennis Building was cloaked in silence last night, interrupted only by the whispers of the students and local residents who gazed at the sprawling and colorful display of the AIDS Memorial Quilt.
With the quilt's panels draped on the walls, the opening ceremony began with addresses by sponsor members. Mayor Ingrid Sheldon read a poem illustrating the healing and hope that counterbalances the suffering associated with AIDS.
NPR airs live from 'U' to world
The smooth, trained voice of "Talk of the Nation" host Ray Suarez echoed as he spoke onstage. The audience at Rackham Auditorium applauded and National Public Radio listeners tuned in around the world.
Suarez spoke on the air with University professors, faculty and students to address issues of race yesterday afternoon.
New college, special-expense fund requested for recruiting
The University may see a new college and a special-expense fund for faculty members if requests outlined in a recent faculty task force report are implemented.
A report assembled by "The Task Force on Recruiting, Retaining and Nurturing the Exceptional" targets problems and solutions to retain and attract "exceptional" students and faculty.
Feature Photo: On a different note
Laurie Anderson, one of the premier musical artists of the '70s and today, brought her unique combination of music and sound effects to the MIchigan Theater last night.
SAT botches scores
It's the mantra of the SAT: Check your work. Apparently, the testers didn't do it carefully enough.
Downed servers frustrate students: E-mail disabled at 'U' sites, employees work to restore use
Some frustrated University students have been experiencing e-mail headaches since early this week, when they were left unable to access their accounts due to a crash of e-mail servers.
The Technology Division of Information reports that certain sectors of the Institutional Files System server AFS-0 have been down since early Tuesday morning. Some students whose accounts are included in the disabled parts of the server are still unable to access their files.
Chicano culture shared
Speaking to a group of people sitting amidst colorful crepe-paper flowers and streamers, LSA senior Maria Alejandra Perez noted that there is no definitive, annual event at the University displaying the culture of Latinos/as.
"Floricanto is probably the closest we can get to something like that," Perez said.
Detroit to demolish landmark
DETROIT (AP) - The former J.L. Hudson's department store, which once employed 10,000 people but has sat vacant since 1983, will be demolished.
The Detroit City Council voted 7-2 Wednesday to raze the downtown landmark to make room for projects deemed more viable than the many proposals for the Hudson's building that have surfaced since it closed.
The Calendar: What's happening in Ann Arbor today
FRIDAYFocus: Building the class of 2001
At last count, 14,500 applications make up the stack of undergraduate applications piling high on the desks of University admissions counselors. In the ensuing weeks after the Feb. 1 deadline, the University's Office of Undergraduate Admissions will make its final decisions on whom to welcome as the class of 2001.
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