Deadline failure: 'U' should extend pass/fail deadline
Still trying to decide whether or not to take a class for credit? Make the decision quickly, for the final date to modify for pass/fail is today. After 2 1/2 weeks of class, most students have not taken their first exam or handed in their first paper - but, according to University logic, these students should be able to judge the difficulty of their classes.
Common language?: State House must kill English-only proposal
In whatever accent - Upper Peninsula or downstate - state Rep. Harold Voorhees (R-Wyoming) wants Michigan residents to speak just one language: English. The lawmaker has proposed to declare English the official language of the state of Michigan. Voorhees' exclusive idea is oppressive and must not become law. To adopt his proposal would set an unacceptable precedent.
Clinton: Show us your soul
In August 1994, as Congress debated the most profound proposed addition to the welfare state since the Great Society, Sen. Phil Gramm (R-Tex.) stood before his colleagues {ï in the Senate chamber. Holding high a copy of the moderate health care reform proposal offered by Democratic Majority Leader George Mitchell (D-Maine), Gramm delicately placed the large bill on a scale he had brought for the occasion. Hundreds of pounds of taxes, many ounces of regulation, proclaimed Gramm, reading imaginary numbers off the scale.
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