Justices hear case on Net censorship
WASHINGTON - In the Supreme Court's first venture into cyberspace, the justices seemed receptive yesterday to the idea that the government should help shield children from sexually indecent materials on the Internet. But they nonetheless were skeptical about whether a broad new federal law aimed at limiting computer pornography unfairly censors users of the network that connects millions of people worldwide.
Profs: decision will be upheld
As the U.S. Supreme Court considers the legality of the 1996 Communications Decency Act, some University professors expressed their own opinions on the Court's pending decision and the issue of controlling information available on the Internet.
Voting ploys dot 1st day of elections
Candidates for this year's open positions on the Michigan Student Assembly stopped at nothing less than climbing into beer cans and passing out slices of pizza to grab the attention of students passing through the Diag yesterday afternoon.
Students angered by quote
When University President Lee Bollinger was quoted in the New York Times last week as saying "social idealism is dead or dormant" on college campuses, many students disagreed.
But Bollinger said he was misrepresented and misquoted in the March 13 article.
New allegations surface against 'M' basketball
Five Michigan basketball players allegedly entertained a recruit at an all-night hotel party that may have included strippers, alcohol and illegal drug use.
Prodigy to graduate from Medical School at 20
Oakwood Hospital in Dearborn will be receiving young blood this summer when 20-year-old University Medical School graduat Anita Saluja joins the staff for her residency.
Saluja, who entered the Medical School at 17 and will graduate this June, plans to be a dermatologist. She said she is eager and slightly nervous about moving from the classroom to the hospital.
Clinton picks CIA insider to head agency: CIA Deputy Director George Tenet chosen to lead agency
WASHINGTON - President Clinton yesterday named George Tenet, who has been deputy CIA director since 1995, as his choice to head the spy agency and predicted he would win easy Senate confirmation.
Three men shot execution-style in Pittseld
Three men were shot late Tuesday night at Pepper Moving and Storage parking lot just west of Ann Arbor. Pittsfield Township police describe the murders as execution-type killings.
Website 'IvyEssays' offers tips for college admissions
An Internet service may lend a helping hand to students who have writer's block when it is time to write their college application essays. However, many students and admissions officials fear the service may increase instances of plagiarism in the admissions process.
Former Nixon chair advises college GOP
Paul McCracken, former chair of President Nixon's council of economic advisers, outlined his philosophy on economics and politics to the campus College Republicans last night.
"The modern liberalism would see the route to economic progress in which the rich would blueprint the pattern to the economy," McCracken said.
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Author speaks on freethinkers
Atheists. Skeptics. Witches. Agnostics. Heretics. In short - freethinkers.
In her new book, "Women Without Superstition," Annie Laurie Gaylor gives voice to these often-silent people.
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