Students read names during 24-hour vigil
Standing in the cool March breeze yesterday afternoon, geological sciences Prof. Jim Wessel Walker embraced his daughter Margaret as a student solemnly read the names of Holocaust victims.
Wessel Walker came to the Diag with his wife Donna and their 12-and 10-year-old daughters to witness the 24-hour Memorial of Names in remembrance of Holocaust victims, which began yesterday at noon and ends with a memorial service at noon today on the Diag.
Hash Bash fees raise concerns: Organizers may receive city permit for annual Hash Bash event today
University and city officials are concerned that when the smoke clears from the Diag after the annual Hash Bash event this year on April 5, trash will remain.
But despite some original monetary problems when the University asked organizers to pay a deposit to fund the trash clean-up, Hemp A2 hopes to get a permit for the rally today. LSA senior Ed Tayter, president of Hemp A2, said he is satisfied with the current plan, but wishes the process to get the permit could have been avoided.
Holocaust survivor relates horrors
Holocaust survivor Ernest Heppner told his unique and ironic story last night of finding a safe haven from the horrors of German concentration camps by fleeing to Japanese-occupied China.
Heppner, who published a book about his experience, gave the Michael Bernstein Memorial Lecture at Hillel as part of the 18th Annual Conference on the Holocaust.
Diverse concerns mark Class of 2000
Many members of the University's 1996 first-year class were concerned about college tuition and volunteer work during their final year of high school, according to the results of the Entering Freshman Survey.
The University has participated in the nationwide survey for the past several years, which is conducted by the University of California at Los Angeles. This year, 45 percent or 2,369 students of the University's first-year class responded to the survey during summer orientation.
Architect offers hope for urban decay
If current trends continue, the future may hold terrible problems of congestion, pollution and decay in the world's major urban centers, leading to a dilemma with democracy, renowned architect Micheal Sorkin said last night.
49 bodies found in Calif. mass suicide
SAN DIEGO - Police found at least 49 bodies in a luxurious home in the elite northern San Diego county suburb of Rancho Santa Fe last night and described the gruesome scene as a mass suicide.
Distraught neighbors said they believed members of a religious cult or some out-of-state group had been living at the ranch house. They reported that the people living in the house dressed in black and called themselves monks.
Gubernatorial hopeful stresses Democratic Party unity
Gubernatorial hopeful Larry Owen stressed the importance that maintaining party unity during the 1998 Democratic primary will have for a victory in the next election when he spoke last night to the campus College Democrats.
"We win only when we stop quarreling with one another and mass all of our resources," Owen said.
'U' study blames technology for rising HMO costs
Health maintenance organizations might not remain centers for low-cost medical care if patients continue to shun traditional surgery in favor of high-tech treatments, according to a recent study by University researchers.
City to discuss parking structure
Lack of parking has plagued downtown Ann Arbor for decades, but now, even existing parking structures are giving city officials headaches.
Officials from the Ann Arbor Downtown Development Authority said one of the city's worst culprits is the parking structure on South Forest Avenue, next to Tower Records.
Child immunization registry almost ready
EAST LANSING (AP) - Two-year-old Hannah Engler may have been a little shy in front of the cameras yesterday, but her immunization record was picture-perfect.
A new computerized tracking system will soon be online to make sure every Michigan 2-year-old is up to date on shots. And Hannah's record - complete with a chicken pox vaccination - was used to demonstrate how the system works
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Palestine protests peace efforts
RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) - Palestinians threw stones and burned American flags in the streets of the West Bank yesterday, rejecting a new U.S. attempt to salvage the disintegrating Mideast peace process.
President Clinton sent envoy Dennis Ross to try to stop the rioting and bloodshed that started after Israel broke ground for construction of a Jewish neighborhood in disputed east Jerusalem.
Colleges revising English curriculum
Alas, poor Shakespeare, we knew him well.
That was the baleful cry from conservative critics as they watched the Bard disappear from required reading lists across the United States, part of a wave of revisionism as colleges embraced multiculturalism.
Sediment impurity causes concern
LOS ANGELES - Off Southern California's shore, purity is an illusion that lies only a few feet deep.
The trouble's not with the water; it's what lies beneath it.
Gore: China relations improving: Dialogue continues on human rights violations
BEIJING - Wrapping up discussions with top Chinese leaders, Vice President Al Gore said here yesterday he had a "more receptive response" this week than in the past on the subject of human rights - one that has long bedeviled U.S.-Sino relations.
Michnet brings Internet to less- populated areas
Like the characters in "Green Acres," people living in rural areas usually don't have all the amenities of city-slickers.
Among other things, local Internet service providers are non-existent in many of Michigan's less-populated areas - that is, until MichNet came along.
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