Penny pinching: 'U' support would boost student groups
Cries of discontent echoed through the halls of the Michigan Union last Tuesday, as representatives of more than 100 student groups protested MSA student group funding allocations. The Budget Priorities Committee allocated $70,000 to student groups in a revitalized effort to shorten the exhausting and nerve-wracking waiting period many students endured in the past. Despite BPC's efforts to make the funding process easier, student groups still came out in full force to dispute meager allocations.
Desperate measures: Medicaid could reduce dangerous abortions
Kawana Ashley, a 19-year-old Florida resident, shot herself in the stomach after failing to raise enough money for an abortion. Doctors delivered her child by an emergency Cesarean section, but it died of organ failure two weeks later. Ashley was charged with third-degree murder and manslaughter. Last Thursday, the Florida Supreme Court struck down both charges, ruling that a woman cannot be prosecuted for harming her fetus.
Column: Respect the military for the peace of mind it allows all of us
Surrounded in sex scandals and the vagaries of 1990s military strategy, the United States' armed forces are caught in a strange and confusing time; it seems as if they are seen as social political fodder and as an outmoded vestige of yesteryear's wars and peacekeeping missions.
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