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Bollinger commissions master plan
The University has hired a prestigious architecture firm to create a "master plan" vision that will guide construction for the next 100 years.
The Philadelphia firm of Venturi, Scott Brown and Associates, will work to create a common vision for the campus.
NATO blocks Serb broadcast
SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) - NATO-led troops seized transmitters and yanked Bosnian Serb TV off the air yesterday for broadcasts deemed inflammatory and destructive of Western peace efforts.
The pre-dawn action - one of the boldest yet by the Western alliance - seemed intended to signal its new resolve to silence Bosnian Serb hard-liners, in particular wartime leader Radovan Karadzic.
Bringing in the new year: 'U' students observe Rosh Hashanah
For about 6,000 Jewish students at the University, last night marked the beginning of a new year.
Rosh Hashanah, which means "head of the year," is commonly interpreted as the Jewish new year and a time for reflection and new beginnings.
University collaborates with rivals
Mortal Enemies. Fierce Rivals. Friends?
The University of Michigan and Michigan State University have joined forces to address various higher education issues in Michigan.
Filmmaker Moore holds rally in support of unions
Unions attempting to organize local Borders Books & Music employees received some help yesterday from an anti-corporate icon.
Michael Moore, director of the popular "Roger and Me," a documentary about the closing of General Motors plants in Flint, came to Ann Arbor to help drum up support for attempts by Borders employees to unionize their stores.
Reno advised to pursue probe of fund-raising
WASHINGTON - Attorney General Janet Reno is considering legal advice that she must move forward to the next stage of an inquiry that could lead to the appointment of an independent counsel to investigate telephone fund-raising solicitations by President Clinton and Vice President Al Gore because too many questions remain unanswered, officials said yesterday.
Free screening of Latino/a film tonight
A free film screening of a movie that bridges Latino/a Heritage Month and Native American Heritage Month will be showing tonight.
"Follow Me Home," directed by Peter Bratt, follows four artists of different ethnicities on a journey across America to paint a mural of their ancestors on the White House.
'U' to provide for United Way: University will raise about 15 percent of charity's funding
The University often aims for lofty goals in athletics and academics, so perhaps it is no surprise that its charity efforts are ambitious as well.
On Sept. 22, University planners announced they would try to raise $1 million for the Washtenaw United Way. United Way distributes funds to more than 100 local human service agencies, including the Ann Arbor YMCA, the Domestic Violence Project and Ozone House.
Study finds higher welfare benets do not attract poor
A recently released study may ease the minds of state legislators who worry that raising welfare benefits in Michigan will attract poor residents from other states.
William Frey, a research scientist at the University's Population Studies Center, recently published a study using 1990 census returns that finds high welfare benefits do not act as a magnet for the poor. The study, published in the September issue of Population and Environment, also found that poor Americans often leave states that are experiencing high immigration.
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Research Consultation Program helps students
With 16 libraries at the University, finding resources for research papers may often seem quite intimidating.
To help students use MIRLYN (the University's online card catalog) and find and evaluate information from the Web, libraries on campus have programs to aid students with their research snags.
Senate passes Engler education plan: Michigan senate approves legislation to pay off school districts
LANSING (AP) - With Republicans and Democrats butting partisan heads on the issue, the GOP-run Senate approved legislation yesterday to pay off school districts which were shortchanged on special education money.
As all Democrats voted in vain for their party's plan, which has cleared the state House in part, the Senate passed on 21-16 and 20-16 party-line votes three bills to implement Gov. John Engler's alternative proposal.
Bird sperm research sheds light on basis of delity
Ongoing research searching for the biological basis of fidelity, including that of humans, has spawned new evidence from an unexpected source - bird sperm.
James Briskie of Oxford University in England recently reported that he has found a positive relationship between sperm length and polygamy in Passerine birds.
Moscow prosecutors to begin criminal proceedings
MOSCOW - Moscow prosecutors announced yesterday they will begin criminal proceedings against former privatization chief Alfred Kokh, a close ally of economic reformer Anatoly Chubais. An investigator questioned whether a $100,000 payment to Kokh to write a book was an effort to influence a telecommunications deal.
Hamas founder released to hero's welcome in Jordan
JERUSALEM - In a predawn helicopter flight from a maximum security prison yesterday, Israel dispatched the ailing founder of the Hamas Islamic movement to a hero's welcome in Jordan.
Jordanian and Palestinian officials, in comments met with silence in Israel, described the sudden pardon of Sheik Ahmed Yassin as an Israeli effort at damage control after a botched assassination attempt in the Jordanian capital last week. Israel's army put out a brief statement at 4 a.
Plutonium-powered Cassini poised for trip to Saturn
WASHINGTON - Saturn has always been the most alluring of planets, with its encircling rings and a gathering of 18 known moons with euphonious names such as Mimas, Enceladus, Iapetus and Tethys.
The Saturnian neighborhood is a miniature solar system that was visited briefly in 1980 and 1981 by a pair of U.S. Voyager spacecraft during their grand tour of the outer planets.
Teen kills three, wounds six others
PEARL, Miss. (AP) - A teen-ager stabbed his mother to death, then went to school yesterday with a rifle under his trench coat and opened fire, killing his former girlfriend and another student and wounding six others, police said.
Luke Woodham, 16, was distraught over a breakup with his girlfriend, Police Chief Bill Slade said, choking back tears as he talked about the rampage in this town of 22,000 people just outside Jackson.
Government stepping up food safety laws
WASHINGTON (AP) - Faced with soaring food imports, disease tainted fruits and vegetables and far fewer safety inspections, the Clinton administration is moving aggressively to police the world's food.
Under a plan President Clinton is to announce today, the government would spend up to $24 million inspecting farms overseas. Those failing to meet certain food and safety standards would not be allowed to import to the United States.
Boy strangled while selling door-to-door for fund-raiser
TOMS RIVER, N.J. (AP) - Before he was found strangled near his home, 11-year-old Edward Werner was eagerly pursuing a set of walkie talkies, the top prize for selling the most candy and wrapping paper for his school's PTA.
He was going door to door alone - a practice discouraged by most fund-raising groups - and sales were going so well he was flashing a $200 wad of bills to friends.
10-02-97
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