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QUP's chalkings removed: Members filed three reports with DPS, cite other incidents
Members of the Queer Unity Project filed a police report with the Department of Public Safety after the group's chalkings were removed from the Diag and surrounding areas Monday morning. QUP members allege that marks made by other campus groups were left untouched.
Basketball probe nears completion
After multiple delays, the eight-month investigation into alleged improprieties committed by the Michigan men's basketball program may finally come to an end this week.
Following the University's announcement that the program violated two NCAA regulations and several claims that players accepted cash and gifts from Detroit booster Ed Martin, University President Lee Bollinger hired a private law firm to investigate.
Proposal requires ATM warnings: Tips on avoiding ATM surcharges
"The owner of this machine will charge U.S. cardholders $1.50 per transaction. This charge may be in addition to an amount charged by the cardholder's financial institution. Do you wish to continue?"
If a package of bills recently introduced by state Reps. Liz Brater (D-Ann Arbor) and Buzz Thomas (D-Detroit) becomes law, University students will always see that message, already used by some banks, when they withdraw money from one of the many Automatic Teller Machines on campus.
MSA allocates $20,000 to AATU
The Ann Arbor Tenants Union can breath a sigh of relief after its opposition failed to garner enough support to abolish the organization.
The Michigan Student Assembly voted last night to keep the union, which represents renters in Ann Arbor, and allocate $20,000 from its budget to fund it.
Students gripe about bus delays
It's 7:50 p.m. You have waited half an hour for a University bus. Your test starts in 20 minutes. What should you do?
This situation is common for many students living on North Campus and taking classes on Central Campus. Last week, about 50 students had trouble getting to a Chemistry 130 exam on time.
DPS changes its strategy, not numbers
Lately, cops walking their beat appear to be all over campus, causing some students to feel they're amidst a police crackdown.
LSA first-year student Jason Emott said he sees cops being more vigilant than in his home town.
Ozone House may be renamed
Contrary to what its name might imply, Ozone House isn't trying to save the planet - it's trying to help Ann Arbor's youth.
Ozone House, a charity organization located on Washtenaw Avenue near Oxford Street, offers a wide range of services to runaway teens and local families in trouble. In an attempt to clarify its purpose, Ozone House is looking for a new name.
Professor questions 'War on Drugs'
The "War on Drugs," the often-used catch phrase calling for the end of drug use in the United States, can never be won, say two University researchers.
"I'm not wanting to be quoted as saying that we can't do a whole lot to minimize the damage that substance does to a society, but the idea that substance abuse is something new and that we can get rid of it like a virus or an infection is wrong," said psychiatry Prof.
Four to testify in Teamsters hearing
WASHINGTON (AP) - Over the strong objections of Democrats, a House committee issued subpoenas yesterday to compel four people to testify at a congressional hearing about the 1996 Teamster's election.
The House Education and Workforce Committee split along party lines in voting 24-17 to issue subpoenas to three Teamsters union members and the former supervisor of a Teamster's political action committee.
The Calendar: What's happening in Ann Arbor today
Suspect search focuses on forest
ALLEGAN, Mich. (AP) - An elite team of state troopers wearing Army helmets, face paint and bulletproof vests scoured a small section of a state forest yesterday seeking a man suspected of killing three people in a dispute over drugs. Authorities got a major break when they discovered Michael Cleary's pickup truck along with a cache of weapons, food, clothes and camping gear in the Allegan State Game Area, 50 miles south of Grand Rapids.
State drug penalties may be weakened
LANSING (AP) - Michigan's toughest-in-the-nation law that sends some drug offenders to jail for life would be relaxed under bills approved separately yesterday by House and Senate committees.
While the full House and Senate must still vote on the bills, the changes were welcomed yesterday by a group whose loved ones are serving lengthy sentences under the law.
Netanyahu, Arafat hold first summit in months
EREZ CROSSING, Gaza Strip - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat held face-to-face talks early today for the first time in eight months, a senior Palestinian official said.
The summit, arranged late yesterday by U.S. envoy Dennis Ross, could signal a thaw in the crisis that has brought the peace process to the brink of total breakdown.
Red Cross acknowledges their silence during Holocaust
JERUSALEM (AP) - The Red Cross handed over 60,000 pages of World War II-era documents to Israel yesterday and a top official acknowledged the organization's "moral failure" in keeping silent while the Nazis murdered six million Jews.
Clinton briefed on donation potential of coffee attendees
WASHINGTON - Before President Clinton welcomed a small gathering of businessmen to an unusual coffee in the Oval Office last year, he had reason to expect that their session would enrich Democratic Party coffers.
"Mr. President: ... the five attendees of this coffee are $100,000 contributors to the DNC," a White House aide wrote to Clinton on a briefing paper prepared for the May 1, 1996, event.
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