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Basketball report hits public today
The report detailing the investigation of the Michigan men's basketball program most likely will not uncover any new NCAA violations, according to a source close to the investigation.
The complete 250-page report is scheduled to be distributed to the public at a 9:30 a.m. press conference today.
The Code: Case 97-39: Case gives insight into University's judicial process
It may seem difficult to unravel what happened one particular night in one particular fraternity house on this sprawling campus of 36,000 students.
It may be hard for people to remember the details about what happened one night when alcohol blurred memories.
'U' official to lead Internet2 project
One of the University's top technology experts has been tapped to oversee the next generation of Internet development.
Prof. Douglas Van Houweling, vice provost for information and technology and dean for academic outreach, will soon leave the University to serve as president and chief executive officer of the University Corporation for Advanced Internet Development.
Vigil looks at domestic violence
With nearly 100 candles raised, participants in a vigil last night decried domestic violence, chanting, "There's no excuse for violence against women."
The Sexual Assault Prevention and Awareness Center, the Office of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Affairs and SAFE House held the vigil on the Diag last night to support survivors of domestic abuse and inform students of ways to get help.
Pols vote to outlaw some abortions
WASHINGTON (AP) - Heading toward a new face-off with President Clinton, the House gave final approval yesterday to a bill making it illegal for doctors to perform late-term abortions.
Clinton vetoed a similar bill last year. His spokesperson said, "The president's position has not changed."
Shooting victim at EMU in good condition
YPSILANTI - Aaron Patterson, a 25-year-old Eastern Michigan University sophomore who was shot twice in the chest Monday, was released from St. Joseph's Hospital yesterday at 12:49 p.m.
Patterson was released in good condition.
Businesses seek employees as unemployment hits 2 percent
Among Ann Arbor's coffee shops, book stores, T-shirt shops and restaurants, the owners are hiring.
Unemployment in Ann Arbor dropped to a record-breaking 2.1 percent in September. In fact, local employers are having trouble filling their open job positions.
Groups denounce domestic violence
Sixty-five white T-shirts hung on a clothesline and gently swayed in the wind in front of the Ann Arbor City Hall and Police Department yesterday.
Each shirt represented a woman in Michigan who was killed by domestic violence in 1996. The clothesline wrapped around a tree, under which lay a stone commemorating the "The Great Peace March" of 1980 and dubbing it as "The Peace Tree."
The Calendar: What's happening in Ann Arbor today
California term limit ruling unlikely to affect Michigan
LANSING (AP) - Although a federal appeals court Tuesday struck down a California term limits law, the ruling is unlikely to have any effect on a similar law in Michigan, term limit advocates said yesterday.
But those opposing Michigan's term limits said the ruling gives them additional grounds to ask that the law be overturned here as well.
African doctor discusses female circumcision myths
Nahid Toubia, the first woman doctor of the African nation of Sudan, set off a fiery dialogue last night in Rackham about the truth of female circumcision.
Toubia was born in Sudan, but has worked all over the world as a neurosurgeon, pediatric surgeon and general practitioner. She is a feminist, a political activist and founder of an international women's health organization. She was also health adviser to Sudan's government.
Institute for Social Research set to celebrate golden anniversary: The once-small institution is now the largest and oldest University-based research unit in social studies
Fifty years ago, government researcher Robert Kahn returned to the University in the newly formed Institute for Social Research.
At the time, the ISR was small - "only a handful of people," Kahn said.
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