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ICC trying to purchase Oxford: Officials look into possible sale of least-profitable 'U' housing unit
In an effort to revitalize one of the University's least profitable housing complexes, the Inter-Cooperative Council is trying to buy Oxford housing from the University.
SACUA discusses impending lawsuit
With the lawsuit filed to change admission policies at the University, the faculty's governing body decided yesterday to endorse President Lee Bollinger's stance on affirmative action.
"What we are saying is that we stand behind those policies and administration," Lewis Kleinsmith, a member of the Senate Advisory Committe on University Affairs, said at yesterday's meeting.
Opinions vary on Fisher's firing
University students and alumni offered strong opinions about the firing of Steve Fisher - some hailed the decision, but others suggested the University should be "de-Gossed."
Responses came to an e-mail group established by The Michigan Daily last week asking reader opinion about the dismissal of the former Michigan men's basketball coach.
Restored 'M' returns to central Diag home
The M is back. Finally.
After being restored and reset in a Brazilian granite, the brass M donated by the University's Class of 1953 will assume its place in the center of the Diag today.
Fisher interviews for S. Alabama position: Goss on West Coast interviewing potential replacements; decision expected later in week
Good fortune is one again smiling on Steve Fisher.
The former Michigan men's basketball coach, who led the Wolverines to the 1989 national championship as the interim coach, wasted little time in searching for another coaching job.
Soros to give $.5B in aid to Russia: Billionaire hopes to improve mother-child care, bacteria infections
MOSCOW - U.S. financier-philanthropist George Soros announced yesterday he will spend up to half a billion dollars on Russia in the next three years, investing in such projects as improving health care, spreading Internet know-how and helping reform the country's chaotic armed forces.
Supreme Court votes unanimously on abortion law: High court decides that judges can't have more power over young girls' decisions
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court, in a rare near-unanimous vote on an abortion question, refused yesterday to give judges more power over young girls' decisions to end pregnancies.
The court's 8-1 vote left in shreds a Louisiana parental-consent law found by lower courts to unduly interfere with some girls' abortion rights.
Public Health alumni gather to discuss worldwide issues
Public Health alumni from around the country and as far away as Kenya convened Friday to hear panel discussions and presentations on current issues in the field.
"It's really hard to think of an area that's more exciting than public health," Public Health Dean Noreen Clark said in her welcome statement. "We're always struggling to deal with newly emerging infectious viruses."
Council delays vote on pollution
Ann Arbor City Council decided to once again postpone voting on a permit that would allow the Pall/Gelman Sciences corporation to continue injecting decontaminated ground water into Ann Arbor City sewers.
Councilmember Chris Kolb (D-5th Ward) proposed the delay so that the legal wording of the permit could be perfected.
Cuban artist brings innovative paintings to Rackham display
Illustrating feminist and gay allegories, Rocío García's paintings feature subjects that include a beheaded Geisha and a half-human, half-giraffe figure standing in a men's room.
Sponsored by the Latino/a American and Caribbean Studies Department, artist García's work has been widely exhibited in Cuba and Spain. García, who was born in Cuba, will have her work on display in Rackham's East Gallery through Oct. 28.
Meeting to focus on domestic violence
DETROIT (AP) -Animal cruelty investigators and child protective services workers will be some of the new faces at the third statewide meeting on domestic violence.
The relationship between domestic abusers, abused children and animal cruelty has become a focus of study in recent years.
Speaker calls for Arab involvement
Randa Fahmy, counsel to Sen. Spencer Abraham (R-Mich.), spoke to University students last night about the potential power of the Arab-American community in politics.
"Arab Americans should get more involved in the political process. Senator Abraham feels that Arab Americans can make more of a difference," Fahmy said.
State begins new portion of welfare reform initiatives
DETROIT (AP) - The newest phase of a state plan to find jobs for welfare recipients enlists church-based volunteers to serve as mentors and provides reimbursements for employment-related expenses.
"Today, a new wave of welfare reform begins in Michigan," Gov. John Engler said at the Family Independence Agency's Greydale district office yesterday.
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