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Ellerbe named interim head coach
CHICAGO - Even Brian Ellerbe is surprised he will serve as the Michigan men's basketball coach.
After 10 days of searching and speculating, University Athletic Director Tom Goss resorted to naming Ellerbe, an assistant hired in May, as the Wolverines coach - at least for now.
Green and white and blue all over: Defense stops Spartans cold
EAST LANSING - For the first two quarters, there was hype and there was trash talking.
But that disappeared after halftime.
Local women march for unification
Despite setbacks in their trip to the Million Woman March in Philadelphia on Saturday, the 92 women who left from the steps of the Michigan Union returned Saturday more unified and feeling more empowered than ever.
"I did not expect it to be so powerful," said LSA senior Dara Maurant. "It was cold. It was rainy. But no one was cold."
ROTC scares students at North Hall
After watching the maize and blue win Saturday's big football game, many Wolverine fans celebrated by lining up for the 12th annual ROTC haunted house.
The terror-filled production was held in the basement of North Hall - a site that housed an operational morgue years ago, when North Hall served as a Central Campus hospital.
Famous photographers present work at 'U'
Peter and David Turnley, world-famous photojournalists, returned to the University on Saturday to display some of their most compelling photographs as part of the Residential College's 30-year anniversary reunion.
The photographs highlighted were from an exhibition titled "In Times of War and Peace," a combined work that was presented last year in New York and Corona, Italy. The brothers documented events such as the end of apartheid, the fall of the Berlin Wall, and the reality of the Gulf War.
Students use NetDay to wire classrooms
Saturday's warlike crash on the football field was ignored by a group of students in favor of the more soothing hum that accompanies computer technology.
Engineering first-year student Matthew Shapiro was one of 19 members of the University's Volunteer Computer Corps that wired the Saline Christian School for internet access in the first-ever NetDay in Washtanaw County.
Web helps study of world culture: Human Relations Area Files go online for the first time ever
A powerful research tool that facilitates the comparative study of world cultures is now available on the Internet. Using search words or phrases, students and researchers can obtain information on dating rituals, health concerns, child care, religious practices, cooking styles, other cultural aspects of a variety of world cultures and more.
SAPAC art exhibit tells talesof domestic violence victims
T-shirt designs and poetry tell the stories of those who survived dating and domestic violence. Nearby, red silhouettes tell the stories of some who didn't.
In the Michigan Union Arts Lounge, the tales of victims and survivors stand side by side.
Campus Notes
Gunman killed at border
DETROIT (AP) - A man intent on fleeing to Canada shot two motorists yesterday after the driver of a taxi in which he was riding refused his request to ignore border checkpoints, police said.
Federal officers and Detroit police fatally shot the gunman on the U.S. side of the Windsor Tunnel, a heavily travelled passage linking Detroit to Canada.
The Calendar
Albright insists on human rights talk
WASHINGTON (AP) - Chinese President Jiang Zemin will get a full picture of how Americans feel about China's human rights record, both from protest demonstrations outside and tough talk inside the White House, Madeleine Albright said yesterday.
Columbian elections held despite rebel intimidation
BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) - Amid heavy security, Colombians voted for state and local offices yesterday in elections marred by a rebel sabotage campaign that has killed dozens of candidates and scared thousands more into withdrawing.
Obeying leftist guerrilla orders to boycott the ballot and stay off highways, tens of thousands of Colombians in the countryside outside state control were expected to stay away rather than risk rebel retribution.
10-27-97
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