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12th president inaugurated: New president examines 'U' challenges
With an inaugural celebration that mixed formal pomp and circumstance with Frisbees, hotdogs and rock music, new University President Lee Bollinger officially took office Friday, demonstrating that a new era has begun at the University.
Reception brings community together
LSA senior Jeff Kurson slipped away from his responsibilities as a University groundskeeper Friday to grab some official inauguration Frisbees and five different colors of YoHA yo-yos.
"Free stuff is free stuff," Kurson said, adding that he was amazed at the number of people who filled Ingalls Mall at the reception following new University President Lee Bollinger's inauguration.
Police crack down on noise violation offenses
Drinks, people, loud music.
Most parties on campus don't seem to be complete without these three elements.
Officials respond to admissions debate: State government officials react to 'U' affirmative action policies
The potential lawsuit that would challenge the University's affirmative action policies has sparked reactions from some top state government officials.
The four state representatives organizing the potential lawsuit allege unconstitutional discrimination in the University's admissions and financial aid programs.
Pressures build for tobacco settlement
WASHINGTON - In a city of dealmakers, tobacco is shaping up as the deal of 1998.
Big Tobacco wants a deal so it can stop worrying about exorbitant lawsuits.
'U' prof. leads poetry reading
It was a beautiful autumn day, a perfect opportunity for a poetry reading in the Arb.
That's how English Prof. Richard Tillinghast said he felt as he recited Robert Frost's poetry while strolling leisurely down paths and past streams with a group of 40-50 intent listeners.
Kiwanis International brings Circle K to 'U'
Enigmatic signs showing the letter K with a circle around it appeared on many doors and kiosks around campus a few days ago.
These signs are not some sort of practical joke or meaningless symbol, but rather the emblem of the University's Circle K International, a community service and leadership organization.
Oakland U. programs lead to minority gains
ROCHESTER HILLS, Mich. (AP) - Four years ago, Oakland University senior Tim Peaster was participating in sit-ins demanding better recruitment and retention of minorities at the mostly white campus.
The university responded by creating an Office of Equity in 1994. Since then, Peaster has been an integral part of the university's increasingly successful effort to attract and retain minority students.
The Calendar: What's happening in Ann Arbor today
State GOP endorses Engler, refocuses attention on Republican government
MACKINAC ISLAND, Mich. (AP) - The good times may be rolling in Michigan, but voters won't necessarily give Gov. John Engler the credit next year unless he reminds them that things didn't go so well under former Gov. James Blanchard.
Reno to review Clinton's funding
SAN CARLOS, Calif. (AP) - Attorney General Janet Reno has taken a first step toward naming a special prosecutor to investigate President Clinton's 1996 fund-raising activities. The president's lawyers insisted Saturday no laws were broken.
West Coast's 9th Circuit Court may face break up
WASHINGTON - The judges of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals have called it "idiotic," "silly" and "very odd."
No, they were not referring to their usual nemesis, the US. Supreme Court. Rather, the target of their complaints was a plan by Senate Republicans to break up the West Coast's large and liberal-leaning judicial district.
El Nino expected to hit hard this winter and spring: n World prepares for worst predicted El Nino in 15 years, which left $1.5 billion in U.S. damages
There's trouble in the air. Specifically, in the air off the west coast of the Americas, where the sea surface has been heated to abnormal extremes by an ominous, intermittent flood of hot water called El Nino.
The last time conditions looked like this was when the strongest, most destructive El Nino on record struck in 1982-83. By the time that event subsided, some 2,000 people had died in flooding, mud slides, droughts, fires and sundry related calamities, hundreds of thousands were forced out of their homes, and economic losses topped $8 billion worldwide - $1.
Yugoslavian elections face weak opposition from Serbs
BELGRADE, Yugoslavia (AP) - Many Serbs boycotted yesterday's elections, fed up with the hard times they have seen under Slobodan Milosevic's decade-long autocratic rule.
Although turnout was slow into the afternoon, the boycott - called by two of three main opposition leaders - looked unlikely to be strong enough to invalidate the vote. Those opposing the election describe it as a farce, heavily weighted in favor of Milosevic's ruling Socialist Party.
Text of Bollinger's inaugural address
It is somewhat difficult to know what to say at an inauguration - especially one's own. One has the feeling the context yearns for the profound, which only insures that any self-conscious effort to meet the expectation will be mediocre. In the opening scenes of Virginia Woolf's Mrs.
Arts and humanities take center stage during inauguration: More than 200 gather to kick-off the official beginning of YoHA
Colorful images of art, dance and video filled Rackham Auditorium Friday as a unique addition to the University's presidential inauguration for Lee Bollinger. The symposium, "Turning a New Leaf," officially kicked off the Year of Humanities and Arts.
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