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Medical Center cuts may fall short by $50M
The third set of reductions from the University Medical Center budget reduction plan that was to cut $200 million during a three-year period may be $50 million short of original estimates, University officials said.
The strategy to remove $200 million from the Medical Center budget included a three-prong set of reductions; the first reduced the budget by $60 million in 1996 through clinical redesign and layoffs, and the following sets of reductions were scheduled to remove $70 million each.
A farewell to 'U': Highs and lows mark 1997-98
From murder on campus to two NCAA hockey championships, members of the outgoing senior class have experienced a plentiful share of emotional and memorable campus events.
But what will most seniors leave Ann Arbor remembering?
Applications to 'U' increase 10 percent
As the fall enrollment cycle comes to an end, University officials say that application totals are up by nearly 10 percent from last year.
Nearly 21,000 individuals have applied to the University to be members of the incoming first-year class.
'U' prepares for next phase of lawsuits
Nearly one year ago, efforts to challenge the University's use of race in its admissions practices began as several state legislators spearheaded a call for Michigan residents who had applied to the University and thought they had been unfairly denied admission.
Study: Focus on undergrads
The University of Michigan is known as one of the finest research institutions in the country. But a report released yesterday says research institutions have been short-changing their undergraduate students and not giving them their money's worth.
Ecuadorean plane crashes in Colombia
BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) - A jetliner chartered by Air France with 53 people aboard slammed into a fog-draped mountain just after takeoff from the Colombian capital yesterday. Rescuers found no signs of survivors.
At least four bodies were immediately recovered from debris of the plane, which was scattered in the underbrush and eucalyptus trees that cover the side of the 10,000-foot mountain near Bogota's airport, rescuers said.
Supreme Court looks to new ways to curb gangs
The Baltimore Sun
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court, warned by cities that street gang warfare is mounting across the United States, agreed yesterday to weigh local governments' power to use anti-loitering laws to break up gatherings of suspected gang members.
City budget calls for 7 percent increase in funds
Funding for the installation of video cameras in police cars highlighted City Administrator Neil Berlin's $179 million budget proposal to the Ann Arbor City Council yesterday.
The annual budget is 7 percent larger than that of last year. The 300-page proposal includes figures for how the city should pay for utilities provision, fire protection, policing, zoning regulation, city planning and garbage collection.
SACUA changes leaders
After two years of serving on the Senate Advisory Committee on University Affairs and one year as its chair, Louis D'Alecy gave up his gavel yesterday to new chair William Ensminger.
Although D'Alecy, a professor of physiology, rarely used the gavel himself, the ceremonial gesture signified an end to an eventful year as chair.
House set to examine bill on education appropriations
For two months, members of the House Appropriations Committee have watched as a higher education funding proposal was made by the governor. After the proposal, university officials lobbied for a larger appropriation and the Senate increased the proposal by $30 million.
China dissident to leave Detroit
DETROIT (AP) - Prominent Chinese dissident Wang Dan is in good health with minor asthma and not a tumor as family members had feared, doctors said yesterday.
Results of an MRI were negative, Thomas Royer, chief medical officer at Henry Ford Hospital said at a news conference. Royer said Wang was diagnosed with minor asthma and also was fitted with contact lenses to relieve headaches likely caused by blurred vision.
Crime Notes
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Co-ops ban use of funds for alcohol
The Inter-Cooperative Council passed a new policy last night prohibiting ICC funds from being used for purchasing alcohol.
"No co-op funds are to be used for purchasing alcohol," said Brian Nagorsky, a Business graduate student and the author of the proposal and director of financial services for the ICC.
Drugs allegedly taken from crash
DETROIT (AP) - U.S. Customs and police are investigating reports that people helped themselves to packages of marijuana from the wreckage of a drug-smuggling plane from Mexico that crashed in a ball field.
The experimental, homemade plane flew 1,500 miles from the Texas-Mexico border before it apparently ran out of fuel, clipped trees and landed upside down in Detroit, killing the pilot.
Seniors celebrate departure on Diag
In the midst of graduation, seniors walking through the Diag yesterday concerned themselves less with the looming threat of final exams and more with sumo-wrestling, blue skies, moon-walks and ice cream.
Senior Days '98, a committee run by a group of student leaders as part of the Office of Student Activities and Leadership, has been organizing events throughout the semester to commemorate the seniors' final term as undergraduates. Today's and yesterday's Senior Diag Days are one of the final events of the Senior Days '98 program.
School dismisses sex ed. program
GRAND RAPIDS (AP) - An anti-abortion group that conducts free sex education programs is no longer welcome at Kenowa Hills Public Schools.
The Grand Rapids area district says the Pregnancy Resource Center should not have handed out religious materials to ninth-graders, The Grand Rapids Press reported yesterday.
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