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Cantor family searches for answers: Family to hire lawyer;
The death of his daughter after a fall from her Mary Markley Residence Hall window devastated George Cantor and his family.
In an attempt to answer the many questions still lingering in his mind, Cantor has decided to hire a lawyer to continue and expand the inquiry into LSA first-year student Courtney Cantor's death.
'U' investigates death
Sober Saturdays plan pushed back
If all goes as planned, University students may be presented with another alternative to weekend drinking as early as January.
The implementation of a proposal by the Residence Hall Association to provide an alcohol-free environment through a program called "Sober Saturdays" has been pushed back until next semester.
Committee looks at secret fund-raising memos
WASHINGTON (AP) - House impeachment investigators armed with a court order reviewed secret memos on alleged fund-raising abuses in President Clinton's 1996 campaign yesterday, while the president's lawyers demanded the sensitive materials to wage a "vigorous defense.
Christmas in July?: Students catch some rays, holiday spirit
Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells, Jingle all the ... wait a minute, it's 60 degrees outside. Where are some shorts?
As Salvation Army volunteers rang their bells and Christmas lights twinkled across Ann Arbor, it seemed that something wasn't quite right.
Colleges move away from grant-based pay
In a time when universities and colleges nationwide are placing emphasis on teaching, Georgetown University has been forced to put on hold its policy of using medical school faculty members' ability to earn grant money to directly determine professors' salaries.
NASA to launch 'U' students' experiment
A group of Engineering students should be flying high today as they see nearly four years of their research and hard work rocket into space aboard the shuttle Endeavour.
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration's latest launch of Endeavour, scheduled for 3:54 a.m. today, carries a physics experiment designed and built by University students in its cargo bay.
Iraq calls for U.N. to denounce U.S.
UNITED NATIONS - Iraq asked the United Nations yesterday to denounce the United States for interfering in its internal affairs.
Iraqi Foreign Minister Mohammed Saeed al-Sahhaf called on the Security Council to ask the United States to refrain from any threats or action against Iraq.
Students gather to discuss Code
A handful of students gathered last night to discuss something that affects all University students - the Code of Student Conduct. Last night's forum, which organizers expected would draw in about 25 North Campus students to Pierpont Commons, attracted fewer than 10 students.
SAPAC, AAPD to pass out lights
In an effort to improve safety in off-campus neighborhoods, the Sexual Assault Prevention and Awareness Center, in conjunction with the Ann Arbor Police Department, will distribute lighting devices to area houses tomorrow.
When connected to the socket of a porch light, the photo-sensitive cells cause the porch lights to turn on automatically after dark and turn off when it becomes light again. The lights, because they remain on only at night, also save energy.
Research Notes
Michigan's economy flourished throughout most of the 1990s and is expected to continue to grow, but at a slower rate in the next two years, according to a University economic forecast.
Economist George Fulton predicted that the Michigan economy will continue to expand through the end of 2000, which will give the longest run of growth in the state in the past 50 years.
Professors discuss diversity's importance
On the eve of the one-year anniversary of the second anti-affirmative action lawsuit filing, the Ann Arbor chapter of the American Association of University Professors met yesterday to discuss the issue of affirmative action.
"The national organization (AAUP) supports affirmative action," said pharmacology Prof. Charles Smith.
Espy cleared of corruption charges
WASHINGTON (AP) - A federal jury cleared former Agriculture Secretary Mike Espy of all 30 charges against him yesterday in the climax to a four-year, $17 million corruption investigation headed by a prosecutor who Espy called a "schoolyard bully."
Livingston prepares to take over speakership
WASHINGTON (AP) - Deliberately, and mostly behind closed doors, Rep. Bob Livingston (R-La.) is preparing to become House speaker next month with little to say about his agenda and playing no visible role in the increasingly clamorous impeachment inquiry of President Clinton.
Customs Service drug searches prompts lawsuits
WASHINGTON (AP) - Returning to Chicago from Jamaica, Gwendolyn Richards was plucked from a line of air travelers by a Customs Service inspector and ordered into a bare, windowless room. Over the next five hours, she was strip-searched, handcuffed, X-rayed, and probed internally by a doctor.
Democratic presidential rivals lay out proposals
WASHINGTON - Vice President Al Gore and three of his possible rivals for the next Democratic presidential nomination traded competing visions of the party's post-Clinton agenda yesterday at the first major showcase for the Democrats' emerging class of 2000.
Gates acknowledges saying'Java' posed potential threat
WASHINGTON (AP) - Microsoft's top executive, Bill Gates, acknowledged in videotaped testimony shown yesterday that he believed a rival computer language, called "Java," could threaten his lucrative Windows franchise.
But rejecting one of the government's most important claims in its antitrust case, Gates denied that his company ever tried to discourage software developers from tailoring their products to use Java rather than Windows.
Violence mars Mideast peacemaking process
JERUSALEM - Middle East peacemaking descended into a new round of bloodshed and mutual accusations yesterday as an Israeli soldier was ambushed and beaten by Palestinian protesters in the West Bank and an Arab man was stabbed to death in Jerusalem, apparently by a Jewish extremist.
U.S. troops nab Bosnian Serb wanted for crimes
PARIS - U.S. troops yesterday arrested a Bosnian Serb general who allegedly played a key role in the deadliest massacre of Muslim civilians of the Bosnian war and dispatched him to the Netherlands to stand trial for genocide.
Gen. Radislav Krstic is the highest-ranking war crimes suspect to be taken into custody at The Hague, seat of the U.N. tribunal prosecuting war crimes and genocide in the bitter 1991-95 conflicts that pitted Serbs, Croats and Muslims against one another in breakaway republics of a disintegrating Yugoslavia.
New Mars data may dispel theories
As the Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft slips closer and closer to its assigned orbit, scientists find their plates are already overflowing with exciting data, stuff they have barely been able to taste, much less digest.
Even before the big spacecraft settles into its circular path around the red planet by March, the new photos it is sending home are forcing researchers to rethink some older ideas. For example:
Latina entrepreneurs take step forward
LOS ANGELES - Maria de Lourdes Sobrino began her entrepreneurial journey alone in a cramped storefront, whipping up 300 cups of ready-to-eat gelatin by hand each day. She knew nothing about food processing, had no friends in business or banking, and faced ridicule from her well-heeled family members, who urged her to come home to Mexico City.
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