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'U' revokes Granger's admission
The University has revoked its admission of Daniel Granger, the Grosse Pointe Woods teenager who is serving a jail sentence for having sex with three 14-year-old girls.
In an Oct. 30 letter Provost Nancy Cantor sent to Granger, Cantor informed Granger that she concurred with a four-person University fact-finding team's recommendation to terminate Granger's admission.
East Lansing bar charged after death: Liquor commission slaps Rick's with four charges
Rick's American Cafe in East Lansing received notification of official charges brought against it by Michigan's Liquor Control Commission yesterday.
The bar served Brad McCue, a Michigan State University parks and recreation junior who died on his 21st birthday after drinking 24 shots of liquor in two hours.
Greeks seek BYOB options
With some campus sororities and fraternities not adopting a trial bring-your-own beverage policy for fraternity parties, the University Greek community now is exploring other ways of tackling alcohol-related problems.
The Greek Social Environment Task Force, organized by the Interfraternity Council and Panhellenic Society, plans to submit a report next Friday summarizing its findings about campus drinking and its recommendations for measures of action.
Campaign spending totals filed
LANSING (AP) - When it comes to running for governor, Democrat Geoffrey Fieger put his money where his mouth is.
The fiery attorney pumped $5.35 million of his own money into his campaign between March and early November, pouring in more than a million a week in the final weeks before the Nov. 3 election.
History prof. lectures on ethics and morality in U.S.
politics
Sex, lies and politics were up for discussion last night in the Pendelton Room of the Michigan Union where history assistant Prof. David Fitzpatrick gave a lecture titled "A Contradiction in Terms? Ethics and Morality in American Politics."
Having a ball
volunteers to help
prepare a room in the Michigan League for the annual St. Joe's Holiday Ball, to be held
Around the Nation
Clinton unveils tough water standards
NEWPORT, R.I. - President Clinton unveiled some of the toughest water pollution standards in U.S. history yesterday, with the goal of eliminating a deadly microbe from drinking water and reducing the hazardous byproducts of disinfectants.
Around the World
Russia offers new economic plan
MOSCOW - Nearly four months after Russia's economy went into a tailspin, the government gave preliminary approval yestersday to an action plan designed to pull it out of its dive.
The plan includes a list of 33 draft laws and 36 other measures aimed at lowering taxes and increasing investment, but it does not address the badly out-of-balance federal budget - the key to any rescue plan.
Crime Notes
A faculty member received numerous threatening letters from a former student, according to the Department of Public Safety reports.
The graduate school faculty member told DPS officers he had been receiving the letters postmarked from California for some time and that he had files of all of the letters.
The Calendar
Colleges OK Nike code
In another step toward improving working conditions around the world, the College Licensing Company this week approved a Code of Conduct that will regulate the production of collegiate apparel.
The passage comes two weeks after the presidentially commissioned Apparel Industry Partnership endorsed a similar code, signaling progress in what has been a two-year inquiry into questioned working conditions.
Here comes Santa Claus
Rights activist to speak at 'U'
In celebration of next week's 50th anniversary of the signing of the United Nations-initiated Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the University is scheduled to sponsor a keynote address today at noon in University Hospitals' Ford Auditorium.
911 tapes describe murder scener trial
He and his friend Seth Privacky were charged with the murder of Privacky's family.
MUSKEGON, Mich. (AP) - Julie Cooper knew something was wrong almost immediately when she drove up to Linda and Stephen Privacky's rural home just north of here last weekend looking for her daughter.
Bumper stickers will identify drunken drivers
DETROIT (AP) - Drunken drivers sentenced to probation in one suburban court will carry a sobering message to other motorists the next time they take to the road.
Starting yesterday, Troy District Judge Michael Martone ordered drunken drivers to attach bumper stickers to their cars that read: "Drunk Driving, you can't afford it."
Friday Focus : Bottles and Books
Imagine trying to do five things at one time. Now imagine at the end of a hard day of school your day is not over. Such are the lives of many University students who have to balance ...
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