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Rally calls for peace
More than 70 students, faculty and community members marched across Ann Arbor on Saturday, carrying signs and handing out pamphlets protesting the use of force against Iraq.
"We're here united in a common cause," announced a voice from the megaphone to the bustling crowd that had gathered. "Today we have to be heard, and we have to be seen."
Cohen: Saudi support not necessary
JIDDA, Saudi Arabia - The Clinton administration has decided against asking Saudi Arabia to allow a U.S. attack aircraft to fly bombing missions from its soil in any air campaign against Iraq, Defense Secretary William Cohen said yesterday.
'U' students keep eyes on '98 Olympics
As Olympians in Nagano, Japan lace up their skates and wax their skis, students at the University are are turning on all the action.
LSA junior Juliet Newcomer, a member of the Figure Skating Club on campus, said she awaits the performance of friends Tara Lipinski, Todd Eldredge and Nicole Bobek, with whom she skated with before she came to the University.
'U' dancers raise $30,000 for children
"Keep on dancing!"
That's what eight-year-old Allison Lawrence told a crowd of hundreds of participants and volunteers in the first-ever University of Michigan Dance Marathon, held this past weekend in the Indoor Track and Tennis Building.
Historical building moves to the Arb
The banner on the two-story, brick house that rolled up East Medical Center Drive yesterday read: "Another Structure Recycled." Fans, police cars, and photographers closely followed behind.
The Burnham House, a historical building, was moved from its original site on Wall Street to the Nichols Arboretum on Washington Heights where the University will use it as an education center.
Activists to discuss children's problems
A group of University Medical students founded Medstart in 1991 with hopes of increasing understanding issues that affect children and families.
This weekend, a crowd of students and activists numbering in the hundreds gathered as part of the sixth annual Medstart Conference to discuss these problems in an effort to improve the futures of children in need.
Chocolate Day teaches ecology, tantalizes tongues
Valentine's Day is just around the corner, and for many it will be a day of wallowing in loneliness. But there is at least one good thing about the holiday - chocolate.
In this spirit, the Matthaei Botanical Gardens held its second annual Chocolate Day on Saturday afternoon. The gourmet chocolate-tasting festival featured chocolatiers, chocolate sculptors, an informal lecture on the historical and cultural uses of chocolate and a look at the gardens' own chocolate tree.
Architect explains trends in east Asia
He was born in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, lives in London, has an office in Northern Ireland, teaches at Harvard and traveled to Ann Arbor last week to speak about the passion that has led him to all these places.
Rem Koolhaas, a world-renowned architect and author of two books that address contemporary society and architecture, delivered a lecture Friday night to an audience of more than 400 at Rackham Auditorium about urban planning and architecture.
Campus Notes
The Calendar: What's happening in Ann Arbor today
02-09-98
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