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'Things worth fighting for': Foreign policy team visits OSU
COLUMBUS - President Clinton's foreign policy team met yesterday at Ohio State University with a rowdy crowd in a town hall meeting to discuss the current situation in Iraq.
Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, Secretary of Defense William Cohen and National Security Adviser Sandy Berger met for 90 minutes with a crowd that often yelled and chanted in protest of possible U.S. military action against Iraq.
Coalition lacks many nations
WASHINGTON - From the world's farthest corners, Argentina and Australia are in. But Arab powers and former partners Egypt and Syria are out. And front-line states Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates have a foot in each camp.
Seven years after the Persian Gulf War, the United States this week put finishing touches on a new coalition supporting the use of military force against Iraq if it continues to block U.N. inspectors from seeking out weapons of mass destruction.
Senators to discuss 'U' funding at League
The state Senate Appropriations Subcommittee for Higher Education will hold a hearing tomorrow at 9:30 a.m. in the Michigan League to address the budget Gov. John Engler proposed this past Thursday.
University President Lee Bollinger, Charlie Nelms, chancellor of the University's Flint campus, and representatives from Central Michigan University and the University's Dearborn campus will state their cases for increased funding for higher education to the three members of the subcommittee - Sen.
Lawsuit parties have nearly one week to reply
The University and the Center for Individual Rights have nearly one more week to respond to a coalition's motion to intervene in the first of two lawsuits challenging the University's admissions processes.
A clerk in the office of Detroit Federal Court Judge Patrick Duggan, the judge who will decide whether to permit the intervention, said no response motions have been filed yet.
Internship fair visits Union
Dressed formally in ties and skirts, nearly 1,200 University students sought summer employment yesterday at the annual Internship and Summer Job Fair in the Michigan Union.
From management and marketing institutions to public relations and computer programming companies, students had about 70 organizations to choose from.
Air Force bomber crashes; crew members survive
MARION, Ky. (AP) - An Air Force B-1B bomber, flying unmanned after its crew ejected safely minutes earlier, plowed into a muddy cow pasture and exploded yesterday in rural western Kentucky.
The plane barely missed a farmhouse, crashing just four miles from this farming community of 3,300 people. No one was hurt on the ground.
Female regents discuss women's issues, concerns
Olivia Maynard (D-Goodrich) and Rebecca McGowan (D-Ann Arbor), two of four female members of the University's Board of Regents, met with members of the University community yesterday at the Rackham Amphitheatre to address issues concerning women on campus.
Women's groups support 'U' in suit
In the wake of two lawsuits that target the use of race as a factor in the University's admissions processes, determined female students braved the cold yesterday to promote equal rights for women and minorities.
Representatives from several campus women's organizations gathered on the steps of the Union to speak out against anti-affirmative action movements that have recently developed at the University.
Early use of alcohol linked to increased dependency
Although many college students ignore the legal drinking age, a recent study gives students another reason to think twice about drinking alcohol before their 21st birthday.
According to a study published last month by the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, people who began drinking before age 15 are four times more likely to become dependent on alcohol than those who begin drinking at the legal age of 21.
Month's worth of rain falls in day
DETROIT (AP) - Roads flooded and rivers rose as the metropolitan region got socked with a sudden drenching - enduring more rain in one day than normally falls during the entire month of February.
Blame it on El Niño, the quirky weather pattern that's been savaging California with storms.
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Recent study to examine trends of youth tobacco use
Amidst nationwide debate about tobacco, a new study conducted at the University's School of Public Health has received a $500,000 grant to examine current trends in youth tobacco use.
"Basically, we're trying to understand why some kids smoke and some don't," said Public Health Prof. Peter Jacobson.
East Quad to pick up new elevator
While students living in residence halls often lose sleep over loud music in the next room,students dwelling in East Quad Residence Hall will soon face another distraction that has been more than five years in the planning - the construction of a new elevator to make the hall more accessible to handicapped students.
'U' provides child care to employees
Many working parents are forced to skip a day of work to stay home with a sick child - but they are not University employees.
Kids Kare at Home now gives University employees the option of leaving a sick child at home with a trained caretaker provided by the University.
MILE prepares leaders, promotes cultural interaction
The University has always been known as a research institution but has never tried a research project such as Multicultural Initiatives for Leadership Education.
The Office of Academic Multicultural Initiatives is sponsoring this new program in an attempt to build bridges between different ethnic groups on campus.
02-19-98
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