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NCAA modifies wrestling regulations
In reaction to the recent deaths of three collegiate wrestlers, including Michigan athlete Jefferey Reese, the NCAA has announced changes that will affect wrestling programs nationwide.
The new rules, effective immediately, are similar to regulations made by a University task force in December. The task force will meet again today to discuss adding educational changes to the regulations.
Detroit to host urban summit on development
In step with Detroit's economic improvements, the President's Council on Sustainable Development chose the Motor City for its May 1999 National Summit on Urban Development.
The summit, which will be chaired by Vice President Al Gore and attended by nearly 5,000 leaders from across the nation, will be "the Super Bowl" of sustainable development talks for the future, organizers say.
Dentistry students help Medicaid patients
While the Michigan football team establishes itself as a legend throughout America, another part of the University is making a name for itself closer to home.
Each week, Dental graduate students represent the maize and blue in Battle Creek as part of a team designed to help those who rely on Medicaid for their oral health care needs.
Florida pres. apoligizes for racial remark
GAINESVILLE, Fla. (AP) - The president of the University of Florida was holding a Christmas party for his staff when he began discussing the candidates in the running to become his boss.
In the course of the discussion, John Lombardi called Adam Herbert, who later got the job as head of the state's public university system, an ''Oreo ... black on the outside and white on the inside.''
Annual 'U' study finds that use of illicit drugs no longer on the rise
Illicit drug use among adolescents has been on the rise since the early 1990s, according to an annual University study. But for the first time in six years, the study's results indicate that this constant increase has stopped.
"For most of the '90s, we've been seeing illicit drug use rising sharply among adolescents," said Lloyd Johnston, principal investigator of the Monitoring the Future Study. "What happened in '97 was the first evidence of a leveling off."
Study finds political apathy increasing
Not only is this year's crop of first-year students the largest entering class in the history of the University, they also may be the least politically interested.
An annual study conducted by the University of California at Los Angeles reported that the more than one and a half million of the country's first-year university and college students exhibit the least amount of enthusiasm in politics since the survey was first conducted 32 years ago.
Health initiative will foster research cooperation
The final pieces are falling together for a new University initiative that will foster collaboration between researchers from various health care disciplines.
The multi-disciplinary Health Services Research Initiative will make it easier for researchers across campus to convene on research projects, and will support individual researchers, said health management and policy Prof. John Wheeler, the initiative's director.
Rivers hosts forum on foreign conflict
Tempers and emotions flared last night during a forum hosted by Rep. Lynn Rivers (D-Ann Arbor) on the Arab-Israeli conflict.
A panel of professors spoke to the audience, which included people of various ethnicities, ages and opinions, followed by a Q&A period that, at times, became heated.
State lawmakers return to Capital
LANSING (AP) - State lawmakers met yesterday for their first 1998 session, voting on bills that would reduce pollution in Michigan lakes.
But the real legislative work isn't expected to start until after Gov. John Engler gives his State of the State address Jan. 29.
The Calendar: What's happening in Ann Arbor today
U.N.: Iraq may have mistreated some prisoners
WASHINGTON - U.N. weapons inspectors this week investigated allegations that Iraq conducted germ warfare experiments on political prisoners but found that records covering the suspected time period had been removed, the chief arms inspector said yesterday.
Carribean region faces high AIDS rate
NASSAU, Bahamas - The tropical tranquillity of this tourist paradise, with its pristine beaches, soothing calypso and quaint gingerbread houses, belies the severity of a deadly scourge: AIDS.
Thirteen years after the Bahamas reported its first case, the country is grappling with one of the highest AIDS rates in the world, an epidemic that has become the foremost cause of death for men and women between the ages of 20 and 44.
Recession challenges S. Korean lifestyle
SEOUL, South Korea - When it comes to self-sacrifice, no detail is too small for the earnest citizens of this newly troubled country.
Wedding halls have stopped serving the traditional wedding repast between 2 p.m. and 4 p.m. on the grounds that most guests, already full from lunch, were wasting the food. Apartment dwellers are stopping their elevators on alternate floors to save electricity.
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