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Tourney may decide coach's fate
ATLANTA - Brian Ellerbe was only named the interim coach of the Michigan men's basketball team this past October. But success at this weekend's NCAA Tournament could take the word interim out of his title.
After succeeding former coach Steve Fisher - the players' mentor and friend - Ellerbe had a tough task ahead of him.
'M' Nike shoes prized by Japanese
Where in the world does Michigan basketball consistently beat out basketball superstar Michael Jordan? It happens all the time in the land of the rising sun, says Steven Parker.
Parker, a traveling shoe salesperson who has been selling used shoes in Japan for a decade, claims there is no shoe that sells as well as the 1985 Michigan Nike Dunk basketball shoe. Selling for between $1,000-$2,000 a pair, the maize and blue Dunk exceeds even Nike's Air Jordan shoes in terms of demand.
Nation's colleges question student fees
With the issue of mandatory student fees appearing on election ballots and sparking lawsuits, students on college campuses are speaking out about the way their student governments are spending their money.
Students at the University of Michigan will be able to choose whether or not to allocate up to $5 per semester for the next three semesters to the Michigan Student Assembly on an MSA election ballot referendum next Wednesday and Thursday.
Seniors prep for departure at grad fair
Becoming a member of the Alumni Association has not crossed the minds of many students.
But with graduation less than two months away, it is on the to-do lists of many seniors.
Yale prof. lectures on assisted suicide book
In a lecture on euthanasia, Sherwin Nuland traced the history of physician-assisted suicide yesterday in front of a more than 100 people in the Ford Auditorium of the University Hospitals.
Nuland, the best-selling author of "How We Die" and a clinical professor of surgery at Yale University, spoke at a critical time, as the state House of Representatives is scheduled to decide today on a bill that would ban physician-assisted suicide in Michigan.
WSU dean chosen for federal post
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Clinton announced yesterday the nomination of James Robinson, dean of the Wayne State University Law School, as the chief criminal enforcement officer for the Department of Justice.
The Detroit attorney would become the assistant attorney general for the Justice Department's Criminal Division if confirmed by the Senate.
Search for Education dean narrowed to five
The School of Education dean search, which began in September, has been narrowed to five candidates and could be concluded in April.
"We've been working on narrowing down the pool ... to a smaller group we interviewed," said Education Prof. Deborah Ball, chair of the School of Education Dean Search Advisory Committee.
Students say magazine makes stalking, rape seem like a 'joke'
Some students' mouths may have dropped at the sight of Orbit magazine's February issue.
The issue, which displays a scantily clad woman surrounded by candy hearts with phrases like "gang bang," "true slut" and "get her," and contains an article that encourages stalking, has prompted women's groups on campus to start a campaign against the magazine.
New conference to study women's issues
Women in politics, sexuality in the '90s and gender roles are some of the topics that will be discussed by 65 female speakers at Artemisia - a three-day women's conference scheduled to be held at the Michigan League this weekend.
Artemisia is derived from the word Artemis, the name of the ancient Greek goddess of the hunt and guardian of women. The conference is the idea of LSA seniors Kiran Chaudhri and Puja Dhawan, who together created the plan of action that made the conference a reality.
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Students to run for leukemia charity
Several University students will be striding across the Alaskan outdoors to raise money for cancer research this June.
LSA senior Carrie Rubenstein received a pamphlet through the mail about the Anchorage Marathon and decided it was definitely something she wanted to pursue. Rubenstein then recruited several of her housemates to participate with her.
Online resource chronicles 19th Century America
Expert historians and amateur scholars alike now have access to a powerful new tool for learning about U.S. history - the University's Making of America online resource.
The Making of America project is a digital library containing 1,600 books and 50,000 journal articles published between 1850 and 1877. Its purpose is to preserve aging historical documents and to provide people with historical information they could not otherwise find.
Affirmative action foes turn to states
The Baltimore Sun
WASHINGTON - A newly formed group of foes of affirmative action began putting pressure yesterday on all 50 state attorneys general to wipe out "the vast majority" of race preferences in state and local government.
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