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Defending what could be: Connerly met with debate, high emotion
More than 500 students fought their way into the Michigan League last night to hear anti-affirmative action leader Ward Connerly speak. The crowd filled the ballroom to capacity, leaving another 100 students barricaded outside chanting, "Let us in."
Californian stirs conflict in Lansing
LANSING (AP) - Hoots, catcalls and jeers greeted a California critic of affirmative action yesterday as a state Senate committee debated wiping out affirmative action in Michigan.
"How do you sleep at night?" called out one spectator from the hostile audience crowded into the meeting room.
Candidates voice ideas on race
The debate on affirmative action has not escaped the attention of Michigan Student Assembly candidates, who are voicing their opinions on what MSA's role should in the debate on University admissions policies.
Members of the Defend Affirmative Action Party picketed outside of the Michigan League yesterday before Ward Connerly, a prominent advocate for the deconstruction of affirmative action in California's public universities, spoke on the subject of preferential treatment in admissions.
Candidates continue publicizing vote
One year ago, candidates for Michigan Student Assembly were seen on the Diag dressed in costumes and using a microphone to encourage students to vote.
But this year, candidates campaigning on the first day of the assembly's election steered away from gimmicks and focused more on the issues.
Fate of Inteflex program uncertain
The Inteflex program, the University's eight-year medical program that allows students to reserve a spot in the Medical School as seniors in high school, may not be offered to students applying to the University for the fall of 1999.
Committee approves funding increase
The state Senate Appropriations Committee unanimously approved a proposal yesterday that would increase funding to state colleges and universities by three percent.
This is double the amount suggested by Gov. John Engler in his January budget proposal.
Teleconference delves into diversity issues
Provost Nancy Cantor attempted to restate the University's position on diversity as she spoke as part of a six-person panel that discussed issues of diversity and affirmative action during a videoconference yesterday.
"All of the students we take are highly qualified to be at the University of Michigan," Cantor said. "We are looking for a diverse group of students to enliven our environment."
Regents to hold monthly meeting on Dearborn campus
The University Board of Regents is scheduled to hold its monthly meeting today at the University's Dearborn campus.
During the regents' annual visit to the Dearborn campus, they are scheduled to meet with the Dearborn Citizens Advisory Committee and tour the campus.
Tensions extensive between Africans and African Americans
Patricia Coleman-Burns decided she would not leave the United States unless it was to first visit Africa.
When she finally traveled to the continent with her son, she said she found that the tensions and cultural differences existing between Africans and African-Americans were extensive.
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The Calendar: What's happening in Ann Arbor today
Students get 'weightless'
Four students from the College of Engineering will leave the chilly climate of Ann Arbor tomorrow for two weeks of high-flying fun in sunny Houston.
The NASA-sponsored program that the students are taking part in - the reduced gravity student flight opportunity program - gives 48 groups from colleges across the nation an opportunity to experience microgravity first-hand as they soar through the sky in the experimental KC-135 aircraft.
Speech on time travel delights 'U'
In the classic movie "Back to the Future," Marty McFly travels back in time, and his teenage mother takes a rather unmotherly liking to him.
To secure his own future, McFly has to make sure his mother falls in love with his hopelessly uncool father.
Greek Week participants plunge into bins of Jell-O
Dessert anyone?
Most students passing through the Diag yesterday afternoon donned winter jackets and backpacks. But about 30 Greek Week participants took off their outerwear, challenged the cold and made Jell-O more than finger food.
Student wins journalism awards
LSA sophomore Shomari Terrelonge-Stone dreamed of becoming a broadcasting anchor since he was little. As executive producer of WOLV's "The Shomari and Sean O'Neill Show", Stone just might make that dream come true.
This past month, Terrelonge-Stone was awarded the Leland Stowe Award for outstanding scholastic performance in preparation for a career in professional journalism and a Claude Sifritt Undergraduate Award for outstanding academic performance in the field of communication studies.
Parents follow slowly behind their computer savvy whiz-kids
TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) - Father knows best, right?
Probably not, if the question involves the merits of the Pentium II, the finer points of Windows 95, or whether to spring for the 33.6-speed modem or to settle for a 28.8.
States debate issue of human cloning
NEW YORK (AP) - Having blocked anti-cloning legislation in Congress, drug makers are now scrambling to do the same with bills that would make the creation of carbon-copy humans illegal in 24 states.
Pharmaceutical companies say they agree with lawmakers who want to bar fringe scientists from turning out made-to-order humans.
Forbes calls for income tax overhaul
WASHINGTON (AP) - Steve Forbes began new radio advertisements this week supporting a bill to scrap the tax code by 2001.
The ads, airing in Washington, D.C., Arizona, Iowa, and New Hampshire, represent the latest volley in an increasingly heated political debate over a plan to repeal the Internal Revenue Code by 2001. The GOP views the bill as a way to build pressure for passage of tax reform, and also to cast Democrats as defenders of a complex and bewildering tax code.
More single fathers are taking responsibility
As his two-day-old daughter squirms in her mother's arms, Nicolas Reyes prepares to take a step that will make an indelible impact on the child's future. Slowly, carefully, he signs his name on a short white form.
The signature etches into the legal record the formal declaration that Reyes, an unmarried man, is the biological father of Carla Reyes-Osoy and cements a legal link between father and daughter that will govern the rest of their lives.
White House changes strategy
WASHINGTON - Back last August, the first time Kathleen Willey's name sprang into public view, the Clinton White House took refuge between a wall of stony no comments.
Had Willey ever been on the payroll? Ever met with the president? Ever been appointed to government boards? White House aides gave no answers.
Medical internship spots revealed at Match celebration
After almost $100,000 in tuition and a decade of education, graduating University Medical students waited anxiously to learn the fate of their careers at the annual Match Day celebration yesterday.
Run by the National Resident Matching Program (NRMP), Match Day is when fourth-year Medical students find out to which residency program they will be accepted. Students apply to hospital programs, which in turn select students they wish to interview.
Sovereignty papers released
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - The secrets of Mississippi's segregation enforcement agency spilled from computer screens Tuesday, painting a picture of petty, small-town espionage and alarming invasions of individual privacy.
The Mississippi Sovereignty Commission, created by a nervous Legislature in 1956, two years after federally ordered school integration, employed dozens of agents and informants to ferret out gossip, tall tales and, sometimes, facts about those involved in civil rights and voter registration drives in the state.
Opinions range on value of drug treatments vs. prison
WASHINGTON (AP) - Medical treatment for drug addiction works as well as treating diabetes or other chronic diseases, dramatically reduces crime and is a lot cheaper than jail, says a study released this week by bipartisan public health experts.
Americans head south, into suburbs
WASHINGTON (AP) - Americans are moving west and south, fattening counties near such cities as Denver and Atlanta, the Census Bureau says. Colorado and Georgia each claim three of the fastest-growing counties in the nation.
The biggest population jump from 1996 to 1997 was in Colorado's Douglas County, which surged 12.9 percent. The steepest decline? That was in Alaska's Ketchikan Gateway Borough County, which lost 4.6 percent of its residents.
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