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Allegations taint MSA election
Newly elected Michigan Student Assembly President Trent Thompson may have violated the MSA Election Code when he allegedly solicited votes at a fraternity party last Tuesday night.
Thompson was motioning students toward a laptop computer and telling them to vote for him while they were logged on to the MSA voting Website, an anonymous source told The Michigan Daily. According to paragraph 61 of the MSA Election Code, "nor shall any person influence any student while he or she is voting.
Students question fee legality
Half a dozen University students, including several Law students, are preparing a document to present to the Michigan Student Assembly and the University Board of Regents that questions the legality of the Yes! Yes! Yes! ballot question that was in part passed by the student body in last week's MSA elections.
'U' professor signs new book
Through compliments and criticism, political science Prof. Raymond Tanter did not lose his unyielding teaching attitude at a public signing of his new book last night.
Upon seeing a student at the signing at Borders Books & Music, he immediately asked about his paper assignment in Political Science 498.
Candidate accused of racism: Students angered by MSA candidate's campaign poster
Several University offices currently are investigating an allegedly racist Michigan Student Assembly campaign poster that has outraged some University students.
During the recent campaign, a sign was posted in Angell Hall showing LSA sophomore Dale Winling with his fist raised in imitation of a Black Power gesture of empowerment and pride. Winling, a white LSA sophomore who was running for an MSA representative seat, also has the image on his Website.
Four die in Arkansas school shooting
JONESBORO, Ark. (AP) - Two boys in camouflage lay in wait in the woods behind their school, then opened fire with rifles on classmates and teachers when they came out during a false fire alarm yesterday. Four girls were killed and 11 other people were wounded, including two teachers.
Ensian, Daily win Crowns
The Michigan Daily and the Michiganensian yearbook both received the highest award given for collegiate publications in the Columbia Scholastic Press Association's national competition for 1997 publications. Both publications were awarded with the Gold Crown at the CSPA's annual media convention last week in New York.
Yeltsin successor still in question
MOSCOW (AP) - While Russia awaits a new government, the larger question looms of who will replace President Boris Yeltsin when his term ends in 2000.
The political turmoil created this week by Yeltsin's surprise government shakeup has spurred the speculation. At least five men appear likely contenders, but all have major weaknesses. Yeltsin, wary of becoming a lame duck, coyly declines to say whom he favors.
Around the Nation: Lake Champlain no longer a great lake
WASHINGTON - The five Great Lakes can share some researching funding with smaller Lake Champlain, but not their great name.
There are five Great Lakes, not six, senators agreed yesterday in a compromise measure deleting mention of Vermont's Lake Champlain as one of the greats. Instead, the senators agreed Lake Champlain is a "cousin."
Around the World: Clinton to children: Slavery was wrong
MUKONO, Uganda - Before thousands of schoolchildren sprawled on a grassy hillside, President Clinton said yesterday that America was wrong long ago to buy slaves and guilty more recently of "the sin of neglect and ignorance" toward Africa.
Panel discusses domestic violence
Greek Week participants took a break from lip synchs and relays to attend a panel discussion on domestic violence held in Rackham Auditorium last night.
Rita Smith, executive director of the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence, began the discussion by asking audience members if they had experienced domestic violence.
Ecolympics urges students to recycle
In the high-stress atmosphere that dominates the University, many students are accustomed to competing for grades, jobs and internships.
But some students are vying for ice cream in the Ecolympics, an Environmental Theme Semester activity sponsored by several University departments.
Hearing begins for militia members
GRAND RAPIDS (AP) - A militia member suspected in an alleged terrorist plot kept an arsenal of more than 20 semi-automatic weapons and a sniper rifle accurate from more than a mile at his home in case of a government raid, federal authorities testified yesterday.
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