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Bound for Boston: 'M' hockey upsets North Dakota, 4-3
After Saturday's on-ice celebration was over and most of the players, coaches and media had left, Michigan forward Bill Muckalt leaned down and kissed the painted 'M' in the center of Yost Ice Arena.
In that one gesture, Muckalt illustrated what all the Wolverines must have been feeling: There's no place like home.
A colorful tradition: 10,000 attend A2 Pow Wow
Two-year-old Trevor Cypress had the opportunity to enter the dancing circle Friday night in the kickoff of the Ann Arbor Pow Wow, while 10,000 spectators looked on at Crisler Arena.
Cypress' entrance into the dance circle was his introduction into the larger Native American community. His mother, LSA sophomore Melissa Cypress, described her son's participation in the grass dance as an "early rite of passage."
'U' officials change chalking policy
Members of the University's lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community chalked sidewalks in the early morning hours before National Coming Out Week last semester, but the chalkings were removed by University groundskeepers the next day.
Around the Nation: 'Angel of death' causes hospital scare
LOS ANGELES - As police tried to determine whether a self-proclaimed mercy killer was a mass murderer or a fraud, people came forward Saturday to tell police their relatives died mysteriously at a hospital that employed him.
"Their loved ones seemed to be OK one day and gone the next," said Rick Young, spokesperson for the Glendale Police Department, which is heading the investigation into the claims by the former respiratory therapist at Glendale Adventist Medical Center.
Around the World: Israeli pullback based on security
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip - Israel came away from talks with a U.S. mediator yesterday saying no new troop pullbacks from the West Bank can proceed without security pledges from the Palestinians.
Graphically underscoring Israel's security fears, a powerful car explosion killed at least one person last night in the West Bank town of Ramallah. Israeli reports said authorities were investigating whether the explosives were meant to be used in a terrorist attack.
Ku Klux Klan plans hate rally in Ann Arbor
The Ku Klux Klan officially made a request to the City of Ann Arbor on Thursday for a permit to hold a rally at City Hall. The rally would be held May 9.
"I have a feeling they're not going to give us our permit," said Robert Wiggins, the Klan's attorney.
Conference on technology focuses on the 'people factor'
For those who think technology is too impersonal to go hand-in-hand with human interaction, the Information and Technology Conference held this past weekend provided them with reasons to think twice.
Speakers during the two-day program focused on "people" as significant factors in the "comprehension of information systems" and spoke about ways in which technology caters to the individual.
'Buddies' introduce Detroit elementary school kids to 'U'
More than 80 students from Noble Elementary School in Detroit took home miniature footballs to remind them of the day they spent at the University last Friday.
The footballs were given out by Dean of Students Royster Harper at an event kicking off SERVE Week. The event was organized by Students Establishing Educational Dreams to introduce children to the idea of higher education.
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State expands drug testing laws
LANSING (AP) - The state of Michigan plans to dramatically increase the number of state employees who must take drug tests and make a clean drug screen a requirement for getting a job.
The rules, which are set to go into effect Aug. 1, already face opposition from unions who say the tests are unfair and possibly unconstitutional because they put front-line workers under more suspicion than management.
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