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Last chance for votes: Final day proves busy for candidates
Searching for last-minute election security, candidates worked long and hard in the days leading up to today's election to ensure that their voters would turn out at the polls today. From handshaking to praying to buying time on television, candidates are pulling out all the stops in their final push for office.
National picture still cloudy
WASHINGTON (AP) - Would-be winners everywhere stretched for the campaign finish line yesterday, closing out a coarse and costly mid-term election season that will decide the makeup of the next Congress and install governors in three dozen state houses.
Regent election could be crucial to lawsuits
With the University in the thick of a legal battle that has the potential to determine once and for all how affirmative action is used in college admissions, today's vote deciding the partisan makeup of the University's governing board could be crucial.
Brien discusses life on 'Real World'
Ever wonder what it's like to be on television?
Ever wonder what it's like to have your life taped - 24 hours a day, every day, for five-and-a-half months? Dying to find out what happens when people stop being polite - and start getting real?
Mudslides push Mitch's death toll to 7,000
CHINANDEGA, Nicaragua (AP) - Overwhelmed by death and chaos, Central American officials yesterday estimated more than 7,000 people died in floods and mud slides triggered by Hurricane Mitch.
As Nicaraguan officials struggled to account for 1,500 people feared buried by a mud slide, Honduran President Carlos Flores Facusse made an emotional appeal for international aid and announced he was declaring the equivalent of a state of siege to combat looting.
Swedish fire's death toll hits 62
GOTEBORG, Sweden (AP) - The death toll in Sweden's worst fire disaster of modern times rose to 62 after two youths died yesterday, the latest victims of a dance-hall inferno.
Officials confirmed that one of the latest victims was a boy, but did not release any other details. Another 25 people were still in intensive care.
Clinton may use force in negotiations
WASHINGTON - President Clinton held out the possibility yesterday that military force could be used to reopen Iraq to U.N. weapons inspectors, and dispatched Defense Secretary William Cohen to Europe and the Persian Gulf region for consultations with allied leaders.
SACUA discusses 'freedom lecture'
While the idea of "sexual McCarthyism" has been raised in the weeks leading to today's election, a rift between faculty and administration about the original Red Scare's effect on the University narrowed yesterday.
At a meeting of the Senate Advisory Committee on University Affairs, the faculty's governing board, members of the Academic Freedom Lecture Fund's Board of Directors discussed the possibility of reconciliation with the University.
200 gather to honor prof.'s work, accolades
More than 200 members of the University community gathered yesterday to celebrate the accolades recently bestowed upon a University professor.
Biology Prof. Stephen Easter presented an hour-long public lecture titled, "Let There Be Sight: The Ontogeny of the Visual System" to a near-capacity Rackham Amphitheatre, followed by a reception in his honor.
Website displays local menus
Welcome to the Web, may I take your order?
Roommate on the phone? Don't know what to eat? Late night studying has you staring at a blank screen? Try pulling up www.takeoutexpress.com - the Internet site that connects viewers to a multitude of Ann Arbor's restaurants and their menus.
T-shirt exhibit combats violence
Created by a survivor of sexual violence, a T-shirt displayed in the Sexual Assault Prevention and Awareness Center reads, "I need to stop just barely surviving and live."
In observance of National Domestic Violence Awareness Month, SAPAC is sponsoring the National Clothesline Project.
CrimeNotes: Subjects escape from correctional institution
Three female suspects escaped Sunday from the Arbor Heights Center, Depertment of Public Safety reports state.
The suspects escaped from a bathroom window in the correctional facility located on Washtenaw Heights. DPS officers were advised the suspects had changed into street clothes. There is no available description of the suspects.
Oregon initiative would open records to adoptees
PORTLAND, Ore. - In the most aggressive move yet to lift the veil of secrecy that has shrouded many U.S. adoptions since the 1940s, Oregon voters today will consider a ballot initiative that would open original birth certificates to all adult adoptees.
Normal election turnout expected at polls
"Turnout is the single most important factor in the attorney general race" where Republican John Smietanka and Democrat Jennifer Granholm are locked in a tight struggle, said Democratic analyst Ken Brock of Lansing.
Turnout is judged less critical in the gubernatorial race, where Republican Gov. John Engler holds a wide lead over Democrat Geoffrey Fieger. But the impact on local races - such as the state House, where Democrats now hold a fragile 58-52 majority - could be crucial.
Some citizens feel misrepresented
OAK PARK, Ill. - Everyone knows the next order of business in Washington, once the results of today's midterm elections have been digested. It's back to impeachment. John Hausmann begs to differ.
Hausmann is a Republican who holds no brief for President Clinton, whom he regards as a liar and thinks should be censured. But he has little confidence in the Republicans in Congress as they prepare for impeachment hearings later this month.
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