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Rose rivalry: Disappointment from '73 lingers

Michigan's football team could be off to one of several different bowl games depending on the outcome of Saturday's game vs. Ohio State and a few other match-ups across the country. The intricate bowl system might be confusing, but it provides greater opportunity for post-season play than 25 years ago.

'U' refuses GSI pay increase

Following a wage proposal by the Graduate Employees Organization, the University submitted a counterproposal on income in graduate employee contract negotiations yesterday. Both sides described the proposal as "no change" from the current contract language, which guarantees a salary raise "floor" and ties any additional percentage rate wage increases to faculty income.

Issues vague in MSA elections

Despite the fliers full of campaign promises smothering the walls of Angell Hall and candidates passing out pamphlets explaining their platforms, no one issue has emerged as the topic of debates during the Michigan Student Assembly elections.

FBI to help find murder suspect

The Ann Arbor Police Department will ask the Federal Bureau of Investigation to aid in its search for Milton Marin Castillo, who they suspect killed two brothers in Castillo's Ann Arbor apartment Sunday morning. Castillo has been charged by the Washtenaw County Prosecutor's Office with a four-count felony warrant for the deaths of brothers Luis and Roberto Rueda, according to Ann Arbor News reports.

Study: college smoking on rise

Smoking is one habit college students are not kicking, according to a new study published in today's issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association. Two surveys, conducted by the Harvard School of Public Health in 1993 and 1997, found that cigarette smoking among college students across the nation increased by 28 percent within that time.

Gerald Ford to speak on campus

In 1920, the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was ratified, giving women the right to vote. While this was the culmination of the first massive women's rights movement, suffrage was only the first step in the continuing fight for women's rights in American politics.

UN inspectors to resume work today

BAGHDAD, Iraq - Newly returned U.N. weapons inspectors plan to resume work this morning in Iraq, beginning with routine checks of the monitoring gear they left behind when they departed for Bahrain a week ago and building towards more sensitive inspections that could test Iraqi cooperation, officials said yesterday.

Fed moves to stop economic slowdown

WASHINGTON - The Federal Reserve moved to protect the economy yesterday by cutting interest rates for the third time in seven weeks but signaled to Wall Street not to expect any more reductions soon. After meeting privately, Federal Reserve Chair Alan Greenspan and his colleagues announced they had cut two benchmark interest rates, each by a quarter percentage point. The rate charged among banks on overnight loans fell to 4.75 percent and the rate on the Fed's own loans fell to 4.

Regents to deliberate next years' budget

Laying out its priorities for the next budget cycle, the University projects it will need a state appropriation increase of $22.2 million. At this month's University Board of Regents meeting, tomorrow at 1:30 p.m. and Friday at 9:30 a.m. in the Fleming Administration Building, the regents are scheduled to discuss how much money the University will need from the state for the 2000 fiscal year.

MSA supports student regent, funds employment initiative

The Michigan Student Assembly passed separate resolutions last night renewing the Student Regent Task Force and supporting the National Student Partnership. The National Student Partnership is an organization designed to lower unemployment by creating partnerships between area businesses and unemployed workers. MSA approved to allocate $4,000 through the Community Service Board fund to support NSP activities.

Protest challenges consequences of sanctions in Iraq

As the world looked to United Nations inspectors' return to Iraq to investigate chemical weapons sites yesterday, a crowd of about 40 University students and community members brought the issue to the steps of the Harlan Hatcher Graduate Library.

HigherEducation Notes: Columbia limits conference attendance

Administrators at Columbia University on Friday night decided to limit entrance to a two-day conservative conference on campus after a protest by more than 250 students, The Daily Spectator, reported. The students protested opening lecturer and University of California Regent Ward Connerly and other conference participants with jeers and posters outside the conference site.