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Students hit polls for elections
The first day of voting in the fall Michigan Student Assembly elections produced an online voter turnout of 990 students.
"I think it's decent so far. I'm expecting more tomorrow, but not much more," said MSA election director Alex Hovan. Final election results should be counted by Sunday afternoon, he added.
Looking back on 60 years
waitress Melissa Matich and floor manager Mike Wing stand near the restaurant. Bottom: Sam Sword holds the Little Brown Jug after this year's victory over Minnesota. Left: Patrons dine at the Jug.
Students planning trips to OSU
What are you doing this weekend?
As Saturday nears and the excitement builds, students are packing their lucky hats, scraping up money for tickets and heading south to witness an age-old rivalry: Michigan vs. Ohio State.
GOP to vote on more subpoenas
WASHINGTON (AP) - As House impeachment investigators awaited prosecutor Kenneth Starr's testimony, Republicans moved to expand the inquiry by summoning President Clinton's private lawyer and closest confidant and showing a belated new interest in campaign fund-raising.
Wage concerns rile GEO members
As a graduate employee contract bargaining session began last night, more than 60 Graduate Employee Organization members greeted University negotiators, who offered their first proposals of the negotiations.
Fueled by frustration and disappointment after receiving the University's counterproposal offering no change in wages, the GEO members sat in support of their negotiating team.
Suspect's car found out of state
Murder suspect Milton Castillo continued to evade authorities yesterday, but Maryland police found the car investigators believe Castillo used to flee Ann Arbor.Police in Prince George's County, Md., have picked up the blue Ford Probe the Ann Arbor Police Department believes Castillo was last driving. Castillo's whereabouts are still unknown, although this discovery confirms that he is no longer in Michigan.
GOP elects house party leaders
WASHINGTON (AP) - Rep. Bob Livingston collected unanimous Republican backing yesterday to become House speaker and quickly pledged action in the new Congress to cut taxes and preserve Social Security. J.C. Watts, the only black among 223 GOP lawmakers, won a leadership post, too.
Around the Nation
WASHINGTON -Doctors still don't know the best way to treat or even diagnose attention deficit disorder in children - even though more than a million children now take powerful drugs to control their hyperactive behavior, according to the National Institutes of Health.
Colleges making laptops mandantory
By the year 2000, the computer screen may replace the notebook.
Colleges and universities are drafting and passing proposals to require students to own laptop computers, making technology an even more integral part of student life.
Survey: Public considers college costs expensive
LANSING (AP) - The dream of a college education is more attainable than most Michigan residents think, a statewide poll released yesterday indicated.
The poll, commissioned by Ferris State University, found that 79 percent of respondents believed that Michigan colleges are not affordable, university President William Sederburg said.
Jury convicts Militia member
KALAMAZOO (AP) - A federal jury yesterday convicted a militia member accused of threatening to kill federal officials and plotting to blow up federal buildings.
Speaker addresses '1-night problems'
Mike Green, an alcohol awareness educator, tackled a grim issue with humor last night at Rackham Auditorium.
Students donate clothes to hurricane victims
A truckload of clothes donated by University community members will soon reach Honduran survivors of Hurricane Mitch, which devastated much of Central America earlier this month.
Plan would spark competition
LANSING (AP) - A compromise plan to open Michigan's electric market to competition apparently has more spark than a package of bills that fizzled last year.
Starr: Clinton thwarted probe
WASHINGTON (AP) - Making his case at the start of impeachment hearings, Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr says President Clinton "repeatedly used the machinery of government and the powers of his office" to thwart prosecutors' grand jury investigation and the Paula Jones lawsuit.
Trade summit ends without dramatic action on Asia crisis
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) - Pacific Rim nations yesterday failed to take any dramatic action to halt Asia's worst economic crisis in decades, approving only limited measures at a summit beset by diplomatic squabbling.
Two Bush brothers enjoy stealing the show
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - The brothers Bush, George W. and Jeb, plopped into their seats and stared with wry smiles into a bank of television cameras. "Will the real governor Bush please stand up?" somebody cracked.
Democrats seek to strengthen ties to entrepeneurs
WASHINGTON-Battling for the political allegiance of the burgeoning high-tech industry, an alliance of entrepreneurs and Democratic office-holders yesterday launched an effort to design an agenda for accelerating America's transformation into an information-based "new economy."
11-19-98
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