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Answering to alcohol: Education or legal enforcement?
Spare the rod, spoil the child.
In light of the recent crackdown on underage drinking by the Ann Arbor Police Department, the University community is wondering whether enforcement or education is the better way to stop irresponsible and underage drinking on campus.
ECB halts use of portfolios for placement
The English Composition Board has decided to discontinue requiring incoming LSA students to submit a writing portfolio.
The decision, which will affect incoming transfer students next term, was reached during the summer, but had not been publicly announced for fear of discouraging incoming students from submitting portfolios.
Phi Delt's charter suspended again:
The national governing body of Phi Delta Theta has again suspended the charter of the fraternity's campus chapter.
The University chapter first lost its charter following the death of LSA first-year student Courtney Cantor, who died after falling from her sixth-floor residence hall window Oct. 16. Cantor had attended a party at Phi Delta Theta the night before, where she was seen drinking.
Nationals pulls fraternity's charter after investigation
A hit parade: Detroit parade kicks off holidays
DETROIT - Christmas music cut through the air like a cold November breeze. And if not for that breeze, no one would have known it was November.
A sunny spotlight ushered Santa in among nearly 1 million smiling faces and more than 1,500 cans of silly string in the 72nd annual America's Thanksgiving Day Parade in Detroit.
Engineering team designs race car
Resumes do not come much better than this: "Member of a team that designed, built and raced a car capable of accelerating from zero to 60 in 4.7 seconds."
For some University students, this is no idle dreaming. It describes a year-long project taking place in the North Campus' Autolab. About 45 students, many in Engineering, have joined as a team to design and build a race car for a national competition to be held May 19-23 at the Pontiac Silverdome.
Around the Nation
WASHINGTON - Hospitals can't delay or deny emergency room care just because a patient's health insurance plan requires permission before treatment, government regulators are ready to announce this week.
A 1986 law bars hospital emergency rooms from refusing to examine and stabilize patients who can't pay. Now, federal officials will use the "patient dumping" prohibition to ensure immediate care whether or not insurance pays.
Students continue storm relief efforts
A truckload of donated clothing that left Ann Arbor this past Tuesday will soon reach Honduran survivors of Hurricane Mitch, which devastated much of Central America earlier this month.
More than 3,000 cubic feet of clothing were collected in the weeks before Thanksgiving. The donated items filled one trailer and one-sixth of a second one, said Public Health graduate student Cyrus Boquin, a member of La Salud, a Latino/a public health organization.
Students prep for AIDS day
In recognition of World AIDS Day, scheduled for tomorrow, student groups in cooperation with University Health Services will use entertainment to educate students about the deadly virus.
"Here on campus ... (AIDS and HIV) seems really far away," LSA sophomore Sabrina Charles said.
Legislators to push bills in final days
LANSING (AP) - It's show 'em or fold 'em time in the Capitol for unfinished business before state lawmakers. That includes such delicate issues as electric deregulation, Indian-run casinos and revenue sharing.
The Michigan Legislature enters the stretch run this week as it prepares to wrap up its two-year session in two weeks. And as usual, some of the most divisive issues have been left for the "lame duck" final days, in hopes the cooler, post-election atmosphere will help members reach agreement where none existed before.
Campus Notes: 'U' chosen to teach nuclear engineering
The nuclear engineering and radiological sciences department has been chosen by the China National Nuclear Corporation to teach nuclear reactor engineering and safety education courses to students from the People's Republic of China.
Storm season of '98 called devastating
MIAMI (AP) - This year's Atlantic hurricane season won't soon be forgotten, an onslaught of storms that let a staggering trail of death and destruction across Central American and the Caribbean.
Six of the named storms - including the season's monsters Georges and Mitch - affected the continental United States and caused millions in damage.
Teen smoking increases despite education efforts
The Baltimore Sun
Over the next five years, hundreds of millions of tobacco-settlement dollars will be poured into campaigns to keep teen-agers from smoking. Public health officials better hope the new, better-financed campaigns are more effective than those of the last five years.
Hondurans call for widow to be mayor
TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AP) - As she watched workers pull a body from the trash-clogged Choluteca River in the heart of this devastated capital, tears welled up in Vilma de Castellanos' eyes.
"I just ask God to make me strong," she said. "That's what my husband would want."
11-30-98
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