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'U' group aims to get out the vote: Voice Your Vote registers students on campus
Amid the growing pressures of homework, papers and midterms, it would be easy for students to forget to register to vote in November's election, especially because it does not feature a highly publicized presidential race.
But one campus group is determined to get students registered and out to the polls.
Not all 'U' Greeks rush in the fall
While several fraternities and sororities at the University have spent this past week meeting new faces and learning new names, not all Greek organizations are using this time to select members.
Although many of the culturally based fraternities and sororities on campus have held meetings to introduce prospective members to the goals of their group, they will not accept members until next term.
House panel prepares draft resolution for Clinton probe
Los Angeles Times - The Republican-led House Judiciary Committee prepared a draft resolution yesterday to formally open an impeachment inquiry of President Clinton that follows the so-called Watergate model by giving the White House a crucial role in presenting testimony and evidence at any impeachment hearings.
Under-age college drinkers targeted
WASHINGTON - Congress has approved legislation that would allow colleges to notify parents when students younger than 21 commit an alcohol or drug violation, a measure sparked by a string of five alcohol-related deaths on Virginia campuses last fall.
Racial incident shocks students
In an incident similar to the racial hate crimes of the 1950s and '60s, the residence hall room of a black first-year student at Kalamazoo College was destroyed by fire Monday morning.
School officials suspect arson was the cause of the fire, and that the motivation stems back to an incident that occurred during summer orientation.
Globaleconomic growth slowing
WASHINGTON (AP) - Worldwide economic turmoil has cost millions of jobs and more than $600 billion in output - the equivalent of a country the size of Canada shutting down for a year, the International Monetary Fund said yesterday. The agency also warned that global recession can't be ruled out, especially if the U.
Clinton reports a $70 billion budget surplus
WASHINGTON - President Clinton ushered America into a deficit-free fiscal year for the first time in 29 years yesterday, announcing that the "spell that had gripped America and led to the quadrupling of the debt" had been broken by a $70 billion surplus.
GOP lobbies for border-check law
WASHINGTON - Republican lawmakers are lobbying the House leadership to repeal a controversial law requiring all foreigners to be checked at Canadian and Mexican border crossings.
The law goes into effect today, and northern lawmakers fear traffic jams and lost trade at the Canadian border if it is not repealed soon. Sixteen Republican lawmakers sent a letter Tuesday to House Speaker Newt Gingrich, urging him to repeal the law to prevent "unacceptable disruptions and delays that would effectively shut the border and severely harm trade and tourism.
Med Prof retires after 35 years
Hematology Prof. Roland Hiss, a Medical School faculty member since 1966, has announced his retirement, after teaching a hematology course for 35 years.
Hiss plans to remain in his other positions: chair of Postgraduate Medicine and Health Professions Education, and organizer of continuing medical education courses.
Pi Psi sponsors black panel
Pi Psi Fraternity, Inc. brought together a panel of influential black males last night to discuss their personal life experiences and accomplishments.
LSA junior Jeffrey McKinnon, a member of Pi Psi, said the event, titled "Upward Mobility: Stabilization of the Race," was an attempt to educate students about the difficulties involved with becoming successful in society.
'U' welcomes new Kinesiology director
Psychology Prof. John Hagen, who headed up the search for a director of the Division of Kinesiology, says he couldn't be happier with the fruits of his labor.
His committee's decision to recommend Beverly Ulrich for the position was the first step toward inviting an internationally-recognized professor to head up the University's Kinesiology faculty.
Antiquated Michigan laws still in effect
PORT HURON, Mich. (AP) -Seducing a single woman could land a man in prison for five years. If, that is, an old felony statute still on Michigan books were ever enforced.
Antiquated laws technically in effect include a statute making adultery a felony, and making blasphemy or swearing in front of women and children a misdemeanor.
'U' among often-cited research universities
In the current issue of Science Watch, University researchers received high grades for works they published between 1993 and 1997. In nine out of 21 fields of study, academic papers by University faculty ranked in the top 10 list of the works cited most often.
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MSU, 'U' Greeks fight alcohol abuse: Greeks educate community about dangers of alcohol
From staff and wire reports
Michigan State University's fraternities and sororities have received a federal grant to combat high-risk drinking behaviors and consequences.
Two defendants plead guilty; third to deal
DETROIT (AP) - A sex scandal involving a high-school class president in a wealthy Detroit suburb moved closer to ending yesterday.
Two of four former Grosse Pointe North High School students accused of having sex with underage girls pleaded guilty to lesser charges yesterday. A third agreed to a similar deal. The fourth defendant had entered a plea earlier this month.
Hondas and Toyotas most stolen cars
DETROIT (AP) - Honda and Toyota were the most popular makes among thieves nationwide last year, but some domestic light trucks made gains on the latest list of most-stolen vehicles.
The National Insurance Crime Bureau, in a list to be released today, says the Honda Accord, Toyota Camry, Oldsmobile Cutlass, Honda Civic and Ford Mustang were the most stolen vehicles in 1997.
Report: Not enough veggies
ATLANTA (AP) - A study says Americans are eating almost 20 percent more vegetables than they did a quarter-century ago, but many of the veggies aren't green or leafy - they're deep-fried.
Twenty-five percent of the vegetables consumed by Americans are french fries, according to Susan Krebs-Smith, author of a study in today's edition of the journal Cancer.
Kosovo death toll increases in
GOLUBOVAC, Yugoslavia (AP) - International pressure grew yesterday to stop the war in Kosovo following the grisly discovery of bodies from one massacre and claims that 13 people were slain in another killing frenzy.
Accusing security forces of trying to wipe out ethnic Albanians in the Yugoslav province of Kosovo, Britain called an emergency meeting of the U.N. Security Council to condemn the killings.
Soul of Maryland liberal arts college is challenged
The Baltimore Sun
ANNAPOLIS, Md. - At St. John's College, education is an act of faith. Faith in the desire to learn and in the Great Books used to gain such wisdom. Faith in the ability to accomplish this task on your own. And faith in a system that puts its faith in students to do so.
NEW DELHI, India (AP) - Sri Lanka's military claimed a major battlefield prize yesterday, but reports of the staggering cost of the victory - as many as 1,300 soldiers and Tamil rebels dead - underlined how difficult it will be for either side to win the 15-year war.
Research uncovers wormhistory
A close new look into Earth's deep past shows that for a very, very long time, life on this planet may have been distinctly wormy.
The discovery of worm tracks on ancient sediments in India suggests that small worms, perhaps the first complex life forms, began burrowing through mud on Earth 1.1 billion years ago.
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