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Brooks sanctioned under Code
Jason Brooks, an offensive lineman on the Michigan football team and a Kinesiology sophomore, has been disciplined under the University's Code of Student Conduct for sexually assaulting a female University student, the victim told The Michigan Daily.
Politicians support ballot initiatives
Debbie Fusilier's 7-year-old son looked up as Detroit Mayor Dennis Archer climbed into a tractor outside Ann Arbor's Farmer's Market yesterday, while she wondered if her son would ever get the chance to own a tractor of his own.
At a press conference yesterday afternoon, Archer joined forces with farmers and local politicians to voice his support for two ballot initiatives designed to preserve Michigan's agriculture and revitalize Michigan's 12 core cities.
UT minority admissions increase
Following a dramatic drop in the number of minority students at the University of Texas at Austin, new admission policies have spurred a slight increase in diversity at the school this year.
After the state of Texas was forced to abandon the use of race in its admission's practices following the Hopwood v. The University of Texas decision in 1996, the University of Texas System campuses experienced a large drop in minority applicants.<
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ICMC98: Music conference kicks off
The 24th annual International Computer Music Conference 1998 began a six-day event series in Ann Arbor yesterday,
and the University's flock of electronically generated music listeners - and those merely curious - will have an opportunity
to be a part of the largest gathering of this type in the world.
'U' forms binge drinking task force
Heavy weekend partying may be a way of life for some in college, but University administrators are trying to decrease the number of first-year students who drink in the residence halls.
To help reduce the occurrence of underage drinking on campus, Vice President for Student Affairs Maureen Hartford has commissioned a binge drinking task force specifically targeting these first-year students who use alcohol in their residence hall rooms.<
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Greenspan defended the Fed's role in brokering a rescue of Long Term
Capital Management
WASHINGTON - Federal Reserve ChairAlan Greenspan defended the Fed's role in brokering a rescue of Long Term Capital Management LP last month, saying yesterday that failure of the huge investment fund could have severely disrupted world markets and damaged
"the economies of many nations, including our own.
California law strikes at paparazzi
LOS ANGELES - California has passed a law that tries to put a lens cap on paparazzi and their raw, high-priced and widely circulated photos of celebrities in private moments.
Next year, it will be illegal to take the now infamous pictures of Brad Pitt in the buff on a private beach or to shoot Madonna's 1985 wedding to Sean Penn from one of the army of helicopters that swirled above her Malibu mansion.
Substance may help to combat viruses, bacteria
If a University professor's findings released last Saturday live up to expectations, the medical community could gain a potent weapon in the fight against common bacteria and viruses including anthrax, influenza and HIV.
The weapon is a substance called BCTP. Co-developed by internal medicine Prof. James Baker and Novavax Inc., a Maryland-based bio-pharmaceutical company, BCTP has been shown to destroy the viruses and bacteria without harming human cells.
Ozone standards to affect W. Michigan
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (AP) - High ozone counts in three west Michigan counties this summer could eventually translate into strict pollution controls for the area.
Four of the five air monitors placed in Holland, Grand Rapids and the Muskegon areas detected ozone levels above federal pollution standards set last year, The Grand Rapids Press reported yesterday.
Local high school athletes angered over punishment
CHELSEA, Mich. (AP) - Eight teens appear to be out of fall sports at Chelsea High School because of their involvement in a break-in at a club in June.
But the parents say the punishment was too harsh, and the school's standards should not apply when the students are not in school.
Korean tycoon talks on economy: Kim Woo-Choong works to launch new automobile line
Kim Woo-Choong, founder and chair of South Korea's Daewoo Group, spoke about Asian economic policy and the debut of Daewoo's new automobile product line in the United States in front of a full-capacity crowd in the School of Business Administration's Hale
Auditorium last night.
Notes: Vehicles strike pedestrians
In two separate incidents Wednesday, pedestrians were struck by vehicles and injured, according to Department of Public Safety reports.
A hit-and-run driver crushed the foot of a pedestrian Wednesday morning on East University Avenue. The vehicle's license plates were registered to a Dexter resident. The incident is under investigation by DPS officials.
Calendar
The Calendar: What's happening in Ann Arbor today
DeLay: President should resign
WASHINGTON - Never mind that most Republican lawmakers say they are withholding judgment. House Majority Whip Tom DeLay already has made up his mind: President Clinton should resign immediately.
From his ground-floor office suite in the Capitol - scene of July's shootout between an intruder and police officers - the pugnacious Texan for weeks has been quietly preparing for what he hopes will be a high-stakes endgame to the Monica Lewinsky scandal
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Dems plan to cut Clinton losses
WASHINGTON - Feeling steamrolled, House Democrats revealed plans yesterday designed to cut their losses on an impeachment inquiry of President Clinton by imposing a deadline on the review and restricting its focus to Clinton's involvement with former Whi
te House intern Monica Lewinsky.
Travel through History
In need of an obscure crime novel from the 1700s? Trying to find a rare photograph from the days of the wild west to add a finishing touch to your research project?
U.S., North Korea resume talks
WASHINGTON - U.S. and North Korean negotiators met in New York yesterday for the first time in 16 months, resuming high-stakes talks that a jittery West hopes will rein in the hermit nation's growing missile development and export programs.
White House discusses airstrikes
President Clinton's chief foreign policy advisers went to Capitol Hill yesterday to lay out the administration's case for airstrikes against Yugoslavia for its military campaign in Kosovo province and came away with strong although not unanimous support
from the Senate, according to lawmakers.
Arguments begin in Mike Espy trial
WASHINGTON -Former agriculture secretary Mike Espy knew he wasn't supposed to accept plane rides, sporting tickets and other gifts from lobbyists, independent counsel Donald Smaltz said in opening arguments yesterday at Espy's trial. And yet he did so rep
eatedly, Smaltz charged, disdaining ethics laws as "a bunch of junk.
FDA approves new pill for gum disease
WASHINGTON (AP) -Millions of Americans with advanced gum disease are about to get the first pill to fight the leading cause of tooth loss.
The government's approval of Periostat won't end the scraping away of hardened plaque that patients now endure, but the pill did significantly improve their gums in tests -and might make dental visits less painful.
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