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Ray benched for violations
Michigan football coach Lloyd Carr announced yesterday that senior strong safety and tri-captain Marcus Ray is suspended indefinitely from the football team. The announcement was made at a press conference at Schembechler Hall.
"This action has been taken based on information received from the NCAA this past Tuesday," Carr said. "The suspension has come due to the allegations supplied by the NCAA concerning improper contact with a sports agent."
Drugs, alcohol involved in death
Preliminary reports released by the Ann Arbor Police Department indicate both drugs and alcohol were factors in the Tuesday death of LSA sophomore Chris Giacherio, said his father, Don Giacherio, yesterday.
Formal autopsy results and a toxicology report are expected to be published today, AAPD officials said.
Smietenka highlights College GOP meeting
Former University Regent Dean Baker was overwhelmed last night.
Sitting in front of the Pendleton Room in the Michigan Union at the College Republicans mass meeting, Baker said he was surprised with the turnout of more than 100 people.
Release of Clinton videotape delayed
WASHINGTON - The House Judiciary Committee bogged down in a fierce partisan battle yesterday over how much secret and sexually explicit evidence from the Monica Lewinsky investigation to make public, forcing the panel to put off plans to release the videotape of President Clinton's grand jury testimony for at least another day.
'U', IBM set to sign new contract
The University and IBM are about to start what could be a beautiful friendship - even in the face of a looming computer crisis in the year 2000.
The budding relationship between the University, a major research institution, and IBM, a major corporation, is the first partnership of its kind for both.
19 massacred near California resort
EL SAUZAL, Mexico (AP) - Gunmen apparently sent by a drug lord yanked three families from their beds before dawn yesterday, lined them up against a wall and killed at least 19 men, women and children near a popular Baja California resort.
West Bank killing raises questions
BEITUNIA, West Bank (AP) - Tensions between Israel and the Palestinians soared yesterday with a Palestinian teen-ager's shooting death, apparently by Israelis who opened fire from a car on high school students heading home from class.
Around the Nation: Jewish leaders mull division of funds
NEW YORK - In thousands of synagogues around the world, Yom Kippur, the Jewish day of atonement, will be marked this month with solemnity and prayer as it has for centuries.
At the same time, rabbis from Brooklyn to Brisbane will be asked to depart from tradition by reading a letter during the services that is in part a celebration and a plea for patience.
Around the World: Taliban said to have committed massacre
PESHAWAR, Pakistan - Refugees fleeing an Afghan city recently conquered by the Taliban say troops with the ultra-orthodox religious army slaughtered thousands of civilians when they took the town last month.
The refugees, who are arriving here each day on foot from the northern Afghan city of Mazar-e-Sharif, say Taliban fighters focused exclusively on an ethnic minority known as the Hazaras, picking them for their distinctive Mongolian features.
Bollinger to continue fund-raising push
A year and $1.5 billion after the five-year Campaign for Michigan fundraising effort officially ended, the University is setting its sights on individual donors for a bright financial future.
The push toward more individualized sponsorship arose from the realization that these donors "simply have much more financial potential" than corporations, said Vice President for Development Susan Fagan.
Regents agree to change administrative structure: Board approves 'U' relations posts
The University Board of Regents confidently decided yesterday to increase the number of chairs placed at the regents' table - both literally and figuratively.
Seated around an already full table in the Regents' Room of the Fleming Administration Building, the board unanimously supported University President Lee Bollinger's plan to divide one major administrative position into three, increasing the number of University vice presidents from eight to 10.
Women's studies celebrates 25 years
Students, professors and community members filled the East Conference Room of the Rackham Graduate school yesterday to hear anthropologist and activist Gayle Rubin talk about her experience in Ann Arbor during the late '60s.
In honor of the 25th Anniversary of the Women's Studies Department, Rubin - an activist, scholar, founder and first graduate of the Women's Studies program - gave a speech titled, "Revisioning Ann Arbor's radical past."
Teens may face deportation for incest, even if charges are reduced
MOUNT CLEMENS, Mich. (AP) - The Macomb County prosecutor says he will proceed with the criminal case against a 17-year-old accused of impregnating his 12-year-old sister, even though it may result in the boy's deportation.
Carl Marlinga said the plea bargain he worked out this week isn't guaranteed to prevent immigration officials from deporting the teen to his native India, however.
The Calendar: What's happening in Ann Arbor today
New cognitive science program introduced
Students involved in the Cognition and Perception Graduate program will soon be learning to read minds - literally.
"It's a program that focuses on the relationship between cognitive processes like short-term memory and selective intention and the brain," said psychology Prof. Ed Smith, co-director of Cognitive Science Cognitive Neuroscience (CSCN) program, a curriculum within the cognition and perception program.
Flushing students may attend religion classes
FLUSHING, Mich. (AP) - Children in this Genesee County school district soon may be attending monthly religion classes during the school day, if their parents allow it.
Parents of elementary and middle school students are being asked to let their children attend the classes at a local church.
State senator: Pols should report all contributions
LANSING, (AP) - Public officials should be penalized for flouting state campaign finance laws, a state senator said yesterday as he unveiled a proposal to toughen finance reporting laws.
Albright to meet Iranians
WASHINGTON (AP) - Secretary of State Madeleine Albright plans to meet next week with Iran's foreign minister, the highest-level U.S. contact with Iran since the 1979 takeover of the American Embassy in Tehran.
Oil firm to exceed greenhouse standards
The chairperson of British Petroleum will pledge today to reduce the global oil company's "greenhouse gas" emissions by 10 percent below 1990 levels - a commitment that far exceeds goals set for the United States and other industrial nations last year in a controversial treaty in Kyoto, Japan.
Russia ready to discuss debts
MOSCOW - A top official in Russia's new government said yesterday the country will reverse its decision to freeze foreign debt payments and is ready to negotiate a new payment plan with foreign lenders.
MIT fraternity indicted in drinking death
BOSTON (AP) - Prosecutors took the extraordinary step yesterday of charging an MIT fraternity - the organization, not its members - with manslaughter in the case of a student who drank himself to death at a party a year ago.
Race panel finds 'white privilege'
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Clinton is receiving a report from his commission on race today urging him to help educate Americans on "white privilege" and how it disenfranchises every group that came here without it.
House panel passes Internet decency bill
WASHINGTON (AP) - Renewing efforts to curb Internet pornography, a House panel cleared a bill yesterday that would require operators of commercial Websites to restrict young people's access to "harmful" material.
Friday Focus: Balancing Act
"It takes a lot of dedication," Erbeck says. "You think, 'I could sleep if I didn't do this sport.' But once you get to practice, all you think about is rowing. I've always wanted to do it - to a reach a goal."
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