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Hockey student ticket sales plummet
Students trying to cram into the Big House for Michigan-Michigan State the game this weekend may find more open seats if they wait until the two rivals suit up for hockey at Yost Ice Arena.
Athletic ticket office officials said yesterday this year's numbers reveal a significant drop in student season ticket purchases - down from 2,276 last year to about 1,500 this fall - despite the icers' 1998 National Championship title.
Slow season brings down ticket prices
Michigan football may have a losing record this season, but tickets for Saturday's Michigan-Michigan State game are still commanding prices as high as $300 dollars.
Ticket prices have dropped since last year, when some fans paid $900 per ticket to sit at the 50 yard line in Spartan Stadium for an afternoon.
Georges kills more than 110
SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic (AP) - Hurricane Georges killed 70 people in the Dominican Republic and left hundreds missing before sweeping over Cuba on yesterday and threatening the Florida Keys. In all, more than 110 people were killed in the storm's three-day rampage through the Caribbean.
Clinton's battle continues: Republicans resist pressure to end probe
pressure to end probe
WASHINGTON - Unbowed by public opinion mounting against them, House Republican leaders rejected yesterday any kind of a deal that would preclude full consideration of impeachment of President Clinton and said a compromise for a lighter punishment would be unjustified.
Speaker looks at Clinton scandal
As President Clinton's legal and political crises continue to be the focus of news programs and publications nationwide, questions about media coverage and independent counsel Kenneth Starr's motives have started to arise.
At a public meeting held by the University's Students for Social Equality last night at the Michigan League, Martin McLaughlin, a staff writer for the World Socialist Website, posed questions and answers to a group of about 15 spectators.
Mandela receives medal of honor
WASHINGTON (AP) - To cheers and standing ovations from America's leaders, retiring South African President Nelson Mandela received the Congressional Gold Medal on yesterday, becoming the first African awarded the honor.
"No medal, no award, no fortune, nothing we could give him could possibly compare to the gifts he has given to us and to the world," President Clinton said before presenting the round gold medal nestled in a green velvet case.
Around the Nation: Senate passes bankruptcy overhaul
WASHINGTON - The Senate overwhelmingly passed legislation yesterday to overhaul bankruptcy laws and make it harder for people to sweep away their debts.
The House had already passed an even more stringent measure, pushed by credit card companies and alarm over the rising number of personal bankruptcies.
Around the World: Pakistan says it will adhere to treaty
UNITED NATIONS - Pakistan's prime minister said yesterday his country would unilaterally adhere to the nuclear test ban treaty, but warned that compliance would depend on whether rival India resumed its tests.
Nawaz Sharif said Pakistan was ready to adhere to the pact if economic sanctions imposed after it conducted nuclear tests in May were lifted.
'U' program helps students eat healthy
While new students must change their eating habits to adjust to residence hall food, most say they are doing their best to maintain healthy diets, and a new University program has been established to help them out.
"I think they do a decent job considering the number of people they serve," said LSA junior Kevin Cox, who works at the University's dining hall services.
Gore touts HMO reform bill in visit to Dearborn
DEARBORN, Mich. (AP) - Vice President Al Gore spent an hour as an ersatz talk-show host yesterday, running a forum that could have been titled "HMO Horror Stories."
Gore's visit was meant to promote what Democrats had hoped would be one of their major themes in fall elections: a plan for a patient's "bill of rights." In the forum at the University of Michigan-Dearborn, Gore listened as doctors, nurses, managed-care patients and their relatives related troubles with insurers.
LGBT office gets new head, office
With a new office and a new director, the Office of Lesbian Gay Bisexual and Transgender Affairs is working to make the campus a more comfortable environment for everyone.
Now located next to the elevator on the third floor of the Michigan Union, and staffed with many new faces, the office is serving a larger group of students this semester.
The Calendar: What's happening in Ann Arbor today
Fieger, Engler address workers
LANSING (AP) - About 8,000 building trades workers gathered at the Capitol yesterday to cheer for Democratic gubernatorial candidate Geoffrey Fieger and criticize Gov. John Engler's record on worker safety.
Senate Democratic Leader John Cherry of Clio said the number of workers killed on the job is rising as the number of state workplace inspections falls.
Assisted suicide, managed care odd couple
DETROIT (AP) - Doctor-assisted suicide and managed health care are a deadly mix, giving doctors financial incentives to steer seriously ill patients toward an early grave, a medical group leader said yesterday.
Dr. David Stevens, leader of a nationwide evangelical Christian medical group, took the fight against Michigan's assisted suicide ballot proposal to medical students at Wayne State University.
Clinton: increase Pentagon funds
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Clinton asked Congress to give the Pentagon an extra $1 billion next year to cover spare parts shortages and other readiness problems and to bolster long-term budgets to update weapons and keep top-quality personnel.
S. African peace efforts look more like war
MASERU, Lesotho (AP) - Their peacekeeping operation in shambles, South African military leaders gave their troops shoot-to-kill orders yesterday to suppress mutineers in Lesotho, where looters and arsonists rampaged through the capital.
Perjury is usually hard to prove
WASHINGTON - Last year, federal prosecutors launched nearly 50,000 criminal cases. Eighty-seven of them were perjury cases.
Lying, and what the law should do about it, are among the core issues in the case against President Clinton. Perjury allegations are central to five of the 11 grounds for impeachment in Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr's report to Congress.
Clinton case leaks misled journalists
WASHINGTON - It began, like many Washington scandals, with a leak.
It's fitting, perhaps, that the original leak of Starr's probe of the Lewinsky affair was itself leaked - to Internet gossip Matt Drudge. The sources of these leaks are usually partisans, and some reporters were red-faced Monday for having bought the line that Clinton blew his top during his grand jury testimony.
Two new planets found outside of solar system
Astronomers aided by a precocious young amateur have found two new planets orbiting Sun-like stars, including one with the most Earth-like orbit of any of the worlds detected outside the solar system so far.
The discovery brings the total number of confirmed extra-solar planets to an even dozen. But, until now, all the planets were in orbits much closer to, or much farther from, their stars than is Earth, whose distance from the Sun's warmth is within the so-called life zone where conditions are neither too hot nor too cold for life to evolve.
Employers craft new rules for workplace romance
After discovering last spring that two of his executives were involved in an adulterous sexual relationship, the owner of a Los Angeles manufacturing company acted swiftly.
But he didn't take the time-honored tack of transferring, rebuking or firing one or both of the lovers. Instead, he asked them to sign a two-page contract - an "informed consent" agreement intended to crimp their ability to sue the company if the relationship ever turns ugly.
Schools curb violence with various methods
Eager to prevent their schools from being the next target of violence, educators across the country are taking extraordinary steps to root out potentially dangerous students long before they reach for a gun.
A Pennsylvania school district even sends children who just threaten violence through the same detention system they would face if they commit a burglary or rape. Georgia has set up an anonymous toll-free hot line to receive tips about possible violence.
Germany shows angst over changing society
MUNICH, Germany (AP) - He's only 14 years old, a burly kid with a violent streak. Yet, he has come to symbolize one of the prickliest campaign issues in this year's German elections: foreigners and what to do with them.
The Turkish teen-ager, who has a long history of fights, vandalism and petty thefts, was turned into a poster child for conservatives pushing for a crackdown on criminal foreigners.
Russian middle class has tough job hunt
MOSCOW (AP) - Primly dressed Russians waited in a line hundreds long, shuffling forward, somber and unsure of what they would find at the end.
All they found were other frustrated job seekers shoving and elbowing each other toward small booths, asking desperate questions - "How much are you paying accountants?" - and getting painful answers.
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