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Houses work to attract members: Sorority rush underway
Traveling from house to house on Hill Street and Washtenaw Avenue, hundreds of women participated in the first rounds of Panhellenic sorority rush this weekend.
Rush is the period during which the 17 Panhellenic Association sororities and 844 potential Greek women on campus select each other. Panhel's rush does not include all of the campus' sororities, such as minority or academic sororities.
Following a tradition that goes back more than 150 years, many of the University's male students will participate in this year's fraternity rush. Beginning Oct. 4, men who are rushing the Interfraternity Council's 33 houses will attend individual houses that are open to anyone interested in joining a fraternity. In a process unlike the highly structured sorority rush, fraternity rushees are not required to visit every house on campus.
Left gains power in German elections
BERLIN - In an election that will transform the leadership of Europe's most pivotal nation, Social Democratic challenger Gerhard Schroeder ousted Chancellor Helmut Kohl and brought the left back to power in Germany for the first time in 16 years.
A2 participates in nationwide cancer campaign
A national campaign brought cancer to the forefront this weekend in Ann Arbor and around the nation.
Highlighted by a march on the Capitol in Washington, D.C., the weekend's activities, part of the "Coming together to Conquer Cancer" campaign, were held "to bring cancer awareness to a higher level," said Maxine Solvay, promotion coordinator for the University's comprehensive cancer center.
House passes $80B tax-cut measures
WASHINGTON - An $80 billion Republican tax cut calculated to appeal to millions of middle-class Americans has passed in the House.
President Clinton renewed his threat to veto the election-year bill because it would spend part of the $1.6 trillion budget surplus forecast over the next decade instead of holding all of it until Social Security is safeguarded.
House passes $80B tax-cut measures
WASHINGTON - An $80 billion Republican tax cut calculated to appeal to millions of middle-class Americans has passed in the House.
President Clinton renewed his threat to veto the election-year bill because it would spend part of the $1.6 trillion budget surplus forecast over the next decade instead of holding all of it until Social Security is safeguarded.
Notes: Information dean resigns from position
University School of Information Dean Daniel Atkins recently announced his resignation, which was effective Sept. 22, due to personal reasons. Atkins will continue as a professor of information and electrical engineering and computer science.
'U' prof. honored by Legislature
History Prof. Sidney Fine, who has taught University students for a half-century, was honored by the Michigan state Legislature on Friday for his contribution to higher education in the state.
State Sen. John Schwarz (R-Battle Creek) presented a proclamation to Fine during his History 466 lecture, in Angell Hall Auditorium A, praising his 50 years of teaching at the University. It was signed by Gov. John Engler and members of the state Legislature.
1,000 walkers pack streets
Wearing red ribbons and walking shoes, more than 1,000 AIDS supporters flooded the streets of Ann Arbor yesterday for the sixth annual Ann Arbor AIDS Walk.
Walkers hiked a three-mile trail that took them up Main Street through Kerrytown on the north side of Ann Arbor, then to South University Avenue through campus and back to Main Street.
Zapatista spokesperson discusses movement
The day the North American Free Trade Agreement went into effect, New Year's Day 1994, a group of armed, indigenous people of Mexico shocked the world by successfully taking control of four major cities in the southernmost state of Chiapas.
Candidates gear up for A
With just five weeks left until November elections, Ann Arbor Mayor Ingrid Sheldon and City Councilperson Christopher Kolb are getting their campaigns up to speed in a rematch of the mayor's race two years ago.
The race pits Sheldon, known as a moderate Republican, against Kolb, who said Ann Arbor needs a more "activist" mayor.
Michigan Radio recently was named the best radio station in the nation by the Public Radio Program Directors Association. Todd Mundt, host of Morning Edition, also was honored by the association as the nation's top air personality.
LANSING (AP) - For Democrat Geoffrey Fieger, the gubernatorial race is a chance to fix what he believes Gov. John Engler has broken. At the top of the list is education. At a rally last week, Fieger referred to some of Engler's education policies - including a plan for parents to take over schools - as "the product of a deranged mine." Fieger also has spoken out against Engler legislation that penalized striking teachers.
Slovakian elections may bring changes
BRATISLAVA, Slovakia - For Zuzana Slavkovska an economics student at the university in Bratislava, it seemed yesterday morning that a fog was lifting.
"We were so isolated," she said, as she walked the winding, narrow streets of this city's old town where sidewalk cafes and high-fashion boutiques abut Gothic archways. "Now, maybe we can take our place in Europe."
yesterday. Sansovich decided to stay in New Orleans through Hurricane Georges. The Washington Post
WASHINGTON -With the House scheduled to vote Oct. 9 on whether to start formal impeachment proceedings against President Clinton, the pattern it set in 1974 with the investigation of Richard Nixon offers both hope and despair for the person in the White House.
Critics decry 'sexual McCarthyism' in media: Standards of personal conduct shift debates over proper leadership
NEW YORK - As the mass media continue their saturation coverage of the Clinton scandal, some critics have coined the phrase "sexual McCarthyism" to protest the mean-spirited pursuit of skeletons in public officials' closets.
"Are you now or have you ever been an adulterer?" may sound like a weak echo of Sen. Joseph McCarthy's thundering question about Communist Party membership in the 1950s. But the links between the anxiety of that era and Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr's probe in our time are not so far-fetched:
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