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GEO plans walk-out following break:
After four months of contract negotiations with the University, members of the Graduate Employees Organization voted to stage a walkout early next month at their membership meeting yesterday.
Of the 262 members who cast ballots, 209 voted in favor of holding a one-day walkout March 10 and a half-day walkout March 11 if a contract settlement is not reached.
Lack of contract could provoke GSI strike
A day of action: Rally draws students to the Diag
"We won't take resegregation, we want quality education!"
Dozens of students chanted this slogan as they marched across the Diag as part of yesterday's Student and Youth National Day of Action in defense of affirmative action rally.
Forum addresses affirmative action in higher education
In light of the current debate surrounding affirmative action and the use of race in admissions, last night's forum titled, "Affirmative Action and Education" featured Sen. Alma Wheeler Smith (D-Salem Twp.) and two University professors.
Blue Party stirs conflict as MSA elections near
With Michigan Student Assembly elections less than one month away, a new party has emerged from the offices of the MSA and the LSA Student Government.
The newly founded Blue Party has prompted changes within the assembly and could drastically affect next month's elections.
Photo feature:Through the glass
MSU fraternity under investigation
From staff and wire reports
Only two weeks after Michigan State University's Interfraternity Council and Panhellenic Association implemented a voluntary 30-day suspension of social events, the Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity is being investigated for violating the moratorium.
Students strive to prevent skin cancer
As University students look forward to soaking up the rays on spring break, there's one thing University Students Against Cancer would like everyone to remember - sunscreen.
USAC members passed out sunscreen and informational flyers at Angell Hall and on North Campus yesterday to kick off their annual "Don't Get Burned" event, which will continue today.
Military receives pay increase
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Senate voted overwhelmingly yesterday to give the nation's military the biggest benefits increase since the early 1980s, including an across-the-board 4.8 percent pay increase with further boosts in future years.
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College Bowl team looks for championship
Spring is nearing and with it the Wolverines move into the post-season to defend last year's national championship victory. This year the competition will be stiffer, the pressure thicker and the questions tougher.
But this isn't a Michigan sports team.
Prof.: optimism can be beneficial to health
Wearing a broad grin, psychology Prof. Chris Peterson addressed, from a research perspective, the virtues of smiling upon the world at a luncheon yesterday at the Michigan Union.
Peterson spoke on "Health and Optimism" at the event, attended by more than 80 University students, staff and faculty.
Legislators continue to push for equal pay
LANSING (AP) - Armed with a new study indicating gender pay inequities cost Michigan women $9 billion a year, equal pay advocates in the state Legislature hope that a 20-year struggle ends with a raise.
Despite the reality that equal pay hasn't surfaced as a priority of the Republican-run Legislature, two Democratic lawmakers said yesterday that proposing the legislation again can't hurt.
Research Notes
The Calendar: What's happening in Ann Arbor today
Black schools face dropping enrollment
DURHAM, N.C. - In the early 1990s, black high school students were drawn to historically black colleges and universities in great numbers.
Nine years later, however, many black students are opting to forego that experience. All five of the historically black colleges and universities in the University of North Carolina school system have witnessed declining enrollments and Scholastic Aptitude Test scores in the past few years.
Photo feature II:Waiting for re-entry
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