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Heading to the polls: Election may set new record
Students are well on their to setting a new record.
After one day of voting, they have already tallied nearly 4,000 total votes in this term's student government elections.
Campaigns may cost more than $2,000
In addition to investing blood, sweat, tears and giving up valuable class time in their campaigns, Michigan Student Assembly and LSA Student Government candidates have spent a significant amount of money during this semester's elections.
Attacks on Kosovo begin:
BELGRADE, Yugoslavia (AP) - Wave after wave of NATO warplanes and missiles struck Yugoslavia yesterday, pummeling army barracks, power plants and air defense batteries in an effort to force the country's defiant leader to cease his onslaught against Kosovo Albanians.
NATO targets military sites to limit Milosevic's capability
Budget moves to floor
The House Appropriations Committee on Tuesday voted to send Gov. John Engler's fiscal year 2000 budget recommendation to the full House floor, where it could be debated as early as today.
With all the committee's Republicans and one Democrat voicing support for the bill, the committee passed the bill with an 18 to 9 majority.
Golden Apple winner Gunderson gives 'paradox, penny, performance'
How is it possible that the study of a sample of people over a 20-year period could find the survival rate of smokers to be 74 percent, while that of non-smokers was only 69 percent? Simple, it's Simpson's Paradox!
This is just one of many statistics-related ideas that Brenda Gunderson, a lecturer in the Department of Statistics, discussed during her "ideal last lecture" yesterday evening at Rackham Auditorium after accepting the ninth annual Golden Apple Award.
Bill would prohibit multiple addresses
University students who are registered to vote in Ann Arbor but have a residence elsewhere in Michigan will soon have to choose exactly where home is if a bill passed by the state Senate is signed into law.
The Senate on Tuesday voted 23 to 12 in favor of a bill sponsored by Sen. Mike Rogers (R-Howell) that would require Michigan residents to have the same residence listed on their driver's license and voter registration card.
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Awareness program for athletes created
Student athletes involved in Michigan Peer Advisors Creating Trust announced yesterday morning their new plans for an alcohol awareness initiative encompassing all Michigan sports teams.
University Athletic Director Tom Goss said he was extremely proud of the students involved in M-PACT and their enthusiasm for presenting responsible actions regarding alcohol at the University.
MIT study finds gender discrimination in science
The fields of math and science, historically male dominated, have also been marked by another flaw - gender discrimination.
Now the results of a five-year study by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology on the intersection of these two areas are prompting administrators to re-examine causes and possible solutions regarding discrimination against female faculty members.
Fine: Public feelings on afrmative action may affect its future
If the University loses the affirmative action lawsuits against the University's College of Literature, Science, and the Arts, and the Law School, it and institutions with similar policies may be legally bared from actively attempting to enroll racially diverse student bodies.
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Mass. man banned from all colleges:
STORRS, Conn. - A convicted sex offender who solicited female students on campus was banned from all college campuses in the nation, a Superior Court judge ruled Tuesday.
John Urban, 38, of Billerica, Mass., is free after posting $150,000 bail.
Convicted sex offender found soliciting female undergrads near UConn campus
Primate, human sex drives linked
BOSTON - Rhesus monkeys like to have sex and so should human beings, according to a researcher at Yerkes Primate Research Center at Emory University in Atlanta.
Sexual desire in both rhesus monkeys and humans is caused by the estradiol hormone, a form of estrogen. This hormone allows each of the species to have sex at any time, rather than only during a certain time in the females' cycle, said Kim Wallen, an Emory professor of psychological biology.
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3 presidents try to curb drinking
WASHINGTON (AP) - Three university presidents told a national meeting of attorneys general yesterday that they were increasing their attempts to curb excessive student drinking.
Michigan State University President Peter McPherson said it was time to redefine socially acceptable behavior among college students. McPherson said he wanted to make so-called celebration drinking, or excessive drinking on special occasions, as unacceptable in our culture as drunken driving.
San Francisco drag queen 'nuns' plan Easter party
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - San Francisco's world-class reputation as a place where a guy can be himself - or herself, for that matter - has been sorely tested by a group of drag queens who dress like nuns.
The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence are planning an Easter block party, an idea some Roman Catholics find offensive.
737 needs more than just redesign
esign that previously was ordered for the world's most popular passenger jet is not sufficient.
The National Transportation Safety Board's report came after eight years of painstaking and often frustrating investigations into a series of 737 incidents, including a United crash in Colorado that killed 25 people in 1991, a USAir crash that killed 132 people near Pittsburgh in 1994 and a serious incident involving Eastwind Airlines at Richmond, Va.
Conflict may delay hurricane aid
The Senate passed a similar bill Tuesday and lawmakers expressed hope that the measure - which also includes aid for U.S. farmers hit by economic hard times - could make money available in time for the spring planting season.
But differences in the House and Senate versions of the legislation - as well as continuing disagreements between President Clinton and Congress over contentious side issues - may delay release of the funds for weeks. Indeed, the bill sets up the first budget confrontation of the year between Clinton and the Republican-controlled Congress.
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