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Madison prepares for rival weekend
Wolverine and Badger football fans share a rivalry that runs deep.
In 1993, after the Michigan football team won at the Badgers' stadium in Madison, students rushed the field causing serious injuries and near-riot activity. Two years ago, there was a series of bar brawls in Wisconsin the night before the Badgers played the Wolverines.
MSA to investigate use of funds
The Michigan Student Assembly voted last night to form an investigative committee on the possible misuse of assembly funds as well as misrepresentation of MSA by Rackham Rep. Jessica Curtin, a member of the Defend Affirmative Action Party and the chair for the Peace and Justice Commission.
Taiwan quake kills 1,700, rescuers search rubble
TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) - Two strong aftershocks rocked Taiwan yesterday even as rescuers struggled to reach victims of a more powerful quake a day earlier that killed more than 1,700 people.
Rescuers scrambled all night and into the daylight yesterday, pressing to unearth thousands of people trapped under the debris of the powerful temblor.
Services adapt campus for student needs
Lecture courses are different for Rachel Arfa, who has to watch her professors lips more closely than her classmates. But, Arfa, who is hearing impaired, doesn't let this slow her down, in fact, it provides motivation.
Arfa, an LSA senior, is president of the Hearing Impaired Students Organization, one of the only clubs for disabled students on campus.
Fleming speaks on protests
"Turbulence" is not a foreign concept to college campuses or former University President Robben Fleming. But never was it more familiar at the University and elsewhere than during the tumultuous decades of the 1960s and '70s.
Fleming, who served as University president from 1968 to 1979 explored this issue last night in his speech titled "Student Unrest of the 1960s and '70s."
Republicans attempt to save tax-cut bill
WASHINGTON - Just when it looked like tax cuts of any kind were dead for the year, congressional Republicans may salvage some modest relief from the wreckage of the $792 billion tax-cut bill that President Clinton is expected to veto this week.
KLA leaders balk at shift to Kosovo Corps
PRISTINA, Yugoslavia - Last- minute demands raised by leaders of the Kosovo Liberation Army delayed a planned announcement Sunday of the formal demilitarization of the rebel army.
KLA leaders were still meeting with top NATO and United Nations officials in the early hours Monday in an effort to resolve lingering differences over the nature of the KLA's proposed successor, the civilian defense Kosovo Corps.
'U' researchers identify deadly proteins
University researchers have identified a family of deadly proteins that kill by shutting off a cell's ability to communicate with immune system cells. This discovery may prove valuable in treating cancer and other immune-related diseases.
Windsor chips used in Detroit
DETROIT (AP) - Some slot machine players at the MGM Grand Detroit Casino are getting more bets for their buck by using tokens from Casino Windsor in U.S. slot machines.
The tokens are not supposed to fit. But some MGM slot machines do accept them.
Former 'U' student starts new Website
There was a time when former Dental School student Todd Stoneman was terrified of computers. Stoneman transformed his fear into a profound satisfaction by founding his own Internet business, Slackrsave.com.
The past two years have been a whirlwind for Stoneman since he received his bachelors degree in sociology from the University of Wisconsin. In 1996, Stoneman enrolled in the University's Dental School.
Notes: BU students rally to legalize marijuana use
-At Boston University, about 40,000 people gathered at the city's Boston Common on Saturday for the 10th annual Freedom Rally in support of legalizing marijuana.
The rally was organized by the Massachusetts Cannabis Reform Coalition and the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Law.
Pols propose teacher fines for striking
LANSING (AP) - Parents or residents of a school district could ask that fines be imposed on striking teachers under a House bill introduced yesterday.
House Speaker Chuck Perricone (R-Kalamazoo Township), said the legislation would close a loophole that allowed Detroit teachers to strike for nine days at the beginning of this school year without facing the fine of a day's pay for each day of the strike.
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