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…The Michigan Daily - SPORTSMonday - Monday, February_14, 1994 - 5 BASKETBALL NOTEBOOK Johnson earns rave reviews for 31 points By BOB ABRAMSON DAILY SPORTS WRITER MADISON - Coaches around the Big Ten can't stop raving about freshman Amy Johnson. Give her time, they say, and she is going to be a fine player. Johnson has shown flashes of bril- liance, scoring 24 points against Purdue and 22 against Indiana. Friday, Johnson showed the col- leg...…

…6 - The Michigan Daily - SPORTSMonday - Monday, February 14, 1994 Wolverines shatter team record* Michigan scores 195.35 against Broncos, Wildcats By TIM SMITH DAILY SPORTS WRITER Dominating. Exhilarating. Record-breaking. These are just a few of many ad- jectives that can be used to describe the performance of the No. 7 Michi- gan women's gymnastics team this weekend as it cruised to victory over Western Michigan on Friday night and Kentuck...…

…The Michigan Daily - SPORTSMonday - Monday, February 14, 1994 - 7 *Blue wrestlers fall to No. 1 Gophers Injuries are main story as Wolverines continue downward slide By BARRY SOLLENBERGER 'DAILY SPORTS WRITER The injury-riddled No. 22 Michi- Jan wrestling team dropped a 24-13 decision to top-ranked Minnesota Fri- day in Minneapolis. The Golden Gophers (7-0 Big Ten, 17-1 overall) figured to give Michi- gan trouble. After all, they had al- re...…

…8 - The Michigan Daily - SPORTSMonday - Monday, February 14, 1994 GYMNASTICS Continued from page 6 formance on the floorexercise. Wymer, who also received two 10's Friday against Western, was somewhat in shock over her weekend's performance. "This is probably the best week- end I have ever had, and probably will ever have," Wymer said. "I broke my record by so much that it's unreal." The fight for the all around crown was a close one, with th...…

…Air putt "U1V One hundred three years of editorial freedom I 'Vl v O sAnAroMcia ra buw 1 )Mo h ihgnDiy I Israel says at least one month of talks before peace THE WASHINGTON POST JERUSALEM - Israeli Prime Minister *itzhak Rabin said yesterday that another month of negotiations will be required before Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization are ready to agree on terms of Israel's military pullout from the Gaza Strip and Jericho. ...…

…2 -- The Michigan Daily - Friday, February 11, 1994 GM official speaks about Israeli auto marketI By DAWN TAMIR FOR THE DAILY In the midst of peace talks, "Israel is on the edge of an economic boom," the only American auto executive in Israel said in a speech last night at Hillel. Thomas Olmsted is the director of regional marketing operations at Gen- eral Motors Corp., which is the first auto company to make an investment in Israel. GM crea...…

…The Michigan Daily - Friday, February 11, 1994 - 3 I - A report on alcohol consumption on campus By KATIE HUTCHINS DAILY STAFF REPORTER everal young men and women shiver as they whip out student IDs for the fra- ternity guys at the door. "Do you have an invite?" the tall doorkeeper in the red baseball cap asks the small group as he stamps out a cigarette with his Nike. The stu- dents shake their heads and the young women in the group pout f...…

…4 - The Michigan Daily - Friday, February 11, 1994 cije £Id~r1 rm&dtIg 'To ask Europe to solve a problem like Bosnia is like asking the Junior League to disarm the Blood and Crips.' -Newsweek writer Michael Elliot on Europe's general inability to act to end the carnage in Bosnia-Herzegovina Be all 420 Maynard Ann Arbor, MI 48109 Edited and managed by students at the University of Michigan JESSIE HALLADAY Editor in Chief SAM GOODSTEIN FINr...…

…The Michigan Daily - Friday, February 11, 1994 - 5 U' Muslim community observes Ramadan By LASHAWNDA CROWE DAILY STAFF REPORTER From the deserts of India to the grassy plains of the Orient, today Mus- lims worldwide begin the observance ofoneoftheirholiest months,Ramadan. Ramadan, which runs from Feb.11 or 12 to March11 or 12, isacelebration of the beginning of the holy Qur'an - the Islamic religious text. There are discrepancies about when t...…

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… 's TeMihgnDily.riay. .rar, * 194Pae. A 'Major' sensation U Players overcome difficulties of "Major Barbara" By MELISSA ROSE BERNARDO The biggest obstacle to a masterful performance of George Bernard Shaw's "Major Barbara" is the language. Invariably, it will stop any less-than-amazing acting troupe dead in its tracks, and send them plummeting into a sea of misunderstanding and blubbering. Fortunately, the Uni- versity Players overcame tha...…

…The Michigan Daily - Friday, February 11, 1994 - 9 *Feltsman's life after the Fall By MARK KATZ "This may sound cynical," Russian pianist Vladimir Feltsman said last week, "but freedom and democracy have their price." According to Feltsman, who will appear with the Ann Arbor Symphony tomorrow night, there is no question that life is much more difficult now for the average Russian musician than it was before the fall of communism. With Russia...…

…10 - The Michigan Daily - Friday, February 11, 1994 Loretta Swit plays the role of Shirley Valentine - a housewife in the middle of a mid-life crisis. Mi-lie crisis, ece a By DARCY LOCKMAN "Gone to Greece, back in two weeks," reads the note Shirley Valentine leaves on the kitchen table for her husband. Realizing she has become invisible to the people in her life, Shirley has to leave to regain sight of herself. So goes the story of Willy Rus...…

… Men's Gymnastics vs. Penn State Tomorrow, 7 p.m. Cliff Keen Arena S RTS Women's Gymnastics vs. Western Michigan Tonight, 7 p.m. Cliff Keen Arena 'M' tumblers to compete * twice over weekend By TIM SMITH DAILY SPORTS WRITER When you're this good, it's hard to keep improving. The No.7 Michigan women's gym- nastics team is getting to be sogood that it can't help but think that each week's performance will never be topped. Af- ter the team d...…

…12 - The Michigan Daily - Friday, February 11, 1994 Men's track hosts tough competition. Wolverines look to beat EMU at Central Collegiate Championships By TOM SEELEY DAILY SPORTS WRITER There's no I' in team. This saying is familiar to most team-sport participants. It emphasizes the idea of a group of players ignoring individual performances to come to- gether and play as one coherent unit. While this team concept is not usually associated ...…

…The Michigan Daily - Friday, February 11, 1994 - 13 BOSNIA Continued from page, about the reliability of vital commu- nications links, celebrated in Cold War lore, between two technically advanced countries. Clinton said yesterday the attempts will continue. "I am trying to get in touch with him, and he knows that I will take the call whenever we can put *it together," he said. White House technicians tried to hook up the leaders a number of ...…

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…WEn atl One hundred three years of editorial freedom 3 'M' players plead no contest to theft ISA sophomore Benoy Chacko prepares for his February debut on "Jeopardy!" for the College Championship. Sophomore to appear on game show By DAVID SHEPARDSON DAILY NEWS EDITOR The three Michigan basketball players charged with stealing beer from a local convenience store each pleaded no contest to one count of second-degree retail fraud in 15th D...…

…2- The Michigan Daily - Thursday, February 10, 1994 OSCARS Continued from page 1 film staff would like Leonardo DiCaprio to win for "What's Eating Gilbert Grape?" we are all faced with the truth that Ralph Fiennes probably has this one in the bag. Although Tommy Lee might get it. Hey, he was nominated for "JFK," maybe the '{Academy feels guilty. Best Supporting Actress. Holly Hunter for "The Firm," Anna Paquin for "The Piano," Rosie Perez for...…

…T_ _ _ _The Michigan Daily - Thursday, February 10, 1994 - 3 . Program s By ROBIN BARRY DAILY STAFF REPORTER Yesterday's "Friends Helping Friends" pro- gram, one of the many events commemorating Eating Disorder Awareness Week, highlighted ways to detect and assist people suffering from eating disorders. Most in attendance said they had experi- enced eating disorder symptoms first hand or noted symptoms in a friend or family member. And member...…

…4 - The Michigan Daily - Thursday, February 10, 1994 tIie £kbi~pwluu il II NOTABLE QUOTABLE 420 Maynard Ann Arbor, MI 48109 Edited and managed by students at the University of Michigan JESSIE HALLADAY Editor in Chief SAM GOODSTEIN FLINT WAINESS Editorial Page Editors 'Good kids screw up occasionally. If ... they were my kids, they would have been playing for me here tonight also.' -IU basketball coach Bobby Knight on the controversy sur...…

… Men's Gymnastics vs. Penn State l ISaturday, 7 p.m. Cliff Keen Arena Si 'TS Women's Gymnastics vs. Western Michigan Tomorrow, 7 p.m. Cliff Keen Arena Tough season gets worse for Wolverines All-too-common lapses costly in Wolverine's eleventh straght loss By BRENT McINTOSH DAILY BASKETBALL WRITER Everybody wants to make the great play, to be the crowd-pleaser and to earn five seconds on SportsCenter. Dazzling plays have become the norm in...…

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…8- The Michigan Daily - Thursday, February 10, 1994 LAPSES Continued from page 5 only to leave Spartan guard Chris Pow- ers open for an easy three. Then nobody calls out a pick and the Spartans get a wide-open bucket. Worst of all, the Wolverines gave up four consecutiveuncontested layups on the fast break. Here's eight points, you're very welcome. "We didn't execute well. We didn't run our offense. We didn't defend the way we were supposed t...…

…Unfinished business It has been nearly eight months since an anonymous cabal of students tried to railroad Professor David Goldberg out of the Department of Sociology by slandering him with trumped up charges of sexual and racial harassment. The chair of the sociology department who bowed to the inquisition has since resigned; the charges have been dropped, and Goldberg has been allowed to teach his course, Sociology 510 -although he has been ...…

…2 - The Michigan Daily - Weekend etc. - Thursday, February 10, 1994 THE4 1- 0 STOAY by 7fii,--No - -If 7v %%f 1%0" M -LIE ANP AtL/SoN TALK ASOUq rwTOTAL WS-4b ICAN'1T 5eLJEi, Dwws .,, IT. HiEIS ForZ -pipe thmat rl ft W r Oma.Sn Se m yw v tPam t Wedd t fd Auw traa Urmiake au" ti tom, 0*bot$wIT ry CAIN )(ou aft ew - H PA-7Hffje? CH-0 v Ac rtlffY w vT taut W7-04 Him... , r fou VRC KJD.DDIN4. MGUY WHO VOR5c AAE~R 1w I WHAT"...…

…The Michigan Daily - Weekend etc. - Thursday, February 10, 1994 - 3 Violet Wine performs on campus, waits for big break By DARCY LOOKMAN If all success stories have humble beginnings, Violet Wine just might be the latest tale of triumph in the making. Late evening on North Cam- pus and the evolving rock band be- gins practicing amidst the broken chair-desks and black steel music stands of a second floor music school classroom. Musty chalk od...…

…4 - The Michigan Daily - Weekend etc. - Thursday, February 10, 1994 z I Jour d'amour not what it was By BRIAN GRANT Valentine's Day sucks! At least it does for those of us who have no one to celebrate it with. This holiday has become almost as com- mercial as Christmas and even more biased. Sure, you can buy into the Media and Greeting Card Company Myth: Buy that card! Get those 20 dozen roses! Tell that unreachable person who doesn't even ...…

…The Michigan Daily - Weekend etc. - Thursday, February 10, 1994-5 Four songwriters come together 'on a winter's night' tBy DIRK SCHULZE It is a unique opportunity, the ,chance to see four of the largest names in the singer-songwriter business--a profession that encourages solo per- formances-work together. The "On a Winter's Night" tour features the rock 'n' roll-inspired passion of Cliff Eberhardt, the humor of Cheryl Wheeler, the magnificen...…

…6- The Michigan Daily - Weekend etc. - Thursday, February 10, 1994 Not a man, By KAREN LEE Charles F. Gordon has always felt the need to express1 himself. Of course, he didn't always do it constructively.I "I was sort of a juvenile delinquent when I was a kid,"i admitted Gordon, the dramatist and University professor who is better known as OyamO. "The one thing I did like to do was read, and I was always in the highest reading i group. So at ...…

…The Michigan Daily - Weekend etc. - Thursday, February 10, 1994 - 7 .Culture meets theater CMP continued from page 1 an last year's production. She had oeen looking for a venue to create a scholarship fund for University stu- *ents of color in performing arts for a long time. "(Students of color) in the per- forming arts here are admittedly terri- oly, terribly underrepresented," she -:ommented. (In last fall's production of Wole Soyinka's "...…

…8 - The Michigan Daily - Weekend etc. - Thursday, February 10, 1994 The Pnice is Right. First year theater student, Mark Alhadeff prepares, both on and off stage, for the opening of "Major Barbara", tonight at the Mendelssohn Theatre. Alhadeff's character, Snobby Price, is a begging thief, who decieves the Salvation Army v volnteers into believing that hi s soulhais been saved. …

…The Michigan Daily - Weekend etc. - Thursday, Febuary 10, 1994-9 SILM S OPENING: THURSDAY T H U R S D A Y T H U R S D A Y BLANK CHECK Just when you thought "Iron Will" was too much, this turkey is thrown in your face. Only two questions: where's Mac and what the hell is Miguel Ferrur doing here? At Briarwood: 1:50, 4:00, 7:10, 9:10; at Showcase: 1:00, 3:00, 5:00, 7:05, 9:15, 11:20. THE GETAwAY Kim Basinger and husband Alec Baldwin attempt t...…

…'0- The Michigan Daily -Weekend tc. -Thursday. February 10, 1994 ______________________________ WINONA R DER ETHAN HAE ST BEN ILLER 0 0 I I I I I LM A COMEDY ABOUT LOVE IN THE '90 S. UNIVERSAL ITRE ESENTS A JERSEY FILMS PRODUCTION "REAITYITE" JNN A ROFAlLO SwOOSIEKURT JOE DN BAER JON MAONEY K ARLWALLNGER UPERW K RYRAH M N II I LIAM FINNEGAN ANDSHELDON PINCHUK ED~ITE LI AC HU EMMANUE~LLUBEZKI aiJo STAGEY SHERANNW. BARCLA...…

…WEy OF LET Wi at I One hundred three years of editorial freedom SA -d yA 'M' basketball players to be arrested by end of week I FROM STAFF AND WIRE REPORTS The three Michigan basketball team members accused of stealing beer from a local convenience store are expected to surrender to police today to be arrested and arraigned on charges of second-degree retail fraud. The players have five business days to surrender to police from Mon- day....…

…2 - The Michigan Daily - Wednesday, February 9, 1994 Clinton health plan is dealt blow by Congress WASHINGTON (AP) - In a set- back for the White House, the Con- gressional Budget Office said yester- day the Clinton health plan would drive the federal deficit $74 billion higher over the next six years, not cut it by $58 billion as billed. In its long-awaited, independent look at the White House proposal for paying for universal coverage, the...…

…The Michigan Daily - Wednesday, February 9, 1994 - 3 *Red Cross reports low blood supplies MSA votes to keep Kevorkian off election ballot r Washtenaw County reports an urgent need for blood after the limited success of its original appeal By JULIE MAZUR .OR THE DAILY A sharp drop in blood donations across the country has spurred the worst national blood shortage since World War II. Washtenaw County's American Red Cross donor center in Ann ...…

…4 - The Michigan Daily - Wednesday, February 9, 1994 cl1te dgu &tilg 'Sometimes I get up and tell myself, "You know, damn it, I wouldn't have said that at 9 a.m., but I said that at midnight."' -David Stead, City Councilmember (D-3rd Ward), on a proposal to adjourn council meetings at 11:30 p.m. 420 Maynard Ann Arbor, MI 48109 Edited and managed by students at the University of Michigan JESSIE HALLADAY Editor in Chief SAMGOODSTEIN FLINT WA...…

… RTS Crypt blows the roof off *By MATT CARLSON When San Diego's Rocket From The Crypt formed in 1990, the post-punk rock band pledged to never play a place that had a stage. They quickly had to abandon that idea as the group found themselves playing in larger and larger venues. But tonight at the Michigan Union Ball- room, you can see Rocket live out their dream, lost in the exhaust of MTV promotion and an exploding legion of fans. Although ...…

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…8 - The Michigan Daily - Wednesday, February 9, 1994 Pawin' their way to By BEN EWY Nirvana spawned a musical monster that is still rearing its ugly head. The term "grunge" is now being used to refer to almost any new band with long hair and electric guitars. This broad generalization of "grunge" has created a rush from music producers to sign any band that fulfills the supposed grunge formula. Subsequently, many new bands have understand- a...…

… Women's Basketball vs. Michigan State Tonight, 7:30 p.m. Crisler Arena SPORTS Women's Gymnastics vs. Western Michigan Friday, 7 p.m. Cliff Keen Arena 'M' dances to old-time romp-n-roll, 91-67 ,! Y uCHAD A. SAFRAN Safrancisco Treat Wolverines give it all for full 40 minutes microbiologist removes small bits from an organism and later examines it under a high-powered microscope to locate something, anything, that normally cannot be found....…

…10 - The Michigan Daily - Wednesday, February 9, 1994 Ski teams perform well over weekend By JENNIFER DUBERSTEIN FOR THE DAILY While most were sitting in their warm rooms this weekend, the Michi- gan men's and women's ski teams were heating up the cold and ragged slopes of Northern Michigan. The Wolverines competed in the Pepsi Collegiate Challenge at Sugarloaf Ski Resort Saturday, and at Caberfae Ski Resorts Sunday, to close out their regul...…

…One hundred three years of editorial freedom "UI Housing director to develop student emergency fund By DAVID SHEPARDSON DAILY NEWS EDITOR The Office of Student Affairs will get a new full-time employee whose primary responsibil- ity will be to raise money for new projects that could have substantial benefits for students. Vice President for Student Affairs Maureen Hartford announced yesterday that Robert C. Hughes, director of the Housing D...…

…2 - The Michigan Daily - Tuesday, February 8, 1994 BUDGET Continued from page 1 Northeast-Midwest Congressional Coalition. As chair of an education subcom- mittee, Rep. Dale Kildee (D-Flint), said overall he was pleased that Clinton had increased funding for initiatives to im- prove school curriculum and ease the transition from the classroom to the job site. He said he would fight to maintain the "follow-through" program for chil- dren who g...…

…The Michigan Daily - Tuesday. February 8. 1994 - 3 ...,., ....,.r._,_.........,.,... ..... .....v. ... .... _...4.... .,. . ,...,...... r ....., ... . J ... .v..... .. *Sikh community challenges 'U' s program LSA-SG to choose new rep. for MSA By MARIA KOVAC FOR THE DAILY About 20 members of the Sikh community carried signs outside the Rackham Building in a peaceful pro- test Saturday, claiming the Univer- sity had ignored their interests....…

…4, 4The Michigan Daily - Tuesday, February 8, 1994 a E , l[irl i ttn ttil *':I *1:1 'It's a glorified closet. You lean Into one of the walls, and it caves in.' -David Noel, Homeless Action Committee member speaking about the YMCA 420 Maynard Ann Arbor, MI 48109 Edited and managed by students at the University of Michigan JESSIE HALLADAY Editor in Chief Sam GOODSTEm FIN T WANESs Editorial Page Editors Unless otherwise noted, unsigned edito...…