…Page 2- Tb. Michigan Daily - Friday, May 9, 1986 Economics limit black enrollment By REBECCA BLUMENSTEIN Although last fall's minority student population of 12 percent was the highest ever enrolled at the University, crucial social and economic factors are preventing similar accomplishments in the admission of black students. Minority student leaders and University administrators say they have made black enrollment a top priority. Leaders of ...…
…Page 2 - The Michigan Daily - Friday, May 16, 1986 Officials say bill may pass I Fenced in Daily Photo by ANDI SCHREIBER Cal Brown (left) and Ray Harris end their day at the construction site on the corner of South University and South Forest. Students endure reselling books By MARY CHRIS JAKLEVIC University administrators and state officials predicted a bill that would require public universities to ensure English competency for foreign-b...…
…Page 2 - The Michigan Daily - Friday, May 23, 1986 Students seek greater rol% in policy-making By KERY MURAKAMI decision-making power, students Last November, University have the ability to pressige the President Harold Shapiro called image-conscious University Paul Josephson into his office to through the media and high- try to cut a deal on the code of non- publicity political demonstrations. academic conduct. In this private MSA is best be...…
…I Page 2 - The Michigan Daily - Friday, May 30, 1986 U'o icials pleased with new phones By BETH FERTIG restricted, making it impossible for and MARTIN FRANK them to dial out of the building. ROXANO BLOCK, director of Despite many complaints, Univer- telecommunications systems, said sity official remain pleased with the "We meet with the hospital on a new phone system being installed by weekly or daily basis to iron out the Centel Business Sys...…
…Page 2 - The Michigan Daily - Friday, May 6, 1988 MSA prepares budget, response' to regents' anger about actions BY RYAN TUTAK pletely antagonistic this time because our presentation Michigan Student Assembly leaders have postponed could mean whether we get funded." submitting their budget request to the University's M Board of Regents to have time to gain the board's sup- MSA President Michael Phillips, an LSA senior, port, one MSA official s...…
…Page 2 - The Michigan Daily - Friday, May 13, 1988 by students about comments that students on campus," he said. "For Steiner had made," said Orlando me, I found it interesting." Bagwell, the show's producer- Bagwell said his production team director. "But we found it was included the University in the Continued from Page 1 becoming a debate between students program because of student reaction ONE notable omission, some and the administration,...…
…Page 2 - The Michigan Daily - Friday, May 20, 1988 t MSA. RIORDAN also disagreed with R e g e n t s "MSA represents the students Nielsen's funding plan. "Before a de- who take the time to be represented," cision to pursue a plan like that is Continued from Page 1 he said. "The students support what made, the regents have to be very senting students who disapprove of MSA is doing. My constituents positive that the system we have MSA's policies....…
…Page 2 - The Michigan Daily - Friday, May 27, 1988 Sh ies such as the regents must an- e a rc nounce all meetings when more than a quorum is present. The FOIA re- Continued from Page 1 quires that public bodies release pub- and less than 12 candidates remain. lic documents upon request. Brown, who has not discussed candi- Judge Ross Campbell of the dates in the past, said he would nei- Washtenaw County Circuit Court ther confirm nor deny a po...…
…Page 2 - The Michigan Daily - Friday, May 8, 1987 Governor expected to veto funding (Continued from Page 1Y bill allots higher education $19 million more than Blanchard recommended. "I suspect that the Governor will veto whatever higher education bill the legislature sends them," Hood said. Hood expects the senate to support the house budget, but doubts it will request an increase over what the house asked for. "I don't think that the govern...…
…Plage - ic AiOchgan Daily - Friday, M 15. 197 - House bill would bar police from setting ticket quotas By EDWARD KLEINE The bill, introduced by state Special to the Daily Rep. Perry Bullard (D-Ann Arbor), LANSING - Police will no would also bar police forces from longer be allowed to set quotas for evaluating officer performance on traffic and parking tickets if the the basis of how many tickets they state legislature passes a new bill write....…
…Pdge 2 -The Michigan Daily-Friday, May 22, 1987 Daily Photo by ANDI SCHREIBER Students and Ann Arbor residents flocked to Fuller pool last summer to tan themselves on hot afternoons. The pool opens for the summer this weekend. Cancer society to offer free screening (Continued from Page ) Even worse, said Cook, people The American Cancer Society, Dubin advocates seeing a demo- are "just not taking the trouble or along with the Michigan Derma- ...…
…Page 2-The Michigan Daily-Friday, May 29, 1987 Fleming to head search for new athletic director BY CATHERINE KIM priority." ham will retire next year. Well President Emeritus Robben Fleming expects to find a re - known for his skills in business Fleming will head the search com - placement by the end of fall term, management and marketing, athletic mittee to fill the position of out - "We expect many applications from revenues have grown from ...…
…4 Page 2 - The Michigan Daily - Friday, May 4, 1984 WHILE WE WERE AWAY Regents debate affirmative action By GEORGEA KOVANIS A report showing that the University has the largest percentage of black faculty members in the Big Ten sparked a debate on quality at the University regents' meeting April 19, and 20. According to the report presented by Virginia Nordby, the University's af- firmative action director, 3 percent of the University's facu...…
…Few mm or ities write te news, WASHINGTON (AP) - At a time when blacks and other minorities play a bigger part in American society, almost all the news in almost all the nation's newspapers is written by staffs that are white. Of the 50,000 journalists on America's 1,700 daily newspapers, about 1,500 are black, 650 Hispanic, 430 are of Asian ancestry and 10 are American Indians. Ninety-seven percent -of newspapers executives are white. "ALMOS...…
…Page 2 - The Michigan Daily - Tuesday, May 8, 1984 Salvadoran polls favor Duarte From AP and UPI SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador - Jose Napoleon Duarte claimed victory yesterday in El Salvador's presidential election and vowed to halt rightist death squads, but his far-right op- ponent, Roberto d'Aubuisson, refused to concede. It was clear, however, that Duarte had failed to obtain the clear mandate he had sought to deal with both the right and lef...…
…Page 2 - The Michigan Daily - Friday, May 11, 1984 House passes aid bill for El Salvador WASHINGTON (AP) - The Democratic-controlled House gave President Reagan a significant victory on military aid to El Salvador yester- day, voting to grant the assistance un- der conditions that opponents attacked as too lenient but supporters defended as realistic. By a margin of 212-208, the House adopted a Republican foreign aid amendment that would auth...…
…a Page 2 - The Michigan Daily - Sunday, May 13, As the Democratic candidates moved Murdock, Nebraska yesterday. Ja( concerns of America's farmers. Armerican (Continued from Page 1) home," she said. Because of this ex- perience, many never receive any fur- ther education, Goeman explained. Cornell described the boarding schools experiences as "designed to beat the 'Indianness' out of (the studen- ts)". PROBLEMS IN public schools can be even w...…
…i Page 2 - The Michigan Daily - Tuesday, May 15, 1984 Neb., Ore. delegates up for grabs today From The Associated Press Nebraska, where polls show him with a slim lead over Mondale. Walter Mondale and the Rev. Jesse Jackson continued their efforts yester- BOTH NEBRASKA and Oregon hold day to win over California's Hispanic primaries today, and Hart is looking for voters, as Gary Hart flew to Nebraska victories there to give him added to get in...…
…Page'2 - The Michigan Daily- Friday, May 18, 1984 Trotter House seeks new director By MARLA GOLD Trotter House, the University's multi-cultural student center, has gone through some troubled times in the past few years and may be headed that way again. For the second time in the last year, Trot- ter House may be without a director. Last January, Michael Swanigan, a Project Com- munity staff member, was appointed acting director of the center....…
…Page 2 - The Michigan Daily Sunday, May 20, 1984 Freighter sinks in Persian I Gulf ABU DHABI (UPI) - A Panamanian- registered freighter ablaze by a missile attack sank in the Persian Gulf yester- day and Iran warned it would expand its war with Iraq "everywhere in the world" if outside powers try to inter- vene. Lloyds of London, the international shipping insurers, identified the sunken ship as 16,558-ton bulk carrier "Fidelity." SHIPPING s...…
…Page 2 - The Michigan Daily - Tuesday, May 22, 1984 Profs discuss proposed conduct code (Continued from Page1) ENGINEERING Prof. Dale Briggs said the proposed code should include a preamble explaining that a code of con- duct already exists for faculty and staff members. "If you read the literature that is being circulated, students think they are being singled out," said Briggs. "And that is not the case." Briggs also told the faculty that h...…
…Page 2 The Michigan Daily -Friday, May 25,'1984 Task force to oversee new gay rights policy By MARLA GOLD that the University cares, Toy added. The University will establish a task Discrimination on the basis of sexual force this fall to implement a new orientation includes "denying em- policy prohibiting discrimination ployment, promotion, admission, against homosexuals. tenure, housing or in any other way The group will "include all Univer- ...…
…Page 2 - The Michigan Daily - Thursday, May 5, 1983 TODAY No parking worries VER DRIVE around a block several times looking for a parking place E and wish you could park in a truck loading zone? For as little as $13.25 a year, Washington state residents can - with a truck licence plate. There are no restrictions against cars having truck plates, which allow motorists to park in a loading zone for up to 30 minutes. State law does require veh...…
…Daily rsoto by DEBORAH LEWIS Feminist leader Bella Abzug urges women to become more politically active in her speech at Power Center last night. Abzug was one of three women's rights leaders comprising the Women $peak program. Feminist calls for increased activis m TODAY HAPPENINGS SATURDAY Performances Women in Music-Organ Concert,-8p.m., Hill Aud. Ark-Tannist, Irish music from Detroit, doors open at 8:30p.m., concert begins at 9 p.m. Speake...…
…Page 2 - The Michigan Daily - Tuesday, May 10, 1983 Reagan calis for increased'secrecy' WASHINGTON (AP) - The Freedom of Information Act is going to be worked over again this week in Congress, this time with the Reagan administration apparently willing to settle for fine-tuning the law instead of pushing for wholesale changes. Two bills to amend the 17-year-old law are before a subcommittee of the Senate Judiciary Committee. ONE, DRAFTED by C...…
…Page 2 - The Michigan Daily - Thursday, May 12, 1983 Prof to settle I Hughes By GEORGEA KOVANIS The drama surrounding the estate of the late billionaire Howard Hughes sur- faced again Tuesday at an informal hearing before University Law Prof. Wade McCree. The conflict is between two states, California and Texas, which are bat- tling over the rights to collect taxes on Hughes' $1.1 billion estate. BOTH SIDES claim Hughes' legal residence was ...…
…Page 2 -The MichigdnDily--Saturday, May 14, 1983 TODAY Loose bull TWO POLICE OFFICERS from Cheyenne, Wyo. learned Wednesday to look both ways before crossing tme street. An errant steer almost ran over officer Dale Karl and chased officer Jim Olson right through the down- town area of aoutheast Wyoming city. The angry animal was finally roped by a Cheyenne citizen, Paul Bruegman, and taken back to the truck he had escaped from belonging to a ...…
…Page 2 --The Michigan Daily- Tuesday, May 17, 1983 Senators earn $1.7 milinin outside ineome WASHINGTON (AP) - Senators earned $1.7 million in 1981 for making speeches and writing articles, with more than half the outside income provided by business groups, Common Cause said yesterday. The self-described citizens' lobby said that Finance Committee Chairman Robert Dole (R-Kan.) was the leading recipient of the so-called honoraria, getting $66,...…
…Page 2 - The Michigan Daily - Thursday, May 19, 1983 Report says Capitol drug probe botched WASHINGTON (AP)-The congressional police force failed in 1980 to pursue "substantial leads" about drug use and trafficking on Capitol Hill, a special House investigator said yester- day. r Joseph Califano said the leads im- plicated low-level congressional em- ployees and three Capitol Police of- ficers but no member of Congress or its professional staf...…
…Page 2 The Michiga Daily -LSaturday, May t21.1983 TODAY Kiss off LyNO DELOREAN and Barbara Kane aren't the types to just kiss off a challenge. The New York couple hold the Guiness world record for the longest kiss, which they set during six days in Los Angeles in February. But their record is being challenged by a Los Vegas couple, so DeLorean and Kane are puckered up again to save their honor. "Nobody knows when it will end," said Chris Harr...…
…Page 2 - The Michigan Daily - Tuesday, May 24,1983 Credit card fraud brings fast cash WASHINGTON (AP) - A professional criminal, disguised with a black hood and cape, told a House sub- committee yesterday that he went from "hot dogs to caviar" by using stolen credit cards to charge up to $5,000 a day. The man, referred to only as Mr. Wit- ness, with his voice disguised by a syn- thesizer, said credit card fraud was a "large business," complet...…
…Page 2 -The Michigan Daily -Thursday, May 26, 1983 Robot firm stresses industry-education tie By DAN GRANTHAM Education and business need to work together to make the robotics industry a success, a representative from a local robotics firm said Tuesday. _ Barry Baker, manager of organizational development at the DeVilbiss Company, told a convention of robotics industrialists and educators at the Sheraton Inn that while the resources of educat...…
…Page 2 - The Michigan Daily - Friday, May 17, 1985 WHILE WE WERE AWAY Over 1,000 rally against sexual assault A crowd of over 1,000 joined against because he's not allowed to together last month during the sixth march, then he doesn't understand annual Take Back the Night Rally, their purpose." March and Dance to demonstrate While women continued on the mar- against rape. The rally, sponsored by ch, the men remained at the Federal the Ann A...…
…Page 2 - The Michigan Daily - Saturday, May 18, 1985 Emigre prof offers an alternate view of Soviet affairs (continuedfromPage1) ce department. Yanov said he an- and the United States. According to fire here for the same ideas that either isolated, or compromised, or, valuable asset to the University's ticipated reviews for his book for a David Singer, a professor of world ultimately led to his exile from the still better, just out of the coun...…
…Page 2 - The Michigan Daily - Tuesday, May 21, 1985 SACUA condemns graduation rowdiness By STEVE HERZ Marcel Marceau will not receive an honorary doctor of humane lettersrr The Senate Advisory Committee on hecauaryhe wasrnothpresenteaterse because he was not present at the! Y University Affairs yesterday con- graduation ceremony. demned the rowdiness and protests After the SACUA meeting, Billy Frye, B - that characterized this month's vice pre...…
…Page 2 - The Michigan Daily - Wednesday, May 22, 1985 Police arrest 56 at CMU finals party Fifty-six people were arrested on University shall be treated as an of- a civil rights violation suit, according Student sues Front, which claimed responsibility to aStudent poksprshisr hefor this raid, entered the campus's charges of felony, minor possession, fense under these (the University's) toYatLScJena, sokmesenfor I-fr e thent ieSiec udn ndrlae 0...…
…Page 2 - The Michigan Daily - Thursday, May 23, 1985 Regan sticks up for military in naval commencement speech ANNAPOLIS, MD. and WASHINGTON (UPI)-President Reagan is staying off the campus commencement cir- cuit this year but his one graduation speech yesterday has a guarantee for a built-in warm reception-the 1,032 Over the last 40 years, Reagan said, "American military might has been an immensely positive force in the world." I REAGAN CH...…
…Page 2 - The Michigan Daily - Friday, May 24, 1985 FATHER, SON WAIT FOR TRIAL Navy officials say spy sent U.S. secrets to Soviets WASHINGTON (UPI) - A 22-year-old sailor on Although officials still were trying to determine the aircraft carrier Nimitz, part of an accused just how seriously U.S. security was breached by father-son spy team, had access to top secret in- the undercover team, a Navy official said the formation on how the United St...…
…Page 2 - The Michigan Daily - Wednesday, May 29, 1985 14 arrested, 10 hurt at MSU festival I Fourteen people were arrested and 10 were injured last week during Michigan State University's annual Cedar Fest, a block party that erupted into a rioting mob. More than 6,000 students attended the party that East Lansing Police Lt. Richard Murray described as living up to its reputation. "It was bigger and badder (than last year). The Colleges crow...…
…MENSA mixes high IQs with weirdness By STEVE HERZ MENSA members seem to posit a ' There are countless organizations in theory that IQ and wealth are not this world. necessarily compatible - they are not Likewise, there are countless in- snobs who turn their noses up on telligent people out there. laymen. ) But just how many organizations Sare there specifically for intelligent BUT PEOPLE have their ideas, *tpeople? Strauch said, and as soon as...…
…a $ M" . .,r a = ' , . r. , , s, x u = : r, . ::::: F y; a V ?; sM:y rg: _ . $660 ashtrays leaves 3 seamen in the dust 4 WASHINGTON UPI)-Defense Secret ary Caspar W einberger said ysterdse an admir and two oth a ton fr aocers have been removes; trare ammand at a aliforni naval bass where ashtrays that cos. $ 6 eacn were bought for military planes. Weinberger's announcement sur- prised some Navy officials, who ac- cused the defense secretary...…
…Page 2-Wednesday, May 6, 1981--The Michigan Daily British 'Ripper' pleads insanity From AP and UPI The "Yorkshire Ripper" said he or convict him of murder, which carries bludgeoned, stabbed, strangled and a maximum penalty of life in prison. mutilated 13 women during a 5-year The prosecutor said Sutcliffe might reign of terror because God ordered have been trying to convince him to kill prostitutes, the prosecution psychiatrists he was insane ...…
…Pane 2-Thursday, May 7, 1981-The Michigan Daily Teamsters' president Fitzsinuons dies at 73 Teamsters President Frank Fit- zsimmons died yesterday after being hospitalized since Easter for lung can- cer. The Scripps Clinic and Research Foundation announced that he had died at 9:10 a.m. PDT. He was 73 years old and a month away from the end of his fourteenth year as leader of the nation's largest, 2.3 million member union. Ray Schoessling, secr...…
…Page 2-Friday, May 8, 1981-The Michigan Daily Syrian troops, cross 'red line' 4 From AP and UPI BEIRUT, Lebanon - Some 4,000 Syrian troops and tanks were reported to have crossed the Israeli-set "red line" in southern Lebanon yesterday in defiance of Israel's repeated warnings that Syria risked war if it violated the boundary. Syria also reportedly added a new surface-to-air missile to its force in Lebanon. THERE WAS NO comment from Israel o...…
…Page 2-Saturday, May 9, 1981-The Michigan Daily No motiveD in Oregon shooting spree SALEM, Ore. (AP)-Motive remained a mystery yesterday in the hail of bullets fired into a crowded rock 'n' roll tavern by a silent gunman who witnesses said reloaded his weapon twice. Four people were killed and 20 were wounded. "Thesshots range out so fast, faster than you could register and all you could see was the hand and the gun and then people lying all ...…
…Page 2-Tuesday, May 12, 1981-The Michigan Daily 4 Atlanta mayor' seeks aid for youth protection WASHINGTON (AP) - Atlanta Mayor Maynard Jackson asked the Reagan administration for $1.25 million yesterday to help fund a strictly super- vised summer program for his city's children because of the unsolved mur- ders of 26 young blacks here. Jackson and other local officials, worried about the dangers the summer could pose to unguarded children,...…
…Page 2-Wednesday, May13, 1981-The Michigan Daily SecondI death triggers riots in Ireland 4 By AP and UPI BELFAST, Northern Ireland - IRA convict Francis Hughes died yesterday on the 59th day of his fast at Maze prison. Hundreds of Catholics im- mediately stormed into the streets, trading gunfire with police and setting fires across Belfast and Londonderry. A civilian was reported killed and two soldiers were wounded as patrolling British arm...…
…Page 2-Thursday, May 14,1981-The Michigan Daily U.S. proposes M1 east ml 4 From APand UPI BEIRUT, Lebanon - Special U.S. envoy ,Philip Habib returned to Lebanon yesterday, reportedly bearing a compromise solution- to the Syrian- Israeli missile crisis, 'and Israel's Prime Minister Menachem Begin war- ned,-"We don't have much time." Habib met for 21/ hours with President Elias Sarkis of Lebanon, where Syria has deployed anti-aircraft missile ...…
…Page 2-Friday, May 15, 1981-The Michigan Daily 4 ST. PETER'S SQUARE is filled with mourners following the shooting of Pope John Paul II yesterday. Thousands flocked to Vatican City to pray for the pontiff, who was reported to be in good conditions. Po pe improves; police hint at conspiracy Today And justice for all They cite horses, don't they? Yes, they do in Denver. A Denver County Court Judge was startled to learn this week that a horse ...…
…Page 2-Saturday, May 16, 1981--The Michigan Daily Talks continue in missile crisis A TEL AVIV, Israel (AP)-Prime Minister Menachem Begin said yester- day after another round of talks that he will give U.S. envoy Philip Habib more time to seek a diplomatic solution to the crisis with Syria over its missiles in Lebanon. Syria said it was ready for battle if war breaks out. In Washington, Pentagon sources confirmed Israeli newspaper reports tha...…
