…TF WEr w %Ai.%#%616 %w Vwearer Today: Scattered thunderstorms. High 79. Low 63. Tomorrow: Windy. High 75. Oane hundred eight year of editorialfreedom Wednesday September 8, 1999 Ua flt ,' Bollinger seeks input on stadium halo's future WELCOME T hne staff of The Michigan Daily £ cwelcomes you back o campus. Today marks the first day of classes, new books and new professors. Each day of school we will attempt to keep the students, facul...…
…till a I<Alr+ x%461 ,^ r Today: Mostly cloudy. High 72. Low 59. Tomorrow: Mostly cloudy. High 68. One hundred ezht years of'edit n;71freedcm Thorsday September 9, 1999 M '"' " . E } . a'3 sx .,.,.- ,,. :, Yatkqr'is %rk l £ 'W. 'tl/yt n . <. A"a ;d," ' +S r° ' "$ ^, @, , v. . A.. ,, .y #yy An early warning for Y2K? k's 9-9-99 ITD anticipates no computer problems with 9999 termination code By Jodie Kaufman For the Daily A hile fears of c...…
…C 40 lET *rng Weather Today: Cloudy. High 64. Low Tomorrow: Sunny. High 73. 53. One hundred eight years of editoria-l freedom Friday September 10, 1999 -- - ----------------- UN pulls workers from East 'imor. DILI, Indonesia (AP) - The United Nations evacuated its embattled com- pound in East Timor today, leaving but a skeleton crew to continue working to bring the territory to full nationhood. The pullout came after the workers spent s...…
…ItL R. r Wa +hEqr vveawe Today: Mostly cloudy. High 73. Low 63. Tomorrow: Partly cloudy. High 68. One hundred eight years ofedtorzifreedom Monday September 13, 1999 z. ' yy athletic Dept. relaxes stadium bottle policy By Anna Clark For the Daily Fans complained and the authorities listened. *Michigan Stadium's policy on prohibiting fans from bring- ing containers into the stands during football games - including water bottles - was rel...…
… 4 Ike -6 All- = "' , , .. ' z.rQ "' : . :, , 3 , :q , . . - a _" . rte ay: Mostly cloudy. High 70.6Low 53. norrow: Partly cloudy. High 67. One hundred eirht years of editoria'lfreedom Tuesday September 14, 1999 Life ciences institute progresses Jeremy Peters ily Staff Reporter University President Lee Bollinger discuss plans for the development of the new Li i e Institute with the Senate Adviso mmittee on University Affairs at its me...…
…C*Itg I4UU 74714w i A#- -JLR- - - veather y: Partly cloudy. High 66. Low 47. omorrow: Partly cloudy. High 67. may .hur One hundred eight years of editoriadfreedom Wednesday September 15. 1999 ' ' to sign Microsoft deal campus niedia Jeremy W. Peters y Staff Reporter The U.S. Sixth Circuit Court of ppeals; with jurisdiction over the tate of Michigan, delivered a ruling ast Wednesday that upheld the 1997 sion by a federal district co...…
…N WE , .ti I Y y ' - - I s Thursday, September 16, 1999 V ~' Athletic Dept. losses than By Rick Freeman Daily Sports Editor Upfront and honest about its shortco the University's Athletic Department yes morning revealed an additional defi $756,000 dollars found in a recent audit budget for the Fiscal Year 1998-99. The original budget projected a pro $1.093 million, but the recently disc losses bring the net loss to $2.784 mill $3.877 mi...…
…8. One hundred eikht years ofeditori'alfreedom "Ut Friday September 17, 1999 Veather oday: Sunny. High 71. Low 4 omorrow: Sunny. High 73. Em , ". 7 ., r Pr x e ' '- j' Scry -.V ire damages Sigma Chi fraternity Basement fire forces members from former Phi Delta Theta house By Nick Bunkley and Yael Kohen Daiy Staff Reporters Flames gutted a basement room in the temporary Sigma Chi fraternity house last night, in what Ann Arbor Fire Depa...…
…leather day: Showers. High 68. Low 54.Onehndredeghr years ofeditorial rgdom morrow: Showers. High 51. Oehnrdegtyas feitr~ reo "I't Monday September 20, 1999 . cantor's $5M grant funds LSI Father program Fles suit ainst 'U' y Gerard Cohen-Vrgnaud ily Staff Reporter George Cantor is suing the niversity for negligence in the eath of his daughter Courtney antor, who suffered fatal injuries fter falling from her sixth-floor ary Markley Res...…
…eather :ro Partly cloudy. High 59 Sunny. High 65. wr mx "Ut . Low 41. One hundred eight years of ed/toriailfreedom Tuesday September 21,1999 ' $ mposium ddresses utomotive echnology 0 Caitlin Nish the Daiy The Sixth Annual Strategic and chnical Symposium to discuss new tomotive technology will be held orrow and Thursday at the Ypsilanti arriott Hotel. The symposium is cosponsored by niversity's Center for Integrated i systems and will ...…
…WE ran i k I- -LIL - - Veather ay: Mostly sunny. High 69. Low 54. morrow: Partly cloudy. High 74. One hundred eight years of edantldfreedom Wednesday September 22, 1999 J ,., F adison repares or nval eekend y Jodie Kaufman aily Staff Reporter Wolverine and Badger football fans hare a rivalry that runs deep. In 1993, after the Michigan football earn won at the Badgers' stadium in adison, students rushed the field ausing serious injuries ...…
…lit1 it4va t1 lEl. ...ilA-kw.. wener Today: Sunny. High 76. Low 48. Tomorrow: Partly cloudy. High 70. One hundred eight years ofeditorial freedom Thursday September 23, 1999 Suit intervenors speak out By Jennifer Sterling Daily Staff Reporter Sharing personal stories and citing historical facts last night, several students involved in the University's College of Literature, Science and the Arts and Law School admissions lawsuits vocaliz...…
…Weather Today: Partly cloudy. High 66. Low 53 Tomorrow: Sunny. High 74 rraddyannlrn One hundred ezg' erb gs of edirjfgreeorngg7 Friday September 24, 1999 Mir 1 Meningitis By Rica Berrin Daily Staff Reporter Director Robert W The vaccination department at University "There has no Health Services has been unusually busy this disease on this week due to a sudden concern with anxiety break," Meningococcal Meningitis, a contagious and very scar...…
…~be~tAipnil IAb%"16j.'mf Weatner Today: Mostly cloudy. High 78. Low 62. Tomorrow: Showers. High 67. xaminer Identifies body found in MSU fesidence hal By Jewel Gopwani Dily StafdReporter The Ingham County Medical Examiner on Friday positively identified the body of a man found in the basement of a Michigan State University residence hall last Wednesday, as 23- year-old Neftali Valdez Greene Jr. In a statement Michigan State University Police...…
…It, 47R 40 v ti hIfn. ...AL - ga~ier ~day: Mostly cloudy. High 77, Low 65. ~morrow: Showers. High 66. One hundred eight years of editordfreedom Tuesday September 28, 1999 1ACUAreviews harassment policy y Jeremy W. Peters aily Staff Reporter In the spring of 1986. the Senate Advisory ommittee on University Affairs released a at-ment on the University's policy regarding UI relationships between faculty and stu- ents - that was the last t...…
…ICf trirn "U SA.. 4%616 0%- earner~ roday: Showers, High 70. Low 61. romorrow: Partly cloudy. High 61. One hundred nine years of editorilfreedom Wednesday September 29, 1999 A p .- ; ,a x ; hAPPY BIRTHDAY! Affirmative action takes a hit Today marks the 109th anniversary of the first edition of The Michigan Daily. Free from ~ersight by administrators and run Whtirely by studnts, the Daily has existed as a student voice on campus for ...…
…N Veather Aay: Mostly cloudy. High 64. Low 45. One hundred nine earso editon 1Ieedomn omorrow: Partly cloudy. High 67. yas i y y M1h l $N Thursday September 30, 1999 S,,.'i eI v \: \' t= b eH awsuit forum dWs 200 By Michael Grass Daily Staff Reporter More than 200 University profes- sors, students, administrators and other interested groups crowded the Michigan Union Ballroom yesterday to hear a panel discuss the current sta- tus of two...…
…2A - The Michigan Daily - Wednesday, September 8, 1999 NATION/WORLD Viacom acquiring BS for $36B NEW YORK (AP) - Viacom Inc. is buying CBS Corp. in the richest media merger in history - a S36 billion deal that combines the owner of hip properties like MTV and VHI with the old-line network that brought you "60 Minutes" and "Murder, She Wrote." CBS, which changed hands just four years ago when it was bought by Westinghouse Electric Corp., wi...…
…2A - The Michigan Daiy - Thursday, September 9, 1999 NATION/WORLD Doctors watch as lungs light up WASHINGTON (AP) - In a labora- tory at the University of Virginia, a hand- ful of patients inhaled a deep breath of helium and watched their lungs light up. Scientists are exploring a dramatic new way to peer into patients' bodies: using specially treated gases that let doctors watch, for the first time, how breath flows through the lungs. The t...…
…-2 - The Michigan Daily - Friday, Se Danfori WASHINGTFON (AP) -- Vowing to pursue the "dark questions" of the Waco siege, former Republican Sen. John Danforth opened an independent inquiry yesterday into whether the FBI started the deadly fire and later tried to cover its actions. He pledged a thor- ough inquiry that could include ques- tioning of Attorney General Janet Reno and FBI Director Louis Frech. President Clinton, talking to jeporters...…
…2A - The Michigan Daily - Monday, September 13, 1999 - NosATION/Wallo Indonesi,4a toalowpeaekeprs The Washington Post JAKARTA, Indonesia Bowing to intense international pressure, President B.J. Habibie said yesterday night Indonesia will allow armed foreign peacekeepers into East Timor to end a wave of killing and destruction by pro-Indonesian militia- men and his own soldiers and police. The announcement paved the way for an Australian-led p...…
…2 - The Michigan Daily - Tuesday, September 14, 1999 NATION/WORLD Moscow police investigate bombing, AROUND THE NATION The Los Angeles Times MOSCOW - A deadly terror cam- paign targeting ordinary Muscovites in their sleep spread fear across the capital yesterday as rescuers pulled 73 bodies from the ruins of an eight-story apart- ment building flattened by a pre-dawn bombing. Police began searching every base- ment in Moscow and inspecti...…
…2- The Michigan Daily - Wednesday, September 15, 1999 NAdbTesNORLD FOrida braIce%%s fr lr 's AROUND THE NATION 0 COCOA BEACH, Fla. (AP) - Heavy rain from one of the most fearsome storms of the century began to lash the coast ahead of Hurricane Floyd last night, as evacuees from Florida to the Carolinas streamed inland in bumper-to-bumper traffic. Nearly two million people were told to get out of the way as Floyd skirted the north-central F...…
…2A -- The Michigan Daily - Thursday, September 16, 1999 NATION/WORLD Nations promise relief or Timor DILI, Indonesia (AP) - Closi ranks against terror, countries fr France to Thailand promised yesterd to send soldiers to rescue thousands starving East Timorese from furt slaughter. The United States is offering plar and pilots to get peacekeepers into t province, and will also help with log tics, communications and intelligenc In just week...…
…2 - The Michigan Daily - Friday, September 17, 1999 NATION/WORLD Church shooter leaves flew clues for police FORT WORTH, Texas (AP)-- Police picked through Larry Gene Ashbrook's trashed home and old journals on yester- day, finding holes punched in walls, con- crete poured in toilets and family pho- tographs shredded - but no explanation for why he opened fire in a church, killing seven people and himself. The 47-year-old Ashbrook appeare...…
…_I 2A -The Michigan Daily - Monday, September 20, 1999 NATION/WORLD Reform Party splits over Buchanan The Washington Post Television commentator and GOP dissident Patrick Buchanan appears to have a good chance of winning the Reform Party nomination for president in 2000, although his prospective candidacy is already polarizing the embattled political organization, according to party leaders and activists. Buchanan's likely candidacy has ra...…
…2 - The Michigan Daily - Tuesday, September 21, 1999 N ATION/X ORLD U.N. urges leaders to provide all war-tom nations equal attention AROUND THE NATION (iijI UNITED NATIONS (AP) - Secretary-General Kofi Annan urged world leaders at the General Assembly's annual debate yesterday to be more ready to intervene in strife-torn regions to protect civilians - provided the United Nations is involved in authorizing the intervention. His message was ...…
…2 - The Michigan Daily - Wednesday, September 22, 1999 NATION/WORLD U. Wisconsin prepares TAIWAN - Continued from Page 1 I ]or Saturday s game MADISON Continued from Page 1 Break away gates have been installed between the student section and the field, and if pressure is applied to the gates, they will open automatically. The Badgers have a tradition of hold- ing a Fifth Quarter following the game's end. During the extra quarter, the ban...…
…9A -_ Thp Nirhogn rdily -Thi rirerlc , ntrpnhcr ?SQ1IOQOC ZIA - f I C I'VI I~,I UI UdIIy-I IfUIJUfuy, J~Lt'IIIN ATIONU/ZOO RL D Greek system gears up for rush season PAR TIES 2 '","c k ncionUSH ontinued from Page 1A closel. Continued from Page lA C fhe party are drinking safely. Prior to the policy change, each chapter host- ing an event decided whether and how to monitor its guests. This puts "a lot more responsibility on members to moni...…
…2- The Michigan Daily -- Friday, September 24, 1999 NATION/W ORLD - Clinton vetoes GOP tax bill WASHINGTON (AP) - President Clinton vetoed the Republicans' S792 billion tax cut bill yesterday as "too big, too bloated" - apparently dooming chances for any sweeping tax reduction this year. Republicans mentioned that Clinton "has stolen this tax cut from working American families." With his signature in a Rose Garden ceremony, Clinton guarantee...…
…2A - The Michigan Daily - Monday, September 27, 1999 NATION! ORLD Deficit poses threat to economy The Washington Post WASHINGTON America's burgeoning deficit in trade, investment income and other transactions poses an increasing threat to the nation's otherwise healthy economy, according to many economists and government policymakers. In the second quarter of this year, this shortfall was $80.7 billion, which meant that to finance it, close t...…
…1 9 - Tha NMirhio;;n nnil - T11rpcr'M- , ntpmr OP ' )Q100~t NATION/WORLD GOP plans to link wages, taxes The Washington Post WASHINGTON - With the Republicans' $792 billion tax bill offi- cially dead, lawmakers and lobbyists for business interests are looking to a bill boosting the minimum wage as their best vehicle for achieving significant tax relief this year. Republicans had previously promised to provide help to small busi- nesses most...…
…2-The Michigan Daily - Wednesday, September 29, 1999 N ATION/W ORLD Bradley proposes health care plan LOS ANGELES (AP) - Presidential candidate Bill Bradley unveiled a $65 bil- lion plan yesterday to dramatically expand the federal health care system, and accused Al Gore of shying away from the challenge to insure all Americans. "This is not the time to be timid," he said. Bradley, who called health care cover- age an unalienable right - as ...…
…2A - The Michigan Daily - Thursday, September 30, 1999 NATION/WORLD FORUM Continued from Page 1A In Bakke, the Supreme Court ruled that racial quotas used by the University of California at Davis were unconstitutional, but in an opinion written by Justice Lewis Powell, the government had an inter- est in encouraging diversity. Although many suspect that one of the lawsuits filed against the University will make it to the Supreme Court, Payt...…
… LOCAL/STATE The Michigan Daily - Wednesday, September 8, 1999 - 3A *HIGHER E DUCATION m Former student admits to making false transcript A former Iowa State University stu- went pleaded guilty last week to third- degree burglary, admitting that he broke into the school's Office of the Registrar to create fake transcripts with the intention of applying to the University of Michigan and several schools in California. The former student, Ali...…
… SEARCH * urgery replaces mputated gers with toes University Hospital's second toe-to- a surgery patient will soon return to eon his farm in Silverwood, Mich., >lowing physical therapy. Last July, rgeons transplanted three of Orlin otter's toes - two from one foot and e from another - to his hand after Il five fingers were amputated in a ring accident. The hospital performed its first rgery of this kind on Michigan rmer Thomas Schultz 18 month...…
… LOCAL/STATE The Michigan Daily - Friday, September 1C, 1999 - 3 CRIME E Notre Dame student urinates On public view Department of Public Safety officers observed a University of Notre Dame student urinating in public near the corner of South -University and East University Avenues in the early morning hours Saturday. The subject was given a verbal warning to leave the premis- es and did so. .No report was filed. Nen dump paint at Northwood ...…
…AMPUS VU'collects grant for underground rairoad research The University was one of seven iversities to receive a $5,000 ant from the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation in August. The University plans to pair with the Washtenaw County African- American Cultural and Historical Museum to use this grant to begin research on uncovering the history of the Underground Railroad in Washtenaw County. The research will unfold in a *ree-part pr...…
… LOCAL/STATE -- ._ ''. _ iil ! ., The M chipan Da h Tuesday, Sentember 14, 1999 - 3 @CRIME I Students shift routines t i Racist literature found in School of Social Work *A man called the Department o: Public Safety on Sunday afternoon tc report that he found racist literature lying on the floor in the front lobby o the School of Social Work, DPS reports state. The caller found two sheets of paper. each containing 200 to 300 words with de...…
… LOCAL/STATE The Michigan Daily - Wednesday, September 15, 1999 - 3 *HIGHER EDUCATIONM U. California student group *fights repeal University of California Student Association officials said they plan use newly reinstated lobbying power to con- vince the University's Board of Regents to repeal the ban on affirmative action. The group plans to appeal to state leg- islature and officials who may aid in increasing diversity on the California- sy...…
… LOCAL/STATE The Michigan Daily - Thursday, September 16, 1999 - 3A 'ESEARCH Study shows 1 in 3 Michigan kids don't buckle up Roughly one in three Michigan chil- en do not use safety belts, despite creased public awareness of the ben- efits of buckling up, according to University researchers. In a new study of safety belt use by children age 15 and under, researchers David Eby, Lidia Kostyniuk and Jonathan Vivoda of the University Transporta...…
…RIME S wo suspects ested for tolen property e University Department of Public fety arrested two subjects matching e description of suspects in an armed bbery call. The suspects were in possession of olen property, including a back- ck, belonging to a subject who was aten in the face by the two earlier the evening in the Church Street rport. The victim denied medical attention, I'eports stated. ubject punched nd kicked A subject was beaten and ...…
… LOCAL/STATE The Michigan Daily - Monday, September 20, 1999 - 3A CAMPUS # SympOSIUm discusses new technology The University's Center for Integrated Microsystems is cosponsor- in e Sixth Annual Strategic and Temical Symposium of the Metro Detroit Chapter Society for Information Display on Wednesday and Thursday. Symposium topics include an update on flat panel display markets, the appli- cation of aerospace display technology to vehicles and...…
…The Michigan Daily - Tuesday, September 21, 1999 - 3 CRIME ' Woman assaulted while sunbathing outside home woman in the 600 block of Tappan Sported Sunday to the Department of Public Safety that she had been assault- ed by a man, according to DPS reports. She was outside sunbathing, when the suspect approached her. He touched her hair, back and then her upper leg. The assault is being treated as a fourth degree criminal sexual conduct. A repo...…
… LOCAL/S TATE The Michigan Daily - Wednesda. September 2 99 3 &HIGHER EDUCATION BU students rally to legalize manrjuana use At Boston University, about ,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 Reform1 Coalition and the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Law. Organizers collected about ...…
… LOCAL/S TATE The Michigan Daily - Thursday, September 23, 1999 - 3A OESEARCH U' researchers create less toxic, cheaper isotopes Several researchers in the College Engineering have discovered a ore efficient way of producing iso- topes. This new separation process is an alternative to gaseous diffusion, which is expensive, causes more cross-contaminated byproducts and requires the use of large electro-mag- nets. Researchers said they stumbl...…
… LOCAL/STATE The Michigan Daily - Friday. September 24, 1999 - 3 ZRIME - University bus. strikes man in leg, leaves bruise A male victim was allegedly hit by a *iversity bus while at a North Campus bus stop Wednesday after- noon, according to Department of Pudhe Safety reports. The man said the bus struck him in the leg, leaving a bruise. The man denied medical attention. Patients found with marijuana In two separate instances, patients in *...…
… LOCAL/S TATE The Michigan Daily - Monday, September 27, 1999 - 3A CAMPUS I" Fire damages Solar Car team's equipment A fire Tuesday morning in the niversity's Solar Car Team's work- space in a Pittsfield Twp. warehouse damaged some of the team's equip- ment, but not any needed to race in the Australian World Solar Car chal- lenge Oct. 17. Investigators are still working to determine the cause of the fire and assess the damage, Project Manage...…
… LOCAL/STATE Leaves, grass spontaneously combust Ohe Ann Arbor Fire Department responded to a grass fire behind the Varsity Tennis Center on South State Street on Friday afternoon. Fire officials reported the fire, which they think began with spontaneous combustion. The fire was quickly brought under control and was con- tained to a pile of leaves and grass. The fire, located about 200 to 300 yards from the center, did not damage building. '...…
… LOCAL/STATE The Michigan Daily - Wednesday, September 29, 1999 -- 3 HIGHER EDUCATION L Two unions authorize strike effectin MSU Members from unions represent- ing more than 1,000 workers at Michigan State University have authorized a strike that could disrupt campus life. Local 1585 representing groundskeepers, maintenance workers and food service workers numbering 940 members, and Local 999 repre- senting plumbers, carpenters and elec- * c...…
