….N LOCAL/STATE The Michigan Daily - Friday, February 5, 1999 - 7 RHA asks for status of Oxford Housing, building improvements RH A "The quality of Oxford Housing is Continued from Page . "I don't think any of us would below standard." want to live in a place where no - William Zeller money was put in," said Myers, an Director of University Housing LSA junior. r f Housing officials recommended the University sell Oxford in 1997 but the ...…
… Student string quartet will perform tomorrow. A group of four will perform "Black Angels." The composer, George Crumb, is expected to attend. Rackham Auditorium. Free admission. 8 Friday February 5, 1999 Uftie £tpm &dl Ir Michigan Opera Works' "The Rape of Lucretia" will be reviewed. THE IZoPE Of LueRETIA OperaWorks to present terrifying Britten opera By Jenni Glenn Daily Arts Writer Following its debut performance last year, student-r...…
…The Michigan Daily - Friday, February 5, 1999 - 9 MONUMENTAL SATISFACTION 'Rushmor By Bryan Lark Daily Arts Writer "Best play ever, man," deadpans Mr. Littlejeans (Kumar Pallana), the enigmatic janitor of Rushmore Academy, about the absurdly technical and violent high school production $Rusin he has just seen. .r In his superlative, Littlejeans clans$i could just as easily be referring to Wes Anderson's "Rushmore,"' the film that he magical...…
…10 - The Michigan Daily - Friday, February 5, 1999 'Payback' goes for broke, but is off the money By Ed Sholinsky Daily Film Editor The tag line for "Payback" is "Get ready to root for the bad guy." Said bad guy would be Mel Gibson who plays Porter, a macho thief out for revenge. But in another way, Gibson comes out of this movie the bad guy. Paramount was supposed to release "Payback" about a Payback At Briarwood 'and Showcase year ago, ...…
… WRN'S NCAA BASKETBALL FLORIDA 75, (5) Kentucky 68 WASHINGTON 90, (1O) Arizona 84 CtEMSON 78, (12) North Carolina 63 (f3) UCLA 79, Oregon 77 (18) PURDUE 90, (14) Iowa 75 WOMEN'S NCAA BASKETBALL (1) TENNESSEE 96, Mississippi 58 (2) Purdue 96, PROVIDENCE 67 (5) Colorado State 67, RICE 50 OREGON 106, (7) UCLA 79 (9) Duke 66, (16) VIRGINIA 56 (19) Auburn 68, KENTUCKY 67 (25) Florida Inter. 72, SOUTH ALABAMA 49 SPO*RTSp It~ Tracking 'M' teams T...…
…12 - The Michigan Daily - Friday, February 5, 1999 Michigan women to fire away at Cannon Captain leads Wildcats . By Arun Gopal For the Daily The No. 5 Michigan women's track and field team will face its biggest challenge of the season, so far, at the Cannon IV Classic today and tomorrow in Indianapolis. The Cannon Classic is one of the top intercollegiate meets year after year. Among the schools participat- ing will be Texas, Wisconsin, Il...…
…The Michigan Daily - Friday, February 5, 1999 - 13 4M' gymnasts ready for 1-2 showdown Lund's game to be tested at Rolex Indoors By Dan Dingerson Daily Sports Writer The battle between No. 1 and No. 2 is what every sports fan waits for. Most *asons, the battle never happens, leav- ing fans with "what if." This season, the showdown has arrived. The No. 2 Michigan men's gymanstics team travels to State College today to face No. I Penn State. ...…
…14 -- The Michigan Daily -- Friday, February 5, 1999 FRIDAYFOCUS arlier this week, more than 40 people walked into an empty ball- room at the Radisson Hotel in downtown Lansing with one objec- tive. During the past five months, hun- dreds of college students, Michigan educators, concerned parents and fam- ilies have been deeply affected by four alcohol-related deaths that occurred on three state college campuses. Some people assume that coll...…
….d2b Weather Today: Cloudy. High 44. Low; Tomorrow: Cloudy, High 44. 31. One hundred eight years o editorz dfteedom Thursday February 4, 1999 r V J lil °l, / F " {: t/ d 4hF /'f4T 1 ,9 1 R .h. i' tt'Pi 9'/'Ni I Granger intends to reapply to 'U' By lawon Stffer Daily Staff Reporter After serving four months for sexual misconduct, Daniel Granger was released from Dickerson Detention Facility in Hamtramck yesterday. His f ther, Rick Grang...…
…2A - The Michigan Daily - Thursday, February 4, 1999 NATION/WORLD Y2K problem could affect missiles MOSCOW (AP) - Russia needs up to $3 billion, to tackle the Year 2000 computer glitch - six times the original estimate - a top official announced yes- terday as he appealed to the United States and NATO to help fix computers that control Russia's nuclear weapons. While many countries have been working on the so-called Y2K "millennium bug" pro...…
… LOCAL/S TATE The Michigan Daily - Thursday, February 4, 1999 - 3A ESEARCH Conference to fbcus on gender censorshi The Uniersiy' GniueI for Reseac thredyconference titled "Towards a Definition of Gender-Based Censorship" beginning tomorrow. The conference, to be held at the Rackham Amphitheatre will address the censorship against which women struggle in redefined terms: Censorship of women's ideas not only by the, state, but also by economic...…
…4 - The Michigan Daily - Thursday, February 4, 1999 ahr firtichwm ti Idile Doing lines with Jagger and other post 420 Maynard Street Ann Arbor, MI 48109 daily. Ietters@umich.edu Edited and managed by students at the University of Michigan HEATHER KAMINS Editor in Chief JEFFREY KOSSEFF DAVID WALLACE Editorial Page Editors Unless otherwise noted, unsigned editorials reflect the opinion of the majority of the Daily's editorial board. All oth...…
… HIGHER EDUCATION The Michigan Daily - Thursday, February 4, 1999 - 5A .Study finds cheating commi on By Chris Lawton The Washington University Student Life ST. LOUIS - According to a report on student conduct released by Washington University's Committee on Academic Integrity, 16 students failed classes last semester because they were caught in the act of plagiarism, chang- ing answers or collaborating on exams. The report showed a small ri...…
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…The Michigan Daily - Thursday, February 4, 1999 - 7A jPROPOSAL Continued from Page 1A the cost of college more affordable," Hanley said. The Democratic proposal involves the creation of a Hope Scholarship program in Michigan, which would pay for high school students who have a 3.0 grade point average and 90 percent attendance rate in school to attend community college for up . o two years. Rep. Gilda Jacobs (D-Huntington Woods) said the Democ...…
… MEN'S NCAA BASKETBALL (2) DUKE 95, (6) Maryland 77 (3) CINCINNATI 82, Tulane 63 (4) Stanford 57, -CALIFORNIA 55 (7) Auburn 76, SOUTH CAROLINA 48 Miami (Fla.) 73, (10) ST. JOHN'S 70 (19) INDIANA 71, (12) Wisconsin 60 (20) MINNESOTA 75, Illinois 63 NHL HOCKEY Colorado 5, BUFFALO 3 New Jersey 4, CAROLINA 1 MONTREAL 2, Vancouver 1 WASHINGTON 10, Tampa Bay 1 DETROIT 5, NY Islanders 1 FLORIDA 5, Toronto 2 cTfemSiuiiun Zil SI'OR.w Tracking 'M' t...…
…The Michigan Daily - Thursday, February 4, 1999 - 9A DOWN THE STRETCH THEY* COME ** Teams battle for CCHA lead as playoffs approach K W Mark Francescutti Daily Sports Writer The race is on for playoff spots in the CCHA, and this season's compe- tition is hotter than ever. Six teams, including Michigan are within nine points of first place. HOCKEY Even the teams in the depths of Commentary the CCHA haven't It themselves out. The bottom ...…
…10A - The Michigan Daily - Thursday, February 4, 1999 Blue recovering from mid-season illness By Jon Zemke Daily Sports Writer After weeks of the "Blue plague" that has ravaged the ranks of the Michigan men's swimming and div- ing team, the Wolverines are looking their healthiest in quite some time. "Pretty much everybody is back," Michigan coach Jon Urbanchek said. "Everybody who is able is back in the water ... No more flu, no more cold,, ...…
…" '- The MIhigan Daiy -eekd etC.Magazinde T ursdiy, Febrary 4, 1999 MAGIC Continued from Page 28 The second floor, in addition to housing more apparatus, accommodates the muse- um's sizeable library. Totaling nearly 10,000 volumes, the bulk of Lund's library includes tomes devoted solely to conjuring. Many visitors are unaware that the library includes volumes that make only fleeting references to magic or magi- cians. For example, a biograph...…
… 2B The Michigan Daily - Weekendetc. Magazine -Thursday, February 4, 1999 The ; ~g ed eb Websites we think ou'l like {*Y http://wwwtheonion.com, MIAMI - The $52 million Trisket TV spot featuring the explosion of the Earth was the third most expensive com- mercial to air during the Superbowl this past Sunday - finishing behind Nike's $86 million wheelchair poll-vaulting Ad and Atena's water-skiing, rapping beetle offering that cost more than $...…
…14B'-" The Michigan Daily -Weekend; etc. Maaziny-. Thursday; February' 4, 1999 A weekly guide to who's Thursday, Feb. 4 why you need to be there ... h eL is t Wednesday, Feb. 10 W The Michigan Dailyy - Weekendt AMERICA WITH AN OPEN SHL Gordon Parks uses visual images to tran Films opening Payback ** Mel Gibson stars as Porter, a bad ass thief looking for revenge. At Briarwood: 12:30, 2:50, 5:10, 7:40, 10:10. At Showcase: 12:15, 12:45, 1:15...…
… 4B - The Michigan Daily - Weekend, etc. Magazine - Thursday, February 4, 1999 Bookstores of all sorts and sizes have long histones on localstreet 0 The Michigan Daily - Weekend, etc. M THE 1999 MERCURY COUGAR: PROTECT YOUR BUM I Top 10 Albums I I By Sasha Higgins and Will Weist Daily Arts Writers In a world where theme restau- rants, Hollywood movies and Websites have become as common place to islands in the Caribbean as they are to m...…
…t B -0 0* 2B - The Michigan Daily Weekeno, etc. Magazine -- Thursday, February 4, 1999 ;' 00 The Michigan Da*- Weekend, etc. ... EtJVideo Rewind 'American' maintains romantic energy nearly 50 years later Pair of stores on East Liberty St. By Kristin Long Daily Arts Writer In an age when the cinematic musi- cal is most frequently deemed outdat- ed and passe, the timeless 1951 classic "An American in Paris," takes us back to the time whe...…
… 68 -: The M igan Paily - Weekend,* tMagazine - Thursy F ary, 1999 New-look events provide fans excitement on the hardwood ': r0 * The Michigan Daily - \ ekend, etc. Maga etc Road-Trip of the Week Star Theater offers more than just latest Hollywood features ;, r : . J e t By Matthew Barrett Daily Arts Writer Like it or not, much is different with the Michigan men's basketball program this year. The team has struggled and looks as though...…
…"1OB - The Michigan Daily - Weekend, etc. Magazine -=Thursday, February 4; 1999 tc Weekend, etc. Column O. 0 The Michigan Daily - Weekendet. 1 AN EXERCISE IN FUTILITY I am trapped here. Here, in this squalid square room, I sit, trapped by convention, by habit, unable to move- save to nod my head at irregular inter- vals. Above me sterile fluorescent lights hum and crackle malignantly, interrupt- ing and dispelling thought before it reach...…
…8B - The Michigan Daily - Weekend, etc. Magazine - Thursday, February 4, 1999 0 0 S:0 The Michigan Daily Weekend, etc. Maga HALF] THEAT PAST OFG AUTUMN: RDON Although the bulk of Gordon Parks' photographs were shot in black and white, the artist has frequently experimented with color film. The medium gives Parks more artis- tic leeway, allowing him to stray away from narrative subject matter, toward a more abstract view of the worl...…
…WE4 oday: Mostly cloudy. High 45. Low 25. oniorrow: Cloudy. igh 44. tate to fund One hundred eikht years ofeditongleedom drinkiing education Wednesday February 3, 1999 DRINKING More than $600,000 in state funding has been allocated toward alcohol awareness education. A media blitz is planned by state officials to inform college students of the dangers of alcohol. n State Director of Community Health James Haveman calls for more alcoho...…
…2 - The Michigan Daily - Wednesday, February 3, 1999 N ATION/\VORLD UC Berkeley sued over admissions SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Civil rights groups lacks "educational iustification" the suit said equal nnrtinitv" i sued the University of California at Berkeley yes- terday on behalf of high-achieving minorities who were rejected, saying the university system's flag- ship campus overemphasizes test scores and advanced courses in admissions. "This i...…
…Thcs MrA~hioin Daily -- W cnecsdav.Februarv 3. 1999 - 3 MMEFW INV*F, *HIGHER EDUCATION Governor asked to intervene at u of Arizona Attorneys for Arizona Gov. Jane Dee Hull reviewed a letter last week from four University of Arizona faculty members pleading that "something desperately needs .to be done" to end the University's hostile environment for black women and other minorities. Th letter asked for outside help remove the acting direct...…
…4 - The Michigan Daily - Wednesday, February 3, 1999 ~fe dl~c.i~ttrn 1?uitg Have degree, will travel, grovel, 420 Maynard Street Ann Arbor, MI 48109 daily. letters@umich.edu Edited and managed by students at the University of Michigan HEATHER KAMINS Editor in Chief JEFFREY KOSSEFF DAVID WALLACE Editorial Page Editors G6 anted: freshly graduated person, 21-23, with degree in English, history, art history, film or any of the other humanitie...…
… Tomoiow !n Daily Arts: Weekend, etc. Magazine returns with a look at the work of photographer Gordon Parks, inspired by the new exhibit visit- ing the Detroit Institute of Arts. Wednesday February 3, 1999 5 Courtesy of David Smith Photography perform a rendition of "An American in Paris." Michael Spencer Phillips and Nicole Palczynski1 Razzm.atazz to give light I By Jenny Curren Daily Arts Writer This weekend a flying trapeze will bree...…
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… !Jotre Dame NOTRE DAME Continued from Page 1. Dame, including its location and undergradu- ateicademic standing, make the school a good fit fpr the Big Ten. "Out of all the school's we've looked at, I Aik they have become a school that's more Mue-added if they do come into the confer- ence'Goss said. "I'd like to seem them there." Notre Dame and the Big Ten have met three other times in the past seven months to discuss issues associated with ...…
…8 -The Michigan Daily - Wednesday, February 3, 1999 'Rushmore' star Schwartzman speaks about fil By Erin Podolsky Daily Arts Writer Jason Schwartzman is living the life these days: appearing on Letterman, tooling around in limos and cushy buses, eating a grilled chicken sandwich, minus bun, with carrots on the side. It might be exhausting waking up at 6 a.m. in an unfamiliar city after driving all night sleeping in a "coffin bunk," doing in...…
… MEN'S NCAA ASKETBALL (8) Michigan State 70, PENN STATE 68 (21) OKLAHOMA ST. 81, love State 72 Tennessee at (23) ARKANSAS, inc. NHL HOCKEY Colorado 3, BOSTON 2 Toronto 3, TAMPA BAY 0 PITTSBURGH 5, Buffalo 3 Calgary at PHOENIX, inc. UZije Stcjiagm Oat Tracmng -m' teams Be sure to check out the women's gymnastics team at the State of Michigan Classic this Saturday at 4 p.m. at Cliff Keen Arena. The sixth-ranked Wolverines will be hosting No. ...…
…10 - The Michigan Daily - Wednesday, February 3, 1999 Injury cuts Mortimer's season short By David Mosso Daily Sports Writer No one was more eager for the start of the track and field season than John Mortimer. After all, this would be the year Mortimer would step out of the shadow of Kevin Sullivan and become the star of the Michigan men's track team. Sullivan, the Wolverines' renowned all-America and recipient of numer- ous awards last sea...…
…Eije tripanailg Weather Today: Cloudy. High 43. Low 25. One hundred ek ht years of editoruleedom Monday February 1, 1999 77 Is 11 , I III 11 11 1 11 1-1 ji. jvm' ilv -, . - .- I I r jap s ate debates Starr's itentions lsss Angeles Times WASHINGTON - President Clinton's impeachment trial, although in recess, became embroiled anew in partisan controversy yesterday as Senate Democrats bitterly accused independent counsel Kenneth Starr of attem...…
…2A - The Michigan Daily - Monday, February 1, 1999 NATION/WORLD AIPAC Continued from Page 1A power of people in government. As a student at Swarthmore College in the 1950s, Levin partici- pated in a petition drive to collect signatures in support of the censure of former Sen. Joseph McCarthy (R- Wisconsin). McCarthy lead a vigor- ous search to expose U.S. citizens who he presumed to be communists, but was later was censured for acts unbecom...…
…LOCAL/STATE The Michigan Daily - Monday, February 1, 1999 - 3A CAMPUS au RC art gallery to feature work of hotographer A one-person exhibit is scheduled to open Feb. 5 to display the photographic =work of LSA graduate Mary Berridge, .a former Residential College student. The display will feature photographs of women with HIV, appearing in the book "'A Positive Life: Portraits of Women Living with HIV" Berridge co- authored the book with awar...…
…4A - The Michigan Daily - Monday, February 1, 1999 QIIpe Bicbigun &d{l The CCRB: Darwin's theory of evolution in action 420 Maynard Street Ann Arbor, MI 48109 daily. letters@umich.edu Edited and managed by students at the University of Michigan HEATHER KAMINS Editor in Chief JEFFREY KOSSEFF DAVID WALLACE Editorial Page Editors Ijust love the CCRB. I mean, where else on campus can you go and work out for an hour or two, sweat out all the w...…
… * Last screening of 'Marius and Jeanette' tonight at the Michigan Theater. A simple film about a middle-aged couple who find love, "Marius and Jeanette" discover one another and their turbulent histories in a working class town. In French with English subti- tles. 8:45 p.m. $5.50 for students. Ule ti ia ai Breaking Records returns with a review of "Keep it Like a Secret," the new CD by Built to Spill. Monday February 1,1999 ldv Cook and ...…
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…The Michigan Daily - Monday, February 1, 1999 - 7A $ODE Q ?tinued from Page 1A tTM while School of Natural le burces and Environment has only one member, Hulswit said. TMe Code limits the pool of student inelists to 60, but the numbers for the faoulty pool is not fixed, Hulswit said. ,The trainees met for nine hours Ztrday with OSCR staff members in Henderson Room of the Michigan Lague. .Tihe trainees formed small groups to p ratice skills ne...…
…8A - The Michigan Daily - Monday, February 1, 1999 Mute mimic possesses huge secret in 'Little Voice' By Erin Podoisky Daily Arts Writer For the title character of "Little Voice," a tiny movie with a bellow that emanates from the gut, there is nothing in life that cannot be com- mented on to perfection with an old lyric or two. LV, as the doe-eyed, bashful Laura Hoff (Jane Horrocks), has the incredible ability to flawless- ly mimic such vocal...…
…Uhe Aitckian Jadl PORTS 1E)AY page is l3ack to reality, low expectations for MIc hikan As the students in section two of Crisler Arena wearily rose to their feet after watching Iowa administer the coup de grace to Michigan on Saturday, one fan remained in his seat, staring blankly at the scene in front of him. In his hands he held two of the yellow, cardboard '3-pointer' signs handed out before the game, held so the two '3's faced each othe...…
…2B - The Michigan Daily - SportsMonday - February 1, 1999 COLLEGE BASKETBALL SCORES From Saturday EAST Canisius 75, lona 73 Cent. Connecticut State 81, Wagner 69 Colgate 71, Holy Cross 59 Connecticut 78, St. John's 74 Dartmouth 70, Brown 46 Drexel 82, Maine 73 Harvard 76, Yale 58 Hofstra 77, New Hampshire 64 MdBaltimore County 68, Quinniplac 58 Mt. St. Mary's 50, Fairleigh Dickinson 47 Penn 67, Columbia 51 Pittsburgh 60, Miami 54 Princeton 56...…
…February 1, 1999 - SportsMonday - The Michigan Daily - 38 'Wrestling takes fight out of No. 6Illinois SPORTSMONDAY COLUMN f j h r staff The Michigan wrestling team took a Whig step towards establishing itself amoung the Big Ten's and the nation's elite teams yesterday. The No. 10 vW~erines rebounded from a disap- o inting loss to Central Michigan on hursday by upsetting No. 6 Illinois, ;2616 at Cliff Keen Arena. This weekend's meet was a ch...…
…4B - The Michigan Daily - SportsMonday - February 1, 1999 Puck talk "Why do referees feel they have to decide the game?" - Michigan coach Red Berenson, displeased with referee Jim Sotiroffs decision-making in the third period of Saturday's loss to Notre Dame Michigan 3 Notre Dame L Michigan 3 2 Key play Saturday night, 13:33 remaining in the game - Michigan center Bobby Hayes fires a length-of-the-ice pass to Mike Comrie, who puts it away...…
…The Michigan Daily - SportsMonday - February 1, 1999 -- 5B Quote of the weekend "Our front line is very young ... they had to make adjustments, and they didn't." - Michigan coach Brian Ellerbe on the way his players responded to the play of Iowa's experienced and talentedfrontcourt. MIowa 81 Player of the game Point guard Robbie Reid Reid was on fire from long distance, shooting 6-/or-11 from beyond the air. The senior guard finished with 2...…
…6B-.--The Michigan Daily - SportsMonday - February 1, 1999 Poor attendance at games hurts program 'Wisconsin stomps 'M. By Uma Subranmian Daily SportsWriter It's no secret that Michigan Stadium is hallowed ground in Ann Arbor. Nor is it any secret that the revenue sports such as football, men's bas- ketball, and hockey------------- will get their fans to Basketball crowd into the are- nas to watch them Commeary play: --------- But there is ...…
