Monthly Archives: March 2004

Senator John Edwards has dropped out of the Democratic primary after resounding Kerry victories in the primaries today (Aside from Vermont – which went to Dean), leaving Sharpton and Kucinich the only remaining democrats, in addition to Nader and Bush, in the race for president.

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Baylor University’s student newspaper, the Lariat, editorialized in favor of gay marriage last week, unleashing a flurry of letters both in support and criticizing the position, but also eliciting statements from that University’s president, and the Baylor Student Publications Board, which determined that: “The Student Publications Board has determined the editorial published in the Lariat […]

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An email virus is circulating in the U-M email system sending messages with subjects like “Email account utilization warning” or “Important notify about your e-mail account” with a .pif or .zip attachment signed by “The Umich.edu team.” The University’s “Virus Busters” team has tentatively identified the virus as a Bagle.gen variant, and only people using […]

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The deadline for Arts at Michigan’s competition to exhibit artwork aboard AATA busses is approaching: submissions are due March 15. Read more on the “ArtRide” website.

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Articles of note in today’s Daily: > “DPS reports fewer incidents in res halls”> “Charity group showcases more than 340 works of art by Michigan prisoners”> “Students protest new Art School curriculum”

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Here are the candidates for seats on the Michigan Student Assembly in this March’s election. The University Party has disappeared, although some of their former members have filed to run as independents (most notably Tim Moore and Anita Leung – what would have been a UP executive slate), and a new party calling themselves the […]

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Daily Film Editor Zach Maybee gave Mel Gibson’s “The Passion of Christ” 4.5 out of 5 stars in today’s Daily, calling it in his review a “brilliant triumph of Biblically inspired filmmaking.” Excerpts: ” … Preliminary concerns surfaced quite early, and still persist, about the Gospel that Gibson and company portray. Charges of anti-Semitism are […]

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