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NEWS - APRIL 2002

4.30.02

MAN SLASHED WITH GLASS ON PACKARD, ANOTHER PEEPER AT ALICE LLOYD HALL

CRIME WAVE CONTINUES: BREAK-INS IN WEST QUAD, BURSLEY, SOUTH QUAD, ETC

MICHIGAN REVIEW OFFICE BROKEN INTO
-archives stolen but not computers

Compulsive Lyres take first at A Cappella championship
>Michigan A Cappella directory
>
UM press release

Hill closing for renovation
>Daily:
'U' needs more performance space
>
Renovation website
>
construction website

A2 farmer's market to open Wed.

OATES: AAPD needs more cops

PESKOWITZ: MSA APOLITICAL, USELESS

U-M to pay city for $400,000 fire truck
(
UM press release)

Man dies after falling down stairs at party at MSU

Sigma Phi Epsilion brothers mutilate pig at Wake Forest U


4.26.02

State Street merchants push ban on panhandlers
- prohibited area to include Main, Liberty, South 'U'

MSU PAPER:
"'U' reels from GEU strike"
-
"Graduates seek pay riase, better health insurance with new contract"

Maureen Johnson wins $250,000 from the 'U'
AANEWS:
"Student wins $250,000 in harassment suit vs. U-M"
Granholm, Blanchard tie in Dem. primary race

Cell-phone companies demanding per-call tariff


4.25.02

MI LEGISLATURE GIVES POLICE POWER TO SEARCH HOMES WITHOUT SAYING WHY

GRADUATE STUDENTS WALK OUT AT STATE
-
MSU: IGNORE 'ILLEGAL' WALKOUT
-
GEU PRESS RELEASE
-
Picket line photo
- State News:
"U braces for GEU strike"
- AP:
"MSU teaching assistants walk out Thursday"
- MSU DATA:
U-M leads in GSI pay (PDF)

FORUM feature added

MAN BEATEN FOR 6-PACK OF BEER AT PACKARD AND SOUTH STATE

TUBERCULOSIS CASE AT CMU

HADDAD TO BE JAILED LONGER DUE TO ACLU CHALLENGE
AANEWS:
"Deportation hearing delayed for Haddad"
FREEP:
"Haddad hearing postponed"
DETNEWS:
"Activist may remain behind bars"

MN STUDENT PAPER FILES COMPLAINT AGAINST POLICE
-Alleges photographer, reporter assaulted by police officers in post-hockey riots
- Paper says a "systematic targeting of members of the press" by police


4.24.02

MSU SURVEY:
54% SUPPORT NATIONAL ID CARD
- AP:
"Survey: Most Americans don't want to give up civil liberties"
-
survey briefing in PDF, html slide show

MSU GRAD STUDENT TEACHERS TO WALK OUT
-
"GEU tells 'U': Deal or strike"
-
"Tuesday night at the GEU membership meeting, members voted unanimously to reject the university’s current proposal ..."

STATE SENATE CONSIDERING VERTICAL IDs FOR MINORS
-
bill info
- DAILY: "
Senator wants to alter IDSs for those under 21" (12-5-01)

DAILY:
"Taubman sentenced to year in prison, $7.5 million fine"

DETNEWS:
Haddad may remain behind bars

DAILY:
"Few attend Lansing protest to ask for support for Palestinians"

POLL:
Bush down, Gore, Dems up

Blanchard supporters upset with Granholm MEA endorsement


4.23.02

Royal Shakespeare Co. to return to U-M
>
schedule highlights (2002-3 season in pdf)
RECORD: "
Royal Shakespeare Company to Return"

B. Joe photo at Bioscience Building groundbreaking

DPS finally has some suspects

Cohen speaks out against Aff. Act. in staff newsletter


4.22.02

>>
SEE NEW WEATHER PAGE

Protests continue in DC ...
(
The Nation's coverage)

Local fire departments, private ambulance companies compete

78-year old Taubman: $7.5 MIL fine, 1 year in prison

MEA picks Granholm on 'electability'

POST profiles Rivers / Dingell race, EMILY's list


4.21.02

>>
SEE NEW WEATHER PAGE

DAILY:
"TKE loses national charter"

Huge land buy approved to prevent sprawl outside A2

Woman fondled by stranger in West Quad stairway
- scroll to bottom of linked page

Powerful teachers union backs Granholm (2)

"Corn study spurs debate over corporate meddling in academia"
- MSU researchers split over Biotech research $$
-
Info on Biotech
- My viewpoint:
"Genetically modified food should be labeled"


4.20.02

HADDAD SECRET HEARING TRANSCRIPTS RELEASED
AANEWS:
"Transcripts: Haddad less than honest"
AP:
"Attorney: Transcripts show no reason to detain Haddad"
FREEP:
"Cleric's secret file raises questions on terror role"

National poetry slam to return to A2

Thousands protest Bush, War, Mideast violence, Globalization in DC
-
DC Indymedia
- W.Post:
"Middle East takes center stage at D.C. rallies"
- MSNBC:
"Thousands protest peacefully in D.C."

More evidence Cheney will speak at MSA convocation May 3


4.19.02 PM

HADDAD HEARING TRANSCRIPTS TO BE RELEASED

PIONEERS FOR CHRIST AND GAY/STRAIGHT ALLIANCE BATTLE AT PIONER HIGH
- Non-discrimination policy causes flap

DAILY:
"Regents unveil plans for undergraduate science center, increase residence hall rates"

DAILY:
"Perpetrator description remains the same in fourteeth crime alert"
>>
see crime alert

Hastings teen charged with murdering a 15-year old with methadone

Vonnegut says speech at Albion college will be his last

4.19.02

Regents boost housing rates 5%
- Ethernet use responsible for 1% of increase

Groundbreaking today for new Cass Tech in Detroit

U-M benifactor Taubman to be sentenced Monday
- portrayed as 'greedy criminal', 'great citizen'
- U-M GIFTS INCLUDE:
Taubman Medical Library, Taubman College of Architecture, Taubman General Medicine Center

New building site of undergraduate science center
-
Palmer drive movie


4.18.02

AANEWS:
"5% hike in U-M dorm rate likely"

TKE nationsals sue U-M chapter
- Suit alleges pres. Daniel Thal and treas. Mark yaffe misappropriated $34,320

Naked Mile run in underwear
-
Naked Mile Info Page
-
Naked Mile 2002 photos
- DAILY:
"Runners turnout for Mile despite increased security efforts"
- AP:
"Tame running of Naked Mile results in three arrests"
- AANEWS: "Naked Mile runners wear pants for police"

ONE YEAR AGO: "Cold, police make Naked Mile a bust", "Few Naked, No mile"


4.17.02 PM

LATE BREAKING: CRIME WAVE CONTINUES
-
Home Invasion - West Quad
- SEE
CRIME ALERTS FOR PAST ALERTS>>

NAKED MILE TONIGHT

AANEWS:
"U-M Execs average 4.5% raises"
-
B. Joe White, Bollinger: $326,550

AANEWS:
"SOS stops SAFE house payment"

Unseasonable temps cause local ice cream shortages ...

Congress set to vote on drilling in Alaska
- - - - - -

4.17.02

MSA-sponsored free bus ride to airport passes
-
make reservations online
- DAILY:
"MSA offers free shuttle to airport"

Washtenaw county to ban smoking in workplaces, public spaces

Downtown Development Authority to take charge of city's parking
-
Higher meter rates, fines thought likely results
-
City to lose critical revenue source for 10 years

Bush administration to restrict foreign students' majors

Anatomically correct doll causes stir in Maine


4.16.02

Dick Cheney might speak at MSU commencement

Ann Arbor looking to emulate East Lansing
- flyers, porch furniture banned at MSU


U of MN to use discipline code to punish arrested hockey fans

Regents to add 30 unendowed school/college professorships at monthly meeting Thursday, approve housing rates

'U' will talk to your parents more in future


4.15.02

Zeta shut down ... (aanews)

Athletes brawl, arrested ...

A2 hires more traffic officers to solve budget shortfall

Trash fine ordinence on the way


4.14.02

Ground breaking for biomedical science research building monday
- AANews:
'Science hub grows'
-
Prospective drawing
-
Animation of computer model
-
Project website

Detroit oil spill estimated more than 10,000 gallons


4.13.02

Fed. government unwittingly paid over $30 in slave reperations

AA News:
"Interest barely stirring in U-M's Naked Mile"

AA News:
"15th 'peeping tom' incident reported at U-M"


4.11.02

Unpopular dean resigns, yet another Bollinger appointee gone

Bollinger's first big score: Columbia hires away prominent Harvard economist

7th grader expelled for bomb threat written in bathroom stall

CRIME WAVE CONTINUES:
-
ARMED ROBBERY - CHURCH STREET
-
YET ANOTHER PEEPING TOM IN EAST QUAD
Haddad transcript battle likely

B JOE WHITE CRITICIZED IN ANN ARBOR NEWS
-
As a dean, White got mixed reviews
-
Profs speak out on search - want leader with 'intellectual vision'
-
Copy of faculty letter

MSU Pi Kappa Phi suspended for 'mocking gay men'

DET CH7:
U-M Students Hold Rally for Israel



4.10.02

see new photos section >>>

Michigan Student Assembly selects chairs [minutes (DOC)]

AP:
"U-M students march through campus as part of Middle East protest"

Amer G. Zahr invited back to "Politically Incorrect"

McCain / Bayh photos posted

Judge refuses request to reconsider: Haddad trial to remain open

FREEP:
"Sparty TV beer ad draws fire"


4.09.02

John McCain and Evan Bayh (2) (3)
AA News:
"Senators push volunteerism bill"
FREEP:
"Senators urge U-M student s to heed country's call to serve"
DAILY:
"Bayh, mcCain push to increase volunteerism"

My.Umich discontinued

Cable modoem access cheapened, Community TV hurt

Pfizer buys more land


4.08.02

Hash Bash Page Posted

MCCAIN AND BAYH TO SPEAK TODAY>>

Earth week begins

DAILY:
"Autopsy: Death caused by heroin use"

4,000 attend Hash Bash

Detroit men arrested terror investigation charged
- Detroit men "planning to hurt American businesses" and "could be linked to terrorist activity."

Ameritech boosts hidden charges


4.07.02

DUSTIN GOODMAN DIED OF HEROIN

Crime Alert - Home Invasions @ Northwood V housing

FEDERAL JUDGES:
Haddad hearings must be open, secret evidence O.K.

HASH BASH:
Event changes as its ideology gives way to partying


4.05.02

HASH BASH 4/6

-
'Official' website
DAILY:
"A2 lights up for Hash Bash this weekend"
AANEWS:
"Hash bash is back, along with controversy"

Med school reaches number 8 nation-wide...

AA NEWS:
"U-M acting to curb alcohol abuse"

Michigan pollution on the rise

'U' press release: McCain, Bayh willl hold meeting ...

BLACK GRADUATION CEREMONY STIRS CONTROVERSY AT MSU

AANEWS:
U will consider terminating New Era Cap Co. contract


4.04.02

MITCHELL TO SPEAK TODAY AT 3>>

JUDGE SAYS CLOSED IMMIGRATION HEARINGS ARE UNCONSTITUTIONAL
FREEP:
"Let the public in, judge tells U.S."
DETNEWS:
"Haddad hearings must open, judge says"
DAILY:
"Judge rules haddad's trial must be open"

Webber: No comment yet on Martin scandal

Metro airport stalls AATA shuttle plan

Children discover makeshift meth lab during egg hunt

"Price was right for LSA sophomore over break"


4.03.02

DAILY ATTACKS NOLAN:
"Not again: Election scandal tarnishes Nolan's legacy"
-
Nolan, Cash reign comes to close at marathon msa meeting (MINUTES DOC)

NakedMile2002.Com Launched ...
>> SEE
NAKED MILE FRONT

10,000 RIOT AT U MD, POLICE USE TEAR GAS

STUDENTS PELT POLICE WITH BOTTLES, HELICOPTERS ABOVE @ INDIANA U

"Foreign student applications surge despite terrorism"

NEW AA YMCA PLANNED, AATA TO BUILD TRANSIT CENTER


4.02.02

STAFF NOMINATIONS SOUGHT FOR DPS SAFETY OVERSIGHT COMMITTEE

DENTISTRY PROF SPEAKS IN FACULTY, STAFF PUBLICATION: GIVING 'F'S IS PROTECTED SPEECH

FEDS TO INTERVIEW 90 MORE FOREIGNERS LIVING IN MICHIGAN

DETROIT NEWS COLUMNIST: FREE SPEECH MOVEMENT NOW 'NO SPEECH MOVEMENT'
Thomas Bray:
"Closed minds at University of Michigan?"
LETTERS:
"Audience listened"

U RECORD:
"McCain, Bayh will hold town meeting."

RECORD:
DPS dogs profilied

Michael Moore a hit at Northwestern Michigan College


4.01.02

AA NEWS:
DPS canine units for bombs, tracking

DAILY:
"Luse, Whelan announced official LSA-SG winners", "Boot, Glassel finally declared official winners"

MSU GRAD STUDENT TEACHERS TO STRIKE APRIL 15?

GOODSPEED:
CRIME SPREE PICKS UP OVER WEEKEND



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