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NEWS - MAY 2002


5.31.02 PM Update

Bush to address Ohio State commencement June 14

Fed. court strikes down internet censorship law

Rivers behind Dingell in money game

5.31.02

YET ANOTHER PLAYER ADMITS TAKING MONEY FROM MARTIN

AATA may get lead role in commuter rail plan

COLEMAN: secrecy key to search

White to return to B-School

Endorsement meeting packed by Dingell supporters?

Harvard students's use of 'Jihad' stirs controversy

COLEMAN:
"This is going to be the experience of a lifetime"


5.30.02
LATE BREAKING: DINGELL, RIVERS IN STATISTICAL DEAD HEAT

DAILY VIEWPOINT:
"Coleman will challenge Greeks at the 'U'"

DAILY EDITORIAL: COLEMAN HAS POOR RECORD ON STUDENT RIGHTS

DETNEWS:
"SECRECY MADE SEARCH EASIER"
-
"President's science savvy won over U-M"

DAILY PRINTS 13TH PRESIDENT SPECIAL SECTION

FREEP:
"U-M and Coleman mutually thrilled"

AP:
"Coleman up for challenge of being U-M's first woman president"

Exotic acid found in city parking garage

Closed deportation hearings for INS detainees banned
-
ACLU lawsuit info


5.29.02

COLEMAN NAMED UNIVERSITY PRESIDENT
COLEMAN STATEMENT TO IOWANS
'U' STATEMENT:
"Regents elect Mary Sue Coleman as president"
DAILY:
"Coleman named 13th University president"
AANEWS:
"U-M regents pick Iowa's Coleman" (special report)
FREEP:
"U-M names first female president"
DETNEWS:
"U-M names its first women president"
CH 4:
"First Woman Selected as UM president"

Martin gave U-M players $600,000

- - - - - - - - - - - - -
NEXT PRESIDENT TO BE ANNOUNCED TODAY
RUMORS: IT'S
MARY SUE COLEMAN!
(
A friend to students, a friend to GSIs, a fundraiser)

MARTIN PLEADS GUILTY
DETNEWS:
'booster faces 30-37 months in prison'

GRANHOLM SNUBBED BY AFL-CIO

Downtown Development Authority to provide home for police department?
- DDA continues to expand beyond mandate

Mud-slinging continues: Blanchard supporters accuse Granholm campaign of stealing


5.28.02

DPS ISSUES CRIME ALERT FOR LARCENY AT CCRB
-DESCRIPTION: " ... He was also described as having a 'dirty' appearance."

AANEWS: "U-M mum on next president"
- Regents consider short list,
B. Jo. White thought among them

Martin could avoid trial

ACLU COULD SUE STATE COURTS
DETNEWS:
"ACLU asks courts to review cases"

RACIAL PROFILING SENSITIVITY CONTRIBUTED TO SEPT. 11?

'BAMN conference to address 'U' lawsuits'
- Conference information
-
THE TRUTH ABOUT BAMN

'Michigan Daily' editor Peskowitz blasted in Viewpoint

West nile confirmed in Metro Detroit

Detroit electronic music festival concludes


5.27.02
HAPPY MEMORIAL DAY!

Detroit Electronic music Festival this weekend
-
FREEP DEMF COVERAGE

U-M PROFS' PAY ABOVE AVERAGE, WOMEN CONTINUE TO LAG
- "The graphs ... show that in nearly every department women earn less than their male colleagues of the same rank."

MEAP could be replaced by national test

Police explorde pipe bomb in oxford

30 injured at Eminem concert . . .


5.26.02

DINGELL AGREES TO DEBATE RIVERS BEFORE PRIMARY
- Republican redistricting pairs democratic titans in heated primary

U-M RESEARCH FRENZY DRIVES PROFS TO EASTERN MICH. U.

U-M PROFS' PAY ABOVE AVERAGE, WOMEN CONTINUE TO LAG
- "The graphs ... show that in nearly every department women earn less than their male colleagues of the same rank."

MEAP could be replaced by national test

Jackson man dies 100 feet from shore at family outing

30 injured at Eminem concert . . .



5.25.02

EDITOR'S NOTE

EXPELLED PAKISTANI STUDENT CLAIMS HARRASMENT, DUE PROCESS VIOLATION
- Student files emergency request to stay expulsion

RANDOM DRUG SEARCHES AT LOCAL HS BRINGS ACLU CRITICISM

SUSPECTED STRANGLER OF ELDERLY WOMAN CAUGHT

WEST NILE VIRUS FOUND IN MICHIGAN

At least 16 priests accused of abuse have committed suicide

Police investigate mysterious fire in luxury suites in new Lions' stadium

Judges throw out Democratic redistricting challenge; Republican majority thought likely



5.24.02

EDITOR'S NOTE

ATTEMPTED MUGGING OUTSIDE MEDIA UNION

FUTURE OF HOMELESS SHELTER IN JEOPARDY
- Public-private partnership approach backfires in embarrasing fiasco for city

LOCAL 18-YEAR OLD ARRAIGNED IN FOOTBALL PLAYER SHOOTING

Detroit could host 2004 Democratic convention.... (CH 4 story)

ENGLER LEGACY BEGINS TO EMERGE: State environmental agencies understaffed
- Thousands of environmental complaints go ignored
- Developers work nights and weekends to avoid gvnmt scrutinty

78 YEAR-OLD MURDERED IN WEST SIDE APARTMENT
-
POLICE SUSPECT LOCAL 44-YEAR OLD EX-CON
- CH 7:
"Ann Arbor Police search for murder suspect"

Harvard concedes grade inflation, slashes number of 'honors' grads

Housing recycles students' abandoned stuff


5.21.02

MICHIGAN INDYMEDIA CENTER GOES LIVE

OHIO CONSIDERS FORCING PRIVITIZATION OF PUBLIC UNIVERSITY REZ HALLS STATEWIDE

16-year-old runaway snatches purse, falls to death off downtown Ann Arbor parking garage ...
>
AP story
> Death caused by Matrix-inspired leap?
>
CH 4 coverage

Proposed law could cut into 'U' tech-transfer profits

Q+A w/ General Counsels Marvin Krislov Jonathan Alger

VIDEO:
"Police seize $9 million in Heroin"


5.20.02

CURRY RELEASED FROM HOSPITAL, SHOOTING REMAINS UNSOLVED
DETNEWS:
CURRY'S BULLET LODGED NEAR SPINE, A 'CLOSE CALL'
AANEWS:
GUNMAN STILL AT LARGE

JURY: 'U' FAILURE TO FOLLOW HARRASMENT POLICY BEHIND $250,000 DECISION

$9 million in heroin found in Wayne Co. raid

Ann Arbor women murdered by ex-boyfriend
-shooting in parking lot, in front of children

Supreme Court to decide constitutionality of sex offender registries

Ann Arbor activist at Ramallah

Construction begins on giant new homeless shelter
-
Proposed ordinence would restrict panhandling

DAILY: "VENDORS OF THE WORLD, UNITE!"


5.19.02

CURRY, DIGGS SHOT AT PARTY
DETNews:
"Two U-M football players shot after party"
- were they at the 'wrong place at the wrong time', or involved in fight?
AANews:
"U-M football players shot"
DAILY:
"Two University football players shot after party early Saturday"
-
ESPN.com prints ap story

Q+A on Rackham renovation in Ann Arbor news

Women sexually assaulted at nightclub

U-M researcher: civil liberties threatened


5.18.02

FOOTBALL PLAYERS SHOT IN FIGHT
- Markus Curry, Carl Diggs injured, shooter remains at large
-
AP STORY MAKES FOXNEWS.COM
- Curry:
Charged with assault in Feb.

Ann Arbor City council nixes extra traffic cops

DETNEWS:
Haddad beloved community man

ACLU may take up case of suspended South Lyon students' underground paper



5.15.02

AFFIRMATIVE ACTION ADMISSIONS AT LAW SCHOOL UPHELD
FREEP:
"Ruling lets U-M's law school use race factor"
DAILY:
"Decision reversed; sixth circuit votes in favor of 'U'"
NYTIMES:
"Court says law school may consider race in admissions"
AANEWS:
"Appeals court rules UM law schools' policy is legal"
UM:
info, press release
Jesse Jackson leads rally at Union
CH7:
"Race ruling gets prise, criticism"
CANDIDATES FILE FOR NOV. ELECTION

AANEWS:
"GOP's Higgins making run for mayor"


The Goodspeed Update will be on vacation from 5.01.02 to 5.14.02. Daily updates will begin again May 15th.




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