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Rotating Item: Campus Clubs — Concrete Canoe Team
By: Shruti Gandhi
The Michigan Concrete Canoe Team will do anything to stay afloat, even if it means duct-taping the canoe during a competition.
Or so says Engineering junior Lexi Walter, head captain of the University’s Concrete Canoe Team, remembering a failed 2008 competition when the team’s carefully planned canoe cracked.
Students gather on the Diag to kick off National Coming Out Week
- Aaron Augsburger/Daily
By: Caitlin Huston
Students from across campus gathered on the Diag yesterday afternoon to proclaim their identities at an event to kickoff National Coming Out Week. In addition to a wide range of speakers, the festivities included rainbow banners and a ceremony in which students walked through a giant closet door — which many said was the highlight of the event.
Office Hours: Profs give academic diagnosis for health reform's public option
By: Darryn Fitzgerald
As the current health care reform bill rattles its way through the legislative process, Republicans and Democrats alike continue to grapple with a central question of the debate: whether to create a public option or a government-run health care alternative for those who either can’t afford or lack access to other private alternatives.
Endowment update tops regents' agenda for Thursday's meeting
By: Kyle Swanson
At its monthly meeting Thursday on the University's Flint campus, the Board of Regents will receive an updated report on the University’s investment portfolio, including details on the state of the University’s endowment.
Bags permanently prohibited from Big House
By: Valiant Lowitz
A ban on bags of any size at Michigan Stadium during home football games is now permanent, the Department of Public Safety announced today.
Off the Beaten Path: University Laundry
By: Libby Ashton
As the director of the University’s Laundry Services, Rolando Croocks does more than sort scrubs and bleach linens.
He saves marriages, or so he says, referencing an incident when he founda wedding band that was left in a pair of scrubs. But beyond that, Croocks does clean a hell of a lot of clothes.
In Other Ivory Towers: UCLA student stabbed during chemistry lab
By: Joseph Lichterman
A University of California at Los Angeles student was stabbed multiple times in the neck during a chemistry lab Thursday afternoon, the Daily Bruin reported. The victim, who the newspaper reported is improving, was a 20-year-old female student in the class.
Law-related experience not necessary for law school, report says
- Said Alsalah/Daily
By: Annie Thomas
According to a Kaplan Test Prep and Admissions survey of 152 law school admissions officers released last week, more than half of those surveyed reported that having legal work experience doesn’t give an advantage in admissions.
As budget process drags on, lawmakers weigh businesses and state programs
By: Nicole Aber
State legislators in Lansing have a lot on their plates as they search for an elixir to the state’s budget gap before the end of the month.
Free market advocate Yaron Brook speaks to packed crowd about economic collapse
- Clif Reeder/Daily
By: Eric Perkey
Yaron Brook, president and executive director of The Ayn Rand Institute and a regular contributor to CNN and the Fox News Channel, spoke to a packed room in the Chemistry Building last night about what he believes to be the reason behind the current economic crisis — and it’s not one you’d expect.
