Campus Life
Partygoers looking to drink at certain fraternities may have to bring their own booze in the near future.
The Interfratenity Council, one of the largest Greek councils on campus, wants to enforce a policy in its bylaws forbidding fraternities from providing alcohol at its parties.
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Campus Life
Talib Kweli, Rahzel
concert
What: A concert with hip hop star Talib Kweli, solo beatboxer Rahzel and hip hop DJ JS-1. Tickets cost $25 and $15.
Who: Michigan Union When: Today at 7:30 p.m.
Where: Power Center for the Performing Arts
Talk on science,
technology and medicine
What: A talk titled "What You See Is What You Get: Creating Mess in Science and Technology Studies" by Nina Wakeford, a research fellow at Goldsmiths College, University of London.
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Campus Life
1 - Registration for Spring, Spring/Summer, and Summer begins Wednesday for graduate students and next Monday for undergraduates. Backpack is now available on Wolverine Access. 2 - Junior Emily Brunemann won a national title in the 1,650-yard freestyle this weekend at the NCAA Swimming and Diving national championships.
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Academics
The United States Army has given the University a $10 million grant to help develop a tiny robotic spy plane that would be used to collect intelligence for soldiers in combat zones.
University researchers have nicknamed the plane "The Bat" for both its size and the technology it will use.
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U Administration
From 11:30 a.m. until midnight today, bargaining teams from the University and the Graduate Employees' Organization will make one final effort to reach an agreement on a new contract for graduate student instructors before their contract exprires and a planned two-day walkout starts tomorrow.
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Student Government
In a near repeat of last year's Michigan Student Assembly and LSA Student Government election results, the Michigan Action Party swept aside the competition in last week's MSA and LSA-SG elections, winning the presidential and vice presidential spots in both organizations.
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Crime
Air conditioning
unit vandalized at Mary Markley
Where: Mary Markley Residence Hall
When: Friday at about 1 p.m.
What: An air conditioning unit was vandalized at Mary Markley Hall on the west side of the building, the Department of Public Safety reported.
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International
Baghdad
Rockets, suicide bomber attacks kill at least 57
Rockets and mortars pounded Baghdad's U.S.-protected Green Zone yesterday and a suicide car bomber struck an Iraqi army post in the northern city of Mosul in a surge of attacks that killed at least 57 people nationwide.
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International
4000
Number of American service members who have died in the war in Iraq, according to The Associated Press. There were no deaths identified yesterday.
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National
A new procedure at the University of Iowa would make graduate students' dissertations and theses available over the Internet, The Chronicle of Higher Education reported.
The change allows the school to require that theses and dissertations will become "open-access documents.
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