Stories by Peter Shahin
Relay for Life raises $365K for cancer research efforts
- Sidney Krandall/Daily
BY PETER SHAHIN
Though there wasn’t a carnival this weekend at Palmer Field, it certainly looked that way.
DPS urges vigilance in preventing larcenies
BY PETER SHAHIN
For some students, larceny costs a few dollars and the hassle of cancelled credit cards. For another student who was careful to take his laptop and cell phone with him as he briefly left his seat at a library, a whole semester’s worth of work disappeared as a thief made off with the hard drive away tucked in his backpack.
Coleman talks amnesty policy and diversity at fireside chat
BY PETER SHAHIN
At a cozy affair yesterday, University President Mary Sue Coleman and E. Royster Harper, the University’s vice president for student affairs, answered questions from a few dozen students during a fireside chat in the Michigan Union.
University alum Mike Wallace, a notoriously tough interviewer, defined an age of broadcast news
- File Photo/Daily
BY ADAM RUBENFIRE PETER SHAHIN AND STEVE ZOSKI
Pioneering broadcast journalist Mike Wallace, a University alum and former Michigan Daily reporter, best known for his scathing interviews on the CBS News program “60 Minutes,” died Saturday in New Cannan, Conn. Wallace was 93.
University expenses impacted by compliance
BY PETER SHAHIN
Various federal regulations covering topics ranging from privacy of academic records to safety procedures for medical experiments and faculty training, will continue to increase University expenses in the next year as additional regulations are introduced.
Chronicle of Higher Education rankings irk university experts
BY PETER SHAHIN
Sometimes the quality of a university transcends the numbers, higher education experts say.
1,500 volunteer for annual Detroit Partnership service day
BY PETER SHAHIN
DETROIT — For many University students, smashing concrete or digging trenches may not be the ideal way to spend a weekend, but volunteers of the Detroit Partnership gladly spent Saturday participating in such philanthropic efforts.
University, national officials reflect on health care legislation
BY PETER SHAHIN
In accordance with the second anniversary of President Barack Obama’s health care reform law, Kathleen Sebelius, the secretary of the United States Department of Health and Human Services, addressed the impact of health insurance coverage on students in a conference call with reporters yesterday.
Students extol tuition equality at regents meeting
BY PETER SHAHIN
Dozens of yellow-shirted students representing the Coalition for Tuition Equality, accompanied by student representatives of allied organizations on campus, filled the Michigan Union’s Pendleton Room yesterday during the University’s Board of Regents meeting.
New School of Nursing building gets go ahead
BY PETER SHAHIN
The University’s Board of Regents approved a new home for the School of Nursing at their monthly meeting yesterday in the Pendleton Room of the Michigan Union — a deviation from their typical meeting space in the Fleming Administration Building as the board seeks a new permanent location to accommodate more attendees.
