The Michigan Daily Online News Judge instructs 'U' to open meetings about candidates Ruling yesterday that final stages of the Board of Regents' planned search process were illegal, Washtenaw County Circuit Court Judge Melinda Morris put new limitations on the search for the 12th University president. After seven hours of legal discussions and debates, Morris issued a preliminary injunction against the regents that now prevents them from holding some closed meetings. They also must release almost all documents pertaining to presidential candidates.
Students blast anti-affirmative action measure There is strength in numbers.
More than 150 students came to last night's Michigan Student Assembly meeting in the Michigan Union Ballroom to show their support for affirmative action. Jordan's Hussein travels to W. Bank Hussein, the first Arab leader to travel to the autonomous Palestinian area, said his landmark visit was intended to help speed the pace of Israeli-Palestinian negotiations over Israel's overdue withdrawal of its troops from the West Bank city of Hebron. But the king, who has been critical of Israeli delays in the Hebron redeployment, said he was not trying to pressure the government of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Beverly Tatum, who graduated from the University in 1984 and is a professor of education at Mt. Holyoke College in South Hadley, Mass., gave a public lecture yesterday afternoon about the racial identities students can develop through studying race in multicultural courses. The court's ruling, expected by July, could clarify just when government is allowed to do so.