Word: michigan
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After the Posse students are chosen, the top 100 students will be admitted to nine participating universities, including Pennsylvania State, Rutgers, the Universities of Michigan and Delaware, and five liberal arts colleges--Beloit, Carleton, Colorado, Grinnell and Macalester...
Wolfe's field work for the book has included interviewing Stanford students and attending a fraternity party at the University of Michigan...
...would be the lone postseason appearance in Harvard football history. In 1922, the Big Three--Harvard, Yale and Princeton--would make an agreement not to enter postseason contests, only enriching and emphasizing the competition between themselves while preventing the teams from competing with schools like Michigan, Notre Dame and other emerging national football powers. In 1954, the Ivy League was formed, and its regulations, including those regarding the prohibition of athletic scholarships, were made fully operational in 1956. While the rest of the country was heading in a direction that some might refer to as the professionalization of college sports...
Boys will be boys - except in a growing number of courts, where they are men. A nationwide trend towards trying juveniles as adults was taken to its furthest frontier in recent days when a Michigan court heard the case of Nathaniel Abraham, accused of first-degree murder. Two years ago, the then-11-year-old Abraham borrowed a .22 caliber rifle, sat on a hillside in a Detroit suburb, and shot stranger Ronnie Greene, Jr. in the head. Abraham's lawyers claimed the shooting was accidental; they said he was taking potshots at some trees. The prosecution said he bragged...
...trial became a case study of sorts. Under the microscope: A three-year-old Michigan law, the most stringent of its kind, which permits prosecutors, with a judge's permission, to try children as adults. "The theory behind this law," says TIME Detroit bureau chief Nichole Christian, "is that because more and more children nationwide are committing crimes that we generally think of as 'adult crimes,' these kids should be tried as adults." And despite widespread discomfort with attributing adult motivations to children, the laws are popular in many states. Opponents of the measures, ranging from Amnesty International to Abraham...