Supporters of the Drug Abuse Resistance Education program say the plan continues to work in educating young students about drugs and alcohol, despite a study that claims otherwise.
The DARE program promotes zero use and is presented to 36 million youth annually in 52 nations. It is usually given to fifth graders an hour a week [...]

CMU, along with several other universities and the American Civil Liberties Union, has claimed that a highly debated voter bill is unconstitutional.
Public Act 118, which originated from Senate Bill 306, prevents Michigan residents from voting at an address different from the one on their drivers’ licenses.
The bill was signed into law by Gov. John Engler [...]

Feminism is the struggle to free women from obscure forces, said feminist speaker Elizabeth Grosz.
Grosz spoke Thursday in the Bovee University Center Rotunda about her theme “Feminist Futures: The Time of Thought.” She was the fifth speaker in the “Humanities at the Millennium: Transforming Conversations” year-long series, co-organized by English professors Mark Freed and Gray [...]

Two goals Janett Trubatch would like
to accomplish at CMU include increasing research-funding amounts and
shifting more duties of the College of Graduate Studies from administrators
back to [...]

More than the typical number of Michigan
voters are expected to flock to the polls Tuesday for the Republican
presidential primary, held almost a month earlier than usual.
[...]

Losing one’s religion may never be called easy, and some may not consider it a choice.
But two CMU students who dared to explore their convictions found that the peace, freedom and closeness of their new faith, missing in their former religions, was worth any heartache.
Angela Bavar, Davison freshman, was raised Catholic, but has been a [...]

Denny Bettisworth, chair of the speech communication and dramatic arts department for almost two decades, has announced his plans to resign.
Bettisworth said he had no comment on why he was resigning as chair, but did say he would remain as a professor in the department. He said he has chaired the department since arriving at [...]

A government-mandated crash test that would result in higher-power air bags is feeling the backlash of several auto-industry groups.
A resolution from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, expected to be announced March 1, would require automakers to return to using 30-mph crash tests to assess unbelted occupant protection. For the past two model years, the [...]