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January 27, 2003
Policy changes in criminal justice and social welfare are responsible for many of the problems faced by poor women today, said Prof. Emeritus Rosemary Sarri in a Jan. 17 discussion of her latest book, “Women at the Margins.” The 1980s marked a shift from social benefits to social control approaches in welfare, said Sarri, who…
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January 27, 2003
To poets, the stars, moon and sun may be a source of inspiration, but to people whose livelihoods depend upon properly timed planting, harvesting and hunting, celestial bodies long have been a valuable source of information. Courtesy Exhibit Museum of Natural History People throughout Africa, for example, relied on the Pleiades star cluster to tell…
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January 27, 2003
Hispanics are grossly underrepresented in university math departments, both as faculty and students, William Yslas Vélez said at the Jan. 20 Marjorie Lee Browne Colloquium. He said universities should encourage minority students to pursue majors in mathematics. Vélez, a Distinguished Professor of Mathematics at the University of Arizona, spoke about the need for minorities, especially…
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January 27, 2003
A call-to-action from a keynote speaker and a series of group workshops in the Chrysler Center kicked off a year of events designed to increase diversity in the College of Engineering (CoE). Levi Thompson, associate dean for undergraduate education, underscored the college’s commitment to change Jan. 20. “We’re here to do more than simply celebrate…
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January 27, 2003
Nearly 40 years ago, Martin Luther King Jr. gave a passionate speech about his dream for the day when his four children would live in a nation that judged them for their character, not for being Black. “We’re not there yet,” said Dr. Alvin F. Poussaint, speaking on the MLK national holiday. “We’re not free…
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January 27, 2003
For the past 19 years, Anne Flora quite literally has been serving the U-M community. She started her career as service supervisor in the East Quad Dining Services, and also has worked as food service manager at the Executive Residence, and food service director at the Michigan Union and Pierpont Commons. Flora moved to the…
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January 27, 2003
Participants in a Jan. 20 panel on Title IX agreed the law has done great things for women and girls in athletics. More than 2.8 million high school girls play sports, according to the National Federation of State High School Associations. But a current of negativism flows beneath the issue, most notably the cutting of…
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January 27, 2003
Editor’s note: Anthony Collings is a former CNN Supreme Court correspondent who now teaches a seminar evaluating Supreme Court news coverage, as a lecturer in the Department of Communication Studies. The U-M admissions cases could make legal history. They are the first such cases before the Supreme Court since it said in Bakke in 1978…
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January 27, 2003
Reconstruction of the Broadway Street bridges over the Huron River and railroad, a project that could take up to two years and begin as early as next week, will require a number of alternate routes. One in-bound (toward downtown) lane of traffic will be maintained at all times throughout the construction project. All out-bound traffic…
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January 27, 2003
The University’s legal team will present oral arguments regarding its admissions policies April 1, the date the Supreme Court of the United States has agreed to hear two lawsuits against U-M. In the meantime, confusion created by President George W. Bush’s use of the word “quota” in relation to U-M admissions policies has formed the…
