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November 4, 2002
The personal and economic benefits associated with receiving a college education top the list of what matters most to people, according to a recent survey about the connection between higher education and the public good. By contrast, higher education’s impact on civic responsibility and the practice of democracy ranked near the bottom of the list…
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November 4, 2002
A student in the audience wanted to know the ethics of using MP3s, and he acknowledged he probably knew the answer but was hoping for justification of his free music downloads. It was the kind of question Randy Cohen had heard many times. As the writer of “The Ethicist” column in the New York Times…
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November 4, 2002
The University, in briefs filed Oct. 29 with the Supreme Court of the United States, urged the court not to overturn its historic 1978 Bakke decision allowing the consideration of race in university admissions. U-M is responding to petitions filed by the Center for Individual Rights (CIR) asking the Supreme Court to overrule victories by…
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November 4, 2002
Minority women face the same obstacles as other women but with the addition of norms and values that differ from mainstream society, said panelists at the forum “Global and Cultural Issues for Women: Research By and About Women of Color.” At the Oct. 29 discussion, panelists talked about how minority women are impacted by social,…
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November 4, 2002
A five-year, $1.3 million grant from the U.S. Department of Education to U-M—Dearborn (U-M–D) will help local public schools respond to the needs of students who have limited proficiency in English. In Dearborn, the seventh largest school district in Michigan, more than half of the students are Arab or Arab American, and nearly a third…
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November 4, 2002
By Judy Steeh News Service Nov. 15 is America Recycles Day, and if U-M’s recycling coordinator Sarah Archer has anything to do with it, it will be a day to remember on the Ann Arbor campus. Recycling staffers lean against a mountain of clothes, bedding, shoes and other items collected during a student move-out. Waste…
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November 4, 2002
School of Dentistry A School of Dentistry forensic dentist has played a major role in bringing closure to a family whose son had been listed as “missing in action” from the Vietnam War for more than 34 years. Dr. Jack Gobetti, a professor of dentistry and forensic dentist, was able to positively identify the serviceman…
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November 4, 2002
The nation should unite and take a proactive stance against environmental polluters, said attorney and environmental crusader Robert F. Kennedy Jr. during a visit to the University and metropolitan Detroit. Kennedy (Photo by Paukl Jaronski, U-M Photo Services) At a press conference at the Michigan Union and a lecture sponsored by the School of Natural…
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November 4, 2002
Court outcomes for children in abuse and neglect cases are likely to improve through a new federally funded certification program to assist child welfare lawyers. The Law School and National Association of Counsel for Children (NACC) will start the pilot program through a three-year, $600,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services…
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October 28, 2002
After years of studying and thinking about the Holocaust, U-M–Dearborn Prof. Sidney Bolkosky is not optimistic about finding meaning in the catastrophe. “Who can possibly fathom the meaning of the death of 1.5 million children in crematoria and in killing fields, or the starvation and enslavement of thousands more?” he writes. “To speak of the…
