-
November 20, 2000
By Joanne Nesbit News and Information Services Playwright, actor, director and anti-apartheid activist Athol Fugard, recognized as one of the world’s leading theater artists, will be in residence at the University Dec. 3–9 as part of “Communities of Concern: Artists and Writers from the U.S. and South Africa on the Changing Nature of Identity in…
-
November 20, 2000
By Mary Jo Frank Office of the Vice President for Communications Safra Renée Safra, an LS&A honors student in economics, will be the student speaker at winter commencement. Safra, a member of Phi Beta Kappa and a James B. Angell Scholar, will receive a B.A. at the ceremony. Safra is from Atlanta, Ga. Students and…
-
November 20, 2000
By Mary Jo Frank Office of the Vice President for Communications Leonard Novelist and screenwriter Elmore Leonard will give the commencement address at winter commencemen t Dec. 17. The Regents voted at their Nov. 16 meeting to present honorary degrees to Leonard; Lin Ju Ying, honorary president of the Chinese Nursing Association; and John L.…
-
November 20, 2000
By Joanne Nesbit News and Information Services Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, freedom fighter, author and president of the Women’s League of the African National Congress, will speak at 7 p.m. Nov 30 in the Michigan Union Ballroom. Mandela’s presentation, “The HIV/AIDS Crisis in South Africa and the African Diaspora,” is free and open to the public and…
-
November 20, 2000
And the walls came tumbling down Progress in the preparation of the site on Palmer Drive that will house the Life Sciences Institute and several other facilities was dramatically demonstrated last week when the north section of the ‘NUBS’ Building was demolished. Work in the area has prompted some traffic flow changes on Washtenaw Ave.…
-
November 20, 2000
By Jane R. Elgass Oral arguments on summary judgment in the University’s undergraduate admissions lawsuit, Gratz v. Bollinger, et.al., were held in Federal District Court in Detroit on Nov. 16 before Judge Patrick Duggan. In the oral arguments both sides were asking Duggan to rule in their favor and not send the case to trial.…
-
November 20, 2000
Editor’s Note: Following is a letter from Provost Nancy Cantor to the University community. More detailed information is on the Web at www.umich.edu/~urel/darkness.html , including links to additional materials. Dear Colleagues, The book Darkness in El Dorado is now out in bookstores, and was scheduled to be a subject of discussion at last week’s American…
-
November 20, 2000
Jung Sun Park, M.D. (left), and Ha Young Kim, M.D., at last week’s press conference. In reading the family’s statement about the death of their son, Byung Soo Kim, following his consumption of a large quantity of alcohol in a short period of time, Dr. Jung Sun Park emphasized that they wish to have the…
-
November 20, 2000
By Julie Peterson News and Information Services Kim Byung Soo Kim, a U-M student and a native of South Korea, died at about 6 a.m. Nov. 13 at University Hospital after consuming a large quantity of alcohol Nov. 10. His parents, Ha Young Kim, M.D., and Jung Sun Park, M.D., issued a statement in which…
-
November 20, 2000
Raymond F. Mosher Raymond F. Mosher, age 94, died Nov. 8 at St. Joseph Mercy Hospital in Ann Arbor. He was born in 1906 in Pittsfield, Mass., the son of Fred and Hattie Mosher. An emeritus professor in the Electrical Engineering Department, Mosher taught courses in power systems for the College of Engineering 1957–76. A…
