March 27, 2000
By Jane R. Elgass About 30 women joined a five-member panel at the Michigan League earlier this month for “An Intergenerational Dialogue: In Celebration of Women’s History Month.” “This is an opportunity to explore feelings and experiences, built on the premise that there are intergenerational issues in these areas,” explained moderator Susan Johnson, a member…
March 27, 2000
By Mary Jo Frank Office of Communications Thomas Carey delivered the Distinguished Research Scientist Lecture last week. His work helps physicians select the best treatment for patients with squamous cell cancer of the head and neck. Photo by Bill Wood, U-M Photo Services Two patients with an advanced stage of head and neck cancer receive…
March 27, 2000
By Diane Brown Facilities and Operations In a move to encourage drivers to use Park-and-Ride lots around the city’s perimeter, the current ‘green’ parking area in the Crisler Arena lot will become an ‘orange’ lot July 1, requiring a $50 permit, down from a cost of $130 this year. Photo by Rebecca A. Doyle The…
March 27, 2000
Editor’s Note: The following actions were taken by the Regents at their March meeting. By Wono Lee News and Information Services Fox named to endowed chair The appointment of law Prof. Merritt B. Fox to the Louis and Myrtle Moskowitz Research Professorship of Business and Law was approved, effective March 1. The professorship, established in…
March 27, 2000
Pittsfield Elementary School student Mitchell McBrairty receives throwing pointers from Women’s Lacrosse team member Elise Halajian, LS&A first-year student, as he tries to aim for a garbage bin ‘goal’ set up at the Women’s Lacrosse booth. The booth was one of more than 100 at Crisler Arena March 17 for the Second Annual K-Grams Kids…
March 20, 2000
By Rebecca A. Doyle Harris Wofford (left), CEO of the Corporation for National Service, led swearing-in ceremonies last week for the U-M’s newest student members of AmeriCorps. In accepting their new responsibilities, the students pledged to ‘get things done for America—to make our people safer, smarter and healthier. I will bring Americans together to strengthen…
March 20, 2000
From the Information Technology Division Seven-digit dialing will be eliminated this year for those of us in the 810 and 734 telephone area codes. We will then have to dial 1 plus the area code plus the seven-digit phone number for all calls—whether local or long distance—including calls within the same area code. Instead of…
March 20, 2000
By Bernie DeGroat News and Information Services Gramlich Last year, 45 million people in the United States received $387 billion in benefits from Social Security. About 40 percent of income received by older Americans in 1999 came from Social Security, which accounted for more than 80 percent of the income among the poorest elderly. In…
March 20, 2000
By Joel Seguine News and Information Services and Jane R. Elgass Three senior faculty and administrators were named March 15 to a panel that will examine both the allocation of space to campus student groups and the nature and scope of the University’s involvement with student organizations. Formation of the panel follows a protest by…
March 20, 2000
By Jane R. Elgass The lawsuits challenging the University’s admissions practices are now scheduled to go to trial in August and early fall in federal court for the Eastern District of Michigan in Detroit. The suit challenging the use of race in admissions processes for LS&A—Gratz v. Bollinger et. al—will be heard sometime in September/October…
