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April 18, 1994
By Mary Jo Frank Education and changing the way cheating cases are investigated and adjudicated are the best ways to discourage students from cheating, according to an LS&A faculty-student committee. Presenting the LS&A Joint Faculty-Student Policy Committee’s report at last Monday’s LS&A faculty meeting, David Schoem, committee chair, asked the faculty for feedback on its…
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April 18, 1994
By Mary Jo Frank Chester Posby found guilty but mentally ill A Washtenaw County Circuit Court jury found Chester L. Posby, 70, guilty but mentally ill of first degree murder charges April 12 for the June 1992 shooting death of John L. Kemink, professor of otorhinolaryngology, in a U-M Hospitals examining room. Posby, a retired…
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April 18, 1994
Michigan Radio’s “Incredible Shrinking Week” fund-raising effort was successful again this year, cutting three days of on-air fundraising from the station’s programming. A new high of $124,000 was raised, surpassing the 1992 record of $118,000. The number of listeners who mailed contributions or phoned in pledges came to 2,002, including 452 first-time donors. The Incredible…
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April 18, 1994
Judith Feder, chief health policy analyst with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), will speak about the Clinton health care reform plan at noon April 26 in Heath Auditorium, School of Public Health. Feder’s talk is part of the University’s FORUM on Health Policy Reform, a two-year series of educational events tracking…
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April 18, 1994
By Mary Jo Frank The Department of Mathematics has received LS&A’s 1994 Departmental Award for Contributions to the Undergraduate Initiative. The department will receive $25,000 for its innovative efforts to improve undergraduate education. Donald J. Lewis, chair and professor of mathematics, will recommend the department use the money to furnish a commons room for students…
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April 18, 1994
The first annual Hispanic Student Leadership Award celebration will be held at 5 p.m. Tues. (April 19) in the Tribute Room, School of Education. Six students will receive $300 scholarships, awarded by the Michigan Educational Opportunity Fund Inc., the Office of Minority Student Services and the Programs for Educational Opportunity at the School of Education.…
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April 18, 1994
The University has received a $12 million commitment from Ann Lurie of Chicago, to establish the Robert H. Lurie Fund, in the name of her late husband, a member of the College of Engineering Class of 1964. The fund will be allocated to new campus buildings, including a carillon tower on North Campus. “The exceptional…
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April 11, 1994
By Mary Jo Frank The LS&A Curriculum Committee has approved a proposal from the College’s Languages Across the Curriculum (LAC) Committee that will encourage students to use languages other than English in regular LS&A courses. The change is part of the U-M’s increased focus on international topics. Students will be able to earn certification in…
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April 11, 1994
During the recent debate over increasing federal funding for Project Head Start, the preschool program for disadvantaged children, supporters cited numerous studies documenting the immediate gains in children’s academic and social skills. Opponents cited studies showing that by third or fourth grade, the advantages gained from Head Start had vanished. Now a U-M study indicates…
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April 11, 1994
By Bernie DeGroat News and Information Services The advent of spring brings warm weather, blooming flowers and the baseball season, but it also means potholes, pavement upheavals and rough roads. “People blame the highway departments for having poor roads, but we need to recognize that, in Michigan, the environmental conditions are rather adverse to the…
