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April 18, 1994
By Toni Shears Law School Editor Economic issues should be the focus of the civil rights movement today, according to panelists at the Black Law Students Alliance’s (BLSA) fifth annual symposium held at the Law School April 9. The focus of the symposium—“Civil Rights in the 1990s: Where Are We? Where Should We Go?”—was a…
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April 18, 1994
By Mary Jo Frank DrinkWise, an alcohol education program for people with mild to moderate alcohol problems, is being offered for the first time in Michigan through the U-M. Designed to help individuals quit or reduce alcohol consumption, the focus is on education rather than treatment, explains Keith D. Bruhnsen, manager of Drinkwise and of…
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April 18, 1994
An applicable portion of the ITD Policy on Proper Use of Information Resources, Information Technology and Networks at the University of Michigan ( Standard Practice Guide 601.7) is printed below. It is the policy of the University to maintain access for its community to local, national and international sources of information and to provide an…
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April 18, 1994
The recent theft and subsequent use of a U-M student’s computer password to send a racist message on the Internet prompted a flood of complaints to the University from individuals worldwide. On the evening of April 5, someone used a modem to connect their computer to one at a campus computing site. The individual then…
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April 18, 1994
By Kellee R. Davis News and Information Services While most students are memorizing mathematical equations or spending endless hours at computing sites during exam week, seniors in a College of Engineering course are hammering out the final tweaks in their self-designed prototypes. Their work, which puts textbook theory to practical use, will be presented to…
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April 18, 1994
The LS&A Joint Faculty-Student Policy Committee recommends the College use the following definitions of cheating. Cheating is committing fraud on a record, report, paper, computer assignment, examination or other work or other course requirement (adapted from Duke University). Examples include: Using unauthorized notes, study aids or information from another student or student’s paper on an…
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April 18, 1994
Jane Allyn Piliavin, professor of sociology at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, will give the 1994 Katz-Newcomb Lecture at 4 p.m. April 22 in Rackham Amphitheater. Her free, public talk is titled “In the Beginning Is the Body: Implications for Social Psychology.” “The ‘biological determinism’ question is an old one,” says Duane Alwin, professor of…
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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…
