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January 24, 1994
By Rebecca A. Doyle What part will photo CDs, electronic text transfer, instant communication and electronic image manipulation play in higher education in the next 10 or 20 years? How will the upward-spiraling technology affect the University’s research, teaching, publishing and library resources? “Creating the Future: Information Technology and the Mission of the University,” the…
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January 24, 1994
By Bernie DeGroat News and Information Services Although Western society still perpetuates the mythical subservience of women in the Middle East and India, the veil and harem—traditional symbols of subjugation—have been used as metaphors for female independence, according to a visiting scholar. “Western women, in particular, have thought there were freedoms behind the veil that…
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January 24, 1994
Roy E. Muir, associate vice president for development, will become interim executive director of The Campaign for Michigan Feb. 1, heading Campaign efforts while the University continues its search for a new vice president for development. He succeeds Joe Roberson, who will become director of athletics on that date. In announcing the appointment, President James…
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January 24, 1994
Law School grad program presents brown-bag series The Law School Graduate Program will present a series of brown-bag lectures this term. Upcoming are: “Nigeria: Transition to Anarchy? Resolving the Dilemma of Military Intervention,” Philip Akakwam, assistant lecturer, University of Nigeria, and U-M law student, Wed. (Jan. 26). “Judicial Review of Administrative Action in China: Practice,…
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January 24, 1994
Allen S. Lichter, professor and chair of the Department of Radiation Oncology, has been named the Isadore Lampe Professor of Radiation Oncology by the Regents. The professorship honors Lampe, a pioneer in the field of radiation therapy, who pursued his career at the U-M for 43 years until his retirement in 1975. The professorship was…
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January 24, 1994
International film-music scholar Gillian B. Anderson will discuss the musical score of D.W. Griffith’s Way Down East in a public talk at 11 a.m. Friday (Jan. 28) in Room 2520, Frieze Building. The title of Anderson’s lecture is “Lillian on the Rocks or Ice in the Proper Position: Music and Image in D.W. Griffith’s Way…
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January 24, 1994
By Terry Gallagher U-M-Dearborn University Relations Spring will bloom in a once-derelict greenhouse at Detroit’s Weatherby Elementary School, thanks in part to work done by volunteers from the U-M-Dearborn campus as part of their observance of Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday. The greenhouse, which, according to the school’s principal, hasn’t been used for at least…
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January 24, 1994
By Sally Pobojewski News and Information Services Two hundred clapping, cheering, yelling, hugging, praying, singing U-M students rocked the Michigan Union Jan. 14 in an exuberant celebration of the deep faith in Jesus Christ that was central to the message of Martin Luther King Jr. “Martin Luther King was a Christian and he wasn’t ashamed…
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January 24, 1994
By Bernie DeGroat News and Information Services At lunch counters, drinking fountains and restrooms; on sidewalks, buses and trains; in schools, parks and motels; in the armed forces; on the job; and at the ballot box, racial segregation in America was a fact of life … and still is. “We were struggling to challenge racism…
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January 24, 1994
By Rebecca A. Doyle “When I hear the sound of shattering notions, I know I’m on the right track,” said Pamela Motoike, a clinical psychologist in the student counseling office. Motoike, who participated in a Martin Luther King Jr. Day panel discussion on insights, issues and dilemmas in multicultural work, listed several notions she’d like…
