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October 31, 1994
By Mary Jo Frank As a Volunteers in Service to America (VISTA) volunteer at the SOS Community Crisis Center, Sandy Haas distributed food to the hungry, found shelter for the homeless, did crisis counseling and even hung gutters. Seven years later, Haas, academic secretary in the Fellowships Office of the Horace H. Rackham School of…
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October 31, 1994
The University has scheduled a number of free, public events in connection with Alcohol Awareness Week: Sunday (Nov. 6) Filmfest: Days of Wine and Roses, 9 p.m., State Theater. Monday (Nov. 7) Crashed Car, from an alcohol-related accident, displayed on the Diag. Self-Help Panel Discussion, including Moderation Management, Alcoholics Anonymous, Women for Sobriety, Rational Recovery…
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October 31, 1994
By Mary Jo Frank “You are a powerful force for change. You can change this place. I’m convinced we have to change,” President James J. Duderstadt told a crowd of more than 500 women who attended a town hall meeting to discuss Duderstadt’s “Michigan Agenda for Women: Leadership for a New Century.” Flexible scheduling, child…
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October 31, 1994
By Bernie DeGroat News and Information Services A benefit reading for hunger relief will highlight the Visiting Writers Series during November. Share Our Strength’s “Writers Harvest: The National Reading,” to be held 7:30 p.m. Nov. 2 at Rackham Amphitheater, will feature fiction and poetry readings by faculty members Charles Baxter, Betty Louise Bell, Alice Fulton…
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October 31, 1994
“Bridges to Cuba,” a campuswide conference coinciding with the release of the second part of a special Michigan Quarterly Review (MQR) on Cuba, will be held Friday–Saturday (Nov. 4–5). About 25 Cuban and Cuban-American scholars, writers and artists, many of whom are featured in MQR’s Bridges to Cuba special issue, will present readings of their…
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October 31, 1994
The Information Gateway Project, a component of the evolving University of Michigan’s evolving Digital Library (UMDL) focuses on making more information accessible and supplying an easy way to find that information. “The purpose of the project is to provide a coherent information environment for the whole campus,” says Wendy P. Lougee, director of the UMDL…
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October 31, 1994
By Julie Peterson News and Information Services The University needs to reintegrate elements of religion, ethics and values into campus life, agreed participants in a day-long conference titled “The Role of Religion and Ethics in Transforming the University.” More than 100 students, faculty, staff, administrators and community members attended the public session, held Oct. 26…
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October 31, 1994
A symposium on using minority- and women-owned businesses and those classified under the Americans with Disabilities Act will be held 8:30–10:30 a.m. Nov. 9 in the Michigan Room, Michigan League. The purpose of the symposium is “to help direct more procurement efforts to vendors who are classified under the designation ‘diversity,’ ” says Philip M.…
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October 31, 1994
Four faculty members were given the emeritus title by the Regents at their October meeting. They are: Lyubica Dabich, associate professor of internal medicine> Prof. Dabich joined the faculty in 1966. “The main thrust of Dr. Dabich’s work has been the diagnosis and treatment of adult patients with leukemia or lymphoma,” the Regents said. “She…
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October 31, 1994
U-M-Flint Chancellor Charlie Nelms sees his campus as “a major community resource, which can act as a stimulus for city and regional revitalization as we enter the 21st century,” in his mind a truly urban university. “The Flint campus is in a unique class,” he stated at his inauguration as Flint’s fourth chancellor on Oct.…
