June 7, 1993
Ballots were mailed in late May to bargained-for employees to elect a representative for a two-year term to the University’s Public Safety Oversight Committee. Mandated by state law, the committee receives and makes recommendaitons regarding grievances against public safety officers deputized by the Univeristy. The group is convened by Royster Harper, associate vice president for…
June 7, 1993
The appointment of Law School Dean Lee C. Bollinger as provost of Dartmouth College was announced by Dartmouth President James O. Freedman May 24. “Dean Bollinger has a distinguished record of achievement as teacher, scholar and academic administrator. Most of all,” Freedman said, “he is an intellectual who cares deeply about ideas and liberal education.…
June 7, 1993
From University Senior Faculty, Staff and Alumni Residential Community Inc. An informational meeting on the status the University Commons, the residential community long-envisioned by University of Michigan faculty and staff and open to U-M alumni, will be held at 7:30 p.m. June 28 in Rackham Amphitheater. A 100-apartment mid-rise building is being designed by the…
June 7, 1993
By Sally Pobojewski News and Information Services The Siberian Snake, a series of magnets wrapped around the beam pipe of a particle accelerator, has turned out to be even more potent than expected in curing the “depolarization” problems of beams of spinning protons. The snake was designed to eliminate magnetic disorientations called depolarizing resonances that…
June 7, 1993
Twenty-nine faculty/graduate student research teams have received funding in the latest round of the Research Partnership Program. The program, which began in 1987, is supported by the Office of the Dean of the Horace H. Rackham School of Graduate Studies, the Office of the Vice President for Research and the Office of the Provost and…
June 7, 1993
How many resumes does a job seeker need? “As many as it takes to get the job done. Never have one all-purpose resume,” advises Jacqueline A. Muldrow. Leading a workshop about “Resume Writing” at the Workplace of the ’90s Conference, Muldrow said the resume should be tailored for the position sought. She reminded listeners that…
June 7, 1993
By Jane R. Elgass All of us are living and learning “in permanent whitewater” and we can choose to be either the battered log that gets jammed against the river’s edge and fights change or the “go-with-the-flow” log that continues downstream and adapts and adjusts to change. “Change is happening and we can’t ignore it,”…
June 7, 1993
By Mary Jo Frank Ever get a “funny” feeling that you’re being followed in the parking structure? That the stranger doesn’t belong in your office building? Or that the person who asks you for the time of day really is eyeing your purse? It’s not paranoia. The vague feeling that something may not be right…
June 7, 1993
By Diane Swanbrow News and Information Services The dilemma between leading and being liked usually bothers women more than it does men, Elizabeth Poage Baxter told a group of about 70 women who gathered in the Michigan League’s Henderson Room May 2, for a presentation on leadership models for women. But even when women overcome…
June 7, 1993
By Mary Jo Frank Dieting makes compulsive eating disorders worse, says Catherine Powers, co-director of the Institute for Psychology and Medicine’s Eating Disorders Program. Talking to more than 90 Workplace of the ’90s participants who attended the May 25 workshop “How to Free Yourself from Compulsive Eating and Start to Live,” Powers said diets fail…
