February 15, 1993
The Office of the General Counsel reminds individuals with responsibility for grading students or who have access to student grades that University policies and the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act protect the privacy of all student records. Information about students, including academic performance, should not be released in writing or orally unless specifically authorized…
February 15, 1993
Ten U-M scholars are making presentations at the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) meeting that began Feb. 11 in Boston. ‘No cradle of modern humanity’ In a paper titled “Klasies River Mouth Cave: Modern Humans or Not?” anthropologists Rachel Caspari and Milford Wolpoff reinterpret the fossil evidence from one of the most…
February 8, 1993
By Mary Jo Frank Senate Assembly will soon launch a new monthly “Faculty Perspectives” page in The University Record to improve faculty communications. Approved at last Monday’s Assembly meeting, the six- to eight-month pilot project was recommended by the Faculty Communication Committee. Committee Chair Elaine K. Didier said submissions will be written or solicited and…
February 8, 1993
Senate Assembly Chair Ejner J. Jensen offered the following pros and cons of a faculty anti-harassment policy as the basis for discussion of the topic at the Feb. 1 Assembly meeting. PRO 1. Universities have a right and duty to provide an educational environment, a climate of civility, where all students can learn and live…
February 8, 1993
A nine-member advisory committee has been appointed by Provost Gilbert R. Whitaker Jr. to identify candidates for dean of the School of Nursing. Dean Rhetaugh G. Dumas will retire from the deanship and join the faculty effective Aug. 31. In a letter to School of Nursing faculty in early December, Whitaker noted that the search…
February 8, 1993
By Mary Jo Frank If a Medical School faculty member says gays shouldn’t be allowed to serve in the military, could this be viewed as “creating an intimidating, hostile, or offensive environment” within the University? What about an assistant professor of philosophy who offends students while discussing arguments on controversial topics related to race? Those…
February 8, 1993
Rutgers Prof. Catharine R. Stimpson will present the 1993 Davis-Markert-Nickerson Lecture on Academic and Intellectual Freedom at 4 p.m. Feb. 18 in Rackham Amphitheater. The free, public lecture will be followed by a reception. Stimpson’s lecture is titled “Dirty Minds, Dirty Bodies, Clean Speech.” Dean of the graduate school and vice provost for graduate education…
February 8, 1993
By Rebecca A. Doyle The University’s Housing Division has opened a door to the future by signing a contract with Columbia Cable of Michigan to provide cable television service to the 5,524 residence hall rooms on campus. Installation of coaxial cable begins this week in Couzens Hall, and is expected to be completed campuswide by…
February 8, 1993
Gordon Guyer, president of Michigan State University, and U-M President James J. Duderstadt issued the following statement last Friday: “On Tuesday evening at MSU’s Breslin Center, fans witnessed the best aspects of intercollegiate athletic competition. The Wolverines and the Spartans, two talented intra-state rivals, participated in a hotly contested basketball game. The skill and effort…
February 8, 1993
Editor’s Note: The following books have been published by the U-M Press. Discourses of Sexuality: From Aristotle to AIDS, edited by Domna C. Stanton, professor of Romance languages and of women’s studies. This is the first volume in the series RATIO: Institute for the Humanities. In Discourses of Sexuality, 14 distinguished artists, critics and scholars…
