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October 26, 1992
By Mary Jo Frank The Senate Assembly’s Legal Advisory Council is expected to be up and running by early next year. The Assembly voted unanimously Oct. 19 to create a Legal Advisory Council to provide information to faculty members involved in disputes that may lead to legal action. The council will provide faculty members an…
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October 26, 1992
By Jane R. Elgass Senate Assembly members will, over the course of the next several months, review and discuss a new Interim Policy on Discriminatory Harassment by Faculty and Staff in the University Environment as it applies to faculty members. The policy was effective Oct. 1. Charged by Provost Gilbert R. Whitaker Jr. through the…
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October 26, 1992
By Rebecca A. Doyle “Up here [in the North] when people think of the Red Cross, they think of giving blood. Down in the South, they think of disasters,” says Damaris Sufalko, a disaster action team leader for the Washte-naw County chapter of the American Red Cross. But the disaster action team helps victims of…
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October 26, 1992
The 1992 pledge forms list 91 agencies that U-M employees may designate to receive all or part of their donation. Contributors may designate one or more of these agencies to indicate the needs they want United Way to give special attention when allocating donations. In addition, individuals may designate their pledges to any other non-profit…
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October 26, 1992
By Rebecca A. Doyle “The Photography of Carlo Naya,” on display through November at the Museum of Art, showcases a collection of mid- to late-19th-century photographs of the architecture, statuary and artistry of Venice. Photographs titled “The Bridge of Sighs,” “The Library of St. Mark” and “The Canal and Gondola Repair Yard at San Trovaso”…
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October 26, 1992
By Deborah Gilbert News and Information Services Why are small-town murder rates among friends, lovers and acquaintances three times higher in the South than in the New England and Midwestern states? “Popular explanations include the heat, the poverty and the history of slavery, but our research suggests that none of those factors is significant,” says…
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October 26, 1992
By Sally Pobojewski News and Information Services A team of U-M civil engineers will return from Egypt this week after spending five days evaluating Islamic monuments, mosques and museums for structural damage from the earthquake that struck the Cairo area on Oct. 12. “We will be doing basic reconnaissance to assess the level of overall…
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October 26, 1992
By Terry Gallagher News and Information Services Poet and novelist Marge Piercy will be the Helen L. DeRoy Visiting Professor in Honors at the University this month and next. She will conduct a writing seminar for students who have been studying her works, and will make several public presentations. Her visit is sponsored by the…
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October 26, 1992
William Russell Kelly, founder and chair of Kelly Services Inc., will endow a professorship at the School of Business Administration to support teaching and research in human resources management. The professorship was one of 40 leadership gifts totaling $295 million announced Sept. 18 at the kickoff of The Campaign for Michigan. “We are pleased to…
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October 26, 1992
By Deborah Gilbert News and Information Services Imagine three employees sitting beside each other at three computers, all of them writing and editing the same document at the same time. It may sound like “computers from hell,” but U-M researchers have created a software program, dubbed “ShrEdit,” and found that the parallel editing program results…
