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September 21, 1992
By Jane R. Elgass The skies were not maize and blue last Friday, but the spirit inside the Power Center for the Performing Arts was. Nearly 1,000 members of “Team Michigan” gathered there for the official launch of the University’s Campaign for Michigan. A 75-minute slide/video program, which at times tugged at the heartstrings, gave…
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September 21, 1992
Editor’s Note: The following actions were taken by the Board of Regents at its September meeting. Maya Lin sculpture approved for North Campus The plan for a courtyard sculpture for the Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Building now under construction on the North Campus was approved. “The building, for the Department of Aerospace Engineering, is funded substantially by…
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September 21, 1992
“Political Communication in an Election Year: Involvement or Alienation” will be the subject of a series of seven free, public talks at the U-M this fall that are sponsored by the Department of Communication. John Zaller, professor of political science at the University of California, Los Angeles, will deliver the first lecture, “Nature and Origins…
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September 21, 1992
Two faculty members were granted emeritus status by the Regents at their September meeting. They are: Kenneth A. Lockridge, professor of history In 1970 Lockridge joined the U-M and published his first major book, A New England Town: The First Hundred Years. “By 1985, when an expanded edition was published, more than 130,000 copies of…
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September 21, 1992
Expenditures in the General Fund of the U-M’s three campuses in 1991–92 totaled $665,592,000, a 2.6 percent decrease from the previous year, the Regents were informed at their September meeting. The General Fund relies largely on student fees and state appropriations, and pays for teaching, research, library services, student scholarships and fellowships, and maintenance and…
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September 21, 1992
University officials this year will continue to clamp down on vendors who sell counterfeit merchandise displaying registered trademarks at home football games. University Police and other law enforcement officers patrolled the Michigan Stadium area at the Wolverines home opener against Oklahoma State and will do so at several other games this season. The Collegiate Licensing…
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September 21, 1992
By Deborah Gilbert News and Information Servcies After decades of neglect, women’s health has finally hit the top of the public policy agenda. In that spirit, interested faculty from a range of departments, with the support of the Office of the Vice President for Research, have launched the Women’s Health Initiative—an interdisciplinary “thinktank” of medical,…
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September 21, 1992
About 25 FOIA requests are logged with Nordby each month. About one-fourth of them come from students, faculty, the Michigan Daily and the Michigan Review. “The largest number are from the media and within that group the majority are from sports writers seeking information about the Athletic Department.” She says major newspapers, such as the…
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September 21, 1992
Virginia B. Nordby, who has held a number of posts in the University over the past 19 years, has announced that she will retire at the end of June 1993. She currently is the University’s chief freedom of information officer and has been an associate vice president for student affairs since January 1991. In addition,…
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September 21, 1992
By Jane R. Elgass Remember those notes you took at a meeting on your feelings about a sensitive issue and tucked under some papers in your top drawer instead of in a file so they wouldn’t be subjected to public scrutiny? Sorry. That tactic won’t work. Under the state’s Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), enacted…
