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February 15, 1993
By Terry Gallagher News and Information Services James Ingo Freed, the architect who designed the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum now under construction in Washington, D.C., will deliver the annual Raoul Wallenberg Lecture sponsored by the College of Architecture and Urban Planning at 8 p.m. Thurs. (Feb. 18) in Rackham Amphitheater. The free, public lecture…
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February 15, 1993
An exhibition of photographs of Holocaust memorials and public sculptures in Europe, Israel and the United States will be held in conjunction with the Wallenberg Lecture. The exhibition, “In Fitting Memory: Perspectives on an Evolving Tradition of Holocaust Memorials,” will be on display in the Slusser Gallery in the Art and Architecture Building Feb. 17–26.…
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February 15, 1993
By Rebecca A. Doyle What began more than 10 years ago as a career-oriented conference primarily for African American women at the U-M has evolved in a decade to cover such diverse topics as talking about sexual health with your children, institutional discrimination policies, cancer prevention, personal finances and success strategies for men of color.…
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February 15, 1993
By Jane R. Elgass The University’s graduate and undergraduate programs on the Ann Arbor campus have been ranked third among the nation’s “leading universities” in the latest (1993) edition of The Gourman Report. The U-M trails Princeton and Harvard for its undergraduate programs and Harvard and the University of California, Berkeley, for its graduate programs.…
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February 15, 1993
Faculty and students may be returning to class the Tuesday—rather than the traditional Thursday—after Labor Day in 1994, Dean Edie N. Goldenberg told LS&A faculty members last Monday. Goldenberg added she believes a faculty and staff committee should look at the academic calendar and a number of issues related to it, including a concern among…
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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…
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February 15, 1993
Requiring LS&A students to take a good quantitative reasoning course should make things better, not harder, for students who don’t think quantitatively. At least that is the intent, Michael M. Martin, associate dean for undergraduate education, told his colleagues at LS&A’s faculty meeting last Monday. Unfortunately some see a quantitative reasoning requirement as merely a…
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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…
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February 15, 1993
Sheila McLaughlin’s film She Must Be Seeing Things will be shown at 7 p.m. March 5 in Auditorium B, Angell Hall, as part of the Lesbian and Gay Film Series sponsored by the Women’s Studies Program. In the film, the strength of a love affair between two women, a lawyer and a filmmaker, is tested…
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February 15, 1993
Frank Copley Frank O. Copley, professor emeritus of Latin, died Feb. 3 in Rogers City. He was 85 years old. He joined the faculty in 1934 and taught here until his retirement in 1977. His special interests included the Roman poet Catullus and Latin elegiac poetry. His translations of Virgil’s The Aeneid, Cicero’s On Old…
