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  1. February 15, 1993

    Privacy of student records protected by University policy, federal law

    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…
  2. February 15, 1993

    Women’s Studies schedules lesbian, gay film series

    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…
  3. February 15, 1993

    OBITUARY

    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…
  4. February 15, 1993

    United Parcel Service rates, services change

    From University Mail Service United Parcel Service (UPS) has announced new rates and services, effective today (Feb. 15). Rates —Domestic Ground service for commercial deliveries will increase by 3.8 percent and residential deliveries will increase by 7.4 percent. —Next Day Air Packages will increase by 4.9 percent. —Next Day Air Letter will increase from $10…
  5. February 15, 1993

    AD career marked by numerous accomplishments

    During his tenure with the intercollegiate athletics program, Weidenbach expanded and strengthened its academic support program for student athletes. His work with athletic facilities included major renovations and upgrading of Michigan Stadium; renovating the women’s softball field, Yost Ice Arena, the Athletic Administration Building and the women’s gymnastics’ practice facility; and restoration of the Michigan…
  6. February 15, 1993

    POLICE BEAT

    By Mary Jo Frank Stalking legislation gives police new tool The Department of Public Safety has received two complaints under Michigan’s new stalking laws, which became effective Jan. 1, reports Lt. James R. Smiley. Stalking is a misdeamenor with a penalty of one year in jail and/or $1,000 fine. Stalking consists of two or more…
  7. February 8, 1993

    Different paths, challenges

    The fellows were drawn to careers in science in different ways, and now are facing different challenges as female researchers. Sophia Bryant’s exposure to research began early in life when her father, a surgeon, took her to his laboratory to show her slides of blood cells. As a teenager working in a hematology laboratory during…
  8. February 8, 1993

    HOT OFF THE PRESS

    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…
  9. February 8, 1993

    Commission recommends innovative approaches to student financial aid

    By Laurie Fenlason Office of Federal Relations Offering all students, regardless of income, a single, fixed amount of federal aid for college is one of a number of innovative college financing recommendations announced Feb. 3 in Washington, D.C., by a bi-partisan national commission charged with finding long-term ways to keep higher education affordable and accessible.…
  10. February 8, 1993

    Presidents decry behavior of U-M, MSU basketball fans

    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…