February 1, 1993
By Sally Pobojewski News and Information Services The University has joined the Alliance for Minority Participation (AMP), a seven-university consortium whose goal is to bring about, over the next five years, “a 100 percent increase in minorities and women who enroll in and graduate from their universities’ science and engineering programs.” The initiative has received…
February 1, 1993
By Rebecca A. Doyle From public safety to pest control, from roofing to recycling, the departments that comprise business and finance units are as diverse in the services they provide as they are in job families and in racial and ethnic composition. Recognizing that diversity, Vice President and Chief Financial Officer Farris W. Womack decided…
February 1, 1993
By Jane R. Elgass Help is at hand for parents of young children who find themselves in a bind when the children are ill, the day care provider is unable to work or some other emergency arises. Care in a Crunch, a program developed by the Family Care Resources Program, will provide parents with names…
February 1, 1993
William Mirsky William Mirsky, professor emeritus of mechanical engineering, died Jan. 22. He was 70. Mirsky was born July 10, 1922, in Prystan, in what is now the Ukraine. He was the son of Peter and Mary (Yewush) Mirsky. He attended public school in Hartford, Conn., then received a B.S. in mechanical engineering at the…
February 1, 1993
By Jane R. Elgass A moratorium on student admissions and faculty recruiting for the Department of Population Planning and International Health led to a protest by five speakers and student colleagues at the public comments session of the Regents’ meeting on Jan. 21. The students were told of the moratorium when they returned from the…
February 1, 1993
A survey on alcohol and drug use on campus that may be the first of its type in the nation will be mailed on a staggered basis to 4,500 members of the University community beginning Feb. 8. The survey, supported by a grant from the Michigan Department of Public Health, will be used as a…
February 1, 1993
By Jane R. Elgass “The modern research university is in a unique position to expand the horizons of artistic expression, and has a fundamental obligation to do just that,” says School of Music Dean Paul C. Boylan. “It should not only tolerate, it should exploit the tension and conflict that legitimately arise between research and…
January 25, 1993
By Ryan Solomon News and Information Services Martin Luther King Jr. should be thought of as an economist as much as a minister or civil rights leader, says economist and writer Julianne Malveaux. Malveaux spoke at the closing ceremony marking the U-M’s sixth annual Martin Luther King Jr. Day Symposium. The San Francisco Sun reporter,…
January 25, 1993
By Jane R. Elgass “We are now part way across the street trying to get to the other side and there are lots of trucks going in both directions.” That was how President James J. Duderstadt characterized the University’s progress in reaching the goals of the Michigan Mandate at last week’s Regents’ meeting. His remarks…
January 25, 1993
By John Woodford Executive Editor, Michigan Today Carol Ann Carter, associate professor of art, told the 65 attendees that the format chosen for the School of Art’s Martin Luther King Jr. Day program “might seem too ’60s, like a sensitivity session, but we’re trying to show the parts that make the whole.” The School’s informal…
