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October 19, 1992
By Jane R. Elgass Frances R. Aparicio, associate professor of Spanish and of American culture; Donald E. Riggs, dean of the University Library; and Kyra D. Gaunt, a doctoral pre-candidate in ethnomusicology, have been named co-chairs of the 1993 Martin Luther King Day Symposium planning committee. Scheduled for Jan. 18, program activities will reflect the…
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October 19, 1992
By Terry Gallagher News and Information Services While the University faculty “is committed to change, to discovery, to new ways of understanding our world,” it is necessary to recognize that “our students are moving in other directions and experiencing changes that are giving them a different sense of what they want from the University experience,…
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October 19, 1992
By Jane R. Elgass Though criticized by some as a low blow to morale of University employees who had no salary increase this year, John Forsyth thinks that the M-$hare program at University Hospitals was the right thing to do at the right time. And he points out that the program is not and never…
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October 19, 1992
By Kate Kellogg News and Information Services Anthony Grafton, the Andrew W. Mellon Professor of History at Princeton University, will present the 28th annual Jerome Lecture Series Oct. 21–Nov. 2 at the Rackham Building. Grafton’s lecture series is titled “How the Humanists Read the Classics: Studies in the Arts of Interpretation.” Grafton has written about…
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October 5, 1992
Aram Arkun, assistant director of the Krikor and Clara Zohrab Information Center, New York, will give three lectures as part of the 1992–93 Armenian Lecture Series. He will give a brown-bag lecture at noon Oct. 14 in the Lane Hall Commons Room on “Developments in Armenia, Karabagh and Azerbaijan.” “The Fall of the Eagles’ Nests:…
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October 5, 1992
Richard W. BaileyRegents’ Award for Distinguished Public Service Richard Bailey is that model educator who demands that the university exist not in and for itself but for the growing good of the world. Throughout his career he has continually brought his scholarly interests in language and pedagogy to bear on real social problems. Professor Bailey…
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October 5, 1992
By Terry Gallagher News and Information Services The University has received a $1 million grant from the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) for truck and transit research and educational programs. Gov. John Engler and President James J. Duderstadt formally acknowledged receipt of the grant in a ceremony at the U-M Transportation Research Institute on Sept.…
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October 5, 1992
By Kate Kellogg News and Information Servcies Half of a coffee can or sewing box scraps and buttons in a major art and architecture exhibition? Sure enough, demonstrates “Surfaces and Structures,” a showcase of new works—many of them comprised of unusual media—by faculty and students of the School of Art and the College of Architecture…
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October 5, 1992
By Mary Jo Frank Horrified, the 10-year old girl watched her father attack her mother with a claw hammer. She quickly called 911, and police interrupted the assault. “She really saved her mother’s life,” says Susan McGee, executive director of the Domestic Violence Project/Safe House. The little girl had learned about calling 911 at Kids…
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October 5, 1992
The Native American Student Association (NASA) has scheduled a full slate of panels, lectures and performances to help the University community “Discover Native America on Columbus Day” this month. Activities include: Oct. 7 Racism exhibition of commonplace objects, logos, pictures and advertisements that are acceptable to the dominant society but are offensive to Native Americans,…
