September 28, 1992
By Mary Jo Frank Want to ask how a job applicant with an obvious disability became disabled? How he or she copes at home, with life? Or perhaps you’re interviewing a candidate who has a child with a disability or who does volunteer work with people with AIDS. If hired, you wonder, would the employee…
September 28, 1992
By Terry Gallagher News and Information Services All large trucks in the United States may soon sport bands of candy-striped reflective tape to make them more visible at night, if recommendations of U-M researchers are adopted. A federally funded study by the U-M Transportation Research Institute (UMTRI) indicates that making trucks more conspicuous to other…
September 28, 1992
By Josie Kearns U-M-Dearborn The U-M-Dearborn has been selected as one of two national sites for a pilot project of the American Association of University Women (AAUW), “Campus Initiative for Equity.” The project has three initial goals: —To further develop a climate of gender equity and fairness on campus for students, faculty and staff. —To…
September 28, 1992
By Mary Jo Frank The Senate Assembly and Senate Advisory Committee on University Affairs (SACUA) have been asked by President James J. Duderstadt to lead faculty discussion on revisions of the University’s 1988 interim policy on Discrimination and Discriminatory Harassment by Faculty and Staff in the University Environment. SACUA Chair Ejner J. Jensen reported at…
September 28, 1992
Douglas E. Van Houweling, vice provost for information technology, distributed a lengthy message to all users of the U-M MTS system last week describing unauthorized monitoring of electronic mail by two Information Technology Division (ITD) employees. “Neither the subject nor the content of electronic mail conveyed by the MTS Message System or the Confer II…
September 28, 1992
By Sally Pobojewski News and Information Services College of Engineering Dean Peter M. Banks wants to look out his office window at 5 p.m. on a Friday and see students coming to North Campus, rather than leaving. He’d like the ambience to be a little less like an industrial park and a little more like…
September 28, 1992
Faculty and staff who park in the Thompson Street Structure have been mystified over the past several weeks about the appearance of an “island” with an entrance/exit gate just inside the main entrance of the structure. Installation of the island is one of several pilot projects under way at University Parking Services to alleviate frustrations…
September 28, 1992
By Rebecca A. Doyle More than 14 tons of cardboard were collected this year by Plant Ground and Waste Management crews during move-in week. The corrugated cardboard comes from boxes students use to transport books, clothing and personal items to their residence hall rooms each term. The amount collected, says Erica M. Spiegel, special projects…
September 28, 1992
By Deborah Gilbert News and Information Services In the 1970s, an expressway billboard in Detroit promoted bowling with the slogan, “Have some fun. Beat your wife tonight. Then celebrate with friends.” Such blatant jokes about domestic violence are no longer in vogue, according to alumna and Marquette County Judge Patricia L. Micklow, “but we continue…
September 28, 1992
By Mary Jo Frank Faculty, staff and students are best described as “colleagues,” not customers, says Provost Gilbert R. Whitaker Jr. In these roles, we serve one another, but are not servants, Whitaker told Senate Assembly Sept. 21. During the past year at Senate Assembly meetings and other public forums, faculty members have criticized efforts…
