September 28, 1992
By Kate Kellogg News and Information Services Six environmental managers from around the world recently arrived on campus for a year of intense study and training that may produce some solutions to problems of sustainable development in their countries. The visiting students—from India, the Philippines, Czechoslovakia, Columbia, Sri Lanka and Costa Rica—will take courses and…
September 28, 1992
A 41-year-old master’s degree student was found dead by U-M Police and housing officials shortly before noon Sept. 22 in his student housing apartment at 1657 University Terrace. Police Lt. James Smiley said Kenneth Karl Kovacs had been dead for approximately 36 hours. Preliminary investigation indicates he died from a self-inflicted gun shot wound to…
September 28, 1992
Mikhail Nikolaevich Selikhov, who currently is directing a series for Russian television involving mock re-trials of actual court cases, will speak on “Soviet Television in the Gorbachev Era” at 4 p.m. Thursday (Oct. 1) in Lane Hall Commons Room. The lecture will be in Russian, with English translation provided. Selikhov has held various positions with…
September 28, 1992
By Kathy Hulik School of Business Administration Change is the order of the day if the United States is to continue as a successful competitor, according to two speakers at the School of Business Administration’s Campaign for Michigan kickoff program on Sept. 18. Marina Whitman, Distinguished University Professor of Business Administration and Public Policy, called…
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…
