September 21, 1992
University officials this year will continue to clamp down on vendors who sell counterfeit merchandise displaying registered trademarks at home football games. University Police and other law enforcement officers patrolled the Michigan Stadium area at the Wolverines home opener against Oklahoma State and will do so at several other games this season. The Collegiate Licensing…
September 21, 1992
By Terry Gallagher News and Information Services “Monitoring the Future,” the annual national survey of America’s secondary students conducted by the Institute for Social Research (ISR), has received an $18 million federal grant to continue and expand its work over the next five years. The grant is one of the largest in the history of…
September 21, 1992
Expenditures in the General Fund of the U-M’s three campuses in 1991–92 totaled $665,592,000, a 2.6 percent decrease from the previous year, the Regents were informed at their September meeting. The General Fund relies largely on student fees and state appropriations, and pays for teaching, research, library services, student scholarships and fellowships, and maintenance and…
September 21, 1992
By Kate Kellogg News and Information Services Automobile emissions in California pollute the air in Arizona’s Grand Canyon; pollution reaches the Great Lakes by air and rain from—someplace else? Today, says Garry D. Brewer, dean of the School of Natural Resources and Environment, “there is no ‘someplace else’… there is no ‘away’ to throw things.”…
September 14, 1992
By Mary Jo Frank 2 skateboarders arrested for breaking and entering Two boys, ages 14 and 16, were arrested Aug. 14 by University Police for breaking and entering automobiles in the Thompson Street Parking Structure. U-M Police Lt. James R. Smiley says the youths, who are from Chelsea and Brighton, are suspects in at least…
September 14, 1992
While all schools, colleges and units of the University will participate in the Campaign and will have particular areas of emphasis, five program areas have been identified as featured programs. Undergraduate Education Initiative The Center for Undergraduate Education, a bold new approach to higher education, will be both a place and a concept. It will…
September 14, 1992
By Sally Pobojewski News and Information Services Scientists at the U-M and the French National Atomic Energy Commission have achieved another breakthrough in the international race to create the world’s most powerful beam of laser light. The first scientific report of the laser beam breakthrough was made by the French group directed by C. Sauteret…
September 14, 1992
By Joseph H. Owsley News and Information Services University officials were surprised last week to find the U-M and Michigan State University sharing top billing in two crime categories in the newest FBI report listing eight kinds of criminal offenses reported in public universities across the United States. The book-length report contains 1991 crime data…
September 14, 1992
By Lew Morrissey U-M-Flint U-M-Flint’s Women’s Center, designed to meet the needs of the campus’s 3,900 women students, will open Sept. 23 in the University Pavilion. “We are very grateful for the support of the chancellor and the many students, faculty and staff who are helping us inaugurate an exciting era at U-M-Flint,” says Lora…
September 14, 1992
Vice President Farris W. Womack has announced that applications are being accepted for the 1993 Management Institute for U-M business and finance staff. The intensive course is designed to provide professional and administrative staff members with leadership and management training and a broad perspective about the special needs of higher education. Participants will be selected…
