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April 5, 1993
By Sally Pobojewski News and Information Services U-M chemists have synthesized the world’s largest pure hydrocarbon molecule—a gargantuan sphere with 100 times the volume of a buckyball and big enough to hold 1,000 carbon atoms with room to spare. Comprised of 1,134 carbon atoms and 1,146 hydrogen atoms, the mammoth molecule has a molecular weight…
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April 5, 1993
IF the Wolverines won their Final Four NCAA game on Saturday, fans will be able to watch the basketball team play at 8 p.m. tonight (April 5) on big screen TVs at Crisler Arena. Admission is free, on a first-come, first-served basis. The viewing and other activities, Michigan Madness ’93, have been organized by the…
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April 5, 1993
Harry A. Towsley, professor emeritus of pediatrics and communicable diseases and of postgraduate medicine, died March 31 at his home in Ann Arbor. He was 87. When he retired from the U-M in 1971, Towsley’s record of accomplishments in pediatric medicine was described by the Board of Regents as “truly astonishing in its scope.” When…
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April 5, 1993
By Mary Jo Frank “The best teaching, the teaching that has the greatest effect on students not just for the moment but in the long run, is by dedicated researchers who take their classroom responsibilities seriously and know how to convey information and the results of research and to stimulate critical thinking.” History Prof. Sidney…
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April 5, 1993
A series of seminars—The Asset Planning Conference—on pre- and post-retirement planning needs will be hosted by the Benefits Office April 12–14 at the Rackham Building. The conference seminars will focus on such topics as starting a retirement plan, preserving accumulations for estate considerations and long-term care. Seminar presentations will be made by representatives of TIAA-CREF…
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March 29, 1993
According to tradition, when men in some parts of Papua, New Guinea, play their sacred flutes, the music they hear represents the voices of the clan’s ancestral spirits. Now those voices may be heard at the University’s Stearns Collection of Musical Instruments. One pair of flutes was purchased by Helmut and Candy Stern, supporters of…
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March 29, 1993
By Diane Swanbrow News and Information Services Even if they are not in a state of conflict-free bliss, newlyweds keep their rose-colored glasses firmly affixed, according to a U-M study. About 40 percent of the 373 couples in the study either said they could not think of a single argument they’d had in the last…
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March 29, 1993
By Mary Jo Frank A faculty committee drafting a new faculty discriminatory harassment policy is attempting to balance the University’s legal and moral obligations to provide equal educational opportunity to all and First Amendment rights to free speech, according to Elizabeth S. Anderson, assistant professor of philosophy. Leading a discussion on what needs to be…
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March 29, 1993
Michigan Radio’s on-air fund drive has shrunk to fewer than two days. The station promised listeners that fund-raising efforts, scheduled for April 1–7, would be reduced by one day for every $16,000 pledged by March 31. As of Record presstime, the station had received $91,722.63, reducing the Incredible Shrinking Week to just 21.5 on-air hours.…
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March 29, 1993
The executive committee of the U-M Chapter of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) is “greatly concerned” about the effects of the University’s policy on discriminatory harassment and accompanying procedures, according to a memo from President R. T. Lenaghan to Senate Assembly members. The March 15 memo states: “In particular, one faculty member recently…
