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  1. March 8, 1993

    Mid-Term Assessment valuable learning tool for young faculty

    By Andrea O. Jackson Record Special Writer Is a scholar always an educator? No, not always, as many undergraduate students will tell you. Because of this, the University is making an effort to ensure that all new LS&A faculty already able to pursue scholarly research, also are able to teach that information well to their…
  2. March 8, 1993

    Flint names affirmative action chief

    The appointment of Aaron B. Sanders as affirmative action coordinator at U-M-Flint has been announced by Chancellor Clinton B. Jones. He will be responsible for ensuring compliance with affirmative action policies and procedures in hiring and employee relations, handling complaints, and providing training for faculty and staff on affirmative action issues. Sanders comes to the…
  3. March 8, 1993

    Most frequent criticism: lecture style

    Matthew Cardwell, an LS&A junior and coordinator of Advice, the course and professor evaluation publication for students, says that “generally, the criticisms we hear from students in the term-end evaluations are not big problems, but things that can be improved upon. Looking at the aggregate data for LS&A for the past three years, the most…
  4. March 8, 1993

    Thomas Sheets will direct UMS’s Choral Union

    From the University Musical Society A two-year national search has culminated in the appointment of Thomas Sheets as music director and conductor of the University Musical Society (UMS) Choral Union, effective Aug. 1. “We are very fortunate to have Thomas Sheets heading our choral program,” says UMS Executive Director Kenneth C. Fischer. “His considerable experience…
  5. March 8, 1993

    9 candidates vie for 4 SACUA posts in March 15 election

    Nine candidates are running for four seats on the Senate Advisory Committee on University Affairs (SACUA). The election will be held at the March 15 Senate Assembly meeting. The top three vote-getters will succeed Ejner J. Jensen, Cynthia L. Marcelo and Roy Penchansky. The fourth-place winner will fill a one-year term resulting from the resignation…
  6. March 8, 1993

    Students, faculty begin training to serve on rights statement hearing panels

    By Rebecca A. Doyle A training session held this past weekend has readied six faculty members and approximately 25 students to hear complaints brought under the Statement of Student Rights and Responsibilities this term. The faculty members and students form a pool from which a panel of six students and a non-voting faculty chair will…
  7. March 8, 1993

    HOT OFF THE PRESS

    Editor’s Note: The following books have been published by the U-M Press. Discourses of Sexuality: From Aristotle to AIDS, edited by Domna C. Stanton, professor of Romance languages and of women’s studies. This is the first volume in the series RATIO: Institute for the Humanities. In Discourses of Sexuality, 14 distinguished artists, critics and scholars…
  8. March 8, 1993

    3 arrests made in computer thefts

    Preliminary examinations for two male U-M students and their female roommate who are accused of stealing $20,000 in computer equipment and radios have been postponed until March 17 in Ann Arbor’s 15th District Court. The three, all 19 and from Macomb County, were arrested Feb. 22 and arraigned Feb. 23. The original preliminary exam was…
  9. March 8, 1993

    First complaints filed under rights statement

    Accusations against three students under the student rights and responsibilities policy have been officially filed with the Office of Student Affairs. One student is accused of drug sales, another of physical harassment and a third of stalking, according to Mary Lou Antieau, who heads the Judicial Adviser’s Office. Once a complaint is received by Antieau,…
  10. March 8, 1993

    Man dies in Arb

    Family members of Robert D. Foster, 39, formerly of Texas, have identified his body, which was found about 2:30 p.m. March 1 by passersby in the Nichols Arboretum. The 123-acre botanical park borders the Huron River and is adjacent to the Medical Campus. Foster was found about halfway across the Arboretum from the river near…