. . .  March 1993

:: No Filthy Riches, No Dirt Poverty: That Was the Mandate from Rio
When more than 100 world leaders converged on Rio de Janeiro last June for the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED), the Earth Summit, few expected much more from it than they got...

Earth Summit Agreements

Commentaries on Development

:: Around Campus

Duderstadt sees benefits for U-M if it adapts to new research climate

The 'Pleasant Toil' of Graduate Studies ( the last of the childhood diseases)

:: Reflections on diversity in U-M artists' lives
The U-M observed its sixth annual Martin Luther King Day Symposium sponsored by the Office of Minority Affairs on Jan. 18 with more than 60 events at various Colleges, Schools, departments, residence halls, auditoriums, stages and screening rooms.

:: Here's how to save or replace old letters of reference at U-M
If you are a former student or graduate of the University with an inactive (since 1980) file in the Reference Letter Center of the Office of Career Planning and Placement (CP&P), the following notice is for you

:: School of Education puts Peace Corps vets in Detroit Public Schools
The U-M School of Education received an $830,000 grant from the DeWitt Wallace-Reader's Digest Fund to support a program that puts Peace Corps veterans into American public schools in urban and other areas suffering from teacher shortages, while the former Corps members pursue a master's degree in education.

:: Steering the way to the Michigan Mandate
"We are now part way across the street trying to get to the other side and there are lots of trucks going in both directions." That was how President James J. Duderstadt characterized the University's progress ...

:: Vassar's Groups
Not long ago, the phrase 'educated American women' was looked on as an anomaly, if not an oxymoron

:: Impresario for All Seasons
The expectant hush in Hill Auditorium gave way to loud applause as Gary Graffman entered the stage in 1963 to join the Philadelphia Orchestra in Prokofiev's Piano Concerto No. 3. One member of the audience, however, was more relieved than excited.

:: A Centennial of Sound
The University Musical Society has been bringing biggest stars in the perforning-arts firmament to Ann Arbor for over a hundred years.

Ars longa vita brevis

:: The Challenge: Tradition Meets Technology
With close to 7,000,000 volumes in its graduate, undergraduate and numerous specialized libraries, the University of Michigan Library in Ann Arbor is sixth-largest in the nation among university libraries.

:: John Briley '51, Epic Screenwriter
Many who saw the movie Gandhi recall the moment when the humble pacifist sums up his philosophy by saying, "An eye for an eye only makes the whole world blind." Apt as that summation was, Gandhi never said it. Michigan graduate John Briley put those pithy words in his mouth.

:: Architectural Visions
Dozens of "architectural fantasies" by lakov Chemikhov, a leading architect, graphic artist, theorist and teacher in the Soviet Union's avant-garde movement in the 1920s and 1930s, were displayed in February in the University's Rackham Galleries.

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