. . . Winter 1996
Bollinger Comes Home---Former Law Dean Returns As Michigan's 12th President.
Lee C. Bollinger will become the 12th president of the University of Michigan on Feb. 1.
Frost At Michigan
Michigan Today readers may remember the late Stella Brunt Osborn's reminiscence in our June 1986 issue about Robert Frost's first visit to Michigan...
Artist Jean Magnano Bollinger To Renew Connections With Ann Arbor
In a press conference Nov. 5, when her husband accepted the U-M presidency, Jean Magnano Bollinger said she "couldn't be happier for Lee; his life has been spent thinking about these issues" that he will now face as University president.
Divergence---Robert Frost's Great-grandson Is 'Not A Big Fan Of The Poetry'
"I'm not a big fan of the poetry, I'll be the first to admit," says Bob Frost, a visiting professor of history at the U-M.
The Residential College---Almost 30, But Still Trusted
The University's Residential College students are known for their freedom, creativity, social conscience and political partisanship.
A Judge Looks At Academic Freedom
"This lecture is an important event in the life of the University and the community," noted Judge Avern Cohn '49 JD of the US Southeastern District Court in Detroit.
Winter Commencement '96
Sandra Day O'Connor, justice of the US Supreme Court, told the nearly 2,000 graduating students at U-M's Winter Commencement on Dec. 15 that they should do their best at whatever level they find themselves after graduation.
The University Of Automobiles: A Century Of Connections
At the Michigan League, on North Campus, at the Business School and in Dearborn, U-M faculty, students, researchers and administrators have ties to the auto industry.
Studying With Stella
The world renowned artist Frank Stella, dubbed "the father of minimalist art" and a bright star of the art firmament since 1959, when he was only 23, meets with U-M art students as a visiting professor.
Nazarene Connections
Graduate students Rachele Goldman, Robin Axelrod and Lee Glascoe spent several months in and around Nazareth, the famed home town of Jesus in Israel's Central Galilee region, because of Partnership 2000.
The Super Campbells
Two generations of Campbells performed in the Michigan Marching Band over four decades. Now their jazz is on a CD.
HUES More Than A Magazine, It's A Movement
Ophira Edut, her twin sister, Tali, and their friend Dyann Logwood are not your stereotypical Generation X "slackers." After many late nights in their freshman dorm rooms at Michigan discussing what their ideal magazine would look like, they were presented the opportunity to find out by way of a Women's Studies class project of Ophira's in their 1991-92 sophomore year.
Feminine Markings---An Anthropologist's Vignette
Last January, Coralynn V. Davis returned to Ann Arbor from 15 months of ethnographic research in Nepal toward completion of her doctoral dissertation in anthropology, "Engendering the Third World: The Development of Women at a Craft-Producing Project in Nepal."
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