01 Page 2- The Michigan Daily- Friday, September 27, 1991 New Communication chai by JoAnne Viviano Daity Staff Reporter UCLA's loss shall prove to be the University's gain. Dr. Neil Malamuth, the new chair of the communication depart- ment this fall said he decided to transfer from Los Angeles to Ann Arbor because "the University seems committed to further devel- oping a top department of commu- nication. Currently at UCLA (communication) is a smaller de- partment. The same professional opportunity doesn't exist," he said. "This University is coming to recognize that this is a critical field and is more willing to do what it takes to make the department a leader in research and teaching," he added. Lecturer and Kings/Chavez Parks visiting professor Laura Moseley said she thought Malamuth would evaluate the department's faculty recruitment procedures. "The new chair has indicated that curriculum procedures and faculty recruitment will all be reviewed and evaluated ... It has to have a pos- itive effect," Moseley said. "Things that work well will be continued. There's room for expan- sion, bringing in additional excel- lent faculty, and condensing what's here," Malamuth said. The new chair is also a professor of communication and psychology. He is currently teaching a graduate level course giving students a gen- eral introduction to communication and department members. The course is designed to "give (students) an idea of some of the major issues in the field," he said. Malamuth said he did not plan to pursue an academic career, but when he was a sophomore at UCLA he as- sisted a student working on a doc- toral dissertation examining the connection between sex and r plans aggression. "I started getting involved in re- search but left it because I was mo- tivated to save the world. I felt I had to justify my work in more ap- plied terms," he said. He took a break from his research and studied conflict resolution in graduate school. However, "at the time there was a lot of controversy about pornog- raphy, sex and the media, and rape. There was very much in the public attention, but there had not been any systematic research. "I decided to do a few studies to ... try to see if images affect people or not and obtained some pretty dramatic results," Malamuth said. "Some of the results were at variance with the common beliefs among psychologists, media re- searchers, and the general public," he added. The criticism compelled Malamuth to pursue his research which he continues today. "It's a neverending process. You never have the final answer," he said. Malamuth said it was a big tran- sition to move his years of research from the Pacific coast to the Midwest. "And I'm a pack-rat to or improvements some degree. I still have 200-some boxes still packed," he said. Malamuth said that faculty and staff has been "generally very sup- portive and quite excited about the fact that the University has been willing to commit its resources (to the communication department)." Assistant Professor Richard Campbell said he is "very opti- mistic" about the departmental changes and the new chair. "As a ju- nior faculty member, its nice to have another senior faculty member to get advice and support from," he added. N. Campus commuter parking to expand by Joshua Meckler commuter lot (NC 46) on the cor- even though they have a commuter give the departments on North Commuter parking on North ner of Hubbard and Hayward roads. sticker. Campus time to realize that the Campus, which was recently cut by Also, she said she was looking into Kirkpatrick said the spaces were spaces are available for visitors. 90 spaces, will soon be expanded, other sites that she declined to changed because North Campus has a Kirkpatrick would not say how Dr. Susan Kirkpatrick, manager of identify. shortage of visitor parking and ob- long she would wait before consid- University Parking Services, said When the additions are made, she servations of the commuter lots ering a change. Napoli Pizza WEEKEND SPECIAL OPEN FOR LUNCH 7 DAYS A WEEK MON - SAT 11:00AM TO MIDNIGHT SUNDAY NOON TO MIDNIGHT DELIVERY STARTS AT 4:00 PM 1214 S. UNIVERSITY AT THE GALLERIA 741-1200 i _ . yesterday. "We're committed to getting additional spaces within a month," Kirkpatrick said. She added that she thinks the new parking will be available sooner than that. "We are locating space right now that we can add to commuter parking immediately," she said. Kirkpatrick said the additional spaces could be added for a minimal amount of work to the unpaved "'THELMA & LOUISE' IS A KNOCKOUT! Jeff Craig, US MAGAZINE "MOVIE DYNAMITE.. DETONATED BY AWARD-CALIBRE PERFORMANCES FROM GEENA DAVIS AND SUSAN SARANDON- Peter Travers, ROWNG STONE Sat. 9/28 7:30 & 10pm MLB3 Sun. 929 5 & 7:30pm MLB3 Presented by M-Ficks WA $*V~wsW State Legislature approves public school budget for coming fiscal year said the number of new spots would be "at least the number of visitor spaces taken away (from the com- muter lot) and hopefully some more." The recent conversion of 90 North Campus free commuter spaces to metered spaces sparked students to complain to Parking Services. They say the lot fills up at 8 a.m. and that some students are forced to use the metered spaces last year showed that not all the spaces were being used. "We didn't observe that it was 100 percent full at any time," she said. Now, students say the metered spaces are mostly unused while the rest of the lot is crammed full of cars. Kirkpatrick said she is aware of this and that changes will be made if the spaces continue to be unoccupied. However, she said she wanted to x s~ k~ Students have also complained that the Fuller-Mitchell lot is -not fully used, and the Glazier Way lot is not used at all - except by stu- dents parking there illegally. Kirkpatrick said she expects those lots, which can be used by staff and medical students, to be used more as Parking Services adver- tises their availability to medical students in the coming weeks. SSalute to F --Kataln I4e&Vy - Katalin er for her tremendous effort " and a job well done . in arranging the.. 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