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The Michigan Daily - Tuesday, October 20, 1998 - 3
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Public Health
Prof. emeritus
dies at 96
Mabel Rugen, professor emeritus of
*-Public Health and Education, died in
her Ann Arbor home Oct. 15 at the age
.of..96.
Rugen, a pioneer in public health and
education, retired from the University
in1970 after 40 years of teaching.
The School of Public Health estab-
lished the Mabel E. Rugen Fund for
Health Education in 1992 in honor of
Rugen's 90th birthday.
Funeral arrangements will be han-
dled by Muehlig Funeral Chapel in
*Anth Arbor and services are scheduled
to take place in Glenview, Ill.
Memorial contributions may be made
to the Mabel Rugen Fund, in care of the
School of Public Health.
Service helps
target depression
>a-Counseling and Psychological
x Srvices is offering to help students
*control depression through its six-week
group, "Beating the Blues."
Topics of discussion include discov-
ering the sources of negative thinking
and preventing future depressions.
The group, which is free for stu-
dents, is scheduled to meet every
Monday at the CAPS office from 3:15
p.m. to 4:30 p.m. and will run Oct. 26
through Nov. 30.
Students may sign up by calling
CAPS to set up a pre-group interview
Author to speak on
nuclear weapons
1, Jonathan Schell, author of "The Gift
if-Time: The Case for Abolishing
Nuclear Weapons Now" is scheduled to
° speak at various locations throughout
- lAnn Arbor on Oct. 30.
Schell, a leading voice on the nuclear
question, plans to include a noon hour
panel discussion in the Dana Building,
Room 2024, a book-signing at Shaman
Drum from 3:30 p.m. to 5 p.m. and an
allress at 8 p.m. at Rackham
Amiphitheater.
Shell was the recipient of the 1998
' fanbrook Peace Foundation award.
Foundation
donates $1M to
*film studies
The University's film and video
studies program received a $1 mil-
lion dollar gift from the Four Friends
Foundation.
~Foundation founder Robert Shaye,
a University alumnus, said the gift
will be used to facilitate the develop-
nMent of a strong screenwriting pro-
.gram.
The two-part gift will fund the
ilonald Hall Collection, which will
pr vide a library of scripts and tapes
of motion pictures as well as viewing
equipment and a librarian to oversee
"the"collection and the James Gindinn
Visiting Artists and Master Classes
Program.
The program intends to bring two
to four working screenwriters to the
:U niversity each term for seminars
and to conduct classes for students
who completed a screenplay.
The two components of the gift
were named for two professors who
a nfluenced Shaye during his under-
-graduate years at the University.
Website connects,
users to 'U,
Destination Discovery, a new
0Website created by Academic
Outreach and the University
libraries, makes it easy to find infor-
mation on what the University has to
offer.
w . The Website, located at
ttp:www.outreach. umich.edu/ameri
tech /discoverv, lets visitors scroll
through an alphabetical listing of all
the resources in the site, check a list
gpf University departments, units and
affiliates or wander along "Paths of
Discovery" - information organized
by topic.
A group of 25 teachers tested the
site, which was sponsored by
Ameritech, last spring.
Compiled by Daily Staff Reporter
Katherine Herbruck.
Homecoming week promotes spirit at 'U'
By Jamie Winkler
D)aily Staff Repoter
Homecoming has begun. But what does that
mean?
This week is full of events intended to involve
students and encourage them to display University
spirit.
Homecoming is designed to bring alumni back
to join generations of University students in cele-
brating the University.
"Homecoming is a challenge at (the University)
because alumni come home every football game,"
said Ken Blochowski, manager of Student and
Young Alumni Programs at the Alumni
Association.
There are about five or six alumni reunions at
every home football game, Blochowski said.
This year, the Homecoming Committee is trying
to consolidate efforts on a few activities to increase
attendance.
Rather than having many activities with few
people attending each, the committee hopes to
have one big event -- the pep rally - and attract
many people to attend, Blochowski said.
The rally is scheduled for Thursday at 7:30 p.m.
in the Cliff Keen Arena on Hoover Street.
Michigan Football Coach Lloyd Carr and the
football team captains are expected to attend,
along with the Michigan Marching Band and
cheerleaders. After the rally, alumni and fans will
have the chance to attend a "Meet the Athletes"
session, where representatives from almost all of
the University's athletic teams will be accessible,
Blochowski said.
"This year we've decided to put our efforts into
turnout for the pep rally," Blochowski said. "If we
can start a tradition there, we can build on that"
The Alumni Association also is sponsoring the Go
Blue Brunch Saturday morning on Oosterbaan field.
The brunch will be all-you-can-eat and will feature
the presentation of Spirit of Michigan Awards to the
1997 Michigan hockey and football teams.
Many campus groups are foining the Alumni
Association in planning Homecoming events. For
example, the Compulsive Lyres will perform a
concert with the A Cappella Ensemble of the
University's Greek System and "DeClusions of
Grandure" from Indiana University on Saturday at
8 p.m. at the Mendelssohn Theater in the Michigan
League.
Many schools within the University plan to host
dinners and events connected with Homecoming
and welcoming alumni. Homecoming seems to
focus around alumni and not generate enthusiasm
from undergraduates, said Roger Fisher, associate
director of campus activities and progrars at the
Student Activities and Leadership otice.
"One of the most disappointing things about
Homecoming is undergraduate participaton,"
Fisher said.
"Diag Day and the pep rally (are efforts) trying
to make (Homecoming) a student-centered activi-
ty while holding onto alumni ties,' Fisher said.
Diag Day is scheduled for Thursday. Games, a
moon bounce, a giant gyroscope and many other
carnival-like attractions will take over the Diag,
Fisher said. Capping the Homecoming activities is
the addition of Black Homecoming Week.
Black FoIx, an umbrella organization for smaller
black student groups, will sponsor Black
Homecoming Week, which promotes spirit through
events, fundraising and community service.
Sister 2 Sister, a community organization in the
Ann Arbor/Ypsilanti area, is sponsoring Date
Night - a date auction - on Thursday in the West
Quad Wedge Room at 7 p.m.
The money will finance a scholarship fund for
young black women in the community. Black
Homecoming Week wraps up Saturday night with
a party in Bursley Residence Hall at 10 p.m.
"We expect Date Night to be big (as well as) the
party at Bursley Saturday Night, " LSA junior Joy
Greenwood said. "The events, they really focus on
social cohesiveness"
I
Senate Assembly discusses
budget strength, renovations
By Paul Berg tain a high
Daily Staff Reporter University'st
Chief Financial Officer Robert Education
Kasdin discussed the strength and allo- surpass all o
cation priorities of the University budget "Over tim
at yesterday's meeting of the Senate spent on ed
Assembly, the faculty's governing body. redirected tov
"The finances of the University are said. "Last
quite healthy," Kasdin said. "We are in a inventory of)
strong financial position, but it would be "This yea
foolish to suspend our diligence" lyzing then
Kasdin set forth general priorities and Central(
before addressing specifics about renova- A combi
tions that will be investigated in the new constru
University's ongoing Master Plan, the Univers
University President Lee Bollinger's Kasdin said
long-term campus construction and reno- Hill Auditor
vation initiative. buildings un
"We must ensure the one-time money "The over
is matched with one-time expenses, will be spen
while recurring money must be applied using existing
to recurring expenses," Kasdin said. the media a
He also emphasized the need to main- buildings," K
Peace Corps
By Adam Cohen
lDAi StaffReporter
Founded on the steps of the Michigan Union by Pre
John F Kennedy, the U.S. Peace Corps offers invaluable e
ences to all its volunteers.
An information session is scheduled today for po
recruits at 7 p.m. in the University's International Center,
is attached to the Union on East Madison Street.
Today's meeting is not limited to students, but include
one interested in the program. Those attending will learn
Peace Corps activities and speak with returning voluntee
The nationwide organization sends a diverse represen
of the U.S. population to Third World countries every yea
"First, we want to provide and train people for countrii
need people. Second, we want other cultures to gain know
of us, and third, we want to foster a knowledge of other cu
level of service from the
central administration.
nal needs, Kasdin said, must
ther financing concerns.
ne, every dollar that can be
ucational purposes must be
wards those pursuits," Kasdin
year, we focused on taking
what facilities we had.
ri is being dedicated to ana-
relationship between North
Campus," he said.
nation of renovations and
action will alter the face of
ity in the coming years,
. The Frieze Building and
ium will be two of the first
dergoing changes.
whelming majority of dollars
nt on rehabilitating and re-
g space, while the majority of
ttention will go to the new
{asdin said.
The University, Kasdin said, must han-
dIe the Ann Arbor's finite space resources
with care.
"Every remaining plot must be allocat-
ed based on academic priorities," he said.
"There is a limited amount of space.
remaining in the Ann Arbor community."
Dermatology Prof Elizabeth Duell, a
member of the Senate Assembly's
Budget Study Committee, presented a
final report of the committee's research.
Duell discussed the effects of the
centralization of libraries and discontin-
uation of the mandatory retirement age
on the University's budget.
"It's very difficult to really get clean
data," she said.
The report expressed concern among
the science faculty about the inconve-
nience of combining department libraries
into one Science Library and concluded
that the combination of resources had a
negligible budgetary effect.
DAVID ROCHKIND/Daily
Associate Prof. of Architecture and Urban Planning Mojtaba Navvab adjusts
a speaker at Hill Auditorium yesterday, where his class tested acoustics.
Ar ch1iecture class
tests celebrated
Hill a~oustics
seeks recruits
for our volunteers," said Rackham student Sarah Naasko, the
University's Peace Corps campus representative.
sident The abroad experience also may offer specific educational
xpcri- opportunities in degree work.
"We have a lot of opportunities open now, especially in
tential teaching English. What a lot of people don't know is that
which we have graduate programs through the Peace Corps,, so
you could work on your degree while volunteering," said
s any- LSA senior Matthew Pavich, a work-study assistant for the
about University's Peace Corps.
rs. "Although the recruits are volunteering, they are compensat-
ntation ed with food, housing, travel and safe conditions; Pavich said.
ar. Compared to all other Peace Corps divisions, the University
es that sends the largest amount of volunteers, he said.
vledge Additional information on the Peace Corps may be found at
ultures the Website, http://wwwumich.edu/~icenter/peacecorps.
By Daniel Weiss
Daily Staff Reporter
They listened to Elvis and they
listened to Bach. Then they
sounded off. ,
Scores of architecture students
visited Hill Auditorium yesterday,
testing the auditorium's celebrat-
ed acoustics that have made it the
ideal place for nearly any concert.
Professor Mojtaba Navvab's
Environmental Technology class
sat in strategic locations through-
out the auditorium's three levels,
listening to a variety of musical
samples and recording their
impressions.
Instruments designed to mea-
sure light, sound, temperature and
humidity provided objective mea-
surements.
The measurements will be cor-
related with the students' subjec-
tive impressions of the acoustics.
Students will use the informa-
tion to reach conclusions about
what types of sound please the
human ear most.
The class project comes as Hill
Auditorium is waiting for possible
renovations.
University Architect Douglas
Hanna said a renovation project
has been in the works for eight
years, and his office expects to
propose a plan soon.
Hanna said some of the
improvements include power sup-
plies, electrical outlets, elevators
and handicap-accessible sdating.
Hanna said his office has not
even reached the point where it
could review the possibility of
installing a new sound system.
But even the possibility of a
new sound system concerns some
people.
"If you put in a sound system,
you have acknowledged that you
cannot distribute the sound prop-
erly," Navvab said.
George Gershwin, Leonard
Bernstein and the Vienna
Philharmonic top the impressive
list of performers who have
graced the auditorium's stage.
But some think the auditorium
still is in need of a sound system.
Roger Arnett, sound engineer
for the School of Music, said the
current sound system "is not ade-
quate."
Hanna's office expects to have
a plan for the renovation by
spring.
He said one of the questions his
office is asking as it examines the
possibilities in renovating Hill
Auditorium is, "What do we need
to rejuvenate?"
Coection:
In yesterday's photograph of Courtney Cantor and her hallmates, Cantor was
incorrectly identified .Cantor is in the front row, second from the right, not left.
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