M E M O RAT I V E M I L L E N N I U M E D I ENT ERING T HE YEAR 2000 T I O N Monday December 13, 1999 v.:o£at . ,,.J.. _.. : .rSS.haha r .a.-3, .k.i sn r:. >.. ?t%. eG^a. <..x _._. S makes education ilable to masses illennium, students from learned the great books. irts at the University of University pro- national football reates, the polio : into space and tury, there was no great institution of Seale;" said Princeton kJ Shapiro, who served gan president from 1980- ss problem yet provided a it was truly extraordinary. ,o or three insti- it created that ,. der in higher education during ie University must preserve that ithe times, they said. ttLee Bollinger said the ed remarkably in its duty to 0 public. magical experience for students I into the most dedicated and: in the world," Bollinger said. "It >wledge and understanding in ectual and artistic life." sity of academic and athletic nuished the University as a AssaidWalter Harrison, vice et Relations from 1989-98. atest attribute. in my opinion, s breadth:' said Harrison, now the University of Hartford in e second half of the century is education by the rise of great The University of Michigan is tht." aKwith talented faculty and the University an excep- i ersity physicist Homer a University President. 996-97... it possible,.through our accessi- lity, for dreams of good jobs in o be realized for students from ground and races," Neal said. h has played a large part in shap- s character, and perhaps no one Nith this than Robben Fleming, yersity president from 1968-79. v4-ar, civ il rights and women's S