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The Michigan Daily - Monday, September 18, 2000 - 3A
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Lecture to focus
on Frost's time
in Ann Arbor
Robert Frost's time in Ann Arbor
will be the focus of discussion tomor-
row at the University's Detroit Obser-
vatory, as Information and Library
Studies dean emeritus Robert Warner
will lecture about the poet's excur-
sions in Ann Arbor during the 1920's.
The free event will be held in the
Observatory's meeting room at 3 p.m
The Observatory is located at 1398
E. Ann St. at Observatory St.
*Rutgers prof. to
speak on school
libraries, students
The School of Information and the
University Library will sponsor a lec-
ture by Prof. Carol Kuhlthau of Rut-
gers University at 3 p.m. on
Wednesday in the Ehrlicher Room in
" 411 West Hall.
'Library Cultures Exploring
Dimensions and Change" is a series
of free lectures including KuhlthaUs
speech titled "Libraries and Learning
in the Information Age School."
Kuhlthau, chair of the library and
information science department in the
School of Communications, Informa-
tion and Library Studies at Rutgers,
was nationally recognized for her con-
tributions in the advancement of
*instruction in a college or university
media center.
Her work includes creating user-
centered library services, improving
learning in digital libraries, and rede-
veloping school libraries for the new
millennium.
For more information, visit
un'usi.unich.edu/Iiiar/y -c'ultw-es
0'U' begins visiting
writer series this
week with Dolan
The University's visiting writer
series begins Thursday, Sept. 21 with
Western Michigan University Assis-
tant English Prof. J.D. Dolan.
Dolan's presentation of a fiction
reading will take place at Rackham
Amphitheater at 5 p.m.
* Dolan's work has been published in
Esquire, The Nation and Best Ameri-
can Sports Writing 1999. He recently
published his first book, "Phoenix, a
Brother's Life."
He has also received the Jeanne
Charpiot Goodheart Fiction Prize and
fellowships from the Constance
Saltonstall and Irving S. Gilmore
foundation, and the Idaho Commis-
' ion on the Arts.
For more information, call lan Reed
Twiss at (734) 647-6471.
Polish Union holds
conference in honor
of 20th anniversary
The Polish Solidarity Trade Union
will hold it's 20th Anniversary confer-
ence titled "The Silences of Solidari-.
ty" beginning Thursday, Sept. 21 at
Rackham Amphitheatre.
The conference opens with author
.rPawel Huelle's talk, "Three in a Boat,
Solidarity, Walesa, and I: The Gdansk
Perspective on Poland's Road to Free-
-dom," at 8 p.m.
y The University's Center for Russian
and East European Studies will spon-
sor the conference, which features
Poland's recent foreign minister' Bro-
*nislaw Geremek.
Geremek helped found the soli-
darity trade union in 1980, served
as an aid to Lech Walesa and is a
current member of Polish Parlia-
ment.
He will deliver the annual Coperni-
cus lecture at the close of the confer-
ence Saturday at 4 p.m
Other Solidarity activists will hold
panel discussions throughout the con-
ference at Rackham.
For more information, call (734),
764-0351.
---Comileld by faiv Sraff Repore'r
Lisa Hoff nan.
Panelists discuss higher education future
By Karen Schwartz
For the Daily
University School of Education alum
Dolores Cross wonders whether higher educa-
tion is being pushed aside.
Cross, who serves as president of Morris
Brown College in Atlanta, said she believes
states often give more money to elementary and
secondary education than to universities and
colleges. "Are we being overlooked?" she asked
about the allotment of funding from national
and state government.
Cross joined two other School of Education
alumni - Ted Marchese, executive director of
the higher education magazine Change and
Paul Lingefelter, executive director of the State
Higher Education Executive Officers - in a
program Friday that focused on the changing
nature and future of higher education.
The discussion was sponsored by the Center
for the Study of Higher and Postsecondary
Education and the School of Education and
held in the school's Schorling Auditorium.
The panelists' comments simultaneously
were broadcast on the Internet, and panelists
addressed concerns from both audience mem-
bers and online viewers.
"The interaction between the people on the
Internet and the speakers was one of the most
valuable aspects of our program," said Sylvia
Hurtado, director of the CSHPE. "We're bring-
ing people together.... This is how we're going
to stay on top of these issues and challenges."
The panelists addressed issues including the
access and quality of higher education, the role
of the Internet in higher education and funding
for postsecondary institutions.
They deliberated the difficulty of getting sup-
port for institutions that provide not only for
students who are well prepared for college, but
also for those who are underserved at the pre-
college level.
"We in higher education are more unsophisti-
cated than we can afford to be to teach students
who are not well-prepared," said Lingefelter,
recognizing the pressure and need to improve
the quality and capacity of teachers.
Quality institutions should be involved at the
pre-college level, Cross said, and be willing to
reallocate resources to help underserved stu-
dents succeed and overall be interested in the
success of their students.
"When I look at the corporate sector, I see
they have the same problems with the retention
and advancement of minorities," Cross said.
The challenge then becomes teaching people
how to create, use knowledge and to make.
ELLIE WHITE/Daly
School of Education alumni Ted Marchese, Dolores Cross and Paul Lingefelter discuss the future of
higher education during a panel discussion in Schorling Auditorium yesterday.
opportunities to learn readily available, March-
ese said.
Online education can offer students that
opportunity through distance learning, he said,
although there are disadvantages such as a lack
of face-to-face interaction.
The trend in distance learning has been dri-
ving higher education institutions to become
more technologically advanced, Marchese said
Distance learning could support the emergence
of new private services for better informatiol,
and as the Internet drives down prices, it courl
also advance the quest for quality in education,
he said.
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Poll finds Michigan residents
support Medicare overhaul
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University alumni Ned and Joann Chalat laugh with Bill Gosling, director of the
University Library System, Friday at a reception recognizing their donation of
more than 200 children's books to the University.
'U' thanks donors
fore childre4V-%n's books
LANSING (AP) - High drug
costs are a burden on Michigan res-
idents, many of whom support a
major overhaul of the federal
Medicare program.
On the top of the list of needs'?
Cheaper prescription drugs. The
matter could become a major issue
in who wins the Nov. 7 presidential
election in Michigan.
"It's very hard to manage your
money and buy the drugs you need
to stay alive," said 81 -year-old
Genevieve Mortier of Harrison
Township. "The cost of taking
drugs is too high. There are people
out there not taking drugs and
dying.
"I'm listening to the candidates
and anything they can do to help
me pay for prescriptions would be
helpful," Mortier said.
Mortier isn't alone in her opin-
ion. Four out of five likely Michi-
gan voters want some changes in
Medicare, according to a poll con-
ducted by The Detroit News.
Twelve percent of polled voters
said they would support a complete
overhaul, while thirty-two percent
support major changes.
Slightly more Democrats and
independent voters say they want
changes in the system than Repub-
licans do.
The poll suggests that policies on
federally subsidized health care and
prescription drug costs may play a
major role in the presidential race
in Michigan.
Indeed, Medicare has become a
major point of debate between the
major party candidates for presi-
dent, Democrat Al Gore and
Republican George W. Bush. The
federal system was developed 35
years ago to provide senior citizens
with federally subsidized health
care.
Mortier told the News for a Sun-
day story that she must get by on a
monthly Social Security check for
S894, while a SI50 chunk of that
money goes to medicine for dia-
betes and blood pressure control.
In Michigan, 1.4 million seniors
get Medicare benefits and 170,000
lack private or state-provided Med-
icaid insurance to cover prescrip-
tions.
At the same time, drug cost*
across the nation have risen more
than 50 percent since 1989.
George Bush is calling for more
market competition for Medicare
patients, along with S158 billioti
for prescription subsidies over 1d
years.
Al Gore is calling for federal
entitlements to the tune of S253 bil=
lion over 10 years.
Both candidates call each other's
plan insufficient. But it's up to
Michigan voters to decide for them-
selves.
According to a recent poll by Thq
Detroit Free Press, Gore leads ir
Michigan and other key Midwest-
ern states by a modest percentage.
But Michigan Gov. John Engler, a
Republican, said Sunday on NBd
TV's Meet the Press that he thinks
it will be a tight race up to election
day.
"It's very hard to manage your money and
buy the drugs you need to stay alve. "
- Genevieve Mortiet
Harrison Township resident
By Kristen Beaumont
and Benjamin Chess
For the Dail
For the past 50 years University
alumni Joann and Ned Chalat have
scoured antique bookshops world-
wide looking for books of illustra-
tions by Arthur Rackham.
Now the Chalats have decided to
share their collection by donating it
to the University.
On Friday the University held a
reception to thank the Chalats for
their donation of the more than 200
children's books they have collected
during their travels.
Rackham, who is not related to
Horace Rackham of Rackham Grad-
uate School, published more than
3,300 illustrations in classic chil-
dren's literature of the late 19th Cen-
tury.
Carolyn Balducci, Residential
College professor of' children's liter-
ature, said the collection of Rack-
ham's books would benefit the study
of children's literature at the Univer-
sity.
"Hris unique interpretation of
these stories are essential to the
study of children's literature,"
Balducci said. "It forms a beauti-
ful addition to the library
resources."
She hopes that the books will
help foster more programs in writ-
ing children's literature at the uni-
versity.
"It's a treasure very difficult, if not
impossible, to collect today," said
Bill Gosling, director of the Univer-
sity's library system.
Joann Chalat said the couple
decided to donate the books to the
University because "we wanted the
books to stay together and we, want-
ed them to be cared for."
The books are now housed in the
Special Collections Library on the
seventh floor of the Harlan Hatcher
Graduate Library. The books are
available to read in the library, but
are not circulatin.
"We do make them available to
anyone who asks for them. That was
one of our concerns,, said Peggy
Daub, a librarian for the Special
Collections Library.
Katherine Beam, senior associate
librarian for the Special Collections
Library, said she hoped the collec-
tion would help to develop a
stronger children's literature section
at the University.
Some titles in the collection
include "Cinderella," "Mother
Goose" and "Alice's Adventures in
Wonderland."
The collection also includes Rack-
ham's own personal copy of the
1906 edition of "Peter Pan." The
book even contains markings by
Rackham and his publisher in the
margins.
The collection also includes per-
sonal letters and magazine articles
written and illustrated by Rackham.
The Chalats had been considering
what to do with the collection for
some time.
While it was hard to part with
their collection, the Chalats were
pleased to know that their books will
be cared for and enjoyed by many in
the years to come.
"These books are charmed," Ned
Chalat said. "If you let them, they
will charm your lives, just as they
have charmed ours."
- Daily Staff Repoter' Anna Clark
contributeld to this repolrt.
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