8 - The Michigan Daily- Wednesday, July 5,1995
Regents name N. Campus
} tower after'U'alumnus
Gently down the stream ..
Alfred and Ming-ming Wu float down the Huron River yesterday, with their son David at the wheel.
Groups stay active over summer
By Deborah G. Weinstein
Daily Staff Reporter
Despite the lull on campus that comes with the end
of the University's academic year, student groups have
maintained andeveneineased theiractivity thissummer.
Education is the Sexual Assault Prevention and
Awareness Center's primary goal during the summer.
SAPAC introduces first-year students to its services
during Orientation through presentations that include
information about personal safety, assaultstatistics
and a discussion about assault myths.
"We have freshmen go through a workshop and
talk about issues of safety and statistics,"said SAPAC
Peer Adviser Brian Lehman. "One out of six women
will be assaulted in four years. Last year, there were
a lot of questions about serial rapists."
Lehman said thatfimst-yearstudents continually rate
SAPAC asoneofthe topthreeOrientation presentations.
Michigan Student Assembly Vice President Sam
Goodstein said that MSA has continued to improve its
reputation with the administration andstudentsby ac-
complishing several of its goals, including securing
a position of student representative at the table of the
Board of Regents, and convincing the regents to ap-
prove an escrow account for StudentLegal Services.
"MSA, right now, is at a critical point. We've got
(student) interest. We want to keep student attention,"
Goodstein said. "MSA's credibility has grown
widely with the administration. (We've) established
credibility with the students. You can see that in the
tumout for (MSA) elections."
In terms of national politics, the College Repub-
licans are welcoming new members, as well as pre-
paring for the 1996 presidential elections. Mark
Fletcher, former chair of the College Republicans and
present state chair of the Michigan Federation of Col-
lege Republicans, said that this summer's efforts in-
clude posting flyers around East Quad about their
mass meeting in the fall, and planning activities such
as a presentation on the "Contract with America."
Fletcher said that student interest in College Repub-
licans is evident. He said that he has already received
several calls from first-year students about joining.
Although they are not represented at Orientation,
the University debate team is active during the sum-
mer as well. Members of the team coach high school
students with policy debating. This summer's resolu-
tion concems U.S. foreign policy with China.
LSA sophomore Matt Rice joined the debate team
last year and is a coach this summer. "It's nice to be
in a teaching role, share your experience, and keep
learning," Goodstein said.
By Kristin Johnson University alumnu
Daily Staff Reporter For the Univer
The University North Campus Bell Tower, significance. "Th
presently under construction, will bear a name as symbol of North C
memorable as the tower itself. At its June meet- for Central Campu
ing, the Board of Regents decided to name the W. Mayer.
tower the Ann and Robert H. Lurie Tower. Construction or
The naming commemorates the late Robert H. "We've just begun
Lurie, a prominent alumnus of the University, tion,"said Tom Sch
and his wife, Ann, who last month provided the Planning Office.
University with a gift of $12 million - the sec- Schlaff said c
ond largest donation in the history of the Univer- progress over the
sity - to establish the Rob- _
ert H. Lurie Fund.
Provost and Executive There have been
Vice President for Academic a
Affairs Gilbert R. Whitaker
Jr. said that the gift will fund positive relationships
the construction of the towerreainhp
and the Engineering Center with the Lurie family.
Building, which will be M
named the Robert H. Lurie Mr. Lurie valued both
Engineering Center. the education he
"There have been and
continue to be positive rela- received and the
tionships with the Lurie fam-
ily," Whitaker said. "Mr. personal and business
Lurie valued both the educa- frindsip he made at
tion he received and the per-
sonal and business friend- the University."
ships he made at the Univer-
sity." - Gilbert R. Witaker
Whitaker said the naming University provost
honors "the meaningful com-
mitment and the long-term re-
lationship between the Lurie family and the Univer- sity, specializing i
sity which this exceptional gift symbolizes." neering.
Brad Canale, director of college relations for the During his und
College of Engineering, agreed. "Mrs. Lurie has re- long partnership w
layed to us (that) she feels this project is perfect for whom he acquires
what Bob would have wanted," said Canale, who properties. Soon th
represents the interests of the Ann and Robert Lurie As president o
Family Foundation on campus. Great American M
As an expression of Robert Lurie's dedication to part owner of both
the campus, the Ann and Robert H. Lurie Tower has cago White Sox,l
great importance to the Lurie family. "Our family's business career.
involvement with the new carillon tower is a very sig- "Bob Lurie fre
nificant, personal pleasure," Ann Lurie said. natural talents in(
Of particular pride to the Luries was the tower's fine-tuned in his co
design, the brainchild of renowned architect and of Engineering," V
us Charles W. Moore.
rsity, the edifice will have equal
e bell tower will become (the)
-ampus the way Burton Tower is
is," said University Planner Fred
n the tower began two weeks ago.
excavation and pouring founda-
laff, director ofeconstruction at the
ompletion is dependent on the
e next six to eight weeks. The
completion date is scheduled
for August 1996.
Schlaff praisedthe Central
Campus tower and its future
twin as "the best carillon(s) in
the world." He gave ample
credit to the bnefactors, stat-
ing,"Itwouldn'tbe happening
without the Luries."
Canale said the gift was to
make the Ann and Robert H.
Lurie Tower possible.
"It's exceptional," he
said, "that the Lurie family
expressed to the University
its desire to create a project
of the highest quality and
made a gift commensurate I
in magnitude to achieve
that."
Robert H. Lurie eamed a
master of science in engineer-
ing in 1966 from the Univer-
n industrial and operations engi-
ergraduate days he formed a life-
ith fellow student Sam Zell, with
d a number of Ann Arbor rental
iey moved their firm to Chicago.
fEquity Group Investments and
[anagement and Investments and
the Chicago Bulls and the Chi-
Lurie enjoyed a high-powered
equently acknowledged that his
(business) were broadened and
urse of study at the U-M College
Whitaker said.
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