. . . Fall 1998
Campus Life 70 Years Ago
Frances Broene Rogers '18 reminisces about her years on campus.
Child of the Century
Frances Broene Rogers '18 is the author of Footfalls: Echoes of the Life of My Time 1895-1985, an autobiography published in 1992, when she was 97 years old.
On Another Subject
Frances Broene Rogers reflects on a visit to a current residence hall at Michigan.
Math Department Outreach? The State Can Count On It
The Michigan Math Scholars High School Program for 9th to 11th graders has recently completed its second summer of operation, and applications are already being taken for Summer 1999.
Bollinger Outlines Issues That Face the University
A renewed focus on private support and increased efforts designed to help legislators and the public understand the importance of support for public higher education are among major issues confronting the University.
The University Provides Security Within Which To Explore: Cantor
Discussing the challenges facing the University from her perspective as provost, Nancy Cantor described to a University audience three contexts or values from which she views the issues that daily cross her desk.
In honor of Arthur Miller '38
The Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright and U-M alumnus is the subject of a U-M course this fall.
A Man For All Horizons
Anthropologist Tom Fricke is going to be studying subjects close to home---and to his heart.
Building Up From Ground Zero
Detroit's Tonya Myers '99 takes her interest in community regeneration beyond the call of assignments..
Big Wheel in Cheese
"The neighbors feel we're crazy for building a hole in the ground and putting cheeses in there," explains Beth Carlson, as she enters the underground cave bordering a stand of maple trees on a snow-covered Vermont hillside.
The Perfect Season
Michigan's conquering heroes of 1997 achieved a goal long known in the Big Ten and Pac-10 conferences as "the perfect season," a season of victory in every regular season game and in the Rose Bowl.
A Football House of Cards
Coming soon to a television near you is the Poll Bowl, a postseason meeting of the purportedly best and second best college football teams.
What If???
What would have occurred had the incipient bowl scheme controlled in the past?
Bright Sheng--Composer
Since moving to the United States from China in 1982, the U-M Prof. Bright Sheng has steadily built a world reputation for his fusion of Eastern and Western musical styles.
The Histories of the Henry Ford Estate
Few sites on the University of Michigan campus, or any other university or college campus in this country, can inspire the range of feeling people experience when visiting the Henry Ford Estate at U-M Dearborn.
Linguists Celebrate
Linguistic scholars celebrated in September the 50th anniversary of the founding of Language Learning--A Quarterly Journal of Applied Linguistics at the University.
Walking On
Junior Manus Mark Anthony Edwards could have played his first and last down on the Wolverine football squad when he went in for the last play of Michigan's 59-20 victory over Eastern Michigan at Michigan Stadium in September.
Erin Goes Blue
In Ireland these days you would be hard-pressed to spot a Notre Dame jersey, hat, T-shirt or jacket but there's a good chance you'll come face-to-emblem reading MICHIGAN.