Thursday, February 25, 1999
College Briefs
First African American students honored
Tuscaloosa, Ala. — During the first annual "March Back to the
Schoolhouse Door," faculty, administrators and students will walk
from the Ferguson Center to Foster Auditorium as part of Alpha
Kappa Alpha sorority’s "Week of Black Heritage."
According to The Crimson White, the march will commemorate
Vivian Malone and James Hood’s triumphant walk through the door of
the University of Alabama’s Foster Auditorium in 1963.
It will also celebrate Autherine Lucy’s first day of class at
the University, which took place on Feb. 3, 1956.
Autherine Lucy, the first student to attempt integration at the
University, was expelled because the Board of Trustees considered
her a danger to the campus because of the mobs that formed in
response to her arrival.
Michigan University debates sweatshops
ANN ARBOR, Mich. — Non-confrontational dialogue continued
yesterday as student activists and administrators continued to
address sweatshop labor in the collegiate apparel industry, the
Michigan Daily reported.
Members of Students Organizing for Labor and Economic Equality
(SOLE) said they were told by other campus anti-sweatshop
organizers that college administrators nationwide are looking to
the University for leadership on this issue, adding that what
happens in Ann Arbor will set the tone for rest of the nation.
After some discussion, the five members of SOLE present at the
meeting with University general counsel Marvin Krislov and Senior
associate athletic director Keith Molin decided to set their next
meeting for March 9.
"We want to find the candle to light the way out of the
darkness," Molin said.
Reporter discusses stolen Holocaust art
BOSTON, Mass. — A reporter for The Boston Globe Monday called
on museums to set an ethical example and criticized the Museum of
Fine Arts for failing to tell the public a painting displayed last
fall may have been stolen during the Holocaust, the Daily Free
Press reported.
In a discussion at Boston University’s Hillel House Monday,
Walter V. Robinson, The Boston Globe’s Spotlight Team editor,
introduced an audience of 30 people to what he called the largely
unregulated business of art-collection and museum acquisitions.
Robinson, who has written a series of articles over the past two
years detailing allegations that several paintings in major museums
may have been stolen by the Nazis during World War II, discussed
several occasions in which museums were not completely honest with
the public about the background of specific works of art.
Texas law professor alleges discrimination
AUSTIN, Texas — A female professor in the UT school of law
alleges she’s been repeatedly overlooked for a chair position in
the law school because the committee responsible for appointments
is sexist and lacks due process.
Linda Mullenix, the Bernard J. Ward Centennial Professor in law,
said she has been seeking a chair appointment since 1994.
"It’s a gender pay-equity issue," Mullenix said. "Chairs carry
with them a substantial financial benefit, as well as a status or
prestige benefit, that is basically being denied to a highly
qualified senior woman without benefit of due process in arriving
at chair appointments."
While serving on the committee from 1991 to 1996, Mullenix said
she was disturbed by its methods, according to the Daily Texan.
Compiled from University Wire reports.
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