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Ud History Professor's Collection Illuminates Mourning Rituals Of Victorian Middle Class; Ud Music Professor Marches To An Unusual Beat, Collects Antique Sheet Music And Curious Folk Instruments

News Releases

Feature leads for the media: Alice Vines, associate professor of history at UD, has possibly the largest collection in the world of Victorian "mourning jewelry." George Zimmerman, a lecturer in UD's music department, collects early American sheet music and curious folk instruments.

Vytis, Volume 74, Issue 8 (September 1988), Knights Of Lithuania

Vytis: The Newsletter of the Knights of Lithuania

Newsletter of the Knights of Lithuania national organization (United States); digitized and made available with the permission of the organization. Content may be protected by copyright.

Ud Gears Up For New Academic Year, Ud Celebrates 10th Anniversary Of Honors Program

News Releases

Tip sheet informs media of the new academic year for the University of Dayton and the 10th year of the University's honors program.

Ud Welcomes New Minority Students At Ice Cream Social On Friday, August 26, Ud's Peer Mentor Program Provides Incoming Minority Freshman With Role Models, Study Tips

News Releases

News release announces that UD's Office of Minority Student Affairs will welcome freshman minority students to campus with an old-fashioned ice cream social and Greek forum; all minority fist-year students are being matched with upperclass mentors to provide social, cultural and academic support.

Ud Economics Professor Analyzes Dollars-And-Cents Side Of Drought, "The Last Temptation Of Christ" Draws Mixed Reactions

News Releases

Tip sheet offers feature angles from the University of Dayton: Economics faculty member Anthony Chan comments on farm subsidies and the bailout of farmers from this summer's drought; UD religious scholars comment on the controversial film "The Last Temptation of Christ" in advance of its Dayton release.

Ud Pays Tribute To State, County And City Officials On August 2, Jazz Great Chuck Mangione Visits Ud's Children's Center On August 3.

News Releases

Tip sheet: The University of Dayton will recognize and thank members of the Ohio General Assembly and the city and county commissions; jazz musician Chuck Mangione will visit the UD's Children's Center for Young Learners.

1988-1989 Bulletin

Undergraduate Bulletins

Volume LXXXXIX, Number 4.

Scanned from the copy held in the Registrar's Office.

Ud Biology Professor Helps Victims Of Aids And African Sleeping Sickness With Development Of Fda-Approved Drug, Ud's Strategies For Responsible Development Office Assists Neighborhood Groups With Computerized Accounting Service

News Releases

Tip sheet provides UD feature angles: A biology faculty member, Brother Bruce Griffin, S.M., helped develop a new drug for African Sleeping Sickness that also cures pneumocystis pneumonia, which is usually fatal in AIDS patients. Also, a computerized accounting system developed by Brother Ed Zamierowski, S.M., in UD's Strategies for Responsible Development office will enable volunteer neighborhood groups to generate monthly financial statements and develop cash-flow statements.

Ud Professor Receives Bird's Eye View Of Democracy In The Philippines, "Gender Gap" Doesn't Surprise Ud Professor, Women's Vision Needed In Upcoming National Election

News Releases

Tip sheet provides feature angles for the media: Political science professor Antonio E. Lapitan describes the re-democratization of the Philippines under Corazon Aquino; women's studies program director and philosophy professor Patricia Johnson discusses the gender gap in the upcoming presidential election.

University Of Dayton Researcher Uses Ohio Supercomputer To Help Develop Plane Of The 21st Century, Inventor Of Jet Engine To Speak About History Of Aviation And Future Of Space Flight

News Releases

Tip sheet shares feature leads with media: University of Dayton researcher James Scott contends that the plane of the future will be able to travel between five and ten times the speed of sound; Hans J.P. von Ohain, the "father of the jet age," will present the lecture "From the Wright Brothers, Future Space Flight" as part of an Elderhostel program in aviation heritage.

Ud Launches 15th Annual Women In Engineering Program July 10-15, Ud To Select Contractor To Rebuild Historic St. Joseph Hall

News Releases

Tip sheet promotes feature ideas for the media: the 15th annual Women in Engineering Program; upcoming selection of a contractor to rebuild the historic St. Joseph Hall.

Ud Alumnus Named Assistant Secretary Of Commerce

News Releases

News release announces that 1972 University of Dayton political science graduate Gary Philip Hughes has been appointed Assistant Secretary of Commerce in charge of export information in the United States Department of Commerce.

Narratives For A Post-Heroic Age: Peter Bichsel’S Short Prose, Arnd Bohm

University of Dayton Review

The figure of Wilhelm Tell casts a long shadow. and not only over Swiss or German literature, for Tell represents the possibility of heroism in the modern era. Tell is the archetypal modern hero who incorporates divine qualities—boundless courage, amazing skills, penetrating wisdom—in the body of a humble, non-aristocratic person. He is the end of a declension traced by Walter Rehm many years ago in his article on "Romisch-Franzosischer Barockheroismus und seine Umgestaltung in Deutschland." Rehm credited Lessing with completing the transformation of the older heroic type based on Roman stoic traditions and the neo-stoic revival into the humanized heroes …

On Protosocialist Nations, Eugene E. Ruyle

University of Dayton Review

Few questions are of greater importance for our species than those relating to the nature of the Soviet Union, China, Cuba, and other societies emerging from the historic revolutions of the twentieth century. Are these models for a brighter, happier, and more humane future? Or are they threats to all that is good and decent about humanity? The answers to such questions necessarily affect our views on all political questions, from Star Wars and the arms race to U.S. intervention in Central America.

Brain Signal Research At Ud Could Help Surgeons Make Split-Second Diagnosis, Udri Researchers Develop Process To Destroy Toxic Waste Through Solar-Powered Incineration

News Releases

Feature tip sheet: Graduate students are researching the brain's electrical signals using electrical engineering techniques; two environmental scientists have devised a way to destroy hazardous waste through solar-powered incineration.

Vytis, Volume 74, Issue 7 (July 1988), Knights Of Lithuania

Vytis: The Newsletter of the Knights of Lithuania

Newsletter of the Knights of Lithuania national organization (United States); digitized and made available with the permission of the organization. Content may be protected by copyright.

Ud Official's Father-In-Law To Be Depicted On The Silver Screen In New Francis Ford Coppola Film, "Tucker: The Man And His Dream", Ud Plant Physiologists Work To Develop Drought-Resistant Soybeans

News Releases

Tip sheet announces feature leads: University of Dayton foundation relations director Roy Parsons will be among the first to view the new Francis Ford Coppola film about automotive entrepreneur Preston Thomas Tucker; Parsons was Tucker's former son-in-law and public relations manager. Also, plant physiologists at the University of Dayton are studying a soybean that can withstand the drought conditions brought about by the "greenhouse effect" that is warming the earth.

Vytis, Volume 74, Issue 6 (June 1988), Knights Of Lithuania

Vytis: The Newsletter of the Knights of Lithuania

Newsletter of the Knights of Lithuania national organization (United States); digitized and made available with the permission of the organization. Content may be protected by copyright.

Jesse Jackson To Appear At Ud Fieldhouse, Secretary Of Commerce To Be Honored In Dayton

News Releases

Media tip sheet announces that the Rev. Jesse Jackson, a presidential candidate, will appear at a campaign rally on the University of Dayton campus, and U.S. Secretary of Commerce William Verity will be honored at a luncheon co-sponsored by the business schools of the University of Dayton and Wright State University.

Vytis, Volume 74, Issue 5 (May 1988), Knights Of Lithuania

Vytis: The Newsletter of the Knights of Lithuania

Newsletter of the Knights of Lithuania national organization (United States); digitized and made available with the permission of the organization. Content may be protected by copyright.

University Of Dayton Spring Commencement Ceremony

News Releases

News release announces that the University of Dayton will hold its spring commencement ceremony April 24, 1988.

Ud Hosts National Symposium On Future Of Catholic Education

News Releases

News release announces that the University of Dayton will host "A Study of the Future of the Educational Mission of the Roman Catholic Church in the United States."

Ud Accounting Professor Works To Change Image Of Profession, Political Science Students Analyze The Presidential Primaries, Marge Schott And "Schottzie" Visit Ud

News Releases

Tip sheet announces feature leads from the University of Dayton: A professor works to change the reputation of accounting professions; political science students are analyzing presidential hopefuls; Cincinnati Reds owner Marge Scott and her dog, Schottzie, will be on campus.

Media Briefing, Demonstration, And Tour Of Information Systems Laboratory

News Releases

Tip sheet advises that the University of Dayton and Reynolds and Reynolds will hold a media briefing, demonstration and tour of UD's new Information Systems Laboratory.

Concerned Philosophers For Peace, Vol. 8, No. 1, Concerned Philosophers For Peace

Concerned Philosophers for Peace

No abstract provided.

Vytis, Volume 74, Issue 4 (April 1988), Knights Of Lithuania

Vytis: The Newsletter of the Knights of Lithuania

Newsletter of the Knights of Lithuania national organization (United States); digitized and made available with the permission of the organization. Content may be protected by copyright.

The Thomas Edison Program At The University Of Dayton

News Releases

News release announces that Christopher M. Coburn, executive director of Ohio's Thomas Edison program for commercial technology development, will discuss how to build industry-university partnerships to generate new technological ideas, products, companies and industries in Ohio.

Great University Of Dayton Blow Out, Ud Engineering Professor Uses Cad/Cam To Tailor Women's Fashions

News Releases

Tip sheet announces upcoming events: Respiratory therapy technicians will give free pulmonary functional tests at UD; Dana Rogers, UD associate professor of electrical engineering, has developed a way to tailor-make women's clothing using computer-aided design and manufacturing.

Teri Rizvi Clears Up Inference In Letter To Editor

News Releases

News release is a letter to the editor in which Teri Rizvi, director of media relations, explains that the NBC documentary "The American Male" was planned prior UD students' complaints about a Tom Brokaw news story on the subject.

Flyer News, Vol. 35, No. 38 (March 28, 1988), University Of Dayton

Flyer News

Student-run newspaper of the University of Dayton. Issue No. 37 was skipped, but resumes at 38.