In the second paragraph of that article, it was stated that there has been "a 31.3-percent increase during the past five years" in minority faculty at the University. However, upon looking at the graph placed to the right of the article, the caption reads, "the percent of minority faculty at the 'U' has risen 3.1 percent since 1991."
There is obviously a discrepancy in this article. When you study the numbers, it is in fact that minority faculty has only risen 3.1 percent in the last five years at the University. I feel that an error as great as this one cannot be allowed to go unnoticed or uncorrected. A newspaper that is so widely read and visible on this campus, such as the Daily, must always do its best to avoid such errors.
When a mistake is made, it is my strong belief that action on behalf of the newspaper must be taken to correct it. In keeping with the purpose and principle of informing the public correctly, I ask that as a newspaper you address this error in an u pcoming edition of the newspaper.
Ponni Perumalswami
LSA senior Advocacy chair, United Asian American Organizations
The Daily has done an excellent job of running articles shortly after the events they cover. I would also like to praise the Daily on the quantity of coverage for the sports above. It is good to see such an interest in the non-revenue sports.
Nevertheless, it appears as though recently the Daily has been preoccupied with reporting aggression surrounding events, even to the point of misrepresentation.
Track and field appeared on the front of Tuesday's sports section ("Brawl breaks out at end of track meet," 1/21/97) because of the "brawl" that transpired at the meet.
To my understanding, the "brawl" lasted less than 10 seconds and only may be considered a brief confrontation with high emotion.
The men's gymnastics meet in Chicago last weekend had little to do with a misquote of a team member that we would "kick ass and take names" ("Windy City gusts too bitter for men tumblers," 1/21/97). The meet was a positive stepping stone for buildin g up a stronger team.
Michigan athletics remain an excellent institution. The sportsmanship and class learned through the school's sports last a lifetime. Sports such as track and gymnastics work hard to create an image of the utmost standard.
Some articles (such as "Despite negative publicity, Blue women gymnasts praise sport," 1/22/97) are good influences because they accurately portray the positive experience of sport. Please keep up this latter kind of work.
Ed Ledgard
LSA senior, Member, men's gymnastics team
Often, I need to be online to check on simulations, e-mail or other documents from home, and I usually need to do this at night, during prime-time hours. ITD is charging my funny money account $.44 per hour for modem use.
Given that I can use all $10 dollars of my allocation to modem use, this is only 22 hours of online time, and sometimes I need to be online for one or more hours at a time. Sure, ITD suggests that you try to use the off-hours to reduce the rate, but this is not always possible. And this is considering that I have CAEN access as well - just think what the ITD users have to do along with disk space and printing!
This $.44 per hour is just too high; either it must be reduced, or more funny money must be given to each student.
ITD tends to forget that North Campus people exist. In their letter, they mention their campaigns in the Daily and the University Record, as well at various ITD computing sites ("ITD looking for solutions to computing problems," 1/16/97).
Yesterday, I'm looking at the ad for this campaign - only in fine print does it mention that it's from ITD. This is certainly not an ad campaign.
You would think that the easiest way of contacting everyone about this ITD change would be through e-mail! I know most people don't like getting unsolicited e-mail, but I would think that a message from ITD explaining the new rules would be acceptab le.
But I have received nothing about this change, and have had to go to the Daily to find out.
The idea behind the new policy - where you can go negative on your balance while you are online, but you can't do anything else once you have done so - is unreasonable! The instructions for how to check your time left online are hidden in ITD somewh ere, and so I don't expect the average computer user to know how to do this.
I know it is possible to set up some e-mail warning that would be sent out if your account slipped past a certain amount, which should be implemented. Users should be allowed to go to a certain negative amount so that they can still use services whe n theirs runs out; the amount that the user is in debt would be taken from their allocation the next month. Twenty-five dollars as a minimum allocation for these accounts is too high! I understand the need to keep the number of transactions (down), but I doubt that reducing this minimum allocation to $5 would cause any problems.
I am dissatisfied with ITD's handling of the allocations. I have located an Internet service provider in the area for only $20/month for unlimited usage, with no restrictions on times. Unless ITD wants to see its user base turn to this option, I'd s uggest they reconsider their policies to make them more usable to the student body.
Michael K. Neylon
Engineering Graduate Student
Bursley residents past and present know who I am talking about. He is the cheery food server with the red hat that bears his nickname. Unfortunately, I don't know his real name, but I would like to thank him anyway.
Here's a guy that comes to work everyday with a smile on his face, and a pleasant demeanor that is contagious. All of the Burlodge diners know of his knack of dishing out food with a smile, wink, nod or friendly remark, day in and day out. He is a c onsistent bright spot for each Burlodger's day.
There seems to be a serious shortage around here of happy people (especially from looking at the letters posted in this section); it is nice to see that there are a few still around.
Andrew Kim
LSA sophomore