Big troubles in Little Rhody Faced with a union grievance against the engineering dean and a faculty committee's findings of sexual harassment, the University of Rhode Island President Robert L. Carothers last week apologized to female faculty who were discriminated against and harassed. Carothers directly blamed dean Thomas Kim for failing to deal with the hostile environment within the engineering school. In nearby Narragansett, residents are upset by URI student partying. Police have responded to more than 300 complaints since September, most involving URI students, up from 226 complaints during 1998-99. The Clay Mathematics Institute, a recently formed private foundation in Cambridge, has selected Anvar Mavlyutov of the Department of Mathematics and Statistics as one of its first CMI Liftoff mathematicians.
Peace uses poetry and collages to help victims of abuse and trauma to recover from their ordeals.