A brochure listing all 10 tips is available for parents to take home. Survivors to teach course on the Holocaust Minnesotans will have the opportunity to participate in a unique course that will bring together eight Jewish survivors of the Holocaust to tell their stories to an American audience. Beginning with a historical overview of the structure of Nazi destruction, the course will address topics such as prewar anti-Semitism, political variations of collaboration and resistance by the various European countries, and interactions between survivors and rescuers. Presented by the U's newly created Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, the course will also include reflection and analysis about the problems of memory and how the growth of historical knowledge about the Holocaust has affected some memoirs written many years after the event. The class is supported in part by the Jewish Chautauqua Society of New York.
Space is limited.
Building better buildings Four years ago California's Northridge earthquake caused the collapse of or severely damaged approximately 2,000 structures. Experts say the earthquake is the single most costly natural disaster in the history of the country, with damages totaling billions of dollars. U civil engineering researchers Jerry Hajjar and Carol Shield, along with Roberto Leon of the Georgia Institute of Technology, investigated the reasons why the fractures occurred. They found that designers were not required to take into account the presence of concrete floor slabs atop girders. Their research shows that the effects of the floor slab is one of the chief causes of failures.