Volume 17 Issue 15 December 2, 1994
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One of two DC10 flight simulators donated to the MSCD Aerospace Science department by United Airlines is being reassembled at its temporary home in the Plaza Building. Along with other simulators, it will be moved to a new location by fall of 1995.
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SonofMetconcert and CD reriiews a go-go
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Departments re-established Kevin Juhasz · Staff Writer The African American and Chicano Studies departments are returning to MSCD in fall 1995 after being eliminated almost a decade ago. The two departments were reduced to program status and merged under the Institute for lntercultural Studies in 1985.
There is a rising interest in ethnic studies and increased enrollment in such programs at MSCD and across the nation, and these actions prompted the re-establishment of the departments. The amount of credit hours generated by the programs in 1986 was 500. In fall 1994, that number was almost 2500 credit hours. Generated credit hours are the total number of credit hours
students signed up for in that department. "The departments will allow these disciplines to grow some more, to do more community-type service and to develop some additional resources," said Dr. Akbarali Thobhani, director of the Institute for lntercultural Studies. Part of this is due not only to an
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