Oakland University News: October 17, 1986

State supported programs Martin Luther King Rosa Parks enhance minority opportunities ; Commuter council urges commuters to get involved ; Enrollment sets record 12,707 ; Professor Forrest Wright invention space weights sold in Sears catalog ; Volunteers needed for telefund ; Theta Chi Fraternity open house ; Top Drawer newsletter for UAW local 1925 honored ; Electric van gives OU silent treatment ; Women of OU host lecture by Margaret Taylor Smith ; Professor Bernard Thomas writing book about journalist Edgar Snow ; Photographer Rick Smith joins Publications department ; Board approves budget request for 1987-1988 ; Renaissance Ensemble performs first concert of season ; Professor Alice Horning book published Teaching Writing as a Second Language ; Funds to renovate Vandenberg Hall for the School of Health Sciences approved by Board of Trustees ; Science animal buildings top capital outlay requests submitted to state ; Leonard Leone appointed as Center for the Arts consultant