One map showing Gotham City in relation to Metropolis, the home of Superman, published in New Adventures of Superboy #22 (October 1981), placed Gotham City and Metropolis on opposite sides of a large bay.In Swamp Thing vol.otham is known to be architecturally modeled after New York City, but with exaggerated elements of the styles and derives its name from a sobriquet for that real world city, first popularized by the author Washington Irving in his satirical work Salmagundi (1807).
Dr. Kumble R. Subbaswamy is new Chancellor of UMass Amherst. Dr. Kumble R. Subbaswamy, a physicist who is Provost at the University of Kentucky, was unanimously appointed Chancellor of UMass Amherst by the University of Massachusetts Board of Trustees, capping a six-month nationwide search. Dr. Subbaswamy assumes the Amherst chancellorship as the campus prepares to celebrate its 150th anniversary in 2013.
Michigan State University President Lou Anna Simon has apologized to survivors of sex assaults by sports doctor Larry Nassar. Simon made the apology during a Michigan State Board of Trustees meeting Friday. The university faces complaints and lawsuits that claim they ignored warnings that Nassar was abusing girls and women who were his patients.