CTAN has a new package: umthesis

[CTAN Announcements]

The package below has been put up at tug.ctan.org and should soon be
at your favorite mirror.

Thanks again,
Jim Hefferon
Saint Michael's College

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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:

Name of contribution: umthesis
Author's name: Robert Felty
Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/umthesis
Summary description: A class file for dissertations at the 
  University of Michigan
License type: lppl

Announcement text: 
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This new class file improves upon previous class files in several ways:
 - it loads the book class, and makes as few changes as possible
 - it uses "new" commands such as \newcommand instead of \def
 - it is compatible with many other LaTeX packages
 - unlike some previous class files, it is well commented
 - unlike some previous class files, it does not break \includeonly
 - a full example is provided showing the many features of the class
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This package is located at 
   http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/umthesis
.  More information is at
   http://tug.ctan.org/cgi-bin/ctanPackageInformation.py?id=umthesis
(if the package is new it may take a day for that information to 
appear).  We are supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org .  
Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .