Outlook / the University of Maryland, College Park (1986)

Volume 1 , Number 2 j^^^ c^/, L,^,^ (Uam

The University of Maryland College Park

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September 8, T986

News
Briefs

Dorm Overflow Nil

Of the 7,687 sEudcnts housed in
L'MCP's 31 dormitories this fall, only
50 have been asked to accept tem-
porary arrangements due to overflow
conditions, according to Resident Life
Manager Jan I3avidson. The 50
Dvcrninv students now reside in
' L-mcrgency triples." dorm rooms in
which one extra bed has been add-
ed. "Additional space will be
available due to no-shows," Davidson
says. "We guarantee overflow
students a room within two weeks of
the opening of school,"

ATMs Come to Campus

ThrL'c AuiomaiLc "Feller Machines
(ATMs) have been installed on the
IJMCP campus to serve faculty, staff
and students. Two are operated
under an agreement between UMCP
and Citizens Bank of Marj'land, the
third by the Credit Union, The
Citizens ATMs, one of which is
located on Stadium Drive in front of
Ellicot Hall and the other at Lot V on
the S( ^utheast corner of South Cam-
pus Dining Hall, will eventually be
networked, offering depositors of
other area financial institutions the
convenience of on-eampus banking.
The Credit Lhiion ATM is located ad-
i:tceni to the Rekord Armory at l.ul C.

New Life Insurance Plan

The University Board of Regents has
approved a new voluntary life in-
surance program for al! permanent
employees through the Commercial
Life Insurance Company. Effective
Oct.l, the plan will be available to all
half-time and ftill-time faculty and
staff who have not yei reached age
70. According to Gene Edwards, staff
benefits manager, the plan com-
pliments the program now available
through Teachers Insurance and An-
nuniiy Associadon. "The TIAA plan
is limited to faculty and associate
staff only," he says, "whereas the
Commercial Life plan is open to all
employees." The new plan offers
coverage options ranging from
S 20,000 to 5500,000.

Inside

UMCP Grad Dean 2

New Phone System 3

Calendar 4

Eric Bentley 5

Pugliese Theatre 5

Geocentrifuge 6

College Park People 7

FYI. 8

Ag Alumni 8

Regents Approve

FY '88 Budget Request

On Augusi 12 the Board of
Regents approved The University of
Maryland 1987-88 operating budget
request which includes S493 million
for the State-Supported Progiam. The
UM asking budget within the Max-
imum Agency Request Cciiing
(MARC) is S335.7 million, an increase
of S23 million, (7.4 percent) over the
General Funds appropriations for this
year.

Faculty and professional staff will
receive an average merit increment
of 3.5 percent; classified staff will
receive step increases, and a 1,25
percent increase is included for part-
time employees. These salary in-
creases are in addition to any cosi-of-
livjng raises granted lo all state
employees.

The budget request includes a
major initiative — S5 million to be
used for facilities renewal University-
wide to begin to correct the critical
problem of a deterioradng University
physical plant and infrastructure. This
is the first phase of a proposed four-
year approximately S20 million plan
aimed at ultimately providing ade-
quate funding for major main-
tenance and repair of facilities and
refurbishing of classrooms and labs.
College Park is expected to receive
il.'y million of the first 35 million.
Special funding of 8550,000
University-wide is once more
directed to recruitment and retention
of outstanding facultv. with about
5280,000-5290,000 lo he returned lo
College Park.

The budget request for tne College
Park Camptis totals S2-il million for
the State-Supported Program,
representing an increase of SI2.5
million (5.5 percent) above the cur-
rent year's working budget. The
General Funds portion of the campus
budget request totals SI 56.7 million,
which is S6.8 million or 4.6 percent

more than the General Funds ap-
propriated for this year.

Though commenting that this
budget would not move the campLis
forward on its major goals and
priorities, at his budget presentation
before the Regents Chancellor
C!hancellor pointed out several
'bright spots," including continuing
support for the histitute for Advanc-
ed Computer Studies and funding to

support the Desegregation program,
as well as provision for new facilities
related expenses,

A total of 22. "^3 positions is re-
quested, along with funding of
.several important initiatives, in-
cluding:

— 31 million and 10 new positions
lor the Institute for Advanced Com-
puicr Studies. This will bring funding

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Research Network Gets NSF Grant

A SI. 4 million grant from the Na-
tional Science Foundation last May
will establish a regional computer
network allowing researchers at 1 6
Southeastern universities access to
supercomputers.

The grant to SURAnet— the
Southeastern Universities Research
Association network— Is part of a
larger program to build campus-based
state and regional networks leading
to ihc creation of a national
academic-research communications
network that will be called NSFnct.

The SURAnet grant was made to
universities in 12 southeastern states
and the District of Columbia for con-
struction and operation of a regional
neiwcjrk.

SURAnet president and UMCP pro-
fessor of Physics and Astronomy
Harr\' D. Holmgren says it will be
operational b\' the end of the year,

"The network will provide a
direct, high speed link between the
universities and the NSF five super-
computer centers and extend the
already substantial supercomputing
access of the The University of
Maryland," he says.

"In addition, creadon of this net-
work is one of the best things SURA
could do to enhance cooperative
research venturing in the southeast
and is a way of beginnning to realize
SURA'S hallcst potential as an
organization."

The network will link the consor-
tium member insiitutions and thev,

in turn, will be connecting points for
their state higher education research
networks. It will also be linked to
the "backbone" network that will tie
together the NSF's five university-
based supercomputer centers.

SURAnet is hanging two super-
computers, a! Florida State University
and the University of Georgia, to the
NSF network. NSF-supporled super-
computer centers are located ai the
University of California at San Diego
(which UMCP linked with via satellite
la,st May as one of 19 SDSC
members), Cornell University, the
University of Illinois at Urbana-
Champaign, and Princeton University.
The fifth center is jointly run by
Carnegie Mellon University and the
University of Pittsburgh. H

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September 8. 1985

Call For Education Proposals

Oct. 1 is the deadline for ColleRc of
Education faculty members to submit
proposals to the Center for Educa-
tional Research and Development
(CERD) Rcscarcfi Grants Program foi'
1986-1987. CERD grants up to
85,000 may be used to obtain release
time, hire research assistants, pur-
chase equipment or meet other re-
quirements of the proposal. For in-
formation and application forms talk
with Maizie Delanccv, .-^119 Bcn[amin
BIdg., x2l08.

Planet Named After A'Heam

How do you tell an astronomer such
as UMCP's astronomy program direc-
tor Michael A'Hearn he's done a
good job? Name a planet after him,
.say the members of the International
Astronomical Union (lAU), a group of
professional astronomers and
astrophysicists headquartered in Cam-
bridge, Mass. Planet A'Hearn is ac-
tually an asteroid orbiting the Sun in
a band between Mars and Jupiter. It
was discovered in 1982 by
astronomers at the Lowell Obser-
vatory in Plagstaff, Ariz.

RESEARCH VPnATES

A Conversation With Arnold Thackray

Dean for Graduate Studies and Research

Q. Since you've become the
dean, has there been an increase
in UMCP's research funding?

A. Vcs, The Designated Research In-
itiative Fund (DRIF) is a moment of
opportunity for the campus because
we now have more funds available
to help build the campus" research
capability than we have ever had
before. The question of the wisest
use of these fijnds is something
we're going to have to give a great
deal of thought to over the next two
to three years.

There are certain well-established
initiatives in place — principally, the
faculty fellowships and research sup-
port of the General Research Board,
the Creative and Performing Arts
Board and the bio-medical research
fund. Those programs are well tested
and should be continued. The ques-
tion is how, if at all. they should be
modified better to integrate them
with our emerging opportunities.

If we think about research fiinds in
a more general way, perhaps we can
characteri;!e two sorts of Initiatives.
Obviously, there needs to be a
campus-wide pool of funcLs to which
any individual faculty member is able
to apply. There also may need to he
a focused fund that is intensive
rather than extensive. The problem
with extensive funding is thai only a
very low level of support is available
per person, when you are looking on
a campus-wide basis. An inien.sive
fund could give a significant boost lo
specified areas over a short period of
lime. Such a fund could be con-
nected to the ongoing discussion of
campus priorides by the Academic
Planning Advisorv Committee,
Q. How much are you talking
about?

A. The funds available to support
research through this office amount
to approximately S2 million a year.
These funds are part of the DRIF
fund — a total pot of SS million a
year. Of this sum, one-third is going
to faculty with funded projects in

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proportion to the indirect costS
which they incurred, another lat^e
share goes to the deans of schools
and colleges for their distribution,
and additional small elements to
undergraduate research. The !2
million to which I've referred is the
remainder and is specifically devoted
to enhancing our research
capabilities, on a campus-wide basis,
Q. Have you discussed placing a
higher funding priority on those
programs which rank highest na-
tionally?

A. There are two answers to that
question. The extensive part of the
support continues to be based very
much on individual competition and
individual merit of proposals. The in-
tensive support must be focused on
campus priorities. We have two vcrj'
central campus priorities. One is to
nourish already excellent programs.
The other is to bring forward pro-
grams on the verge of excellence and
find ways to give them the additional
thrust they may need to move to a
higher level of quality.

Much can be done to assist depart-
ments in upgrading the .strength of
their ma.ster's and doctoral programs.
i would like to see Graduate Studies
and Research become much more ac-
tive in program review, working
closely with APAC to target areas
where improvement is possible and
of importance for the campus. By
utilizing experienced faculty already
on campus as well as the expertise of
consultants from other .schools, we
.should be able to raise admissions
.standards, recruit more effectively,
and produce better dissertations and
graduates. The Graduate Council has
gone on record in favor of an in-
creased effort, and the coming year
will be a first test for a revived Pro-
gram Review Committee
Q. How do graduate fellowships
relate to all of this?
A. As a campus we have not enjoyed
the resources with which to attract
as many talented graduate students as

we would like and to support them
to the extent that our competitor in-
stitutions do. The graduate fellowship
initiative is one promising beginning
in redressing that balance. However,
we have a long wa>' to travel to
develop the graduate student sLippori
we need — this is not simply single
year fellowships, but multi-year
fellow.ships.

W'c must also focus attention on
the quality of graduate student life.
\Xc have considerable need in the
graduate housing area and we have
no graduate center where gradttate
students from different departments
and disciplines may meet with one
another, encounter faculty, take
seminars or relax In coffee shop or
lounge.

Q. Has your office had increas-
ed responsibilities since you
became dean?

A, Yes. The most immediate example
is the transfer of the Office of Spon-
sored Programs into Graduate Studies
and Research as of July I. This will
be tremendously beneficial because
we need to both "recruit" and main-
tain research grants. You can almost
think of a grant by way of an analog
with a student. There are recruitment
and maintainence concerns that arise,
and the ability to have a stronger in-
tellectual input into helping faculty
define funding opportunities is
critically important. Alsrj, the more
those people engaged in maintenance
activities are also engaged with the
intellectual research life of the facul-
ty, the more there is a mutual gain.
Q. Will this change bring a
broader ability to support cam-
pus contracts and grants?
A. There's an allied issue. We are
passing across a certain sort of water-
shed with Gramm-Rudman-Holiings.
Federal research budgets have been
rising more or less steadily over the
past 40 years. We cannot expect
them lo continue rising in the
decade ahead. Indeed, the question
may be what is the size of shrinkage.

The corollary to that is that competi-
tion for federal research dollars is
both going to change and become
more intense. If we are to hold on
to and enhance our share of those
dollars, we shall need new strategies.
Q. What kinds of strategies are
you thinking about?
.\. \X'e mtLst searcli creatively in all
directions and move away from too
heavy reliance on any single source
of funding. We must think about our
appeal to corporate sponsors, about
alliances with metropolitan, state, and
national agencies, and about OLir
ability to raise money from private
foundations as well as other types of
donors. We should be thinking of
ourselves as a multiversity, and a
multiversity goes to multiple sources.
Q. What Is the biggest burden
you face?

A. The problems of this office arc
the problems of the campus in
microcosm— fundamentally, that we
have not enjoyed the resources
necessary to allow us to fulfill not
only those ambitions that lie in the
hearts of the faculty and students,
but also to fulfill the needs that the
state wishes to see fulfilled. As ! look
at this campus in comparison with
others I have known, I am struck by
two things. One is the extraordinary
sense of vitality, forward movement
and optimism that characterizes the
community. The other is the woeful
lack of resources to translate our am-
bitions into realities.
Q. What's the solution?
A. We need to consider together
how we may better make the case
for excellence in graduate studies and
research at College Park— firstly to
ourselves so that we are persuaded
of it and know what we wish to
achieve and how we wish to achieve
it, and secondly, to the university
system. We also mu,st carry our
case to the people of the State, par-
ticularly to those in the legislature
who also as citizens, philanthropists,
alumni, private supporters, en-
thusiasts and donors need to know
that excellence is going to be built at
College Park.

We all need to be reminded how
one of the principal attributes of this
campus is the extraordinary quality
of faculty in a large number of
academic units, spread all across the
academic spectrum. Failing to see the
forest, we also sometimes fail to see
even the trees, unless they are the
trees we are most familiar with. As a
campus officer, it is my great delight
to work with talented faculty in all
the colleges, and the cumulative ef-
fect of that exposure to academic
talent is striking. Faculty and graduate
students in individual units may suf-
fer ups and downs In morale when
they look only at their own
discipline, but there is a larger, and
very heartening perspective too. The
College Park campus is truly an ex-
traordinary' reservoir of talent and
creative energy. It is that great depth
of talent, in so many departments,
that is our longest .suit, and our
means to progress. Wc must not lose
sight of that. ■

— Roz Hiebcrt

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Seplrmbcr 8. 1986

Whole Approach to Health

Lifeline Wclincs.s, ;i spons ;ind
preventive medieine program offered
by ihe physical education depart-
ment, provides the campus com-
munity with an inexpensive way to
stay healthy. Taking an approach thai
integrates physical well-being with
spiritual health, the program offers a
wide-range of services including
counseling, stress testing and physical
fitness classes tailored to fit individual
needs. For info, call \19IH.

High Tide at Stamp Union

"Surrs Up!" is the theme of the
sixth Annual All-Niter set for Fri.,
Sept. 12 from 5 p.m. to 2 a.m. at the
Stam|) Union. The event, which in-
cludes free live music, movies and
cartoons, special food discounts,
games, prizes and a myriad of other
entertainment, is designed to in-
troduce the many programs and ser-
vices available through the .Stamp
("nion.

caiiliiiiict/ friiiii pafU' I.

for die Center to $2." million of the
requested S3 million requested for
full funding of the plan.
— S335,OUO for desegregation scholar-
ship and fellowship support.
—8938,1)00 and 12,73 positions for
equipment, maintenance, utility and
salary support for new facilities,
about half of which will be allocated
to the new Modular Research Facility,
.scheduled to ultimately cos: some
SI 1.6 million.

—5 ^44 ()()() ■^^'hit-h restores some
SOOO.UIK) cut from this year's
operating budget and adds an addi-
tional required amount to be used to
upgrade salaries for poiice and an-
nuali^^aiion of enhancement programs
for the (A)llege of Engineering.

— 5540,000 for salaries and fringe
benefits for instaictional support
staff, which the Chancellor points to
as the Campus' highest priority.
—83-42,000 to support increased
costs for the Health Center.
— 8262,000 for increased fuel and
utility costs.

— 5314,000 for increases in financial
aid and tuition remissions associated
with the 8 percent tuition hike pro-
po.sed for next year.

The budget request also contains
516t.S million in the Non-State Sup-
ported Program, which is 510 million
(6,S percent) over the current work-
ing budget. Of the revenue increase,
S=i,5 million (55 percent) will come
liriniarily from auxiliary enterprise
and c)ther self-supported activity in-
creases. The remaining 54.5 million
(45 percent) will come from an in-
crease of 5.5 percent in federal
funds. One million dollars of the
federal fund increase will be allocated
to the campus' Designated Research
Initiative Fund (DRIF), which will
total S6.2 million in FY '88: 83.5
million will support on-going con-
tr;ict and grant activities.

Kight new positions are requested
within the Non-State Supported Pro-
gram. Two will help expand network
and course offerings of the Instruc-
tional TV Program (ITV), two will be
dexoted to athletic/academic counsel-
ing of students, and four will be
needed to operate and maintain the
new campus parking garage now
under construction.

This parking garage — a self-funded
operation — requires a hike in vehicle
registration fees next year. Fees for
students in residence halls will in-
crease from S25 lo 5-45; commuter

student fees will rise from S20 to
540; and faculty and staff fees will go
up from S25 to S7«. Commenting on
these parking fee increases at his
budget presentation, the Chancellor
said, "These increases, I know, are
bound to be unpopular, but unfor-
tunately they are absolutely
necessary. The cash How from tlicse
increases is needed to support our
long-term commitments to our bon-
ding authority. We have an impen-
ding debt service for the new park-
ing garage, which is now under con-
struction and which will be ready for
use in December of 198". The new
parking fees are truly modest when
we look at those of other urban
institutions."

Slaughter also highlighted the im-
portance to College Park of the items
on the University's Separate List — the
request for funding of high priority
projects not included within the
MARC- based budget request.

Separate List items for UMCP total
511 million in FY '88. They include:

• SI. 8 million and 55 new posi-
tions to increase base funding for
operating expenses and support staff.

• 8 1 ,4 million to increase the
average merit increment for faculty
and professional .staff by an addi-
tional 1,5 percent over the 35 per-
cent contained within the MARC
budget.

• S2.4 million and 51 positions to
enhance selected academic programs
which have the greatest |ioiential for
excellence. Among tho.se largeied are
8550,000 and 1-t positions for cur-
rent excellent and core departments
including policy studies, professional
schools and colleges and arts educa-
tion; S300,O00 and 3 positions for

life sciences; 8150,000 and 3 posi-
tions for marine and environmental
and estuarine sciences; 8175,000 and
2 positions for the honors program;
5200,000 and 5 positions for foreign
language initiatives; SI 00.000 and 2
positions for cell and molecular
biology; and S920,000 and 22 posi-
tions to enhance undergraduate
education.

• S475,0(X) to increase
undergraduate scholarships and
graduate fellowships.

• S3.1 million and 35 positions, of
which 51 million and 20 positons
would bring added .support to UMCP
libraries, and 82.1 million and 15
positions would go to the in.struc-
tional and research computer centers
and the administrative computing
areas,

• 5125,000 as a mode.si increase in
funding for new and replacement
equipment.

• 5306,000 and 2 new positions
for the State's Desegregation Plan, to
provide more minority .scholarships
and fellowships.

• SI. ,3 million and 7 positions for
new research and public service in-
itiatives, including 5108,000 and 2
positions for a public school in-
itiative; 8200,000 for the Maiyland
Fire and Rescue Institute (MFRI); and
SI million and 5 positions for
Maryland Industrial Partnerships
(MIPS), established by the Engineer-
ing Research Center to encourage
cooperaii{)n on advanced
technological projects between the
Tni\er,sii\' and indusirv. I

-Roz Hicbcrt

Campus Telephone System to be Replaced

A major step in a multi-year pro-
cess to replace the existing campus
telephone network with a state-of-
the-art telecommunications system
was taken earlier this month when a
request for proposals was issued. The
request calls for the installation of a
new system designed to meet all cur-
rent needs as well as those projected
over the next ten years.

Deadline for proposal submission is
November 3, and a contract award
and notice to proceed is expected to
be made early next March. The new
system i.s scheduled for operation by
March 31, 1988,

"Changes in the regulatory scene,
data processing revolutions, and great
advances in telecommunications
technology have affected every
academic discipline." says UMCP
Director of Communication Services
Jonathan Rood. "The University has
accepted the opportunities created by
these developments. Its response is
reflected in part in this project." Cur-
rently, UMCP is served by a Centrex
11 system provided by Chesapeake &
Potomac Telephone Company. The
campus system's switching equip-
ment is located in the C & P central
office in Hyattsville.

According to Rood, the system is

growing at a rate of six percent an-
nually. Service is leased from C & P
under terms of a Centrex Rate
Stabilization plan that expires in
March 1988.

The Centrex system provides basic
telecommunications services to some
9,000 faculty and staff stations.
Direct- Inward-Dialing and Direct-
Outward-Dialing services are provid-
ed to departments and individuals \-ia
about 6.000 lines. Centrex II offers a
reasonable mix of modern telephone
features including touch-tone dialing,
call forwarding, waiting, transfer,
hold, and speed dialing. The more
advanced features are installed on
about 25 percent of the Centrex
lines.

i.ong distance service is provided
by a variety of tie lines to other
University locations, Foreign Ex-
change lines to Baltimore, and WATS
lines, both in-state and inter-state.

A number of electronic and stan-
d:ird electromechanical key systems,
including an AT&T Merlin system in
the College of Engineering, work in
conjuntion with the Centrex system.
With the exception of Merlin, most
of this equipment is rented from
AT&T on a month-by-month basis.

Presently, leleplKine .service to

each dormitory room is not provided
by the University. About 800 hall
lihones are available from the Cen-
trex system. Toll calls from hall
phones can only be made if charged
t{) the called number, a credit card
or a third party. However, dorm
residents can make their own ar-
rangement with C & P for a private
residential line.

Rood notes that in addition to
replacing the faculty and staff
telephone system, the new system
will offer the potential for telephones
in each student's room.

"A wide variety of microcom-
puters, intelligent workstations, per-
sonal computers and terminals
numbering well into the hundreds
exist on campus," Rood says.

Options for .special high speed data
cummunieations systems are included
iii the RFP. Additionally, the request
for proposal calls for the provision of
low speed data communications
facilities to serve both host and ter-
minal needs, potentially from any
location on campus where a
telephone exists, without rendering
existing equipment obsolete, B

—Tom Otwell

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Septembers, 1986

African Music at Tawes

The songs, rhythms and dances of
West Africa will nil Tawes Theatre
Sal., September 20 at 8 p.m. in a
program featuring the Ghanaian
drumming and dance company
'"Odadaa!" and "Memory of African
Culture." an ensemble from Senegal.
The program is sponsored by the
UMCP Dept. of Music, Student Enier-
tainment Enterprises, Nyumbuni
Cultural Center, and the MarylancJ
State Arts Council, For ticket info,
call 454-2201.

CALENDAR

September 8 — l4

September 8

Behavioral and Material Deter-
minants of Production Relations In
Agriculture, a trade and develop-
ment workshop by Hans Binswanger
(World Bank), 3:30 p.m., 2106
Tydings. For info call Dr. Clague al
X6362, •

The Structure of Fish Communities
on Coral Reefs: Where do we go
from here? an Ecology, Evolution
and Behavior Series lecture by Peter
Sale (U of Sydney, Australia), 4 p.m.,
1208 Zoo-Psych BIdg. For info call
X5904. '

Connections: The Architecture of
Gottfried Boehm, exhibit of drawings
and sketches by the noted West Ger-
man architect and winner of the 1986
Pritzker Architecture Prize,
at The American Institute of Ar-
chitects Building, 1735 New York
Ave. NW. On view through Oct. 3.
Exhibit hours are IVlon.-Fri., 8:30
a.m.- 5 p.m. and Sat, & Sun., 1-4
p.m. Sponsored by the School of Ar-
chitecture in cooperation with the
American Institute of Architects, '

Intramural Tennis Singles registra-
tion begins, 8:30 a.m., 1104 Reckord
Armory. Deadline for registration,
Sept. 16, 4:30 p.m. For info call
X3124. •

Women's Field Hockey vs Loyola,

scrimmage, 6:30 p.m.. Turf behind
Byrd Stadium. *

AAUW: What is it? Where is it Go-
ing? chapter meeting 7:30 p.m., Col-
lege Park Municipal BIdg, For info
call Terry Baylor. x3022 or IVlary Ann
Elliott, x3000.

LUV, a lighlhearted production by
Hillel Kosher Dinner Theatre of the
B'nai BVith Hillel-Federation Jewish
Student Center, Tickets to the 7:30
p.m. dinner and 8:30 p.m. show are
$9,50 for Hillel affiliates and $11.50
for all others. For resen/ations and
additional info call 422-6200 between
10 a.m. and 5 p.m.

William Kapell Remembered, an ex-
hibition of the great pianist's papers,
diaries and memorabilia, at the Music
Library, third floor Hornbake, through
Oct.31. Library hours are Mon.-Thurs.
8 a.m. -11 p.m., Fri. 8 a,m.-5 p.m.,
Sat. 10 a-m,-5 p.m. and Sun,
noon-ll p.m. '

Opening reception for Technology:
Another World, an arts and sciences
exhibit featuring technological projects
from various campus departments,
4-6 p.m.. Parents Association Art
Gallery in the Stamp Student Union.
Show runs through Oct, 3: gallery
hours, Mon.-Sat 8 a,m.-8 p.m. and
Sun. noon-8 p.m. *

New American Paperworks, exhibit
of two-dimensional artworks and
three-dimensional sculptures using
handmade paper, opens at the Art
Gallery in the Art-Sociology
Building. Show on display until Oct.
12. Gallery hours are Mon.-Fri. 10
a.m. -4 p.m. (Wed, unlii 9 p.m.) and
Sat, and Sun. 1 p.m.-5 p.m. Call
x2763 for info, "

September 9

Quantum Electrodynamics
1938-1950, an Historical Perspec-
tive physics colloquium by S. S.
Schweber (Brandets U), 4 p.m.,
1410 Physics. Tea will be served
from 3:25-3:55 p.m.

Trouble in Mind, movie, 7 p m. S
9:30 p.m., Hoff Theatre. For info
call X2594,

Benefits Orientation for new staff
and faculty, 10 a.m., fourth floor of
Hornbake Library. For additional in-
fo call Linda Kelly or Gene Ed-
wards, x6312, ■

Eric Bentley in Concert, a one-
man show by the UIVICP Com-
munication Arts and Theatre pro-
fessor, 8 p.m., Rudolph E, Pugliese
Theatre (formerty the Gallery
Theatre). Program continues
through the 13th and resumes Sept,
16-20. Performances will also be
held at 2 p.m. on Sept. 14 and 21.
Tickets are $8.50 for the general
public and $7 for students and
senior citizens. Call x2201 for info.

Intramural Flag Football and Coed
Volleyball fall entries deadline, 4:30
p.m., 1104 Reckord Armory. Call
x3124 for more info, *

September 10

Meet Me on the Plaza, dance by
Improvisations Unlimited, 12 p.m.
and 12:45 p.m.. The Plaza in
Bethesda. '

Stellar Explosions from a Nova
Point of View, astronomy collo-
quium by S. Starrfield (Arizona
State U.), 4 p.m.. 1113 Computer-
Space Sciences BIdg. '

Nyumburu Cultural Center
Housewarmer, 7:30 p.m., 3125
South Campus Dining Hall. *

Women's Field Hockey vs Rich-
mond, d p.m., Denton Field. '

Women's Field Hockey (second
team) vs Georgetown, scrimmage.
5 p.m. '

Men's Soccer vs American U, 3

p.m. '

Women's Volleyball vs UMBO, 7

p.m.. Cole Field House. *

Mediation Process: Conflict
Management, a Counseling Center
R&D lecture by Peter Maida (CRtM),
noon-1 p.m., testing room.
Shoemaker. '

Computer Graphics Exposition,

sponsored by the Design Associa-
tion (DA), features hardware and
software demonstrations and guest
speakers including a professional
computer graphic artist, 9 a,m.-3:30
p.m., Marie IVlount Hall. Call x2135
for info. '

Trouble in Mind, movie, see Sept. 9.

September 11

Minority Leadership Forum for

minority student leaders and minori-
ty student group advisors, 4-6 p.m.,
1101 Hornbake. Call Bekele Molla,
X4901, for info. *

Dtssipative MHD. physics seminar
by Adil Hassam (PHYS), 4:15 p.m.,
1410 Physics BIdg, *

Big Trouble in Little China, movie,
7 p,m, S 9:30 p.m.. Hoff Theatre.
For info call x2594.

September 12

Reef Fish Ecology at the One
Tree Island Field Station: Ques-
tions Being Asked and Methods
Being Used" seminar by Peter
Sale (U of Sydney, Australia), noon,
1208 Zoo-Psych BIdg, ■

Big Trouble in Little China, movie,
see Sept. 1 1 .

Back to the Future, midnight
movie. Hoff Theatre. Call x2594 for
info.

Global Development and Coopera-
tion: Common Crisis, two-day
economic development conference
on the UMCP campus. For info con-
tact John Rownlree (Infl Programs),
X8993. •

Communications and Signal Pro-
cessing: Research and Applica-
tions, Engineering Research Center
Symposium, 8 a.m. Registration fee,
$30.00. For additional info call
x7941 .

Maryland-Delaware-D.C. Press
Assn., Summer Conference through
Sept. 14, Sheraton Fontainebleau

Inn, Ocean City, MD. For info call
454-0245.

Prevention of Chemical Depend-
encies, Lunch 'n Learn Series Con-
ference by Donald Ian Macdonald
(ADAMHA), 1-2 p.m., 3100E Health
Center, For info contact Paul
Steinberg, x4925. Sponsored by the
campus Mental Health Service. "

September 13

Football Team vs. Vanderbilt, 7

p.m.. Byrd Stadium.

Papermaking Lecture &
Demonstration, 3:30-5 p.m.. Pyramid
Atlantic. Advance registration sug-
gested. For info call 291-008S, "

Reception for Paperworks Now. ex-
hibit at the Wallace Wentworth
Gallery, Ltd., 2006 R St.,
Washington, D.C. On view through
Sept. 27. Call 387-7152 for info.

Big Trouble in Little China, movie,
see Sept. 11.

Back to the Future, midnight movie,
SepL 12.

September
National Benefit for Judith A.
Resnik Memorial Scholarship and
Fellowship Endowments, tribute to
the late astronaut and UMCP
graduate featuring Carl Sagan (Cor-
nell U) as guest speaker, 7:30 p.m..
The Pavilion of the Old Post Office
Building. 1100 Pennsylvania Ave.
N.W,, Washington, D.C, For addi-
tional info and reservations, call
X5067,

The Role of Handmade Paper in
International Cultural Interchange,

symposium by Ruth E, Fine (curator,
Dept. of Prints and Drawings, Na-
tional Gallery of Art), 3-5:30 p.m.. Arl-
Soc. BIdg. •

Awards for Excellence In Interna-
tional Cultural Interchange

presented to Robert Rauschenberg
and Shoictii Ida by Daniel J. Terra,
U.S. Ambassador-at-Large for
Cultural Affairs, 5:30 p.m., Art-Soc.
BIdg- •

Reception for the final showing of
New American Paperworks, 6-8 p.m.,
the Art Gallery, Art-Soc. BIdg. '

Women's Soccer vs West Chester

U.. 2 p.m. •

Big Trouble in Little China, movie,
see Sept. 1 1 .

FREE ADMISSION

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Seplcmber 8,

Curtain's Up

Nostalgia, comedy and music
highlight University Theaire's
1986-1987 season. "The 1940's Radio
Hour," a show that takes its audience-
back to the golden age of radio,
opens the season Nov. 6 and runs
through tlic I'Sih. It is followed by

the -Shakespearean farce "Love's
Labour's Lost," which will be per-
formed Feb. 26 through March 7.
The season's grand finale April 2-6 is
"John Raitt! Encore," a musical
journey by the actor through his
40-year career on Broadway. For
ticket info, call x22(}l.

ARTS AT MAMYLANB

At Seventy — A New Career for Eric Bentley

Eric Bentley, professor of Com-
munication Arts and Theatre and
Comparative Literature, will celebrate
his 70th birthday September 14 on
the stage of the Rudolph E. Puglicsc
Theatre during his one man show,
"Eric Bentley in Concert."

Bentley is internationally known as
a scholar, writer, critic, playwright,
and translator of Bertolt Brecht.

In this, his premiere performance
in the Washington area, Bentley will
sing a program ranging from his
Brecht translations to the love songs
of Jacques Prevert, songs he calls
■'romantic and otherwise." It is the
same performance that won critical
acclaim at the Lyceum Studio during
the 1985 Edinburgh Festival and at
Reno Sweeney's cabaret in New York
City.

Bentley performs September 9-13
and 16-20 at 8 p.m. and September
14 and 21 at 2 p.m. Tickets for "Eric
Bentley in Concert" are 58.50 for the
general public and S7 for students
and senior citizens. For information,
call 454-2201 or write University
Theatre, Tawes Theatre Box Office,
The Universit\' of Maryland, College
Park, MD 21)742.

On September 18, at 2 p.m.,
Bentley will introduce and sign
copies of his latest book, The
Pirandello Commentaries, in the
University Book Center of the Adele
H. Stamp Union.

Although best known for his
translations of Brecht's plays, Bentley
has written and directed many plays,
produced translations from several
languages and now, at age 70, is em-
barking on a new career as a cabaret-
style singer and .songwriter.

"1 began singing at an age when
most singers gave it up," he notes.

The Times of London said "He
could be the worst singer in the
world, and it would still make your
heart miss a beat to see that fragile
figure arriving at the piano keyboard
and launching shyly into the material
he loves. His singing needs no
apology. . . Its range is confined, its
quality husky; but such is the in-
telligence and sensidvity behind it
that he can touch the heart of
anything from a Prevert street-
walker's song to the grief of Brecht's
'Song of a German Mother'."

Born in England and educated at
Oxford and Yale, Bentley has taught

at Columbia, The State University of
New York, Harvard, Bennington,
Queens College and the University of
Delaware. He joined the UMCP facul-
ty in 1981,

Among his awards and fellowships
are two Guggenheims, a Rockefeller
grant, the Longview Award for
Criticism, the Obic Award for Off
Broadway Theatre, and the George
Jean Nathan Prize,

Bentley has spent most of his life
in Hollywood and New York and
currently commutes weekly from his
NYC home on Riverside Drive to
teach his classes at UMCP. Following
World War II, he worked closely
with Brecht as a translator and critic,
and his experience during the McCar-
thy hearings led him to write his
best-known play, "Are You Now Ot
Have You Ever Been,"

Last year he was awarded the
AMOCO Gold Medallion of Ex-
cellence during the American College
Theater Festival at the Kennedy
Center.

"There are few books written
about American theatre that fail to
make mention of Profe,s,sor Bentle\",s
work as translator, critic, historian.

?-?r

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CONCERT

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director, anthologist, playwright and
pundit," the citation read, "He is
widely admired for what he means
to the American stage," I

—Tom Otwell

Remembering William Kapell — An Exhibition in the Music Library

Where do you go to find
memorabilia associated with the
greatest American pianist of the 20th
century?

Answer; the William Kapell
collection — including acetates of his
greatest performances — is now fully
intact at The University of Maryland
International Piano Archives in Horn-
bake Library,

When the IPA was still in New
York, Anna Lou Kapell-Dehavenon,
William Kapell's widow, presented to
the archives a number of unique
acetate recordings of Kapell perfor-
mances. And now, with the naming

of the University's international Piano
Competition for William Kapell,
Dehavenon chose to present the
William Kapell collection of papers,
diaries and memorabilia to the ar-
chives on behalf of the Kapell family.

Kapell, who died in 1953 at the
age of 31, has been described by
critics and champions as the greatest
American pianist of the 20th century.
American born and trained, his
career lasted barely 1 1 years, yet his
impact on the music world has made
him a legend both to succeeding
generations and to the people who
knew him during his brief life.

In the 33 years since the pianist's
death, Dr, Dehavenon has maintained
contact with Kapell's friends and pro-
fessional colleagues and has caretiilly
preserved the papers, scrapbooks,
diaries, photographs, press clippings
and recordings which document his
stunning career.

At the opening of Williain Kapell
Remembered, an exhibition of stime
of the material which will be on
display in the Music Library until Oc-
tober 31, many of Kapell's friend,s
and associates were on hand for the
presentation. Some of the guests in-
cluded pianists Gary Graffman, Leon

Fleisher and Eugene Istomin;
composer-writer-pianist Abram
Chasins; and Mrs. Eugene Ormandy.

The exhibition features six sec-
tions: Musical Origins, Building a
Career, the Touring Musician, Musical
Growth, Kapell and the Critics, and
Kapell's Legacy, A 20-minute muld-
media show on Kapell also may be
seen by appointment.

Music Library hours are Mon.-
Thurs, 8 a,m.-l] p,m,, Fri. 8 a.m. -5
p.m.. Sat. 10 a.m. -5 p.m. and Sun.
noon-1 1 p,m, I

Greene Wins Kapell Piano Competition

Following an intense final round
with the National Symphony Or-
chestra last July, the winner of The
University of Maryland International
William Kapell Piano Compedtlon
was selected by the finals jury,

Arthur Greene, a H-yeaT-old
Massachusetts native, won the com-
petition with his performance of
Brahm's Concerto No, 2 in B-Flat,
the longest in the repertoire and con-
sidered a risky selection for
competition.

"But Greene assumed the risk and
won— in more ways than won," ac-
cording to a reviewer for The
Washington Post. "It was virtuoso
reading. But that was not what mosi
mattered about it. For above all one
was conscious throughout that here
was a mature musician— one of in-
tense concentration and seriousness
of purpose,"

The final concert, which

culminated 10 days of intense com-
petition among 35 contestants who
were chosen from more than 90
young pianists, took place at the
Kennedy Center Concert Hall,
Greene was awarded the first prize
of S17.000, followed by second
prizes of 87,500 each for NeLson
Padgett and David Allen Wehr,

A,s the competition winner. Green
performed with the Philadelphia Or-
chestra late last July and will perform
in a debut recital in New York's
Carnegie Hall on January 7, 1987,

Semi-finalist prizes went to
Lawrence Blind, Monday Night
Musicales Prize (!500); Peter Collins,
Loren Eisely Memorial Prize (S500);
Duane Hulbert, AW industries Prize
(S500); Dalya Khan, Piano Festival
Alumni Prize (S500) and the Charles
& Ethel Morganston Memorial Prize
(S500); Thomas Labe, Baldwin Prize
(8500); and Carolyn True, Boucher

Memorial Prize (S500), Abram
Cha,sins Award (51,000) and the P,G.
County Arts Council Prize ($500),
Two special prizes were awarded

to finalist Nelson Padgett: the
Beatrice Simmons Sabghir Memorial
Prize (S600) and the G. Maurice Hin-
son Pnze (S500), ■

^

Gallery Theatre Renamed for Rudolph Pugliese

Rudolph E, Pugliese, a professor in
the department of Communication
Arts and Theatre, recently retired
from the University of Maryland after
38 years of teaching and directing.
To honor his dedication to theatre
on the College Park Campus, the
Board of Regents has approved
renaming the Galler\- Theatre the
Rudolph E, Pugliese Theatre.

Performances in the Rudolph E.
Pugliese Theatre during University
Theatre's 1986-87 season include

"Eric Bentley in Concert," September
9-21, "The Learned Ladies,"
December 2-14, "Ubu Roi," February
10-22, and "To Gillian on Her 37th
Birthday," April 28-May 10,

For tickets and info, call the Tawes
Theatre Box Office at 454-2201
(voice & TDD) weekdays from 1 1
a,m, to 4 p,m., or write University
Theatre, Tawes Theatre Box Office,
The University of Maryland, College
Park, Maryland 20742,' ■

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Seplembtr H. 1986

UMCP Joins Holmes Group

The College of Education has ac-
cepted an invitation to join the
Holmes Group, an organization of
some 40 research -oriented in.s!itutit)ns
committed to making changes in
teacher education and the teaching
profession. The group's goals include
making the education of teachers
more iniclIcclLiall}' solid, recognizing

differences in teachers' knowledge,
developing skill and commitment in
education certification, establishing a
|X}lic\' that relates to standards of en-
try into the profession, connecting
institutions with the schools, and
making schools better places in
which to teach and work.

CLOSE VP

Shifting Sands:

Campus Centrifuge in Geotechnical Research

ig professor Deborah Goodings with campus geocentrHugi

At the end of the arm of a rupidlv-
.spinning centrifuge, a scale model of
an earthen retaining wail begins to
crumble as increasing gravitational
forces start to affeel its stability, The
break-up of the model is monitored
and recorded by a \'ideo camera, and
a series of sensing devices measure
pressures, particle movement and
strains taking place as the loading in-
creases.

Although she is spending this
academic year at the University of
Colorado at Boulder under a National
Science Foundation Visiting
Fellowship for Women, UMCP civil
engineering professor Deborah
Goodings will continue the
geotechnical engineering research she
began at UMCP.

For the la.st five years, Goodings.
who earned her bachelor's degree
from the University of Toronto and
Ph.D. from Cambridge, has been us-
ing a waist-high, ten-foot diameter
centrifuge to test stability in soil
models of slopes, tunnels, founda-
tions, dams and retaining walls.

Attached Co one end of the cen-
trifuge arm is a swinging model
mounting platform — a glass-
windowed box about the size of an
orange crate. In it, Goodings builds
earth models of the structures she
wishes to test.

Hydraulically driven and ac-
celerating at speeds of up to 200 g,
or 200 times the Earth's gravitation,
the centrifuge simulates the effect of
full scale stress gradient conditions
by increasing the self-weight of the
model by a factor of 200,

Twenty-four electrical slip rings
allow transmission of a continuous
picture of the test in progress taken
by a video camera mounted at the
hub of the centrifuge. As the model
spins at speeds of up to four times
per second, images of the model are
preserved on a video tape recorder.
A variety of sensors measure and
record pressure, strain and displace-

ment of the model during the test,

Goodings says that the special ad-
laiitage to this geotechnical engineer-
ing is that it allows researchers to
test real soil in a stress correct, three
dimensional situation. Results help
scientists and engineers determine the
strengths and weaknesses of the full
scale structure. Tests can be run on
soil and rock slopes, tunnels, retain-
ing walls, piling foundations, em-
bankments, off-shore drilling islands,
and can model loss of soil strength
during earthquakes,

'Centrifuge modeling is equally
useful," she says, "for structural
engineering research into the
behavior both before and at failure
of large members such as long steel
arches use for roof supports in sports
stadiums and of large dams. What we
can do is simulate the stresses on
soils and structures in real
situations."

Goodings' research has included
work on centrifuge modeling of
slope failures and slope instability in
Ottawa-area Champlain Sea clay, an
examination of the behavior of rein-
forced soil-retaining walls for the
Engineering Foundation and a study
of slope instability for NSF.

"By using real soil from the site,
we can observe and test a real soil
event, the effect of individual par-
ticles on the behavior of the model,"
she says. "In the model under stress,
particles of sand or gravel might
behave as boulders would in real
situations."

Currcndy she is working on pro-
jects for the Maryland State Highway
Administration on the use of retain-
ing walls reinforced with gcotextile
material and the Air Force Office of
Scientific Research on basic modeling
of blast-induced craters.

In 1985. she won the Transporta-
tion Research Board's Fred Burggraf
Award for Excellence in Research,

The campus centrifuge is about 20
years old and until last year was
located at NASA's Goddard Space

Fliglit Center in Greenbelt where it
was used by the space agency as a
high speed accelerator for space craft
research.

For three years, Goodings had to
travel to Greenbelt to conduct her
research. Last year, the 8100,000
Genisco centriftjge was declared
"surplus" by NASA, and Goodings
was able to acquire the machine and
have it relocated to a bay in the
UMCP Engineering Laboratory
Building. "NASA only asked that if a
problem arose, could they use it
here," Goodings says. She gladly
agreed to that condition.

While it was still at Goddard, she
adapted the centrifuge by strengthen-
ing its arm to increase its payload
capacity by 50 percent. This upgrade
was funded by the Minta Martin
Fund, the National Science Founda-
tion, the College of Engineering and
the Department of Civil Engineering,
NASA, she says, was extremely
cooperative in allowing her to
modif>' the machine and, as long as
her work did not interfere with
NASA's own research, she had liber-
ties to make adjustments with official
approval.

She found that the University used
the centrifuge more often than NASA,

UMCP is one of only eight
American universities with such a
modeling facility. Others are located
at Princeton, the University of
Florida at Gainesville, MIT, the
University of Kentucky, Cal Tech,
the University of California, Davis
and the University of Colorado at
Boulder which, Goodings says, is
completing a centrifuge with a 4
meter radius arm, which will make it

the largest operating university
research facility in the country. The
idea of using centrifuges to simulate
geotechnical events, Goodings notes,
was first introduced in the 1930s by
twxi scientists in the Soviet Union
and one in the U,S., each working
independently of the others. Because
of U.S, predominance in the field of
computers and computer modeling
of soil behavior, the trend in this
country was away from physical
modeling. The Russians continued
their centrifuge work, but, because
the research was primarily related to
defense and explosives, little informa-
tkin emerged from the U.S,S,R,

In the 1960s, Andrew Schofield of
t^ambridge University, who was
Goodings' PhD, advisor, renewed
Western contact with Soviet resear-
chers in the field and by 1969 had
revived the idea of using the cen-
trifuge for soil simulation,

"The shortcomings of computer
modeling led us back to the physical
model," Goodings says, "For exam-
ple, subsidence in underground
mines — how far apart should the
solid pillars of coal, rock or ore left
standing to support a mine roof or
tunnei be spaced? The three-
dimensional efi"ects needed to find
out are difficult or impossible to
achieve by computer modeling alone,
and it is far too dangerous and ex-
pensive to determine in the field,
"But together, the two techniques
work very well. We can calibrate and
investigate new mechanisms where
we are not exactly sure what the real
thing is going to look and act like," I

^Tom Otwell

Sagan To Speak At
Resnik National Benefit

Astronomer Carl Sagan will be
guest speaker at the National Benefit
for The Judith A, Resnik Memorial
Scholarship and Fellowship En-
dowments,

Sagan is David Duncan Professor
of Astronomy and Space Sciences
and Director of the Laboratory of
Planetary Studies at Cornell
University,

The benefit and memorial tribute
to the late astronaut will be held
Sunday, Septeniber 14 at 7:30 p,m.
in The Pavilion of the Old Post Of-
fice Building, 1100 Pennsylvania Ave.
N.W., Washington, D.C.

The program will feature an ex-
clusive showing of the motion pic-
ture. The Dream Is Alive, videtJtaped
tributes by U.S. Senator John Glenn,
NBC News' Tom Brokaw, and
Pulitzer Prize-winning author James
A, Michencr, and performances by
jazz pianist and UMCP music pro-
fessor Ron Elliston, and fine arts

.siudents from Carnegie Mellon,

Each guest attending the benefit
will receive a complimentary copy of
Challengers: The Inspiring Life Stories
of the Seven Brave Astronauts of
Shuttle Mission 51-L. The book was
written by Staff writers of The
Washington Post following the
January 28 explosion of the
Challenger,

Judith A. Resnik earned her Ph,D,
degree in Electrical Engineering at
I.IMCP in 1977, Following her death,
tlie College of Engineering establish-
ed a memorial fellowship in her
name. Proceeds from the benefit will
be used to help endow the scholar-
ship and fellowship funds at UMCP
and Carnegie Mellon,

Benefit tickets are S50 each. For
information and reservations, call
454-506:^. ■

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Looking for

a Few Good Tutors

Tutors with j^pccial talents in
Mathematics, Economics, Computer
Science, Chemistry, Physics, and
Business Management are being
sought by the Office of Minority Stu-
dent Education. For details, call Joel
Smith or Alcm Asres at x4901.

Especially for

The Hearing Impaired

A 12-week course, "Better Com-
munication for the Hearing Im-
paired." begins Scpi, 23 ai (he cam-
pus Speech and Hearing Clinic, All
UMCP staff, students, faculty and
their immediate family, including
retired employees, are eligible. The
course costs 120. For info, call Lynn
Perlroth, x6906.

COLLEGE PAItK PEOPLE

The Poet of
Hornbake Library

IN THE SPOTLIGHT: Valerie Russell

Valerie Russell is hard pressed to
remember a time when she didn't
enjoy words and image.s and the in-
terplay between them. As a
youngster growing up in Frederick,
she recalls spending hours at a time

trying to capture her thoughts on
paper.

Today, Russell is a desk supervisor
of the library's Nonprint Media
Services- — a job she both enjoys and
does well. She is also a person com-

miticd to what Carl .Sandburg called
"'the achievement of the synthesis of
hyacinths and blscuits"^thc art of
poetry.

"1 have been writing poetry for as
long as 1 can remember," she says,
"1 consider being a poet my 'real'
work, the reason for which 1 was
born."

In one of her earliest works,
"Poetsong," Russell expresses her
deepest feelings for what a poet is ail
about,

!f my words can help
you. let ihcm fall,
a warm shawl draped
around your shoulders.
Lei my words give you
joy, or make you free
enough to own your own
pain. Let them hug you.

If you need them, take
what vowels 1 phrase together.
Let them heal. Come, drink
from the flood wells of my ink.

Let them be an anchor.
Like a lover, you can come
close and remain welcomed.
In the silence in between

my sounds, we are all here
lo listen. AH of our voices
rise up from the same waters.
My words stream out,
bloodstrong, for us all.

One of four children, Russell says
that neither her mother nor father
encouraged her pursuit of poetry. To
the contrary, her father felt there was
little future and less money in
becoming a full-time "rhymester,"

"The first strong encouragement 1
received was from my Frederick
High School English teacher," she
says, "She told me I had a talent and
that 1 shouldn't hide it. Also, I had
the opportunity to meet Gwendolyn
Brooks when 1 was 16 and told her
of my aspirations. She said, 'Just
keep on writing no matter what.'"

She took Brook's advice. Par-
ticularly since the birth of her and
husband Don's daughter. Raesiquilla,
in 1975, Russell has devoted several
hours every day to writing.

"I usually sit down around 10:30
p,m, and get to bed by 2 a,m,," she
says, "Sometimes, though, 1 get so
wrapped up in what I'm doing that
it's suddenly 4 a,m. and 1 have to be
at work at 8:30 a.m. It gets a little
crazy,"

Russell's poems have appeared In
several publications, including
Calvert, the campus' literary
magazine, and Upfront: a Black
Woman 's Newspaper. Most recently,
a work entitled "Oh Sylvia" was
printed in the New York Quarterly,

She has also given readings uf her
work at the Montpelier Cultural Arts
Center in Laurel, at Artscapc '85 in
Baltimore, and at the campus' Nyum-
buru Cultural Center.

"My favorite things are the sun,
the moon, rainbows, plants, good
poetry, good music and purple." says
the poet of Hornbake Library, "Some
of my least favorite things are TV,
guns, cold weather, apathetic people,
violence (of any kind) and oppres-
sion (of any kind)." ■

— Mercy Hardic Coogan

Behind The Scenes.

"One ringy-dingy. two ringy-
dingies,.."

Avid Lily Tomlin fans break Into
wide grins jusi thinking about her
sidesplitting portrayal of "Ernestine,"
Ma Bell's marvelously eccentric
operator. Who could possibly forget
her conversation with Gore Vidal
("Is this the party to whom I am
speaking, Mr, Gorie Veedal?"), her in-
imitable facial expressions or her elo-
ciucntly insinuating body language?

Fortunately for the campus com-
munity, UMCP's team of 12
telephone operators bear not the
slightest resemblance to the ir-
repressible, nosy, opinionated and
often testy Ernestine. Under the
supervision of of Carolyn Foxwell
and Kitty Grabo. full-time operators
Erik a Bollinger, Mary Lou Ker-
nan, and Donna McTavish, as well
lis p:iri timers Ethel Holford,
Josepliine Keefer. Jean
Schroeder. Mary Tliackeray and
students Bob Libys, Robert
Mendelson and George Rankin
are known best for their patience,
courtesy and helpfulness.

Recently, the operators, who field
over 2,600 "information please" calls
each day. received automated help
with their work in the form of the
Hewlett Packard 3000 scries retrieval
system. Computer wizardry now

ciiables the operators to process
callers' queries in a fraction of the
time it took to do the job manually,,.

The Computer Science Center has
its share of computer wiz-ards. too.
Consider, for example. Linda Hoff-
man and Carol 'Warrington, Just
two of the center's resident experts.
They team teach classes to UMCP
employees intent upon unraveling
the mysteries of IBM's WordPerfect
software package. "Learning this pro-
gram is not really difficult," said
Warrington to those attending a re-
cent session. "The directions are
quite clear and even people who
have never worked with a computer
can master it — eventually." Righto. In
addition to teaching, both Warr-
ington and Hoffman have supervisory
jobs at the center. "We wanted a lit-
tle more challenge in our work and
asked if we could add teaching to
our job descriptions," explains Hoff-
man. The team has earned rave
reviews from students, even the ones
who aren't exactly prodigies when it
comes to mastering the P.C. —
especially the ones who aren't
prodigies!

Tina Rapisardi, Dept. of Com-
munication Services, also belongs to
a team — se\'eral, in fact. During the
.summer she spent most evenings

pla)ing Softball for three area leagues:
a women's slow pitch, a co-ed slow
pitch and a campus intramural. "My
fiance coached the co-ed team and
my two brothers played on it as
well," she says. Rapisardi is also a
member of a scuba club and has
made dives off Soloman's Island and
the Florida coast...

Besides his work as an engineering
technician with IPST, where he
makes research equipment for UMCP

and other institutions, Ray Bendt is
the vice president of the Classified
Employees Association. "Ours is the
oldest public sector labor union in
the state," Bendt says. "It represents
nearly 23,000 people, about 500 on
our campus." UMCP's Chapter 21
was responsible for recommending to
the administration the establishment
of the emergency snow policy that
was enacted several years ago, For
more info, call Bendt on x2245. B

New Employees Urged to Attend
Benefits Orientation

Don't put that invitation to attend
an employee benefits orientation
seminar into your circular file.
Especially if you are a new UMCP
staff or faculty member, it might be
wise to mark your calendar for one
of the seminars to be conducted on
the second Tuesday of each month
through December,

"Many of our employees, par-
ticularly new ones, really are not
aware of all the benefits available to
them," explains Linda Kelly of the
Benefits Office. "So we conduct
these seminars and invite faculty and
staff to learn about the full range of
options open to them as UMCP

employees. It is very important for
everyone to fully understand these
matters so that delayed enrollments
and/or loss of benefits coverage do
not occur."

All benefits seminars will be held
at 10 a.m. on the fourth floor of
Hornbake Library. Presentations will
be made on health and retirement,
life insurance and all other benefits
plans.

The staff benefits seminars will be
conducted on these dates: Sept 9,
Oct. 14, Nov. 11 and Dec. 9.

Additional information about the
seminars may be obtained from
either Linda Kelly or Gene Edwards,
x6312. ■

QunooK.

Scplcmbcr 8. 1986

UMCP Has Peace Corps Ties

This month, the Peace Corps
celebrates its 25ih anniversary. Tlic
agency's ties with UMCP arc nearly
that old. In the early l9(S0s, the cam-
pus was a Peace Corps training site
for volunteers bound for assignments
in British Honduras (now Belize),
Turkey, Ecuador, Venezuela and
Morocco. According to the agency,
almost 500 UMCP alumni have serv-
ed as volunteers, ranking the campus
3I.SI among colleges and universities

whose graduates joined the Corps.
And, according to Rich Delia Costa,
director for recniitment for the PC's
1-Listern Region. "The University of
Maryland is our number one pro-
ducer of voluieers," UMCP faculty
and M;ilt members who are former
voluntccns include Roger Lewis and
W iliiam Beehhoefer (Arch.). David
Sammons and Raymond Weil
(Agron.), Stephen Sawyer
(Geography). Harriet Lipowitz (MD

F.ng. Inst.), Edgar Butt (CS Center).
Philip Favero (Comm. Res. Div,), Paul
Maxwell (Iniernation Dvlp, Mngt.
Center). Lee Knefelkamp (Counsel-
ing), and Tom Otwell (inst.
Advancement),

IriT

Auburn Honors Prather

Elizabeth Siurkie I'r^ither, head of the
IX'partmeni of FcKid, Nutrition and
Institution Administration for the last
18 years, has been named the l9K(i
Distinguished Alumna of the Auburn
University School of Home
Economics. Prather, an Auburn
native, earned her M.S. degree at Al"
and began her professional career at
the Auburn Human Nutrition
Research Laboratory.

Schumacher Wins AlA Grant

Thomxs L. Schumacher (Architeciure)
has been awarded the Brunner Gram
from the New York Chapter of the
American Institute of Architects. He
will use the grant to write a book on
the Italian Modern Movement Ar-
chitect. Giuseppe Terragni.

Valadez Wins Fellowship

Jo.-ieph J. \ahide^. who earned his
Ph.D. at UMCP. is one of .16
minority -group .scholars selected by
the National Research Council to
receive Po.stdoctoral Fellowships for
Minorities sponsored by the Ford
Foundation, Valadez will spend a
year at Har\-ard U, working in the
area of tnicrnation;i! affairs.

Kelly Heads Md. PRSA

Kathleen S Kelly. :i.--m )ci;!ic dean of
the College ul Journalism, has been
elected president of the Manland
Chapter of the Public Relations Socie-
ty of America. Kelly, who has been
accredited by PRSA .since I9-9, al.so
serves as treasurer of the Educational
and Cultural Organizations .Section of
the national society.

Robock Wins AAAS Fellowship
Alan Robock (Meteorology) has been
awarded a Congressional Science
Fellowship In the .American .Associa-

FOCVS

tion tuc the Advancement of Science,
Beginning this month, he will serve
for a year on the staff of a member
of Congre.ss or a Congressional com-
ntittec as :i scieniihc advisor

Samon Wins Award

jud Samon. coordinator of academic
.services for international students and
faculty at UMCP. has won the 1986
Apperson Award of the Potomac &
Chesapeake Chapter of the National
Association of College Admission
Counselors. The award recognizes
"'extraordinary- service to students."
Sanion was cited for his "longtime
devotion to students and to higher
edueatkin."

Lee and Mcllrath Honored

c:hi H. Lee (Electrical Engineering)
and Thomas j. Mcilralh (In.stltute for

Physical Science and Technology)
have been elected Fellows of the Op-
tical Society of America. Lee was
honored "for his pioneering work in
jiicosecond optoelectronics and
pico.second lasers, and nonlinear op-
tics." Mcllrath was cited "for ouisiaji-
ding contributions to the spec-
troscopy of laser-excited atoms and
ions and the production of tunable
VL'V radiation by nonlinear mixing,"

Mangold's Opera Published

Martin Mangold's one aci comic
opera "BLEAH." first perf'ormetl b\
the University of Maryland Opera
Theatre last May, has been accepted
for publication by MMB Music Inc.,
.St. Louis. Mangold, assistant professor
of music, also composed
"Huckieberrv Finn." an opera also
published by MMB Music.

Honorable Mentions Awarded

Roger Lewis and Paul C. K. Lu (Ar-
chitecture) won Honorable Mention
awards for their individual entries in
the Maryland Vietnam Memorial
Commission's competition to design
a memorial honoring the 1 ,009 Free
Slaters killed in action and the 37
still listed as missing. Architecture
graduate Michael Elliott ('82) was a
member of the design team that won
.First Pilze.

Nugent House Just a Memory

Nugent House iBldg 1 16) is now on-
ly a memor>'. During the weekend o

Ag Alumni Commissioned As
County Ambassadors

August 16-1-, the three-story wooden
frame building that once was home
to the HELP Center and for 13 years
\V3EAX, the campus amateur radio
station, was demolished and burned
as part of the Phase V Housing Pro-
gram. Members of the campus Fire
Department practiced fire fighttng
techniques during the building's

destruction. During the 1950s, the
hou.se served as a fraternity and
sorority house and from 1959 to
1964 was home of football coach
Tom Nugent, The site of the 55-ycar-
old house will become an extension
of parking lot J, according to Resi-
dent Life Engineer Joe Guiliani.

Thirteen alumni of the UMCP Col-
lege of Agriculture have been com-
mis.sioned as Agricultural Am-
bassadors from the University to the
Maryland counties where they live,

The new ambassadors were sworn
in at a special orientation and cam-
pus reception last spring, notes Ray-
mond Miller, vice president for
agriculture and dean of the College,

Ambassador Program Coordinator
Ronald j. .Seibcl. associate professor
of agriculture education and director
of the Institute for Applied
Agriculture, and David Simpson,
president of the Agriculture Alumni
Chapter, presided during the com-
missioning ceremony.

The ambassadors were charged
with establishing "a presence for the
College of Agriculture in the county
in which you reside, to represent the
College to the public and the public
to the College at appropriate occa-
sions, and to initiate and enhance
local awareness of the College in
your community,"

Ambassadors also will assist the

College in identifying outstanding
high school students interested in
pursuing undergraduate .studies in
agriculture at College Park, Simpson
.said,

Former Dean of the College of
Agriculture Donald Hcgwood, and
David Miller, past president of the
Agriculture Alumni Chapter, were in-
sirumcnial in setting up the Am-
bassador Program, Eventually, the
College hopes to commission two
Ambassadors in each county. Am-
bassadors serve iwo-year, renewable
terms.

"The Agriculture Ambassadors Pro-
gram launches a new and important
convenani between the C{)llege and
its graduates," Miller told the new
Ambassadors, "Under the joint
leadership of Dr. .Seibel for the Col
lege and Mr, Simpson for the Ag
Alumni Board, I have every reason to
believe that this cooperative project
between the College and its Alumni
will exceed beyond all reasonable
expectations." ■

Bohr-Schrodinger Symposium Set

A syniposium honoring the centen-
nial of two fathers of modern quan-
tum mechanics, Niels Bohr and Er-
win .Schrodingcr, will be held at
IMCP this fall. The symposium is
spoasorcd by the Physics Depart-
ment, the Committee for the Hi,story
and Philosophy of .Science and the
Insiitutc for Physical Science and
Technology under a grant from the
Maryland Humanities Council,

Three guest .speakers will deliver
special lectures during the .sym-
posium. H.B.G, Casimir, retired direc-
tor of the Philips Research Labs, Ein-
dhoven, The Nethcriands. will
discuss "Bohr, Schrodinger and Eins-
tein: Reminiscences of the Eariy Days
of Quantum Mechanics' Sept, 15. He
is one of the few people still alive
who worked with both Bohr and

Schrodinger. Casimir also will lecture
at a Physics Colloquium Sept. l6 on
"Van Der Waals forces and Zero
Point Energy."

On Sept, 22, Aage Peterson of
Ye.sbiva University will speak on
"Quantum Physics and Philosophical
Tradition, ■ Peterson worked with
Hohr in the 1950s.

Jeffrey Bub, an expert on the
philosophy of quantum mechanics,
recently appointed to the UMCP
Philosophy Dept., will speak on
"From Micro to Macro: Reflections
on Schrodinger's Cat" Oct, 6.

Lectures will be held in the
physics lecture hall, room I4l2,
Physics Bldg, at 4 p,m, A film on the
life of Hohr, produced by the Danish
government, will also be shown. I