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

Volume 1, Number 6

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The University of Maryland College Park

October 6, 1986

News
Briefs

Calling All Senators!

The Campus Senate will hold a
special meeting on Thurs., October 9
from 3:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m, in Rm,
0126 of the Armory. All members of
the senate are urged to attend the
meeting in order to hear final discus-
sion and vote on the proposed revis-
ed plan of organization of the Cam-
pus Senate and revision of its bylaws.

Task Force Report
Released

Chancellor Slaughter is expected to
present the final report and recom-
mendations of the Task Force on
Academic Achievement of Student
Athletes at UMCP to the UM Board
of Regents at its regularly scheduled
meeting Fri., Oct. 10 at UMES. It is
expected that the report will be
made public following that meeting.
The next issue of Outlook will con-
tain highlights of the Task Force fin
dings and recommendations.

Share Your Thoughts
About Campus Parking

Parking on campus is a hot topic of
discussion this fall. At Outlook we
want to survey the mood of the
campus community on this issue.
We're collecting opinions about the
situation, and we would like your
help.

* Do you think the current parking
system works for you?

* Has campus parking been a source
of frustration to you. and if so,
what's is your experience?

* Should campus parking managers
be doing anything differently, and, if
so, what?

Drop us a line and let us know your
response to these questions — and
more, if you wish. Send comments
10 Outlook, 2101 Turner Building.

Inside

Recent Awards, Grants,., 2

Gent Collection ..*3

Campus Construction 3

Calendar 4

Visual Arts Press ..5

Rodriguez Concert, ,5

Labor Leader 6

Silent, Busy World. 7

Aquino Priorities 8

Satisfied Alumni 8

UM Receives Kelloee Graat

Museum Exhibit on Agriculture Planned

The University of Maryland has
received from the W. K. Kellogg
Foundation a grant of $987,864 to
design, develop, and construct a
museum exhibit titled "The Search
for Life: Agricultural Science in the
Twentieth Century."

The exhibit will be designed to
show American consumers how
agricultural research benefits their
pocketbooks at the grocer's
checkout, their health, and their
lifestyles.

It will occupy approximately 3300
square feet and is scheduled to open
in 1987, the centennial year of the
Hatch Act in which Congress set up
the network of federally-funded,
state-run agricultural experiment sta-
tions in the United States.

Initially, the exhibit will travel to
American cities. After 1987, it will be
permanently housed in the Smithso-
nian Institution in Washington D.C.

In addition to the University of
Maryland's Agricultural Experiment
Station — the University's agricultural
research component — the project
team for the exhibit will include
scientists from other universities and
the U.S. Department of Agriculture,
staff of the Smithsonian Institution,
and the New York design studio of
Peter Wexler.

"The primary focus of this exhibit
is on the biochemical revolution, the

continued on page 3-

Proposed exhibit will highlight agriculture as high-tech enterprise.

Claude Examines Human Rights
Issues in the Philippines

Government and Politics professor
Richard Claude was a member of a
four-man research team that spent
last July and August in the Philip-
pines looking the ways physicians,
nurses, medics and other health care
personnels confront problems under
conditions of political repression.
The research mission was spon-
sored by the American Association
for the Advancement of Science with

a grant from the Ford Foundation.
The project will focus on four coun-
tries — South Africa, Chile, Uruguay,
and the Philippines.

"In such countries," CJaude says,
"health professionals often face
dilemmas between professional ethics
and political pressure to supervise
torture-interrogations. The problems
vary from country to countiy, but
the Philippines, like Uruguay, has just

emerged from a dark militarized
period and thus is involved in such
problems as medical and psychiatric
professionals organizing to deal with
the rehabilitation issues and concerns
linked to the hundreds of ex-political
detainees now being released under
amnesties instituted by President Cor-
azon Aquino,"

In addition to Claude, an interna-
tionally recognized authority on
human rights, the AAAS Philippine
team included Dr. June Lopez, a
psychiatrist, her husband Dr. Willie
Lopez, a neurosurgeon, and Eric
Stover, medical writer and staff direc-
tor of the Human Rights Clear-
inghouse of the AAAS Committee on
Scientific Freedom and Responsibili-
ty-

The Uruguay report has been com-
pleted, but the South Africa and
Chile studies are still in the develop-
ment stages, Claude says. The
100-page-long Philippines report is
expected to be available from the
AAAS this month,

Claude's views on priorities facing
the new Philippine government ap-
pear on Page 8 of Outlook M

Richard Claude (right) greets Presklent Aquino as medical writer Eric Stover looks on.

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October 6, 1986

Manohoran Receives Grant

The Leukemia Society of America has
awarded a three-year, 570,500 FelJow
grant to support research associate
Muthiah Manohoran's (Chem.) work.
He will focus on pharmacology, the
development of new anti-leukemic
agents and the techniques for ad-
ministering and enhancing drugs that
kill malignant cells. Manohoran is one
of 246 researchers currently funded
by the LSA.

DOE Fellowship for Postdocs

The U.S. Dept. of Energy's Office of
Health and Environmental Research
has established a new Alexander
Hollaender Distinguished Postdoctoral
Fellowship Program to support
outstanding new Ph.D. recipients.
The program underwrites research in
OHER-supported energy- related study
in the life, biomedical and en-

vironmental sciences. FeUows will
receive a stipend of $35,000 annually
and an appointment to a participating
DOE lab or university program. The
first appointments will be made next
spring. Application deadline for the
first round of candidates is Jan. 20,
1987. For info call Sandra Plant, Oak
Ridge Associated Universities, (615)
576-3190.

RESEARCH UPDATES

Psychology Award Tops Recent Grants List

Pedro Bartfosa: $1 00 K to observe parasttold behavior.

Awards in psycholog)^ entomology
and chemistry lead the list of current
sponsored program transactions for
researchers from the (JMCP campus.
Faculty and staff receiving outside
grants and contracts in recent
months include:

Behavioral and Social Sciences— J.
G. Martin, 5207,899 from the Na-
tional Institutes of Health for Speech
Enhancement Based on A.P.C.5., R.
P. Lorion, $9,452 from the National
Institute of Mental Health for
Development of Minority Students;
R. P. Lorion, 539,792 from the Na-
tional Institutes of Health for Train-
ing Minority Students; R. P. Lorion,
S9,984 from Calvert City, Md., for
Externship at a Mental Health Center,
J. Robinson, S3, 600 from Harvard
U. for Youth ^nd the Future.

School of Public Affairs— G. C.
Eads, SI 6,800 from the Dept. of
Education for Education for the
Public Service Program.

College of Agriculture — B.
Quebedeaux, S6,000 from the U.S.
Dept. of Agriculture for New Crops
Program; W. L. Harris, $6,000 from
the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture for Na-
tional Needs for a Graduate
Fellowship Program; D. Snyder,
S60,057 from the U.S. Dept. of
Agriculture for Role of Variant

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S91,118 from the National Institutes
of Health for Enzymes of Aromatic
Acid Metabolism; C Pon-
namperuma, SI 5,000 from the Na-
tional Aeronautic and Space Ad-
ministration for Chemical Evolution
and Prebiological Organization; B. B.
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Center Hosts

Anniversary

Conference

The Center for Philosophy and
Public Policy will celebrate its tenth
anniversary with a three-day con-
ference on "The Public Turn in
Philosophy" at the Center of Adult
Education Oct. l6 through 18.

During the last decade and a half,
philosophy has come out of the
academy and "gone public" in a way
it has not done for many years.
"Philosophy and public policy" has
become both respectable and
popular, note conference organizers
Judith Lichtenberg and Henr^^ Shue,
research and senior research
associates.

The conference will examine the
state of the art in this fertile area of
inquiry and will feature leading prac-
titioners and critical observers.

For ten years the Center has been
a leading laboratory in the area of
public philosophy. It has conducted
research in such areas as civil rights
and affirmative action, cost benefit
and risk benefit analysis, environmen-
tal policy, workplace safety, energy
development and future generations,
immigration policy, foreign policy
and human rights, nuclear deter-
rence, professional ethics, media
responsibility and freedom of the
press, military manpower options,
and civic education.

"The conference is designed to
allow participants to stand back and
reflect on the general nature and
value of the activity in which the
Center, as well as a growing number
of other institutions and individuals,
has been engaged," the planners say.l

poration for Preparation of
Trichothecene Derivations.

College of Life Sciences — P. Bar-
bosa, $100,000 from the U.S. Dept.
of Agriculture for Parasitoid Foraging
Behavior, C. W, Mitter, $137,000
from the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture
for Biosystematics of Hebothine
Pests.

College of Engineering — R. J.
Arscnault, S9,900 from the Navy for
Analytical Services — Graphite Grains;
V. Ebert, $52,820 from the Navy for
Phoswich Detector Design Testing;
W. S. Levine, $86,548 from the Na-
tional Institutes of Health for
Kinesiological Modeling of the Cat
Hind Limb; J, Yang, $100,000 from
the National Science Foundation for
Learning from the Earthquake of
1985; J. Kirk, $90,000 from the Na-
tional Science Foundation for
Magnetic Bearing Spindle.

College of Computer, Mathematical
and Physical Sciences — H. Glay,
$21,874 from the R&D Association
for Computational Fluid Dynamics;
A. S. Wilson, $15,000 from the Na-
tional Aeronautics and Space Ad-

ministration for Low Energy X-Ray
Absorption in Active Galaxies; E. F.
Redish, $10,800 from the Navy for
Harmonic Solutions; D. BriU, $575
from the Md. Humanities Council for
the Bohr-Schrodingcr Commemora-
tion; T. M. Heckman, $9,000 from
the Jet Propulsion Laboratory for In-
frared Astronomy (IRAS) Program; R.
B. Kellogg, $27,750 from the Na-
tional Science Foundation for Finite
Element Methods for Perturbation
Problems.

Other campus units receiving
grants and awards include a Dept, of
Education contract for Strengthening
Research Library Resources for
$404,776 under the direction of M.
A. Plank and a $100,800 award
from the Dept. of Education to
graduate studies dean A. Thackray
For Graduate and Professional Oppor-
tunities Program Fellowships.

For new awards during August
1986, the National Science Founda-
tion provided almost twice as much
research funding as any other single
source, sponsoring $1.7 million
dollars in research at UMCP, ■

—Rick Borchelt

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JacKson Yang: $100 K for earthquake study.

The Hunt for CHESSEE

A new computerized data service
available to campus researchers will
help UMCP scientists access data
about Chesapeake Bay Program ac-
tivities and in specific monitoring
and research data points. CHESSEE
(Chesapeake + See) is maintained at
the Chesapeake Bay Program com-
puter center in Annapolis and cur-
rently stores approximately 100
million data elements and over 500
data files. The Bay-wide monitoring
network coordinated by the
Chespeake Bay Program is expected
to add to the data base by about 1.2
million pieces of data each year.

CHESSEE is user-friendly and in-
teractive, with help menus and data
summaries that make the database ac-
cessible to private citizens as well as
to researchers, Users can access
CHESSEE either by reserving a ter-
minal in the Computer Center in An-
napolis (call Debbie White at
301-266-6873) or by remote dial-in

telephone. For more info about ac-
cessing CHESSEE, call:
from the D.C. area, 483-4675; from
an FTS line, 922-2285. ■

Lifelong Learning Papers

Papers and symposia for the 1987
Lifelong Learning Research Con-
ference in College Park are being
solicited by adult and extension
education associate professor William
M. Rivera. Next spring's conference
will emphasize learning theory, com-
puters in adult education, agricultural
extension worldwide, distance educa-
tion and international organizations in
the development of adult education,
Deadline for submission of papers or
symposia is Wed., Nov. 5. For info,
contact Rivera at x4933.

OUILOOK

October 6, 1986

Nobel Laureate Lectures

Jerome Karle of the Naval Research
Laboratory and co-winner of the
1'985 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with
UMCP alumnus Herbert Hauptman,
will discuss Applications of
Crystaliography to Chemistry at a
chemistry colloquium Thursday, Oct.
9. The lecture begins at 4 p.m. in
room 1412 Physics. The research
team won the Nobel Prize for
crystallography, the science of the
form, classification and structure of
crystals.

UM Grant for Agriculture Exhibit

continued from page 1.

contribution that science makes to
agriculture and, through agriculture,
to American well-being," says Ray-
mond J. Miller, vice president of
agricultural affairs at The University
of Maryland and dean of the Colleges
of Agriculture and Life Sciences on
the College Park Campus.

Adds designer Peter Wexler.- "In
this biochemical revolution, genetics,
growth, and disease control are the
principal subjects in a story of how
agricultural scientists are coming to
understand life in terms of evolution
against stress."

The exhibit will be divided into
three sections, based on a historical
transition: the first section will show
visitors the tools and research of
scientists at the turn of this century;
the second section will focus on the
period 1940-1970 during which
researchers Crick and Watson set the
scientific world on its heels with
their portrayal of the double-helix
strands of DNA, the genetic message

'The Search for LMe" Exhibit Proposal [}eslgn by Peter Wexler Studfo.

carrier of life; the third and final scc-
toin deals with the period 1970 and
beyond, with an emphasis on genetic
engineering.

"When visitors exit the exhibit,
they will see dwarf trees, computers
at work, and other tools of modern
agricultural research," says Dr. G. T.
Sharrer, curator of the Smithsonian's
division of agriculture and natural
resources.

"They will see tlie work of Nobel
laureates in agricultural science. And,
if they ask what the food source of
the twenty-first century will be, they
will know that it will be discovered
through research," Sharrer adds.

Since it was founded in 1930, the
W. K. Kellogg Foundation has
distributed more than S843 million
to support programs in agriculture,
education, and health.

Its philanthrophy extends beyond
the United States to Latin America,
the Caribbean, Africa, and other
countries. ■

— Skip Myers

Construction Booms On Campus

Make way for the bulldozers. An un-
precedented number of major con-
struction projects are afoot this year
on campus, according to director of
the Department of Engineering and
Architectural Services Jean Whit-
tenberg. Some projects are already
underway, while others will be
started later in the fiscal year.

"There's going to be a lot of
disruption over the next few years,"
explains Whittenberg, a retired Air
Force colonel and civil engineer who
has headed the new department
since it was created eleven months
ago. "There's simply no way to do
major construction without it being a
little dirty and noisy. But we'll try to
minimize these to the greatest degree
possible."

The project with the highest price
tag is the 115.6 million addition to
McKeldin Library scheduled to get
underway in March, 1987. The next
costliest involves razing Annapolis
Hall, constructing a new one, and
renovating the adjacent residence
halls — for a price tag of about Sl4
million.

It will take $13.8 million to con-
struct the new Animal Science and
Agricultural Engineering building.
This project should start next July,
says Whittenberg.

The Research Building, soon to be
built near the Wind Tunnel, will pro-
vide space for the Administrative
Computer Center as well as for facul-
ty, staff and students involved in
research in a variety of programs
across campus. That tab will come to
$13.1 million.

Already well on its way is the new
$9.6 million parking garage near the
Stamp Union that should be com-

pleted in December, 1987.

At the same time comes the old
Bureau of Mines facility which has
been undergoing a major facelift (the
bill totaling $9-4 million). It will
emerge as the Microbiology Building
in January, 1987.

Other major FY '86 construction
projects are:

* $8.2 million for a new veterinary
science building;

* $5.9 million for three Maryland
Fire and Rescue Institute projects;

* $4.3 million for renovating
graduate housing in the Lord Calvert
apartments;

* $2.2 million for the on-going steam
condensate return project (begun last
year and scheduled for completion in
Feb. '87);

* $1 million for a utilities' conserva-
tion system — currently under
construction;

* $854,000 for handicap access pro-
jects; and

* $600,000 for the construction of a
4'H building on the Acredale proper-
ty off Metzerott Rd.

In addition to these major projects,
Whittenberg says his office annually
coordinates between $5 and $6
million in smaller campus projects —
everything from replacing old curbs
to installing new roofs. These jobs
are usually handled by one of five
major outside firms under contract to
UMCP.

"We liave a staff of 55 permanent
employees," Whittenberg says, "and
the option to hire an additional
20-25 on 'if-and-when' basis. As you
can see from the number and scope
of the projects cited here, we are an
extremely busy office." ■

Celebration Set for

UM Gemstone Collection

Living in the shadow of the Smithso-
nian's Hope Diamond hasn't been
easy for the managers of the Univer-
sity's own gem and mineral collec-
tion, but planners hope a reception
for the third anniversary of the cam-
pus gems and minerals museum Oct.
17 will spark increased visibility for
the $l-miJlion collection.

The College of Computer,
Mathematical and Physical Sciences in
conjunction with the Department of
Geology will host the reception to
honor the third ajmiversary of the
donation of the Irvin E. Freedman
Collection to the University in 1983,
says Diana Obler, museum curator.

"The collection here is the finest
quality of any gem and mineral col-
lection in the country," and many of
the items in the museum are not
duplicated in any similar collection
anywhere, according to Obler.

"The gems rival those in the
Smithsonian collection in quality and
range," she says.

Included among the highlights of
the Freedman collections is an
85-pound amethyst geode from
Brazil. At 2'/2 feet in diameter, the
geode is the largest item in the
museum and one of the largest of its
kind anywhere.

The museum was founded by
Freedman, a supermarket designer
and avid gem collector. The gems
and minerals, worth in excess of $1
million, are on loan to UMCP now
but will be become University pro-
perty under the terms of Freedman's
bequest.

Obler notes that the museum has
low visibility on campus, despite the
fact that it's open to the public Tues-
day and Thursday afternoons in the
geology building.

"One purpose of the anniversary
reception is to heighten public ap-
preciation for this outstanding collec-
tion," Obler says. "We hope to see
more people visit us." ■

Minerals cxi display tA UM gvn

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October 6, 1986

Center Holds
Shakespeare Workshop

Shakespeare teachers in the
Washington area take a working holi-
day Saturday Oct. U.

The Center for Renaissance and
Baroque Studies at UMCP is sponsor-
ing a workshop featuring Patrick
Ste'wart, senior member of the Royal
Shakespeare Company. Stewart will
discuss alternative textual readings of
Shakespeare and do a performance
recital called "Uneasy Lies the Head:
the Cares of Kingship/' based on his

interpretations of Shakespearean
kings.

Teachers in Maryland, Northern
Virginia and Washington, D.C. are in-
vited to participate.

In addition to Stewart, five area
scholars will hold discussions. The
five are: Leeds BarroU, professor of
English at UMBC; Donna Hamilton,
professor of English at UMCP;
Maynard Mack, Jr., professor of
English at UMCP; Peggy O'Brien of

the Folger Library; and Gail Pastor,
professor of English at George
Washington University.

Participants will have a chance to
attend two of the scholars'
discussions.

The workshop runs from 8:30 a.m.
to 4:30 p.m. There is no registration
fee; $7 will be charged for a lun-
cheon, For more information call
x2740 or xl490.

CALENDAR

The UMCP Marching Band can be seen perfomiing at home football games.

October 6—13

MONDAY

October 6

Faculty & Associate Staff Convocation

celebrating Founders Day, 3 p.m.,
Memorial Chapel. Followed by a recep-
tion, 4:15 p.m., Chapel Lawn."

Women's Commission Meeting, noon-1
p.m., 2105 Main Admin.'

Land Ownership Security and Farm
Productivity in Thailand, international
trade & development workshop by Ger-
shon Feder (World Bank), 3:30 p.m.,
2106 Tydings."

Mission India: The Joys & Sorrows of
Overseas Project Development Interna-
tional development colloquium by William
Rivera (AEED) & Billy Coffindaffer
(MCES), noon-1 p.m., 2118 S. Admin,
Call X6407 for info.*

From Micro to Macro: Reflections on
Schrodinger's Cat, Colloquium Series
lecture by Jeffrey Bub (PHIL), 4 p.m.,
1412 Physics."

20th Century Ensemble, 8 p.m., Tawes
Recital Hall. Call x6669 for info.*

Searching for Fossils at Home &
Abroad: Globular Cluster Systems in
Distant Galaxies, astronomy colloquium
by W.H. Harris (McMaster U., Ontario), 4
p.m.. 1113 Computer & Space Sciences
BIdg. Call x3511 for info.*

William Kapelt Remembered, Music
Library, third floor Hornbake, through
Oct.31. See previous issue for library
hours.*

New American Paperworks, exhibit at
the Art Gallery in the Art-Sociology
Building. Show on display until Oct. 12.
Call X2763 for info.*

TUESDAY

October 7

Health Insurance Open Enrollment,
company representatives will hold two
sessions to explain policies & answer
questions. 9:30 a.m. & 1:30 p.m., Colony
Ballroom, Stamp Student Union.*

Noontime Jazz featuring The Malachi
Thompson Trio & The VCU Trumpet
Band, noon. 3125 S. Campus Dining
Hall. Call X5774 for info.*

Blues Workshop: Guitar & Harmonica

featuring "Bowling Green" John Cephas
& "Harmonica" Phil Wiggins, 7 p.m.,
3123 S. Campus Dining Hall. Continues
through Oct. 10. Call x5774 for registra-
tion info.

The Origin of the Universe, physics col-
loquium by Heinz Pagels (N.Y. Academy
of Sciences), 4 p.m., 1410 Physics. Call
x3511 for info.*

Letter to Brezhnev, movie, 7 & 9:30
p.m., Hoff Theater. For info call x2594.

Zum Phanomen Utopie lecture by
Brigitte Leuschner (Akademie der
Nissenschaften, Berlin), 3 p.m., 3205
Jimenez.

WEDNESDAY

October 8

Alumni Invitational II exhibit opening
reception, 4:30-6 p.m.. Parents Assn. Art
Gallery. Stamp Student Union. On exhibit
through Nov. 14. Gallery hours, Mon.-Sat.
8 a.m. -8 p.m. and Sun. noon-8 p.m.*

Changes in the Control of Posture
Across the Lifespan: A Comparison of
the Very Young and Very Old, physical
education lecture by Marjorie Woollacott
(U. of Oregon), 7:30 p.m., 1303 PERH.*

Inheritance and Patriarchal Households
in Early Connecticut, history seminar by
Toby Ditz (Johns Hopkins U.), 8 p.m.,
1104 Stamp Student Union. Call John
McCusker, x3795, for info.*

Role of the Academic Community in
Legitimizing the Claims of Disabled
Persons, Counseling Center R&D lecture
by Gerbin DeJong (Nat'l Rehab.
Hospital), noon-1 p.m., testing room,
Shoemaker BIdg.*

A Portrait of Max Reger voice recital by
Susan Chin and accompanied by Beverly
Smith on piano, 8 p.m., Tawes Recital
Hall. Call X6669 for info."

Nuclear Chromodynamics seminar by
Carl Shakin (Brooklyn College), 4 p.m.,
1218 Physics. Call x3511 for info.*

Women's Volleyball vs George
Washington U., 7 p.m., Cole Field
House.*

Letter to Brezhnev, movie, see Oct. 7.

THURSDAY

October 9

Student Talent Show, 7 p.m., Grand

Ballroom, Stamp Student Union. $1 ad-
mission fee.

Neon Art Workshop by Timothy Goecke,

7-9:30 p.m., Craft Center.

Call x49B7 for registration & other info.*

Applications of Crystallography to
Chemistry, chemistry colloquium by
Jerome Karle (Naval Research Lab.), 4
p.m., 1412 Physics.*

Predictability of Geostrophic Currents
in the Recirculation zone of the North
Atlantic, meteorology seminar by James
Carton (METO), 3:30 p.m.. 2106 Com-
puter & Space Sciences BIdg. Call x2708
for info.*

Human Ecology Reception, 5:30 p.m.,
Marie Mount Hall. Call Kay Press, x2136,

for info.

Observation of Neutrinos Scattered by
Electrons, physics seminar by R. Talaga
(PHYS), 4:15 p.m., 1410 Physics. Call
X3511 for info.*

Running Scared, movie, 7 & 9:30 p.m.,
Hoff Theater. For info call x2594.

FHIDAY

October 10

Board of Regents Meeting at UMES.

Call 853-3740 for info.*

Piano Concert by Francis Whang (U. of
N. Carolina, Chapel Hill), 8 p.m., Tawes
Recital Hall. Call x6669 for info.*

Divorce Mediation and Its Implications
for College Students, lunch 'n learn
seminar by Joanne Hunt, 1-2 p.m.,
3100E Health Center. For info call
X4925.*

The Role of Fluids During Metamor-
phism, geological sciences seminar by
Mel Dickenson (Virginia Polytechnic Inst.),
noon, 0109 Hornbake Library. Call x6321
for info.*

How Probability Theory Applies to Par-
tial Differential Equations, mathematics
colloquium by D. Stroock (MIT), 3 p.m.,
3206 Mathematics BIdg.*

Homecoming Weekend Activities:

PERM All-Class Reunion, 2:30 p.m.,
North Gym. Advance reservations
required.*

Human Ecology All-Class Reunion, 2:30
p.m., Marie Mount Hall. Advance reserva-
tions required.*

Black Alumni Dinner featuring CBS
news correspondent Ed Bradley as guest
speaker, 7:30 p.m., Greenbelt Hilton. Call
Yolanda Pruitt, x4104, for reservations
and info.

Homecoming Pep Rally Bonfire, 7 p.m..
Chapel Lawn.

Fireworks, 8:30 p.m., Chapel Lawn.
Gee I'm Glad It's Friday celebration by
the Classes of 1960, 1961 & 1962, 9
p.m., Reckord Armory, Advance reserva-
tions required. Call Alumni Programs Of-
fice, x2938, for info.

Running Scared, movie, see Oct. 9.

F/X, midnight movie, Hoff Theater. Call
x2594 for info.

Workshops on Shakespeare sponsored
by The Center for Renaissance and
Baroque Studies, 8:30 a.m. -4:30 p.m. Call
x2740 for info.*

Homecoming Weekend Activities:

Bus Tour of Campus, 9 a.m., West En-
trance, Stamp Student Union. Reserva-
tions Required. Call x2938 for info.
Alumni Registration Reception, 10 a.m.,
Stamp Student Union. Call x2938 for info.
Student Homecoming Parade, 11 a.m.*
Homecoming Luncheon, noon, Grand
Ballroom, Stamp Student Union. Call
x2938 for reservations and info.
Men's Football vs Boston College
(Homecoming), 2 p.m.

Running Scared, movie, see Oct, 9.

F/X, midnight movie, see Oct. 10.

SUNDAY

October 12

Jazz Piano/Vocal Workshop by Lounge
Concert Level I, 6 p.m., Tawes Recital
Hall. Call x6669 for info.*

Running Scared, movie, see Oct. 9.

MONDAY

October 13

The Midnight Express Experience, lec-
ture by Billy Hayes, star of the movie
Midnight Express, 7 p.m., Hoff Theater.
Call X4546 for info.*

Octuba Recital, by Michael Bunn
(MUSC), 8 p.m., Tawes Recital Hall, 8
p.m. Call X6669 for info.*

Reservation Deadline for the Education
Alumni Chapter's A Night in China at the
People's Republic of China Embassy on
Nov. 6. Call Linda Spoerer, x4566, for
info.

The Organization for Tropical Studies:
Opportunities in Teaching & Research
in Costa Rica, international development
colloquium by Douglas Gill (ZOOL),
noon-1 p.m., 0115 Symons Hall. Call
X6407 for info.*

Control Mechanisms of Insect
Vitellogenesis: A Decade of Controver-
sy, entomology colloquium by Dov Borov-
sky (U. of Florida, Vero Beach), 4 p.m.,
0200 Symons Hall.*

SATURDAY

October 11

The Cleveland Quartet, University Com-
munity Concert, 8:30 p.m.. Center of
Adult Education Auditorium. Call x6534
for ticket info.

Ciiti;aiilic KhiTioccros Buellc

—FREE ADMISSION

Alufoni Artists
Return for Show

Artists who worked shoulder to
shoulder years ago in UMCP
classrooms reunite this weekend in
an appropriate place — a campus art
gaJler>'. The Alumni Invitational II, an
art show featuring works by UMCP
graduates, opens Wed., Oct. 8 with a
reception from 4:30 to 6 p.m. at the
Parents Association Art Gallery in the
Stamp Union. Works will be on
display through Nov. 14,

Quiz for History Buffs

Which of these UMCP buildings was
constructed first? LeFrak Hall, Calvert
Hall or Jimenez Hall? Calvert it is.
This residence hall opened its doors
in July 1914 to eager young men
dressed in military garb who were
told that $35 would cover room and
furniture rental for the year. These
first students also were instructed to
bring their own table napkins and a
broom. In 1984, Calvert Hall under-
went a radical renovation and today
is composed of suites and apart-
ments. Residents no longer must fur-
nish their own brooms.

OimDQK

October 6, 1986

ARTS AT JUAMYLAND

Working

Mitchell Lifton left Hollywood; John
Fuegi turned down $250,000. In-
stead, they are taking scholarly work
from between bookcovers and put-
ting it onto film and videotape.

The UMCP professors envision
creating a "Visual Press" at College
Park. They believe scholarship will
be stronger in both content and au-
dience if it enters the television
age. As a grand introduction for
their concept, they are working on
two film projects that would cost
$7,5 million to produce. The two
works could reach 60 to 70 million
viewers worldwide, they say.

And the vast audience would see
works carrying the University's logo
that, in the professors' words, are
"sound scholarly and academically
with an artistic component."

For one film, playwright and
Nobel Prize winner Samuel Beckett
will direct the San Quentin Players in
three of his plays while cameras
record the process. Beckett has given
his agreement for the project; Lifton
and Fuegi are trying to raise produc-
tion money for the filming.

The second film features the life of
playwright Bertolt Brecht. Based on
Fuegi's forthcoming Brecht
biography, Nothing Immoral, the film
uses Brecht and his circle of acquain-
tances as a backdrop to show social
change in the 20th Century. The film
and the book, to be published by
Penguin Books and Simon and
Schuster, will be released
simultaneously.

Also scheduled for production is a
film about the German Resistance
Movement during World War 11.

The Visual Press is an idea
developed along with the new
research center in the College of Arts
and Humanities.

Lifton is a visiting comparative
literature professor this year and like-
ly director of the Visual Press if the
University adopts it as a permanent
program. He is a former HoU'j'wood
producer who has taught the last
eight years at Notre Dame. Fuegi, a
UMCP comparative literature pro-
fessor since 1976, is director of the
research center,

"We think it's time to redefine
what constitutes a literary text,"
Fuegi says,

When dealing with a play, for in-
stance, the ability to see not only a
playwright's words but also his ideas
about the staging adds a new dimen-
sion to studying his work, he says.
"Beckett is a good example. What
will be transmitted of Beckett will
not just be words on a page but
more complexity about what Beckett
had in mind."

Lifton says video technology
makes such a text possible, and
scholars would be wise to take ad-
vantage of the opportunities the
technology offers.

"The technology is simply a fact
of life. We're saying (as scholars)
'let's use it to our ends and not ab-
dicate it to people with other ends
whether they be political or commer-

cial,'" he says.

Lifton emphasizes that the goal is
to enhance rather than diminish
traditional forms of scholarship.

"We're not setting fires to
libraries," Lifton says.

The guidelines for Visual Press pro-
jects are broad.

Lifton and Fuegi have close per-
sonal ties to the Brecht and Beckett
projects and will be involved in
creative decisions such as scripting
and casting. However, they are open
to projects in which another scholar
commands the creative elements
while they simply assist in finding
financial backers.

They will accept projects from any
source on or off campus as long as
the idea meets University standards
of scholarship and artistry.

The Beckett and Brecht projects
hold enough general interest that Lif-
ton and Fuegi expect the films to
play throughout the world on
culturally oriented media such as
public television. But there's also

room for esoteric projects that might
interest only a few hundred scholars
at universities.

All projects hinge on finding one
crucial commodity — money.

The University provides office
space and faculty but no money for
production.

Fuegi and Lifton are tapping
sources in the United States and
Europe to raise $5 million for the
Brecht film and $2.5 million for the
Beckett piece.

In late September, Fuegi and Lifton
applied for more than $\ million in
National Endowment for the
Humanities grants for production of
the Beckett film and preliminary
work on the Brecht project.

European sources of money in-
clude public television stations. The
Visual Press is a new idea in a costly
medium, but Fuegi and Lifton have
faith in it.

In the 1970s Lifton left studio film
making and a six-figure salary
because of disenchantment with

yf

Hollywood and a sense that more
could be done in academics. This
summer a Swedish television station
offered Fuegi one million Swedish
kronor, the equivalent of $250,000,

■ ■ ■

''We're not
setting fires
to libraries.

— Mitchell Lifton.

to give up film rights for the Brecht

biography.

"They tried to make me an offer I
couldn't refuse— no scholar in his
right mind would turn down a
million kronor. But I wanted to
make this center for academic film
go, I turned it down," Fuegi says. ■

— Brian Busek

From Refugee to Professor,

Piano Plays Through Rodriguez' Life

Santiago Rodriguez

As a young boy forced out of his
native Cuba, Santiago Rodriguez left
his home and his parents— but the
piano stayed with him.

Through years in an orphanage,
and then reunion with his family in
America, the piano lingered in
Rodriguez' life.

Now, settled happily at College
Park, Rodriguez' career is the piano.

Rodriguez, an associate music pro-
fessor at UMCP who performs as a
soloist about 50 times each year, is
ebullient about where the piano has
led him.

"I find this spot, on this earth, just
gorgeous," he says.

Rodriguez will display his talent
with his instrument at 8 p.m Satur-
day, Oct. 18 in the Tawes Recital

Hall as part of the Artist Scholarship
Benefit Series. The program includes
works by Mozart, Chopin and three
Spanish composers.

Rodriguez' brusque introduction to
the United States came in I960 when
the then-eight-year-old boy and his
younger brother emigrated from
Cuba. The boys were among the first
wave of immigrants to the United
States after the- Cuban revolution led
by Fidel Castro.

Leaving their parents behind,
Rodriguez and his brother found
refuge at the Madonna Manor, a
Catholic-run orphanage in New
Orleans. The sons of a Cuban
surgeon faced a new culture and a
new life.

"I just survived those things. I

didn't know how bad it was. As a
kid you accept things as they are,"
he says.

And all was not lost at the
orphanage.

Beginning when he was five,
Rodriguez had received piano lessons
from a teacher in Cuba. The nuns at
the orphanage encouraged Rodriguez'
interest.

Within a year he won a competi-
tion that gave him the chance to ap-
pear with the New Orleans
Symphony,

"I think my early development
was not due to a prodigy sort of
thing, but because I had very good
teachers at an early age."

Although music was always an in-
terest to him as a youth, not until his
undergraduate years at the University
of Texas did Rodriguez devote
himself full-time to the piano.

As his involvement with the instru-
ment became more intensive,
Rodriguez moved on to the Juilliard
School of Music. Later, he became a
traveling soloist appearing in more
than 80 concerts a year.

Yet after several years of juggling
the demands of his concert schedule
with a new family — he was married
in 1978 — he sought a less transient
life style.

He jumped at an opportunity to
audition for a spot on the UMCP
faculty in 1980. Since winning the
silver medal in the Van Cliburn com
petition in 1981, he has joyfully
divided his efforts between 50 con-
cert appearances and his teaching
duties. "I just couldn't be more hap-
py," he says. ■

QtmooK

October 6, 1986

Modem and Ancient Honor

Gregory Staley (Classics) considers his
election an honor — but that word
has a double meaning in the
organization he'll lead for the next
two years. Staley was recently
chosen as the new president of the
Washington Classical Society. The
group of some 200 university and
high school teachers is devoted to
the study of the ancient world. In
the Roman Empire the word
"honor" suggested burden rather
than distinction. Hence Staley's light
jest in describing his new activity.

CLOSE MJP

Documenting
Of America's

When Associate Professor of History
Stuart Kaufman was a student at the
University of Florida, an instructor
told his class that when he had seen
the many shelves full of Samuel
Gompers' papers in the AFL-CIO
headquarters' attic, he understood
why there wasn't a good
documented biography of the father
of the American labor movement.
That planted the seed for a project
which has consumed the last 12
years of Kaufman's life— a project to
gather and publish the papers of the
AFL's founder, Samuel Gompers.

By this time, Kaufman already
believed in social justice and the civil
rights movement (he had taken part
in demonstrations for desegregation
in Florida and a few years later
would be registering Mexican-
Americans to vote in Texas). But un-
til beginning the Samuel Gompers
Papers project at the College Park
Campus in 1974, Kaufman had very
little contact with labor unions.

The project has helped him ac-
quire an appreciation for labor con-
cerns. Today Kaufman teaches a class
on union history to second- and
third-level officers from locals all
over the country at the George
Meany Center for Labor Studies in
Silver Spring. Says Kaufman: "1
believe in unionism, We're basically
workers here at College Park." Kauf-
man says it's been a learning ex-
perience for him. "I don't know
how you maintain your dignity and
self-esteem without having some
sense of control over your situation,"
Kaufman says. "You become part of
a machine."

In teaching trade unionists, Kauf-
man has discovered what he terms a
"calling" of labor leadership. "It's the
only calling which allows an average
American the opportunity to sit
across from corporate executives and
get something the individual couldn't
get on his own: decent pay and
benefits and decent working condi-

the Life
First Labor

tions. And many labor leaders find
they have to help fellow members
with personal and family problems.
That's why a unionist sometimes
refers to himself as a 'minister.'"

"It was Gompers who taught me
about labor," Kaufman admits. "I see
him as more idealistic than others
do. There is serious evidence that
Gompers was inclined to Marxist
views, that he believed economic
power was power, and that the AFL
was an instrument for liberating the
working class," he says. But Kaufman
also admits that "like any Victorian
man, Gompers believed that a
woman's place was in the home, that
the Chinese workers couldn't be
organized, and that blacks should be
organized for a very practical reason:
if they're not with us, they're against
us."

Kaufman also points out, however,
that Gompers was instrumental in
ousting the machinists' union from
the AFL because it had a whites-only
policy. The labor leader also sup-
ported Americanization for im-
migrants as soon as they reached
U.S. soil. In Gompers' trade of cigar-
making he was the first to organize
Germans, Irish, English and other
ethnic groups into one union in New
York City.

Kaufman has completed two books
on union histories; A Vision of Unity:
The History of the Bakery & Confec-
tionery Workers International Union
and Challenge and Change: The
History of the Tobacco Workers In-
ternational Union.

To date nearly all the pertinent
Gompers documents have been
gathered and stored in microform,
and the first of 12 volumes of
selected documents has been releas-
ed. The Samuel Gompers Papers
Volume 1 : The Making of a Union
leader, 1830-86, was published this
past spring by the University of Il-
linois Press. A second volume, The
Samuel Gompers Papers Volume IT

Leader

The Early Years of the American
Federation of Labor, 1887-90, is
already halfway through pre-
production stages.

At Kaufman's insistence the books
are being produced strictly by union
printers and binders, which increases
costs significantly. Kaufman believes,
however, that if significant numbers
of union members buy the book (at
25 percent off if ordered through the
Gompers Papers office), then the
publisher will be more than compen-
sated for the extra costs,

The bulk of the project was fund-
ed by grants from the National
Historical Publications and Records
Commission and the National En-
dowment for the Humanities, with
matching funds provided by the AFL-
CIO and some 25 interested unions.

"When you're in graduate school,"
Kaufman says, "you never really
think of having a constituency, but
the AFL-CIO has been extremely sup-
portive."

Kaufman says he quickly realized
the large volume of material relating
to Gompers' life was too much for
one person to digest, so the
Gompers Papers was organized as a
group project.

"Working in a group is like a liv-
ing seminar," Kaufman says. "Within
the group there's always someone to

challenge us, to disagree with us. It's
not the traditional way historians
work."

Peter Albert is co-editor of the pro-
ject and has been associated with it
since 1974. He believes Kaufman
"creates an atmosphere that's good
for the team and makes us do our
best work. It's a collegia] effort, and
to maintain that is an important
prerequisite to success. To make the
team concept work year after year is
a real skill."

Albert, w^ho is former editor of
The Maryland Historian, spent hun-
dreds of hours at AFL-CIO head-
quarters in Washington cataloguing
and microfilming documents for the
project's first microfilm edition. "The
AFL had microfilmed papers from
Gompers' era for their own use,"
Albert says, "and the microfilmed
collection included nearly 300,000
pages of records, There were other
documents saved in the original — the
records of Execufive Council
meetings and Gompers' cor-
respondence with the Council, which
previously had been confidential."

Another collection consisted of
200 letters between Gompers and his
associates spanning 1881 to 1890,
which a woman in Salt Lake City
had been keeping in her basement.

Albert notes that December 1986 is
the centennial of the founding of the
American Federation of Labor.
"We're getting this information into
the hands of the inheritors of
Gompers' legacy." ■

— Tim McGraw

American Unions

In a Period of Transition

Sbjart Kaufman

"I don't think American employers
have ever fully embraced unionism,"
says Professor Marvin Levine.

"You can see it in the last four or
five years in such things as manage-
ment asking for wage and benefit
concessions and changes in job
specifications. Labor-relations con-
sultants now give advice on creating
union-free working environments.
You see more cooperation between
labor and management in Europe."

Levine has been teaching an
undergraduate class, "Labor Legisla-
tion," and a graduate course, "Ad-
ministration of Labor Relations," for
going on 20 years now in UMCP's
College of Business and Management.

"Union membership has declined
for about two decades," Levine says.
"The non-agricultural workforce is
now less than 18 percent unionized.
American unions have been the vic-
tim of their own success. They have
done so well and raised the living
standard so much that when foreign
competition comes in, the unions are
forced to take cuts in wages and
benefits. They have to in order to
survive."

The future of labor, according to
Levine, is not in the blue collar
sector.

"The place to be if you're a

worker is in a service industry," he
says and that presents a new
chaJlenge for labor organizers.
"We're talking about people who
normally have more education. How
do you organize people who work in
a bank or behind a computer? You
don't slap them on the back at the
local bar and buy them a beer."

From the management side, it's
become an area of specialization.

"Most of the Fortune 500 com-
panies have an industrial relations or
employee relations deparment,"
Levine says. "You'll find people
there who will specialize in dealing
with unions. Some process
grievances, some deal with contracts
and developing agreements, or any
number of sub-specialities. Corporate
managers wouldn't have anything to
do with it, and their knowledge is
scanty in most cases."

Levine also suggests that the union
of the future will apply modern
business practices.

"Unions are beginning to look for
new solutions. What's been suggested
for a union made up of people with
higher education, is to hire
sociologists, lawyers and other
specialists to tackle the new pro-
blems of organizing and really make
it a team effort." ■

QunooK

October 6, 1986

Counseling Center Grab-bag

Individual vocational planning,
couples communication, single paren-
tliood, and coping with alcoholic
parents are just some of the pro-
blems addressed by group and in-
dividual worltshops offered by the
Counseling Center. The Center also
offers study skills workshops through
its Learning Assistance Service. For
info on any of these and other
workshops, call Don Mullison at
X2133.

ITV's Reach Expands

The campus Instructional Television
System has expanded its reach into
Hagerstown and Western Maryland
this fall. Last December, the Federal
Communications Commission ap-
proved a IIMCP request to broadcast,
via Baltimore, programming to the
western part of the state. Last month,
fiagerstown Junior College, which

had been using video tapes of
courses, began receiving live broad-
casts from the ITV classroom studios
at College Park. The Hagerstown pro-
gram is designed to provide a
bachelor's degree in Mechanical
Engineering and replaces a long-
standing program that was abandon-
ed by The Johns Hopkins University.

COLLEGE PARK PEOPLE

f>v-- -v^T" tuy*"!

Their SUent World
Is A Busy One

Quick now, yes or no: to be born
deaf means to never experience the
fullness of life.

If you are among those who are
nodding their agreement to this state-
ment, it's time that you met Jewel
Calhoun and Shirley Zimmerman of
the data entry office. They've got
some important news for you.

"Being deaf is no big deal," Shirley
says (writes, actually, since the inter-
viewer doesn't sign). "I know I am
handicapped in certain ways, but 1
honestly never feel handicapped. I
feel normal. 1 try to do everything
that a hearing person does and 1 can
do a great deal. Perhaps the thing
that 1 know I miss the most is music,
though ] do feel vibrations very
well."

Zimmerman and Calhoun have
worked in the data entry office for
five and twelve years respectively.
Their titles used to be key punch
operators, but that was before the
University's computer system chang-
ed from punch cards to magnetic
tapes for storing data. Today the
two, along with their four full-time
colleagues key stroke payroll for the
entire University, as weJl as UMCP's
budget and FAS ledger information,
and leave records for this campus
and UMAB.

"Jewel and Shirley are both ver>'
hard workers," says office supervisor
Mary Sondheimer, "I never give their

being deaf a second thought. And
even though none of the others in
the office sign, we seem to com-
municate very well between notes
and lip reading,"

Both Zimmerman and Calhoun
married deaf men; both have two
hearing children. Zimmerman's son
Anthony McCray works in the Stamp
Union Book Center and will graduate
next year with a degree in business
finance from UMCP.

"I think the only thing different
about my early childhood," McCray
recalls, "was that 1 learned sign
language before I learned to talk.
Now I think it's interesting that some
of my friends are learning to finger
spell so they can communicate better
with my mother."

Calhoun stayed home for 12 years
to care for her two daughters. She is
also the grandmother of a very ram-
bunctious three-year-old boy who
has hearing.

"When I'm not w^orking, I'm busy
helping take care of my grandson,"
Calhoun says. "I also enjoy traveling.
This past summer I visited China and
Japan and that was a very exciting
experience."

Both women are active in the Na-
tional Association of the Deaf, an
organization with 18,000 members
that works to bring about a com-
prehensive coordinated system of
services to all hearing impaired per-

IN THE SPOTLIGHT: Jewel Calhoun & Shirley Zimmerman

sons in the country. The association
offers a wide variety of programs, in-
cluding a legal defense fund, a book
store, and job training programs.

Zimmerman is also a sports en-
thusiast. She participates in the
Athletic Association of the Deaf s
Softball tournament and is an avid
biker. She and her husband spend
much of their leisure time bike-hiking
all over the area.

Before coming to UMCP, Calhoun
and Zimmerman held several other
positions. At one point Zimmerman

worked for a large Virginia furniture
company where she was the lead
data entry operator in an office that
included six hearing women. But
both find their present jobs extreme-
ly satisfying.

"What's especially nice about
working here," Zimmerman says and
Calhoun nods her agreement, "is that
the attitude toward deaf persons is
very positive. We really feel we are a
part of the campus — that's impor-
tant." ■

— Mercy Hardie Coogan

Behind The Scenes

Do you know me?

I'm the person who writes these
lines each week, the one you might
see buttonholing unsuspecting
grounds workers, secretaries, electri-
cians, housekeepers, and other
classified employees, asking them all
kinds of insightful (!?) questions
about their jobs, hobbies, ex-
periences, and the like.

Take the other day, for example.
Mary Chisholm was busy tidying
up the first floor of the Mill Building
when 1 sidled up to her with my
pen and notebook at the ready. "Ex-
cuse me Ms. Chisholm," I began,
"do you mind if we chat for a few
moments? I've heard good things
about you and I'd like put them in
Outlook so that others on campus
can get to know you a bit."

Here's some of what 1 learned
about Mary Chisholm: she has been a
member of the Housekeeping staff
for 17 years. She is the mother of
nine children — two girls and seven
boys — her youngest is 21 and she is
putting him through medical school.
She works the 4:30 p.m. to 12:30
a.m. shift, gets to bed around 2 a.m.
and wakes up at 6 a.m. so she can

care for her five-month-old grandson,
Dante.

"I was married young, at age 15,
and started having children right
away," Chisholm says. "I've been so
busy raising kids and working that I
haven't done the one thing Td really
like to do which is become a nurse's
aide. But I'll get to it sooner or later.
I've learned that I can accomplish
alot of things that seem impossible at
first"...

Sometimes I find out about people
in other ways. A supervisor may call
and suggest someone in her/his
department who is outstanding in
one way or another. A good example
of that occurred one day recently. Al
Guggolz, Physical Plant's assistant
director, was on the other end of my
phone line asking me to mention
Mick Fleshman and Bobby Allen,
both of the Pipe Services Shop (also
called the plumbing dept.), who
worked around the clock Sept. 9 and
10 handling not one, but two plumb-
ing emergencies at Leonardtown and
Byrd Stadium.

Tips also come my way via one of

the many departmental newsletters
on campus.

But mostly 1 rely on the word-of-
mouth system. That's how I heard
about Robert Sanders, a motor
equipment operator who has worked
at UMCP for the past eight years. I
was talking with Lindy Kehoe,
superintendent of the grounds
maintenance department. He was giv-
ing me story ideas and mentioned
snow removal as a possibility.
Sanders' name came out because of
his reputation as a key heavy equip-
ment operator who is indispensible
in snow emergencies.

Nancy Wilson offers another
good example of my modus operan-
di. I had to call her boss, the direc-
tor of the Disabled Students Services
Program Bill Scales, about something.
He wasn't available at the time so 1
put my problem to Wilson who
promptly gave nie all the information
I needed and then some. We had a
good chat over the phone during
which I found out that, like most
secretaries on campus, she takes her
work very seriously and is extremely

proud of what her office does for
students with disabilities.

"UMCP employees who have
children who arc disabled and want
to go to college should know about
our office," Wilson says. "We pro-
vide direct services especially tailored
to each disabled student's needs. I'd
be happy to talk with anyone about
this."

Which brings me back to the
original question: do you know me?
I need to hear from you (interesting
tidbits about you and your co-
workers) so that this column can be
tmly representative as well as enter-
taining. Here's my office number:
x6330, And my name: Mercy Har-
die Coogan... Don't leave work
without it! ■

QUILOOK

October 6, 1986

Navigating With UMaps

While they might not show the cam-
pus shortcuts between lectures in the
Architecture Building and your date
with the weight training equipment
in the North Gym, the latest series of
UMaps can help new students find
themselves, says Barb Jacoby, Direc-
tor of Orientation. A collaborative ef-
fort between Orientation and the Of-
fice of Institutional Advancement,

UMaps are a set of six posters that
tell how to select a major, where to
meet students who share similar in-
terests, how to explore career op-
tions, which groups sponsor ex-
tracurricular activities on campus, and
where to find the right person to
answer questions about campus
policies and procedures. The full set
can be picked up in the Office of
Commuter Affairs, 1195 Stamp
Union.

FOlZVr C2F VIEW

"Bold Steps Needed for Aquino Priorities''

by Richard P. Claude, Professor,
Government and Politics, UMCP

From time to time Outlook will
carry signed opinion pieces by
members of the UMCP communi-
ty. "Point of View" topics can be
as wide-ranging and diverse as is
the University itself. Readers are
encouraged to submit articles or
discuss ideas for articles with
Outlook^s editor.

T

he Philippines gained
worldwide attention in February
1986 because of an astonishing
popular revolution triggered by a
fraudulent presidential election. The
overwhelming support for Corazon
Aquino, the new President, resulted
in a new revolutionary government
dedicated to promoting human rights
and kindling national self-respeci to
overcome a legacy of corruption and
colonialism.

Misplaced priorities by Ferdinand
Marcos became a strong source of
Philippine resentment by the end of

FYI

1985. Under Marcos, for every dollar
spent on health needs of the people,
nine were spent on the military.
Such defense aggrandizement gave
verbal ammunition to those who
decried the large expenditures of
public funds on armaments rather
than having channelled them to the
welfare needs of the people. Because
U.S. security assistance to the Marcos
military regime was so massive, and
because the military performed police
as well as military functions, the U.S.
bears some responsibility for the
rehabilitation of a nation beset by
countless cases of military abuse of
civilians under Marcos' martial law.

In the post-Marcos era, the Aquino-
Laurel Administration has premised
its rule on respect for human rights
and the return to constitutional
government. That is a tough, not
sentimenial, basis on which to rest a
political system. President Aquino
recently ordered all police and
military to take and to pass formal
courses on the topic of human
rights. The role that human rights
play in undergirding the legitimacy of

A three-alarm, $500,000 fire in the North Administratton Building Sept. 23 has forced the Office of Resident
Life to occupy temporary offices across campus for the next six to eight weeks, according to Steve
Kallmyer, assistant to the associate director of resident life.

a political regime was clearly
understimaied by Marcos. He relied
on militarily supported coercive
measures to affect political stability as
if police cannons could substitute for
civic conscience and the consent of
the governed.

The new Aquino government has
sustained widespread popular support
but it has continued to evidence
serious difficulties. It still lacks a per-
manent constitution, acknowledges
profound economic problems, and
suffers from ministerial factionalism.

The new president's moves to
democratize Filipino politics have
been openly criticized by some
military and intelligence leaders in
her government. They fear that
presidential magnanimity will jeopar-
dize the continued counter-
insurgency program o^ the armed
forces, Mrs, Aquino has called for
military personnel to take oaths of
loyalty and has been consistent in
telling her armed forces, as she
recently eloquently told the U.S.
Congress, that military approaches
which failed the previous regime will

Gardner Back from China

Albert H, Gardner (Child Study),
recently returned from sabbatical and
teaching at Zhejian Normal University
in Jinhua, Zhejiang Province, PRC.
He taught four sections of conversa-
tional English and two of U.S, history
to students preparing to become high
school English teachers, He expects
to return to the PRC during winter
break to continue his research.

Magoon and ''Life Lines"

Tom Magoon, director of the
Counseling Center, was featured in
the lead article of the Sept. issue of
the Journal of Counseling and
Development. Titled "Life Lines," the
article includes a lengthy interview
and several photographs of Magoon.

FOCUS\

Recent Grads Satisfied with UMCP Education

A substantial majority of UMCP
graduates who earned their
bachelor's degrees in Fall 1983 or
Spring 1984 say they are satisfied
with the college education they
received at College Park.

These findings are based on results
of a questionnaire mailed to 4,096 re-
cent graduates in the summer of
1985 by the Maryland State Board
for Higher Education. The survey,
which went to graduates of UMCP
and other colleges and universities
throughout the state, requested infor-
mation about their postgraduate
educational activities and plans, their
employment and occupational situa-
tions, and their evaluation of their
educational experiences.

2,003 UMCP alumni respond-
ed to the questionnaire,

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A majority of respondents
employed full time felt their educa-
tion at College Park provided "good"
(47%) or "excellent" (l6%) prepara-
tion for their current employment.

Seventy percent reported that re-
quired courses in their major depart-
ment were of "considerable" or
"very great" value as preparation for
their present work, and 74% felt
their department was a stimulating
and exciting place in which to study.
Seventy percent of the survey par-
ticipants enrolled in graduate schools
or first professional programs (about
a quarter of the respondents) felt
their UMCP preparation for advanced
study was "excellent" or "good."

Almost three-fourths reported that
if they had it to do over, they would
again attend UMCP. In addition, two-

thirds believed their undergraduate
experiences were at least of con-
siderable value for their present
work. Moreover, 84% indicated they
would advise a friend with similar in-
terests to study in the major depart-
ment where they did their
undergraduate work.

The survey results suggested that
other strengths of the University in-
cluded encouragement of different
intellectual points of view, faculty
members prepared carefully for their
courses, subject matter represented
the current state of knowledge, op-
portunities existed to pursue special
interests in the respondents' fields of
study, and the library was an ex-
cellent instructional resource, ■

be given a last resort status under
her government.

United States economic support
and moral encouragement constitute
our best response to the fledgling ef-
forts to revive Asia's first democracy.
Certainly comments from the Pen-
tagon to the effect that Mrs. Aquino
is "not tough enough" are gratuitous
and risk sending the wrong signal to
remaining Filipino loose cannons
among the top brass there. And
some members of the Filipino
military are listening for just such
signaJs because of their fear of the
kind of human rights trials held in
Argentina after that nation's renewal
of democracy.

The Aquino administration has so
far taken bold steps toward recon-
ciliation and political democratization.
The political relaxation now taking
place allows the ventilation of the
country's basic problems, and holds
out the hope of civilian supremacy
over the military. Where the latter
goal is concerned, let us hope the
U.S, defense establishment sends the
right signals of support. ■

New Sea Grant Asst. Director

Gail B. Mackiernan is the new assis-
tant director of the Maryland Sea
Grant Program. She will serve as
research liaison with investigators and
wiU work on special projects such as
coordinating scientific workshops and
producing synthesis reports. She has
worked as an oceanographer with
the Army Corps of Engineers and
with the EPA Chesapeake Bay Pro-
gram. Researchers and others in-
terested in the Sea Grant program
can call her at x6420.

Fr. Kane

Campus Chaplain to New Post

The Rev. William Kane, chaplain to
the Catholic Student Center since
1964, has been appointed director of
priests' personnel for the Archdiocese
of Washington, During the 22 years
he has served the Catholic communi-
ty at UMCP, Fr. Kane initiated a
variety of outreach programs, and
students have become involved in
ministering to the homeless in
Washington, the elderly at the Gladys
Spellman Residence, and hungry peo-
ple worldwide. The Center's new
director is the Rev. Thomas Kalita.