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The University of Maryland College Park

February 9, 1987

News
Briefs

Calling Deans,
Directors and Managers

"An Overview of the Personnel Ser-
vices Function... Helping Us to Help
You," is the name of a seminar to be
held on Feb. 25 from 9 a.m. -4 p.m.
in the Maryland Room of Marie
Mount Hall. Pre-regist ration is
necessary and those planning to at-
tend should call the employee
development section at x481 1. John
Thompson, manager of employee
relations and development for the
Department of Personnel Services,
says the seminar is aimed especially
at new deans and their assistants,
managers and directors, hut that
anyone may attend. "The Chancellor
has made it clear that he wants
everyone, particularly newcomers, to
know exactly how the campus
operates and what the processes arc
for getting things done with the least
amount of difficulty," says Thomp-
son. "Wc arc anxious to provide
departments with all the information
they need to head off potential pro-
blems by making use of our ser-
vices."

Outlook Mailing

to Lifetime Alumni

More than 4,300 lifetime alumni of
The University of Maryland will soon
begin receiving copies of Outlook
each week. Because of mailing costs,
Outlook will be mailed via bulk rate
which may delay arrival. Consequent-
ly, alumni readers may find that
some calendar items may be out of
date. However, we hope that UM
alumni will find the articles and in-
formation in Outlook of interest.

Inside

Migratory Birds 2

Micro-Computers 2

Capital Budget. 3

GE Scholarships... 3

Calendar 4

Tent Exhibit. .....A

Valentine's Day 5

VCC Concerts 5

Teaching Fine Arts 5

Black Philanthropy. 6

Len Elmore ....6

Campus After Dark 7

Development Director. .... 8
Alumni '87 Travel. 8

'Father of the Classical Guitar'
Will Perform Benefit Concert

The maestro of the classical guitar,
Andres Segovia, will perform this
spring at UMCP.

Segovia will play a benefit concert
for the Maryland Summer Institute
for the Creative and Performing Arts
at 8 p.m. Wed., April 8, in the
Memorial Chapel. The Spanish
guitarist also will be awarded an
honorary Doctor of Fine Arts degree.

Segovia, 93, is credited with bring-
ing the guitar into the mainstream of
classical music.

Joseph McLellan last year wrote in
The Washington Post, "Segovia is the
last of the giants who revolutionized
music earlier in this century by put-
ting the spotlight on previously
forgotten or neglected in-
struments... his biography is a large
segment in the total history of his
instrument."

Segovia offered to perform at
UMCP in appreciation of the in-
stitute's First American Classical
Guitar Congress held here last sum-
mer, says institute executive director
George Moquin.

The Congress had been held in
honor of Segovia. The musician was
unable to attend, but later indicated
his desire to perform at UMCP this
year, Moquin says.

Admission to the benefit concert is
by invitation only.

To request an invitation, interested
persons should contact the institute
office at 454-5276. Because the con-
cert is a benefit, invitation holders
arc asked to make a contribution of
at least $25, Moquin says. Persons
making a contribution of SI 00 or
more will be invited to a reception
following the concert.

About 1 ,000 seats will be available
for the concert. ■

—Brian Busek

The world-famous guitar virtuoso, Andres Segovia, will perform In the Memorial Chapel on April 8th.

University Budget Hearings
Begin Next Week

On February 18 at hearings in An-
napolis legislators will begin to
review the University's fiscal 1988
budget which will take effect next
July I.

The House Appropriations Sub-
committee will hold its first hearing
Wed., Feb. 18, at 2 p.m. in Room
130, House Office Building. The
Senate Budget and Taxation Commit-
tee will hold its first hearing Wed.,
Feb. 25 at 1 p.m. in Room 100,
Senate Office Building.

If the General Assembly approves
the University budget recently
recommended by Gov. William
Donald Schaefer in his State of the
State address, College Park will
receive $245.4 million for its State-
Supported Program, a 7.3 percent in-

crease over this year's operating
budget. The governor's proposed
budget includes $4.2 million (1.73
percent) more than College Park re-
quested, a good portion of which
will be used for much needed repair
of campus buildings.

If the University budget is approv-
ed as it now stands, the College Park
Campus State Supported Program
will include $160,870,457 in General
Funds, $78,534,336 in Special Funds,
and $6,002,116 in Federal Funds.
Since state law requires a balanced
budget, the General Assembly is able
to cut money from the governor's
budget, but cannot add to it.

The proposed University budget
contains approximately 4 percent for
faculty merit increases. Since this in-

cludes $1.2 million University-wide
for recruitment and retention of
outstanding faculty, the increase ac-
tually amounts to an average faculty
and professional staff merit increment
of 3.5 percent for the College Park
Campus. Classified staff will receive
step increases, and a 2.5 percent
cost-of-living (COLA) increase for all
state employees is also proposed.

The budget includes a significant
new initiative— first time funding of
55 million to be used University-wide
to begin to address the long-standing
and increasingly critical problem of
deteriorating physical plant and in-
frastructure. This money marks the
first phase of a proposed four-year

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QUILOOK

February 9, 1987

A Tidbit from the Past

In the 1940s, the M-Book served as
the campus' official student hand-
book. It contained a detailed code of
behavior and generally took the form
of graduated restrictions based on
class year. Freshmen had the most
restrictions and seniors the least.
After World War II, when enrollment

doubled from 4,897 in 1945 to 9,792
in 1946, fewer rules remained even
for freshmen. The major rules had to
do with attendance (required) and
behavior (spirited) at athletic events.
In an effort to take a more positive
tone, the M-Book contained such
phrases as "Every smooth freshman
would know. . ."

RESEARCH i

Migratory Birds Take Wing in UMCP Wind Tunnel

The campus Glenn L. Martin Wind
Tunnel has been used to test the
aerodynamic design of aircraft,
automobiles, trucks and ship hulls. It
has been employed to study the ef-
fect of high winds on traffic signals,
buildings, and street signs.

And for three days before
Thanksgiving, it was a place where
the flight of migratory birds was
simulated, a research project being
conducted under a cooperative agree-
ment between the University and the
Department of the Interior's Fish and
Wildlife Service.

The Service, explains wind tunnel
director Jewel Barlow, has been ex-
perimenting with ways of tracking
migratory birds and animals by at-
taching small radio transmitters to
them and using handheld, airborne
and now satellite receivers to
monitor their whereabouts.

The Service eventually hopes to
launch a new program to trace the
movement and location of migrating
birds such as waterfowl and raptors
using radio receivers aboard orbiting
satellites.

However, Barlow says, scientists
need to anticipate the effect transmit-
ter size, weight and especially
aerodynamic configuration might
have on birds that during the course
of their migration may fly hundreds
or even thousands of miles.

The research at UMCP will be used
to gain preliminary data on
aerodynamic drag on bird bodies and
the additional drag thai is created by
various transmitter shapes, says Mark
Fuller, a wildlife biologist with the
Migratory Bird Research Group of
the Patuxent Wildlife Research Center
in Laurel.

Using the bodies of birds that had
been illegally killed by hunters and
confiscated by Fish and Wildlife Ser-
vice officers, Barlow, Fuller, Holliday
Obrecht, another biologist from the
Patuxent center, and Colin Pen-
nychick, an expert on bird flight
mechanics from the University of
Miami, obtained drag measurements

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on the bodies of several species that
included a snow goose, a tundra
swan, a bald eagle, a green-winged
teal, a broad- winged hawk, and a
mallard duck.

During the course of the three
days of testing, Barlow says, the
birds' bodies were kept frozen with
necks extended to simulate their nor-
mal patterns of flight.

After obtaining drag on the birds
in flight configuration, the researchers
added transmitter models with
various contours to the birds.

"In effect, we were testing the
streamlining of these transmitters and
their ability to decrease air resistance,
or drag, on birds in simulated flight,"
Barlow says. "It is the first time
anybody has tried to do something
like this using the resources of a ma-
jor wind tunnel. Initially we had to
sort out just how we would measure
drag. The force levels are quite small
and require very precise measure-
ments compared to most other
aerodynamic studies at the tunnel.
We have an ongoing and cooperative
relationship with the Fish and
Wildlife Service people, and as the
data is analyzed we expect we will
continue this project with them.''

Broadcasts from the low power
transmitters, no larger than a package
of cigarettes, rely on clear, line-of-
sight transmissions for reception by
satellite. Depending on the type of
bird to be t nicked, transmitters can
weigh from less than a gram with
reception of only a mile or so to up
to 220 grams.

Signals from the tiny broadcast sta-
tion probably wouldn't carry from
the Wind Tunnel Building to
Outlook's Turner Building offices,
Barlow says, because of trees, other
buildings, vehicles and pedestrians.
However, the satellite receiver can
pick up its transmission from hun-
dreds of miles away.

With this improved ability to
follow migratory birds, wildlife
management officials say they will be
able to improve their understanding
of the demographics of wildlife
populations.

"Being able to track an individual
bird by radio is another field techni-
que that can be used by wildlife
biologists," says the Patuxent center's
Fuller. "We will be able to better
identify the habitats of migrating
wildfowl, to pinpoint feeding and
nesting areas, and for how long they
are used, and the effect adverse
weather may have on migration pat-
terns," ■

— Tom Otwell

Providing First-rate Computer Advice to Third World Managers

The Third World's use of computers
is growing every day, and a UMCP
international management specialist
wants to insure that the leaders of
these developing nations make in-
formed decisions on their computer
needs.

Marcus Ingle is coauthor of the
revised edition of Microcomputers in
Development: A Manager's Guide. He
is currently the Director of UMCP's
International Development Manage-
ment Center, which is a research unit
of the Office of International Pro-
grams housed within the College of
Agriculture and the College of Life
Sciences. Ingle says the book is a
primer for leaders of developing na-
tions, telling them how microcom-
puters are acquired, set up, and used
properly. First published in 1983, this
second edition appeared in
November, 1986.

"Microcomputers are proliferating
to all parts of the world, and there is
a hype involved with that
proliferation— that they will solve all
of your problems," Ingle says. The
goal of the book, according to Ingle,
is to cut through the exaggerated
claims and give managers practical in-
formation concerning what com-
puters can do and what they cannot
do.

It answers such basic questions as:
Do I need a computer? How do I
buy one? What software do I need?
How can I get it serviced and
repaired? How much will all this real-
ly cost? Such questions are taken for
granted in technologically advanced
nations like the United States, but are
vital to managers in developing

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nations.
Ingle says the book makes an ex-

cellent text for management courses
and that many local governments in
the United States have expressed an
interest in a domestic version. "It's
filling a real knowledge gap," he
says. ■

Case Studies of

Building Failures Developed

Some 500 case histories of structural
failures in buildings collected from all
SO states have been assembled in a
computerized data base by UMCP
civil engineers.

The information is expected to be
available for Lise by the engineering
profession and general public in
April,

The data base was developed by
the University's Architectural and
Engineering Performance Information
Center (AEPIC) under a 550,000 grant
from the National Bureau of Stan-
dards' Center for Building
Technology.

"The intent," says Charles Culver,
chief of the CBT Structures Division,
"is to develop improved criteria for
codes and standards pertaining to
performance of building structures
based on lessons learned from in-
vestigations of structural failures in
the past. The data will be available to
assist designers, manufacturers, con-
structors, code writers and regulatory
officials, and building owners in
avoiding similar future failures."

The National Bureau of Standards
has been authorized by Congress to

initiate and conduct investigations to
determine the causes of structural
failures in buildings ttsed or occupied
by the general public, Culver notes.

Donald Vannoy, UMCP associate
professor of civil engineering and co-
director of AEPIC, says all case
histories in the data base involve
structural failures unrelated to natural
events such as earthquakes, flooding
or high winds. All were collected
from cases that have gone through
the appeals process of either state or
federal courts and adjudicated by a
judge or panel of judges, he adds.

"These are structural failures of
buildings of all types — high rises,
hotels, offices, hospitals, shopping
centers, sports arenas," he says.
"Because all the cases have been rul-
ed on by the courts, they arc ex-
tremely well documented, contain
complete technical information and
are not the subject of third-party in-
terpretation or speculation as to the
cause of the failure. That's what
makes them so useful."

Those interested in contacting
AEPIC for more information should
call 935-5545. ■

Outlook

February 9, 1987

UMCP Expects Funding of One
Third of its Capital Budget Request

If the State Legislature approves the
governor's recommendations for next
year's University Capital Budget, Col-
lege Park will receive S 13 million in
FY '88 — just about one third of the
$39.9 million the University believes
is necessary if it is to meet its highest
priority capital improvement needs
over the next year.

"This is obviously less than we
hoped for and significantly less than
we received this year," says Warren
Kelley, who is coordinating the
Capital Budget this year for the first
time as part of his job in the Office
of Resource Planning and Budgets,

College Park listed 24 projects as
its highest priorities for funding in
next year's request, but the governor
recommended that just nine of the
projects be funded. Money for two
other projects — PCB transformer
replacement and asbestos control — is
scheduled to be administered by the
Maryland Dept. of General Services.

With the project to convert the
Bureau of Mines building to a
Microbiology building now 98 per-
cent completed, this number one
priority item in the Capital Budget
calls for almost SI. 4 million in fun-
ding for supplemental construction
and built-in equipment for that
building.

The second highest priority— a re-
quested 3920,000 for equipment for
the Veterinary Science Research
Center scheduled to begin construc-

Budget Hearings
Begin Next Week

continued from page I

approximately 120 million plan aim-
ed at ultimately providing adequate
funding for major maintenance and
repair of aging facilities and refur-
bishing of classrooms and labs in
need of upgrading.

Of the $4.2 million in additional
funding recommended by the gover-
nor, $2 million is designated
specifically for inclusion in the Col-
lege Park budget for facilities renewal
projects on the campus.

The governor also recommended
additional funding for several other
important College Park requests, in-
cluding SI, 250,000 in additional
funds for instructional and data pro-
cessing equipment which will allow
for increased academic support by
the Computer Science Center and for
the purchase of more instructional
equipment; $400,000 for library col-
lection enhancement; and $650,000
and 3 new positions to support the
new Maryland Industrial Partnerships
program, a non-instructional program
that supports University-industry
cooperation by matching funds
through the College of Engineering. ■

UMCP CAPITAL BUDGET FOR FY 1988

{The following projects in the UMCP Capital Budget were recommended for funding by the Governor.)

PROJECT

CAMPUS

REQUEST

GOVERNOR'S
RECOMMENDATION

Conversion, Bureau of Mines $1 ,395,000 (E)

Building to Microbiology Building

Veterinary Science Research Center 920,000 (E)

Animal Science / Agricultural Engineering 4,635,000 (C,E)

College of Business Management / 675,000 (P)

School of Public Affairs

Utilities: Extension / Replacement 6,945,000 <P,C)

MFRI Vehicle Storage, Maintenance 430,000 <C,E)

and Classroom Building

PCB Transformer Replacement 1 ,695,000 (C)

Building Safety Modifications, Phases VI and VII 1,780,000 (P,C)

Asbestos Control 1 ,045,000

McKeldin Portico: Repair and Column Replacement 340,000 (C)

MFRI Training Academy Grounds (supplemental) 766,000 (C)

$1,395,000 (C,E)

485,000 (E)

3,380,000 (C)

915,000 (P)

5.025,000 (P.C)
535,000 (C,E>

300,000 (C)

340.000 (C)
700,000 (C)

(P) PLANNING

(C) CONSTRUCTION

(E) EQUIPMENT

Fund^j tot both AfiCtfSKS Ronwval W*? PCB TrBrrsfcnTflf Reptocemenl Wil be flpprcfraleC to a apnt-al fund to be adjnuOerBd by The Qepartmeni of General SefVCes

tion in May was funded for 5485,000
in the Governor's Allowance.

UMCP's third-highest priority pro-
ject in the Capital Budget request is
construction and equipment monies
for the first phase of Animal
Science/Agricultural Engineering.
UMCP received just over $34 million
in the Governor's Allowance, for the
construction portion only, rather
than the $4.6 million requested for
both construction and equipment.
This money will be used for two ad-
ditions and renovations to parts of
the building.

In one case, planning for a new
building, more money was recom-
mended than requested — the gover-

nor calls for $915,000 rather than the
S675,000 UMCP asked for. This
money will be used to begin plan-
ning a new College of Business
Management /School of Public Affairs
building to be located south of the
Architecture building.

Another important priority in the
UMCP budget request is $6.9 million
for utilities extension and replace-
ment. In response to this almost $7
million high priority item, the gover-
nor recommended that S5 million be
allotted to planning and construction
of a number of utilities extension and
replacement projects. But most of
the money is targeted specifically for
replacement of the campus' obsolete

underground conduit system which
holds all of the campus' telephone,
electrical, and data transmission lines.
About $4,685,000 will be used to
replace this aging conduit system
with a brand new one, a project that
coincides with installation of a new
telephone system in FY '88, says
Kelley.

Though the budget addresses some
of UMCP's most critical needs, a
number of other important capital
needs College Park listed as priorities
once more remain unfunded in the
Governor's Allowance. These In-
clude; SI. 4 million for Phase II of
the North Fields development;
$825,000 in planning funds for altera-
tion and additions to the Computer
and Space Sciences building;
$285,000 to plan a multiple use
academic facility; $ 1 .7 million in con-
struction money for fire alarm
systems installation and replacement;
$3.9 million for renovation of the
Maryland Fire and Rescue Institute,
known popularly as the fire station;
81.3 million in planning money for
the Plant Sciences building; $390,000
for 3 vehicular circulation im-
provements; S85,000 in planning for
steam plant boiler replacement;
5730,000 for construction and equip-
ment of the Northeast MFRI Regional
Training Center; $1.6 million for ex-
pansion of the Instructional Televi-
sion System; and $2.5 million for
land acquisition.

In terms of how the crisis of "a
crumbling campus" will be dealt
with in the future, Kelley indicates
that the approach today, versus that
of two years ago, is to try to obtain
more funding within the operating
budget, specifically for the renewal
of existing facilities, thereby gaining
greater flexibility to use the money
in the most efficient ways.

Kelley points to the $2 million in
new funding for facilities renewal
projects included in the proposed
operating budget as a major step in
this direction. ■

—Roz Hiebert

General Electric Awards Scholarship Funds

-Roz Hiebert

The General Electric Company has
announced that it will award $50,000
to UMCP to support graduate
students in computer science and
engineering who plan careers in
higher educaton.

Called the Teaching Incentive
Grant, the scholarships will be
awarded over five years. UMCP is
one of five U.S. universities to
receive such a grant from GE as part
of the company's commitment to ex-
cellence in both teaching and
scholarship in higher education,

The announcement was made at a
campus ceremony Feb. 4 by Robert
R. Hench, Vice President and General
Manager, Information Processing
Technology, General Electric Infor-
mation Services Company, GE's
Roc kville- based computer network
services division.

The relationship between GE and
UMCP has been developed locally by
Hench who was named company
liaison with UMCP in 1981. GE also
provides eight scholarships annually
to the Computer Science Dept. and
two to the College of Engineering.
Last year it donated SI 5,000 in aid to
both graduate and undergraduate
students, and recently renewed a
$20,000 grant to help support
UMCP's Electric Power Education
Program. GE also contributed some
$72,000 worth of equipment to the
Colleges of Engineering and
Journalism.

During the ceremonies, Hench was
presented with the first Distinguished
Service Award of the College of
Engineering. Dean George Dieter said
the award was established this year
to recognize leadership and support

of the College.

In a related development, the
General Electric Foundation announc-
ed last month that it has selected
UMCP as one of 16 universities to
receive a GE Foundation Minority
Scholars Program scholarship, a new
program aimed at improving the
quality of the nation's minority
engineering graduates.

The annual $5,000 scholarship will
be awarded to a minority student
with a B or better average grade and
enrolled fulltime in an undergraduate
engineering program. Recipients will
be selected after the first semester of
their freshman year. The scholarship
will be effective in the student's first
semester of the sophomore year and
will be renewable for two additional
years. ■

Outlook

February 9, 1987

Music Program
for Young Children

A new UMCP music program will
give parents a chance to help their
children discover music, A Time for
Sharing: You, Your Child and Music,
is an eight-week program of par-
ticipator)' music activities designed
for children six months to six years
old. The weekly sessions include ac-

tivities involving both children and
their parents. The classes, running
Feb. 1 4-April 1 1 , will be held on the
College Park Campus and will be
taught by T. Clark Saunders, a UMCP
assistant music professor, and Dawn
Baker, a West Virginia University
associate music professor. For more
information, call 454-2751 or
454-7643.

CALENDAR
February 9— February 16

MONDAY

February 9

James W. Cowan, the director of interna-
tional affairs for the National Association
of State Universitites and Land-Grant Col-
leges, will speak about The Crisis in
Foreign Affairs and its Impact on
University Programs at noon in 2118
South Administration Bldg. Call x3008 for
info.*

The Counseling Center will sponsor an
R&D Meeting on "Racial Identity in the
Counseling Process" featuring Janet
Helms (UMCP) from noon-2 p.m. in the
Testing Room of Shoemaker. Call x2931
for info."

"Resume and SF-171 Tips," the third of
four workshops on Job Search
Strategies for Minorities, will be held
from 2-4 p.m. in the Nonprint Media Ser-
vices Center of Hornbake Library. Call
x2813 or x4901 for info.*

Scott Wolpert (UMCP) will deliver a Math
Colloquium titled "Cut, Paste and a Lit-
tle String Theory" at 3 p.m. in 3206
Mathematics Bldg. Call x2841 for info.*

Chee Ng (UMCP and Univ. of Malaya)
will discuss "Interplanetary Transport of
Solar Energetic Particles" at a Space
Science Seminar at 4:30 p.m. in 1113
Computer and Space Sciences Bldg. Call
X7313 for info.*

John Carlson (UMCP) will speak about
"The Ancient Maya Culture: Clues from
Paint Tomb -12, Rio Azul, Guatemala" at
a History and Philosophy of Science
Colloquium at 4:15 p.m. in 1117 Francis
Scott Key Hall. Call x2850 for info.*

Plasma Physics Seminar, title and
speaker to be announced, 1:30 p.m.,
1207 Energy Research Bldg. Call x3511
for info.*

J. David Allan (UMCP) will speak about
"Sexual Selection and Swarming
Behavior in Mayflies" at an Entomology
Colloquium at 4 p.m. in 0200 Symons
Hall. Call X3843 for info.*

The Guarneri String Quartet will conduct
an open rehearsal at 7 p.m. in the Tawes
Recital Hall. Call x6669 for info.*

TUESDA Y

February 10

Gaurang B. Yodh (UMCP) will deliver a
Physics Colloquium on "The Cygnus
Experiment" at 4 p.m. in 1410 Physics.
Cat) x3511 for info.*

Women's Basketball vs. Wake Forest,
Cole Field House, 6:30 p.m.

Men's Basketball vs. Georgia Tech, Cole
Field House, 9 p.m.

Movie, "No Mercy," 7 and 9:30 p.m.,
Hoff Theater. Call x2594 for info.

WED NE S DA Y

February 1 1

Counseling Center R&D Meeting: Bar-
bara Jacoby and Martha Baer Wilmes of
UMCP's Office of Commuter Affairs will
speak about "U Map's New Face on
Campus: Where it is— Where it is Going"
from noon-1 p.m. in the Counseling
Center Testing Room of Shoemaker Hall.
Call x2932 for info.*

THE ART OF THE TENT exhibit will take place In the School of Architecture from February 6— March 6. The
hours are T, W, F, 1:00-4:30 p.m., and Sunday t:00-5:00 p.m.

In celebration of Black History Month,
Harry J. Elam (UMCP) will discuss the
History of Black Theater from Langston
Hughes' "Mulatto" (1930) to Charles
Fuiier's "A Soldier's Ptay" (1982). Noon-1
p.m., 3123 South Campus Dining Hall,
For info call x6790.*

UMCP's Women in Development Group
will host a colloquium on Women and
Agricultural Production in Guinea-
Bissau, West Africa from noon-1 :30 p.m.
in the Maryland Room of Marie Mount
Hall. The featured speaker is Joana
Dulce Castleton, who worked for three
years on the crop protection project in
Guinea-Bissau. Call x3601 for info."

Astronomy Colloquium: John B. Carlson
(UMCP) will speak about "Venus and
Ritual Warfare in Ancient Mesoam erica:
New Light from the Maya Grolier Codex"
at 4 p.m. in 1113 Computer and Space
Sciences Bldg. Call x35l 1 for info. *

Movie, "No Mercy," 7 and 9:30 p.m.,
Hoff Theater. Call x2594 for info.

THVRSDA Y

February 12

"Job Fair Strategies," the last of four
workshops on Job Search Strategies for
Minorities, will be held from 2-4 p.m. in
the Nonprint Media Services Center of
Hornbake Library. Call x2813 or x4901
for info. '

Condensed Matter Seminar: M.

Randeria (Cornell Univ.) will lecture on
"Resonant Modes, Phonon Localization,
and Thermal Anomalies in Glasses" at 3
p.m. in 4208 Physics. Call x3511 for
info. *

George J. Huffman (UMCP) will speak
about "Doing Meteorology in 1987:

Digital Real-Time Data and What to Do
About It" in a Meteorology Seminar at
3:30 p.m. in the Meteorology Annex. Call
x2708 for info.*

John Millson (UMCP and UCLA) will
discuss "The Satake Com pact if icat ion of
Symmetric Spaces" at a Math Seminar
at 4 p.m. in 1313 Mathematics Bldg, Call
x2841 for info.*

Y. S. Kim (UMCP) will deliver a Physics
Seminar on "Further Contents of Eins-
tein's E 5 mc" at 4:15 p.m. in 1410
Physics. Call x3511 for info.*

Wrestling vs. Navy, Cole Field House,
7:30 p.m.*

Movie. "Jumping Jack Flash," 7 and
9:30 p.m., Hoff Theater. Call x2594 for
info,

"The Counter- Revolution in Pennsylvania,
1784-1786" will be the topic of a History
Seminar at B p.m. in 1104 Stamp Stu-
dent Union. Call x3795 for info.*

FRIDAY

February lj

Published Women Luncheon Series:

Anne E. Imamura will discuss her for-
thcoming book, "Urban Japanese
Housewives: At Home and in the Com-
munity," at noon in the Carriage House,
Rossborough Inn. Call x3940 for
reservations.

Musicologist Joshua Riskin will deliver a
Music Lecture on "The Dispute Over
Bach's Chorus — A Look at the Sources"
at 12:30 p.m. in 2102 Tawes. Call x2501
for info.*

The UMCP Mental Health Service will
.host a Lunch 'N Learn Conference from
' 1-2 p.m. in room 3100E of the University

Health Center. Colin Frank (George
Washington Univ.) will speak about
"Clinical Hypnosis: The Positive Use of
Dissociative States." Call x4925 for info.*

Movie, "Jumping Jack Flash," 7 and
9:30 p.m., Hoff Theater. Call x2594 for
info.

Wrestling vs. Virginia, Cole Field House,
7:30 p.m.*

Midnight Movie, "Ferris Bueiler's Day
Off." Hoff Theater. Call x2594 for info.

SATURDAY

February 14

Gymnastics vs. West Virginia, North
Gym, 2 p.m.*

Men's Basketball vs. North Carolina,
Cole Field House, 4 p.m.

Movie, "Jumping Jack Flash," 7 and
9:30 p.m., Hoff Theater. Call x2594 for
info.

The Music Dept. will sponsor a Valen-
tine's Day Concert featuring the Auryn
String Quartet from West Germany. The
concert starts at 8 p.m. in the Tawes
Recital Hall. Call x6669 for info.*

Midnight Movie, "Ferris Bueiler's Day
Off," Hoff Theater, Call x2594 for info.

SUNDAY

February 15

Richard Cionco, 1986 winner of the
Homer Ulrich Distinguished
Undergraduate Pianist Award, will per-
form a University Community Concert
at the Tawes Recital Hall at 2 p.m.
Tickets are $6.00 and $8,50. For more in-
fo, call X6534.

Movie, "Jumping Jack Flash," 7 and
9:30 p.m., Hoff Theater. Call x2594 for
info.

MONDAY

February 16

Richard L. Hopkins (UMCP) will speak
about "Long-Term Planning for Colleges
of Agriculture: The Case of Burkina
Faso" at an Agricultural and Life
Sciences Colloquium from noon-1 p.m.
in 2118 South Administration Bldg. Call
x6407 for info.*

Math Colloquium: John Benedetto
(UMCP) will discuss "The Definition of
the Fourier Transform" at 3 p.m. in 3206
Mathematics Bldg. Call x2841 for info,*

Robert O'Neil (Purdue Univ.) will deliver
an Entomology Colloquium on

"Predator Search Strategy and Life
History Characteristics at Low Prey Den-
sities" at 4 p.m. in 0200 Symons Hall.
Call X3843 for info.*

Women's Basketball vs. Georgia Tech,
Cole Field House, 5:30 p.m.

Men's Basketball vs. Central Florida,
Cole Field House. 8 p.m.

enotes free admli

If you bate an event you would like to
include in the calendar, please submit it
in writing at least 10 working days
prior to the week in which the event
occurs.

Affairs of the Heart

Be someone's sweetheart. Help save
a life. The UMCP Health Center of-
fers training in cardiopulmonary
resuscitation (CPR) evenings from 6
to 9:30 p.m. Classes arc scheduled
through the end of April. For infor-
mation, contact Mike Owen at
454-6513.

Lecture on Black Theater

Black theater will be the focus of an
upcoming lecture by Harry Elam
(Communication Arts and Theater).
Elam, director of the Black Drama
Workshop, will talk about black
theater from the 1930s to the 1980s
at noon Wed., Feb. 11, in the Nyum-
buru Cultural Center, 3123 South

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February 9, 1987

Campus Dining Hall. In addition,
students from the Black Drama
Workshop will perform brief scenes
from several plays. The lecture is co-
sponsored by the College of Arts and
Humanities and the Nyumburu
Cultural Center and is part of the
Collegiate Encounter Series.

Valentine's Day — It Couldn't
Have Happened in Roman Times

If Valentines had existed in ancient
Rome, Valentine's Day would have
been a complicated holiday.

In our day and age, the Valentine
that a man sends to a female friend
innocently and unambiguously says
something like, "Won't you be my
Valentine?"

In ancient Rome, such a Valentine
for such a friendship would have
demanded a twisted message along
the lines of, "Won't you be my
sister?" according to Judith Hallett,
UMCP associate classics professor.

Modern Valentines have many
socially acceptable meaning-; they
can be exchanged without controver-
sy by Platonic friends as well as by
lovers and spouses. The tradition in-
dicates that all those kinds of rela-
tionships among men and women
arc acceptable.

The Romans had problems with
men and women who wanted to be
friends, says Hallett.

"The notion the Romans had is
that if men and women weren't
related by blood or marriage, then
their relationship had to be sexual—
and that meant there was some kind
of impropriety involved," she says.
Hallett, who studies male-female rela-
tionships in ancient societies, has
presented a paper on the subject at
several universities and academic
conferences.

The Romans took a dim view of
adultery to the degree that adulterous
relationships were illegal under
Augustus. If a man wanted to have a
sexual relationship with a woman
who was not his wife, only a slave
or a prostitute was socially accep-
table, Hallett says.

The dismissal of Platonic relation-
ships appeared in the work of
Roman authors from the Second and
First Century B.C., she says.

The Latin word for a male friend,
amicus, described an individual ac-
corded respect and equality from
another person. However, there was
no comparable word for a woman
valued as a friend. The feminine
counterpart of amicus was arnica,
which signified a sexual
companion — the sort who often ac-
cepted some kind of payment.

To avoid stigma, male and female
friends used language describing a
more respectable part of society to
cloud the true nature of their
relationship.

"Men who had women as friends
often recast the relationship into
familial roles," Hallett says. In the
Roman literature, she has found
many texts in which men describe
their female friends as daughterly,
sisterly or motherly.

Not everyone embraced the status
quo, and one group — the love poets
—had success in breaking down the
sanction against male-female

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relationships.

Hallett found that by the late first
and early second centuries A.D.,
Platonic relationships had a better
name in Roman literature. Poets such
as Catullus wrote romantic poetry us-
ing the word amicitia to describe
equal and respectful relationships
with women. Their work helped
ease the stigma attached to the male-
female friendships.

"Romance often allows men and
women to look at each other as
equals," Hallett says. "In many
romantic relationships, people chose
each for reasons of attraction and af-
fection. That implies mutual equality
and friendship."

Perhaps then, Valentine's Day
would have had a place in ancient
Rome. A good romantic holiday
might have let men and women be
just friends. ■

—Brian Busek

UCC Concerts Feature

Early Music Group and UMCP Pianist

LIMCP's distinguished young pianist
and an early music group head the
University Community Concerts'
playbill for the month of February.

Richard Cionco, a 22-year-old
senior studying piano at UMCP, will
play at 2 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 15, in
Tawes Recital Hall.

The Ensemble for Early Music will
perform at 3 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 22,
in Tawes Recital Hall, The perfor-
mance, part of UCC's 1986-87 Olde
Musicke Series, will also feature a
pre-concert seminar beginning at 1:30
p.m.

Cionco earned bis chance to per-
form in a UCC concert by virtue of
both his musical skill and a foot in
the proverbial door.

Cionco 's foot- in- the- door was his
job last year as a student worker for
UCC. The organization rarely features
students in its concerts, but director
Eva Horny a k told Cionco that she'd
feature him in concert if he won the
University's Homer Ulrich
Distinguished Undergraduate Pianist
Award.

This fall, the New Mexico native
won the competition for the prize.
Cionco previously has played with
the Phoenix Symphony Orchestra
and the Las Cruces Civic Symphony,

Cionco, who studies under pro-
fessor Thomas Schumacher, will play
six selections including pieces by
Beethoven, Chopin and Franck.

The Ensemble for Early Music will
devote its program to bawdy and
satiric selections in a program entit-
led Medieval Madness. The five-
member New York group has com-
piled selections from three major
medieval works.

The Roman de Fauvel tells the
story ofa mule named Fauvel whose
social rank rivals that of the pope.
Written by a French clerk in the
14th Century, the poem mixes

Richard Cionco

liturgical chants and bawdy songs in
a satirical story about the religio-
poh'tical hanky-panky of the day.

Cantigas de Santa Maria are a col-
lection of Gallician-Portuguese songs
recounting miracles performed by the
Virgin Mary. The songs were not
originally intended as satire but, for a
modern audience, fit with Medieval
Madness because their stories are so
farfetched.

The Gambler's Mass is a parody of
the Missal that at first glance looks
official and innocent. The piece is
drawn from the Carmina Burana, a
notorious group of secular Latin
songs which feature gambling and
drinking songs and parodies of
religious songs and services.

For ticket information about both
UCC concerts call 454-6534 . ■

Teaching the
Teachers Fine Arts

A UMCP program to prep Maryland
high school teachers for their fine
arts classes will continue next
summer.

The Center for Renaissance and
Baroque Studies was recently award-
ed a 550,000 matching grant from
the Maryland Humanities Council to
continue its Interdisciplinary Summer
Institute for Secondary School
Teachers in Maryland, The matching
grant will be combined with a
550,000 grant from the Andrew W.
Mellon Foundation,

The institute will conduct a three-
week program designed to give
secondary school teachers ideas for
improving fine arts classes in their
schools.

The program was started last year
in response to a fine arts requirement
that began in Maryland high schools
in 1985, says Adele Seeff, executive
director of the Center for
Renaissance and Baroque Studies. In
order to graduate, high school
students must earn at least one credit
in music, dance, theater or the visual
arts.

Through the program, teachers
broaden their scholarly background
in the fine arts and gather ideas to
use in their classes, Seeff says.

Thirty-five teachers will participate
in the session which runs July
26-Aug. 14. Three UMCP professors
and seven visiting professors will
guide the program.

Richard Etlin (Architecture), Paul
Traver (Music) and Larry Warren
(Dance) are the LIMCP faculty involv-
ed. Etlin is the director of the in-
stitute. ■

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Outlook

February 9, 1987

What's a Hug?

Associate professor of English Gene
Hammond, the author of Informative
Writing and other works, recently
uncovered this data on the subject of
hugs. A hug is: ecologically sound
(does not upset the environment),
energy efficient (saves heat), and re-

quires no special equipment. In addi-
tion, a hug makes happy days
become happier, impossible days
become possible. And most impor-
tant, reports Hammond, a hug keeps
on working to dispense its benefits
even after the hug's release.

CLOSE

The Case for Black Philanthropy

Robert Steele

Two hundred eighteen billion
dollars — not exactly chicken feed, is
it?

That's how much black Americans
will earn during 1987. But because
the media focuses to a great extent
on the deficiencies existing in the
black community, few Americans —
black or white — realize the extent of
its economic potential.

Associate Professor of Psychology
Robert Steele has been examining the
economic trends of the black com-
munity for more than four years. As
a clinical community psychologist, he
is interested in the ways that black
people use — or fail to use — the
resources they possess to empower
themselves.

"Because clinical psychology
comes out of a medical model,"
Steele explains, "it tends to focus
primarily on what's wrong with peo-
ple rather than what's right with
them. But I approach the subject
from a different perspective, that of
empowerment, and as such I'm more
interested in strengths than in
weaknesses."

This is why when Steele reads a
headline stating that a 15% rate of
unemployment exists among the na-
tion's blacks, his immediate reaction
is to mentally rewrite the headline to
read: "85% of Nation's Blacks Are
Employed," Similarly, when a televi-
sion anchor-person announces that
30% of all blacks have incomes
below the poverty level, Steele hears
a different message— that 70% of
American blacks have incomes above
the poverty level.

"My point in looking at the black
community's economic resources
rather than its deficiences is this,"
Steele says. "Black Americans need
to realize that they have sustained a
most effective economic boycott
against themselves — and that it's time
to put a halt to this boycott. Of the
S218 billion that black Americans
will earn this year, only 7% will be
spent with black businesses or
donated in support of black causes. I
believe, as do many others who
study the matter, that strong
measures must be taken now to

reverse this trend in black spending
and charitable giving,"

Steele recently completed a study
of the one black owned and
operated institution that has con-
sistently and successfully utilized
black economic support to achieve
relative financial independence — the
church. The study examines both the
methods and the motivations used
by the pastors of seven black con-
gregations in the Washington, D.C.
area.

"This study is a small part of a
larger research program," Steele says.
"Its purpose is to examine those fac-
tors that may prove helpful in
designing programs for the develop-
ment of strong financially self-
supporting institutions within the
black community."

Not suprisingly, Steele's study
found that individuals who are
religiously motivated are among a
church's most generous supporters.
"Having internalized spiritual values,
it is easier for individuals to whole-
heartedly accept the Biblical position
on giving and increase their giving as
they grow to adopt new attitudes
concerning their spiritual well-being,"
reads the study.

"The study shows that the move
toward higher giving is not a one-
shot appeal, however," Steele adds.
"It is up to the individual church to
teach its members how to lead a
more spiritual life, and to adopt
tithing (the practice of committing
10% of one's annual earnings to the
church) as a standard for Christian
stewardship rather than emphasizing
to them the general need to increase
their giving."

In addition, Steele says, before
people contribute to a church, they
need to feel comfortable with the
credibility and authority of the pastor
and other church leaders. His study
also makes it clear that bigger is not
always better since members of small
congregrations tend to contribute
more generously more often than
parishioners of larger churches.

"This study helps create a model
which can be used in developing
economic strategies for the black

community," he says. "Just as the
pastor of the successful black church
has learned to recognize where the
church's resources lie and how to
manage those resources as well as
create new ones, so too black en-
trepreneurs must develop similiar
plans. And, at the same time, the
black consumer must be educated—
'religiously motivated,' if you will — to
the idea that he and she owes sup-
port to black businesses and black
non-profit causes."
Steele is conducting related studies

of black college and university alum-
ni financial support for the institu-
tions from which they obtained their
degrees and of black financial sup-
port of political candidates and
causes, "The object is to find ways
to help the black community
separate itself from the notion that
'crisis management' is the only way
to operate," he says. "We need
definite strategies that will help us
support ourselves through good
times and bad times." ■

— Mercy Hardie Coogan

Len Elmore: Black Alumni
Should Support Higher Education

Etmore left UMCP in 1974.
For ten years be played in the
National Basketball Association for
the Milwaukee Bucks and both the New
York Kntcks and Nets, as well as several
other teams. Now in his third year at
Harvard Law School, after graduation
this spring he wilt become an assis-
tant district attorney in Kings
County New York (Brooklyn).

The University of Maryland opened
its undergraduate doors to a single
black student in 1954. Today, over
3,000 blacks pursue degrees of
higher education at College Park.

For black Americans, the oppor-
tunity to attend college is an in-
dispensable element of our growth as
a people. Recently, greater emphasis
has been placed upon the depen-
dable and effective black colleges and
universities. The pressure will only
increase as the reality sets in that
government grant money is drying
up. Through direct contributions,
donations to the United Negro Col-
lege Fund, and various other funding
sources, the black college structure
continues to provide a number of
students with the opportunity for a
sound education.

Yet, as effective as these institu-
tions may be, the resources necessary
for meeting the goals of every eligi-
ble black student are not apparent. It
is a safe assumption that a significant
number of black high school
students with college aspirations will
choose to go to predominantly white
institutions. Where will these young
men and women get the financial aid
they need? Competition for the
limited scholarship dollars will result
in some closed-ended awards and
grants, many of which— intentionally
or not— will eliminate black students
from the competition. To whom
should these black students look for
support?

I believe that it's time to pass the
plate and ensure the availability of
resources for deserving black
students who may choose to attend
predominantlywhite institutions. I
think it's only fitting that these
students turn to black college
graduates who were the beneficiaries
of a more progressive period when

grants and scholarships were readily
available and the resulting oppor-
tunities blossomed into advancement.

Len Elmore

Regrettably, for some black alumni
there is a lingering dissatisfaction
with their experiences at a large
white institution. Yet, it is still vitally
important that they get involved in
the effort to support black students
who may want to attend even those
"less-than-perfect" colleges and
universities.

Chancellor John Slaughter has
made it easier for black graduates of
UMCP to support various alumni and
black scholarship programs there. He
is committed to doing everything in
his power to make College Park a
cooperative and multi-racial campus
community. He also has given new
emphasis to the Minority Affairs Of-
fice in an effort to provide support
to students learning to cope with
new and sometimes intimidating ex-
periences. Without de -emphasizing
academic standards, the campus has
undertaken extensive recruitment
campaigns to attract the best and
brightest black (and white) students
to its classrooms. Efforts like these
should not exist in a vacuum.

It's time for us as black alumni to
flex our influential muscle. Our
children deserve that much. Money
talks and apathy can take a long
hike. It's only though involvement in
a university's affairs that the chances
to affect greater change and to
cultivate greater responsiveness
becomes available. ■

Outlook

February 9, 1987

Just For Dads and Kids

The Center for Young Children in
the College of Education conducts
Saturday morning classes for dads
and their two, three, and four-year
old youngsters in the center's facility
on the first floor of the Benjamin
Bldg. Brent McBride, a teacher at the
center, helps fathers to discover a
variety of creative ways for interac-
ting with their children. To find out
more about the program, call
McBride at 454-2341.

COLLEGE PARK PEOPLE

Behind The Scenes — After Dark

You say alarm clocks are an inven-
tion of Beelzebub — especially radio
alarms and their collection of
disgustingly perky sunrise disk
jockeys? That early morning sunlight
is an abomination to the senses? That
the Supreme Court or the NFL —
SOMEBODY— ought to make a law
prohibiting people from talking
above a whisper before noon? That
the segment of the population label-
ed "morning personalities" should all
be forced to live in Guam or Wyom-
ing or some place equally remote?

If that's what's bothering you,
what you may need is a go at the
graveyard shift.

"I'm a night person. Even when I'm
not working, I wouldn't dream of
going to bed before 5 a.m.," says
Judy Cathey, a library aide who for
the past twelve years has minded the
reading room desk at Hornbake dur-
ing the midnight to 8 a.m. shift, "I
know a lot of people don't under-
stand me or people like me. The fact
is, my biorhythm is such that I func-
tion best at night. Also, I'm more of
a one-to-one person. I like to work
on an individual basis with students
who come to the library. During the
day this isn't always possible due to
the sheer number of people using
the facilities then."

Cathey says that there arc always
people working in the library during
her shift. Many, like her, find the late
hours more suitable to study. "Dur-
ing the day — when I'm not
sleeping— I take courses or work on
my avocation, writing fiction," she
says. "I'm fortunate in that my super-
visor, Ted Schlesiger, understands
and values the way I work."

"Night is our most active time,"
says campus police officer Sgt. Mark
Sparks. "It's when we arc most in-
volved in what we do best —

preventing crime and responding to
crimes committed. During the day
we perform many service duties,
such as bank runs and making out
written reports. But at night we're
out on patrol all over campus — in
cars and on foot. We take turns on
night duty and rotate monthly. This
month the 11 p.m. - 7 a.m. shift
belongs, in addition to Sparks, to
Cpl. John Duncan, Cpl. John
Brandt, Pfc. Marylou Piernik,
Pfc. Vince Johnson, Pfc. Edward
Coursey, Pfc. Christopher Jagoe,
Pfc. Jeff KiUion, Pfc. Peter
Quuin, Pvt. Mary Brock, and Pvt.
Ralph Ac qua viva. These uniform
officers are kept in touch with one
another and the station by dispat-
chers Lee Brant and Laura Frey.
"I'm not sure I'd want to work
nights only," says Sparks, "but it's
part of the job of being a police of-
ficer. I take it as it comes."

"Our midnight to 8 a.m. shift is-
the one time we can get our 'batch'
jobs done," explains Gus Williams
of the Administrative Computer
Center. "That's when we do work
for the personnel office, the bursar's
office, the motor vehicle administra-
tion and other campus offices. Dur-
ing the day, our computers are oc-
cupied with on-line activity from ter-
minals all over campus."

Just who works the center's two
night shifts (midnight to 8 a.m. and 4
p.m. to midnight), is determined on
the basis of seniority rather than per-
sonal preference. The lower one is
on the totem pole, the later the shift
one pulls.

This week the center's four
Hewlett-Packard 3000s and the main
frame Sperry 1171 will be piloted
from midnight to 8 a.m. by super-
visor Dave Cooper, senior operator
Jeff Wilson, Cleveland Sanders,
Wayne Brozyna and Thom

(l-to-r) Sgt. Mark Sparks, Cpl. John Duncan and PFC Pete Qulnn go over the evening paperwork.

(l-to-r) Clinical nurse, Phyllis Mattox, checks blood pressure of freshman Tray Rtrell at the Health Center.

Newlin. The 4-12 p.m. shift is made
up of supervisor Sydney Taitt,
senior operator Ray Caudle, Dave
Cox and students Alec Ott and
Adam Hamilton.

"We work 24 hours a day nearly
every day of the year," Williams
says. "You can imagine the enor-
mous amount of administrative work
that this campus generates: student
bills, report cards, employee payroll,
you name it."

■ ■ ■

Agnes Scott will retire from her
job as a night housekeeper in Marie
Mount Hall on March 31, After work-
ing nights for 30 years, she says,
she's ready to become a daytime
person.

"I decided long ago that I'd rather
work at night," she explains,
"because I prefer to use my days for
other things— shopping, doctors' ap-
pointments, visiting with friends. But
now, with my kids all grown and
my husband disabled, I think I'm
ready to become a full-time daytimer.
I believe I've earned it."

"Sleep is my big problem — getting
enough of it, that is," says Charlie
Elmer, a work control specialist who
for the past 13 years has been on
duty handling campus emergencies
from midnight to 8 a.m. "I average
four hours a day but I think I could
use a little more."

Elmer, who graduated from UMCP
in 1971 and has been with the Dept.
of Physical Plant since 1973, is the
first person contacted when someone
is stuck in a elevator, a pipe bursts, a
steam valve pops, a lock won't
work, lights suddenly go out.

"1 take the call — usually from the
Police or someone on the night desk
at Resident Life — and pass it along to
our 'reflex man,' Vincent Klotz. He
decides whether the problem can

wait until morning or needs im-
mediate attention. You could say that
at night Klotz is in charge of the
whole campus as far as maintenance
is concerned...

"On weekends I keep regular
hours — it's the only way to maintain
a halfway decent social life. But then,
talk about readjusting come Monday
night! Still, I like this job. I'm not
one for working under the gun and
usually I don't have to. If I don't feel
like filing at midnight, 1 do it at 4
a.m. And it's really not lonely. I'm in
radio contact with supervisors of the
cleaning crews and with others up
and about at night. It suits me."

Nurse Phyllis Mattox began
working at the Health Center just
about a year ago. For ten years
before coming to campus she was a
night nurse in a local hospital's inten-
sive care unit. What began as a
necessity ("In the beginning I had to
work nights," she says. "My daughter
was young and I needed to be with

her days."}, is now a matter of
preference.

"The night is a lot less congested
than the day," she says. "We don't
see nearly the volume of patients the

day shift does and we have more

time to spend with each person who

stops in for treatment or phones for

advice. I like that aspect of it very

much.

"The kids we see at night are
often ones with serious problems
who either can't or won't come to
the center during the day. Sometimes
they just need someone to talk to.
And sometimes they need profes-
sional help. We offer both." ■

— Mercy Hardie Coogan

Outlook

February 9, 1987

Hats off to Physical Plant

To the men and women who spent
the last week of January digging the
campus out from under the Big
Snow: thanks. Thanks to Lindy
Kehoe and his grounds crews for
operating six snow plows 24-hours-
per-day for the entire week and for
doing their best to make access into,

out of and around campus possible.
Overall, nearly 400 grounds crew
and other physical plant employees
put in almost 5,000 hours of over-
time during and after the two storms.
In addition to scraping and plowing,
workers spread approximately $6,000
worth of sale, sand, cinders and other
de-icing materials around campus.

FOCUS

New Director of Development on the Fast Track

For the past three years, Brad Bar-
wise, UMCP's new Director of
Development, has driven his Porsche
91 1 Targa in sports car club races
throughout the southeastern U.S.

It's the kind of pastime you might
expect of someone who travels in
the demanding and highly com-
petitive fast lane of university
fundraising.

The 3 7- year-old Barwise joined the
Office of Institutional Advancement
at the first of the year. He wears two
hats — the more traditional one of the
development officer, and campus
Director of the Campaign for
Maryland, an ambitious University-
wide capital campaign now in the in-
itial planning stages.

Barwise says his career in develop-
ment is an outgrowth of his earlier
jobs— director of a residential pro-
gram for Cincinnati, Ohio prison in-
mates who had been released for
educational and vocational training in
the community, and executive direc-
tor of a group house for adolescent
boys in Providence, Rhode Island.

"Both of those jobs involved ex-
tensive fundraising to provide money
to help meet the food, clothing and

T. BrMt Barwise

transportation needs of the
residents," he says. He also served as
a parole officer and furlough
counselor for the Ohio Department
of Rehabilitation and Corrections and
as a probation officer for the Cincin-
nati Court of Common Pleas.

"Every person on this campus is a
fundraiser," he believes. "Whether
they are members of the faculty or
members of the grounds and

maintenance crew, the impression
each of us makes on students, alum-
ni, parents, or campus visitors con-
tributes to the total development ef-
fort. I guess I still have the old social
worker mentality that says whatever
you do has to be part of contributing
to a quality product," he says. "My
job is to pull it all together."

For the last two years Barwise was
Assistant Vice Chancellor and Direc-
tor of Development at The University
of Tennessee at Chattanooga where
hi- directed all fundraising activities
for the campus and for the indepen-
dent University of Chattanooga Foun-
dation. Prior to that, he was assistant
director of development for capital
campaign and director of the annual
quarter million dollar giving cam-
paign at Buena Vista College, Storm
Lake, Iowa.

Barwise holds a B.A. degree in
sociology from Graceland College in
Lam on i, Iowa and an Ed, M. degree
in personnel training and develop-
ment from Cincinnati's Xavier
University. He also attended the St.
Paul School of Theology in Kansas
City, Mo.

With assistance from associate

directors Nancy Hiles and Yolanda
Pruitt, Barwise says he expects the
Development Office to develop a
computerized system for tracking
donors and to improve and upgrade
its mailing lists. In order to uncover
new prospective givers, he says he
hopes to be able to electronically
screen all alumni records. "We want
to move out of the planning stage
and into the fundrajsing stage," he
says. "Raising money is often a mat-
ter of listening to the special needs
and interests of prospects and then
finding a way to answer those needs.
And because UMCP has so many
things going on that appeal to a wide
variety of potential donors, my job is
that much simpler," he says.

"It's kind of like re-priming the
pump. People want to return
something to an institution like the
University of Maryland that has had a
positive and lasting impact on their
lives.

And that is what makes this such
an exciting place for me. Years from
now there will be students attending
Maryland on scholarships that we set
up today." ■

—Tom Otwell

Holt Donates Papers to UM

Marjorie S. Holt, a member of the
U.S. House of Representatives from
19^3 until her retirement at the end
of last year, has contributed her Con-
gressional papers to the UM Libraries'
Special Collection Division.

The Holt papers, which span her
seven terms as Republican Con-
gresswoman from Maryland's Fourth
Congressional District, include her
speeches, voting records, schedule
books, bills she sponsored or co-
sponsored, press clippings,
photographs and political cartoons.

They also contain Holt's research
files on environmental issues affecting
the State of Maryland — Chesapeake
Bay studies, hazardous and nuclear
waste, coastal barrier islands and
coastal zone fisheries, waste water
and sewage treatment, solar energy,
water resources and acid rain.

"The Holt collection represents
another step in our continuing efforts
to document Maryland political
history," said Lauren R. Brown,
curator of historical manuscripts and
archivist in McKeldin's Special Collec-
tion Division. "We are exceedingly
pleased that she has selected this
University as the repository for these
valuable historical documents."

The Holt papers, which total some
25 cubic feet of material, will be
available for scholars and researchers
as soon as they are properly
catalogued, arranged and described,
Brown said.

Spacecraft Control Project

A three-year project on basic research
in the modeling and control of large
multibody spacecraft has been
established at UMCP by the Air Force

Office of Scientific Research under
the Defense Dept.'s University
Research Initiative program. The
award for the first year is 1344,930.
Led by P.S. Krishnaprasad (Electrical
Engineering), a research group in the
Systems Research Center hopes to
develop benchmarks for selecting
controls and configurations that will
meet the stringent acquisition, poin-
ting and tracking requirements for
proposed large space platforms.

Lifelong Learning Conference

A two-day Lifelong Learning Research
Conference will be held at UMUC's
Center of Adult Education Feb. 19
and 20. The conference has been
organized by the UM Dept. of
Agricultural and Extension Education,
the University College Center for
Professional Development, and the
Maryland Cooperative Extension Ser-
vice. Nationally recognized experts

will focus on such topics as com-
puters in adult education, learning
theory, international organizations in
the development of adult education,
distance education, and agricultural
extension worldwide. For info, call
Sharon Walker at 985-7195-

Red- White Game Set

The annual Red -White Spring Foot-
ball Game will be held in Byrd
Stadium FrL, May 1 at 7:30 p.m. It
will be the first spring game played
at night in the stadium,

Lockard Wins Grant
for MINTS

J. David Lockard (Curriculum and In-
struction) has been awarded a
1 1 8,860 federal grant under Title II
of the Education for Economic
Security Act to support MINTS —
Maryland Information Network for
Teaching Science,

New Pre-School Ed Program

Maryland residents interested in early
childhood education now can take
advantage of a unique curriculum of-
fered by the College of Education's
Institute for Child Study. The In-
stitute now offers a program in Child
Development Associate (CDA)
training.

Established in 1975 as part of a na-
tional effort to improve the quality
of pre-school child care, CDA train-
ing until now has been available
primarily to participants in federally-
funded programs such as Head Start.
The Institute's CDA program, when
fully implemented, will be one of the
few in the nation open to anyone in-
terested in the field. The program
will lead to either a CDA certificate
or an undergraduate and graduate
degree. Trudy M. Hamby, associate
research scholar at the Institute, will
direct the program.

UM Alumni International's '87 Travel Program

The University's Alumni Association-
International still has openings for
eight exciting tours it is offering this
year as a special service to alumni
and friends of UM, including faculty
and staff members.

1987 tours are planned to St.
Maartcn (March 15-22), Bermuda
(May 2-9), Swiss Bavaria (June 21-29),
Wimbledon Qune 27-July 4), Alaska
(July 7-19) and Russia (August 9-22).

Next fall the Alumni Association-
International will sponsor tours of
New England (October 13-19) and
the Western Caribbean (November
1-15).

UMCP tennis coach Bobby Gocltz
will serve as the Wimbledon tour
tennis expert and will critique the
matches with the touring alumni.
Thomas E. Berry, associate professor
of Slavic Languages and Literatures,
will accompany the group touring
the Soviet Union as guest lecturer.

Director of alumni programs at
UMCP Leonard Raley says the tours
are an excellent bargain and are
packaged to appeal to wide range of
interests among UM alumni.

The February 19-March 7 tour of
the South Pacific is already sold out,
but interested alumni and friends are

being encouraged to add their names
to a waiting list for this trip, notes
Joan Patterson, director of alumni
travel.

The St. Maarten get-away will take
place during UMCP's spring break.
The package includes (at a cost of
8979 and up per person /double oc-
cupancy) round! rip airfair, accom-
modations for seven nights at Maho
Reef, all transfers and baggage hand-
ling between airport and hotel, and
taxes, service charges and gratuities.

For more information, call Joan
Patterson at the Office of Alumni Af-
fairs at 853-3743, ■

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