Outlook / the University of Maryland, College Park (1988)

Volume 2, Number

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GRAPEVINE:

Of Dickens, Graduate
Students and The Closing of
the American Mind.

These remarks by Associate Professor
of English Dcirdrc David were made
at a reception for Graduate Fellows in
November.

In a very different context from the
one that links us today, Charles
Dickens had some interesting things
to say in 1859 about what it felt like-
to be alive in the hectic years just
before the French Revolution... Let me
read you the opening of A Tale of
Two Cities:

"It was the best of times, it was
the worst of times, it was the age of
wisdom, it was the age of foolishness,
it was the epoch of belief, it was the
epoch of incredulity, it was the
season of Light, it was the season of
Darkness, it was the spring of hope,
it was the winter of despair, we had
everything before us, we had nothing
before us, we were all going direct to
Heaven, we were all going direct the
other way..."

Is this not somewhat similar to be-
ing a graduate student? Feeling that
we live at the very best time of our
lives, that we are wise in ways we
never thought possible, that we
believe in our futures, that this is our
season of light and hope — in short, as
Dickens puts it, that we are on our
way to heaven? Yet it's also a time
that seems the very worst, when we
feel foolish in front of our teachers
and fellow students, when there
seems to be no feasible future in our
chosen fields...

Of course Dickens deliberately casts
his opening in the language of ex-
tremes, of vivid contrasts, yet it
seems to me that one's life as a
graduate student often oscillates in
such a way — the ups and downs
making us wonder what we're doing
in graduate school in the first place.
But I also feel very strongly that for
most of the time what really matters
is we are at the heavenly end of
things, the seesaw weighted, so to
speak, with the splendid stuff of in-
tellectual excitement...

[Recently, however, I found) 1 was
in flight from a monolithically dismal
vision, to be found in a book by
Allan Bloom, The Closing of the
American Mind (and let me give you
the subtitle: How Higher Education
has Failed Democracy and Im-
poverished the Souls of Today's
continued on page 8

Report Proposes Early Retirement Policies

W » or the past thirty years the

m J University of Maryland has
m relied on a standard faculty

JL appointment contract that

allows termination of a tenured facul-'
ty appointment when required by
"the lack of appropriations or other
funds" to support a program. This
provision has hardly if ever been used,
but in 1986 when the Cooperative
Extension Service conducted a pro-
gram review and priority-setting pro-
cess as part of a procedure for possi-
ble downsizing, it was time, UM of-
ficials agreed, for the University to
take a hard look at early retirement
and termination policies.

In August 1986, President John S.
Toll appointed a task force to sum-
marize existing ways and recommend
new guidelines that might be
adopted when a faculty member
chose voluntary early retirement. The
group was also asked to recommend
new policies for reducing the number
of faculty should programs be
eliminated or if lack of funding were
to mandate the "downsizing" of
departments or programs at some
time in the future.

Chaired by Francis C. Stark, the
University-wide task force met twice a
month for almost six months. The
group reviewed early retirement poli-
cies at other institutions, questioned

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consultants, and finally formulated a
set of recommendations to deal with
the sensitive areas it was asked to
consider. Its report was submitted to
President Toll in March 1987, accor-
ding to Stark, who appeared at the
Dec. 10 Campus Senate meeting to
answer questions.

In early November the report was
forwarded to the Campus Senate's
General Committee on Faculty Affairs,
and the group prepared its own
recommendations for the Dec. 10
senate meeting.

The President's Task Force Report
continued on page 3

Schaefer Governance Plan Announced

Governor William Donald Schaefer
plans to submit to the General
Assembly a major piece of legislation
designed to restructure the gover-
nance of higher education in the State
of Maryland.

Under the proposal, the existing
State Board for Higher Education
would be replaced by a stronger
"coordinating commission" that
would have greater authority over all
public, private and community col-
leges. This commission would coor-
dinate academic programs throughout
the State, including those at private
colleges and could have the authority
to deny funds to schools that do not
cooperate in efforts to reduce un-
necessary duplication of programs.
The executive officer, and ail
members of the commission, would
be appointed by the Governor.

Beneath this new commission, a
consolidated governing board would be
created to replace the current Univer-

sity of Maryland Board of Regents
and the Board of Trustees of State
Universities and Colleges that now
govern 1 1 of the State's 1 3 public,
four-year colleges and universities.
The two remaining institutions,
Morgan State University and St.
Mary's College, would keep their
present governing boards and answer
directly to the new commission at the
same level as the consolidated gover-
ning board for the 1 1 other schools.

According to Lt. Gov. Melvin A.
Steinberg, the commission would
have the power to modify academic
programs and set deadlines for such
changes. The commission can invoke
sanctions on schools that do not
comply with its directives.

The plan also provides for a $50
million "dedicated purpose account,"
controlled by the Governor, to sup-
port schools and programs that com-
ply with commission mandates and
directives.

According to Steinberg, the com-
mission initially will be handed three
mandates: the development of an
"enhancement program" for the Col-
lege Park Campus within six months
to a year; a plan to address the defi-
ciency of graduate programs in the
Baltimore metropolitan area; and a
plan to develop greater access to
higher education for the State's
disadvantaged.

Although an earlier version of the
plan encountered opposition,
Steinberg says he is confident this
final version will pass with few
changes. Not everyone familiar with
the legislation shares this optimism,
however.

"The new approach avoids many
of the political obstacles that threat-
ened the earlier proposal," says Brian
Darmody of the UMCP legal staff.
"But the earlier lack of consensus
within the Administration may raise
questions with many legislators. "■

—Ttm McDonougf)

Graduate School Announces
Awards

Faculty gets nearly half a million!-

:.2

A Look at Language
Standards

Say it ain't so

5

Transportation Dept. Gets
High Marks

CBM's transportation faculty are
national leaders

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Outlook

January 18. 1988

Campus Professors Contribute to
Smithsonian Exhibit

What is DNA? How is "life" created? "The Search for Life,'
an exhibit currently showing at the Smithsonian's National
Museum of American History, tells the exciting story (if the
development of modern biological science and the scientists
who study life. Filmore Bender, associate director of the
Maryland Agricultural Experiment Station and adjunct curator
for the Smithsonian, and other College Park facility members
helped to develop the exhibit. The exhibit will be in the
Tayloi Gallery of the museum through the end of March.

RESEARCH UPDATES

Graduate School Announces 1988-89

GRB and CAPA Awards For Faculty Research

Tbe Office of Graduate Studies and

Research has released the following

list of recipients of General Research

Board and Creative and Performing

Arts Board Awards for the 1988-89

year. The GRB Awards totalled

S4 7 8,880; and the CAPA Awards

S.14.250. Congratulations to this

war's recipients.'

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General Research
Board-1988-1989

Fall Research Support Awards

• Arthur Miller. Art History — Painting
and Sculpture in a New Tomb from
Oaxaca. Mexico.

• George Bean, Botany — Funding to
Purchase a Chromatotron Thin Layer
Chromatograph.

• Debra Dunaway-Mariano. Chemistry
and Biochemistry— 31 P-NMR Probe
for Organophosphonate Bioorganic
Chemistry.

• James Herndon. Chemistry and
Biochemistry — Selective Cleavage of
Tetraalkyltin Compounds.

• William Lamp. Entomology —
Electronically Recorded Disturbance
of Potato Leafhopper Feeding
Behavior by Plant-Derived. Antifeed-
ant Oils.

• Kenneth Beck, Health Education — A
Survey of High School Drug Attitudes
and Behaviors.

• William Healy. Horticulture-
Carbohydrate Partitioning During Ear-
ly Seedling Development.

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• Jayavant Gore, Mechanical
Engineering — A Study of Drop Boun-
dary Conditions in Spray Flames.

• Graham Caldwell, Physical Educa-
tion — Muscle Synergism at the Elbow
Joint.

• Willard Larkin. Psychology —
Season,' Research.

• Alan Neustadtl. Sociology — The
Topograph}' of Elite Political
Behavior: Networks of Corporate PAC
Contributions.

• Lee Preston, Transportation.
Business and Public Policy —
Multination Business and Public
Policy.

Fall Book Subsidy Awards

• Theresa Coletti, English — Naming
the Rose: Eco, Medieval Signs, and
Modern Theory.

• Raymond Martin. Philosophy — The
Post Within I 's: An Empirical Ap-
proach to Philosophy of History.

• Wayne Kuenzel, Poultry Science — A
Stereotaxic Atlas of the Brain of the
Chick. Galhis Domesticus.

Semester Research Awards

• Arthur Miller, Art History— Native
American Encounters With European
Literacy: Oaxaca c. 1500-1700,

• Marie Spiro, Art History —
Completion of the First Volume on
the Mosaic Pavements of Caesarea,
Israel to be Published by the Edwin
Mcllen Press.

• Anne Tntitt, An Studio— A Series of
Ten Major Sculptures; Paintings.

• Mukul Kundu. Astronomy —
Research in Stellar Radio Astronomy.

• Jane Donawerth, English— Science
Fiction By Women.

• Theodore Leinwand, English —
Below the Salt: Plebian Culture and
Shakespearean Drama.

• Stanley Plumly, English— The
Abrupt Edge (Poems).

• John Joseph, French and Italian
Languages and Literatures — Internal
and External Motivation in the
History of French.

• Charles Butterworth. Government
and Politics — Averroes on the Rela-
tionship Between Theory and
Practice.

• Stephen Elkin, Government and
Politics — The Political Theory of the
Business Corporation.

• Alan Mintz, Hebrew and East Asian
Languages and Literatures — Hebrew
Literature in America.

• S. Robert Ramsey, Hebrew and East
Asian Languages and Literatures — The
Reconstruction of Pre-Korca.

• Robert Friedel, History— Stuff and
Things: Materials and Change in
American Culture,

• J. Benedict Warren, History —
Analysis of Early Linguistic Works on
the Tarascan Indian Language of

Stanley Plumly

Western Mexico.

• David Lightfoot. Linguistics —
Explaining Syntatic Change.

• Lawrence Bodin, Management
Science and Statistics— Vehicle
Routing and Scheduling in a Parallel
Processing Environment.

• Carlos Berenstein, Mathematics —
Studies in Complex Analysis and
Applications.

• E. Eugene Helm, Music— Decay and
Restoration in the Arts.

• Chia-cheh Chang, Physics and
Astronomy — Exploring Nuclei With
the Electromagnetic Probes.

• Richard Ferrell. Physics and
Astronomy — Theory of the Josephson
Effect in High Temperature
Superconductors.

'• Rabindra Mohapatra, Physics and
Astronomy — Superstrings and the
Physics of Quarks and Leptons: Or-
bifolds and Four Dimensional Strings.

• Harriet Prcsser, Sociology — Low
Fertility in Industrialized Countries:
The Significance of Gender Issues.

Harriet Presser

Creative and Performing
Arts Board -1988

• John Gossage. Art Studio — The
Plains of Hell: America's Hazardous
Waste Sites.

• John Ruppert, Art Studio — Arts and
Industries.

• Harry Elam, Communication Arts
and Theatre — The Preparation of
August Wilson's Joe Turner's Come
and Gone for Fall 1988 Production.

• Michael Collier, English— A Collec-
tion of Poetry.

• Joanna Scott, English — Travels and
Confessions of a Wunderkind,

• Carmen Dclaney and Robert McCoy
(Joint Project), Music— The Prepara-
tion of Works for Soprano and Piano
Recording.

• Robert Gibson, Music — Composition
for Solo Percussionist and Computer-
Generated Tape.

Next week Outlook will publish
the list of recipients of 1988-1989
Summer Research Awards. ■

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January 18. 1988

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Senate to Develop Campus Guidelines for Early
Retirement and Faculty Reductions

^k new Report from the
/ | President's Task Force on
/ I Early Retirement and
jL. JL Retention Policies was
discussed by the Campus Senate at its
Dec. 10, 1987 meeting. The two-part
report presents some major recom-
mendations for new university
policies and options for voluntary ear-
ly faculty retirement as well as a
detailed set of procedures which
could be used to terminate tenured
faculty appointments because of pro-
gram elimination or cutbacks.

The Task Force report was reviewed
by the UMCP Campus Senate's
General Committee on Faculty Affairs
which presented its conclusions at a
Dec. 10 meeting of the senate.

At the meeting, faculty affairs com-
mittee chair Rose-Marie Oster said that
the committee was concerned over a

number of new policies and pro-
cedures proposed in the report. She
said that the committee agreed with
the general concept that early retire-
ment options should be developed
and made available to faculty at all
UM campuses. However, these
guidelines and options should become
part of the official university standing
policy, much as policies for sabbatical
leave and unpaid leave are now
available, rather than offered "in
whatever form, for whatever period
of time, or to whatever department
or program the campus chancellor
may in his discretion decide" — as the
task force report recommends.

The senate committee also ad-
vocated that all discussions of early
retirement programs should be con-
sidered apart from considerations of
terminating faculty appointments and

that the report's recommendations on
terminating faculty appointments
"should be reconsidered, revised and
clarified giving due consideration to
AAUP guidelines governing such
terminations."

After considering several courses of
action the senate might take to res-
pond to the report immediately, as
requested, the senate voted, instead,
to notify the President's office that
the Campus Senate will develop a
campus-based plan with options for
voluntary- early retirement and pro-
cedures for termination of faculty if
this should become necessary in
response to possible reduction, con-
solidation or discontinuation of pro-
grams. The proposals developed by
the senate will be transmitted to the
President's Office by the end of the
academic year. ■

"The Road to Retirement"

Policies for Early Retirement and Faculty Reductions

continued from page 1
on Early Retirement and Retention
Policies consists of two parts, the
first, "A Report and Recommenda-
tions on Early Retirement Policies,"
and the second. "Policies and Pro-
cedures for the Termination of Facul-
ty Appointments under Terms
Described in the Standard Form Ap-
pointment Agreement."

According to Stark, the report is
based on a philosophy that no single
plan of early retirement incentives is
likely to be adaptable to every cam-
pus and that it is most appropriate for
each campus to set up its own plan-
ning and legislative groups to adapt
the general guidelines outlined in this
report to its individual needs.

The first report on voluntary early
retirement contains a series of five
proposals and includes descriptions of
eight possible voluntary plans for ear-
ly faculty retirement. It suggests that
campus chancellors might want to
consider these plans in full or in part
for Implementation if the early retire-
ment policies are approved.

The plans fall into the following
general types:

—phased retirement plans — two plans
which would permit employees who

have reached, or are nearing, retire-
ment age to continue employment on
a part-time basis for a specified
number of years. "These plans would
be most attractive to employees be-
tween 57 and 69 years of age.
although others would presumably
qualify." it says.

— repurchase plans (three plans that
would authorize the payment of a
specific sum to an employee who has
tenure in return for a surrender of
these employment rights.) "These
plans might be most attractive to
faculty members and employees hav-
ing substantial seniority who are 10
to 15 years short of eligibility for full
retirement.'' it states.
— retraining plans (three plans that
permit employees, including faculty,
to take leaves of absence to retrain in
a new field.) In two of these plans
the employee would surrender
whatever tenure he or she previously
enjoyed at the expiration of the leave.
These plans would be most attractive
to relatively junior employees, the
report says.

The plans would require no enab-
ling legislation in most cases, and
similar ones have been adopted as
options at other universities.

The senate committee reporting on
the task force plans says it approves
of the concept of introducing early
retirement options at I'M campuses.
However, in its review of the Task
Force report it points out that at
other universities such voluntary early
retirement options arc part of official
standing policies, may be planned for
and negotiated by faculty, and do not
depend on the discretion of a campus
chief executive officer — as the UM
two-part proposal recommends.

Part II

Terminating Faculty

Appointments

Part II of the Task Force report
suggests new policies that could be
used to reduce the number of faculty
in the event that reduction, consolida-
tion or discontinuation of UM pro-
grams takes place. The report says
that each campus must have pro-
cedures in place for this possibility
and that these must include appoint-
ment of a representative advisory

group. Final approval for program ter-
mination rests with the Board of
Regents, it points out. The procedures
recommended in the report are based
on the fact that tenure will be
honored where possible. An appoint-
ing authority will receive a report
from an appropriate review commit-
tee, with this document to include
specific data on appointments that
may be eliminated through voluntary
or early retirement or nonrenewal of
expiring term appointments associated
with reduction or elimination of a
program, and programs will be
specified that have been legislatively
authorized for reduction or elimina-
tion. It also recommends that if a
program is eliminated, all faculty posi-
tions will be eliminated in that pro-
gram. If a program is reduced, the
order of reduction among faculty will
be as follows: temporary appoint-
ments; yearly appointments not on
the tenure track; tenure-track faculty
members serving in probationary
years; tenured faculty. If distinctions
must be made to determine the order
of cutbacks, seniority will determine
how terminations are decided.

The report also suggests that the
appointing authority may make ex-
ceptions in the reduction sequence
and continue the appointment of a
faculty member who would otherwise
be terminated where this action
would decrease the effectiveness of
the program for students or cause
failure to achieve equality of access to
programs for all citizens regardless of
race, creed or color, religion, age, na-
tional origin, sex or handicap. It
recommends that a faculty member
who is terminated be given first con-
sideration for another suitable ap-
pointment for a period of three years,
and states that no eliminated program
shall be reestablished within three
years without consideration of reap-
pointing all faculty members
eliminated from that program.

The procedure to notify the faculty
member should be in writing, and an
appeal process should be initiated
within 20 working days after notifica-
tion of termination to the faculty
member. Grounds for appeal should
be initiated within 20 working days
after notification of termination to the
faculty member. Grounds for appeal
should be limited to the accuracy of
any data and/or procedural error, and
the appeal committee should review
procedures but should not review the
decision concerning the need for tak-
ing the termination action. This group
would be responsible for hearings and
for notifying the faculty member of
its' decision within 20 working days
from the date of receipt of the writ-
ten response of the committee.

The President's Task Force which
produced the two plans consisted of
the following members: Edward N.
Brandt, Jr., Brian P. Darmody,
William Fiedler. Irwin L. Goldstein,
Andrea Hill, R. Lee Hombake, William
A. James, Raymond J. Miller, Julie
Porosky, Gary W. Reichard, Sherman
Roberson, Robert Webb. Lawrence
White, and Ruth H. Young. ■

— Roz Hiebert

QunooK

January 18, 1988

alendar

Talk About Your Cosmic Campus...

Of the 38,058 undergraduate and graduate students enrolled
at UMCP last semester, 26.000 or so were from Maryland
counties, with Montgomery, Prince George's, Anne Arundel,
and Baltimore sending the greatest numbers. Approximately
9,000 students were from other areas in the U.S. or its ter-
ritories, while about 3,000 hailed from foreign countries. China
(Taiwan), India, Peoples Republic of China, Republic of Korea,
Iran and Vietnam sent the most students to College Park last
fall, according to a report on the geographic origins of
students prepared by the Office of Institutional Studies.

January 18 -

Martin Luther King Jr. birthday
observed

Wanderlust Travelogue: Italian
Treasures: Venice, Rome and
Florence, 7:30 p.m., Hoff Theater;
tickets $4, $3. $2, call x4987 for
info.'

Intramural Coed Basketball: In-
formation available at Campus
Recreation Services, 1104
Reckord Armory, call x3124.

Astronomy Observatory Open
House: "Black Holes and
Quasars," T. M. Heckman;
weather permitting telescope
observing; 8 p.m., Astronomy
Observatory, Metzerott Road, call
x3001 for info.

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For information about:
Intramural Free Throw Shooting,
Intramural Weightlifting,
Intramural Racquetball Singles,

Improvisations Unlimited, UMCP's resident dance company, will open its spring season with a performance of Looking Back, Its fifth annual
choreographer's showcase, on Feb. 12 at the Publick Playhouse in Hyattsville. Tickets are S8 (S6 for seniors/students). Call 277-1707 for info."

Write Campus Recreation Ser-
vices. 1104 Reckord Armory, or
call X3124.

Continuing Medical Education:

"Dental Emergencies. Part III,"
Margaret Wilson and Larry Cohen,
12:30 p.m., Dental Health Clinic,
Health Center, call x6751 for info.

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College of Education Alumni
Chapter: Deadline for reserva-

tions, play and dinner, February
14, $25 per person (Children of a
Lesser God and dinner at
Rossborough Inn); call x2938 for
information.*

First Day of Classes

Intramural Basketball: registration
until Feb. 2, Campus Recreation

Services, 1104 Reckord Armory,
call x3124 for info.

26 oa

University of Maryland
Equestrian Association: registra-
tion for spring semester, 7 p.m.,
1144 Animal Sciences Building,
call Gail Willoughby x5906 for
info.'

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Maryland Basketball vs North
Carolina State: 9 p.m., Cole Field
House; tickets $14, $12, $9; call
X2121 for info."

'Admission Is charged for this
special event. All others are free.

COMING ATTRACTIONS

kh UMCP Women's Basketball Home Games,
i > Spring 1988

Jan. 30— Wake Forest 7:30 p.m.
Feb 3 — Virginia 7:30 p.m.
Feb. 6 — North Carolina 7:30 p.m.
Feb. 8 — Clemson 6 p.m.
Feb. 20— N.C. State 7:30 p.m.
Feb 24— Penn State 7:30 p.m.

Tickets are S3 adults, S2 children, $1 each for groups of ten
or more; Maryland students are free. Call x2131 for info.'

Dance All Day

The UMCP Dance Department will present a day of dance
classes, workshops and performances — free— during Dance
Day, Saturday Feb. 13 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. in Temporary
Building EE. Classes in Modern Dance Technique, Repertory,
Improvisation/Composition, Exploration of Efforts, and Expres-
sion in Movement will be presented as well as an informal
performance of student and faculty works. For more informa-
tion call x4056 or x4656.

Nigeria Honors Eyo

Ekpo Eyo (Art) recently received an honorary degree, Doc-
tor of Letters, from the University of Calabar in his native
Nigeria. An expert in African art, Eyo was director-general of
Nigeria's National Commission for Museums and Monuments
before joining the UMCP faculty in 1986. Eyo currently is
organizing a major symposium on twins and imagery in
African art, which will be held this spring in Washington, D.C.

Ootijogk

January 18, 1988

ARTS AT MARYLAND

Setting Language Standards Ain't Simple

£ ' ince the first grade nearly

^k everyone has known thai
^ "ain't" ain't a word and you
\*J ain't supposed to use it.

Still, people persist. In fact, "ain't"
has been used so much that one finds
it in most dictionaries. A lot of
folks — people who consider
themselves guardians of the language
—ain't happy when respectability is
given to such vulgar English.

Some scholars, however, say that
combatting the "ain'ts" of the world
is a less than noble endeavor.
Language standards which dam what
instinctively flows from the tongue
ain't natural, they argue. With this
argument, these scholars are taking
sides in an intellectual debate over
language and language standards that
has raged since antiquity.

John Joseph, UMCP assistant pro-
fessor of French and Italian Languages
and Literatures since 1986. explores
the tussle over language standards in
English and other languages in his
new b«x)k. Eloquence and Power—
The Rise of Language Standards and
Standard Languages.

In Joseph's view, the roots of such
contemporary arguments as the con-
tents of English dictionaries were
planted thousands of years ago. Two
schools of Greek thought— analogy
and anomaly —first grappled with
questions of language standards, he says.

The analogists believed that
language should follow logical pat-
terns, Joseph says. Logical standards
governing language seemed wise in
this view.

The anomalists didn't see the sense
in binding language within such stan-
dards. They felt that since logic was
developed from language — logic being
in a sense bound to language — then
language should be left to develop
naturally. Usage in speech should
govern the development of language
in this view.

The spread of Judeo-Christianity
gave a moral importance to language
standards that intensified the argu-
ment. Joseph says.

The idea of language is important
to Judeo-Christianity. Joseph says. In
the New Testament the essence of
god is described as "The Word."

The bible, through the story of the
Tower of Babel, conveys the idea
that there is a kind of pure and godly
language that mankind has lost. The
notions of "good " and "bad"' English
today result from this tradition of
considering language standards in
moral terms, Joseph says.

"Most people firmly believe that
there's a better' way to speak," he-
says. "That's our general cultural
mythology."

In modern times, the debate has
become a struggle between defenders
of language standards and linguists
who believe in the natural evolution
of language.

"The linguists hold the idea that
any prescriptions on usage are

artificial — pernicious and nonsensical
illusions," he says.

The fundamental ideas in the
science of linguistics developed during
the Romantic period of the late 18th
century and early 19th century when
many thinkers sought truth by
observing the natural order of things.
"Linguistics has never emerged from
this period." Joseph says.

While Joseph is himself a linguist,
he strives in his book to persuade his

fellows scholars to give more con-
sideration to language standards when
studying how language emerges from
the mind. Language is not only an
unconscious phenomenon, but many-
factors including the value judgment
implied by language standards are part
of the psychological process from
which language results, Joseph says.
Beyond the academic arguments,
language standards carry social im-
plications, Joseph says. Often the

dominant class in society determines
what the "right" way of speaking is.
Language then can become a tool
through which a dominant class main-
tains its power.

An example is the current move-
ment to make English the official
language of the United States.

"That's misguided and dangerous.
It's a power play to keep a minority
from advancing," Joseph says. ■

— Brian Biisek

Skowhegan Exhibit Brings
Young Artists' Work to Campus

Detail of Plow by Jarrett Huddleston.

A variety of work from some of
the nation's most inventive young art-
ists will be on display at the UMCP
Art Gallery when an exhibition from
the Skowhegan School of Painting and
Sculpture opens here Wed., Jan. 27.

The exhibition, Skowhcg;in: A Ten-
year Retrospective /9 7 5-#5, features
one piece of art from each of 51 art-
ists who attended the school during
the decade covered by the show.
Megan Widger, a 1986 graduate of
UMCP's MFA program, is among the
artists featured in the show. The ex-
hibition includes a mixed bag of
work ranging from a massive steel
sculpture to a tiny installation made
up of little more than a strand of
copper wire and a dish of garnets.

The Skowhegan School offers a
nine-week program each summer at
its rural base near Bangor, Maine.
Residencies are offered to 60 promis-
ing young artists who work with a

group of resident faculty and visiting
artists.

The students are carefully chosen.
The school has estimated that about
one of every four Skohegan students
goes on to become a professional art-
ist, compared with the national
average of one of every 2.000
students. Alumni of the school in-
clude Alex Katz, Ellsworth Kelly,
Robert Indiana and Janet Fish.

The program is designed to give
students on the verge of a profes-
sional career an opportunity to work
in a relatively unstructured setting.
The faculty acts more as a sounding
board for ideas than to teach in a for-
mal environment.

The exhibit will run through March
8. Hours are Monday-Friday, 10 a.m.
to 4 p.m.: Wednesday evenings until
9 p.m.; and Saturday and Sunday, 1
p.m. to 5 p.m. For more information
call 454-2763. ■

—Brian Busek

String Day Features Classes
and Scholarship Competition

A competition for the new
Dorothce Einstein Krahn String
Scholarship will be among the
highlights of the Department of
Music's first String Day Friday. Jan. 23,

String Day. organized by associate
professor of music Evelyn Elsing, will
be an opportunity for state orchestra
students to spend a day with UMCP
music faculty members and guest in-
structors, Letters have been sent to
Maryland orchestra directors and
string instrument teachers asking them
to encourage senior high school
students interested in string music to
attend the event.

Classes include a String Quartet
Seminar taught by Oliver Edcl, pro-
fessor emeritus of the University of
Michigan and Director of the Adult
Chamber Music Conference at In-

terlochen Music Camp, and a theory
class taught by Robert Gibson, UMCP
associate professor of music. Master
classes in string instruments will be
conducted by UMCP faculty members
Joel Bcrman, Miles Hoffman, Hal
Robinson and Elsing.

In addition to the classes, competi-
tions for two scholarships will be held.

Krahn, who holds a doctorate in
mathematics from UMCP and is an
amateur cellist, recently donated
SI 0,000 to the music department for
a string scholarship. Krahn has also
stipulated that the award go to a
Maryland resident.

The Agnes White Bailey Cello
Scholarship will also be awarded.

For more information call
454-2501. ■

Outlook

January 18. 1988

The Magic Number is 24.4

The average age of the 32,779 College Park students enroll-
ed in the fall 1987 semester was 24.4 years. The mean age for
all undergraduates was 22.2 years and the average age for all
graduate students was 32 years. Nearly 16 percent of the total
student population, 6.022 students, were 29 or older.
Chancellor Slaughters vision of UMCP as a "multi-generational

campus" was confirmed by the fact that three full-time
undergraduates were 16 years old and nine were 70 years old
or older. Campus statistics showed two full-time graduate
students who were 20 years old and two who were 70. Most
students (48.6 percent or 18,500) however, were between 20
and 24 years old.

Transportation Group is on the Move

B

ecause of its location and
gc igraphy, the State of
Maryland is an ideal
laboratory for the study of
transportation issues.

Researchers and scholars can pick
from a host of topics, areas and prob-
lems. They range from the Port of
Baltimore to the needs of the state's
rural and agricultural communities;
from the high tech corridor along
Interstate-2"'0 to congested commuter

roads like the Beltway: from rail,
pipeline and highway traffic flow
along a section of the nation's north-
east corridor to the relative isolation
of the Eastern Shore, or the growth
of a major international aiqiort.
Maryland has it all.

It is no surprise, then, that the
University of Maryland ranked first
among colleges and universities in
terms of research productivity in
transportation. Members of the

UMCP Leads Nation in Faculty Output
in Transportation Journals

UMCP has been ranked first among
colleges and universities in terms of
the number of articles published in
12 of the nation's most important
academic journals specializing in
transportation and logistics.

The findings were reported in the
spring 198" issue of the Transporta-
tion Journal. They cover the six years
between 1980 and 1985. A similar
survey for 19 7 4-"'9 ranked UMCP fifth
and in 1967-73, 14th nationally.

The University now leads such in-
stitutions as MIT, Berkeley, Penn
State, the University of Texas. Austin.
Minnesota, Michigan State and
Wiscoasin in faculty journal article
output. MIT had been the top-ranked
school in both the 196~ , -73 and the
1974-79 time periods.

The journals selected for this
analysis arc concerned primarily with
the managerial, financial, economic,
marketing, regulatory and policy
aspects of transportation and logistics.
Those journals emphasizing the

engineering and planning aspects of
transportation were not included in
the study.

Of the UMCP faculty publishing in
these 12 journals during the 1980-85
period, 86 percent were authored by
Faculty of the College of Business and
Management, primarily members of
the Department of Transportation.
Business, and Public Policy. Faculty
from the College of Engineering,
School of Journalism, and depart-
ments of Urban Affairs. Anthropology,
and Economics accounted for the re-
maining 14 percent.

As Rudolph P. Lamone, Dean of
the College of Business and Manage-
ment, notes. "We clearly have made
an impact not only in transportation
education and research, but also in
transportation practice. This is con-
gnient with our mission as a profes-
sional school to advance not only the
state of knowledge in a field but. also,
to advance the state of'practice." ■

Department of Transportation,
Business, and Public Polio ol the
College of Business and Management
generated 63 percent of Maryland's
faculty-authored articles included in
the survey (see sidebar).

The transportation group, says
department chairman Thomas Corsi.
has a three-fold focus: transportation
economics, regulation and policy; car-
rier management — the business aspects
of transportation, and logistics— the
physical supply and distribution of
goods.

Transportation is offered as a con-
centration at both undergraduate and
graduate levels.

Faculty members include Corsi and
Curt Grimm, both of whom specialize
In the management aspects of
transportation; Richard Poist and
Joseph Mattingly in the area of
logistics, and professors emeriti.
Charles Taff and Merrill Roberts.

Their work includes pure research
and teaching as well as consultancies
with state and local transportation
agencies, national trade associations,
business forums and federal govern-
ment agencies.

Working with the NCHRP of the
Transportation Research Board, Corsi
is engaged in a project that involves
monitoring heavy vehicles using a
new technology called "WIM."
weighing in motion. It is estimated
that up to a third of all interstate-
trucks are running overweight. Using
portable scales, it is possible to
monitor trucks as they travel the
highway instead of requiring them to
stop at roadside weighing stations.
Corsi is looking at various alternatives
and monitoring strategics, the costs of
such monitoring, and the impact they
have on the trucking industry. Grimm

has done work for the Interstate
Commerce Commission on the anti-
competitive effects of railroad mergers
and consolidation, looking at the im-
pact of loss of direct competition and
the public policy issues that are raised
by deregulation.

He and Corsi have also been
collecting data for the past year on
the economic impact of rail and taick
deregulation on both shippers and
carriers. Their findings are due to be
published next year by the Brookings
Institute. For a number of years, Corsi
also has been looking at the changing
patterns in costs and benefits to
owner/operator taickers since the in-
dustry was deregulated, the safety im-
pacts resulting from deregulation and
trends among motor carrier managers
who are turning away from using the
( nvner-operators.

Strategic management issues have
arisen as a result of the newly com-
petitive environment facing an in-
dustry that had been sheltered for
years. Grimm says. Companies have
been energized to start looking ai
strategies for profitability, tracking
their choices, and comparing and
evaluating those strategies that are
successful. Poist specializes in logistics
and how the flow of goods is man-
aged Recenth he has been wi irking
on a project to identify the educa-
tional needs of logistics managers in
the future.

"I'm looking al those areas where
managers need to prepare themselves
if they are to be successful and able
to adapt to change." he says. Poist
believes modern managers must be
well versed in a wide variety of skills
that encompass business and manage-
ment techniques, as well as the
technical expertise of logistics.
Another area of interest is what Poist
calls "reverse logistics." Most firms.
he says, are not well equipped or
prepared to bring goods back through
the distribution channels such as
when a product is recalled.

"Special arrangements must be
made, special care and handling is re-
quired and the process is two to
three times more costly than for tradi-
tional forward flows," he says. Poist
and Paul Murphy, a visiting professor
from Cleveland's John Carroll Univer-
sity, are surveying a number of food
and drug firms as to their "reverse
logistics" procedures.

"As recycling of materials becomes
more commonplace, reverse logistics
will become increasingly important,"
Poist says. At this point, however,
very few researchers arc working in
this field.

Another area that Poist believes
holds great potential is space
logistics — the problems associated
with the movement of goods and
materials to and from the earth and
orbiting space stations. One of Poist's
doctoral students is exploring this
new field. ■

—Ton Otwell

Outlook

January 18. 1988

Take Your Beef to the Mediation Center

Do you happen to live next door to what you consider to
be College Park's very own version of the Animal House? Is
your office mate driving you up the wall and nearly over the
edge for one reason or another? Is there something about
your working or living on campus that is making life less than
enjoyable? Then contact the College Park Community Media-
tion Center at 4511 Knox Road. The center, a cooperative

venture between UMCP and the City of College Park, has a
complement of volunteers trained as mediators to help resolve
all kinds of problems— both on and off campus. Staffers seek
mutually agreeable resolutions to disputes as a way to avoid
costly litigation. The service is voluntary, confidential, and
free. For more information call center coordinator Melissa
Henderson at 277-5591.

COLLEGE PARK PEOPLE

New Snow Removal Plan Passes First Test

For some people, snow means the
promise of a winter wonderland, but
for others it is: twelve miles of roads,
more than 27 miles of sidewalks,
some 300 acres of parking lots and
"too many" Georgian steps — all of
which have to be cleared.

That's what Kevin Brown,
manager of grounds maintenance, sees
every time the first flakes of snow
start to fall on the College Park
Campus.

"In the past we had a kind of un-
written snow plan for the campus,"
he says. "Priority areas and routes
were cleared, but everything else was
just putting out fires." Snow moving
equipment was shuttled from one
crisis location to another, he says.
"It was an ineffective way of doing
the job,"

Although the surprise Veterans Day
snow stomi in November caught
both the campus and local
municipalities with their plows down,
the January 8 snow provided a tme
test of the new snow removal plan's
design and effectiveness.

Until now. Grounds Division per-
sonnel had the primary responsibility
for removing snow from sidewalks,
roads and parking lots; Physical Plant
employees cleared individual building
steps and those secondary paths
leading to main campus sidewalks.

This year's new plan, which has
the enthusiastic endorsement and sup-
port of Physical Plant Director Frank
Brewer, divides the campus into ten
zones. An operator has been assigned
to each piece of snow removal equip-
ment and several new pieces have
been added to the snow fighters'
arsenal. Each piece of equipment has
been assigned a campus priority area.

The Grounds Division now has six
John Deere tractors for sidewalks,
seven snow-blowers, six hydraulic-
driven rotory snow brooms, two
30-horsepower tractors, one 32-hp
model and a new 60-hp workhorse
each equipped with front end loaders,
four trucks equipped with snow-
plows, two payloaders. and two
4-wheel drive trucks with plows.

"The net effect." Brown predicts,
"is that wherever you look on cam-
pus, you will see snow removal ac-
tivity underway. Snow removal has
been our number one priority in
terms of the kind of equipment we
purchase. We are always looking at
equipment with the view of how it
can be used to remove snow."

Another factor that should make
the task a little easier is the Domar
storage facility. The new dome-shaped
structure is especially designed to
store up to 500 tons of salt, sand and
cinders and to keep it dry. One of
the problems in the past. Brown
notes, was that the salt got wet and
froze before it was ever loaded on
t nicks or froze on the tmck beds
once it was loaded. A new, heated
truck storage shed should prevent this
problem from happening again, he says.

Brown has also ordered two tons
of de-icer, a material which works
like salt but which will not kill grass
and plantings and is effective at
temperatures as low as 16 degrees F.

"Ice control and prevention has
been one of our biggest problems in
the past," Brown says. "We hope this
year to be able to a better job."

But musclepower, not just new and
better equipment and storage facilities,
is the heart of the improved snow
removal plan. This winter, instead of
only 45 people clearing ice and snow,
Brown says the campus will have be-
tween 400 and 500 available. Physical
Plant staff as well as Grounds Division
personnel will be wielding shovels,

"Although everybody will shovel,
crews are assigned to smaller areas
and when they are finished with that
sector or zone, they are finished,"
Brown says. "The new equipment
will cut down on a lot of the hand
shoveling we've had to do in the
past." Physical Plant Director Brewer
has also purchased 14 small
snowblowers for each of the Physical
Plant trade shops.

When the snow begins to fall,
whether it is Code Yellow, Orange or
Red. the College Park Campus will be
in good hands this winter. ■

— Tom Otuell

J !

Kevin Brown

In The Spotlight: Jacqueline Willifor d

Jacqueline A. Williford's 22-year
love affair with UMCP began on St.
Valentine's Day 1966 when she joined
the Personnel Department, then
located on the lower level of the
Main Administration Building.

"Starting on February 14 seemed
like a good sign," she recalls. "I've
always enjoyed working at Maryland
and have never thought about look-
ing anywhere else."

And for everyone who draws a
UMCP paycheck, that's probably a
very good thing.

Williford is responsible for supervis-
ing the payroll process for virtually
the entire campus. Every two weeks
during the school year approximately
12,000 paychecks are written.
Williford, Supervisor, Personnel Office
II, Dept. of Personnel Services, is
regarded by many to be the single
most important person at UMCP in
making sure the campus payroll is
processed accurately and on time.

There are few jobs that call for
more tact and patience than dealing
with irate employees whose
paychecks are late, incorrect, or
worse yet, missing altogether. It takes
a rare individual who can maintain a
composed and understanding de-
meanor under those unsettling and
almost always confrontational situa-
tions. Williford is one of the best.

Like the lettercarrier of legend, she
has been known to endure the hard-
ships of snowstorms to ensure that
the campus payroll deadline is met.
Several years ago, for instance, during
a major winter storm, she was ferried
via a Physical Plant four-wheel drive
truck from her home to her campus
office where she distributed
paychecks.

Williford is always responsive and

sympathetic to the needs of others.
Once, as the result of a monumental
administrative foulup, some 890,000
in wages did not get paid. With enor-
mous patience, she assisted between
70 and 80 campus employees in ob-
taining their emergency paychecks.

In addition to supervising five
payroll office staff members, she runs
a kind of boot camp where all new
campus employees involved in payroll
procedures get their basic training. As
probably the most well-versed
authority on payroll issues on cam-
pus, she continues to serve as a
resource to help resolve payroll
dilemmas. In fact, she has been called
"the answer grape" because of her
ability to solve problems.

In recognition of her outstanding
contributions to UMCP, her colleagues
and supervisors nominated Williford
to the Office and Clerical Category of
the 1987 State Employee Performance
Awards competition. She was one of
two finalists out of 4 1 nominees from
agencies around the State for the award.

Before joining UMCP, the long-time
College Park resident and mother of
four grown sons was employed by a
Mt. Rainier finance company,

"I would have started working at
the university sooner," she says, "but
I thought it closed down during the
summer." ■

Ouiijook

January 18, 1988

Gift of $25,000 Could Be Yours, Professor

Laventhol and Horwath. the nation's ninth largest account-
ing firm, has established a fellowship in the UMCP College of
Business and Management to recruit or retain an outstanding
senior-level member of the accounting faculty. The
Philadelphia-based firm will make a gift of $25,000 to the UM

Foundation at the rate of $5,000 annually for five years. At the
end of the five-year period, the firm will coasider renewing
the gift. The Laventhol and Horwath Fellowship will be
awarded for one year and can be made to the same faculty
member in subsequent years. The recipient will be chosen
based on his or her record of success as a researcher and
teacher.

GRAPEVINE

Remarks to Graduate Fellows

continued from page I
Students). It's a book that's been
much in the news and I'm sure it's
familiar to many of you. In many-
ways, Bloom's book is valuable — it
leads us to consider carefully such
crucial questions as the usefulness of
professional specialization, to re-
examine a suspicion that academic
standards are being lowered by the
presence in the curriculum of such
things as (dare I say it) women's
studies, to wonder about the function
of the humanities in a technological
society...

After I read Bloom's book, I read a
fine review of it... by Martha
Nussbaum in The New York Review
of Books. There, she makes a convin-
cing case for the debilitating nar-
rowness of Bloom's scholarship, his
failure to quote from or to refer to
any of the classic texts in philosophy
whose cultural neglect has. in his
view, led to a very dire state of
things — nothing less than the destruc-
tion of Western civilization by
relativistic thought. ..But at the mo-
ment I'm less interested in the details
of Bloom's scholarship, or his non-
scholarship if you will, than in the
despair of his vision. It's as if he sits
forever on the gloomy end of
Dickens's imaginative seesaw, a grum-

Perfetto Appointed
Assn. Director

Patrick Perfetto, director of Campus
Guest Services, has been appointed
Director of the Eastern Association of
College Auxiliary Services, and to the
National Association of College Aux-
iliary Services' Publications/Journal Ad-
visory Board. NACAS represents col-
lege and university administrators
who are responsible for auxiliary
business and sen-ice operations such
as printing sen-ices, postal services,
student housing and food services,
bookstores, public safety, vending,
and a host of others.

Blumler Elected President of
Communication Association

Journalism Professor Jay Blumler
has been chosen president of the In-
ternational Communication Associa-
tion, an organization of communica-
tion scholars based in Austin. Texas.
Since joining the Journalism faculty in
1983, Blumler has divided his time
between Maryland and the University
of Leeds where he holds a chair in
the Social and Political Aspects of
Broadcasting and is director of the
Center for Television Research. At
UM, Blumler is associate director of
the College of Journalism's Center for
Research in Public Communication.
One of his major research interests,
political communication, is the subject
of his most recent book. Com-
municating To Voters.

py pessimist, weighted down by his
grim view of American students cut
off from tradition, caring about
nothing but the latest album from
Mick Jagger, their minds destroyed by
what I think most of us believe to be
a good thing — liberal education.
Whatever our particular discipline,
whatever our particular politics, I
think we agree on the desirability of
such an education — ideally, among
other things, it teaches us to value
cultures other than our own, it
enables us to develop an historical
imagination, it encourages us to
understand the struggles and aspira-
tions of peoples less privileged than
we are. It makes us believe that the
university, rather than being cor-
rupted by contemporary democratic
demands for equality as Bloom would
have it, is a place for opening the
mind, not closing it. In short, we
don't believe that relativism is a dirty
word.

One hundred and eighty-seven
graduate fellows are being honored
here today and the scope of their
support is astonishing— we have
fellowships from industry, federal
agencies, private donors, foundations,
whole government departments. Let
me be specific and give you some
representative examples (to list all our

Search Underway for
Undergraduate Studies Dean

Nominations for the position of
Dean of L'ndergraduate Studies are
being accepted by members of a cam-
pus search committee chaired by
John Burt (PERH). Other members of
the committee are: Maurine Bcasley
(Journalism). Robert Coogan (English),
Bruce Frctz (Psychology), Jordan
Goodman (Physics and Astronomy),
Effie Hacklander (Human Ecology),
Debbie Kurley (undergraduate). Jerry
Lewis (Upward Bound), Estelle
Russek-Cohen (Animal Science), and
William Scales (Counseling Center).

Accomodating
Accomodations

UMCP travelers qualify for a variety
of special hotel rates, says campus
travel coordinator Sue Kernan. These
rates are labled: educator (all L'M
faculty and staff); government (all state
employees, including I M travelers);
Federal Cost Reimbursable Contractor
(to UM travelers using Federal con-
tract funds): and corporate (business
travelers). Some hotels offer discounts
to guests who fit into one or several
of these categories: Best Western (UM
ID# 526710), Days Inn, Sheraton.
Quality International and Howard
Johnson. For additional hotel informa-
tion, contact Kernan at 454-4755.

support would, I fear, take too
long) — we have a Judith Resnick
Fellowship, a MacArthur Fellowship, a
Republic of China Ministry of Educa-
tion Fellowship, a Patricia Roberts
Harris Fellowship: we have
fellowships from the National Science
Foundation, the National Institute of
Health, the Naval Research
Laboratory, the United States Depart-
ment of Housing and Urban Develop-
ment... (in all] we have 187 graduate
students committed enough, open-
minded enough in the sense of rising
to intellectual challenge, to merit the
support of an impressive line-up. All
of you here today arc not engaged in
research at a sheltered, elitist universi-
ty (and I think this is one of our
strengths), you do not shut out those
who believe the vibrancy of American
culture derives from the fact that it is
created, and has been created, by dif-
ferent ethnic groups, different social
classes. Your presence here today as
graduate fellows is a resounding re-
joinder to Bloom's gloomy vision...

In (he early seventies [when I was
in graduate school] academic employ-
ment in the humanities had all but
gone down the drain and enrolling in
graduate studies in English was like
getting an advance ticket for
unemployment. Everyone rolled their
eyes and said I was crazy — but I was
not, because on some very simple
but very important gut level I knew
that graduate study in English would
give me pleasure, would give me
power through that sense of
pleasure — would, in fact, give me an
exhilarating sense of opening, not
closing my mind... Sure, it was
sometimes bleak — holed up in a tiny
carrel at the top of Butler Library on
the Columbia campus, on some days

turning out many pages on Charles
Dickens (among other writers) and
being told by my dissertation director
that those pages were not as good as
I thought they were, or, and this is
probably worse, discovering on other
days that I wasn't turning out any
pages at all. ..I'm sure those of you in
the natural and social sciences have
had and do have similar experiences
as you oscillate between exhilaration
and despair... [But] when I think about
your achievements, about the dif-
ferent fellowships that both enable
and recognize those achievements,
when I re-examine my own values
about a liberal education or think
back to my own graduate career and
the way it opened my own mind, I
refuse to accept the negativism, the
prejudice, the despair of Bloom's
book. Paradoxically enough, though,
we couldn't respond to his vision if
we did not have open minds — if
even-thing Bloom says is true then
there would he no audience for his
book, no reviews, no appearances on
Phil Donahue, no cafeteria chat or
dinner table conversation. It's Bloom's
despised "relativism'' thai enables
publication and marketing of his
ideas — ideas which he's absolutely
justified in having and for which I'm
not ungrateful. Fie enabled me to
consider where 1 sit now on
Dickens's imaginative seesaw. When I
entered graduate school in 1972, all
around me engaged in collective hair-
tearing about the state of unemploy-
ment in the humanities, I really did
believe that I "had everything before"
me. I think you do too— most of the
time, it is "the best of times" not
"the worst of times," "the age of
wisdom," not of "foolishness," a
season of hope, not despair... "■

Here's one New Year's resolution that shouldn't be too difficult to keep: Visit the Dairy Sales
Room in Turner Lab on a monthly basis and have a banana split or ice cream cone made with
100% UM ice cream. Dairy sales room manager Mary Barber says you can choose from among
24 flavors, including this month's specialty, Chesapeake Wildberry Ripple.

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