Outlook / the University of Maryland, College Park (1990)

Volume 4, Number 22

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Committee to Explore
Opportunities for
Blacks on Campus

President William E. Kirwan has ap-
pointed a new committee to take a com-
prehensive look at programs and prac-
tices that affect Black Americans at the
university.

The president askecfthe group to
assess the effectiveness of present pro-
grams aimed at achieving full participa-
tion of Black Americans in all aspects of
campus life, recommend changes in defi-
cient programs, and suggest new
strategies to achieve the objectives on
Black American participation outlined in
the campus' Enhancement Plan.

"It is my hope that the report of the
committee will delineate specific steps
the campus should take so that it can be
not just a leader in the percentage of
Black Americans at the university, hut
also a national example of a fully in-
tegrated campus community,'' said Kir-
wan, who asked the committee to com-
plete its work by the end of the fall
1990-91 semester.

Physics professor S. James Gates
heads the committee. The president also
asked Kay Gillian, assistant to the prcsi
dent, to assist the group. Gillian
developed the recent Access fs Not
Enough report that presents the status of
various campus desegregation programs
and suggests possible areas of new
emphasis,

Members of the committee include: Vi-
vian S. Boyd (Counseling Center), Moni-
cjuc W. Clague (Education Policy, Plan-
ning and Admin.). Mary E. Cothran
(Minority Student Education), Irwin L
Goldstein (Psychology), Robert W. Grif-
fith (Arts and Humanities), Kimya Jones
(student, Black Student Union), Michael
J. Martirano (Resident Life), John E.
Osborn (CMPS). Don C. Piper (Govt. &
Politics). Laura Randall [student), Eleanor
V. Redmond (Student Affairs). Harry A.
Eeabout (Building/General Services), Rev.
Weldon Thomas (chaplain), Tony L.
Whitehead (Anthropology!. ■

— Rtt- liielwrt

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Distinguished Scholar-Teachers
to Present Lectures

Wayne Cole, professor of history, and
Christopher Davis, professor of electrical
engineering, will present the first two
Distinguished Scholar-Teacher lectures
on March 28 and April -i respectively.
Both Cole's lecture, "Franklin D.
Roosevelt; Great Man or Man for his
Times," and Davis' lecture. 'Lasers: The
Good, The Bad, and The Ugly," will he
held in the Art/Sociology Lecture Hall
(2203) at ^t p.m. A reception will follow^
both lectures In the Arc/Sociology
Atrium. Call 454-25;iu for more infor-
mation. ■

College of Engineering Among Nation's Best,
Says New U.S. News & World Report Survey

The College of Engineering is in the
top 13 percent in the nation among
prestigious engineering graduate schools,
according to a comprehensive new
survey by U.S. News & World Report
magazine.

The College was ranked 24th among
the 192 accredited schools offering
master of science and doctoral degrees in
'America's Best Graduate Schools," a
special report in the magazine's March
19th edition.

George E. Dieter, engineering dean,
said: "Overall. I find the ranking very en-
couraging, especially when you separate
out the public and private schools that
are among the top 25, The survey shows
the tremendous competition that exists
among graduate schools of engineering
in this country. It also shows that sup-
port for the college needs to be main-
tained so we can continue to build on
the great progress we have made over
the past several years."

Among the other top 25 graduate
engineering schools are Massachusetts In-
stitute of Technology. Stanford, Cornell,
Carnegie Mellon, Harvard, Princeton and

Engineering Dean George E. Dieter

Purdue universities, and the universities
of Illinois. California at Berkeley, Texas,
Michigan and Southern California.

The weekly news magazine developed
a system for ranking graduate and profes-

sional schools similar to the one it uses
for the annual ( !.S. News survey of
undergraduate education.

continued on page 3

Top Soviet Physicist Joins University as
Distinguished Visiting Professor

Roald Sagdeev

Roald Sagdeev. a former director of
the Institute of Space Physics in Moscow
and one of the leading physicists in the
world, will spend the next few months
as a distinguished visiting professor in

the university's Department of Physics
and Astronomy.

Sagdeev. who currently is head of the
Theory Division of the Institute of Space
Physics, will be participating in plasma
and fusion research while at the universi-
ty, in addition to collaborating on a
chaos project with university researchers
and another visiting professor from the
Soviet Union, George Zaslavsky.

Sagdeev also will be presenting several
seminars and public lectures while he is
here, including lectures on arms control.
He has served as science advisor to
Mikhail Gorbachev on space and arms
control at summits in Geneva,
Washington and Moscow.

"We arc very pleased to have Dr.
Sagdeev here with us," says Chuan S.
Liu, chair of the Department of Physics
and Astronomy, "He is a man of science
and a man of peace."

Liu and Sagdeev have known each
other for a long time. Twenty years ago
they met at a conference and began
discussing their mutual interest in a
problem in nonlinear plasma physics.

Sagdeev visited Liu for few days at
UCLA, where Liu w : as working at the
time. Eventually, after Sagdeev returned
to the Soviet Union, they collaborated
on a paper about the problem.

"It was a small but important paper,"
Sagdeev remembers. "We were fortunate
because in general at that time it was dif-
ficult to collaborate with Americans. But
plasma physics was a special area of
previous collaboration starting back in
the 1950s. That was nice for us."

Sagdeev is happy to be spending this
time at College Park, in addition to the
research and public lectures, he is look-
ing forward to talking with students,

"1 want to talk with students, in-
cluding high school students," Sagdeev
says. "Most exciting things arc happen-
ing now in the world. We must not
forget about the young generation."

On Thursday, March 29, Sagdeev will
give his first public lecture titled "The
Significance of Space for Science" at
4:00 p.m. in Room 1412 of the Physics
Building ■

Mde

New Study of Amazon
Deforestation

Shukla warns of irreversible damage.

2

Mitchell Statue Unveiled

Former regent and civil rights
leader honored...

3

Legendary Dancer Featured
in New Biography

Warren documents

Sokolow's influence

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Outlook

March 26, 1990

MIPS Grants Available for Maryland Firms

Applications arc now being accepted for Maryland Industrial Part-
nerships (MIPS) matching grants. The deadline for the next round is
May I . MIPS supports scientific or technical research at the Univer-
sity of Maryland for product or process development designed to
meet the specific needs of companies, Small firms are given extra
assistance in the form of a lower requirement for matching funds.
MIPS is an arm of the university's Engineering Research Center. All
1 1 Maryland campuses are MIPS participants. For more information,
call Judith Mays at 454-1935.

Personnel Services Announces Spring
Seminar Schedule

Training seminar offerings in the months of April and May from
the Personnel Services Department include the following:

Apr. 7— FAS;

Apr. 11 and 12— Office Management for Secretaries;

Apr. I 7 — Overview of Communication Services;

Apr. IS, 25, May 2 (three consecutive Wednesdays)—

Effective Writing;

Apr. 26— Overview of Personnel Services;

May 1— Career Counseling.

Watch for registration forms approximately four weeks prior to
each seminar; call Rythec Wilkes at 454-48 1 1 for further information.

RESEARCH HIGHLIGHT,

Amazon Deforestation Could be Irreversible
According to Meteorology Study

^B new study by the Center for

f\ Ocean-Land-Attnosphere In-
/ I teractions {COLA!) in the
^L J. Department of Meteorology
has shown that most of the Amazon rain
forest could disappear in Si) to 100 years
if deforestation continues at the present
rate.

An article detailing the one-year study
appeared in the March 1 6 issue of the
journal Science.

According to Jagadish Shuklu —
professor of meteorology and director of
CO LAI— a cam pus -based study, funded
by NSF. NOAA. and .NASA, used the
NASA supercomputer at the liuddard
Space Flight Center to project possible
effects on climate caused by total
deforestation of the Amazon basin.

"The Amazon rain forest is the largest
forest in the world, and it is being
destroyed at a devastating!}' fast rate,"
says Shukla. "Our results show that if
Amazon deforestation continues at the
present rate, it will produce irreversible
changes in climate that could make re-
establishment of the tropical forests par-
ticularly difficult."

Shukla conducted the research with
Carlos Nobre. an engineer and
meteorologist with the Brazilian Space
Research Institute and a visiting scientist
at COLA1. and with Piers J. Sellers, an
associate research scientist with CO LAI.

According to Nobre. about 14,000
square miles of rain forest is destroyed
in Amazonia each year and, according to
some studies, 12 percent of the forest
already has been destroyed through the
slash -and-burn techniques used by
farmers there.

The researchers used a newly
developed coupled numerical
model of the global atmosphere and
biosphere to assess the effects of
Amazon deforestation on the regional
and global climate.

Jagadish Shukla

The study shows that when t he-
tropical forests are replaced with pasture
c:i .i-- in tin- nindel. there is a significani
increa.se in surface temperature and a
decrease in evapotranspiration and
precipitation over Amazonia

According to the study, when forest is
replaced with pasture as is net Hiring in
the Amazon basin, the land has a reduced
ability to retain water. The effect is
decreased rainfall, higher temperatures, a
lengthened dry season, and increased

propensity for forest fires. This
diminishes the possibility for re-
establishment of forest.

According to the findings, a few
significant changes in global circulation,
particularly over North America, were
evident in the model where Amazon
deforestation was simulated. But because
of a number of climatic fluctuations that
naturally occur over this part of the
world, more study will be necessary to
determine if Amazon deforestation
would have actual effects on North
American cl innate. The authors of the
study believe that the large change in
the rainfall over the Amazon is likely to
produce significant changes in global cir-
culation, and they currently are conduc-
ting further studies to determine the
nature of global changes due to Amazon
def< > res tat ion.

"The lack of an extended dry season
apparently sustains the current tropical
forests, therefore, a lengthening of the
dry season could have serious ecological
implications for the Amazon forest,"
Sellers says.

The destruction of forest and probable
resulting climate changes also could have
adverse effects on other plants and
animals in the region, the researchers
say. The Amazon basin plays host to
roughly half of the world's species of
plants and animals.

"These results suggest that a complete
and rapid destruction of the Amazon
tropical forest could be irreversible, the
researchers conclude. "Changes in the
region's hydrologies! cycle and the
disruption of complex plant-animal rela-
tions could be so profound, that once
the tropica! forests were destroyed, they
might not be able to re-establish
themselves." ■

—Ftiriss StaiMirtli

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Skiff Awarded Sloan Fellowship

Frederick N. Skiff, an assistant pro-
fessor in the laboratory for Plasma
Research and the Department of Physics,
has been selected as an Alfred V. Sloan
Research Fellow.

The fellowship provides a S2S,(,0l»
grant to support research during a two-
year period. Skiff was nominated for the
fellowship by the physics department
and selected as a fellow by the Alfred R
Sloan Foundation.

Skiff specializes in bridging plasma
physics with chaos theory. He plans to
use the Sloan grant to help establish a
Fundamental Plasma Physics Lab within
the Laboratory for Plasma Research.

"I study particle interactions by lauch-
.ing electro-magnetic waves through a
plasma of ionized gas." be says. "I try to
determine where particles exchange their
energy and how their motions become
chaotic under certain conditions."

According to Skiff, an understanding of
the conditions by which a wave sails
through a plasma or is absorbed by that
plasma, can lead to advances in fusion
research.

"One of my experiments involves send-
ing two waves through the plasma and
then looking at the point at which they
interact." Skiff says. "Such studies can
also help us understand the movement of
radio waves through the plasma which
surrounds the Earth"

As an experimentalist, Skiff is also con-
cerned with developing measurement
techniques for complex processes such
as Chaos. Some of the techniques he
develops can have applications to other
scientific experiments as well.

During his first year as a Sloan Fellow,
Skiff will be released from leaching
- duties. He will use that time to conduct
research anil prepare grant proposals to

Frederick N. Skiff

various organizations for the additional
funds needed to develop his lab. "I'm
hoping the Sloan fellowship acts as a
catalyst leading to other funding,"
he savs. ■

Class of 1990 Plans Gift for McKeldin Mall

When Test Lido looks out across the mall next semester, he may
not believe his eyes. Not only will he see a five-tiered fountain on
the east side, but also a new outdoor plaza in the center— to be
called the Senior Forum— which will in part be funded by dona-
tions from the graduating class. The recently formed Senior Class
of 1990 Gift Committee, sponsored by the Student Affairs Office, is
hoping not only to help with the construction of the plaza, but
also to re-establish a tradition of senior class gifts. Testudo himself
was a class gift, but the custom has never been regular on the Col-
lege Park campus. The Class of 199(1 hopes to change that. For in-
formation or to assist in the effort call, Jon Herstein at 454-5251.

OuiLOGK

March 26, 1990

Statue of Former Regent Clarence Mitchell Unvefled

President William Kirwan unveils a statue of former regent Clarence Mitchell

A statue of the late Clarence M.
Mitchell Jr.. the national civil rights
champion and former University of
Maryland regent, was unveiled during a
ceremony Wednesday. February 28, in
the lobby of the Main Administration
Building.

The final bronze statue, which will be
located in front of the Mitchell Building
facing Campus Drive, has yet to be cast
from the fiberglass model that was
unveiled in the ceremony.

The statue was created by Randall
Craig, an associate professor in the
Department of Curriculum and Instruc-
tr tion and a highly regarded sculptor.
a During the ceremony. Craig joined
w President William Kirwan and former
§ congressman Parren Mitchell. Clarence's
< brother, in praising the regent's work as
a civil rights leader.

Committee Establishes Distinguished
International Services Award

The International Affairs Committee.
with approval from the academic vice
president and provost, has established
the first annual "Distinguished Interna-
tional Service Award'' to be presented at
the annual Convocation in October.

"A numher of people who have con-
tributed significantly to the growth of in-
ternational programs ai I ! MCP have
retired in recent years, and a number of
others will be retiring in the next few
years,'' says Marcus Franda, director of
International Affairs. "This award is a
way of recognizing significant contribu-
tions to the university during the past
few historic decades when international
programs were being developed for the
first time."

The main criteria for selection will be
one or more significant contributions to
the development of international pro-
grams at UMCP, backed by a distin-
guished professional career.

Nominations, which should be re-
ceived by April 10, will be accepted
from the president and vice presidents
of the university, deans of all the col-
leges, as well as the deans of graduate
and undergraduate programs, members
of the Board of Regents, members of the

International Affairs Committee, faculty
members and administrators.

The International Affairs Committee
has established a subcommittee of three
persons, including Grace Yang, professor
of mathematics and committee chair; E.
B. Smith, professor of history; and
William Fourney, professor and chair of
the Department of Mechanical Engineer-
ing, to consider the nominations and
select two or three finalists.

Finalists will then be ranked by the
International Affairs Committee and their
names forwarded to Vice President for
Academic Affairs Robert Dorfman for
final selection.

A plaque will be presented to the re-
cipient of the award each year. In addi-
tion, the names of the recipients will he
engraved on a plaque to be placed in
the Office of International Affairs.

Nominations should be sent to the Of-
fice of international Affairs at L 1 OH Ben-
jamin Building,

The nomination should provide as
much information about the nominee as
possible and a statement outlining rite
reasons why the nominee should be
presented with the award.

For more information, call 454-3<X)8. ■

Kirwan spoke warmly ahout his
association with Mitchell and said that
honoring him was an historic event for
the College Park campus.

Parren Mitchell echoed Kirwan's senti-
ment, noting how much had changed
since 1954 when, as a graduate student,
he became the first black student en-
rolled at the University of Maryland.

Kirwan also announced that an en-
dowment fund has been created to sup-
port black students and "provide more
Clarence Mitchell Jr.s. He had a
remarkable career that touched the lives
of many around the world," Kirwan
said. ■

College of Engineering Celebrates
Women's History Month

The College of Engineering is
celebrating Women's History Month with
a scries of lectures and seminars designed
to encourage more women to enter the
engineering profession.

On March 14. the college's women
faculty and the campus chapter of the
student Society of Women Engineers
(SWK) held a seminar on the pleasures of
going to graduate school. The seminar
was the repeat of a popular annual
presentation aimed at increasing the
number of women enrolled in engineer-
ing graduate programs here.

It was presented by faculty members
Deborah J. Goodings (civil engineering),
Hasna J. Khan (mechanical engineering).
Kawthar A, Zaki (electrical engineering).
Lourdes G. Salamanca -Young, Isabel K.
Lloyd and Yicki M. Bier (materials and
chemical and nuclear engineering), and
Marilyn R. Berman, associate dean.

On Monday, March 26, Stephen G.
Brush, who holds a joint appointment
with the Department of History and the
Institute for Physical Science and
Technology, discusses the problems of

under-representation of women in
engineering. Brush will speak at noon in
Room 1128 of the Engineering Classroom
Building.

On TUesday, March 2^ at 2 p.m. in the
Engineering Lecture Hall, representatives
of the I '. S. Patent Office will present a
lecture and slide show depicting women
inventors and their contributions. The
show is pan of a special exhibition now
on display at the Patent Office. A recep-
tion will follow in the Department of
Civil Engineering Conference Room,

Members of the campus chapter of
SWE have invited students from three
area all-women high schools as their
guests to the program

On April 2^t, Mildred Dresselhaus, pro-
fessor of electrical engineering at the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
will deliver a lecture in Room 1202.
Dresselhaus has long been active na-
tionally in efforts to bring more women
into the engineering disciplines. A recep-
tion in the Civil Engineering Conference
Room will follow her 3 p.m, lecture. ■

College of Engineering Receives High Ranking

vonlitmed from page t

The system was developed based on
months of interviews with scores of
faculty members and deans at dozens of
graduate schools, large and small, public
and private.

It combines a subjective survey of
academic reputation with objective data
relating to the schools' selectivity in ad-
missions, instructional and other
resources, and its graduation patterns.

The survey considered the following
key attributes of each school:

Student selectivity— the fall 1989 ac-
ceptance rates for masters' and Ph.D.
programs and the percentage of students
accepted who actually enrolled.

Instructional Resources— the propor-
tion of full-time faculty holding Ph.D.
degrees and the ratio of full-time Ph.D.
candidates and M.S. students to full-time
faculty,

Research— total dollar value of all
private and public research conducted by
the school during the last academic year,
plus dollar value of sponsored research
per faculty member involved in research.
For UMCP that figure was 121.3 million
as compared with S84.7 million at
number one ranked Massachusetts In-
stitute of Technology.

Academic reputation— based on ques-
tionnaires sent to two top officials at

every school plus a cross section of
leading off-campus professionals in-
cluding engineers. Off-campus practi-
tioners were asked to choose the 15
schools in their discipline with the best
reputations for producing outstanding
professionals. Of the 7,298 questionnaires
sent out, 3,437 were returned. ■

—Tom otuvii

Ootidok

March 26, 1990

alendar

Economics Professor Organizes Conference

Peter Murrell, professor of economics here and an authority on
the economies of socialist countries, especially those of Eastern
Europe, recently organized a conference of nine Western
economists and 1 1 from the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe to
discuss new approaches to analyzing the political economy of
Eastern Europe. The March 1 2-16 meeting was held at the
Rockefeller Foundation-owned conference center in Bellagio, Italy,
and funded by the MacArthur Foundation. In addition to Murrell.
College Park economists Mancur Olson and Dennis C. Mueller also
attended the conference.

March 2d — April 4

The Takacs Quartet will perform
Sunday, April 1, 3 p.m., Center
3f Adult Education

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School of Architecture Alumni
Exhibition, today through April 4,
Architecture Gallery. Call x3427 for
info.

Art Exhibition: "Contemporary
Latin American Photographers,"
organized by Aperture
Photography, through April 27, The
Art Gallery, Art/Sociology Bldg. Calf
X2763 for info.

Horticulture Seminar: "Plant
Quarantine Laboratory in Relation
to the National Plant Gerrrtplasm
System," Bruce Parliman, USDA, 4
p.m., 0128B Holzapfel Hall. Call
x3606 for info.

Computer Science Colloquium:

"Recent Results in Network
Rows," James Orlin, MIT. 4 p.m.,
0111 AV. Williams Bldg. Call
x4244 for info.

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Registration Ends, tor pre-season
softball, doubles tennis. Call x3124
for info.

Employee Development Seminar:
"Telephone Management," Jean
Spanarelti, 9 a.m-4 p.m., 0105
Center of Adult Education, $40.
Call x4811 for info'

Zoology Lecture: "Phylogeny and
Evolution of Broad Headed
Drosophilidae," David Grimaldi,
American Museum of Natural
History, noon, 1208 Zoo/Psych.
Bldg. Call X3201 for info.

Music Faculty Recital, featuring
William Montgomery, flutist, and
Roy Hakes, pianist, performing
Poulenc's Sonata for Flute and
Piano, and solo works by Anne
Koscielny, piano, ana Emerson
Head, trumpet. 12:30 p.m., Tawes
Recital Hail. Call x6669 for into.

Women's Lacrosse vs. Virginia, 3
p.m.. Denton Field. Cail x5854 for
info.

Science, Technology and Society
Lecture: "The Interplay of Human
Values, Technology and Leisure,
"Philip Bosserman, Salisbury State
U., 3:30 p.m., 2102 Shoemaker
Bldg. Call x8862 for info.

Physics Colloquium: "Atomic Im-
aging and Thermodynamic Studies
of Surface Flatness," Ellen D.
Williams, 4 p.m., 1410 Physics
Bldg. Call x3512 for info.

Registration Begins, tor outdoor
volleyball. Call X3124 for info.

Counseling Center Research &
Development Seminar: "Implica-
tions of Recent Research for Pro-
grams for Student-Athletes."
Javaune Adams-Gaston, Cathy
McHugh Engstrom, and William
Sedlacek, noon, 0106 Shoemaker
Bldg. Cail x2937 for info.

International Agriculture & Life
Sciences Colloquium:

"Agricultural Extension in Taiwan:
Updating a Successful System," O.
Donald Meaders, Michigan State.
U., noon, 0115 Symons Hall. Call
x4933 for info.

International Coffee Hour, 3-4:30
p.m., 0205 Jimenez Hall. Call
x4925 for info.

Science, Technology and Society
Film Discussion, featuring Steven
Fetter on "Dr. Strangelove," 3
p.m.. 0220 Jimenez Hall. Call
x5893 for info.

Women's Lacrosse vs. Rich-
mond, 3:30 p.m., Denton Field.
Call X5854 for info.

Distinguished Scholar-Teacher
Lecture: "Franklin D Roosevelt:
Great Man or Man for His Times,"
Wayne Cole, 4 p.m., 2203 Art/Soc.
Bldg.. reception to follow in
Art/Soc. Atrium. Call x2530 for info.

Astronomy Colloquium: "Women
in Astronomy: 1840 to Present,"
Vera Rubin, Carnegie Institute of
Washington. 4 p.m., 1113 Com-
puter & Space Sciences Bldg. Call
x3005 for info.

Art History Lecture; "The
Language of Criticism: Its Effect on
Georgia O'Keeffe's Art in the
1920s," Barbara Buhler Lynes, 4
p.m., 2309 Art/Soc. Call x3431 for
info.

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Pre-Retirement Seminar, today
and tomorrow, 9:30 a.m.-3 p.m.,
0105 Center of Adult Education.
Cail x6312 for info

Housing and Design Lecture and
Discussion: "Design History and
Practice: Is There Room for Diver-
sity?" Judith Moldenhauer, U. of
Michigan, 11 a.m., 1413 Marie
Mount. Call x6267 for info.

Career Development Center Pro-
gram: "Salary Negotiation for
Women," 12 noon-1 p.m. presenta-
tion; 1-1:30 p.m., question and
answer session, 3108 Hornbake,
South. Call X2813 for into.

Art Department Minorities &
Women Lecture, featuring
Houston Conwell, New York City
artist, 12:30 p.m., Art/Sociology
Bldg. Call X0344/5 for info.

Systems Research Center Collo-
quium: "Intelligent Systems for
Computef-lntegrated Manufactur-
ing," Michael Fehling, Stanford U,
3-4 p.m., 1100 ITV Bldg. Call
x5880 for info.

Meteorology Seminar: "Sparse
Sampling of Tracer Plumes," J. Z.
Holland, 3:30 p.m., 2114 Computer
& Space Sciences Bldg. Call
X2708 for info.

Women's Studies Poetry Reading
and Book Signing: "Crime
Against Nature," Minnie Bruce
Pratt, poet and essayist, 4 p.m.,
Katherine Anne Porter Room, 3rd
floor. McKeldin, reception will
follow. Call Jevera Temsky at
x3841 tor info.

Physics and Astronomy Lecture:

"The Significance of Space for
Science," Roaid Z. Sagdeev,
distinguished scientist from
U.S.S.R., 4 p.m., 1412 Physics
Bldg. Call x4692 for info.

College of Computer,
Mathematical and Physical
Sciences Talk: "Making Scientific
Advancement Accessible to the
General Public," Kathy Keeton,
Publisher OMNI Publications, loca-
tion and time TBA. Cail x4906 tor
info.

Reliability Engineering Seminar:
"Reliability of Emerging Solid-State
Electronics," Aristos Christou,
Naval Research Lab, 5:15-6:15
p.m., 2115 Chemical & Nuclear
Engineering Bldg. Call x1941 for
info.

International Security Studies
Conference: "The Changing Con-
text of Security," 5:30-9:30 p.m. to-
day, 8:30 a.m. -5:45 p.m. tomorrow,
featuring keynote speaker Rozanne
Ridgway, The Atlantic Council, and
luncheon speaker Dennis C.
Pi rages, Stamp Union, $25 stan-
dard admission, $10 students &
faculty. Call X1906 for info."

Hoff Theater Movie: "Fabulous
Baker Boys." Call x4987 for info.*

Experiential Learning Programs
Presentation: Feminist Internship
Opportunities, 10 a.m., 0119 Horn-
bake. Call X4767 for into.

Linguistics Colloquium: "A
Paradox Concerning the Extraction
of Secondary Predicates,"
Guglielmo Cinque, U. of Venice,
noon, 0109 Hornbake Library. Call
x7002 for info.

Department of Computer Science
Brown Bag Panel Discussion:

(Beverages and dessert provided)
"Women in Computer Science:
Don't Stop Now," 12 noon, room
(2132 UMIACS Interaction Room),
A.V. Williams. Call x2002 for info.

Mental Health Lunch N Learn
Conference: "Behavioral Ap-
proaches to the Treatment of
Obsessive Compulsive Disorders,"
Charles Mansueto. Bowie State U.,
1-2 p.m., 3100E Health Center.
Call x4925 for info.

Center for Manufacturing
Engineering and Management
Lecture: "Technology, Quality, and
Computer- Integrated Manufacturing:
the Challenge and the Opportuni-
ty," Lester Gerhardt. Rensselaer
Polytechnic Institute, 2:30 p.m.,
Volunteer Fire Fighters Room,
Center of Adult Education. Call
x6553 for info.

Hoff Theater Movie: "Fabulous
Baker Boys." Call X4987 for info.

31

SAT

University Community Concerts:
Tallis Scholars, featuring a cappella
choral music of the English
Renaissance. 8 p.m., National
Presbyterian Church, $16.50 stan-
dard admission, $14 seniors and
students, free seminar at 6:30 p.m.
Call x6534 for info*

Hoff Theater Movie: "Fabulous
Baker Boys." Call x4987 for info.*

APRIL
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SUN

Wanderlust Travelogue Film:
"Grecian Odyssey," by Clint Dean,
3 p.m. today, 7:30 p.m. tomorrow,
Hoff Theater, $5 general public, $4
faculty, staff, alumni & seniors, $2
students. Call x4987 for info.*

University Community Concerts:
"Takacs Quartet HI, featuring
Mozart's String Quartet in A Major,
K. 464, Bartok's String Quartet No.
6, and Schubert's String Quartet
No. 8 in B-flat Major D. 112. 3
p.m., Center of Adult Education,
$15 standard admission, $12.50
seniors and students, free seminar
at 1:30 p.m. Call x6534 for info.*

Hoff Theater Movie: "Fabulous
Baker Boys." Call x4987 for info.*

2

MON

International Affairs Conference:
"Preparing for an International
Decade: UMCP in the 1990s,"
featuring opening remarks by
President Kirwan. 8 a.m. -5 p.m..
Founders Room, Center of Adult
Education. Call x3008 for info.

Horticulture Seminar: "The
Ethylene Biosynthesis-inducing En-
doxylanaze: Purification and
Physical Characteristics and Possi-
ble Role in Plant Pathogenesis,"
Jeffrey Dean, USDA, 4 p.m.,
0128B Holzapfel Hall. Call x3606
for info.

Computer Science Colloquium:
"A Computational Basis for
Phonology," David S. Touretzky,
Carnegie Mellon U.. 4 p.m., 011
Classroom Bldg. Call x4244 for
info.

T U E

Registration Closes, for outdoor
volleyball. Call x3124 for info.

Zoology Lecture: "Adaptive
Significance of Infant Care
Behavior by No n- Reproductive

Golden Lion Tamarins," Andy
Baker, noon, 1208 Zoo/Psych.
Bldg. Call x3201 for info.

History Department Revolutions
Lecture: "The Significance of the
English Revolutions of the Seven-
teenth Century," Lawrence Stone.
Princeton U, 3 p.m., place TBA.
Call x2843 for into.

Hoff Theater Movie:
Call x4987 for info*

'Das Boot."

Registration Begins, tor team
horseshoes. Call x3124 for info.

Employee Development Seminar,
"FAS Training," 9 a.m. -noon,
Maryland Room, Marie Mount Hall.
Call x481 1 for info.

Counseling Center Research &
Development Seminar: "Current
Issues for Jewish Students on
Campus," Rabbi Robert Saks,
noon, 0106 Shoemaker Bldg. Call
X2937 for info

International Coffee Hour, 3-4:30
p.m., 0205 Jimenez Hall Call
x4925 for info.

Writers Here and Now Poetry
Reading, featuring Phillis Levin
reading from her works, 3:30 p.m..
Katherine Anne Porter Room,
McKeldin Library. Call X2511 for
info

Distinguished Scholar-Teacher
Lecture: "Lasers: The Good, The
Bad, and The Ugly," Christopher
Davis, 4 p.m., 2203 Art/Soc. Bldg.,
reception to follow in Art/Soc.
Atrium. Call x2530 for info.

Horticulture Seminar: "Molecular
Studies of Catalase in Ripening
Tomato Fruit," Gordon Inamine,
USDA, 4 p.m., 0128B Holzapfel
Hall. Call x3606 for info.

Architecture and Horticulture
Lecture: "The Education of a
Landscape Architect," Dan Kiley,
F.A.S.LA, 8 p.m., Architecture
Auditorium. Call x3427 for info.

Early American History Seminar:

"Destined for Disappointment:
Scottish Sojourners in Jamaica and
the Chesapeake, 1740-1820," Alan
Karras, Georgetown U„ 8 p.m.,
2136 Stamp Union. Call x2843 for
info.

Hoff Theater Movie: "Das Boot."
Call x4987 for info.*

* Admission charge for this event.
AH ntbers an' Jive.

Calendar information may be
sent to John Fritz, 2101 Turner
Laboratory or (via electronic
mail) to jlfritz@pres.umd.edu.

Funds Available for New Study Abroad
Programs

The Study Abroad Office with support from the Vice President
fur Academic Affairs has established grants to support faculty who
wish to develop new study— abroad programs. These grants of up
to S4,000 may be used for development costs, travel, seed money
and in some cases, faculty compensation. Funds must be expended
by June 30, and the deadline for submitting proposals is April I ,
For more information, contact Richard Weaver, International
.Studies Coordinator, at 454-H645 or Valerie Woolston. director of
International Education Services, at 454-3043-

Two Graduate Students Win Engineering
Society Grants

Two graduate students in the Department of Mechanical
Engineering have recently been awarded grants-in-aid from the
American Society of Heating, Refrigeration and Air Conditioning
Engineers. The grants, worth $6,000 each, were awarded to Jcong
Hun Kim, a masters' degree student working with mechanical
engineering professor Rein hard K. Radermacher on a project focus-
ing on alternative refrigerants, and Sen Hu. a Ph.D. student whose
specialty is compact heat exchangers, His faculty advisor is Keith
Ilerold. Two other graduate students, David Aaron and Milid V.
Rane, also have won ASHRACE grams.

OmjooK

March 26, 1990

ARTS AT MARYLAND

Hudson Leads University Orchestra to New
Levels of Excellence

M ■ omc have said that you can

^^ hear all the harmonies of the

. ^ universe coming together in
K^J the great fngal finale of
Mozart's Symphony No. -il, "The Jupiter."

While it may be somewhat exalted to
claim that all the harmonies of the
universe are also coming together for the
University of Maryland Symphony Or-
chestra these days, when the group plays
"The Jupiter" at its upcoming concert
on April 5, the audience can't fell to
hear its new level of professionalism and
musical excellence.

Also on the April 5 program will he
the Brahms "Variations on a Theme by
Haydn," conducted by assistant conductor
Young Kwon Choi. The concert will
take place in Tawes Recital Hall begin-
tng at 8 p.m.

Conductor William Hudson says the
orchestra's improvement began three
years ago, when funding for graduate
assists ntships in the orchestra became
available. Currently there are 17 such
graduate students in the orchestra, 1 4
string players and three winds. They
have impressive credentials— training
from such institutions asjulliard, eoncer-
tizing experience in Europe, and in some
cases, solo careers.

Hudson says these young musicians
(typically aged from mid-2()s to micl-30s)
are at an important transition in their
careers, moving ahead towards being
professional orchestra players, becoming
university faculty members, or both.
Some are also seeking instrumental solo
careers, such as violinist Leonid Sushan-
sky. who will be entering the In-
dianapolis Competition this spring.

"Our music faculty does their best to
help these students he realistic about
their music careers by telling them exact-
ly what they're in for— and then if they
still want to go ahead, we do everything
we can to help." says Hudson.

Hudson's outlook is positive about the
performing music program at College
Park, and he cites as his reasons the new
interest and concern for the orchestra
and opera program that has been ex-
pressed by the funding of tuition wavers
and the generally supportive attitude of
the administration. "It has made for con-
stant growth, constant improvement." he
says. There are more instrumental
teachers now as well as the opportunity
for students to play new and interesting
music, such as in the small chamber or-
chestras for the three new operas
presented last fall.

The biggest musical need of the
university now is a good performing
place, says Hudson. To work around this
problem temporarily, arrangements have
been made for use of the Terrace
Theater in the Kennedy Center for
several Maryland Orchestra concerts next
season: on Oct. 6 faculty violinist Daniel
lleifitz will perform Vivaldi's Four
Seasons with the group; and April 1 99 1
will bring three concerts that will in-
clude Heifit/. playing the Beethoven
Violin Concert and faculty pianists in the
Mozart Double Piano Concerto.

Sooner than that and closer to home-
in Tawes Recital Hall, after the April 5
performance, Hudson says to watch for
the orchestra playing in the May 4 Artist
Scholarship Benefit concert with faculty
baritone Dominic Cossa and in an Oc-
tober 19 performance that will feature
Heifitz playing the Beethoven concerto
and Prokoviev's "Peter and the Wolf,"
narrated by President William E. Kirwan.

Improving the quality of an orchestral
group is not a new skill for Hudson. As
music director and conductor of the
Fairfax Symphony Orchestra, he has
brought that group into musical pro-
minence with famous soloists and in-
creased subscription concerts.

His lifetime commitment to music
began young, with first the piano and
then the clarinet. His musical training
was centered in Philadelphia, at its Con-
servatory, Musical Academy, Curtis In-
stitute and University of Pennsylvania.
After a stint in the famous Seventh Army
Symphony, he moved into conducting
while a graduate student at Yale. As a
conductor, he has had extensive ex-
perience, including many years with the
Washington Ballet— "Until 1 just couldn't
take another Nutcracker!" His wife also
enhances the local performing scene as a
horn player with the Washington Opera.

Conductor William Hudson rehearses the University of Maryland Orchestra

Hudson sees the Washington musical
environment as— like the Maryland
Orchestra— getting better and better,
with all the enriching opportunities to
attend and be involved in musical offer-
ings, "College Park is a place where
music students should be," he says.

And what about future plans for the
orchestra? "Building from our current 50
players to ~5 by next year, so that wc
can perform a greater variety of music.

including those kite nineteenth-century
and twentieth-century pieces that require
a large orchestra," says Hudson. "Some-
day 1 would really like to conduct the
University of Maryland Symphony Or-
chestra in Mahler's Symphony No. 2 and
Stravinsky's Rite of Spring."* he
confides.

Call 454-6669 for information about
the free April 5 concert. ■

— 1 intUi Freetneui

Asian Cinema To Be Featured in
College Park Film Series

A scene from the Chinese film "Woman
Demon Human," which will be shown on
campus March 28 as part of an Asian film
festival.

College Park audiences will
have an opportunity to ex-
plore the rich world of Asian
film this spring through a
series sponsored by the Committee on
East Asian Studies and the Department of
Radio, Television and Film.

The series will begin with the screen-
ing of two films produced in the Peo-
ple's Republic of China at 7 p.m. Wed.,
March 28. in room 0220 of Jimenez Hall.
The series will run six weeks and feature
Chinese Korean and Japanese films.

The first film in the series, "Woman
Demon Human." produced by China's
largest film studio. Shanghai, focuses on
the experience of a female opera star
who specializes in playing male roles.
Featuring resplendent costumes, the film
examines the changing role of women in
Chinese society. A second film, to be an-
nounced, will accompany "Woman
Demon Human."

The Taiwanese film, "Super Citizen,"
will be shown at 7 p.m. Wed., April 4.
Directed by Wan Jen, a leader among
Taiwan's New Wave filmmakers. "Super
Citizen" centers on the experience of a
young man who journeys to the city of
Taipei in search of his lost sister.
Through the man's encounter with other
dispossessed youths in the city. Wan Jen
provides insights into the youth culture
of Taiwan.

A reception will follow the showing of
this film.

"Rouge," a film produced in Hong
Kong, will be shown at 7 p.m. Wed.,
April 1 1, in Rm. 0220 of Jimenez Hall.
Featuring a supernatural element
characteristic of many Asian Films,
"Rouge" tells the story of a ghost that
enlists the aid of a clerk in the classified
section of a newspaper to search for her
missing lover.

"Pccmak" (The Death Cottage), a
South Korean film, will be shown at 7
p.m. Wed., April 18, in Rm. 0220 of
fimenez Hall. The film centers on a

shaman who must avenge an unhappy
spirit that haunts a noble family.

"Shall the Cuckoo Sing at Night." a
Japanese Yakuza film featuring Tatsuya
Nakadai, will he shown at 7 p.m. Wed.,
April 25. in Rm. 0220. Yakuza is a
popular genre of Japanese ganster films
"Shall the Cuckoo Sing at Night" tells
the story of woman seeking to rescue
her husband from prison.

The scries concludes with the Japanese
film "Zjgeunerweisen" at 7 p.m. Wed.,
May 2. in Rm. 0220. The title is derived
from Pablo de Sarasate's violin piece of
the same name and delves into the
bizarre lives of five men and women
whose existences takes on a ghost-like
quality.

Gina Marchetti, assistant professor of
radio, television and film, says that
moviegoers unfamiliar with Asian
cinema will likely find themselves
pleasantly surprised by the series.

"The technical virtuosity of these films
is excellent. These films have a high
level of sophistication. 'Rouge' will bowl
some people over," she says.

The selection for the series highlights
several distinctive characteristics of Asian
cinema, according Marchetti,

Asian films, more than Western films,
tend to center on female characters, she
says. Also, elements of the supernatural
are a part of many Asian genres.

Each film will be presented with sub-
titles. Admission is free. ■

5

Outlook

March 26, 1990

Late Dean of Women to be Honored

Adelc Hagner Stamp, scholar, educator and dean of women at
the university, will be posthumously inducted into the WO
Maryland Women's Hall of Fame at a ceremony on March 2" at S
p.m. in the State House Lobby, Annapolis. Sponsored by the
Maryland Commission for Women, the event will also honor state
treasurer, economist and educator Lucille Maurer; civil rights ac-
tivist and past president of the national NAACP Enolia McMillan;

civil rights worker, writer, poet and Episcopal priest Pauli Murray:
and the originator of the first book wagon and pioneer for lifetime
education and literacy, Mary Lemist Titcomb. Stamp was nominated
for the Hall of Fame by the College Park Branch— which she had
founded in 1929— of the American Association of University
Women. For information about the March 21 event, call (301)
333-0054,

CLOSE UP

Warren Tracks Career of Legendary Choreographer

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Larry Warren

/n the late 1950s, as a young
man trying to earn a living as
a dancer, Larry Warren joined
the cast of a pageant
commemorating California's statehood.
The pageant's choreographer was an ab-
solute pain in the leg named Anna
Sokolow.

As Warren, now professor of dance at
College Park, recalls, Sokolow 's deman-
ding methods drove at least one dancer
to drink.

"She worked us so hard on a cement
floor that everybody's legs hurt for
weeks afterward. When I took the job, I
was a health food fanatic; by the time it
was finished, I was drinking a six-pack a
night.'' Warren says.

But Warren bears no ill will toward
the choreographer. He follows the story
by speaking of another encounter with
Sokolow.

"In 19^. 1 saw the Broadway
premiere of Anna's most famous work,
Rooms and, without exaggerating, it
changed my life. 1 was 23 years old. had
just come to New York from California
and didn't have any idea where I fit in
the modern dance world. After seeing
that production, 1 began to understand
where I might make my contribution.
Anna introduced me to the idea of dig-
ging into one's self— into your own pas-
sions, anger and sense of joy— and put-
ting these feelings forward in movement."

In many ways Warren's youthful ex-
posure to Sokolow's methods and
works, encapsulate the style and
widespread influence of an artist who
celebrated her 80th birthday in February.
Although she has sometimes antagonized
and frustrated colleagues with her
methods, she is, in Warren's view,
among the most important figures in
modern dance.

Warren tells her story in a forthcom-
ing biography. Anna Sokolow. The

Rebellious Spirit, that will be published
next year by Princeton Books. In the
book. Warren recounts some of the
milestones of Sokolow's career in the
commercial theater such as her
tumultuous tenure as the first
choreographer for the rock musical.
Hair, and her creation of a tremendous-
ly influential approach to dance, an ap-
proach ana I ago us to Method acting.

In all, it is the story of a fascinating ar-
tist who. for more than six decades, has
conducted her work with exemplary
commitment.

Warren was inspired to compile the
dancer's story during Sokolow's 1978
visit to College Park. Sokolow came to
the campus to work with Maryland
Dance Theater, a company in residence
(19~l-8 7 ) and directed by Warren and
his wife, Anne, also a professor of dance.

"We were sitting at home, visiting
with Anna and it just suddenly occurred
to me— here is a great artist whose story
should be told. Out of the blue, I popped
the question: I asked her if I could write
her biography," Warren says.

It took about two years for her to
come around to the idea, She asked peo-
ple, "Who is this Larry Warren? Can I
trust him?'

As it turned out, Warren had a track
record as a biographer, having previous-
ly written a bonk on choreographer
Lester Horton, teacher of the famed
black choreographer. Alvin Alley. Once
Sokolow warmed up to the project, she
became quite hospitable, even providing
Warren with a set of keys to her New
York apartment to help him cut ex-
penses while ennducting research in the
city.

"She also gave me access to her
closet," Warren says. "This hall closet is
famous throughout the dance world. It's
where she keeps films, reviews, pro-
grams, tapes. There's material there that

Anrta Sokolow in a 1958 photograph by
Lionel Freedman

you can't find anywhere else.''

Through more than 10(1 interviews,
extensive research, trips to Israel and
Mexico (two countries where Sokolow
introduced the principles of modem
dance) and several long sessions rum-
maging around in the closet, Warren
traced the dancer's life.

Born to immigrant parents in 1910 in
Connecticut and raised on Manhattan's
Lower East Side, Sokolow received her
introduction to dance through New
York's Settlement House program. The
youngster showed an immediate aptitude
for the art form and had the good for-
tune to be referred to the Neighborhood
Playhouse where she came under the in-
struction of pioneer dance teacher and
instructor Martha Graham.

When Graham founded her first dance
company, she invited Sokolow, then a
teen-ager, to join. In the company,
Sokolow studied the art of choreography
with Louis Horst. Sokolow was Horst's
star pupil In her early 20s, she formed
her own dance company in which she
worked as dancer and choreographer.

It was as a choreographer that the tiny
woman, barely over five feet tall, began
making a large impression in the dance
world. An advocate of dance that

emanated from a performer's inner life.
Sokolow's approach to choreography
paralleled a similar movement in
theater— Method acting.

Through Sokolow's work, dancers and
choreographers were introduced to an
app roach that expanded the range of
emotions expressed in performance and
provided a vehicle for dancers to ex-
amine contemporary society. Theatrical
disciples of the Method found the dance
perspective of the technique valuable. As
a consultant for the Actors Studio, the
central workshop of Method acting.
Sokolow worked with such film and
theatrical figures as Julie Harris. Marlon
Brando, lili Wallace and F.lia Kazan.

Rooms, produced in 19SS. was
Sokolow's most influential work An ex-
amination of the alienation of life in a
modern metropolis, the piece centered
on the fantasy lives of solitary people

The piece significantly influenced
choreographer/director Jerome Robbins
in the development of West Side Story, a
play that set new directions for dance in
the popular theater, Warren says.

In the 1960s, Sokolow made a more
direct contribution to popular theater-
she was the original choreographer for
flair. Her efforts, however, were salted
with a controversy that has left her with
a paltry share of the credit due her. War-
ren says.

From the beginning of the production,
Sokolow and director. Gerald Freedman.
were at odds over the staging of the
show. Little more than a month before
the play was scheduled to open, Freed-
man left the show leaving Sokolow as
both director and choreographer.

Sokolow served in this role for three
weeks, until two days before opening
night, when producer Joseph Papp saw a
poor rehearsal. Finding problems with
the staging, Papp urged Freedman to
return to the production. The prodigal
director came back hut with one
stipulation— that Sokolow leave.

After Sokolow's dismissal, a story was
circulated on Broadway that Freedman,
upon his return, totally revised the
shown and that Sokolow had virtually
no influence on the final shape of the
musical. Warren disputes that assess-
ment, seeing it more a product of public
relations than reality. Warren's research,
however, shows that much of Sokolow's
work did in fact appear in the final pro-
duct at Papp's theater.

"She has shortcomings," Warren says.
"But they are overshadowed by the im-
portant influence she has had on both
ballet and modern dance. She made us
aware that dance can and should come
from inside the performer and that the
creator of dance works has the respon-
sibility to make that possible." ■

— Brian t!ust>k

Expert To Discuss Excavation of
Shakespeare's Globe

For centuries scholars have been able only to speculate about
physical characteristics of the theaters In which Shakespeare's plays
were originally performed, But now, through recent archaeological
discoveries of remains of Shakespeare's Globe Theater and Philip
flenslowe's nearby Rose Theater, scholars are making strides in the
reconstructing of the Elizabethan theater. Andrew Gurr, professor
of English at the University of Reading in England and one of the
world's foremost scholars of Elizabethan theater, will report on the
progress of the excavations in a lecture at 3:30 p.m. Thurs., March
29, in Rm. 2309 Art/Sociology Building. The lecture is sponsored
by the Center for Renaissance and Baroque Studies and the Depart-
ment of English.

OtmjocK

March 26, 1990

College of Education to Sponsor Conference on
International Decade

The College of Education in cooperation with the Office of Inter-
national Affairs is sponsoring an all -day conference April 2 on
"Preparing for an International Decade: UMCP in the 1990s" at the
Founders Room of the Center of Adult Education. President
William E. Kirwan will present the keynote speech at 8:30 a.m. For
more information call 454-3008.

COLLEGE PARK PE*

Terry Cassidy: A Different Kind of CPA

The room in the basement of the
Health Center has all the trappings of a
doctor's office. An examination table is
pushed against one wall, a stethoscope
hangs from a scale, a jar of wooden
tongue depressors sits atop a chocolate-
brown four-drawer file cabinet.

In the in- box. waiting to be read, are
journals with no nonsense titles like Oc-
cupational Health and Safety.

The office belongs to Terry Cassidy,
a certified physician's assistant, one of
four who work out of the campus health
facility. Cassidy works under the supervi-
sion of a physician and can do virtually
everything a doctor does except write
prescriptions for medication. He takes
physical histories, docs evaluations,
makes diagnoses, and carries out treat-
ment regimens as needed.

Cassidy 's particular focus is occupa-
tional health, and he is the campus
specialist in this field. He is concerned
with the health of individuals who are
working with or around and might be
contaminated by hazardous material. He
conducts medical surveillance examina-
tions, collects baseline information and
carries out batteries of tests.

Pesticides are his chief concern here,
he says. Three years ago, he developed a
pesticide surveillance program that since
has become a model for other univer-
sities. Campus workers are given initial
medical examinations and then are
monitored on an on-going basis. They in-

Certified Physician's Assistant Terry Cassidy

elude grounds crew, horticulturalists, staff
of the Harrison Laboratory greenhouses,
employees at university-owned and
operated farms, and others who may use
or come into contact with pesticides.

Cassidy, who has been with the
university for six years, earned a B.S,
degree in general biology here in 1977
and a B.S. in medicine from Western
Michigan University in 1980. His initial

interest in medicine began during a two-
year hitch as an Army medic. Currently,
he holds the rank of ensign in the L'.S.
Navy Medical Service Corps Reserve,
To remain certified as a physician's
assistant, he, and other CPAs, must show-
proof of one hundred continuing hours
of medical education each two years.
Every six years CPAs must pass a day-
long written test.

Cassidy s interests extend beyond oc-
cupational health and safety. Three years
ago he asked members of the Health
Center staff to donate used clothing for
the homeless in Washington, D.C. During
the Christmas season, he collected the
contributions and delivered them to a
shelter. Two years ago he spearheaded a
drive to collect toys for children at St.
Anne's Home.

Last Christmas the project had taken
on a life oi its own and had spawned a
similar one operated by the department
of physical plant. Cassidy continues to
seek donations of used clothing and says
they can be dropped off at the front
door of his office any time.

The homeless are not Cassidy's only
interest. In 1974 he signed up in the
platelet phoresis program operated by
the National Institutes of Health. Blood
donations are used for patients with
leukemia and other blood-related
diseases. Two years ago, Cassidy signed
up in the bone marrow donation pro-
gram. In the evenings, he works at a
county-operated drug rehabilitation unit
in Gaithersburg.

And, if that weren't enough, here Gent-
ly delivered a lecture to the National Turf
Grass Association's convention in
Baltimore on Lyme Disease, the bacterial
infection caused bv the bite of a deer
tick. ■

— Join Otwett

Adult Learner Emergency Fund Established
to Offer Financial Assistance

Co-coordinators Barbara Goldberg and
Beverly Greenfeig of the Returning
Students Program, a service of the
university's Counseling Center, recall
feeling elated and also relieved when
they first got the news that they would
he able to offer financial assistance to
those adult learners facing emergency
situations.

"...I've come a long way and

graduation is in sight, and

I'll take fatigue over despair

any day. "

—Beciptenl of the Atliill i. earner Emergency fund

"You don't know what a thrill it is to
he able to tell a returning student who is
facing a real financial emergency, that,
no, you won't have to drop out of
school because of this, and, yes, we will
be able to help you," says Goldberg.

"These are people who are used to
having doors slammed in their face,"
adds Greenfeig, "because they may not
meet the same financial aid criteria as
that needed by traditional students."

It was the hope of Nancy Sch loss berg
of the Department of Counseling and

Personnel Services, to "give support
when it was needed," by establishing
the 11,500 first-year fund through her
late fathers S. Irwin Kamin Foundation.

Schlossberg, a long-time advocate of
the adult learner, wanted the emergency
fund to respond to needs "quickly and
efficiently" with little red tape involved.

"1 wanted to make a difference in the
lives of adult learners," she says, simply,
"Especially those in emergencies who
are often caught in the middle of work,
family and social pressures."

The money is available to any return-
ing student facing an unexpected finan-
cial crisis, such as an illness in the stu-
dent's immediate family.

"Many of our adult learners arc
budgeted so closely thai any unan-
ticipated financial emergency can be
devastating," says Goldberg.

Schlossberg first had the idea of
establishing the emergency fund when
she received a 5100 award from the
American College Personnel Association
and decided to hand over that S 1 00 to
an adult learner facing a financial
emergency. The money went to a
woman who had lost her health in-
surance and w\as in need of money for
medicine for one of her three small
children.

"I realized that there was a need to
establish a systematic way that adult
learners could get small amounts of

Nancy Schlossberg

money to help in difficult situations,"
she says.

That's w r hen she decided to offer
emergency funding through her late
father's foundation

"We know that this works," says
Greenfeig, who recalled a recipient of
prior emergency funds, who had over-
come years of alcoholism and com-
pulsive overeating, as well as several
suicide attempts, to return to college and
begin building a new life.

Suddenly, she found that her tight
budget would not stretch into the final
few weeks of last fall's semester and that
she would have to withdraw from the
university.

Barbara Goldberg and Beverly Greenfeig

The emergency funds enabled her to
remain in school.

In expressing her thanks, the woman
wrote to Goldberg and Greenfeig soon
after, mat "life is very tiring right now r
wuli school (16 credits, while maintain-
ing a 4.0 GPA), work (30 hours), therapy
twice a week and constant OA and AA
meetings. But I've come a long way and
graduation is in sight, and I'll take-
fa tiguc over despair and obsession any
day."

"I will graduate in May," she con-
tinued, "and I thank you for your part
in that, Life is great and I'm very glad I
was able to stick around for it." ■

— Ustt Grvgnry

Outlook

March 26, 1990

Jobs Making Campers Happy

The annual Summer Camp Fair, sponsored by the Job Referral
Service, will be held this year on March 28, 29 and 30 in Room
M2Q, Hornbake Building. During that time recruiters for counselors
and support staff from summer camps across the country will be
available to meet with interested students. Those interested should
stop by the office or call -(54-2490 for more information.

Campus Senate to Hold Opening Hearings on
Proposals for New Grading System

The Campus Senate Adjunct Committee on Academic Procedures &
Standards will hold opening hearings to discuss proposals to
change to a plus/minus grading system at the undergraduate and
graduate levels (i.e., A, A-. 11 + . B-. etc.). If you wish to speak at
the hearing. March 28, 1-3 p.m. and March 29, 1:30-3:30 p.m. in
room 2111 of the Stamp Union, please call and register with the
Campus Senate Office. Written comments on proposals may be
submitted to Susan Taylor, chair of the committee, c/o Campus
Senate Office. Deadline for written comments on proposals is
March .30. Background materials are available at the Campus Senate
Office. Call 454-4549 for information.

Journeying Toward the Stars

Focus on

Undergraduate
Education

The follou ing are excerpts
from an address on "The
Challenge of I 'ndergradttate
Education" made by f.
Robert Dorfman. Vice Pres-
ident for Academic Affairs and Provost,
at a recent Board of Regents ' Conference
on I 'ndergradnate Education. . .

J. Robert Dorfman

"...I would like to begin by asking
you to think about Dante's journey into
the Inferno. He is led by Virgil, whose
Aenekf. which told of the founding of
Rome, represented for a medieval poet
the greatest achievement of his parent
civilization.

Among others, Dante confronts
L'lysses. Although Dante himself still
faces a long journey towards full
knowledge, he has by now learned
enough to chide the great L'lysses for
the misdirection of his quest for
knowledge, thus: "Consider the seed
from which you sprang: You were not
created to live like brutes, but to seek
virtue and knowledge ."

Today, the modern university plays
the role of Virgil towards our students,
our Dames. Our task is to develop the
creative and metaphysical aspects of
human nature. Our responsibility is to
help our students learn and grow so thai
they arc prepared to deal with the in-
evitable problems of society that reflect
the destructive and corrosive parts of
human nature. We hope that they will
graduate with ..healthy skepticism and
critical skills

As a great undergraduate and graduate
educational system, we focus on
understanding the world and what it
means to be humane, not brutish— what
it means to nurture the seeds with
which we are born into the flowers of
intellect, not the weeds of greed, self-
service, and destruction.

The university represents society's
most progressive and most concentrated
force for the improvement of society, A
university brings values to the
community— the values of common
humanity and state pride when diverse
members of its population learn to live
and work together and to develop those
relationships as they enter the larger
community and the working world

As human beings, we have the poten-
tial of reaching the moons of Neptune.

or sinking to the depths of repression,
coercion and addiction... Our purpose is
to overwhelm the destructive impulses
with constructive, scholarly, educational
pursuits

As it Was for Dante, the point of the
journey is the journey itself, undertaken
with the hope that some illumination
will come as we move through different
stages. The space probe Voyager is on
one of the greatest voyage of human
civilization— a voyage to the planets that
for millennia stood as remote symbols of
human aspiration. Although Dante could
not envision a space probe like Voyager,
he felt the same impetus towards seeking
knowledge, and he expressed it through
an enduring symbol— each of the three
parts of the Divine Comedy ends with
the world "steite." or star.

Perhaps the greatest challenge of
undergraduate education is to bring our
students to the point where they, too,
measure their aspirations by the stars,
secure in the knowledge th.it they have
learned to ask the right questions and to
interpret the world around them

But there is more. The role of the
university is not just star-gazing.
Although the pursuit of knowledge and
the development of analytical thinking
must be the main aspirations of our pro-
grams, as a byproduct of intellectual ac-
tivity, we do produce or discover useful
tilings for society, often benefits that
were completely unanticipated or for
which we were unprepared.

Human beings may never reach the
stars— literally— but the attempt itself af-
firms the positive qualities of our nature.
We benefit from the Voyager probe in
those intangible ways, but also in tangi-
ble ways— in the technological advances
made in developing such projects .

Much of this requires dedicated and
talented teachers. We must seek out and
reward excellence in teaching, again
redressing an imbalance in the faculty
role. The respective weights given to
research and teaching will vary among
the institutions, depending on their in-
dividual missions. There must be a
creative tension between a faculty
memher's development in a discipline
and his or her interaction with
undergraduates ....

To succeed in fulfilling our mission is
not only the challenge of higher educa-
tion, but also the challenge to educators.
We are fortunate in the inspiration of ex-
amples of great challenges met suc-
cessfully in the near and far past. Both
Dante and Voyager 2 underrook
journeys into the unknown, to seek not
only answers, but also to seek new ques-
tions to which there were no predicted
answers. Both journeys involved difficult
choices and sacrifices, the potential for
disappointment, and an inability to see
through the darkness of the inferno and
deep space to the end.

This may also be true of our ambitious
undertakings to revitalize undergraduate
education. Some see the goals of quality
and access as incompatible, and it is true
that real hardships lie in the way, and
real— if temporary— sacrifices of other
important components of the total
education experience. Hut some

sacrifices may have to be made in the
short term, for the quality of the
undergraduate experience is the under-
pinning for everything else we hope to
do ....

Both Dante's incomparable poem and
the succeeding amazement of the Nep-
tune voyage are what universities are all
about— about ultimate art, ultimate
science, characterized by a desire to
learn and to know, to express spiritually
through language, to satisfy curiosity

through tedious thousands of equations
and measurements. Although the equa-
tions exist and the measurements exist
and the language exits, a poem like the
Inferno and the revelation of the panop-
ly of wonder at the outermost reaches of
our humble solar system do not exist
without the habits of mind. It is the
university's chief goal to cultivate: ques-
tioning, analysis, flexibility, and
dissatisfaction with the status quo. ■

Women's Commission Honors
Marilyn Brown

At a meeting of the President's Com-
mission on Women's Affairs on March 12,
Mary Ott, senior research analyst tor In-
stitutional Studies, presented a report on
the FY '89 Faculty Study Review. Follow-
ing her report. Institutional Studies direc-
tor. Marilyn K. Brown, under whose
leadership the study was instituted in
lyW, was honored for her achievements
and contributions to the university. She
was presented with a citation containing
the following resolution:

"Because of her dedication and com-
mitment to working to improve the con-
ditions of women's lives on campus;

"Because of her willingness to give her
time and energies to the work of the
Commission and the committees on
which she has so well served;

"Because of her keen insights concern-
ing ways of describing women's ex-
periences through the language of
numbers;

"Because of her extraordinary care in
collecting, interpreting and presenting
data fairly; and

'Because none of the progress in
salary equity for women faculty and
associate staff, in undergraduate women's
education, in safety and security issues,
and in reporting on the progress for

Marilyn K. Brown

women on campus would have been
possible without her extraordinary in-
sight and dedication;

"On this day of the 12th of March.
1990, be it resolved that we, the
Members of the President's Commission
on Women's Affairs, do set aside the
regular Commission agenda to recognize
the extraordinary achievements and con-
tributions of our colleague, Marilyn K.
Brown.

"For the Commission: Virginia W
Beauchamp. Chair; Mary C. Shipley,
Secretin" ■

Former Prime Minister Visits
Prange Collection

8

Noboru Takeshita, former prime minister of Japan, recently paid a private visit to McKeldin
Library to view its noted Prange Collection, a compilation of historical documents from the
period of the Allied occupation, widely used by scholars studying the rise of post-war Japan.