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OUTLOOK

A WEEKLY NEWSPAPER FOR FACULTY AND STAFF AT THE UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND AT COLLEGE PARK

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SEPTEMBER 17, 1990
VOLUME 5, NUMBER 3

Withers Named Chair of Women's Commission

Freimuth to Be Honored as Woman of the Year

New Women's Commission Chair Josephine Withers

Josephine Withers, associate pro-
fessor of art history and former
acting director of the Women's
Studies Program, has been appoint-
ed the new chair of the President's
Commission on Women's Affairs.

As one of her earliest duties as
the Women's Commission head.
Withers will oversee the Tuesday,
Sept. 25 program honoring the
Commission's Outstanding Woman
of the Year, Vicki Freimuth,
associate professor in the Depart-
ment of Speech Communication.

New women faculty members
will also be welcomed to the uni-
versity during the program, which
will be held from 3:30 p.m. to 4:30
p.m. in Room 1400, Marie Mount
Hall.

A reception will follow from
4:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. in the Mary-
land Room of Marie Mount Hal!.

Freimuth is a noted researcher

in Health Communication, helping
people around the world to become
better informed about such health
issues as cancer and AIDS preven-
tion.

As a member of the College
Park faculty, she has worked with
such campus organizations as the
Women's Commission, where she
served as chair from 1982-84, to
better the quality of life for women
at the university.

Prior recipients of the honor
have included, Elske Smith (1977),
Chris Weller (1978), Mary Broad-
water and Rita Colwell (1979), Wil-
heimina Jashemski (1980), Margaret
Bridwell (1981), Eugenie Clark
(1982), Shirley Kenny (1983), Marie
Davidson (1984), Catherine Atwell
(1986), Roz Hiebert (1987), Janet
McKav and Madv Segal (1988), and
Jean Grambs (1989).

Next Year's Asking Budget — A Call For Retrenchment

The UM Board of Regents has
approved the university's 1992 fis-
cal budget request, and for the first
time in many years, it does not
reflect any increased state general
fund support. Inflationary adjust-
ments are covered primarily
through base reductions in state
supported programs. If the Current
People Services (CPS) budget
request, alone, is funded, College
Park will receive the same amount
of state funding next year as this
year.

A retrenchment budget at best,
the asking budget for all state
agencies was prepared at the
instruction of Governor William
Donald Schaefer. Because the state
is projecting a slower rate of reve-
nue growth, budget officials asked
all state agencies to develop budget
requests that do not exceed the
General Funds allocated for this
year.

College Park's fiscal 1992 asking
budget totals $348,939,143 in State
Supported Programs, an increase of
$6.8 million, just 2 percent above
this year's working budget. The
State Supported budget includes
$242.5 million in General Funds,
$98.9 million in Special Funds, and
$7.6 million in Federal Funds, The
university receives approximately
41 percent of its budget from State-
Supported Genera! Funds. The
remaining 59 percent is derived
from federal and special funding
sources.

The budget proposal recognizes
increased revenue from tuition of
$4.7 million to help fund contin-
uing initiatives. This includes an
average tuition increase of 3.9 per-
cent for resident undergraduates,
7.9 percent increase for non-resi-

dent undergraduates and a 5 per-
cent increase in tuition for graduate
students.

The request contains a manda-
tory classified salary increment of 2
percent. No merit increases for fac-
ulty and professional staff are in-
cluded — the first time in memory
that no merit increment is called
for in the asking budget.

Mandatory inflationary increases
in fringe benefits, fuel and utilities
and fixed charges (insurance)
account for a total of $3.6 million,
and other designated increases in
the health center, financial aid, and
facilities renewal costs total $2.4
million. Reductions in fuel and util-
ities funding and less-than-15-y ear-
life equipment, amount to over $1.2
million.

As part of the budget process, a
one percent reallocation of General
Funds was required by the state for
all agencies. This mandatory
realignment ol funds will result in
$2.4 million less money available
for equipment, labor and assistance
in physical plant and the libraries,
tuition remission and fringe bene-
fits. The reallocation of funds will
help fund LI MS, Francis Scott Key
scholarships, the Advisory Com-
mittee on Course Enrollment Statis-
tics and Strategies (ACCESS), and
other academic program improve-
ments (8 positions).

Also selected environmental
safety programs and the upgrade
and enhancement of custodial ser-
vices in physical plant (36 posi-
tions) will be accomplished
through this reallocation of
resources.

The budget request does not
provide for the fourth year of the
planned undergraduate enrollment

reduction; since the replacement of
lost tuition and fee revenue with
state General Funds is not included
in the asking budget, the plan will
be put on hold for a year, unless
state General Funds are added
through the governor's asking bud-
get.

To continue minimum support
of College Park's Enhancement
Plan, money generated from the 3
percent tuition increase will be
used to fund the following initia-
tives: recruitment and retention

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Visitor Center Opens

Making campus guests
welcome

Responding To
Changing Tastes

Matt Sheriff feeds
the. multitudes..

Dancer, Teacher,
Choreographer

The multi-faceted
Meriam Rosen

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Andy Geiger Named
Athletic Director

Ferdinand A. (Andy) Geiger,
whose tenure as athletic director at
Stanford University elevated him to
the top rank among the nation's
athletic administrators, was named
Sept. 7 to direct the athletic pro-
gram at the University of Maryland
bv College Park President William
E. Kirwan. Geiger succeeds Lew
Perkins who resigned in July to be-
come athletic director at the Uni-
versity of Connecticut. Geiger's ap-
pointment is effective October 1.

Geiger led the 29-sport Stanford
intercollegiate athletic program to
27 collegiate national champion-
ships since 1979, the most won by
any school in the nation. Under his
tutelage, the Cardinal teams also
won a total of 96 NCAA individual
titles, the most in the country. This
was accomplished while Stanford
teams continued to maintain a top
rank among U.S. schools academi-
cally. Geiger also oversaw physical
education, campus intramurals,
club sports, recreation and the uni-
versity golf course. He realigned
the athletic department with staff
expansion for club sports, fund-
raising and public affairs,

"Andy Geiger comes to Mary-
land after an extraordinarily suc-
cessful eleven-year tenure at Stan-
ford University. He has been a
national leader in the reform move-
ment, he is deeply committed to
the welfare of student athletes, and
he has managed programs that
have been both successful in com-
petition and models of integrity.
His appointment signals a new era
for our athletic program. I could
not be more pleased by his selec-
tion," said Kirwan at the press con-
ference announcing Geiger's
appointment.

"Geiger was the overwhelming
choice of the search committee,"
said Vice President William L.

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Roz Hiebert

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Turner Building, through campus mail or to University of
Maryland, College Park, MD 20742. Our telephone
number is (301)405-4621. Eleclronic mail address is
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Thomas, the search committee
chair. "His qualities fit the job
description very well. It is pleasing
that our top candidate was the one
named."

"During my visits here 1 was
tremendously impressed by the
potential of Maryland and by an
administration that is committed to
a successful athletic program both
on and off the field of play," said
Geiger. "1 am looking forward to
working with President Kirwan to
accomplish the goals he has set
forth."

Geiger, 51, has been an athletic
administrator for 27 years. A 1961
graduate of Syracuse University, he
was assistant athletic director there
from 1964 to 1970. In 1970 he
moved to the Eastern Collegiate
Athletic Conference as assistant
commissioner. He was named ath-
letic director at Brown University
in 1972, and he moved to another
Ivy League school, the University
of Pennsylvania, as athletic director
in 1975. During his final year there,
the University of Pennsylvania be-
came the last Ivy League school to
qualify for the final four of the
NCAA Men's basketball
championship.

Geiger was named athletic direc-
tor at Stanford at the end of 1978,
and he guided the Cardinal teams

New Athletic Director Andy Geiger

to the position of athletic leader-
ship in the highly successful Pac-ll)
conference. At the national level, he
provided leadership in the expan-
sion of the NCAA basketball tour-
nament and served on the NCAA
Basketball Tournament Committee.
He was chair of the ECAC's Com-
mittee on Infractions.
An oarsman at Syracuse Univer-
sity, he competed in the 1959 Pan-
American Games as a member of
the U.S. team. He was a freshman
crew coach at Dartmouth College,
and later served as manager of the
U.S. crew at the 1971 Pan- American
Games and as secretary of the U.S.
Olympic Rowing Committee.

He has been married to the for-
mer Eleanor Rollings for 28 years.
They have two children, Phillip
and Gregory.

Regents Approve Asking Budget

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($350,000), library collections
(5400,000), minority and women
faculty (6 positions and $300,000),
Center for Excellence in Manufac-
turing (3 positions and $300,000),
Public Policy and International Af-
fairs (3 positions and $300,000), and
administrative computing
($340,000).

State budget procedures allow
agencies to submit an "Over the
CPS Request" — a chance to ask for
high priority needs that have not
been funded within the current
people services (CPS) budget
request. Given the status quo called
for in the CPS budget, the Over the
CPS Request takes on special sig-
nificance next year. The hope is
that at least some of the high pri-
ority programs and items essential
to the university's continued pro-
gress will be funded if the state's
fiscal health turns out to be more
positive than currently indicated.
For College Park, the Over the CPS
budget request totals $18.7 million.
It includes:

• Enhancing College Park as
the State's Flagship Campus, $9.6
million to enrich undergraduate
education, reduce student/ faculty
ratios and introduce new courses
for freshmen; recruit and retain
some of Maryland's best high
school students; enhance diversity
by increasing minority participa-
tion at the graduate level; improve
academic programs in core areas;
implement new initiatives in the

sciences; expand public service,
especially in agriculture and engi-
neering; and enhance the effective-
ness of administration.

• Downsizing, $1 ,425,000 to
continue the fourth year of a five-
year plan to replace with state Gen-
eral Funds the tuition revenue lost
by reducing the number of under-
graduate students by 20 percent.
The total full-time equivalent en-
rollment is projected to decline by
572 students, or two percent, in FY
1992, if the plan is funded.

• Access to Veterinary
Medicine, $671,760 to cover a tran-
sition of the program from MHEC
to College Park.

■ Merit salary adjustments, $4.8
million to support a 4 percent aver-
age merit increment.

• Extending the Facilities
Renewal Program, $2.2 million.

What are the chances that some
of the over the CPS priorities for
College Park will be funded?

The governor, of course, has an
opportunity to make adjustments
in the university's request before
presenting his asking budget to the
legislature in January, 1991. But
much depends on whether the
forecast of slower growth in the
state's tax revenue actually
occurs — and whether the gover-
nor's budget priorities for other
important state programs take pre-
cedence over the university's
needs.

Roz Hiebert

SEPTEMBER 17

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New Directory on Women and Gender Published

Women and Gender: A Directory of Scholars, Teachers and Resources
at the University of Maryland, College Park has just been issued by the
Curriculum Transformation Project. Faculty who submitted entries
will receive a copy. Others who wish copies may request them
from the Curriculum Transformation Project office, 405-6882.
Deborah Rosenfett, director of the project, reports that 16 faculty
members from across the campus spent June and July immersed in
the second Summer Faculty Development Institute, "Thinking
about Women." She says to watch for announcements of campus
presentations by the participants.

Everyone Welcome at Open House
for New Visitor Center

With the recent installation of a
new Campus Visitor Center in the
Dairy Salesroom on the first floor
of the Turner Building, friendly
faces are greeting visitors to the
university.

Specially trained students, alum-
ni and former faculty and staff will
manage a desk in the northwest
corner of the Diary where visitors
can receive directions and other
general information about the uni-
versity. Handouts available to
visitors include university and Col-
lege Park town maps, fact sheets
and transportation information.
Traffic signs on Route 1 between
the Beltway and the university
direct visitors to the center.

The center, coordinated by Nick
Kovalakides, former director of
Campus Recreation Services, and
Pat Perfetto, director of Campus
Guest Services, under the auspices
of the Office of Student Affairs, is
part of a concerted university effort
to give visitors a warm reception.
Creation of a university visitor cen-
ter was among the six initiatives
planned by President William E.
Kirwan when he took office.

While the new desk is a modest
beginning for the program, it goes
a long way toward filling a major
void at the university, Kovalakides

and Perfetto say.

"The treatment of visitors at the
university has always been an in-
terest of mine, and I know that
there are many others who feel the
same way," says Kovalakides, a 33-
year veteran of the university who
is on professional leave this semes-
ter in preparation for a new post in
which he will focus on visitor
issues.

A key element of the project
this month is informing the univer-
sity community about the center
and the services it provides.

An open house will be held at
the center the week of Sept. 24-28.
University employees are encoura-
ged to visit the center in order to
make themselves aware of the ser-
vices available there. Faculty and
staff also are encouraged to direct
expected visitors to the center for
information.

"I'm excited about people com-
ing over and seeing what we're try-
ing to do. This is a project that is
entirely positive for the university,"
Perfetto says.

Organizers look forward to
eventual expansion of the center,
Perfetto says. Officials in the
Department of Animal Sciences
would like eventually to move
their ice cream-making operation to

Kovalakides' Ten Tips on
Welcoming Visitors

In his 33 years at College Park
as a student, coach and employee,
Nick Kovalakides has been con-
cerned about the impression visit-
ors receive of an institution in
which he takes great pride.

Always willing to lend a helping
hand, Kovalakides has long been
an informal goodwill ambassador
for the university.

This fall, the position is becom-
ing formalized. Kovalakides, form-
er director of Campus Recreation
Services, is on professional leave
this semester to prepare for a new-
ly created position in which he will
focus on visitor issues.

Already, however, he has set
goals for his new position. Among
them: convincing his colleagues at
the university that good visitor
relations begin with them.

"When you think about it, most
of the people who visit our campus
want to learn from us or become
part of our family. Either way,
their being here is a compliment to
us," he says.

Toward this end, Kovalakides
has devised a list of tips for
making visitors feel welcome. Here
are his tips:

1. Greet our visitor as soon as he
or she appears in your area. Estab-
lish eye contact and smile. The
sooner and friendlier your greeting,
the more comfortable our visitor
will feel.

2. Promptly ask our visitor
whether he or she needs your
help. Our visitors shouldn't be
made to feel like they're bothering
you. By asking, "How may 1 help
you?" you demonstrate your will-
ingness to assist.

3. Give our visitor your undivided
attention. If you start looking at
the work on your desk or chatting
with a colleague, our visitor will
feel like he or she is in the way.
Keep in mind that even though this
is your umpteenth visitor, it is our
visitor's first time meeting you.
Your handling of each visitor is of
paramount importance.

4. If you are busy, let our visitor
know when you will be able to
give him or her your attention. If

you're simply too busy to help, ask
a colleague to speak with our
visitor.

5 Answer our visitors' questions
as best you can, but don't guess.
Misinformation will undo all your
other good work. Also, avoid
giving opinions unless asked for
them.

6. If you don't know the answer to
a question, try to find it. Taking a
minute to call another office for the
information will make you terrifi-
cally responsive and our visitor
will feel important. If you send our

the Animal Sciences Building.

Although ice cream sales would ■
continue, such a move would free
space to remodel the Dairy to ac-
commodate more visitor activities,
he says. For information call 314-
7777,

Brian Busek

Nick Kovalakides on duty at the new campus Visitor Center

visitors elsewhere for answers,
they'll think, "Here goes another
runaround."

7. If you absolutely don't have
time to help track down the infor-
mation, offer our visitor use of
your telephone. You might even
look up the number and dial it for
him or her.

8. Always keep a university map
at your desk (at the very least
there's one in your telephone dir-
ectory) so you can provide direc-
tions. If our visitor is traveling by
car, be sure to point out where he
or she can park legally — a parking
ticket leaves a bad taste.

9. No matter where you are, if you
see someone who looks lost or
confused, offer your assistance
before you are asked. It never
hurts to ask, and if the person does
need help, you will have made a
friend for the university.

10. Remember to send our visitors
on their way with a friendly
"enjoy your visit." You've probably
gotten them off on a good start
toward that goal.

SEPTEMBER 17

19 9

CLOSE UP

Anthony Ames Will Open Architecture Lecture Series

The School of Architecture's fall season of public lectures and
exhibitions will begin with a presentation by Atlanta architect
Anthony Ames on his recent work, at 7:30 p.m. Wed., Sept. 19, in
the Architecture Auditorium, Ames, Kea Distinguished Professor
of Architecture this fall, is noted for his elegant design of houses in
a style influenced by the modernism of the 1920s. Examples of his
architectural drawings and photographs of his work will be ex-
hibited Sept. 19-Oct. 17 in the Architecture Gallery. For information
call 405-6284.

Matt Sheriff: Food Service with a Flair

Matt Sheriff, Dining
Services director

The T.V. commercial begins with
smiling, prudish women in grey
cafeteria uniforms earnestly
displaying unappetizing meals,
such as "Meatloaf Surprise" and
"Tuna Tetrazini" As the 1%6 song
"See You In September" plays in
the background, an announcer
urges students to indulge in Roy
Rogers delicious fast food soon
before they're limited to school
cafeteria horrors.

Area school food service
departments were offended by this
campaign, but Matt Sheriff, the
university's Dining Services direc-
tor who has been "served" his share
of distasteful remarks from
Diamomiback editorials, does not let
their attacks ruin his appetite for
college feeding.

"I try not to react to little special
interest groups that may raise Cain

about something," says Sheriff. " I
don't worry about the newspaper. I
read it. 1 don't like it when they
personally attack me. Co into the
dining halls, talk to the kids. That's
where you'll find out [the real
opinions]."

Sheriff, who says he has always
been in the food business,
graduated from the New Hyde
Park New York, Culinarv Institute
in 1%2, and worked as a chef at
the Roger Smith Hotel.

The college food industry first
became appetizing to Sheriff when
he worked for Rutgers University
in New Jersey.

"1 was unit manager there; I ran
all the dining halls," Sheriff said,
"When the assistant director there
came here, I came with him."

Sheriff began at Maryland as the
associate director in 1975 and
became Dining Services director in
1979. Since then, he has worked to
improve the quality and reputation
of Dining Services.

"Maryland had a reputation of
one of the worst college food ser-
vices; everv thing thev cooked
either came in a can or it was fro-
zen," said Sheriff. "One of the
reasons food services got turned
around was because the people
that were here wanted to improve
it."

College Park's dining services,
which was recently the featured
cover story of FtW Management
magazine, is now among the ten
best food services in the country.
According to Sheriff, more than 25
schools visited the campus last year
to find ideas to improve their own
sen ices.

"We're getting closer to where I
want us to be than we were 15
years ago," said Sheriff. "Then,
magazines were writing about how
bad we were. They would say if
you want to do something wrong
go to Maryland. Now they're
saying if you want to do something
right, come to Maryland."

Besides offering information to
more area colleges, Dining Services

publishes a Dining Service* Awan'-
fii'ss newsletter to answer any
questions parents and students

might have about the campus food
plan.

Sheriff also believes direct com-
munication is important.

"I've never refused to talk to a
student," he says. "I'd like to think
I'm available to every student, but 1
have a staff that is available to talk
to them, and if thev' re still not sat-
isfied, I'll talk to them."

Although Sheriff has 15 years
behind him, he admits he still
adopts new ideas. An adjustment
he made this year was in response
to students' fetish for Italian food.
The "What's Your Beef" restaurant
in the Stamp Union, will now be
called "UMBerros" and specialize in
Italian cooking.

"The kids love Italian food. Be-
tween chicken and Italian they're
going to grow red feathers," he
says, "That's how much thev eat it.
So we decided to try an Italian
restaurant. It will be less expensive
[than "What's Your Beef], and
we'll have a few premium items
like veal parmesan."

Although the county does not
require employee certification nor
county health inspections. Sheriff
requires both to keep his workers
on their toes.

"I told | the inspectors] not to tell
me when they're coming. What
does that do? Let's get ready
because the health inspectors are
coming? So now they just show
up."

In the future Sheriff would like
to increase customer satisfaction,
and consumer communication and
to stabilize prices. He is unsure,
however, if perfection is an attain-
able goal.

"I'm never going to stop trying,"
said Sheriff, "I love it here. It's the
best job I've ever had. The people,
the university, it's a great place to
work and 1 know why I'm here.
I'm here to serve people."

Patricia Cny

University Employees Walk to Philadelphia

Last spring, 33 employees
walked from Washington, D.C. to
Philadelphia.

All were participants in the Uni-
versity of Maryland Fitness
Walker's program, sponsored by
Campus Recreation Services.

The walkers had from Feb. 12 to
July 4 to accumulate 130 miles, the
distance between the two cities, by
walking inside the Reckord
Armory or outside on prescribed
routes.

Those who completed or exceed-
ed tin. 1 distance were awarded T-
shirts attesting to the successful
completion of their "trip."

They are: Agnes Abell, physical
plant; Constance Batts, CMPS; Bet-
ty Brooks, computer information
systems; Ralph Burgio, university

printing; Bertis Cascio, agriculture
experiment station; Carole Cook,
physical plant; Gina Covington,
mathematics; Jane Deren, CRBS;
Karen Earl, office of the bursar;
and Susan Fidlow, department of
textiles and consumer economics.
Others who hiked the distance
are: Conrad Foerter, research
administration; Anne Franzak,
English; Vitaline Handy, contracts
and grants; Robert Hansen, alum-
nus; Aileen Lowry, BSOS; Connie
McCulley, personnel services;
Eugene McLoone, department of
education policy, planning and ad-
ministration; Marcia Meyer, per-
sonnel services; Catherine Nickle,
administrative affairs; Susan
Norsworthy, university printing;
Harold Perry, university printing;

and Krishna Rao, system office.

Also: Mary Rein, mathematics;
Rita Ricketts and Darla Robinson,
personnel services; Lynda
Sheppard, agriculture business of-
fice; Dorothy Shobe, agriculture
business office; Kathleen Stauder,
department of human nutrition;
Gladys Touhey, international pro-
grams; Catherine Webster, aca-
demic affairs; Joyce Yarwood,
mathematics; Dorothy Zah ringer,
resource planning and budget; and
Marilyn Zeigler, BSOS.

"Walking is an excellent physi-
cal fitness activity that anyone at
any age can participate in," says
Barbara Aiken, assistant director in
CRS. For more information, call
314-7218.

SEPTEMBER 17

19 9

Meriam Rosen

Rosen Works to Help Students
Find Way on Dance Floor

Throughout her multi-faceted
career, Meriam Rosen, professor of
dance, has learned many times
over what a difference a good
teacher can make for a student.

Inspired teachers helped pave
her artistic journey from aspiring
ballet dancer to modern dance
choreographer and improvisation
specialist. And it is a lesson that
influences her own approach to
teaching.

"I'm a real believer in the value
of learning dance in a university
setting," says Rosen, a member of
the College Park dance faculty
since 1967.

"If 1 hadn't gotten into a univer-
sity dance program (at the Univer-
sity of Illinois), 1 otherwise
wouldn't have found modern
dance, which has been my life," she
says.

In introducing students to the
different paths a young dancer's
career might take, Rosen draws on
the experience of her own varied
career. While her choreographic
work and her direction of Improvi-
sations Unlimited, a dance com-
pany in residence at the university,
is well-known in the area, her pre-
Maryland background includes ex-
tensive work as a dancer and a
stint as a teacher at an experimen-
tal school in Illinois.

After finishing her under-
graduate training in the late 1940s,
Rosen taught dance for six years at
an experimental high school in
Champaign, III. With selective en-
rollment, accelerated learning and
an emphasis on creativity, the job
was an enjoyable and challenging
introduction to teaching, Rosen
says.

In 1955, Rosen left the classroom
to work the dance boards. She
toured four years with the Dance
Quartet, a modern dance company
that produced several other per-
sons who have had fruitful careers,
including Virginia Freeman of the
Folger Theater and Dan Wagoner,
who later worked with Martha
Graham, Merce Cunningham and
Paul Taylor. Rosen also danced
with the Washington Dancers in
Repertory and the Ethel Butler
Dance Company.

In the early 1960s, Rosen came
to the University of Maryland at
College Park where for several
years she taught classes while
working on a master's degree in
dance.

Rosen's interest and skill in
choreography burgeoned here.
Also, she discovered her most
recent avocation— improvisation.

"I had avoided improvisation; it
was a dirty word to me," Rosen
says. "My first experience was that
it was unstructured, emotional
catharsis kind of stuff, not very
worthwhile."

However, a Maryland colleague
who was adept at creating quality
improvisational pieces demon-
strated to Rosen the possibilities

that existed within the form.

Rosen soon saw that rather than
freewheeling self-indulgence, im-
provisation could become a height-
ened collaboration between dancers
and directors.

In much of the improvisation
that Rosen directs, she gives her
dancers ideas that they work
through in movement. She then
leads the process of picking out the
best expressions that emerge.

Rosen was so taken with the
form that she founded Improvisa-
tions Unlimited in 1978. The com-
pany has presented more than 500
workshops and performances.

Area audiences will have an op-
portunity to see examples of
Rosen's most recent work as a
choreographer at a dance concert 8
p.m. Friday, Sept. 21, at Publick
Playhouse in Cheverly. Dancers,
including several College Park fac-
ulty and students, will present new
Rosen works "Drifting" and "Fierce
Attachments." For ticket informa-
tion call 277-1710.

Brian Busek

Dancers perform Meriam Rosen's "Fierce Attachments." A concert ot
Rosen works will be held at 8 p.m. Sept. 21 at Publick Playhouse.

Shakespeare Set in Old West
for New Theatre Season

Entertaining take-offs on The
Wizard of Oz and The Taming of the
Shrew highlight the University
Theatre 1990-91 season.

Season tickets are currently
available for the six-p!ay season
that will open with Lanford
Wilson's The Rimers of Eidtriteh Oct.
16 in the Rudolph E. Pugliese The-
atre. The play examines the life and
Bible Belt morality of people in the
small Midwestern town of
Eidtriteh. Dates for the play are
Oct. 16-21 and 23-28.

The first Tawes Theatre produc-
tion is The Wiz, a gospel rock and
soul version of Frank Baum's clas-
sic The Wonderful Wizard of Oz,
which will open Nov. 8. Dates for
the play are Nov. 8-11 and 15-17.

Agnes of God, a John Pielmeier
play in which a psychiatrist exam-
ines a young nun accused of mur-
dering her own baby, will be pre-
sented Nov. 27-30 and Dec. 1-2 and
4-9 in the Pugliese Theatre.

Major Barbara, the George Ber-
nard Shaw classic in which a Salva-
tion army worker fights for her
ideals against the power of her
father, a munitions maker, will be
presented March 7-10 and 14-16 in
Tawes Theatre.

Top Girls, a Caryl Churchill play
in which great women of history
gather for a time- warped luncheon
to convey how they achieved suc-

cess by adopting the worst traits of
their male oppressors, will be pre-
sented April 9-14 and 16-21 in the
Pugliese Theatre.

The season will conclude with
an unusual version of Shake-
speare's Taming of the Shrew. Direc-
tor Mitchell Patrick will place
Petruchio and Kate in the Old West
for their clamorous courtship. The
play will be presented May 2-5 and
9-1 1 in Tawes Theatre.

For patrons interested in learn-
ing more about the creation of each
production, actors and directors
will conduct post-performance dis-
cussions after the second Thursday
performance of each show.

Among the services at Univer-
sity Theatre productions are a free
infrared listening system, audio
description and sign interpretation.
The listening system is available for
all Tawes Theatre performances,
audio description is available for
Sunday matinee performances in
Tawes Theatre and sign interpreta-
tion is available for select perform-
ances throughout the season.

For ticket information and more
information about special services
call 405-2201.

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RESEARCH

Simon Says Nation to Benefit from Immigrants

A new book, The Economic Consequences of Immigration, by busi-
ness professor Julian Simon, says the United States will stand to
benefit from accepting more immigrants into the country. Simon
argues that the free economy of the United States unleashes the
creativity of immigrants in ways that generally are not possible in
most other countries. "All the U.S. need do to sharply increase the
rate of advance in its technology and its industrial productivity is
relax its barriers against the immigration of skilled creators of
knowledge," Simon writes. The book has been favorably reviewed
in The New York Times, The Walt Street journal, and Business Week.

Geologist Finds that Statue of Liberty is
Undamaged by Acid Rain

Beneath Lady Liberty's pretty
green face is a brown skin of cop-
per. The green surface is the patina,
an ornamental film of chemicals
that form naturally on copper as a
result of corrosion.

It's all a matter of aesthetics. But
if you look at photographs of the
statue taken in the 1960s, vou will
see that the patina was uniformly
green. Today, there is a variation in
the shades of green with dark
green on high areas such as the
nose and cheeks and light green in
deep areas such as the eyes and
below the lips. These color patterns
correspond to different mixtures of
copper minerals in the patina.

It has been theorized that the
changing color patterns are the
result of chemical conversions
caused bv acid rain, which has be-
come more acidic in the northeast
United States during the last 20 or
30 years.

The National Park Service want-
ed to know what was happening to
the surface of our Statue of Liberty,
so thev called in College Park's
Richard A. Livingston to investi-
gate. Livingston is a Department of
Geology research fellow who spe-
cializes in architectural conserva-
tion science. He has served as a
consultant for such structures as
the Taj Mahal, the sphinx and the
Washington National Cathedral.

Livingston developed a mathe-
matical model using geochemical
principles to predict which copper

minerals would be stable, given
different rainwater and atmo-
spheric chemical conditions. The
minerals predicted in the model
actually matched the chemistry of
New York air and rainwater.

Livingston found that air quality
in New York City is better now
than it was 20 years ago — the posi-
tive result of emission controls
placed on fuel oil and coal since
the 1970s, The cleaner air has, in
fact, made color patterns more pro-
minent on the statue because of
reduced sulfur dioxide in the atmo-
sphere.

"The color patterns appear to be
due to the prevailing winds which
determine where rainwater contacts
tin. 1 statue," i ivingston snvs. Where
there is less rain contact, salt spray
has a greater influence on patina
shade. In the past, greater concen-
trations of sulfur dioxide domin-
ated other effects such as seawater,
causing a uniform color in the pati-
na. According to Livingston, the
cleaner air and rainwater in New
York allows the sea salt to influ-
ence areas that receive less rain,
and the patina thus develops vari-
ous shades of green.

Livingston has concluded that
the Statue of Liberty does not ap-
pear to be threatened bv acid rain,
"It appears that the statue will sur-
vive for several more centuries," he
says.

Fariss Samarrai

The Statue of Liberty's surface has taken on a photo negative appearance
due to chemical changes caused by cleaner air in New York City.

Systems Research Center Offers New Series of Technical Books

The Systems Research Center
(SRC) and Springer-Verlag, a scien-
tific and technical book publisher,
have announced publication of a
new series called Progress in Auto-
mation and Information Systems.

The goal of this series is to pro-
vide rapid dissemination of advan-
ces and discoveries in automation
and information engineering to the
academic and industrial engineer-
ing and scientific community. Both
research and development as well
as education will be covered. Indi-
vidual volumes will cover work-
shop proceedings, specific research

advances, and short courses as well
as modeling, computational meth-
ods and real-life applications.

The first volume in the series is
Recent Advances in Stochastic Cal-
culus edited by SRC director John
Baras and V, Mirelli. The book,
released in July, assembles all the
most recent advances and presents
both their theoretical aspects and
engineering applications. It is the
first time this information has ap-
peared in book form, accessible to
the engineering audience.

The SRC was founded with sup-
port from the National Science

Foundation with the goal of pro-
moting and facilitating research
and education in the integrated
design of automation and informa-
tion systems.

The new series will emphasize
such areas as intelligent servo-
mechanisms including aircraft,
spacecraft, and robotic mani-
pulators; chemical process systems
such as reactors and whole plants;
communication and data network
systems; manufacturing systems,
and system intelligence and archi-
tecture.

MIPS Announces Fall 1990 Grant Round

The Maryland Industrial Part-
nerships program (MIPS) is ac-
cepting proposals for its Fall 1990
grant round.

A component of the university's
Engineering Research Center, MIPS
helps Maryland companies lever-
age their research and development
dollars by providing matching
funds for technical projects of spe-
cial interest to those companies and
pairs them with university faculty
researchers.

The maximum MIPS grant is
$70,000 per project per year for
both large and small companies
and $50,000 for start-up firms. The
application deadline is Oct. 26.

Since the program began three
years ago, a total of 156 matching
grants have been awarded to com-
panies for projects designed to put
technology to work and to enhance
the state's economic vitality. $14.6
million in joint research partner-
ships have been funded, $5,3 mil-

lion contributed by MIPS and the
university and $9.3 million by in-
dustry.

MlPS-funded research projects
include agriculture and aqua-
culture, biotechnology and genetic
engineering, chemical engineering,
communications, laser technology,
robotics and software development
among others.

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Recognizing Campus Community Leadership

Since 1927, the Sigma Circle of Omicron Delta Kappa has been
recognizing student leaders in five areas of campus community
life: scholarship, social service, athletics, journalism and media, and
the arts. Applications for honoring this year's juniors, seniors and
graduate students can be picked up in the Office of Student
Affairs, 2108 Mitchell, and must be returned no later than Friday,
Sept. 21. Call Drury Bagwell at 314-8433 for information.

New Courses Offered by College Park Seminars

This fall, the Office of the Dean
for Undergraduate Studies is spon-
soring three new courses for fresh-
man students as part of the College
Park Seminars program called for
in the Pease Report.

Designed to give students an
intense introduction to undergrad-
uate education with an emphasis
on analytical and critical thinking,
the new courses are linked to the
common theme of "Science, Tech-
nology, and Society."

Open only to freshmen, each
seminar is limited to twenty stu-
dents and satisfies the CORE dis-
tributive studies area in social sci-
ences under the category of behav-
ioral and social science.

The College Park Seminars are:
GNED 189A, "The Contemporary
City," taught by Guido Francescato,

Workshop Offered for
International Students

University of Maryland students
with F-l or J-l visas are invited to
attend a workshop on job search
strategies and interviewing techni-
ques on Oct. 3 and 1 from 4-6
p.m. in Room T of Hornbake Lib-
rary's Non- Print Media Services.

The intensive two-part work-
shop will cover information on visa
and work regulations, cultural dif-
ferences in the United States, and
will explain the steps necessary for
a successful job search.

The program is offered each
semester and is jointly sponsored
by the Career Development Center
and the International Education
Services office. Participants must
register in Room 3121, Hornbake
Libra ry South Wing, for the free
event. For further information, call
314-7225.

Students Participate in
USSR Exchange Program

This summer several University
of Maryland at College Park stu-
dents went to the Timiryazev Agri-
cultural Academy in Moscow for a
cultural /educational exchange. The
students, who had varied back-
grounds and interests such as gov-
ernment and politics, journalism,
computer science, and agriculture,
spent five weeks touring cultural
sights in Moscow, visiting state and
cooperative farms, hearing lectures
on agriculture and economics, and
travelling through the Soviet
Union.

Students participating in the
program included, Matthew
Gardner, a sophomore government
and politics major; Ann E. Kirwan,
a senior journalism major; Joseph
Chisolm, a senior pre-vet major;
Car! O. Patton, a senior horticulture
major; and Karen Duggar, a grad-
uate student in Russian politics.

Also participating in the trip
were Susan Schoenian, extension
agent. State of Maryland, and
Sherrell Goggin, University of
Maryland Department of AREC.

Department of Housing and De-
sign. This seminar examines the
city in a post-industrial society, its
historical origins, culture and phys-
ical and symbolic aspects;

GNED189B, "Technology and
Modernization of the American
Home," taught by Jo Paoletti, De-
partment of Textiles and Consumer
Economics. This seminar traces
how technological change has
shaped the American home since
the mid-19th century;

GNED 189D, "Matters of Life
and Death: Social and Ethical Im-
pacts of Technology on Health
Care," taught by Barbara Kaplan
through the Department of Mech-
anical Engineering. This seminar
will allow students to consider the
ethical, political, economic and be-
havioral implications of technology

on health care.

A fourth seminar, GNED 189C,
"Leisure and Technology," taught
by John Churchill, Department of
Recreation, was also offered last
spring semester. The focus of this .
seminar is on the interrelationships
among and between technology
and leisure in various aspects of
society .

Faculty who would like to teach
a College Park Seminar for the
spring and fall semesters of 1991
should contact Kathryn Mohrman,
dean for undergraduate studies.
Interested faculty will have the
freedom to develop a seminar of
their choice, and the 1991 seminars
will not need to conform to a pre-
determined theme. The deadline
for course proposals is October 1.

John Fritz

Graduate and Professional
School Fair Scheduled for Oct.

The University of Maryland is
one of the 11 colleges and univer-
sities in the Washington, DC area
sponsoring the 13th annual Gradu-
ate and Professional School Fair on
Oct. 19 and 31 at George Washing-
ton University's Marvin Center.

Located on the third floor of the
center, 21st and H Streets, N.W.
near the Foggy Bottom Metro stop,
the fair will feature over 200
admissions representatives from
universities across the nation.
Panels will also be presented on

financing graduate study, applying
successfully, and options in law.
Graduate programs will be fea-
tured on Monday, Oct. 29, and law
schools will be represented on
Wednesday, Oct. 31. The free pro-
gram will be held both days from 2
to 7 p.m.

The Career Development Center,
Room 3112 Hornbake Library
South Wing, has a listing of the
participating schools. Call 314-7225
for more information.

Preview of Coming Attractions

A construction worker balances on the steel beams that will support the roof of Tyser Auditorium In
the new College of Business and Management and School of Public Affairs facility going up on the
southwest side of campus. The auditorium Is named for Ralph Tyser, a 1940 graduate who donated
$1 million to the College of Business and Management's building campaign.

SEPTEMBER 17

1990

CALENDAR

Reception for New Faculty

A special invitation has been extended to all new faculty to at-
tend a special reception in their honor on Tuesday, Sept. 18
from 3-5:30 pm. The event to welcome new faculty to the
university will take place in the Maryland Room of Marie
Mount Hall. Newcomers to the faculty will he welcomed by
President William E. Kirwan and other top university officials
and will also have a chance to meet the deans and other cam-
pus leaders. Call 405-5000 for further information.

SEPTEMBER 17-25

MONDAY

Art Gallery Exhibition: "Trouble
in Paradise." today-Oct 26, The
Art Gallery. ArtSoc Bldg. Call 5-
2763 for into,

Computer Science Colloquium:

"Structured Documents: Their
Logical Specification and
Processing." featuring Allen L.
Brown. Jr.. U. of Syracuse and
Xerox Webster Research Center.
reception, 3:30 p.m., 1152 A.V.
Williams Bldg.. lecture, 4 p.m..
0111 Classroom Bldg. Call 5-
2661 for info.

Women's Studies Lecture:
"Passionate Politics: The Making
of a Feminist Movement in
Washington D.C.. 1967-77,"
featuring Charlotte Bunch. 8 p.m..
2203 ArtSoc Bldg. Call 5-6877
tor info.

Horticulture Seminar:
"Production of Alternative Flower

Crops in Maryland." featuring Will
Healy, 4 p.m., 0128 Holzapfel
Hall. Call 5-4360 for into.

Space Science Seminar:

Investigations of Coronal and
Chromospheric Processes with
Solar Wind Ion Composition,"
featunng Johannes Geiss, U. of
Bern, Switzerland, 4:30 p.m..
1113 Computers Space
Sciences Bldg. Call 5-4829 for
info.

Indonesian Puppet Theatre, 8
p.m.. pre-concert seminar, 6:30
p.m.. Tawes Recital Hall. Call 80-
4240 for info.'

TUESDAY

Nyumburu Cultural Center
Open House, 9 am, -7 p m„
3123 South Campus Dining Hall.
Call 4-7758 for info.

Meditation Center Open House,

11 a.m.-1 p.m., 2113 Mitchell
Bldg. Call 4-8428 for info,

SUPC Games and
Tournaments: "Fun m the
Union," noon-2 p.m.. Stamp
Student Union. Call 4-8495 for
info.

Coltege of Agriculture Welcome
Picnic, 3:30-5:30 p,m , south
side of Symons Hall. Call 5-4685
for info.

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Wesley Foundation Bible
Study, 5 p.m.. University United
Methodist Church. Call 422-1400
for info.

Women's Field Hockey vs.
Towson State, 6:30 p.m.,
Astroturf Field Call 4-7064 for
info.

WEDNESDAY

Counseling Center Research
and Development Seminar:
"Caseload Trends as Seen by

College Park Youth and Family
Services," featuring Peggy
Higgins, Director, College Park
Youth & Family Services, noon-1
p.m., 0106-0114 Shoemaker Bl-
dg. Call 4-7691 for info.

Department of Art Minorities &
Women Lecture, featuring
Marcia Tucker, Founder &
Director, The New Museum. 1
p.m.. 1 309 Art/Soc Bldg. Call 5-
1442 for into.

Women's Soccer vs. Radford,
1 p.m.. Soccer Field. Call 4-7064
for info.

Men's Soccer vs. American U..
3 p.m.. Soccer Field. Call 4-7064
for info.

Astronomy Colloquium:

"Gamma Ray Astronomy and
Gamma Ray Observatory."
featuring James Kurfess. U.S.
Naval Research Laboratory.
Washington, D.C., 4 p.m., 1113
Computer & Space Sciences
Bldg.. pre-lecture tea, 3:30 p.m.,
0254 CSS. Call 5-1524 for info.

Wesley Foundation and United
Campus Ministry Open House
and Worship, 4-6 p.m , West
Lounge, Memorial Chapel. Call 5-
8450 for info.

Women's Volleyball vs. William
& Mary, 7 p.m.. Cole Field
House, Call 4-7064 for info.

Architecture Lecture, featuring

Anthony Ames, Architect. Atlanta.
GA. 7:30 p.m., Architecture
Auditorium Reception and
exhibition to follow lecture. Call
5-6284 for info.

3 THURSDAY

Meteorology Seminar: "Spectra
and Correlation Functions for the
Atmospheric Turbulence in the
Neutral or Unstable Surface
Layer." featuring Akiva Yaglom,
Soviet Academy of Sciences,
Moscow, U.S.S.R., 3:30 p.m.,
2114 Computers Space
Sciences Bldg.. refreshments at 3
p.m. Call 5-5392 for info.

History and Philosophy of
Science Lecture: "Analytical
Chemistry and a Second
Scientific Revolution." featuring
Davis W. Baird, U. of South
Carolina, 4 p.m., 2324 Computer
Science Center Call 5-5691 for
info.

Women's Field Hockey vs.
American U., 7 p.m.. Astroiurf
Field. Call 4-7064 for info.

Guest Speaker: Charlotte Bunch, Director of the Center for Global Issues and Women's
Leadership, Rutgers University, will open the Fall 1990 Feminist Theory and Women's
Activism Lecture Series, Monday, September 17 at 6 p.m. In the Art/Sociology
Building, Room 2203. Call 5-6877 for information.

FRIDAY

Terrapin Invitational Women's
Volleyball Tournamenl, UM vs.
Drexel, 8 p.m.. Cole Field House
Call 4-7064 for info.

SATURDAY

Creative Dance Lab, for children
ages 4-16, one-hour classes 10
a.m. -2 p.m.. 1136 Dance Bldg.
Call 5-7039 for rnfo '

Maryland University Club
Pre-garne Brunch, 10 a.m., Ros-
sborough Inn Call 4-80 1 5 for
info."

UM Football vs. N.C. State,
noon, Byrd Stadium. Call 4-7064
for info.*

Terrapin Invitational Women's
Volleyball Tournament, UM vs.
Bradley, 2 p.m.. UM vs. South
Carolina, 7 p.m Cole Field
House. Call 4-7064 for info.

MONDAY

Art Gallery Exhibition: "Trouble
in Paradise," today-Oct. 26. The

Art Gallery, Art/Soc Bldg. Call
5-2763 for info.

College ot Agriculture and
College ot Life Science
Reception, 1-4 p.m.. Zoo.Psych
Bldg. Call 5-2080 for info.

Teaching Workshop, for all
faculty leaching CORE -approved
general education courses. 1 :30-
4:30 p.m., Maryland Room. Marie
Mouni Hall. Call 5-9359 lor info.

Time Management Workshop,
3-4:30 p.m. 2201 Shoemaker
Bldg. Call 4-7693 for info.

Space Science Seminar: "How
to Make ihe Most ol Ihe NS-
SDC." Susan Kayser. National
Space Science Data Center.
NASAGoddard. 4:30 p.m,, 1113
Computer and Space Sciences
Bldg. Call 5-4829 for info.

SUPC's Issues & Answers
Committee Movie: "Thin Blue
Line," 6:30 p.m.. discussion wilh
Randall Adams al 8 p.m., Hoff
Theatre, Call 4-8495 for info

SUNDAY

Wesley Foundation Meeting:

"Habitat for Humanity 'Service
Project Information Night, ' dinner
at 6 p.m.. meeting at 7 p.m..
University United Methodist
Church. Call 422-1400 for info. 1

Computer Science Colloquium:
"Towards Industrial Strength

Software Oevelopmeni En-
vironments." featuring Dewayne
E. Perry. AT&T Bell Laboratories.
reception. 3:30 p.m.. 1152 A.V.
Williams Bldg., lecture, 4 p.m.,
0111 Classroom Bldg. Call
5-2661 for info.

Horticulture Seminar: "Tissue-
printing Techniques in Plants,"
Rosannah Taylor, USDA Plant
Hormone Lab, Beltsville, 4 p.m.,
0128 Holzapfel Hall. Call 5-4360
for info.

TUESDAY

Maryland Center tor Quality
and Productivity Seminar:

"Introduction lo Total Quality."
today and tomorrow, 8 a.m. -4:30
p,m„ Calvert Holiday Inn,
Beltsville. Call 80-4535 lor info.*

Women's Field Hockey vs.
Penn State, 7 p.m., Aslroturf
Field. Call 4-7064 for info

* Admission charge for this
event Alt others are free.

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