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

OCTOBER 22, 1990
VOLUME 5, NUMBER 8

0' Haver and Trasco Win
EDUCOM Awards

Two computer programs — one
that enables students to perform
sophisticated signal analyses but
costs less than many textbooks and
one that lets students view and stu-
dy the universe on a computer
monitor instead of through a tele-
scope — have garnered University of
Maryland at College Park research-
ers two top awards and one distin-
guished award.

Thomas C. O' Haver, professor
of analytical chemistry, garnered
two best of category awards, one
for the best chemistry software and
one for best software design. Of the
23 awards given, only nine were
for the "best" category.

O'Haver, the only individual
candidate selected to be awarded
two top prizes, received the honors
for his SPECTRUM (Signal Process-
ing for Experimental Chemistry
Teaching and Research) program, a
user-friendly, Macintosh computer-
based program that allows students
to obtain, enhance and analyze sig-
nals generated by such widely-
used scientific instruments as spec-
trometers and chrornatographs.

The awards came from the Na-
tional Center fur Research to Im-
prove Postsecondary Teaching and
Learning (NCRIPTAL) and
EDUCOM, a consortium of more
than 500 colleges, universities, and

Longitudinal Study
Completed

A 10-year look at student
attitudes

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Happy Birthday,
Maryland Handel

Festival

Tenth anniversary celebration
Oct.31-Nov.4

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Sims Serves on
Nutrition Labeling
Panel

Recommends national nutrition
disclosure legislation

List of Promotions,
Tenure and New
Positions

Wlni>'s been promoted, received
tenure, been hired

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other institutions concerned with
information technologies in higher
education. The two organizations
jointly sponsor a higher education
software competition each year to
recognize educational software that
best reflects innovative and effec-
tive approaches to improving high-
er education.

A total of 170 entries were sub-
mitted for the competition.

John D. Trasco, associate direc-
tor of the astronomy program, won
a distinguished software award for
his ASTRO LABS program. ASTRO
LABS is a collection of four, multi-
part experiments that allow stu-
dents to simulate actual astronomi-
cal observations and analysis on
IBM compatible personal comput-
ers. All three awards carry cash
prizes as well as trophies.

EDUCOM/NCRIPTAL awards
are given to original educational
software that best reflects innova-
tive and effective approaches to im-
proving higher education.

O'Haver and Trasco were pre-
sented their trophies at the
EDUCOM '90 meeting held in At-
lanta, Georgia, during October 15
to 17. The cash awards were pre-
sented to the two researchers bv

Vice President for Academic Af-
fairs and Provost J. Robert
Dorfman at a special ceremony
held at the physics lecture hall on
October 5.

O'Haver's SPECTRUM is an
interactive, graphics-oriented com-
puter program used to explore and
enhance signal data produced by
measurement devices. Measure-
ment in science is important, ac-
cording to O'Haver, because scien-
tific progress depends largely on

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Thomas O'Haver and
his SPECTRUM Program

Engineering Joins $15 Million
Grant Coalition

NSF

A coalition of schools and col-
leges of engineering at seven uni-
versities, including the College of
Engineering at College Park, has
received a five-year, $15 million
grant from the National Science
Foundation to help fund a project
designed to improve dramatically
the effectiveness of undergraduate
engineering education through cur-
riculum renewal.

The project — the Engineering
Coalition of Schools for Excellence
in Education and Leadership or
ECSEL — also aims to increase the
number of women and minorities
entering the engineering profes-
sion.

ECSEL is one of two national
coalitions funded by NSF. It is bud-
geted at $15 million from NSF and
$15 million in matching funds from
the private sector and the univer-
sities.

The six other ECSEL universities
are City College of New York,
Howard University, Massachusetts
Institute of Technology, Morgan
State University, Pennsylvania State
University and the University of
Washington,

The ECSEL Coalition will be di-
rected by a principal investigator,
Howard's engineering dean Lucius

Walker, through a Faculty Execu-
tive Committee with one member
from each coalition school.

College Park chemical engineer-
ing professor Thomas M. Regan is
the principal investigator at Mary-
land and is ECSEL's associate di-
rector in charge of Teaching /Learn-
ing Innovation. The project will be
widely based throughout the Col-
lege of Engineering, he says.

College Park has the responsibil-
ity for devising a program of facul-
ty development since a renovation
of engineering education will re-
quire the renewed efforts of facul-
ty. Maryland also will develop and
operate ECHO, a coalition- wide
communications network. The
Maryland budget for the first year
of the project is $700,000.

"The grant draws attention to
the high priority and focus that we
will be placing on undergraduate
education in the College of Engi-
neering," Regan says. "A natural
consequence of ECSEL will be a
significant enhancement through-
out the curriculum, an emphasis on
new ways to teach and learn, and
an increased professional compe-
tency for a lifelong career."

Tom Otwell

See you at the Seventh
Annual Faculty and Staff
Contnvocation, Tuesday,
Oct, 23, 3 p.m.,
Memorial Chapel
(reception afterward).

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Dorfman to Discuss Budget Issues

at Senate Meeting

The next meeting of the College Park Campus Senate is sched-
uled for Monday, Oct. 22 (today), from 3:30 to 6:30 p.m. in Room
0126 of the Reckord Armory. Items on the agenda include Dr. J,
Robert Dorfman discussing budget issues, a motion to approve a
name change for the Institute for Urban Studies to the Department
of Urban Studies, the Student Honor Council, an ad hoc committee
to work on the campus policy for the training and supervision of
TA's, a motion to approve the Graduate Certificate in Women's
Studies and a resolution to proclaim Nov. 14 and 15, 1990 as
Multicultural Community Awareness Days at the university.

Professors Win Awards for Software Design

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the ability to make accurate quan-
titative measurements, and modern
scientific research and technology
relies heavily on sophisticated in-
strumentation to perform such
measurements.

Many of these measurements are
obtained in the form of signals. A
signal represents measured quan-
tities of such entities as voltage,
temperature, pressure, mass, ener-
gy, volume, density, concentration,
or wavelength. A type of signal
most people are familiar with is the
spiked line that is produced by an
EKG (electrocardiogram)— an in-
strument that measures and

John D. Trasco: "A
computer helps show
the interrelationships

of the discipline of
astronomy in a way
that is much better than
simply using a pencil
and paper."

displays the electrical activity of
the heart.

With SPECTRUM, students can
graphically manipulate signals to
gain a better understanding of the
signal and its source. They may
wish to compare two signals, en-
large an area of a signal, or apply
one of several enhancement techni-
ques to the signal. Additionally,
SPECTRUM features more than 20
built-in mathematical operations
that can be rapidly applied to the
graphic data to obtain various
quantitative measurements of the
signal.

Because the program is highly
interactive, students can perform
multiple operations on real or sim-
ulated data, obtaining immediate,
dynamic visual feedback. This al-
lows them to perform computation-
al operations in the same way as
would a professional scientist.
"Text books are crucial for learning,
but they have no room for explora-
tion by the student," O' Haver says.
"SPECTRUM brings the textbook to
life. There is no substitute for the
real thing or for hands-on experi-

ence in performing scientific ana-
lyses or solving scientific
problems."

Part of SPECTRUM'S analytic
power comes from its ability to
help students see information that
is not always apparent from a
simple visual inspection of graphic
data. For example, a slight bulge or
peak in a signal graph line may be
almost imperceptible to the naked
eye. But when isolated and en-
hanced by SPECTRUM, that signal
deviation may reveal important in-
formation about the chemical un-
der analysis, such as its purity or
composition.

"A common misconception
among inexperienced students is
that the information content of a
recorded experimental signal will
always be obvious by visual in-
spection of the plotted data,"
O' Haver points out. "But there are
situations where important infor-
mation is presented in recorded
data in such a way that the human
eye-brain system completely fails to
recognize that information."
While fledgling chemistry students
can benefit from SPECTRUM, more
experienced users are finding
SPECTRUM equally helpful. Be-
cause its user-friendly format is
coupled with a wide range of soph-
isticated features and capabilities,
SPECTRUM is appropriate for in-
troductory chemistry students as
well as those involved in graduate
research. It allows both student
groups to easily perform a multi-
tude of functions in seconds that
would be prohibitively difficult
and time-consuming otherwise. "Its
user-friendliness encourages less
advanced students to use
SPECTRUM while its speed and
power encourage more advanced
students to explore more sophisti-
cated analytical techniques,"
O' Haver says.

Students in other scientific dis-
cipline also can benefit from
SPECTRUM'S power and versatil-
ity. Although O'Haver designed
SPECTRUM for analytical chemis-
try students, the program is equally
suitable for any field of study that
uses signal data, such as physics,
medical research, clinical psychol-
ogy, environmental and earth sci-
ences, biochemistry, or materials
testing.

The other University of Mary-
land award winner was John D.
Trasco. His ASTRO LABS program
harnesses the power of the person-
al computer to simulate the power
of the telescope. Using ASTRO
LABS, Students can "view" and
measure the positions of Jupiter's
moons, the distance of celestial ob-
jects, and galactic rotation, and ana-
lyze the expansion of the
universe — all on a computer monit-
or. "A computer helps show the
inter-relationships of the discipline
of astronomy in a way that is much
better than simply using a pencil
and paper," Trasco says.

In designing ASTRO LABS,
Trasco and his colleagues wanted a
software program that would give
non-science majors a meaningful
astronomy laboratory experience

while teaching them the fundamen-
tals of the science of astronomy.

They were also motivated by
more practical concerns. "Ideally,
all astronomy labs should have
some introduction to telescope ob-
serving," says Trasco. "But practi-
cally, this is precluded because of
weather and equipment limita-
tions."

He notes that the traditional ap-
proach to surmounting these limi-
tations relies on using photographs
of celestial objects or providing stu-
dents with tabular data with which
to work.. But this method, too, has
its limitations, according to Trasco.
"Using these materials forces stu-
dents into a passive role," he says.

Instead, Trasco and his associ-
ates wanted a system that would
actively involve the student while
mimicking as closely as possible
the functions and workings of a
telescope. They succeeded. Using
IBM personal computers, ASTRO
LABS provide realistic images of
the moons of Jupiter, star fields, or
entire galaxies.

But there were other impedi-
ments — of a more cosmic nature —
that ASTRO LABS had to over-
come. One of those was time. As
Trasco explains, with the exception
of the motion of nearby celestial
objects and the evolution of cata-
clysmic events, astronomical phen-
omena are largely static as mea-
sured bv human time scales. But
with ASTRO LABS, "the long time
frame encountered in astronomical
observations can be compressed by
the presentation of successive im-
ages at set time intervals."

This feature allows students to
watch a celestial event unfold in
seconds or minutes instead of the
millions of years it might normally
take.

Gin/ M. Stephenson

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ihe College Park campus community.

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Greek Chapters Active in Community Service Projects

During 1989-90, the university's fraternities and sororities were
actively engaged in community service projects that resulted in
contributions to charity of nearly $118,000 and 2,845 hours in
donated time. Activities ranged from Zeta Beta Tau's Dancers
Against Cancer annual dance marathon that raised $75,000 for the
American Cancer Society to the Pan-Hellenic Council's donation of
20 turkeys to homeless shelters at Thanksgiving and Christmas to
Zeta I J hi Beta's Halloween party at the Hospital for Sick Children.
During Greek Week 1990, fraternities and sororities gave 100 hours
and raised $12,000 for Students Against Drunk Driving.

Visual Press Signs Agreements with
Smithsonian Institution

The Smithsonian Institution will
distribute and provide funds for
development of a variety of video
productions by the University of
Maryland at College Park's Visual
Press under a pair of agreements
signed recently.

As part of the agreements, The
Smithsonian Institution will distri-
bute the Visual Press production of
"Beckett Directs Beckett," which
features performances of the late
Samuel Beckett's "Waiting for
Godot" and "Krapp's Last Tape."
Taped in 1988 with the Nobel
Prize-winner's participation, the
productions were shown on public
television stations throughout the
United States earlier this year.

In addition, The Smithsonian
Institution will provide the Visual
Press with funds for the develop-
ment of several other projects, the
first being an historically based
dramatic presentation that will fo-
cus on an African American 19th
century quilt maker whose work
now hangs in major museums in
the United States. Academic re-
search and script- writing for the
project is underway.

"Distribution through the Smith-
sonian will give us access to the
kinds of audiences we're trying to
reach," says William Gilcher, pro-
ducer/writer for the Visual Press.
The Visual Press is directed by

Mitchell Lifton, professor of com-
parative literature.

"The assistance that we'll receive
for productions is very important.
The amount isn't huge, but it is
enough to produce scripts for proj-
ects which often is the most diffi-
cult part of a production to fund,"
Gilcher says.

Among the goals for future pro-
ductions is utilizing the expertise of
College Park faculty members, Gil-
cher says. For instance, Gladys-
Marie Fry, professor of English, is
the chief scholar for the current
project on the quilt maker.

The relationship between Har-
riet Powers, an ex-slave artisan and
quilt maker, with Jennie Smith, an
upper-middle class artist and teach-
er who helped preserve Powers'
work for posterity, is the main sub-
ject of the drama. Smith discovered
Powers' work at a "Cotton Fair" in
Athens, Georgia, in 1886 and even-
tually bought a quilt made by the
artist. The sale of the quilt began a
relationship that lasted for a num-
ber of years, with Powers' making
periodic visits to Jennie Smith to
see her quilt. Much of what is
known about Powers' life comes
from Smith's diary descriptions of
these meetings.

Powers' quilts feature narratives
that blend elements of West Afri-
can and Christian religious tradi-

tions. Examples of her work are
currently on display at the Smith- -
sonian Institution's National Muse-
um of American History and the
Boston Museum of Fine Arts,

Fry, a folklorist, received nation-
al attention for her work in curat-
ing a museum exhibit on slave
qui It-making, "Stitched from the
Soul: Slave Quilting in the Ante-
Bellum South." The exhibition was
shown at museums in New York
and Washington during its 1988-89
national tour.

Another project on the drawing
board, although still embryonic,
would draw upon a forthcoming
biography of dancer /choreograph-
er Anna Sokolow by Larry Warren,
professor of dance.

In addition to its Smithsonian
Institution- related projects, the Vis-
ual Press is in various stages of de-
velopment on other productions
involving media organizations in
Europe. Foremost among these is a
planned eight-part series on Bertolt
Brecht, based on a forthcoming bio-
graphy by John Fuegi, professor of
comparative literature. Scripts cur-
rently are being written for the ser-
ies under the direction of Jorge
Semprun, award -winning screen-
writer and Spanish minister of cul-
ture.

Brian Busck

Conference Looks at Entrepreneurship
in U.S. and Japan

The Dingman Center for Entre-
preneurship at the College of Busi-
ness and Management sponsored a
conference on entrepreneurial op-
portunities in the U.S. and japan,
Oct. 15-17. Attendance at the con-
ference, by invitation only, consist-
ed of selected Japanese and Ameri-
can entrepreneurs.

The conference sessions focused
on building practical skills for
doing business in the two coun-
tries, according to Charles Heller,
director of the Dingman Center. In
addition, it provided opportunities

for participants to form business
alliances.

Among the topics discussed at the
conference were: the factors that
influence successful operation in
another country; the structuring of
effective joint ventures; the cultural
differences between Americans and
Japanese; and the government pro-
grams designed to facilitate busi-
ness opportunities in the two
countries.

Funding for the U.S. -Japan Con-
ference came from a $500,000 dona-
tion made to the Dingman Center

by Shoji Kanazawa, one of Japan's
leading entrepreneurs. Kanazawa is
founder and chairman of the Ftero
Group, a Tokyo-based conglomer-
ate with interests in both North
America and Asia.

For information about the
Dingman Center's U.S. -Japan pro-
gram, including the results of the
conference, call Ron Holtz, manag-
er of international programs, at
405-2146.

Math Department to Host High School Competition

The Department of Mathematics
will host the 12th annual Univer-
sity of Maryland High School
Mathematics Competition October
24 and December 5.

Part I of the competition is open
to all students enrolled in high
schools in Maryland and the Dis-
trict of Columbia. Part II, adminis-
tered in December, is a showdown
for the championship between the
highest-scoring participants of Part
I.

The three top competitors will
win $300, $200 and $100, respect-

ively. Also, the highest scorer from
each county of Maryland, the city
of Baltimore and the District of
Columbia will each receive $25.
Scholarships will be awarded to
highly-ranked competitors who ap-
ply to the University of Maryland
at College Park.

The two-part format will be simi-
lar to previous competitions, con-
sisting of questions that require
mathematical insight and ingen-
uity.

Part I, which will be held Oct.
24 from 1 to 3 p.m., is a multiple-

choice test with 25 questions. Com-
petitors who perform well on Part I
will be invited to compete in Part
II, which will be held on Dec. 5
from 1 to 3 p.m. Part II consists of
problems to be worked out and
then explained. Both tests will be
administered at College Park.

This year's competition chair is
Kenneth R. Berg, associate profes-
sor of mathematics.

Harriet Powers is the
subject of a planned
Visual Press-Smithsonian
production

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O

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CLOSE UP

William L. Thomas,
Vice President for
Student Affairs

UM Police Begin Bicycle Patrols

The campus Police Department is now putting some of its
officers on bicycles. The department recently obtained three spe-
cially equipped mountain bikes to allow officers more access to
bike paths, around construction sites, and other areas that are
difficult to patrol using traditional methods. The bicycles are
expected to increase the department's mobility and maneuverabil-
ity and to allow a faster response time to incidents around campus.

Student Affairs Completes 10-Year
Study of Student Attitudes

Although a few of its members
may be greying by now. College
Park's freshman class of 1980 con-
tinues to provide fresh insights
about the attitudes of College Park
students.

More than 700 students from the
university's freshman class of 1480
participated in the Maryland Lon-
gitudinal Study, the most extensive
examination of student attitudes
ever undertaken by the university.
!n addition, black students in the
group were tracked separately to
provide insights into the black stu-
dent experience. Over a five-year
period researchers from the Office
of Student Affairs annually inter-
viewed and surveyed the students
about their attitudes on a wide
variety of issues.

In a series of 16 reports, the re-
searchers reported on such issues
as the commuter student experi-
ence, transfer students, student
employment, campus services, the
black student experience and
academics.

Although some of the data has
become outdated, the reports
provide insights into the student
experience that have implications
for current policy and practice, says
Janet Schmidt, coordinator of the
project. The data has already in flu

enced the views of administrators
on such issues as commuter stu-
dents {see sidebar), residence hall
life and changes in the under-
graduate education program.

"The most important thing this
research does for us as educators is
give us a greater awareness of the
culture with which we're dealing,"
says William Thomas, Vice Presi-
dent for Student Affairs. "We're
particularly interested in seeing
this data used by faculty."

Among the findings in the
report:

• Commuter and resident stu-
dents arrive at College Park with
similar SAT scores, identification
with the campus and expectations
for success. However, as early as
the second semester of their fresh-
man year commuters were signifi-
cantly less involved in such key
aspects of campus life as campus
jobs and student organizations.

• Students who left College
Park after their second year at the
university tended to leave in good
academic standing.

* A large percentage of College
Park students work. About 40 per-
cent of the students surveyed held
jobs during their freshman year
and about 75 percent held jobs by
their fourth vear on campus.

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• Students who entered the uni-
versity with weak academic back-
grounds often had unrealistically
high expectations for their educa-
tion. Incoming students who said
they expected eventually to earn
doctorates entered with lower
C.PAs as a group than those
students who expected to earn only
a bachejor's degree.

In discussing the implications of
such findings, the reports recom-
mend more institutional direction
for students in a number of areas
of their education. Among the re-
commendations, the reports call for
mandatory advising and more
faculty-student interaction. Helping
students develop realistic goals ear-
ly in their university careers could
improve retention, according to the
reports.

As a final step in the project,
researchers are planning to pro-
duce a book on college student
development that would be
marketed to education researchers.

"For researchers in this field, our
work is valuable. We've looked at
areas that have never been studied
in this way before," Thomas says.

Faculty members at the univer-
sity who would like copies of the
studv or would like more informa-
tion about it should call 314-8431.
Brian Btisek

Although commuter students
account for more than 80 percent of
the students at American colleges
and universities, institutions often
ignore the special needs of this
population.

Often more detached from cam-
pus life than residential students,
commuters (defined as anv stu-
dents who do not live in institu-
tion-owned housing) have a differ-
ent — and sometimes less success-
ful—college experience than that of
peers who live in the residence
halls.

For example, the University of
Maryland at College Park's recently
completed Maryland Longitudinal
Study found that commuter and
resident students come to College
Park with similar bai k grounds hut
perform differently. According to
the study, commuters and residents
arrived at College Park with simi-
lar SAT scores, identification with
the campus and expectations for
success but as early as the second
semester of their freshman years
were significantly less involved in
such key aspects of campus life as
jobs and student organizations.

College Park commuters, how-
ever, benefit from the services of
Barbara Jacoby, one of the nation's
top experts in the field. Jacoby,
Director of the National Clearing-

house for Commuter Programs and
Director of Commuter Affairs at
College Park, is the author of a
new book on the subject. The Stu-
dent as Commuter: Developing a Com-
prehensive histitnitknial Response.

"The first thing to recognize is
that there are positive aspects of
commuting, especially living at
home," jacoby says. "Moving away
from home is a rite of passage that
some college-age people aren't
ready for.

"Commuters have their own
rooms, good cooking, etc. — it's a
nice, supportive environment in a
lot of ways.

"On the other hand, when a stu-
dent lives on campus, the univer-
sity tends to become the focus of
his or her life. For commuter stu-
dents there can be many distrac-
tions — friends, jobs and social ac-
tivities that aren't associated with
the university.

"With commuter students, it is
terribly important to draw them
into the life of the campus. It's a
misperception to say that commut-
ers are apathetic," she says.

At College Park, Jacoby works on
developing programs to keep com-
muters attuned to university life. A
continuing concern for Jacoby is
making colleagues, everyone from
faculty members to coordinators of

services, aware of scheduling con-
siderations that affect commuters.
Among the Office of Commuter
Affairs' important innovations in
recent years was the creation in
spring 1989 of the "Commuter Con-
nection," a newsletter that is sent
to all commuters.

This fall, Jacoby is working on a
campaign to get more commuter
students working on campus. Of
commuter students who work, 93
percent work off campus as
opposed to 60 percent of resident
students who work.

"Employment certainly is a way
of bringing commuters to campus
more often," she says.

Brian Busek

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Solar Car Video Documentary Wins Top Award

Leanne Norton, a graduate student in the Department of
Radio, Television and Film, has won first place in a solar car
student video competition. The award, which carries a $1,000 check
from the U.S. Department of Energy, was made for a student-pro-
duced video that best captured the development, testing and
operation of solar vehicles competing in the GM Sunrayce USA.
The Maryland car took third place in the U.S. race and will com-
pete in the World Solar Challenge in Australia next month.
Norton's video will be broadcast by Australia's Territorial Tele-
vision Nov. 10, the day before the Solar Challenge race gets under-
way.

At Age 10, the Maryland Handel Festival is
"Half-Way There"

From Oct. 31 to Nov. 4, the
Maryland Handel Festival will cele-
brate its tenth anniversary with the
distinguished mix of performance
and scholarship that has been its
hallmark from the beginning.

And, according to music profes-
sor Paul Traver, founder and artis-
tic director, the festival is right on
target with the goal, stated at its
inception, of performing all of
Handel's English oratorios in the
order in which he wrote them.
There are 18 or 19 of them, de-
pending on how they are categor-
ized, and says Traver, "We are now
half-way there in these performan-
ces, with this year's presentation of
Joseph, the ninth of the oratorios."

There have been some interrup-
tions in the orderly sequence of
performances, for the most part
caused by presentations of Messiah
in 1980 and 1984. Messiah will
again be sung in this year's festival,
in a special gala performance con-
ducted by Traver at Baltimore's
Joseph Meyerhoff Symphony Hall
at 8 p.m. on Wednesday, Oct. 31.

But in addition to the well-loved
and familiar, Traver also continues
to present little- known treasures,
such as this year's Joseph and His
Brethren, According to Traver, all
the scholarship available points to
the festival's production as being
Ihe first U.S. performance ever.
Traver encourages everyone to
"come and hear what Handel did
with the 'technicolor dreamcoat'
story." The concert will be on Sun-

day, Nov. 4 at 3 p.m. in Memorial
Chapel.

Another little-known delight,
Handel's opera Agrippina, will re-
ceive a full-scale production in the
1990 festival. With an all-student
cast, the opera will be directed by
music department acting chair,
Leon Major, and conducted by
Baroque specialist, Nicholas
McGegan.

Major is pleased with the link-
ing of educational programs
between the Handel Festival and
Maryland's Opera Studio. "As part
of the studio's training program,
Agrippina represents a wonderful
experience for our students— and
we are finding that doing a
comedv of intrigue is great fun," he
says.

The opera will be sung in
English, so that the audience can
share in the humor, in performan-
ces on Oct. 30, Nov. 1, and Nov. 3
in Tawes Recital Hall.

Scholarship has always been an
important part of the Handel Fest-
ival, and this year the tradition
continues with a lecture, conference
sessions, and a pre-concert panel,
all with no admission charge. There
are, in addition, two other concerts,
one of chamber music on Nov. I,
the other a voung artist recital on
Nov. 2.

Concerning the Handel Festi-
val's tenth anniversary, Traver
declares himself "thrilled and
shocked that we have made it this
far and that the world has seen fit

to support what we do."

Noting that there has been a
world-wide increase in the number
of performances of an enlarged
Handel repertory, Traver feels the
festival has played a significant
role in this development, and
invites members of the university
community to "come help us cele-
brate what is, after all, a really nice
success story."

For information about tickets
and events in the 1990 Maryland
Handel Festival, call 405-5568.

Linda Freeman

Computer Expertise of Housing and Design Faculty Leads to

Partnership With Smithsonian

When Alex Chen and Wendy
Jacobs teach exhibit designers at
the Smithsonian Institution's
Museum of American History new
and better ways of doing their jobs,
the pay-off goes to College Park
housing and design students.

Under an agreement signed last
spring between the university and
the museum, faculty members from
the Department of Housing and
Design are teaching museum de-
signers how to use computers in
mapping out exhibits. In exchange,
the museum will provide two paid
internships to university housing
and design students.

For museum designers, the com-
puter is a tool that can help them
do their work more quickly and
cheaply, savs Chen, acting chair of
housing and design. The students
receive the opportunity to work for
a semester with professional de-
signers, he says.

Interestingly, the two faculty
members most active in the proj-
ect — Chen and Jacobs, a depart-
ment lecturer and assistant to the
chair — do not have backgrounds in
museum exhibit design. Rather, it
is their adeptness in creating com-
puter images that attracted Smith-
sonian designers to the program.

Chen and Jacobs are teaching
the designers how to create com-
puter images of the spaces in
which an exhibit will be shown.
After the computer model of the
space is made, scale images of the
contents of an exhibit can be placed
in the model. Once mastered, com-
puter design proves quicker and
less expensive than the traditional
method of building a scale model
for an exhibit.

Working on a compu ter also
affords more flexibility, Chen says.
The viewing perspective of the
computer model can be tailored to
the wishes of the designer. For in-
stance, the computer model can be
manipulated in such way that the
designer can observe how an
exhibit would look to people of dif-
ferent heights.

In addition, video images and
written captions can be super-
imposed onto the screen, A com-
plete video presentation, featuring
text and pictures as well as the
model, can be created for an
exhibit.

Finally, there is no great start-up
cost in shifting to computer-aided
design, according to Chen,

"We do all this work in our
open lab," he says. "You don't need

a million dollar machine to do
computer-aided design."

An example is a project Chen
and Jacobs worked on last spring
with Michael Carrigan, the
museum's assistant director of ex-
hibitions, involving the historic
Hart House. The house, built in
Ipswich, Mass. in the late 1600s,
will be reconstructed in the
museum for a standing exhibit on
the American family scheduled to
open in 1992.

Within the house, artifacts will
portray changes in the American
family during lives of the 1 1 gener-
ations of Harts who occupied in
the house.

During a six-week period last
spring, Jacobs, Chen, and Carrigan
created a computer model of the
house and incorporated key ele-
ments planned for the exhibit into
the model. In addition, they super-
imposed images of the actual house
into the piece, along with a written,
narrative about the project. The
model is now being shown to a
variety of audiences, including pos-
sible corporate sponsors of the Hart
House exhibit.

Brian Busek

John Aler, tenor, and
Phyllis Bryn-Julson,
soprano and former
music faculty
member, will be
among the soloists
for the gala tenth an-
niversary perfor-
mance of Messiah on
0ct,31 In Baltimore's
Joseph Meyerhoff
Symphony Hall.

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Associate engineering dean Marilyn Berman has received a
$100,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to support
Project SAY — Science and You — a new, two-year program designed
to identify and, through mentoring, academic enrichment, and
other support activities both in the classroom and at home, en-
courage some 30 area young women consider studying science and
engineering. SAY is being run in cooperation with Prince George's
Community College, and PGCC's Science Resource Center director
and chemistry professor Vera Zdravkovich will work with Berman.
SAY participants will be encouraged to enter the two year pre-
engineering program at PGCC and then transfer to College Park.

Sims Serves on National Nutrition
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you know exactly how much satur-
ated fat is in your can of soup and
can find out the nutritional content
of a Wendy's Classic Double burg-
er before you take a bite, you mav
have Laura 5. Sims to thank.

Sims, dean of the College of
Human Ecology, was one of 14 nu-
trition and law experts who served
on a committee appointed by the
federal government to recommend
changes in the wav foods are
labeled in this country.

On September 26, the committee
presented its final recommenda-
tions, which included better disclo-
sure of fat, cholesterol, sodium and
fiber content, and the labeling of
fresh produce, meats, and restau-
rant food. The group also recom-
mended mandatory food labeling
and legislation giving federal agen-
cies greater authority to require
labeling changes.

In looking at the final report,
says Sims, "1 am pleased that our
recommendations will make it
easier for consumers to get reliable
nutrition information."

Only about 50 percent of pack-
aged foods in the U.S. now carry
nutrition information. But in the
past decade or so, a flood of scien-
tific evidence has linked diet with
chronic diseases such as heart dis-
ease, cancer and diabetes. In the
wake of this evidence, health
experts and consumer groups have
put increasing pressure on the
Food and Drug Administration and
the Department of Agriculture, the
federal agencies that regulate food
labeling, to revise outdated regula-
tions.

So the two agencies asked the Na-
tional Academy of Sciences' Insti-
tute of Medicine to assemble a
committee of experts in food
science, nutrition, marketing, nutri-
tion education and regulatory law
last year.

Sims had an ideal resume for
the job: she has a doctorate in nu-
trition from Michigan State and a
master's degree in public health
from the University of Michigan.
Her specialties are consumer beha-
vior and nutrition education.

Before coming to College Park
in 1988, Sims worked at the USDA
as the administrator of the Human
Nutrition Information Service. She
says that experience gave her a
"double perspective" that was use-
ful as the committee made modifi-
cations to almost every feature of
the food label.

For instance, says Sims,
proposed labels will be more help-
ful to health-conscious consumers.
Recent medical research focuses on
the role of the so-called "macro-
nutrients'— fats, cholesterol, carbo-
hydrates, sodium and fiber — in the
diet. But existing labels highlight
the "micronutrients" — vitamins and
minerals — even though most
Americans get enough of these in
their normal diet.

So, she says, "the committee
downplayed the emphasis on vita-
mins and minerals and put more
emphasis on the macronutrients."
Proposed labels would list percent
of calories from total fat, saturated
fat and unsaturated fat, and
provide dietary fiber content in
grams per serving.

And instead of listing the per-
centage of the recommended daily
allowance (USRDA) of micronu-
trients on each package, says Sims,
the committee recommended des-
criptors such as "very good source
of," "good source of," and "con-
tains," each of which would have a
uniform definition established by
the regulatory agencies.

"The emphasis is on variety and
balance in the diet, instead of a
search for super- fortified foods,"
she says.

The committee took a major step
by suggesting labeling regulations
for restaurant food, fresh produce,
meat, seafood and poultry — items
that have fallen through the cracks
of current FDA and USDA regula-
tions.

"I think this coverage issue is
one of the most significant things
in our report," says Sims. "We
know people are eating out more,
and right now fresh foods don't
have any nutrition labels; so this
recommendation represents addi-
tional information so consumers

New Program Will Link UMS Libraries

The Maryland Board of Public
Works has approved a $7.6 million
contract for a library information
management system to link the
libraries of the University of Mary-
land System (UMS).

The information management
system, to be designed and imple-
mented by CARL Systems of Den-
ver, will link the 13 UMS library
administrative units by a computer
network. Staffs and patrons of the
libraries will have ready access to
the combined resources, and any

person in the state with a personal
computer linkup to the library net-
work will have full access to the
library catalogs and a variety of
other information sources. The total
number of volumes in the Univer-
sity System libraries is about seven
million.

The full operation of the library
information management system wil
be phased in over five years. Its
central processing units will be at
College Park and at UMAB.

Laura S. Sims

can make more intelligent choices."

The "serving size," a unit of
measurement that is now arbitrari-
ly determined by food manufactur-
ers, has often been a target of criti-
cism. The FDA, in preliminary revi-
sions it developed, proposed
changing serving sizes to metric
weights,

"But research shows that con-
sumers don't understand metric,"
says Sims. "So we proposed that
serving sizes be given in standard
household measures, such as table-
spoons and cups, with the metric
weight given in parentheses. This
way people can learn both."

Sims says her own research has
looked at "how consumers process
information, and how that informa-
tion determines behavior." Those
concerns surfaced in the form of
committee suggestions for making
labels easier to understand, and a
recommendation for a public edu-
cation campaign to accompany the
label changes.

Officials at the FDA and USDA
have said they will consider the
commitee's recommendations as
they revise federal labeling regula-
tions over the next 6 to 12 months.

Lisa M. O'Rourke

FMCD's Randolph
Receives $95,000 Grant

Suzanne Randolph, assistant
professor in the Department of
Family and Community Develop-
ment, has received a $95,000 grant
from the American National Red
Cross to evaluate 13 Red Cross pro-
grams related to HIV- A IDS. These
programs, which are both educa-
tional and technical, operate across
the United States and are part of a
three-year collaboration between
the Red Cross and the National
Centers for Disease Control. The
project, which begins this month,
extends through June, 1991.

Randolph will be working
directly with the Red Cross staff to
test the effectiveness of AIDS-edu-
cation projects aimed at specific
populations, including youth, Afri-
can-American families, Hispanic
families, and people in the work-
place.

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McCormick & Co. Makes Major Contribution
to Business School

McCormick & Co., one of the nation's leading producers of
spices and other seasonings, recently contributed $250,000 to the
College of Business and Management's capital campaign. A class-
room in the business school's new facility will be named for the
firm. McCormick's gift is the sixth major contribution received by
the school since it launched its capital campaign last March. Other
donors are: the Artery Corporation, Ernst & Young, Safeway
Stores, Rouse Corporation, and Wheat First Securities.

New Appointments and Promotions for 1990

The following is a list of 1990 pro-
motion and tenure actions and new
appointments.

PROMOTION AND
TENURE ACTIONS

AGRICULTURE
Professor: William J. Kenworthy
(AGRO); Ramon E. Lopez (AREC);
Timothy J. Ng (HORT); David ).
Sammons (AGRO); Charles J.
Wabeck (POUL); Richard A.
Weismiller (AGRO).
Associate Professor: Brenda
Alston-Mills (ANSO; Robert L. Hill
(AGRO); William L. Magette
(AGEN).

ARTS AND HUMANITIES
Professor: Vincent Caretta
(ENGL); John L. Caughey (AMST);
Hasia R. Diner (AMST); John M.
Duffy <CLAS); Vicki S. Freimuth
(SPCH); Gladys-Marie Fry (ENGL);
Norbert R. Hornstein (LING).
Associate Professor: Jonathan D.
Auerbach (ENGL); Brigitte M.
Bedos-Rezak, tenure (HIST); Joseph
Bra mi (FRIT); Kent Cartwright
(ENGL); Michael R. Collier
(ENGL); Harry ]. Elam, Jr. (THET);
C.L. Terry Gips (HSAD); Hugh
Ming Lee (CLAS); Susan J.
Leonardi (ENGL); Lowell R. Sparks
(MUSC).

BEHAVIORAL AND SOCIAL
SCIENCES

Professor: Howell S. Baum
(URBS); John C. Haltiwanger
(ECON); Mark P. Leone <ANTH).
Associate Professor: Bartlomiej K.
Kaminski (GVPT); Dana J. Plude
tPSYC).

BUSINESS AND MANAGEMENT
Professor: Thomas M. Corsi
(BMGT).

COMPUTER, MATHEMATICAL
AND PHYSICAL SCIENCES
Professor: James F. Drake, Jr.
(PHYS/1PST); Robert G. EUingson
(METO); William M. Goldman
(MATH); Jordan A. Goodman
(PHYS); Paul S. Green (MATH);
David H. Hamilton (MATH);
Christopher K.R.T. Jones (MATH);
Benjamin Kedem (MATH); Glenn
M. Mason (PHYS/IPST); Marvin V.
Zelkowitz (CMSC).
Associate Professor: Jeffrey D.
Adams (MATH); James A. Carton
(METO); Howard Elman (CMSC);
Wendell T. Hill, III (IPST); Eileen L.
McLellan (GEOL); David M. Mount
(CMSC); Ricardo H. Nochetto
{MATH /IPST).

EDUCATION

Professor: H. Beth Davey (EDCI);

Olivia N. Saracho (EDCI); William

E. Sedlacek (EDCP).

Associate Professor: David H.

Cooper (EDSP); Deborah L. Speece

(EDSP).

ENGINEERING
Professor: Kazys K. Almenas
<ENCH); Andre L. Tits (ENEE);
Lung-Wan Tsai (ENME); Donald W.
Vannov (ENCE).

Associate Professor: Shapour Azarm
(ENME).

HEALTH & HUMAN

PERFORMANCE

Professor: Robert H.L. Feldman

(HLTH).

HUMAN ECOLOGY
Associate Professor Richard
Ettenson (TXCE).

LIFE SCIENCES
Professor: Richard N. Armstrong
(CHEM); Philip R. DeShong
(CHEM); Michael J. Raupp <ENTO);
Paul W. Steiner (BOTN).
Associate Professor: Steven W.
Hutcheson (BOTN).

APPOINTED PROFESSOR
EMERITUS

ARTS AND HUMANITIES

Christopher A. Herin (HIST);
George O. Kent (HIST); Elbert B.
Smith (HIST).

BEHAVIORAL AND SOCIAL
SCIENCES

John H. Cumberland (ECON);
Theodore McNeily (GVPT).

COMPUTER, MATHEMATICAL &
PHYSICAL SICENCES

Yaohan Chu (CMSC); William F.
Homyak (PHYS); Robert Zwanzig
(IPST).

ENGINEERING

Hung C. Lin (ENEE).

LIFE SCIENCES

Kenneth R. Henery-Logan (CHEM);
Chester E. Holmlund (CHEM);
Robert E. Menzer (ENTO); Donald
H. Messersmith (ENTO); Hugh D.
Sisler (BOTN); Francis E. Wood
(ENTO).

NEW APPOINTMENTS

AGRICULTURE

Associate Professor. Madis Pihlak

(HORT).

ARCHITECTURE
Dean/Professon Steven Hurtt.

ARTS AND HUMANITIES

Professor/Chair: Keith Campbell .

(PHIL).

Professor: Marcia Herndon

(MUSC); Mary Helen Washington

(ENGL).

Associate Professor Judith

Lichtenberg, (PH1L/CPPP); Terry

M. Parssinen, (HIST); Ineke Phaf,

(SPAN); Mark Turner, (ENGL).

BEHAVIORAL & SOCIAL
SCIENCES

Distinguished Professor: Thomas
C. Schelling (ECON/PUAF).
Professor: Allen Drazen (ECON);
James R. Markusen (ECON); James
L. Smith (ECON), effective 1/91,
Associate Professor: Joseph E.
Harrington, Jr. (ECON); David
McDowall (CRIM); Edward B.
Montgomery (ECON).

BUSINESS AND MANAGEMENT
Professor: Lemma W. Senbet
(BMGT).

COMPUTER, MATHEMATICAL

and PHYSICAL SCIENCE

Professor and Chancellor: Donald

N. Langenberg. (PHYS/ENEE).

Professor/Dean: Richard H.

Herman (MATH).

Professor/Chair: Michael Brown

(GEOL); Robert D. Hudson

(METO).

Professor: Roald Z. Sagdeev

(PHYS/IPST).

Associate Professor: Celso Grebogi

(MATH /LPR/ IPST); Christopher J.

Lobb (PHYS); Robert L. Pego

(MATH).

EDUCATION

Professor/Chair: Sylvia Rosenfield

(EDCP).

Associate Professor: Peter P.

Afflerbach (EDCI).

ENGINEERING

Professor/Chain Brian Hunt

(ENAE).

Professor: James G. Quintiere

(FIREP); Alexander Roitburd

(ENCH).

Associate Professor: David L. Akin

(ENAE /SRC).

HEALTH and HUMAN
PERFORMANCE
Associate Professor: Mark R.
Meiners (HLTH).

HUMAN ECOLOGY
Associate Professor: David C.
Staplecon (TXCE); Jacqueline
Wallen (FMCD).

JOURNALISM

Professor: Eugene L. Roberts, Jr.,

effective 8/91,

LIFE SCIENCES

Professor: John D. Weeks

(CHEM/IPST).

Associate Professor Avis H.

Cohen (ZOOL).

Outlook makes every at-
tempt to include official
up-to-date information in
this section. !t apologizes
for any omissions or errors.
The editor

OCTOBER 2 2

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CALENDAR

Campus Kitchen Offers New Classes

The Campus Kitchen program offers free special interest
classes presented by Dining Services staff members. Each class is
approximately an hour long and is presented to campus groups at
no charge. New classes include Training for Intervention
Procedures by Servers of Alcohol, Non-Alcoholic Bartending (The
Classic Drinks Without the Spirits), Italian Cuisine, Chesapeake
Dining, Afro-American Cooking, Nutrition for Weight Loss, Cake
Decorating, and Substance Abuse — An Insider's View. For more
information call 314-8056,

OCTOBER 22-31

Women's Studies Lecture: "The

Women's Health Movement in
the United States: Past. Present.
and Future," Judy Norsigian.
Boston Women's Health Book
Collective, 8 p.m., 2203 Art'Soc.
Call 5-6877 for info.

Art Gallery Exhibition: Trouble

in Paradise," today-Oct. 26, The
Art Gallery, Art'Soc. Call 5-2763
for info

Employee Development Semi-
nar: "Speaking Confidently," to-
day, Sep. 24 & 26, 9 a.m -noon,
0306 Benjamin, Call 5-5651 for
info.'

Center for International Exten-
sion Development Colloquium:
"Institutional Development in Agri-
culture Development: Focus on
Research and Extension." Alain
Tobelem, International Develop-
ment Specialist, noon (bring
brown D3Q lunch) 5115 Symons
Call 5-1253 for info.

Women's Commission Meeting,
noon-1:30 p.m., 2105 Main Ad-
ministration. Call 5-5806 tor into.

Computer Science Colloquium:

"Improving Software Productivity,"
8arry Boehm. DARPA-ISTO.
UCLA, reception. 3:30 p.m., 1152
A.V. Williams Bldg.. lecture, 4
p.m.. 011 1 Classroom Bldg. Call
5-2661 for info.

Campus Senate Meeting, 3:30-
6:30 p.m.. 1026 Reckord Armory
Call 5-5805 for info.

Guameri String Quartet Open
Rehearsal, 7 p.m.. Tawes, Call
5-5548 for info.

TUESDAY

Sexual Harassment Education
Workshop, for vice presidents,
deans, directors. & department
chairs, today & Thurs.. Sept. 25,
9:30-11:30 a.m. 2118 Lee Call
5-2837 for info.

History Department "Lunch
Bag Talk": "The Resources of
the Institute." Marcel Van der Lin-
din. International Institute of So-
cial History. Amsterdam, noon.
2H9 Francis Scott Key Call 5-
4265 for into.

Zoology Seminar; "The Limits to
Population Viability." Mark L.
Shaffer, U.S. Fish & Wildlife Ser-
vice, Washington D.C, noon,
1208 Zoo/Psych. Call 5-6949 for
into.

History Lecture: "Dutch Migra-
tion History," Jan Lucassen, In-
ternational Institute of Social His-
tory 8 Free U. of Amsterdam,
3:15 p.m., 1117 Francis Scott
Key. Call 5-4265 for info.

Writers Here & Now Reading,

Linda Hogan, poet. 3:30 p.m.,
3101 McKeldin Library (Katherine
Anne Porter Room) Call 5-3819
for info.

Physics Colloquium: The Zero
Experiment: Microgravity Critical
Fluid Light Scattering in Earth
Orbit," Robert Gammon. Institute
for Physical Science & Technol-
ogy, 4 p.m., 1410 Physics., re-
ception, 3:25 p.m. Call 5-5980 for
info.

University Theatre: The Rimers
of Eldntch. today-Oct. 28. 8 p.m.,
Sunday matinee, 2 p.m,. Pugliese
Theatre. Call 5-2201 for info:

WEDNESDAY

Counseling Center Research &
Developmenl Meeting: "Center
for the Prevention and Control of
Substance Abuse: A New UMCP
Resource," Raymond Lonon,
Psychology, noon-1 p.m.. 0106-
0114 Shoemaker. Call 4-7691 for
info.

Astronomy Colloquium: "Self
Consistent Models ol Spiral Gal-
axies," George Contopoulus.
Florida State U. 4 p.m., 1113
Computer & Space Sciences.,
reception, 3:30 p.m. Call 5-1524
for info.

University Theatre: The Rimers
of Eldritch, 8 p.m., Pugliese
Theatre. See Oct. 23 for details.'

THURSDAY

Noontime Seminar on Comput-
ers in the Art & Humanities:

"The Learner-Centered Dream
Machine." Kathy James, Lan-
guage House, noon-1 :30 p.m.,
St. Marys Hall. Call 5-4337 for
info

Art Department Minorities &
Women Lecture, Cam i He Billops,
Artist, Co-director, Hatch -Billops
Archives of Black American Cul-
ture. 3 p.m., 1309 Art/Sac. Call
5-1442 for info.

OMSE "Celebration of Hispanic
Student Excellence," cultural
acts, dances S music, 3-5 p.m..
1101 Horn bake Library. Call 5-
5616 for info.

Outstanding Hispanic Scholar
Seminar: "Endocrine Function of
the Placenta: Polypeptide Hor-
mones." Frank Talamantes. U. of
California at Santa Cruz, 3 p.m.,
Maryland Room. Marie Mount
Call 5-3912 for info

Meteorology Seminar: "Review
of ENSO Theory." Max Suarez.
NASA'Goddard. 3:30 p.m., 2114
Computer & Space Sciences.,
refreshments at 3 p.m. Call
5-5392 for info.

Center on Population, Gender,
& Social Inequality Seminar:

"Like Daughler, Like Mother:
Young Women's Lives and Social
Change in Sri Lanka," Anju
Malhotra, U. of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill. 3:30 p.m.. 21 15 Art/
Soc, Call 5-6422 for info.

Intramural Basketball Registra-
tion, join or create a team. 4
p.m., 0117 Reckord Armory Call
4-721 6 for into.

Campus Recreation "World's
Largest Aerobics Class," 5-6
p.m,. Reckord Armory. Call 4-
7218 for info."

Early American History Semi-
nar: "Music and Ihe Scottish In-
fluence in Colonial Annapolis,"
David Hildebrand. 8 p.m., 1109
Center of Adult Education. Call
5-4265 for info.

Movies: Total Recall, loday-Oct.
28, Hoff Theatre. Call 4-HOFF
tor info.'

University Theatre: The Rimers
of Eldritch, 8 p.m., Pugliese
Theatre. See Oct. 23 tor details."

FRIDAY

Geology Seminar: "Early Pro-
terozoic Continental Tectonics of
West Greenland and Baffin
Island," John Grocotl. Kingston
Polytechnic, 11 a.m.. 0105 Horn-
bake Library, Call 5-2783 for info.

Zoology Seminar: "Black
Pineleat Scale Insects on Pon-
derosa Pine: The Case tor Local
Adaptation by a Parasitic Herbi-
vore." Donald N. Alstad. Ecology,
U, of Minnesota, noon. 2242 Pat-
terson. Call 5-6887 for info.

Speech Communication Collo-
quium: "Language and Politics."
Michael Agar, Anthropology,
noon, 01 38 Tawes. Call 5-6524

for into.

University Theatre: The Rimers
of Eldritch, 8 p.m., Pugliese
Theatre. See Oct. 23 for details."

SUNDAY

University Theatre: The Rimers
of Eldritch, 2 p.m.. Pugliese
Theatre. See Oct. 23 for details."

M MONDAY

French & Italian Lecture:

"Nobility and Literature: Ques-
tions on Tomasi di Lampedusas
The Leopard. Eduardo Saccone,
Johns Hopkins U„ 3 p.m., Lan-
guage House Reception Hall, re-
ception to follow Call 5-4024 for
info.

Computer Science Colloquium:
"Design Notes on Some Virtual
Machines," David Gelernter, Vale
U., reception. 3:30 p.m., 1152
A.V. Williams Bldg.. lecture, 4
p.m., 0111 Classroom Bldg. Call
5-2661 for info.

"Lunch n* Learn" Mental Health
Lecture: "The Battered Spouse:
A Civil War Case History,"

Virginia Beauchamp, English, 1-2
p.m., 3100E Student Health Cen-
ter. Call 80-8106 tor info.

Music lecture: "The Musical Ico-
nography of the Com media
delarte: An Inquiry." Thomas F.
Heck. 3 p.m.. 2102 Tawes. Call
5-5548 for into.

University Theatre: The Rimers
of Eldritch, 8 p.m., Pugliese
Theatre. See Oct. 23 tor details.'

Midnight Movie: Frankenhooker,
today & tomorrow. Hoff Theatre
Call 4-HOFF tor info.*

Psychology Colloquium: David
McClellan, 4 p.m.. 1250
Zoo/Psych., reception to to I low.
Call 5-5929 for into.

Space Science Seminar: "HF
Coherent- Scatter Radar Observa-
tions ol Electrodynamics at High
Geomagnetic Latitude." J. M.
Ruohoniemi, Applied Physics
Laboratory, 4:30 p.m.. 1113
Computer & Space Sciences
Call 5-4829 for into.

1 TUESDAY

SATURDAY

Maryland Gospel Choir Con-
cert, 4 p.m., Center of Adull
Education $6,00 standard admis-
sion: $4.00 students & seniors.
Call 4-7758 tor info.*

Zoology Seminar: "Food
Storage Strategies tor a Prudent
Cacher: Analytical Models and
Empirical Tests." Jim Richman.
Ecology Program, NSF. 1208
Zoo/Psych. Call 5-6887 for info.

Writers Here and Now Reading,

Tony Eprile. author of Temporary
Sojourner, 3:30 p.m., 3101 Mc-
Keldin Library (Katherine Anne

Porter Room). Call 5-3809 for
into.

Physics Colloquium: "Two-pho-
ton Polarization as a Test of
Quantum Mechanics," Eugen
Merzbacher, U. of North Caro-
lina, 4 p.m., 1410 Physics, recep-
tion, 3:25 p.m. Call 5-5980 for
info.

Women's Field Hockey vs.
Pennsylvania, 7 p.m., Astroturt

Field. Call 4-7064 for info.

Movies: The Handmaid's Tale.
today 5 tomorrow, Hoff Theatre,
Call 4-HOFF for info.*

Public Affairs Lecture: "Compe-
tition with our Friends: Trade," I
M. Desller, Public Affairs, 7:30
p.m.. Center for Advanced Re-
search in Biotechnology Auditor-
ium, Shady Grove. Call 5-6330
for info.

Maryland Opera Studio Perfor-
mance: Agrippina. Leon Major,

direclor: Nicholas McGegan. con-
ductor, 7:30 p.m., Tawes Recital
Half Call 5-5546 for info.*

Dance Performance, featuring
new work by Stephanie Skura,
Improvisations Unlimited, today-

Nov. 3. sign-interpreted Nov. 2, 8
p.m., EE Studio/Theater. Call
5-3190 for into."

WEDNESDAY

Employee Developmenl Semi-
nar: "Overview of Environmental
Safety." 9 a.m. -noon, Maryland
Room, Marie Mount. Call 5-5651
for info.

Counseling Center Research &
Development Meeting: "Reflec-
lions from the New Chair d(
CAPS," Sylvia Rosenfield. Coun-
seling and Personnel Services,
noon-1 p.m.. 0106-0114 Shoe-
maker. Call 4-7691 for info.

Astronomy Lecture: "Microwave
Imaging ol Saturn's Deep Atmo-
sphere and Rings," Arie
Grossman. 4 p.m. 1113 Comput-
er & Space Sciences, reception,
3:30 p.m.. 0254 CSS. Call 5-
1524 for info.

American Hande) Society Lec-
lure: "Words and Ihe Word:
Sounding the text of Handel's
Messiah," Don E. Saliers, 4 p.m.,
Tawes Recital Hall. Call 5-5568
for info.

Halloween Movie Special: The
Exorcist 9:45 p.m.. Hoff Theatre.
Call 4-HOFF for info.'

Architecture Lecture, Charles
Gwathmey, Gwathmey/Siegel
Arch., New York, 7:30 p.m., Ar-
chitecture Auditorium. Call 5-6284

for info.

Handel Festival Gala Tenth An-
niversary Concert: Messiah,
Paul Traver, conductor, 8 p.m.
Meyerhoff Symphony Hall, Balti-
more. Call 5-5568 for info.'

* Admission charge tor this
event. All others are free.

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