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

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JANUARY 28, 1991
VOLUME 5, NUMBER 14

Research Awards Top $56 Million
During First Half of FY 1991

Research contracts and grants
administered by College Park for
the first half of FY 1991 topped $56
million. This represented a signifi-
cant increase over the same period
of the previous fiscal year, accord-
ing to Victor Medina, director of the
Office of Research Administration
and Advancement.

According to a report just re-
leased by Medina's office, more
than 1,000 grants and contracts were
awarded during the quarter, for a
total of $56 million. The federal
government provides most of the
research money to College Park,
with more than 35 departments and
agencies accounting for nearly 64
percent of the funding awarded to
the university.

The National Science Foundation
was the largest single federal
sponsor, awarding a total of $5.3
million. The National Aeronautics
and Space Administration was the
next largest federal research spon-
sor, awarding grants and contracts
for more than $5.2 million. Depart-
in e n t o f De fen se a ge net es fo 1 1 o wed
with S4.3 million.

Rounding out the top group
were the U.S. Department of Agri-

Celebrating Black
History Month

Kick-Off Ceremony on Jan. 31 .

Emancipation,
Empowerment and
Commencement

Excerpts from Berlin's
Commencement Address

3

Special Education
Center Established

New policy issues center opens.

News from the
Campus Senate

Debut of new column .

7

culture with $2.9 million, the De-
partment of Energy with $2.4 mil-
lion. Health and Human Services
with $2.2 million, and the Agency
for International Development with
$2 million.

State of Maryland Departments
such as Education, Transportation
and Natural Resources provided
some $3.5 million.

Private contributors such as cor-
porations, foundations, institutes,
societies and associations provided
an additional $5.6 million. Other
sources of funds, such as local gov-
ernment, other universities, and
consortia provided $11 million.

The College of Computer, Math-
ematical and Physical Sciences re-
ceived the largest share of research
dollars with a total of more than $13
million. Rounding out the top five
College Park recipients were the
College of Engineering {$10.5
million); Education ($4.2 million);
Life Sciences {$4.4 million); and,
Agriculture ($4.4 million).

Medina expressed some concern,
however, that though the volume of
research proposals and awards this
year may likely increase sub-
stantially over last year, the contin-

Awards to College Park
First Half, FY 1991

Total: $56 million

USDA
5.3%

DOE

a 1%

NASA
94%

State of Maryland
'6.2%

Private

9.9%

Other
Sources

The above pie chart shows the sources and proportions of
research contracts and grants administered bv College Park
for the first half of FY 1991.

ued erosion of the university's bud-
get will reduce the abilities of the
departments, colleges and central
campus to meet the increased de-
mands for grant support services
that will inevitably arise.

Fariss Samnrmi

A Letter to the Campus
Community

From President William E. Kirwan

In a letter to the campus com-
munity earlier this month, Presi-
dent William E. Kirwan discussed
some of the implications of the
state's current budget shortfall on
the university's budget. Here are
excerpts from the president's letter.

January 9, 1991
Dear Colleague:

At last, after months of rumor,
uncertainty, speculation, and frus-
tration, 1 am able to provide some
clarification on our budget expecta-
tions for the remainder of the aca-
demic year and on our projected
budget" for FY 1992. Although the
situation is still fluid and could
change again within the next several
months, I want to share with you
the information available to me at
litis time. Unfortunately, the news is
not good!

As you know, this past Septem-
ber we had to revert $14.53 million
of campus funds in response to the
state's revenue shortfall and pro-
jected deficit for FY 1991. The de-
cline in state revenues has contin-
ued/ and we recently have been
informed that we must give back an
additional $6.04 million from our FY

1991 budget. Included in these
reversions are 33 FTE positions. All
of these reductions will carry
forward into the FY 1992 budget, tn
addition, we must cut another $4,05
million and 58 FTE positions for FY
1 992. The combined cuts,
approximately $25 million,
represent a 10 percent base budget
reduction in our state support since
July 1, 1990.

It is my expectation that most of
the $6.04 million second cut in our
FY 1991 budget can be covered
without levying additional taxes on
the units this year. However, I have
asked the vice presidents to ensure
that deans, directors and
department chairs strictly observe
the existing limitations on new ap-
pointments, out-of-state travel, and
equipment purchases.

1 am aware of the terrible burden
that the cuts already have placed on
units. Contract personnel have been
terminated, vacant positions have
been frozen, important searches
have been suspended, and
operating budgets have been deci-
mated. In a real sense, however, the

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Brandon Dula

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Observing Martin Luther King Jr. Day

Over 750 members of the campus community— the largest
ever— gathered in the Stamp Union Ballroom to commemorate
the birthday of Dr. Martin Luther King jr. on Jan 15, Par-
ticipating in the program were students (front row from left)
Anne Kirwan, Jyotsna Gupta, Michael Schaffer and Angelique
Best. Seen to the right of Best is Brandon Dula, associate direc-
tor of Campus Activities, the sponsor of the event, and Dan
Morrison, coordinator of Resident Life and a member of the
planning committee.

Black History Month Kick-Off Set

The "Dream" of Dr. Martin
Luther King, Jr. and other black
leaders will be remembered, Jan. 31,
at the Black History Month Kick-Off
Ceremony coordinated by Brandon
Dula, Assistant Director, Office of
Campus Activities.

The ceremony, which is scheduled
for 3 to 5 p.m. in the Colony
Ballroom, will include performances
by the "Shades of Harlem," readings
of poetry, personal student
expressions and feelings about
Black Historv, and the distribution
of an upcoming events calendar.

"We're going to have some proc-
lamations read from the governor's

office and the City of College Park,"
Dula says, "because the University
of Maryland was declared the
official site of opening ceremonies
for Black History Month."

The kick-off was started by former
Assistant Director Artie Travis in
1989, and was continued by Dula
after he became assistant director
for Student Involvement and Mi-
nority Programming in 1990.

Dula graduated from Bowling
Green State University in 1982 and
began coordinating student activi-
ties at the University of Missouri.
As their Student Services advisor,
Dula worked with fraternity and

sorority members and commuters.

In addition to coordinating the
Black History Month kick-off, Dula
also plans the First Look Fair and
the Annual Student Awards Ban-
quet. He also coordinated the Mar-
tin Luther King Jr. Commemoration
Day ceremony held in the Stamp
Union's Grand Ballroom
Jan. 15.

For more information on upcom-
ing Black History month events, call
Dula in the Office of Campus
Activities, 314-7174.

Patricia Gay

Kirwan Writes Campus About Budget Prospects

continued frotn pnge i

full brunt of the reductions has not
yet been felt. In the hope that our
budget reductions would be for this
year only, the vice presidents and I
made every effort to cover as much
of this year's reversions as possible
from sources that would have
minima] negative impact on
individual units. Thus, we gave
back central resources such as
facilities renewal funds, tuition re-
ceipts over budget, and reserves
committed to campus-funded pro-
grams and projects. In addition, we
have requested permission from the
Regents to impose a 7.5 percent tui-
tion surcharge on out-of-state un-
dergraduate students for the spring
semester. We anticipate approval of
this request. Regrettably, we now
know that these are not one-time
cuts and we must develop a budget
for FY 1992 that will be diminished
by nearly S25 million and 91 posi-
tions over the budget with which
we began the current fiscal year.

We face a situation that none of
us expected or predicted two years
ago. Then, we were receiving un-
precedented budget increases and
the talk was of further enhancement
for College Park, It would be quite
natural for us to harbor feelings of
disappointment, betrayal, and even
anger, over this disheartening
reversal in our fortunes. Although
such feelings are understandable, I
do not believe that they are justified.
Governor Schaefer and the General
Assembly have had to balance the
merits of cuts in agency budgets,
such as higher education, against
the termination of social services
and the elimination of jobs. Given
the choices, I believe that the
University of Maryland System has
been treated equitably by the state,
and the campus has been treated
fairly by the System....

The difficult challenge we face at
College Park is to prevent this bad
budget news from reversing the
significant progress we have made
in recent years. Although we will
have to scale back the scope of our
plans and reduce some areas of,
activity, if we use our resources
wisely, we can retain recent gains

and continue to make advances in
areas of highest priority.

Success in facing this challenge
will require extraordinary effort on
the part of the entire community.
Later this month, I will be meeting
with deans, directors and depart-
ment chairs to discuss in greater
depth tin- implications of llii-- bud-
get reduction. Also, to help guide
the campus through this difficult
period, I am appointing a Strategic
Planning Committee. The commit-
tee will be c ha bed by Provost
Robert Dorfman and will consist of
the other vice presidents (Charles
Sturtz, William Thomas, and Kath-
ryn Costello), four individuals des-
ignated bv the Senate l:\eculive
Committee (including at least one
student and one staff member), and
three senior faculty members ap-
pointed by me. The committee will
base its work on the goals and pri-
orities put forth in the Enhancement
Plan and will obtain input from
APAC (Academic Planning
Advisory Committee), the divisions
(Administrative Affairs, Academic
Affairs, Student Affairs, and Insti-
tutional Advancement), and the
colleges. All areas of campus activ-
ity — including current workloads
and administrative costs of all
units — will be under review. The
objective will be to determine areas
where we can reduce expenditures
so that we can reinvest in areas of
higher priority. The committee will
be asked to recommend strategies
for the support of campus priorities
through the reallocation of up to
one percent of our budget (approxi-
mately $3.5 million) annually. It also
will provide advice on the
preparation of the FY 1992 budget. 1
see the need for this committee to
continue over the next several
years...

Ultimately, this process will re-
quire us to make some very difficult
decisions — decisions on which we
cannot expect necessarily to achieve
consensus. However, the objective is
one we can all support — continued
improvement of the university. The
process will be open, and units have
every right to expect that their input
will be given careful consideration.

When I assumed the position of
president about two years ago, I

never dreamed that in so short a
period of time I would have to write
such a letter. Nevertheless, if we use
this period of decline in the state's
economv wisely, clarifying and
focusing our priorities, we can
continue to make progress and be in
an even better position to advance
the institution when the economv
turns around, as it surely will.

We are a strong community, and
we have much to be proud of. I ask
that, despite the current budget
problems, we hold on to our vision
of the University of Ma rv land at
College Park. We still aim to be-
come a model academic enterprise,
a university that is known and ad-
mired nationally and internationally
for the quality of its programs,
students, faculty and staff. We still
aim to become a showplaee for the
talents of the citizens of the state.
And, above all, we still aim to be-
come the pride of Maryland. 1 be-
lieve that, working together, we can
make this vision of College Park a
reality.

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Langenberg to Discuss Physics at Maryland

Chancellor Donald Langenberg, a professor of physics, will
open this semester's physics colloquium series on Tuesday, January
29 at 4 p.m. in the Physics Building lecture hall, room 1410, with a
talk on "Physics and the World of the University of Maryland Sys-
tem." For information, contact Richard Ferrell at 405-6148 or Joseph
Sucher at 405-6012.

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Do Not Go Quietly: Emancipation,
Empowerment, and New Beginnings

Ira Berlin, professor of history,
director of the Freedmen and
Southern Society Project, and 1990-
91 Distinguished Scholar-Teacher,
delivered the December 21, 1990
commencement address. The
following is an abbreviated
version of his remarks.

1 am pleased, privileged, and
excited to stand with you (and your
kinfolk) at this great rite of passage
through the university.

Rites of passage: We distinguish
such ceremonies from the rest of the
business of the world by their trapp-
ings. We prepare our bodies, scrub-
bing, polishing, perhaps even get-
ting a haircut. We dress in funny
clothes — -academic costume our
program says — with secretly coded
colors and designs. We display for-
eign objects: maces and mortar-
boards. We recite benedictions,
evocations, admonitions, and var-
ious ethical imperatives. We
mumble our alma mater. Then for-
tified with thoughts of rich food and
strong drink, we listen to the incan-
tation of tiresome cliches: Go forth,
be strong. Carry the torch high. This
is not the end but the beginning.
And still other admonitions, exhor-
tations, and ethical imperatives.
Look around you, you see the acad-
emy gone native. AH we need now
is an anthropologist to move in
among the tribe of academus Mary-
land us, as you take the ritual charge:
The world is a mess, we screwed
up, you take over.

Having experienced such rites
many times before — baptisms, con-
firmations, bar mitsvahs, and yet
other graduations; perhaps for some
of you weddings, more baptisms,
promotions, and the like — no won-
der we greet these ceremonies with
a yawn- — if not considerable fore-
boding.

Despite our best efforts to reduce
them, such moments press themsel-
ves upon us for their significance.
They are the narrow neck of the
hourglass of our lives — individual
and collective. They are a chance to
examine not only the great mounds
of sand that have spilled and to con-
sider those that are yet to be
spilled — but also the fine grains
which are passing right before our
eyes — to capture them, to divine
something of their meaning, and to
be empowered by them.

For rites of passage are above all
moments of empowerment, and if
we project our own personal rite of
passage onto the larger world and
its history, the light of historical
magnification reveals precisely
how. Clearly, we are living through
one of the great passages of all time.
Rehearsing the events of the last
year or two, in eastern Europe, in
the Soviet Union, in South Africa,
and — sadly — in China and at the
eastern end of the Mediterranean,
we see how such historical passages
sweep away the patina of routine,

how they expose the cross purposes
and warring intentions that have
long simmered — often unnoticed —
beneath the surface of daily life, and
how they encourage common peo-
ple to step forward, to abandon
their usual caution — for plain
speaking is dangerous for most
people most of the time — and to
speak eloquently of long cherished
beliefs and to act forcefully to create
a world of their own making. That's
empowerment.

The revolutionary force of such
passages not only empower the men
and women swept up by events, but
also the most distant onlookers,
who view the events from conti-
nents or even centuries away. Who
cannot be touched by the emergence
of Nelson Mandela from a lifetime
of imprisonment, his body withered
but his spirit unbent and his intelli-
gence honed razor sharp; the eleva-
tion of the poet Havel from a prison
cell to the presidency of his native
land, and heroism of the students in
Peking, Lhasa, Bucharest, Jerusa-
lem, and elsewhere. The collective
impact is so great that they force us,
at once, to reach — as we must do in
any seemingly novel situation — for
the history books to connect our
daily lives with the momentous
events which are passing before
us — and it does no disservice to
men and women caught up in these
revolutionary passages to compare
their moment with our own. Is our
passage like 1968, 1917, or 1848 or
even 1789 and 1776? Or perhaps
1861 — the beginning of the end for
chattel bondage in the United States
and the passage of some four mil-
lion Afro-Americans from slavery to
freedom. Let me say a few words
about the latter — -for, after all, there
are few commencements greater
than emancipation.

For more than a decade 1 and
other members of the Freedmen and
Southern Society Project here at the
University of Maryland have been
studying the passage of black peo-
ple from slavery to freedom in the
American South — for no event in
American history has more defined
our collective and individual iden-
tity — our world. More than
anything else, we celebrate our-
selves as a free people, and this
commencement is a step toward
taking the full burdens of our re-
sponsibilities as citizens. So in
studying the passage of slaves into
freed people, we have been inter-
ested in all aspects of that revolu-
tionary transformation. What names
did freedpeople take? Where did
they live? How did they rebuild the
institutional infrastructure of Afro-
American life — family and church
and fraternal societies? What kind
of new institutions did they
create — schools, businesses, and in-
surance companies? How did they
cam a living? And of course how
did they understand their new con-
dition — freedom? What did freed-
om mean?

We have tried to leam these

things by eavesdropping on the
newly freed slaves, analyzing and
interpreting an extraordinary cache
of tetters found at the National Ar-
chives written by former slaves at
the very moment of emancipation.
Recently some of you may have
joined our eavesdropping when you
watched Ken Burns' Civil War
series on PBS, And if you listened
carefully, what you heard was the
empowerment of men and women
caught up in a revolutionary pas-
sage from slavery to freedom.

Let's listen to Hannah Johnson, a
black women — a free woman but
the daughter of a slave — who wrote
to Abraham Lincoln in July of 1863.
Hannah Johnson's son had gone
into the army in spring of 1863, as
had many black men following the
issuances of the Emancipation Proc-
lamation. In response, Jefferson
Davis, president of the Confederacy,
threatened to treat captured black
soldiers not as prisoners of war but
as slaves in insurrection — and insur-
rectionists are of course punished
differently than prisoners of war.
I lannah Johnson was worried.

Excellent Sir,

My good friend says I must write to
you and she will send it My son wettl
in the 54th regiment, ! am a colored wo-
man and my son tons strong and able as
any to fight for his country and the
colored people have as much to fight for
as any. My father was a Slave and es-
caped from Louisiana before 1 was born
mom forty years agoue I have but poor
education hut I never ivent to schol, but
I know just as well as am/ what is right
between man and man. Now I know it
is right that a colored man should go
and fight for his country/, and so ought
to a white man. I know that a colored
man ought to run no greater risques
than a white, his pay is no greater his
obligation to fight is the same. So why
should not our enemies be compelled to
treat him the same, Made to do it.

My son fought at Fort WagO}ter hut
thank Cod he was not taken prisoner, as
many xvere I thought of this thing be-
fore I let my hoy go but then they said
M'. Lincoln will never let them sell our
colored soldiers for slaves, if they do he
will get them hack quck he will rcttal-
lyate and slop it. Now Mr Lincoln (font
you think you oght to stop this thing
and make them do the same by the
colored men they have lived in idleness
all their lives on stolen labor and made
savages of the colored people, but they
now are so furious because they are
proving themselves to be men, such as
have come away and got some edicathm.
It must not be so. You must put the
rebels to work in State prisons to mak-
ing shoes and things, if they sell our
colored soldiers, till they let them all go.
And give their wounded the same treat-
ment, it would seem cruel, but their no
other way, and a just man must do hard

continued on //age -t

Ira Berlin

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Omicron Delta Kappa, one of the most prestigious national
societies to recognize leadership, is looking for a few more student
leaders to honor. The university's Sigma Circle of ODK, begun in
1927, seeks outstanding juniors and seniors in five areas of campus
community life scholarship; social, service, religious and campus
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and the creative and performing arts. Applications must be returned
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Feb. 5. Call 314-8432 for information.

Berlin Sees Rites of Passage
as Empowerment

These images,
courtesy of the Na-
tional Archives and
the Library of Con-
gress, show freed
slaves voting and
serving in the military
after Emancipation.
Ira Berlin, professor
of history, discussed
Emancipation as part
of his Commencement
Address Dec. 21.

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things sometimes, flint shexo him to be a
great man. They tell me some do you
if/// take back the Proclamation, don't
do it. Wlien you are dead and in
Heaven, in a thousand years that action
of yours will make the Angels sing your
praises I know it. Ought one man to
own another, law for or not, who made
the law, surely the poor slave did not. SO
it is tricked, and a horrible Outrage,
there is no sense in it, because a man
has lived by robbing all his life ami his
father before him, should he complain
because the stolen things found on him
are taken. Robbing the colored people of
their labor is but a smalt part of the rob-
bery their souls are almost taken, tiny
are made bruits of often. Yon know alt
about this

Will you see that the colored men fight-
ing now, are fairly treated. You ought
to do this, and do it at once, Not let the
thing run along meet it quickly and
manfully, and stop this, mean cowardly
cruelty. We poor oppressed ones, appeal
to you, and ask fair play. Yours for
Christs sake

Hannah Johnson wrote as a
petitioner — but there is no supplica-
tion in her voice. She speaks not as a
poor washerwoman, daughter of an
enslaved people grateful to be ele-
vated to the new world of freedom,
but as a women empowered by
events to explain to the Great Eman-
cipator his historic duty.

Let's listen to other voices....
Thev too ask what is the condition

of a free people? What did freedom
mean? Slaves and former slaves and
the descendants of slaves thought
they knew. They knew freedom, be-
cause they knew slavery. If slavery
denied them the right to control
their persons and progeny, freedom
would confer that right. If slavery
required that they suffer arbitrary
and often violent treatment, free-
dom would enable them to protect
themselves against such abuse. If
slavery allowed their owners to
expropriate the fruits of their labor,
freedom would at least guarantee
compensation if not the entire prod-
uct of their labor. As free people,
former slaves expected to be able to
organize their lives in accordance
with their own sense of propriety,
establish their families as indepen-
dent units, create churches and
schools, and— most important —
control productive property as the
foundation of their new status.

Knowing is one thing, acting
upon their knowledge is another.
Thai is wh.it empowerment is
about.

Hannah Johnson and other freed -
people speak with iron in their voic-
es. Empowered bv their passage to
freedom — by their commence-
ment — thev speak in a clear voice:
free men and women deserve re-
spect — men and women should not
make brutes out of us — the rights of
family should be guarded, and they
should be allowed to have a right to
an independent livelihood — they
should not be forced to accept some
one else's price; that the right not to

have a master means more than the
right to change masters or em-
ployers — that freedom must rest up-
on an independent base of property.
There was much to learn from such
voices in Civil-War America, and
there is much to be learned from
such voices in twentieth -century
America.

But most of all they remind us of
how such passages are moments of
empowerment and opportun-
ity — and how such moments can
free us to remake our world.

But there is more. Over the next
century Hannah Johnson and her
descendants, real and spiritual —
and 1 trust all belong among
them— would continue the struggle
for freedom. There would be battles
won and lost. The revolution which
emancipated and enfranchised black
people did in fact go backward and
forward and now backward again,
as Klansmen run for public office,
presidents veto civil rights legis-
lation, and bureaucrats revoke
scholarships, and budget crises
threaten all. It seems if freedom is
never secure.

We need no lesson of that. In the
last months, our own heroic passage
has turned ugly. The thrust for
liberation in Eastern Europe and
South Africa threatens to degenerate
into a war of all against all — not
between the old forces of repression
and liberation — but among the
beneficiaries of liberation. The de-
sire for a more productive society
and a richer material life in Eastern
Europe has created not plenty, but
empty shelves and larders — devoid
of any of the former collective will-
ingness to share the burdens of
dearth. The ethos of capitalist cu-
piditv, it appears, has been easier to
transfer than the cornucopia of
capitalist productivity. All of this
has only affirmed the forces of re-
pression, in the Far East or Near
East, and encouraged vet other
demagogues (never in short supp-
ly) — so that when we connect our
own rite of passage with the large
historical pa s sa ge s o f 1 990 , we s e e
hopes of a better world disappear-
ing in the slough of recession and
sands of Saudi Arabia, our future
and even our lives at risk.

Yet it is precisely at such
moments that the empowerment
drawn from the conjunction of great
historic passages of 1968 and 1917,
1848 and 1789, of 1776 and 1863 and
the small passages like the one we
share today become important. If
Hannah Johnson could lecture
Abraham Lincoln on emancipation,
we too can raise our own voices and
make it clear we will not settle for
any thine, less than our birth right as
a free people. This is your passage;
your empowerment. Do not go
quietly.

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Special Olympics Day at Cole Field House

Head basketball coach Gary Williams and the Terrapin mascot
visit with a youthful Special Olympics athlete prior to the Terps' 64-
48 win over Lafayette on Dec. 22. The Athletic Department hosted a
"Maryland Special Olympics Day" at Cole Fietd House. A reception
for the young athletes followed the game.

David Driskell Featured in British
Film on African American Art

From the streets of Harlem to a
College Park lecture hall to the rural
countryside of his native Georgia,
David Driskell tells the rich story of
African American art in "Hidden
Heritage," a British film that
premiered recently in London.

Driskell, professor of art, narrates
the 55-minute film which deals with
African American art and its role in
African American culture from the
late 18th century through the
Harlem Renaissance of the 1930s.
The film was produced by Cue
Films for broadcast on Channel 4
Television in Great Britain and was
premiered in November at the
British Academy of Film and
Television Arts.

Acclaimed for his work both as
an artist and as an historian of
African American art, Driskell ap-
proaches the subject from a personal
and scholarly perspective.

"1 am the grandson of slaves. As
an art historian, 1 present the soul
struggle of black artists and their
two centuries of art in America.

Their art is not different from any
other art in form and color. Art has
no racial barriers," Driskell says in
the film.

Driskell presents the individual
work of African American artists in
the context of their social history.
The influence of emancipation, Jim
Crow laws, racial violence and
segregation on their art are
described by Driskell.

The three main settings serve as
general backdrops for the subject
while also holding personal rele-
vance for Driskell.

Eatonton, Ga., is not only an ex-
ample of the sort of rural southern
region where the roots of African
American culture can be found, but
Driskell's birthplace as well.
Harlem is the setting of one of the
major movements in the history of
African American art: the Harlem
Renaissance of the 1920s and 1930s.
Driskell is among the preeminent
historians of the movement, having
cu rated major exhibits on both the
Harlem Renaissance and the history

of African American art in general*

Driskell has served as a faculty
member at College Park since 1977.
The presence of courses in African
American painting in the curricu-
lum of an art program at a major
university is evidence that a long-
neglected subject is beginning to
receive academic attention.

A screening of "Hidden Heri-
tage" will be held at 3:30 p.m. Sun-
day, April 7, at the Ira Alridge
Theater at Howard University.

Brian Busek

Exhibit Will Feature Works From
Art Gallery Permanent Collection

The Art Gallery will feature
works from three parts of its per-
manent collection in its first exhibi-
tion of the spring sememster.

The show will open Monday,
Jan. 28, and feature groups of New
Deal era mural sketches featuring
images of farming and urban labor,
silkscreen and acrylic portraits by
Andy Warhol, and contemporary
prints by several different artists.

The mural sketches and Warhol
works are among the better-known
pieces in the permanent collection,
says Gallerv director Gwendolyn
Owens. The contemporary prints,
featuring works by juan Genoves,
Risaburo Kimura, and John Christie,
are among the Gallery's more recent
acquis! ions and have seldom been
shown publicly.

"We always look forward to
showing pieces from our own col-
lection," Owens says, "The works in
the collection are an excellent
teaching tool."

The scheduling of the show was
not entirelv by design. As recently
as fall 1989, the Gallery offered an
exhibit from the permanent collec-
tion in 1989-90.

Originally scheduled as the
semester's first show was an exhibit
of paintings and oil sketches by Van
Dyck. Late last summer, however,
Gallery officials learned that the
organizers of the exhibit would not
be unable to fulfill their com-
mitment.

Not onlv was there little time to
find an alternate show, but gallery
officials felt that their own vault
contained more than enough
material for another good exhibit,
Owens says. Moreover, the timing

of the exhibit carries a happy
coincidence — 1991 is expected to be
a banner year for art donations.

This year donors to museum
collections can take advantage of a
one-time tax break, Owens says.
Under current tax laws, donors, in
1991 only, will receive a tax deduc-
tion based on the current value of
donated works as opposed to their
purchase price.

Museum donations have
dropped dramatically since the new
laws were adopted in 1986, Owens
says. With the temporary tax break,
museum directors throughout the
country anticipate a dramatic in-
crease in contributions.

Owens is hopeful that supporters
will add to the Gallery's collection
during the year.

The exhibition runs through
March 15. Gallerv hours are Mon-
day-Friday noon-4 p.m., Wednes-
day evenings until 9 p.m. and Sat.
and Sun. 1-5 p.m. For information
call 405-2763.

James A. Porter,
whose painting, "Still
Life," Is shown
above, is among the
artists featured In
"Hidden Heritage:
The Roots of Black
American Painting,"
a new British film on
the history of African
American painting.
The film Is narrated
by David Driskell,
professor of art.

Sen Shahn's sketch of
hts mural, "The Riveter,"
is among the works
in a new Art Gallery
exhibition.

Annual Concert to Honor Mozart

Musicians of all ages — students,
faculty artists and children — will
come together to present a Mozart
concert on Saturday evening Feb. 9
at 8 p.m., when the Department of
Music will present its eighth annual
"Happy Birthday, Mozart" concert
in Tawes Recital Hall.

The University of Maryland
Symphony Orchestra under con-
ductor William Hudson will per-
form the overture to the Magic Flute
and, with singers from the Mary-
land Opera Studio, selected en-

sembles from that ever-fascinating
opera.

The simple yet profound motet,
Ave Vent in Cor fit?, K. 618 will be
sung by the Maryland Boy Choir.
The evening will conclude with
pianist Santiago Rodriguez per-
forming the intimate and lovely
Piano Concerto No. 17 in G Major,
K. 453.

Tickets are $10 for general ad-
mission and $7 for students and
senior citizens. Call 405-5548 for
information.

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McKeldin Library Move Runs Ahead of Schedule

Dusting and moving more than one million
volumes from McKeldin East to the new addition,
McKeldin West, was accomplished during the
January break, with a minimum of disruption to
students and faculty— and a few days ahead of
schedule. McKeldin West is equipped with 2,660
sections of user-activated compact shelving. Several
ranges of shelving, shown at left (along with tradi-
tional shelves), are pressed together with just one
aisle among them. An electrically-operated system
permits users to move the shelves back and forth
in order to gain access to desired volumes.

New Center Created to Study
Special Education Policy

The University of Maryland at
College Park has established the
nation's only Center for the Study of
Policy Options in Special Education.

The center will address pressing
policy issues facing special educa-
tion within the context of school
reform and restructuring, including
how new performance standards
and curricula impact on students
with disabilities and how increased
local control of education enhances
or limits options for these students,
says Margaret J. McLaughlin, proj-
ect director and associate research
scholar of the university's Institute
for the Study of Exceptional Child-
ren and Youth in the College of
Education.

Funded by a SI .5 million, three-
year contract from the U.S. Depart-
ment of Education's Office of Spe-
cial Education Programs, the center
is a collaborative effort between the

university's Institute for the Study
of Exceptional Children and Youth
and the WESTAT Corporation, a
research consulting firm in Silver
Spring, Md.

"While education has moved to
the national forefront, the issues of
special education and children with
disabilities are frequently over-
looked," sa\ s VI cl aughlin.

The goal of the center, says
McLaughlin, is to develop policy
options for state and local special
education programs in three areas,
including site-based management,
outcome assessment and students
with severe behavioral disorders.

The center, she adds, is unique
since it will bring together diverse
groups of individuals representing
both general and special education
who will provide their expertise and
perspectives in identifying issues
and developing policy options.

"The two areas have really devel-
oped separate agendas and separate
constituencies," notes McLaughlin.
"It's amazing, but when individuals
were asked to be part of our group,
they saw this as challenging because
they had never really thought about
the other part of education."

Representatives of all major edu-
cation associations and organiza-
tions, as well as researchers, ad-
ministrators, teachers and parents,
will be involved throughout the
process of issue identification and
policy development.

This combination, says McLaugh-
lin, makes the center truly inte-
grated and innovative.

A series of issue papers and re-
ports of policies and practices will
be generated over the next three
years of the project, accord ing to
VU Lmighlin.

Lisa Gregory

Professor Named Co-Editor
of Congressional Encyclopedia

Roger H. Davidson, professor of
Government and Politics, has been
named co-editor of a massive com-
pilation of scholarly work about the
United States Congress.

Davidson joined the faculty full-
time in 1987 after six years as an
adjunct professor. He and two co-
editors are at work on The Encyclo-
pedia of the United States Congress, a
four-volume reference work on the
country's national legislative his-
tory, its members, structure, and
policy-making.

Publication of the multi- volume
work is planned for late 1993 by
Simon and Schuster's Academic-
Reference Division.

Davidson represents the political
science profession on the project.
His co-editors are Morton Keller,
Spector Professor of History at
Brandeis University, and Donald C.
Bacon, a veteran Washington jour-
nalist and biographer. They are as-
sisted by an editorial board of 19
other prominent scholars and jour-
nalists.

Planned as the definitive refer-
ence w r ork of its kind, the Encyclo-
pedia will contain some ],500
signed original articles contributed
by leading academics, journalists,
elected officials, and Congressional
staff members. The articles will
cover a variety of topics ranging
from art and architecture in the
Capitol to the concept of represen-
tation and the role of the media.

The Encyclopedia also will in-
clude interpretive biographies of
famous and lesser-known Congres-
sional leaders, essays on legislative

history, and thematic policy articles
on topics ranging from foreign af-
fairs, agriculture, labor, and civil
rights.

The project is underwritten by
the U.S. Commission on the Bicen-
tennial of the Constitution, and
owes its origins to a group of polit-
ical scientists, historians, and jour-
nalists convened several years ago
by the Lyndon B. Johnson Founda-
tion and the D.B. Hardeman
Bequest. The idea subsequently won
the endorsement of the Bicentennial

Commissions of the Senate and
House of Representatives.

Davidson has served on several
1 louse and Senate committee staffs
and was senior research specialist
for the Congressional Research Ser-
vice of the Library of Congress. He
has authored or co-authored some
120 works on legislatures and pol-
icy-making, including Congress and
Its Members (3rd ed„ 1990)' the
leading text on the subject.

Tom Otwell

National Engineering Design Challenge
Finals to be Held at College Park

High school students from Ten-
nessee, Texas, Virginia, Pennsyl-
vania, New Jersey and Maryland
will compete in the 1990 National
Engineering Design Challenge
(NEDC) finals at College Park on
February 2.

The competition will be held in
the Engineering Classroom Build-
ing. The finalists will each receive a
medallion and a trip to the Goddard
Space Flight Center in Creenbelt.

The NEDC competition, now in
its second year, challenges high
schools students to solve a non-
routine, societal problem using
mathematics, engineering and tech-
nology. The six state teams will
compete, this year to develop a
method of enabling physically

handicapped people to turn the
pages of a book without the assis-
tance of another person.

Each team will publicly demon-
strate its working model at the
competition. Judges will evaluate
the projects based on their safety
and cost-effectiveness. The solution
must be user-friendly and demon-
strated by the team in a quality
presentation.

The N EDC is sponsored by the
National Society of Professional
Engineers, the junior Engineering
Technical Society and the National
Talent Network of the Educational
Information and Resource Center
with funding from the National
Science Foundation.

Roger H, Davidson

JANUARY 28

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Maryland/Japan Technological Affairs Program Launched

A program for engineering students has been initiated at Col-
lege Park to heJp facilitate their entry into the global marketplace.
Eventually, J-TAP, the Maryland /Japan Technological Affairs
Program, is expected to involve 20 students each year including
internships with Japanese corporations. Modeled after a program
offered at MIT, the College Park program is designed to make it
easier for engineering students to participate in educational pro-
grams in Japan. Last summer, three students attended an intensive
course in Japanese at Cornell University. The course was the equiva-
lent of Japanese I; the students are taking Japanese II this year at
College Park.

News and Views From the
Campus Senate

by Bruce Fretz, chair

^t The large number of
y^^ respondents with neutral
^r c-.m P u » views on both representation
r ^" » and the role of the Campus
Senate, and the fact that faculty xoere as
likely to agree as disagree that they knew
little about the Senate, raised the question
of whether views of participation represent
a genuine lack of involvement, or a
problem in communicating to faculty
the degree of involvement that actually
exists.

The latter part of this statement
from the recent report of the Ad
Hoc Committee on Faculty Gover-
nance was reiterated this fall during
the open hearings held by the
Senate Task Forces to review the
recommendations of this report.

One suggestion from these hear-
ings that has been possible to im-
plement immediately, with the sop-
port of the editorial staff of Outlook,
is a periodic column by the chair of
the Senate. In an attempt to improve
communication about the increasing
role of the Senate in the shared
governance of College Park, I would
like to focus each column on one or
two of the more significant issues
under review by a committee or
task force of the Senate. Names of
appropriate committee chairs will
be provided to facilitate suggestions
or inquiries to whatever group is
currentlv working with the issues.

The two issues 1 would like to
address this month aTe: 1 ) the
Senate's review of the president's
response to the Appointment, Pro-
motion and Tenure (APT) Policy
approved by the Campus Senate in
Spring 1990 and 2) the urgency for
the Senate to elect a representative
committee for the 1992 mandated
review of the Senate's Plan of Or-
ganization.

Regarding the APT Policy, on
Nov. 30, the president and academic
affairs staff provided a revised
version with extensive commentary
on several substantial changes. In
the view of several members of the
Senate Executive Committee who
reviewed this revised version, a
number of the proposed changes
reflect significant differences of
opinion on questions of criteria and
procedures. Consequently, the Sen-
ate Executive Committee is request-
ing that the Ad Hoc Committee that
prepared the final draft of the
document approved last spring re-
view these changes to identify those
that can be seen as essentially
editorial clarifications and those that
represent substantive changes. For
the latter category, we are asking
the Ad Hoc Committee to indicate
which of those changes they find
acceptable and which they wish
returned to their original form.

In those areas where there ap-
pear to be significant differences of
opinion, the Ad Hoc Committee is
asked to suggest any possible alter-

natives that they believe might be
mutually acceptable to both the ad-
ministration and the Campus
Senate. The president has agreed to
provide a prompt review and
response to these suggestions. If
there are any remaining disagree-
ments, they will then be submitted
to the current Faculty Affairs Com-
mittee for their careful review and
preparation, if desirable, of a "Dis-
senting Opinion Report" to be sub-
mitted to the Campus Senate along
with those administrative revisions
that have been found unacceptable.

Assuming a prompt response
from these committees and the ad-
ministration, the revised policy
should be available for Senate
review in late spring semester. The
primary goal of this discussion will
be to reach a consensus as to
whether or not the Senate wants to
recommend to the president the
implementation of the revised poli-
cy, even if there remain significant
differences requiring a "Dissenting
Opinion Report." It remains with
the president, in consultation with
the chancellor, after he has reviewed
the revised policy and our
commentary, to decide whether the
present or new policy and pro-
cedures will be used during the
coming academic year.

If you would like to receive a
copy of the revised APT document
and the summary of changes with
supporting rationale, please call the
Senate office, 405-5805. The chair of
both the Ad Hoc Committee and the
Faculty Affairs Committee, which
will be reviewing and preparing
recommendations on the revised
version, is Paul Smith (MATH), 405-
5104.

A Plan of Organization Review
Committee must be elected as soon
as possible if the committee is to be
able to benefit from this spring's
Senate discussions on recommen-
dations emerging from the task for-
ces reviewing the report of the Ad
Hoc Committee on Faculty Gover-
nance. The current Senate Plan of
Organization calls for a very specific
structure of that committee, i.e., a
representative from each college,
staff and students, with the majority
of representatives being other than
Senate members.

We have recently identified one
senator from each college and other
constituent units to serve as a con-
vener of a caucus of senators from
each college or unit to provide the
Senate with a slate of three or more
nominees that can be submitted to
the Senate Executive Committee by
Jan. 31. We have asked the senators
to pay particular attention to diver-
sity of backgrounds of their nomi-
nees as they choose informed and
committed persons to recommend
for this committee. Since this review
committee may be recommending
far-reaching changes in the

Bruce Fretz

structure and role of the Campus
Senate, we believe it is critical that
we have the campus' very best
representatives for such a commit-
tee.

May I urge you to communicate
to your unit senator any persons
whom you consider outstanding
nominees.

In my next column I would like
to address; 1) the issues of diversity
in the election of senators and 2)
considerations from the ongoing
dialogue between the representa-
tives of the Campus Senate Execu-
tive Committee and the Executive
Committee of the Athletic Council.
In the meantime, 1 welcome your
inquiries or suggestions about the
Campus Senate. I can be reached
through the Senate office, 405-5805.

Outlook will present on a regular
basis a column from the Campus
Senate on significant university
concerns and issues. This is the
first in an on-going spring semes-
ter series. We would be pleased to
receive your comments and letters
to the editor.

Campus Senate to
Discuss 40-Hour
Work Week

Kathryn Mohrman, dean of Un-
dergraduate Education, will be the
featured speaker, presenting "Good
News About Undergraduate Edu-
cation" at the next meeting of the
Campus Senate on Thursday, Feb. 7
from 3:30 to 6:30 p.m. in Room 0126
of Reckord Armory. Also to be
discussed will be a resolution,
"Priorities for People," concerning
bud get- re la ted lay-offs, furloughs,
COLAs and the 40-hour work week.
Other agenda items include a
resolution on retirement benefits for
TIAA subscribers and a progress '
report on a survey to identify
impediments to research. Call 405-
5805 for information.

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CALENDAR

Carry Out Your New Year's Resolution:
Join the Terrapin Fitness Challenge

Campus Recreation Service (CRS) challenges you to start your
year off right and exercise for just six months. Choose any aerobic
activity and exercise at your convenience. For each 15 minutes of
continuous aerobic exercise, you will earn one point. CRS will keep
track of your points. Earn 150 points in six months and win a T-shirt.
Sign up today at the CRS office. Call 314-7218 for more information.

January 28-February 6

MONDAY

Art Exhibition, three concurrent
exhibitions featuring New Deal
Images. Contemporary Prints from
the Private Collection, and The
Andy Warhol Athlete Series, to
day-March 15. Call 5-2763 for
info.

Engineering Colloquium: "A Pot
pourri of Physics." Richard E.
Berg, Physics, 3:30 p.m.. Bldg. 3
auditorium, NASA'Goddard Flight
Center. Greenbelt. Call 5-5994 lor
info.

Computer Science Colloquium:
"Ten Minule Madness." Com p.
Sci. faculty. 4 p.m., 0111 Class-
room Building. Call 5-2661 for
info.

Entomology Colloquium: "Nat-
ural Mortality of Ihe Dusky Sap
Beetle on Sweet Corn," Angel
Pena. Entomology, 4 p.m. 0200
Symons. Call 5-3912 For info.

Space Science Seminar: "The

Cusp." Mark Smith, GSFC, 4:30
p.m.. 1113 Computer and Space
Sciences. Call 5-4829 for into.

3 TUESDAY

Zoology Seminar: "Viroid and
Viroid-TiKe Satellite RNAs: Pos-
sible Evolutionary Significance,"
Theodore Diener, Agricultural Bio-
technology Center, noon. 1208
Zoo 'Psych. Call 5-1640 for info.

Danish Lecture: "People. Land,
Culture," Bent Skou. Minister-
Counselor. Royal Danish Embas-
sy, 12:30-1:45 p.m., 2122
Jimenez Call 5-4097 for info.

Physics and Astronomy Collo-
quium: "Physics and the World of
the University of Maryland Sys-
tem." Donalo Langenberg, Chan-
cellor, 4 p.m., 1410 Physics, lea
reception. 3:30 p.m. Call 5-5953
for info.

Catholic Student Center Gather-
ing. 4-5:30 p.m., reopening and
reaedication of library featuring
speaker Marie Davidson, Execu-
tive Assislant to the President. 5
p.m., Catholic Student Cenler.
Call 864-6223 for info.

Women's Basketball vs. Penn

State. 5:15 p.m.. Cole Field
House. Call 4-7064 for info *

Movies: Last Tango in Paris, 7 5
9:45 p.m.. Hoff Theatre. Call 4-
HOFF for info."

Men's Basketball vs. American,
7:30 p.m.. Cole Field House. Call
4-7064 for info.'

•■WEDNESDAY

Molecular and Ceil Biology
Seminar: "Signal Transduction m
Bacterial Chemotaxis." Ann Stock.
BrandeisU., 12:05 p.m., 1208
Zoo'Psych. Call 5-6991 for info.

History and Philosophy of Sci-
ence Colloquium: "Interpersonal

Com pan son of Ulility: A Theoreti-
cal Solution with Cntical Reflec-
tions," Daniel Hausman. U. of
Wisconsin, 3:30 p.m., 4105
Tydings. Call 5-5691 for info.

Center on Population, Gender,
and Social Inequality Lecture:

"Middle-aged Japanese and Their
Parents: Co- residence and Con-
tact." Linda Martin, National Aca-
demy of Sciences, 3:30 p.m..
2115 Art/Soc. Call 5-6422 for info.

Movies: Last Tango in Pahs,
4:30. 7 8 9:45 p.m., Hoff Theatre.
Call 4-HOFF for into."

THURSDAY

Meteorology Seminar: "Determi-
ning Climatic Sensitivity from the
Fluctuation-Dissipation Relation-
ship," Thomas Bell. NASA'GSFC,
Greenbelt. 3:30 p.m.. 21 14 Com-
puter and Space Sciences, recep-
tion. 3 p.m. Call 5-5392 for info.

► Opening Ceremony for Black
History Month, featuring various
speakers. 3:30 p.m., Cofony Ball-
room, Stamp Student Union. Call
4-7174 for info.

History and Philosophy of Sci-
ence Colloquium: "Gender and
Early Modern Science," Londa
Schtebinger. Pennsylvania State
U.. 3:30 p.m.. 2283 Zoo/Psych.
Call 5-5691 for info.

Movies: Flatliners. 7:15 & 9:45
p.m.. Night of the Living Dead,
midnight. Hoff Theatre. Call 4-
HOFF tor info

Women's Basketball vs. Duke,
7:30 p.m.. Cole Field House. Call
4-7064 for info.*

SATURDAY

Movies: Flatliners. 7:15 & 9:45
m, Hoff Theatre Call 4-HOFF

'or info.

I

Reliability Engineering Seminar:

"Control of the Quality of Ma-
chined Surfaces in Real Time."
Guangming Zhang. Mechanical
Engineering, 5:15-6:15 p.m., 2115
Chemical and Nuclear Engineer-
ing Bldg. Call 5-3887 or 5-3883
for info.

Swim Meet: Maryland vs. Vir-
ginia, 1 p.m. (men), 4 p.m.
(women[, Cole Field House Pool.
Call 4-7064 for info.

► "We Are Family," celebration
of African American culture, 6
p.m.. Memorial Chapel. Call 4-
7174 for info.

Movies: Railiners, 7:15 & 9:45
p.m.. Night of the Living Dead,
midnight. Hoff Theatre. Call 4-
HOFF^ for info

University Community Con-
certs, the Cleveland Quartet,
program TBA. 8 p.m.. Center of
Adult Education, $1 7 standard
admission, $1 4,50 students and
seniors. Call 80-4239 for info,"

Gladys Marie Frye. Maieka Han-
sard, Mary Cothran, Rhonda Wil-
liams, Sharon Harley. noon-1 :30
p.m. (bring lunch), 0109 Hornbake
Library. Call 5-6877 tor info.

Horticulture Seminar: "Con-
straints on Using Composed Sew-
age Sludge and Municipal Refuse

in Horticulture and Agriculture,"
Rufus Chaney, USDA, ARS,
Belts*, 4 p.m.. 0128 Holzapfel.
Call 5-4336 for info.

Computer Science Colloquium:
"Ten Minute Madness II." Comp.
Sci. faculty. 4 p.m., 0111 Class-
room Building. Call 5-2661 for
info.

Entomology Colloquium: "Larval

Defense in Tortoise Beetles:
Costs, Effectiveness, and Inter-
specific Variation," Karen
Qimstead, Entomology. 4 p.m.,
0200 Symons. Call 5-3912 for
info.

Space Science Seminar: "Par-
ticle Acceleration at Shocks," Don
Ellison. NCSU, 4:30 p.m.. 1113
Computer and Space Sciences.
Call 5-4829 for info.

Classics Department Lecture:

"Perceiving Achilles," Rolf O.
Hubbe; response, Lillian Doherly,
4 p.m., 2309 Art/Soc, reception
following. Call 5-2013 for info,

Movies: To Sleep with Anger.
7:1 5 & 9:45 p.m., Hoff Theatre.
Call 4-HOFF for info.

Writers Here and Now Reading,
Alan Cheuse, novelist. 8 p.m..
3101 McKeldin Library (Katherine
Anne Porter Room). Call 5-3809
for info.

WEDNESDAY

Anthropology Seminar: "Plan-
ning and Evafuation: Applying the
Anthropologist's Tool Kit," Robert
Werge, U.S. Depl. of Agriculture,
3:30-5 p.m.. 1 1 14 Woods. Call 5-
1423 for info

Movies: To Sleep with Anger. 5,
7:15&9:45_p.m, Hoff Theatre.
Call 4-HOFF for info.

The Cleveland Quartet will perform on priceless seventeenth-century instruments once owned by the Italian virtuoso, Paganini, on loan
from the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Saturday, February 2, 8 p.m., at Ihe Center of Adull Education. Standard admission, $17.50: students
and seniors, $14.50. As part of a music sampler promotion, (acuity and staff may purchase tickets for $10, and student
tickets are $5 at the door.

■■FRIDAY

Black History Month

Speech Communication Collo-
quium: "Transactional Communi-
cation in the Classroom: Going
Beyond Direct Explanation."
Michael Pressley, Human Devel-
opment, noon, 0i47Tawes. Call
5-6524 for info.

► Episcopal Campus Ministry
Graduate Student and Faculty
Gathering: "Afrocentrism: Princi-
ples, Perspectives, and Prob-
lems," Russell Adams. Howard U„
5:30 p.m., St Andrews Parish
Hall Call 5-8453 tor info.

SUNDAY

Movies: Flatliners. 5, 7:15 & 9:45
p.m.. Hoff Theatre. Call 4-HOFF

for rnfo

■■MONDAY

Zoology Seminar: "Molecular
Phytogeny of Plethodontine Sala-
manders and Hylid Frogs,"
Richard Hiohton, Zoology, noon,
1208 Zoo/Psych. Call 5-6945 tor
into.

► Women's Studies Lecture:
"We Were There: African Amen-
can Women and Ihe Civil Rights
Movement," Gladys Brown,

► African Storytelling: "Umo|a

Sassa." 7 p.m., Grand Ballroom,
Stamp Student Union. Call 4-7174
for info.

Women's Basketball vs. Geor-
gia Tech, 7:30 p.m.. Cole Field
House. Call 4-7064 tor info."

* Admission charge lor this event
All others are free.

► Black History Month event

TUESDAY

Physics and Astronomy Collo-
quium: "8CS Mechanism at Work
in Various Fields of Physics,"
Yoichiro Nambu, Enrico Fermi
Institute, U. of Chicago, 4 p.m.,
1410 Physics, tea reception, 3:30

ny:
p.m. Call 5-5953 for info.

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