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A WEEKLY NEWSPAPER FOR FACULTY AND STAFF AT THE UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND AT COLLEGE PARK
FEBRUARY 4, 1991
VOLUME 5, NUMBER 15
The Silverman Compound: Turning
Ordinary Rubber Into Super Rubber
A University of Maryland at
College Park researcher has invent-
ed a new technique that turns ordi-
nary rubber into super rubber.
The new rubber, created by
Joseph Silverman, professor of
Materia] and Nuclear Engineering,
lasts up to three times longer than
conventional synthetic rubber, is
practically invulnerable to environ-
mental damage, and can be pro-
duced at a cost only slightly higher
than that needed to produce sty-*
rene-butadiene rubber, the most
common type of synthetic rubber
used in military and consumer
products.
While its most immediate appli-
cation appears to be as a replace-
ment for the rubber now used in
military tank tread pads, the new
compound could prove useful in a
whole range of other products.
Creation of the new compound
was nine parts science and one part
luck. In searching for a longer- last-
ing rubber compound, Silverman
and his associates mixed certain
additives to conventional rubber,
partially cured the mixture with
heat and pressure, and then bom-
barded the compound with millions
of volts of electron energy from an
electron accelerr'or.
The results surprised even Sil-
verman. "Our approach is in a sense
really a minor modification of
conventional rubber curing tech-
niques," Silverman notes, "but what
Newsmakers
at College Park
Faculty experts recently in
the news
New Faculty Grievance
Policy in Effect
Ombuds Officer and other
modifications added
Classics Department
Honors Faculty Member
Spring lecture series a tribute
to Rolf Hubbe
5
Plans Under Way for
40-Hour Work Week
Staff member writes open letter
to the campus community
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Joseph Silverman
finds his lab a crowd-
ed place, but equip-
ment such as this ac-
celerator Is vital to
his diverse research
projects.
we ended up with is a new com-
pound that has proved significantly
superior to conventional rubber in
every test tried."
Development of the new rubber
was funded by the U.S. Army. The
army wanted a replacement for the
rubber used in pads attached to
tank treads which wear out quickly
under the weight of the 70-ton
machines. Pads help stabilize tanks
and also prevent road damage from
the massive vehicles.
Cost was another motivation in
the army's search for an alternative
pad. Individually, such pads are
relatively inexpensive. But collec-
tively, replacing tank pads for all
the army's tanks costs taxpayers a
hefty $100 million a year.
continued on page 6
The Strategic Planning Process:
A Talk with the Provost
President Kirwan has appointed
a Strategic Planning Committee to
develop a plan for the university.
Vice President for Academic
Affairs and Provost Bob Dorfman
chairs the group. Outlook editor
Roz Hiebert talked with the pro-
vost recently about the committee's
work.
Q: Was the committee created be-
cause of the current budget situa-
tion?
A; It certainly was stimulated by the
budget situation. But it really
should be seen as a further elabora-
tion of the ideas that underlie APAC
(Academic Planning Advisory
Committee), namely a long-range
planning activity but one that will
involve the whole campus. The
planning that we do must examine
the whole spectrum of campus
activities and ask which are
essential or basic to the university
and how can we improve their
quality. These questions should al-
ways be asked, but it's clear that in
the next few years they will be
especially critical for the university.
Q: Who will be on the committee?
A: The four vice presidents plus
several others chosen by the presi-
dent and the Campus Senate Exec-
utive Committee.
Q: When will you begin meeting?
A: Immediately. We don't have a lot
of room to delay. Several activities
are taking place already.
Q: Such as?
A: The deans, after consulting with
their faculty, have presented a
three-year cost-containment reallo-
cation plan to APAC. APAC is re-
viewing the plan and meeting with
the deans in order to make its
recommendations. The Finance
Committee, chaired by Dr. Sturtz, is
managing the Fiscal Year 1991
budget situation. The Finance Com-
mittee is working diligently on
managing the campus budget. Dur-
ing the next several months, we
have to make some critical decisions
about how we are going to maintain
the momentum of the campus and
deal with the Enhancement Plan at
the same time that our resources are
shrinking. We can't do everything
that we envisioned in the plan
because it assumed a certain
continued on page 3
UNIVERS ITY
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MARYLAND
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COLLEGE
PARK
Civil War Historian Barbara Fields to Speak Feb. 7
Barbara Fields, one of the historians featured on the highly
acclaimed public television series, "The Civil War," will present a
lecture, "Who Freed the Slaves?" on Thursday, Feb. 7 at 7:30 p.m. in
Room 2203 of the Art /Sociology Building. Fields, a professor of
history at Columbia University, is also an associate editor of the
Freedmen and Southern Society Project and worked at College Park
in 1981-82. The lecture is scheduled in honor of Black History Month
and jointly sponsored by Arts and Humanities and Academic Af-
fairs. A reception will follow the talk. Call 405-2097 for information.
College Park "In the News"
The work of College Park faculty
and academic programs at the
university frequently receive atten-
tion in the news media.
College Park- related stories ap-
pear regularly in both the regional
and national media and our faculty
members often are quoted as ex-
perts in breaking news situations.
Here are some recent highlights in
news coverage of College Park.
•College Park experts in public
affairs and the sciences have been
consulted on a variety of issues re-
lating to the war in the Persian Gulf.
Michael Nacht (Public Affairs),
Steve Fetter (Public Affairs),
William Galston (Public Affairs),
Catherine Kelleher (Public Affairs),
Alan Robock (Meteorology) and
Bruce Jarvis (Chemistry) were all
quoted in war-related stories by
such news organizations as Cable
News Network, The Baltimore Sun,
The Los Angeies Times, The Miami
Herald, and WTOP Radio.
•Eugenie Clark (Zoology) made
two recent appearances in the na-
tional media. NBC's Today Show
did a lengthy feature story on Clark
and her work on sharks. The Neiv
York Times quoted Clark as an
expert in a story on the hunting of
sharks.
• Another zoologist, Sue Carter,
was featured in the Jan. 22 Neiv York
Times. Carter was quoted ex-
tensively in the paper's lead science
story on oxytocin.
•Roald Sagdeev, College Park's
Distinguished Professor of Physics
and former science advisor to Soviet
President Gorbachev, has been the
subject of extensive media attention
since becoming a permanent faculty
member this fall. His convocation
speech was covered by the Baltimore
Sun and Los Angeles Times. The
Voice of America broadcast an
interview with Sagdeev in late
December to a potential audience of
18 million people world-wide.
•Another Soviet scholar at Col-
lege Park, mathematician Michael
Brin, was featured in a December
ABC Nightly News report about the
brain drain of Soviet scientists to the
United States.
•AIDS Awareness Week at Col-
lege Park in late November received
positive coverage locally on four
television news programs and two
radio news programs and national
attention in The Chronicle of Higher
Education.
•The Chronicle of Higher Education
also quoted and pictured Kathryn
Mohrman (Undergraduate Studies)
in a major story on improvements in
undergraduate education at public
researchuniversities.
The College Park "In the News"
column will run periodically in Out-
look throughout the spring semester.
Astronaut to Speak During Black History Month Celebration
Col. Charles F. Bolden, Jr.
Colonel Charles F. Bolden, Jr., a
U.S. Marine Corps officer and
NASA astronaut who has been the
pilot for two space shuttle missions,
will be the guest speaker at the
College of Engineering and the
College of Computer, Mathematical
and Physical Sciences annual Black
History Month celebration.
The astronaut will speak Feb. 13
at 2:30 p.m. in the Judith Resnik
Lecture Hall (Room 1202) of the
Engineering Classroom building.
Bolden holds a B.S. degree in
electrical science from the U.S.
Naval Academy and an M.S. in
systems management from the Uni-
versity of Southern California.
Bolden graduated from the U.S.
Naval Test Pilot School at Patuxent
River in 1979 and was assigned to
the Naval Air Test Center's Systems
Engineering and Strike Aircraft Test
Directorates. A year later he was
selected by NASA and qualified as
pilot for assignment as a space
shuttle flight crew member.
Bolden piloted the space shuttle
Columbia and more recently, the
Discovery on its mission to deploy
the Hubble Space Telescope. He has
logged 267 hours in space and will
be the commander aboard Columbia
for the shuttle's scheduled April
1991 launch.
At NASA, Bolden has served as
chief of the safety division at
Johnson Space Center and lead
astronaut for vehicle test and
checkout at the Kennedy Space
Center among other technical
assignments.
He holds the Defense Superior
Service Medal, the USC Outstand-
ing Alumni Award, and the USC
Alumni Award of Merit.
OUTLOOK
Outlook is (he weekly faculty-staff newspaper serving
[he College Park campus community.
Management Center Wins USAID Grant
The International Development
Management Center (IDMC), an
affiliate unit of the Maryland Co-
operative Extension Service, has
been awarded a subcontract for Im-
plementing Policy Change (IPC), a
new, five-year project of the U.S.
Agency for International Develop-
ment.
IPC has $5.2 million in core
funding and projects $13.9 million
in buy-ins from USAID overseas
missions.
The objective of IPC is to use,
through technical cooperation,
strategic management processes and
methods to assist leaders and
managers in less developed coun-
tries put policies into action.
Derick Brinkerhoff, associate di-
rector for research at IDMC, will be
the lead technical specialist in
charge of the IPC research program,
which includes agriculture,
development, information manage-
ment, and irrigation and natural
resources.
Kathryn Costs I lo
Roz Hiebert
Linda Freeman
Brian Busek
Lisa Gregory
Tom Otwell
Fariss Samarrai
Gary Stephenson
Jennifer Bacon
Judith Bair
John Consoll
Stephen Dafrou
Chris Paul
Al Danegger
Linda Martin
PI a Uznanska
Michael Vuen
Peter Zulkamain
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FEBRUARY
19 9 1
College Park Alumna is Teacher of the Year
Congratulations to Rosemaric McConnaughey! The Prince
George's teacher, who received both her bachelor of science and
master's degrees in education from the University of Maryland at
College Park, recently received the Teacher of the Year Award for
the State of Maryland. McConnaughey teaches fifth grade at
Columbia Park Elementary School in Landover. She is the first
teacher from Prince George's County public schools to win the
distinction.
Dorfman Discusses
Planning for the University's Future
continued from page I
amount of funding that is not
presently available. Nevertheless,
we want to have a better institution.
Q: Will you concentrate specifically
on planning for the July 1 fiscal
budget?
A: No. We'll look at both the long
and short term and work on creat-
ing a long-range master strategy. I
certainly don't envision this as a
one-shot process. It's important to
remember that the Strategic Plan-
ning Committee will continue, as
President Kirwan said, over the next
severa! years. Of course, whatever
this group recommends will be
presented to the president's cabinet.
Ultimately the president has the
final decision on any
changes.
Q: Is the Enhancement Plan the base
document from which you will
work?
A: It provides an overall framework
and vision. The discourse in the
Strategic Planning Committee will
further serve to clarify and refine
what some of the important
priorities and target areas are going
to have to be.
Q: How can we keep enhancing the
campus when we're having to cut
back so significantly?
A: We have to enhance selectively.
We can't expect to operate all of our
current activities at their current
levels. We will have to come up
with many more efficiencies. We've
got to look at how we run the
campus, explore financial ar-
rangements that will produce econ-
omies, decide on which activities we
might have to delay or eliminate,
agree on what some of our most
important and creative programs
are and see how they can be
stimulated to higher degrees of ac-
complishment, and to move resour-
ces from more peripheral activities.
We must maintain the quality of
those activities that this planning
process identifies as being of critical
importance to the university.
Q: The president has said that the
university will be reallocating up to
$3 million, or 1 percent annually.
That sounds like a drop in the
bucket of the current $25 million
budget reduction.
A: Yes, but after we've absorbed a
$25 million reduction, it is very dif-
ficult to find yet additional funds
for reallocation. Nevertheless, it is
important that we have the ability to
move resources from less critical
areas to those areas most essential to
the university.
Q: This process surely will create a
lot of anxiety. How are you going to
make sure many points of view are
heard?
A; We have to make sure that the
campus community shares our goal
of improving the institution. The
mission of the Strategic Planning
Committee — indeed all of us — must
be to nurture programs of quality
and centrality to the overall mission
of the university. That's a goal that
everyone can feel a part of and
responsible for. Certainly, some
programs are going to benefit and
others are going to suffer somewhat.
But we always have as a goal the
protection of the human aspects of
our activities — the fact that this is a
community of human beings who
are mutually reinforcing.
That doesn't mean that hard de-
cisions don't have to be made. They
do. But my hope is that this can be
an opportunity for improving the
university, that while we may not
be able to do the same broad range
of enhancements that we had once
hoped to do, what we will end up
with will be of very high quality,
and people will have occasion to
feel proud of the institution.
As to listening to many points of
view, I know that the committee
will want to make themselves as
available as possible. I myself have
scheduled meetings with faculty
groups and department chairs. I
intend to make myself as visible as I
can so that people have a sense that
this process is not being carried out
in isolation but is a dynamic and
open process in which they have a
role to play. And we certainly
would not want to move significant
resources from any activity without
giving the people affected an
opportunity to make their case.
Q: You say many areas can stand
careful examination and that activi-
ties of a similar nature could be put
in closer connection with each other.
Does that mean merging some
programs?
A: That's one possibility. But the
committee won't focus only on aca-
demic affairs. It will look at effici-
encies across the different divisions
and will take recommendations
from various groups such as APAC
and feed them into the strategic
planning process.
Q: Will some highly regarded pro-
grams that currently are well-fund-
ed remain untouched while others
of less stature will be targets for
cutbacks?
A: We have to enter into this pro-
cess with the understanding that a
university is a community of open-
minded people. The idea of putting
anything off limits for rational
thought and discussion is not one
with which I feel very comfortable.
The second point is that we real-
ly have to think about how the uni-
versity is going to enter the 21st
century. There is nothing that says
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the university in the next century
has to look like ours does today. We
have to think very creatively about
how we are going to enter the
future. That means some things are
going to be more important than
others. Unless our planning process
gives us the kind of flexibility we
need to face the future, we will not
have succeeded.
Q: How will you speed up this
process?
A: The campus has been engaged in
this process in one guise or another
for many years. We also have on
campus a number of experts who
have written extensively on
university planning. I intend to
make as much use of our own in-
ternal resources as possible,
Q: Can you give some examples of
the kinds of programs that might be
eliminated?
A: It is too early in the process to
cite specific examples. The campus
will have to decide whether it wants
to slide toward mediocrity by
maintaining all its activities, or
whether it will make carefully
chosen selective cuts in order to
maintain and improve the quality of
those essential activities that it will
continue. The process that has been
set up is meant to provide a very
broad input in determining these
priorities.
Q: Anything you'd like to add?
A: The activities going on now in
the colleges and departments and
various student activities taking
place provide an excellent oppor-
tunity for the university to grow,
not in economic terms, but in intel-
lectual, scholarly and service terms.
As I said earlier, we have to look
within ourselves for the energy and
courage to make some very difficult
choices. It's important to keep in
mind the vision enunciated by the
president in his inaugural address.
We have to remind ourselves that
our goal is to become truly excellent
in those activities that we define as
the ones that are of most central
importance to the institution.
One of the hallmarks of a great
university, whether it is small or
very large, is that all of us have a
sense of the mission of the univer-
sity and the feeling of being part of
something greater than ourselves. I
think we are developing that kind
of spirit and I hope it will continue
to grow.
J, Robert Dorfman
FEBRUARY 4. 1991
K
CLOSE UP
Forum on Gulf Crisis
The university's Center for International Security Studies at
Maryland (CISSM) in association with the School of Public Affairs
and the Department of Government and Politics is sponsoring a
campus-wide Forum on the Gulf Crisis on Tuesday, Feb. 12 from
3:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. in the auditorium of the Zoology-Psychology
Building in Room 1240. For more information, call the CISSM office
at 403-8114.
New Faculty Grievance
Policy Takes Effect
In the future, when a faculty
member has a complaint, grievance,
or difference of opinion with the
university, he or she will be able to
turn to a new faculty grievance
policy that has just taken effect.
The new Faculty Grievance Pro-
cedure replaces the UMCP Faculty
Grievance Procedure, which had been
in place since 1983. The policy
supercedes the System Policy on Fac-
ulty Grievance, approved by the
Board of Regents in November,
1989.
According to Dean )ohn Burt,
who chaired the committee that
wrote the new policy, all faculty
should be aware of the new process
because "It represents a whole new
way of doing business at the
university."
There are three major differences
between the 1983 Faculty Grievance
Procedure and the new policv, savs
Burt, One is the fact that the policy
creates an Ombuds Officer who will
provide neutral and impartial
advice to faculty members who feel
they have been unfairly treated. The
new policy also contains a
significant! v shortened but well-
organized formal hearing process
that can be used in the event that
informal attempts to resolve the
conflict do not succeed. Finally, says
Burt, "The new procedure makes the
governance process more liberal as
to what can be grieved than in the
past. One may file for any decision
that he/she believes to be unfair,
whereas in the past, the process was
more restrictive."
The process to develop the new
faculty grievance policy has been a
length v one. It began, four years
ago, on October 12, 1987 when the
Campus Senate decided to appoint
a task force to review the Faculty
Affairs Committee Report on the
procedure. In February 1988 then-
Chancellor John Slaughter appoint-
ed a committee, which presented its
report to the Campus Senate in
April, 1990. After senate approval,
the report was sent to the president
who suggested some changes that
ultimately were accepted. The new
Faculty Grievance Process went into
effect on December 13, 1990.
The steps in the policy are out-
lined in the accompanying chart.
Copies of the policy will be avail-
able in the Campus Senate office.
According to Burt, creating the
new process was a long and drawn
out procedure with many differing
opinions on the part of those in-
volved in developing the document.
The only thing that allowed the
committee to write a policy upon
which they all agreed was the fact
that a stumbling block was removed
when the committee decided take
out a widely disputed part of the
procedure and hand it over for
consideration as part of the
Appointments, Tenure and Appeals
policy.
SUMMARY OF FACULTY GRIEVANCE PROCESS
President gives final disposition with -I y
explanation of decision and action
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Hearing Board Informs parties and President
of decision in writing
Grievant provided formal hearing by peers
Within s
days of
step a
Senate Panel Chair appoints three members and two alternates to
Hearing Board, convenes board, facilitates election of a board chair;
board sets hearing date or decides complaint frivolous
Senate Panel Chair selects 7 members for a Hearing Board from Faculty
Grievance Panel (a panel composed of all faculty members elected to
the College Park Senate)
Exec. Sec. Informs respondent and asks Ombuds
Officer for summary of mediation
Grievant files formal written complaint with Exec. Secretary
of Senate
Mediation conducted: If grievant withdraws from mediation
or dispute settled, process stops
Grievant files formal written complaint in consultation with
Ombuds Officer, who seeks resolution
Grievant makes allegation and seeks resolution through
Informal dlscusslon/no formal documentation of process
or outcome required
Decision by faculty member to enter grievance process
Initial awareness by faculty member of an action or Inaction he or she
believes to be unfair, discriminatory or improperly reached
"The time we spent developing
the new policy was well-spent,"
feels Burt. "The policy is important
for many reasons, one of which is
that the procedure will afford fac-
ulty a real opportunity to partici-
pate in the governance of the cam-
pus. In the past, perhaps only five
or ten faculty grievances have been
filed, given the restrictiveness of the
procedure," says Burt. "It is im-
perative that the faculty know they
have a 1990, updated grievance
policy and be acquainted with it."
Besides Burt, committee mem-
bers included Richard Claude,
Richard Jaquith, Jim Grunig, Anne
MacLeod, Ellen Scholnick, and
George Snow,
Roz Hiebert
Chart provided by
Dean John Burt
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FEBRUARY
19 9 1
A Benjamin Britten ' Entertainment' to be
Presented in Tawes Recital Hall
On Saturday evening, Feb. 23 at 8 p.m. in Tawes Recital Hall,
music faculty member James McDonald, tenor, will create an "Enter-
tainment" featuring the song cycle, Who Are These Children? by
Benjamin Britten. Actors Karen Olson and Jeff Kensmoe will read
from an imaginary correspondence between Britten and Eric Crazier,
Britten's librettist. Ruth Ann McDonald will be the accompanist.
Tickets for this Artist Scholarship Benefit Series event are $10 for
general admission and $7 for students and senior citizens. For
further information call 405-5548.
Present (Almost) at Creation of
Classics Department
If you want to learn about the
ancient history of College Park's
Department of Classics, contact Rolf
O. I lubbe before the end of the
semester.
Hubbe, associate professor of
classics and the second faculty
member to be hired for the depart-
ment after its creation in 1955, will
retire at the end of the semester
after a 35-year career at College
Park.
In Hubbe' s honor, the depart-
ment will hold a lecture series,
"Speakers of Words and Doers of
Deeds: Character and Motivation in
Homer," during the spring semes-
ter. Hubbe will present the first lec-
ture in the series on "Perceiving
Achilles" at 4 p.m. Tues., Feb. 5, in
Rm. 2309 Art /Sociology Building.
During his career at College
Park, Hubbe has specialized in the
teaching of ancient Greek. Having
taught classes of beginning Greek
ranging from 10-15 students during
his early years at the university to
20-25 in recent years, Hubbe has
introduced hundreds of undergrad-
uates to the language of myth tel-
lers, philosophers and early scribes
of the New Testament.
The overwhelming majority of
his students, especially in beginning
courses, are not classicists, Hubbe
says.
"I usually get students who are
studying some other subject — art
history, theology, history — and
need to learn Greek to help with
their other studies," he says.
Over the years, Hubbe has spot-
ted academic fads in other areas of
the humanities through the com-
position of his own classes. For in-
stance, in the early the 1970s during
the "Jesus Movement" among
students, Hubbe found an upsurge
of aspiring New Testament scholars
in his classes.
Throughout his career at College
Park, the Princeton-trained faculty
member has set teaching as his top
priority in his academic work. But
in retirement, Hubbe plans to con-
centrate on research interests related
to the poems of Homer.
Hubbe is studying Homer's
works with an emphasis on the
"perception" of the characters. He
sees "perception" as a fundamental
component of Homer's work, one
that has been largely neglected by
scholars in his estimation.
In Hubbe' s view, Homer's heroes
were distinguished by their
adeptness at both "battle" and "cou-
nsel." The "counsel" side of the
ledger includes such characteristics
as judgment and perceptiveness.
Hubbe argues that scholars have
tended to overemphasize the im-
portance of martial skills in Homer.
Actually, Homer places greater
value on qualities of "counsel,"
Hubbe says.
"I realize that I'm taking an ex-
treme position. But this is some-
Rolf 0. Hubbe
thing that has been ignored," Hubbe
says.
Lectures in the series will con-
tinue throughout the spring semes-
ter. For more information call 405-
2013.
Brian Busek
Our Busy Music Faculty: Survey Uncovers
a Multitude of Recordings
Last fall acting music department
chair Leon Major asked Rachel
Wade, assistant research scholar in
the C.P.E. Bach edition project, to
gather a list of department- re la ted
recordings. He thought it would be
interesting to know what faculty re-
cordings were currently available
and perhaps display some of them
at university concerts.
Major had no idea that the list
would end up with more than 140
separate items on it! They range in
type from jazz to classical, from
massed choral works to gridiron
favorites. And new releases are
coming out each month.
If you thought about it, you could
probably name some of the faculty
artists who would be likely to have
made a number of recordings: cer-
tainly the members of the Guameri
String Quartet would come to mind,
as well as perhaps pianist Santiago
Rodriguez, and baritone Dominic
Cossa. You may not be aware that
violinist Jaap Schroder and cellist
Kenneth Slowik are now adjunct
members of the faculty, and this
adds their many recordings for the
Smithsonian Collection and else-
where to the department's ever-
growing list.
As a service to our readers, Out-
look from time to time will publish
parts of this list, grouped in sub-cat-
egories. We will attempt to be both
brief and as complete as we can, so
that the campus community will
better understand the richness and
diversity of the musical artistry we
have among us.
Watch for our first list, recordings
of university-related choral music,
in an upcoming issue of Outlook.
Language House Exhibition Celebrates
700 Years of Switzerland
An exhibition celebrating the
700th anniversary of Switzerland
will open Wednesday, Feb. 6, in the
Language House.
The exhibition, "Face to Face with
Switzerland," consists of panels that
feature images and text that will
introduce audiences to milestones in
Swiss cultural, social and political
history since its founding in 1291. A
total of 160 copies of the exhibition
will circulated throughout the
world during 1991. The Language
House is the exhibition's first site in
the Washington D.C. area.
The exhibition will be on display
mainly in the Language House's
multi-purpose room. It is the first
major cultural exhibit to be shown
in the academically -based residence
hall since its opening in fall 1989.
An opening reception featuring
remarks by President William E.
Kirwan and officials from the Swiss
Embassy will begin at 4 p.m. Wed-
nesday, Feb. 6, in the Language
House. The exhibit, which is spon-
sored by the Swiss Embassy, will be
on display through March 6.
The exhibit is free and open to
the public. For more information
call 405-6995.
FEBRUARY
19 9 1
RESEARCH
Publications Award: Last Call for Entries
Feb. 8 is the deadline for entries for the 1991 Publications Award
Program. Devised to recognize and encourage excellence in internal
and external university communications, the new program will
present some 1 5 awards in nine categories in a ceremony on March
21. The event will coincide with a publications workshop and "Infor-
mation Express" presented by Creative Services and the university's
Publication Council. Call 405-4615 for forms and information.
Aquacultural Products:
Will Consumers Bite?
These two tank pads
show the improved
strength of Silver-
man's material. One
Is new, the other pad
has been tested for
2,000 miles and
could go further. A
pad of conventional
material cannot last
half as long and
pulverizes.
Maryland's aquaculture indus-
try, already producing products
worth $10.6 million annually, has
plans to supply consumers with a
steady stream of seafood, including
hybrid striped bass. But how many
consumers will choose to buy these
products at perhaps $8 per pound?
Answers to that question are
forthcoming from the work of Ivar
Strand, Nancy Bockstael and
Douglas Lipton. All are members of
the Department of Agricultural and
Resource Economics, and their
research project is supported by a
Maryland Agriculture Experiment
Station Grant.
Aquaculture products account
for an increasing proportion of the
world's seafood supply, says
Strand. And the decline of wild
stocks of oysters and other species
opens the market for aquaculturally
raised products. Meanwhile, the
first sanctioned sales of farm-raised
hybrid striped bass in Maryland
occurred just last year.
Maryland's proximity to the
Boston- Washington corridor offers a
competitive advantages — producers
can supply a fresh, high-value
product to high -income population
centers, Strand says. But the success
of aquacultural production depends
upon producers finding markets in
which their relatively high-cost
product can compete.
The restaurant trade, for example,
is a market that values the reliable,
steady supply of a product.
"But we don't have data on res-
taurant consumption patterns and
how consumer preferences change
in different seasons," Strand says.
"We have limited information on
striped bass wholesale markets but
there has been little research on
actual purchases by seafood con-
sumers, by location of consumption,
such as at home, or restaurants, or
by species and product type."
The researchers plan to charac-
terize the demand for aquacultural
products by analyzing away-from-
home consumer expenditures on
seafood products. Since there is as
Ivar Strand
yet relatively little consumption of
Maryland aquacultural products,
Strand, Bockstael and Lipton will
characterize demand based on con-
sumer behavior toward similar
products.
The research team aims to:
• Identify and evaluate the demand
for different forms (fresh, frozen,
breaded, etc.) of seafood.
• Determine the effects of socio-
demographic characteristics (age,
income level, etc.) on seafood con-
sumption.
• Determine seasonal changes in
preferences toward away-from-
home seafood consumption.
Kevin Miller
MAES Science Editor
Super Rubber
continued from page I
But the new compound could
reduce that cost substantially. Dur-
ing recent army tests, Silverman's
new material won high marks,
proving dramatically more durable
after more than 2,000 miles of test-
ing at a military proving ground in
Arizona. "Our rubber is a major
improvement," Silverman notes.
"The Army's Tank and Automotive
Command saw increases in the re-
sistance to abrasion (physical wear
and tear on rubber) ranging from 60
to 280 percent."
Abrasion is one major enemy of
rubber — the other is the environ-
ment. Rubber is damaged by oxida-
tion, which is caused by exposure to
ozone, air and sunlight. This leads
to the drying and cracking seen in
hoses, tires and other rubber
products that have been exposed to
ozone for long periods of time.
Although Silverman suspected
his new rubber might be more re-
sistant to the damaging effects of
ozone than normal rubber, he is
astounded by just how tough his
compound turned out to be.
In tests conducted in ozone
chambers at Fort Bel voir, Virginia,
the new material proved so imper-
vious to ozone that Army testers
thought their equipment was mal-
functioning. 'They thought their
chamber must be broken because
the material showed so little change
while the original material had
disintegrated," Silverman says. "The
new material showed no change for
35 days under test conditions where
the original failed in less than. a
week."
Resistance to ozone is a desirable
characteristic for tank pads as well
as other rubber goods that must be
stockpiled for long periods of time.
Silverman's discovery could make it
possible to store such materials for
long amounts of time without
compromising their reliability.
The advantages of the new rub-
ber and its commercial possibilities
have caught the attention of a lead-
ing U.S. corporation, General Dy-
namics. General Dynamics makes
the army's newest tank, the Ml .
The St. Louis, Missouri -based
company recently signed a six-
month option with the University of
Maryland at College Park to
evaluate the technology. At the end
of that period. General Dynamics
has the option of signing a license
agreement which would give the
company the right to use the rubber
technology although the university
would still own the patent.
Other divisions within General
Dynamics are exploring the pos-
sibility of using the new rubber and
other products of electron beam
curing on other military hardware,
such as submarines, airplanes and
missiles.
While initial use of Silverman's
compound appears focused on
military applications, the new rub-
ber also may prove ideal for use in a
wide range of civilian products.
These include such diverse products
as conveyor and other types of belts,
shock mounts, seals, non-pneumatic
tires, pool liners, various rubber
coatings, windshield wiper
blades — even suits designed to
protect against harmful chemical or
biological agents.
"We think this technique is the
basis for a new rubber technology,"
Silverman points out.
He cautions, however, that much
research remains to be done before
commercial uses for the new
compound become a reality. "We
have developed a new material, but
there is a great difference between a
material and a product."
Research also remains to be done
to better understand why the rubber
assumes its special characteristics
after Silverman's processing.
Intriguingly, although the new
rubber is distinguished by its spe-
cial toughness and durability, the
College Park researchers are not
exactly sure what makes the rubber
so rugged. While some of its extra
strength appears to result from the
special ingredients added during
the heat and pressure curing pro-
cess, it is the electron radiation
treatment that seems to be the key
to giving the rubber its special
properties.
Exactly why this happens is not
clearly known, but the radiation
appears to cause the rubber mole-
cules to bind or link together in
such a way as to greatly increase the
toughness of the final product. "At
the molecular level, rubber is tied
together by structures that resemble
strings of pearls," Silverman
explains. "Irradiation with electrons
cross-links those strands in a man-
ner, apparently making the rubber
tougher and more wear-resistant."
Even though Silverman is ex-
tremely pleased with the initial test
results of his new rubber com-
pound, he is equally excited about
its future prospects. "Already, the
rubber compound has exceeded our
expectations," he says, "and that was
only our first try. We hope to unlock
its full potential in the months
ahead."
Gary Stephenson
K
FEBRUARY 4, 1991
Forty-Hour Work Week on Campus Senate Agenda
To be discussed by the Campus Senate at its regular meeting on
Feb. 7 is a "Priorities for People Resolution" concerning the uncom-
pensated conversion to the 40-hour week of certain university
employees. Also on the agenda is an address by Kathryn Mohrman
about progress in undergraduate education at College Park. The
meeting from 3:30 to 6:30 p.m. in Room 0126 Reckord is open to the
campus community, and interested people are urged to attend. Call
405-5805 for information.
40-Hour Work Week Goes Into Effect
On January 8, 1991 Governor
William Donald Schaefer issued an
Executive Order mandating a 40-
hour work week for all state em-
ployees. Until now, only about one-
third of the state workforce has
worked a 40- hour week, with two-
thirds, including most University of
Maryland employees, working a
normal 35.5-hour week.
In his order, Schaefer stated that
expanded hours will increase
workforce productivity, reduce
overtime costs to the state, and be
an alternative to terminating posi-
tions during this time of fiscal
shortfalls.
On January 24th, the Board of
Regents established the 40-hour
work week as the normal work
week for the University of Mary-
land System. The order will become
effective February 10, when new
hours for the business day will
become effective.
On Monday, January 28, Presi-
dent William E. Kirwan sent a letter
to university employees discussing
various aspects of the new rule. He
said that the university is
considering several options regard-
ing official working hours, with
varying amounts of time for lunch,
depending on the daily hour
scheme chosen. He also announced
that a working group chaired by
Vice President Sturtz would hold an
open forum within a few days, and
he invited broad campus par-
ticipation in the open session.
"Over the past several years, the
College Park campus has endeav-
ored to create a campus climate
where the contributions of all of its
members are valued. I greatly ap-
preciate the hard work, loyalty and
dedication to the University that our
classified employees and associate
staff have demonstrated. The Vice
Presidents and I will make every
effort to find ways to minimize the
impact of this change in the work
week on all of those affected," the
president's letter said.
In another response to the
Governor's Executive Order, a
group of state legislators have
stated that if a 40-hour work week is
implemented, the financial sacrifice
should be shared by all state
employees. Several delegates from
Prince George's and Montgomery
counties have indicated that they
will draft legislation to stop the new
plan until its costs and benefits are
thoroughly reviewed. They say that
their bill will attempt to block
implementation until July 1, 1992.
Roz Hiebert
Open Letter to the Campus About the 40-Hour Work Week
Dear Colleagues:
Governor William Donald
Schaefer, by Executive Order
01.01.1991, intends to reduce my
hourly wages by 1 1.2 percent. This
order mandates that the normal
work week for state employees will
be 40 hours. Those of us who
currently work a 35.5 hour week
agreed to do so at a specific hourly
rate. As an Office Secretary 111, my
hourly wage will be effectively
reduced from $10.25 to $9.10, less
than when I began working here at
College Park 15 months ago.
Grade 9 employees make up the
largest number of affected staff. At
base pay level, grade 9 staff will
find their hourly wage to be within
one cent of what it was in July 1987!
We have been ordered to work an
additional 234 hours per year
(nearly 6 weeks!) for free. Those
employees with young children will
also have the increased burden of
child care costs for these additional
hours.
The impact of this mandate un-
fairly burdens a group of employees
that historically receive the lowest
compensation, the majority of
whom are women and minorities.
To target only 35.5 hour per week
employees is discriminatory. There
will be no impact on 40 hour per
week employees.
Equity is the primary issue. If
belt-tightening measures are called
for, and I do not doubt that they are,
then I implore Governor Schaefer to
tighten with equal pressure across
the board. If equity means that all
state employees bear the economic
burden by working a 40 hour week,
then equity must also mean that
everyone shall be fairly compensat-
ed for each hour. If increased pro-
ductivity and decreased overtime
costs are the goals, decreased wages
are not the means.
Levels of productivity directly
correlate to morale. In conversa-
tions, both formal and informal, I
hear dismay, frustration and anger.
I share these sentiments. Dis-
cussions center around a strong
willingness to "do our part" but
with an equally strong sense that
the burden must be equal among all
state employees.
This mandate will take effect in a
matter of days. University officials
have had precious little time to
react. Increased demands on fewer
employees caused by hiring freezes
and slashed budgets have already
taxed the creativity and efforts of
employees at all levels. I ask, please,
that university administrators, in
their herculean efforts to redistrib-
ute the shrinking budget, reallocate
the monies necessary to compensate
fairly those employees being asked
to work increased hours.
We are part of the team. Being
properly compensated affirms our
value; increased commitment and
productivity will follow.
Kathleen Maroney
Office Secretary III
Office of the Director of Libraries,
McKeldin Library
International Exchange Agreements Committee Requests Proposals
The International Exchange
Agreements Committee has been
charged by the provost to allocate
$15,000 to faculty and staff who are
furthering the university's educa-
tional and scholarly collaborations
across international boundaries.
Interested faculty are invited to
submit proposals that build on and
intensify existing international col-
laborations and specify plans to
sustain a long-term relationship
with the international university
partner, according to Judy Olian,
chair of the International Exchange
Activities Committee.
Criteria for the proposal review
include reasonably mutual goals
between the university and the
overseas institution; breadth of im-
pact of program on multiple
departments within the university;
knowledge that there is a specific
person responsible for administer-
ing the program here and at the
overseas institution; specificity of
program planning; indication of
interest from the overseas exchange
institution; the availability of
matching funds from the home uni-
versity, overseas university or other
sources; and plans for seeking al-
ternative long-term funding.
Proposals should also include an
academic rationale for the exchange,
a budget for the activity, budgetary
commitments from the relevant
departments and /or colleges, (and
if appropriate) letters from relevant
department chairs or deans, and an
expression of interest from the
overseas institution.
According to Olian, the Interna-
tiona] Exchange Agreements Com-
mittee will not provide funds to
cover faculty salaries or travel that
otherwise qualify under another
university funding program.
Moreover, the program is not
designed to support faculty devel-
opment of study abroad programs,
although a study abroad program
may be a logical next step in the
exchange program. The university
has a small Study Abroad Develop-
ment Fund administered by the
Office of International Education
Services.
Proposals should be no longer
than four pages, and the submission
deadline is Feb. 15. Proposals,
which should refer to the 1990/91
academic year through the summer
of 1991, should be submitted to
Judy Olian, chair, Office of the
President, Main Administration-
Building.
For more information concerning
the International Exchange
Agreement program, please call
Olian at 405-7225 or Marcus Franda,
director of International Affairs, at
405-4772.
Business Hours?
Judy Olian
FEBRUARY
19 9 1
CALENDAR
Taverner Consort Recreates Monteverdi's
1640 Vespers at Washington National Cathedral
On Feb. 8 at 8 p.m., University Community Concerts will pres-
ent the Taverner Consort, Choir and Players, performing Montever-
di's Venetian Vesper Music of 1640 at the Washington National
Cathedra!. Taverner director, Andrew Parrott, has recreated a com-
plete seventeenth-century Vespers service from the Cathedral of St,
Mark's in Venice. Ticket prices are $17.50 standard admission and
$15 students and seniors. A special price of $5 for full-time students
is available at the door. For more information, call University Com-
munity Concerts at 403-4240,
FEBRUARY 4-13
MONDAY
Art Exhibition, three concurrent
exhibitions featuring New Deal
Images, Contemporary Prints
from the Private Collection, and
The Andy Warhol Athlete Series.
today-March 15. The Art Gallery.
Call 5-2763 tor info.
* Women's Studies Lecture:
"We Were There: African Ameri-
can Women and the Civil Rights
Movement." Gladys Brown.
Gladys Marie Frye, Maieka Han-
sard. Mary Cothran. Rhonda Wil-
liams, Sharon Harley. noon- 1 .30
p.m. [tying lunch], 0109
Hornbake Library. Call 5-6877 tor
info.
Hortlcufture Seminar: "Con-
slraints on Using Composed
Sewage Sludge and Municipal
Refuse in Horticulture and Agn-
culture," Rufus Chaney, USDA,
ARS. Beltsville, 4 p.m., 0128 Hol-
zapfel, Call 5-4336 tor info
Computer Science Colloquium:
Ten Minute Madness II," Comp.
Sci faculty. 4 p.m.. 01 11 Class-
room Building. Call 5-2661 tor
into.
Entomology Colloquium: "Larval
Defense in Tortoise Beetles:
Costs, Effectiveness, and Inter-
specific Variation." Karen
Olmstead. Entomology. 4 p.m..
0200 Symons. Call 5-3912 tor
into
Space Science Seminar: "Par-
ticle Acceleration at Shocks: A
Review from the Computer Simu-
lation Perspective, " Don Ellison.
North Carolina State U , 4:30
p.m.. 1113 Computer and Space
Sciences. Call 5-4829 for into.
* Student Black Women's
Council Lecture: "Which Came
First: Racism or Slavery?," Rhon-
da Williams, 6:30 p.m.. Nyumburu
Cultural Center. Call 4-7174 for
into.
* African Storytelling: "Umoja
Sassa." 7 p.m.. Grand Ballroom,
Stamp Student Union. Call 4-7174
for into.
Women's Basketball vs. Geor-
gia Tech, 7:30 p.m.. Cole Field
House. Call 4-7064 for info."
TUESDAY
Seminar in Ecology, Evolution,
and Behavior: ""Molecular Phy-
togeny of Plethodonline Salaman-
ders and Hylid Frogs," Richard
Highton. Zoology, noon. 1208
Zoo/ Psych. Call 5-6884 for info.
Physics Colloquium: "BCS
Mechanism at Work in Various
Fields of Physics." Yoichiro Nam-
bu. Ennco Fermi Institute. U. of
Chicago, 4 p.m.. 1410 Physics,
tea reception, 3:30 p.m. Call 5-
5953 tor info.
Classics Department Lecture:
"Perceiving Achilles," Rolf O.
Hubbe: response, Lillian Doherty,
4 p.m., 230S Art/Soc, reception
following. Call 5-2013 for into.
♦ Workshop: "How to Handle
Racism." Michael Powell, Human
Relations. 6:45 p.m, location TBA.
Call 4-71 74 for info.
Movie: To Sleep with Anger. 7:15
& 9:45 p.m., Hoff Theatre. Call 4-
HOFF for into.*
Writers Here and Now Beading,
Alan Cheuse, novelist. 8 p.m.,
3101 McKeldin Library I (Catherine
Anne Porter Room). Call 5-3809
for info.
Andrew Parrott, director of the Taverner Consort.
WEDNESDAY
Counseling Center Research
and Development Meeting: "The
Rote of Academic Achievement
Program in the Changing Educa-
tional Environment." Jerry Lewis.
Educalion Development, noon-1
p.m.. 01 1 4 Shoemaker. Call 4-
7677 tor into
Molecular and Cell Biology
Seminar: "Molecular Responses
to Environmental Stress in Bacil-
lus Subtilis," Ron Yasbin, UMBC.
12:05 p.m.. 1208 Zoo/Psych, Call
5-6991 for info.
Anthropology Seminar: "Plan-
ning ana Evafualion: Applying the
Anthropologist's Tool Kit," Robert
Werge, US Dept. of Agriculture.
3:30-5 p.m., 1114 Woods. Call 5-
1423 tor info.
♦ Dramatic Performance: "A
Tribute to Pearl Bailey, Sara
Vaughn and Sammy Davis, Jr.."
by Shades of Harlem. 6-8 p.m.,
Colony Ballroom, ST amp Student
Union, Call 4-7174 for into.
Movie: To Sleep with Anger. 5,
7:1 5 S 9:45 p.m.. Hoff Theatre.
Call 4-HOFF tor info.'
♦ Lecture: "African World His-
tory," James Brunson and Runoko
Rashid, 7-9 p.m., Cambridge Din-
ing Hall. GM 4-71 74 tor info.
I THURSDAY
♦ Agriculture and Lite Scien-
ces Lecture: "Participation of
African Americans in the Natural
Sciences in the 1 990s and Be-
yond," Amel Anderson. Agriculture
and Life Sciences, noon, Prince
Georges Room, Stamp Student
Union. Call 4-7174 for info,
Danish Lecture: "Reporting
American News Events in Den-
mark," Jorgen Poulsen. Danish
Broadcasting Corp., 12:30-1:45
p.m., 2122 Jimenez. Call 5-4097
tor info.
* Art Lecture/Presentation: "A
Journey inlo Art." featuring current
research on African American art,
David Driskell. 12:30 p.m.. 1309
Art/Soc. Call 5-1445 for into.
Meteorology Seminar: "Oro-
graphic Gravity -Wave Draq Ef-
fects on Extended-Range Fore-
casts." Anandu Vernekar. Meteor-
ology, 3:30 p.m., 2114 Computer
anrlSpace Sciences, reception al
3 p.m. Call 5-5392 for info.
Campus Senate Meeting, 3:30-
6:30 p.m., 1026 Reckord Armory.
Call 5-5805 for info.
History and Philosophy of Sci-
ence Colloquium: "The Strange
History of Hypersonic Flight,"
Richard Hallion, National Air and
Space Museum, 4pm., 1202
Engineering Classroom Bldg, Call
5-5691 for info.
Reliability Engineering Seminar:
"On Estimating Software Reliabili-
ty Using Datafrom Design and
Test," John Gaffney, Software
Production Consortium, 5:15-6:15
p.m. 2115 Chemical and Nuclear
Engineering Bldg. Call 5-38 B7 or
5-3883 for info.
Movie: Presumed Innocent, 7:15
and 9:45 p.m., Hoff Theater. Call
4-HOFF (or info."
* College of Arts and Human-
ities ana Academic Affairs
Guest Speaker, "Who Freed the
Slaves?, Barbara Fields, History,
Columbia U , featured in PBS
series The Civil War, 7:30 p.m.,
2203 Art/Soc. Call
Greater Washington Solid State
Physics Colloquium: "The Elec-
tronic Structure of La ; CuO,,: Re-
normalization from Density Func-
tional Theory to Stronq Coupling
Models." M. Shluter. AT8T Bell
Labs. 8 p.m., 1410 Physics. Call
5-6142 for info.
FRIDAY
Published Women Luncheon,
Gladys Marie Fry, English, noon-1
p.m., Carriage House. Ross-
bofough Inn Call 504-8013 tor
info and reservations."
"Lunch n* Learn" Mental Health
Lecture: "How We See Oursel-
ves: Acquaintance Rape Issues
on Campus," Ann Collins, 1 -2
p.m.. 3100E Student Health Cen-
ter. Call 4-8106 tor info.
Movies: Presumed Innocent, 7:15
and 9:45 p.m.. The Harder They
Come. 12:15 a.m., Hoff Theater.
Call 4-HOFF for info."
♦ Concert: "Songs of Color," 8
p.m., Tawes Recital Hall. Call 5-
5548 for info.
University Community Con-
certs, the Taverner Choir and
Consort, Andrew Parrott. director,
program TBA. 8 p.m., pre-concert
seminar, 6 p.m.. Washington Na-
tional Cathedral. $17.50 standard
admission, $14.50 students and
seniors. Call 80-4239 for info.'
SATURDAY
Rossborough Inn Pasta Party
and Dance, cash bar. 6:30 p.m..
dinner. 7 p.m.. Rossborough Inn.
Call 4-8012 tor into.'
Artist Scholarship Benefit Con-
cert: "Happy Birthday Mozart,"
University of Maryland faculty
performing works by Mozart and
Fits contemporaries. 8 p.m..
Tawes Recital Hall, §10 standard
admission: $5 students and sen-
iors. Call 5-5548 for into,*
Movies: Presumed Innocent. 7:15
and 9:45 p.m.. The Harder They
Came. 12:15 a.m., Hoff Theater.
Call 4-HOFF tor into."
II SUNDAY
Wanderlust: "Australia, Land of
High Contrast," Ken Laurence, 3
p.m., Hoff Theatre. Call 4-HOFF
tor into.*
Movie: Presumed Innocent. 4:45,
7:15 and 9:45 p.m.. Hoff Theater.
Call 4-HOFF tor info."
MONDAY
Horticulture Seminar: "The Use
of Genetic Mutants in ihe Study of
Photomorphogenesis in Higher
Plants," Paulien Adamse, USDA,
ARS, Beltsville, MD, 4 p.m., 0128
Holzapfel Call 5-4336 lor info.
Space Science Seminar: "Mea-
surement of Cosmic Ray Proton
and Helium Spectra dunng the
1987 Solar Minimum," Eun-Suk
Seo, Louisiana Slate U., 4:30
p.m., 1113 Computer and Space
Sciences. Calf 5-4829 for into.
University Community Con-
certs, Emanuel Ax, piano, pro-
gram TBA, 8 p.m., Center of Adult
Education, $20 standard admis-
sion, $17.00 studenis and seniors.
Call 80-4239 for info.'
Wanderlust: "Australia, Land of
High Contrast." Ken Lawrence, 8
p.m., Hoff Theatre. Call 4-HOFF
tor info."
TUESDAY
Seminar in Ecology, Evolution,
and Behavior: "Demographic
Consequences of a Plan) -Animal
Interaction for a Neotropical
Herb," Douglas Schemske, U. of
Washington, noon, 1208 Zoo.'
Psych Call 5-6884 tor info
Physics Colloquium: "A The-
oretical and Chemical View of
Surface Science," Roald Hoffman,
Nobel Laureate. Cornell U.. 4
p.m., 1 41 D Physics, lea reception,
3:30 p.m Call 5-5953 for into
Michael Dingman Center for
Entrepreneurship Seminar:
"Financing Opportunities for
Entrepreneurship in 1991." regi-
stration. 6:30 p.m., program, 7-
9:30 p.m., Stouffer Harborplace
Hotel, Baltimore. Call 5-2144 tor
info."
Movie: Miller's Crossing, 7:15 and
9:45 p.m, Hoff Theater Call 4-
HOFF for info '
WEDNESDAY
Seminar in Ecology, Evolution,
and Behavior: "Cosl of Defense
in Brassicae." Doug Schemske. U.
ol Washington, noon. 1230
Zoo'Psych. Call 5-6884 for info.
« Counseling Center Research
and Development Meeting:
"Current Issues Confronting Black
Faculty and Staff." Roberta H.
Coales, President. Black Faculty
and Staff Association, noon-1
p.m., 0114 Shoemaker. Call 4-
7677 for info.
Molecular and Cell Biology
Seminar: "Ca" Mediated Per-
meability Control." Sidney Pierce.
Zoology, 12:05 p.m., 1208
Zoo/Psych. Call 5-6991 for into.
♦ Colleges ol Engineering and
Computer, Math, and Physical
Sciences Guest Speaker:
Colonel Charles Bolden. Jr. as-
tronaut, 2:30pm,. 1202 Engi-
neering Classroom Bldg, Call 5-
3878 for info.
♦ Education Lecture: "African
Americans and the Mass Media."
5 p.m., 3237 Benjamin. Call 4-
7174 tor info.
♦ "Proud to Be Black Night,"
celebration of African heritage. 7
p.m., Colony Ballroom, Stamp
Student Union. Call 4-7174 tor
info.
Movie: Milter's Crossing, 5, 7:15
and 9:45 p.m.. Hoff Theater. Call
4-HOFF for into.'
Men's Basketball vs. Georgia
Tech, 7:30 p.m., Cole Field
House. Call 4-7064 for info."
' Admission charge lor this event.
All others are tree.
♦ Black History Month event.
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