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OUTLOOK
A WEEKLY NEWSPAPER FOR FACULTY AND STAFF AT THE UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND AT COLLEGE PARK
SEPTEMBER 4, 1991
VOLUME 6, NUMBER 1
Goldstein Appointed BSOS Dean,
New Stars Added to Campus Galaxy
Irwin L. Goldstein, professor and
chair of the Department of Psychol-
ogy, and a member of the College
Park faculty since 1 966, has been
appointed Dean of the College of
Behavioral and Social Sciences
(BSOS).
He succeeds Murray E. Polakoff
who has become Acting Director of
the college's Center for Internation-
al Development and Conflict Reso-
lution.
In announcing the appointment,
Provost J. Robert Dorfman said:
"Despite increasing administrative
responsibilities over the years — as
acting dean of graduate studies
and research as well as acting pro-
vost — Dr. Goldstein has continued
his highly respected scholarly
career as an expert in industrial
and organizational psychology. The
combination of his scholarship,
experience, and model campus citi-
zenship qualifies him uniquely to
lead this large and diverse aca-
demic unit."
With more than 300 faculty and
5,000 undergraduate and 800 grad-
uate students, the college is one of
the largest of the university's 14
colleges and schools.
A number of other new adminis-
trative and faculty appointments
also have been made. {An upcom-
ing issue of Outlook will carry a
complete list of new appointments,
tenure and promotions.)
Jean R. Hebeler, professor of
special education, has been named
Q& A
Looking at the Year
Ahead: An
interview with
President William E.
Kirwan
See page 3 for the
president's perspective on
budget cuts and other
issues facing the campus
this year.
acting dean of the College of Edu-
cation. A member of the college's
faculty since 1960, she takes over
from Dale P. Scannell who is on a
year's leave of absence from the
university.
Cordell Black, associate professor
of French, has been appointed
assistant vice president for aca-
demic affairs. An authority on 17th
century French literature and the
author of a book on Comeillean
tragedy, Black joined the Depart-
ment of French and Italian faculty
in 1979. He had been acting assis-
tant dean for equity affairs in the
College of Arts and Humanities.
The former Executive Editor of
the Philadelphia Inquirer Eugene L.
Roberts, Jr. has joined the College
of Journalism. Roberts, who led the
newspaper to 17 Pulitzer Prizes
during his 18 years there, will
teach courses in reporting, editing,
ethics and the practice of journal-
ism. He also will serve as senior
editor of Washington Journalism
Review, the national media maga-
zine published by the college.
Retired Navy Admiral Stansfield
Turner, one of the nation's most
distinguished figures in national
security policy-making, has joined
the faculty of the School of Public
Affairs as Olin Professor of Public
Affairs. Turner will teach courses
on foreign policy-making, intelli-
gence and national security, mili-
tary policy, and responses to inter-
national terrorism.
Irwin L Goldstein
Cordell Black
Eugene Roberts, Jr.
While in the Navy, he held senior
positions including President of the
Naval War College, and Com-
mander-in-Chief of NATO's South-
em Hank. From 1977 through 1981,
he was Director of Central Intel-
ligence.
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IRIS Project Awarded USAH) Grant to
Advise Mongolia on Economic Reforms
The U.S. Agency for Internation-
al Development (USAID) has
awarded an additional $1.25 mil-
lion to the project on Institutional
Reform and the Informal Sector
(IRIS) at College Park. The grant
will support work during the next
year in assisting Mongolia in its
transition to a market economy.
The IRIS project will advise
Mongolian policy-makers in Mon-
golia and bring them to College
Park for five intensive workshops,
according to Mancur Olson, profes-
sor of economics and Principal
Investigator of the IRIS project.
The grant supplements the mul-
ti-million dollar, five-year core
grant made by USAID to establish
the IRIS project at College Park in
1990.
IRIS conducts research, training,
and technical assistance programs
that help formerly communist
countries and third world countries
create the institutions needed for
effective market economies with
democratic political institutions.
In 1921, Mongolia became the
second country in the world to
adopt communism. For the next 70
years it was a satellite state of the
Soviet Union. Last year, Mongolia
became the first Asian country to
abandon communism and is now
launched on an ambitious transi-
tion to capitalism.
"Dependent as it has been on
aid and trade with the collapsing
Soviet economy, Mongolia is in a
most unenviable situation," Olson
says. "Its transition is likely to be
difficult even with the best choices
of institutions and public policies."
Olson says that the choice of the
University of Maryland for this
work on Mongolia is due in large
part to Peter Murrell's expertise on
the Soviet-type economies and to
the strategy for assisting reformers
developed by Charles Cadwell.
Murrell, professor of economics, is
the coordinator for the Mongolia
project. Cadwell is IRIS director.
UNIVERSITY
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University Approves
Freedom Of Expression Policy
Mark Sagoff
The university has approved a
statement on freedom of expression
to help guide people on issues
affecting the first amendment
rights of members of the campus
community. A new publication,
"Freedom of Expression: Policy and
the Law," prepared by Susan L.
Bayly, attorney in the Office of
Legal Affairs, has been sent to
deans, directors and department
heads. It answers ten questions
frequently asked about freedom of
expression and presents the full
statement, along with guidelines
for public forums and the policy on
acts of violence and extremism
approved by the UMS Board of
Regents in January 1990.
The freedom of expression state-
ment was developed by a commit-
tee chaired by Dean Michael Nacht.
In addition to completing the free-
dom of expression statement, the
committee also considered costs
related to providing adequate
security for campus events likely to
create security risks to the com-
munity. As a result, after debate
and Campus Senate action, two
other policies have been adopted: a
Statement of Costs of Security and
a Report from the Special Commit-
tee to Assess Security Needs of Stu-
dent Events.
The freedom of expression publi-
cation outlines the university's pol-
icies on freedom of expression, dis-
cusses how these policies relate to
fundamental principles of First
Amendment Law, and includes
legal examples.
"This discussion of freedom of
expression is intended as a
'primer;' it sets forth some basic
rules but does not attempt to be
comprehensive. A question-answer
format has been chosen to sharpen
the issues and to invite additional
questions," says Bayly in the intro-
duction.
"What I am trying to do is give
everyone some broad parameters, a
broad description of issues relating
to the first amendment. 1 want to
stress that this is a primer. The first
amendment is a very complicated
area of the law and it is very dif-
ficult, perhaps even dangerous, to
distill it down into some simple
rules," she says.
Many other questions may be
raised, she says. "It's not a compre-
hensive treatise on the subject, and
hopefully, there will be questions
that people will raise that haven't
been addressed."
The new publication will be avail-
able in the offices of deans, direc-
tors and department heads who
will have the responsibility to see
that people in their units under-
stand the principles contained in
the policy.
The statement answers such ques-
tions as what is the university's
policy on freedom of expression,
emphasizing the free exchange of
ideas and the university's commit-
ment to "open, vigorous debate and
speech. It places each member of
the campus community on notice
of his or her obligation to promote
free expression and prohibits inter-
ference with such expression."
While stating that people "consider
the hurt which may result from the
use of [discriminatory] slurs or epi-
thets," the policy does not prohibit
such speech. It says: "While mem-
bers of the campus community are
free to deplore what they find
unacceptable or offensive, and
those responsible may be urged to
change, the policy establishes that
the educational mission of the uni-
Sagoff Named Pew
Environmental Scholar
Mark Sagoff, director and senior
research scholar at the Institute for
Philosophy and Public Policy of the
School of Public Affairs, has been
awarded a three-year, $150,000
grant by the Pew Scholars Program
in Conservation and the Environ-
ment.
Sagoff is one of ten "environ-
mental problem-solvers" to win the
1991 award.
The scholars represent a balance
of research scholarship and envi-
ronmental activism, notes James E.
Crowfoot, who directs the Pew
Scholars Program. "Not only are
the grant recipients outstanding
scientists, they also are aggressive
problem-solvers who are tackling
global environmental problems at
local, national and international
levels," he said.
Sagoff's work in environmental
ethics has taken him into a variety
of topical areas including law, land
use, teaching economics, biodiver-
sity, pollution, agriculture and bio-
technology.
His goal is to undertake a series
of interdisciplinary studies so that
"...the studies of culture, environ-
mental history and ethics can pro-
vide the moral grounds we need to
supplement prudential arguments
for protection of biodiversity and
the quality of the environment."
Sagoff is the author of The Eco-
nomy of the Earth (Cambridge
University Press), a book that
focuses on government social pol-
icy in relation to the environment,
pollution, the workplace, and pub-
lic safety and health issues.
The Pew awards are intentionally
flexible and designed to encourage
the scholars to follow new paths
and to take creative risks. Each
scholar will receive $50,000 annual-
ly for three years to support his or
her professional endeavors. The
funds may be applied to any proj-
ect and location of their choosing.
versify requires 'the need for free-
dom, the right to think the
unthinkable, discuss the unmen-
tionable, and challenge the unchal-
lengeable.'"
The publication looks at such
questions as what does the term
"public forum" mean, does the first
amendment give license to all types
of expression, what constitutes
"obscenity" and "fighting words,"
and asks whether the university
may place limits on protected
expression.
It reviews what reasons are recog-
nized as legally sufficient to justify
a university's regulation of protect-
ed speech, asks whether the uni-
versity has regulations regarding
student use of campus facilities for
assembly (yes) and discusses rules
for the use of student fees for pro-
grams outside the classroom.
It also looks at whether the uni-
versity may regulate speech it finds
"offensive," (no), and discusses
what the university can do about
behavior that it believes is racist,
sexist, or offensive to a particular
ethnic group.
A resource that presents a com-
pendium of official information on
freedom of expression in one use-
ful source book, the publication
also contains information on Mary-
land's religious and ethnic crimes
law, racial, religious and ethnic
incidents reporting law, and the
Board of Regents' policy on acts of
violence and extremism.
Copies of the primer may be
reviewed in deans, director and
department head offices, as well as
in the office of legal affairs, human
relations, judicial programs, police
department, or public information
office.
Roz Hiebert
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President To Review FY '92 and '93 Budgets
President William E. Kirwan has asked deans, directors and
department heads to join him at a meeting in the Stamp Student
Union on Wednesday, September 4, He will discuss information on
the FY '92 and '93 budgets and possible options given the current
state budget deficit and the uncertainty caused by not knowing
whether a mid-year tax increase will be approved by the General
Assembly.
A Look at the Year Ahead:
An Interview with the President
College Park President William E.
Kirwan recently discussed some
critical issues facing the university
with Outlook editor Roz Hiebert.
Q. Can you give us some informa-
tion about the budget cutbacks
that have just been imposed?
A. Because of the State's projected
budget deficit in FY 1992, the uni-
versity system has been required to
submit a plan for the return of
$24.1 million this year. College
Park's share of this assessment is
$8.5 million. This amounts to 3.6%
of our 1991-92 General Fund appro-
priation.
To accomplish this reduction in
state funds, the Board of Regents
imposed a 15% one-time tuition
surcharge on students next spring
and authorized individual institu-
tions to implement a furlough poli-
cy. I have consulted with an ad hoc
committee that I appointed to ad-
vise me on our response to this sit-
uation. The committee consists of
the four vice presidents and eight
faculty and staff, including the
chair and four other members of
the Campus Senate. Based on con-
sultations with this group and
others, I decided to include the e-
quivalent of one furlough day as
part of our cost containment plan.
Q. What do you mean by the equi-
valent of one furlough day?
A. A furlough day for all employ-
ees will generate about $1.2 mil-
lion. This is our target. We have
the flexibility to reach this total by
arranging furlough days different-
ly, for example, by reducing the
furlough time for lower paid em-
ployees.
Q. Is this the full cost reduction
plan?
A. Unfortunately, there is more. In
addition, we must reduce expendi-
tures for non-instructional part-
time employees by approximately
$1.2 million.
Q. How much will the tuition sur-
charge generate and will any com-
ponent of this surcharge go for
financial aid?
A. The surcharge will generate
about $6.5 million. We will make
about $700,000 of this available for
supplemental financial aid to help
those students hardest hit by the
tuition surcharge.
Q. Do you expect further cuts this
year or next year?
A. I wish I could say no, but so
much depends on whether the
General Assembly approves a tax
increase effective January 1, 1992. I
am encouraged that momentum is
building for some action. Without
some tax increase, we may indeed
face further cuts.
Q. Are there any encouraging
signs for the university at all?
A. Absolutely. The recently issued
Maryland Higher Education Com-
mission's (MHEC) statewide plan
places a high priority on College
Park and funding for the Enhance-
ment Plan once the economy re-
bounds. A state legislative commit-
tee looking at priorities for the use
of new tax revenues has embraced
the MHEC plan. So even though
this cut and the tuition increase
and furlough hurt tremendously
and even though the state's fiscal
problems over the past year have
dealt a severe blow to our plans
and aspirations, the priority for Co-
llege Park has been stated very cle-
arly by the governor, the General
Assembly, and the Maryland
Higher Education Commission. If a
tax increase is forthcoming, our
prospects could improve dramati-
cally.
Q. What effect has all this had on
College Park?
A. It has had a devastating effect-
not just in terms of the blow to our
plans and progress, but also in real
terms of lost income, lost jobs, and
higher tuition. At the same time, it
is important to remember that de-
spite these setbacks, we continue to
make significant progress as an in-
stitution.
One just has to look at the cali-
bre of new faculty we have attract-
ed this fall. For instance, we have
on our campus Bonnie Thornton
Dill, one of the nation's top experts
on women's issues; Eugene
Roberts, the former editor of the
Philadelphia Inquirer who led that
newspaper in winning 17 Pulitzer
prizes will be teaching our journal-
ism students; former CIA Director
and retired Navy Admiral Stans-
field Turner has joined the School
of Public Affairs. We have attracted
Linda Williams, a specialist in
black and urban politics from Har-
vard University. Steven Marcus, a
top engineering professor from the
University of Texas, has joined us
as new Director of the Systems Re-
search Center. There are a number
of other outstanding appointments
at both the senior and junior levels.
Q. Has this success also been re-
flected in student recruitment?
A. Yes. We've had a very success-
ful year in recruiting new under-
graduate and graduate students.
Our Honors dorm and Internation-
al House will open this year, and
these will be tremendous assets for
attracting outstanding students in
the future.
Q. What about morale on campus?
A. Certainly, we have had our dif-
ficulties this year. No one can deny
that. But despite these setbacks, I
have been very heartened with
how positively the campus has re-,
acted to our disappointments and
challenges. There is an unmistak-
able determination to hold onto our
dreams and aspirations even if
their full realization may take a lit-
tle longer to realize.
Q. Will all the recommendations
on program mergers, consolida-
tion and elimination be carried
out?
A. We have given people a chance
to debate, and we have many com-
mittees looking at the recommen-
dations made to the provost last
spring. Conceivably, there might be
some midcourse corrections to
what was recommended, but my
guess is that most of these recom-
mendations will move forward.
There is another side to the pro-
cess of program elimination. It has
had the effect of improving morale
in the sense that people know that
our programs of highest priority
and quality will be protected to the
extent possible.
Q. When will the decisions be
made?
A. Sometime this fall the recom-
mendations will go to the Campus
Senate for discussion. Then, the fi-
nal recommendations will come to
my office and from there to the
Chancellor and the System Board
of Regents. This should occur dur-
ing the spring semester.
Q. Have many faculty left as a re-
sult of our budget problems?
A. Yes, some have left because they
got good offers and were con-
cerned about the situation in Mary-
land. Perhaps a dozen fit into that
category, and we are sorry to see
them leave. However, as I men-
tioned previously, we also have at-
tracted some exceptional new fac-
ulty. Fortunately, the net change is
still in our favor.
Q. Why do you think they have
chosen College Park?
A. Probably the most important
factors are the outstanding people
here and the strength of this insti-
tution.
Q. How do you feel at the start of
this particular school year?
A. At the beginning of a new aca-
demic year, I've always felt a re-
newed sense of enthusiasm and
excitement. This year, I'm quite
naturally somewhat more sober
because of the dismal budget news
and its impact on our community.
But I honestly believe that we will
come to see this period as only a
pause in our inexorable march
toward distinction as a university.
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CLOSE UP
Biochemist Michael Daniel Lane to Speak Sept. 11
Leading biochemist Michael Daniel Lane will come to campus
Sept. 11 as a Distinguished Lecturer to the Ph.D. Program in
Molecular and Cell Biology. The program, sponsored by the
Colleges of Life Sciences and Agriculture and the Center for
Agricultural Biotechnology, brings distinguished lecturers to
campus twice each semester. Lane, professor and chair of the
department of biological chemistry at the Johns Hopkins Medical
School, studies gene expression and insulin signals. He will speak
at noon, Wed., Sept. 11, in room 1208 of the Zoology-Psychology
Bldg. Call 301-405-6991 for information.
Michael Daniel Lane
Education Professor Co-Authors
Book on Japanese Education
Japanese education needs to be
examined from many angles to sec
what it really does for children and
for the society it is helping to
create.
Thaf s the message in Transcend-
ing Stereotypes — Discovering Japanese
Culture and Education {Intercul rural
Press, Inc.), a new book co-auth-
ored by Barbara Finkelstein of the
College of Education.
"This book aims to reveal and
clarify the realities of Japanese edu-
cation as the Japanese themselves
understand and criticize it," says
Finkelstein. "It calls attention to in-
transigent Japanese education
problems— bullying in the junior
highs, minority group problems in
education, and the drivenness of
the Japanese examination system,
as examples."
The book, which she has co-
authored with Anne E. Imamura,
chair of Asian Studies at the
Foreign Service Institute of the U.S.
Department of State and Joseph J.
Tobin of the University of Hawaii,
is a series of articles written by
both Japanese and American ob-
servers and scholars.
Transcending Stereotypes is divided
into five sections and addresses
aspects of Japanese culture that
shape the educational system,
including family life and attitudes
toward child rearing, the effect of
culture and family structure on
early childhood education policies,
dilemmas in the educational struc-
ture and efforts at reform, and the
underside of Japanese education.
"The integration of multiple
Japanese points of view on the
dilemmas facing Japanese edu-
cators and policy-makers makes it
a very unusual book," says
Finkelstein.
But she is quick to point out that
while presenting a different view
of the Japanese education system as
compared to the typical American
image of Japanese education as
producing "high scoring, hard
working worker bees,"
Transcending Stereotypes is not
"Japan-bashing."
"This is reality as the Japanese
themselves see it and define it," she
says.
Project to Build Links to Eastern Europe
The Center for the Study of Post-
Communist Societies (CSPCS), part
of a campus- wide effort to intensify
teaching and research programs in
Eastern Europe and the Soviet
Union, recently received a two-
year, $85,000 grant from the U.S.
Department of Education to take
part in the Mid-Atlantic Business
Linkages (MATLINK) project.
MATLINK will establish business
learning and networking opportu-
nities for American academics and
businessmen and women and their
counterparts in those Eastern
European countries undergoing
transitions from communism to
market-oriented economies.
U.S. participants will spend a
week of orientation at College Park
and two weeks of field experience
in Eastern Europe.
MATLINK also will sponsor a
week-long seminar at College Park
on the changing business climate in
Central Europe. A graduate
seminar on business negotiations
with post-communist societies will
be taught at College Park in con-
junction with a seminar on
business negotiations with
Americans at the University of
Warsaw. Seminar participants will
be linked by computer via satellite
for a simulated joint venture ne-
gotiation between a hypothetical
American firm and a Polish
business enterprise.
Co-project directors are Dennis
Pi rages, professor of government
and politics, and Bartlomiej
Kaminski, CSPCS director and as-
sociate professor of government
and politics. Jonathan Wilkenfeld,
chair and professor of government
and politics, developed the ICONS
telecommunications technology
that will be used in the project.
College Park Hosts Summer Institute for Teachers of Chinese Language
Pin-Feng Lu,
e Calligraphy Master Teacher
1^ Robert Griffith,
College of Arts and Humanities
Stuart Sargent, Project Director, Maryland Summer
Institute for Teachers of Chinese
Chlng-Ping Lee, Director, Cultural Division,
Washington, D.C. Office of the Taiwan Government
In an effort to strengthen the
Mandarin language skills of K-12
teachers of Chinese, the University
of Maryland at College Park hosted
the Summer Institute for Teachers
of Chinese.
The two- to three-year program
assists in the development of strat-
egies for dealing with ignorance
and misinformation about Chinese
language and culture, says Stuart
Sargent, director of the program.
The program is funded by a
$425,459 grant from the National
Endowment of the Humanities
(NEH).
The program required the 1991-93
participants to spend the first sum-
mer in a four- week language im-
mersion environment at the
Language House on the College
Park campus.
The following summer, partici-
pants will continue their studies in
a seven -week program at the
Mandarin Training Center at the
National Taiwan Normal Univer-
sity. The 1992-93 group will spend
their first summer at College Park
and the second in Taiwan.
In 1993, both groups will come
together at College Park for a
three-day conference to share their
experiences, evaluate the program,
and lay plans for sharing their
knowledge with colleagues.
On the College Park campus, four
hours of classroom language in-
struction were provided daily and
distinguished guest lecturers
explored Chinese languages, litera-
ture, history, art, economics, family
and women's issues, and the Chin-
ese-American experience. Native-
speaking mentors lived and dined
with the group.
In Taiwan, the group will have
further language study and per-
sonal contact with Chinese values,
artifacts, places, and patterns of
behavior.
"They will understand more
about how the Chinese see them-
selves and wish to be seen by
others," says Sargent. "They will
acquire the knowledge, authority,
and confidence to share their ex-
periences with others in their
school systems."
Participants came from all across
the nation for the summer institute.
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Art Classes Offered on Campus
The Art Center in the Stamp Student Union is offering art classes
for children and adults in drawing, pottery, theater and photo-
graphy. The "almost free workshops" for children emphasize the
discovery of inner creativity and feature titles such as "Monart
Drawing," "Poetry and Art," and "Art by Accident." Pottery and
photography courses are available to adults at a range of skill
levels. Workshops run the week of Sept. 9; classes begin Sept. 16.
Those interested should contact the Art Center at 314-3375 for
information and registration.
Patterson Writes Audio Descriptions
For Ellis Island Museum
Bill Patterson is familiar to many
at College Park for his work as
Tawes Theatre manager and as an
advocate for accessibility. Off
campus, however, a growing audi-
ence is getting to know his work as
a writer.
During the summer, Patterson
completed work on a script for an
audio description tour of the Ellis
Island Immigrants Museum in New
York. The project, part of a
National Park Service program to
make national parks and monu-
ments accessible to visually
impaired persons, is the latest of
Patterson's work in this relatively
new field.
The assistant professor of theatre
also has written (and in some cases
recorded) audio descriptions for
PBS broadcasts and for an
Academy Award-winning short
film.
Patterson, past chair of the uni-
versity's President's Commission
on Disabled Affairs, became an act-
ivist for audio description and
other accessibility issues as a result
of a tragic episode in university
theatre history. In the early 1 980s a
Maryland theater student, Susan
Dunn, became blind and died in
1983 as a result of a horse riding
accident. As a memorial to Dunn,
Tawes Theatre adopted an audio
description service that had been
developed by the Metropolitan
Washington Ear in 1981 for Arena
Stage.
In theatrical audio descriptions, a
narrator describes stage action to
audience members who wear ear-
phones connected to a closed-
circuit radio system. Patterson's
first experience with audio descrip-
tions was as narrator for numerous
Tawes Theatre productions.
In bringing audio description to
Tawes, Patterson became ac-
quainted with Margaret and Cody
Pfansteihl, owners of the Metro-
politan Washington Ear. The
Pfansteihls are pioneers in audio
description, having introduced the
practice to public television as well
as to theatre.
The acquaintanceship led to free-
lance work for Patterson as a writer
of audio description scripts. His
projects have included audio de-
scriptions for programs in PBS's
American Playhouse Series and the
Academy Award-winning short
documentary, "Black Friday: the
Johnstown Flood of 1889."
His most recent project, produc-
ing scripts for three hours of cas-
sette tapes describing the 200,000
square-foot Ellis Island Museum,
proved the most challenging.
Some of the general rules of the
craft applied to the Ellis Island
project.
"You're trying, essentially, to be
the camera. You want to provide
information but not interpret it.
You don't want to impose your
own value judgments on what
you're seeing," he says.
In other ways, the project brought
new difficulties. With theatre, tele-
vision and film, at least a part of
the story is accessible to people
who can't see. But the museum
consists mainly of photographs.
Bill Patterson
historic artifacts, and other exclu-
sively visual media.
"In a museum there are no char-
acters and no plot. With a film or a
play, you're often filling in details
and adding color, Patterson says.
"You can't include everything that
a sighted person will be able to ex-
perience. As a sighted person in a
museum you tend to pick and
choose what to concentrate on. Iln
describing a space] you try to give
an overall sense of the place and
then pick and choose to some ex-
tent about what you focus on," he
says.
Patterson's narrative of the
museum is currently being record-
ed. The audio description service is
expected to become available at
Ellis Island this fall.
Brian Busek
"Beckett Directs Beckett" Series Completed
The internationally acclaimed San
Quentin Drama Workshop visited
College Park in August for a film-
ing of the third and final install-
ment in the Visual Press' "Beckett
Directs Beckett" series.
Members of the company spent
three weeks at College Park during
August rehearsing and taping an
English language version of Samuel
Beckett's Endgame. The taping was
done in the Radio Television and
Film studios.
The workshop was founded at
San Quentin Prison in 1957 by an
inmate. Rick Cluchey, with the help
of a professional director, Alan
Mandell. Since then, the critically
acclaimed troupe has performed
throughout the world.
Both Cluchey and Mandell partic-
ipated in the taping at College
Park. Cluchey, who acted in the
production of Endgame, lives in Sil-
ver Spring and spent a semester in
1989 as guest director for Uni-
versity Theatre.
The taping of the play completed
more than four years of work on
the Visual Press' Beckett Directs
Beckett series. For the series, the
Visual Press guided production of
three Beckett plays, including Wait-
ing for Godot, and Krapp's Last Tape
along with Endgame.
The two earlier productions were
taped Us Paris in 1988. Beckett, the
Nobel Prize-winning author, par-
ticipated in the project before his
death in 1989. The plays were
taped under the condition that his
staging of the plays be scrupulous-
ly respected. The producers con-
sider the works Beckett's definitive
"text."
The series' first two tapes were
broadcast on European television
and on public television in the
United States through WGBH in
Boston. Endgame is also slated for
eventual broadcast on public tele-
vision through WGBH. In addition,
the Smithsonian Institution Press is
distributing videocassette editions
of the productions.
The "Beckett Directs Beckett"
project received major support
from the National Endowment for
the Humanities and several broad-
casting companies in Europe.
Brian Busek
A segment of Beckett's Endgame being taped on the College Park
campus last month
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RESEARCH
Stansfield Turner
Berman to Receive Woman of the Year Award Sept. 24
Marilyn Berman, associate dean of the College of Engineering,
will be presented the Outstanding Woman of the Year award
Tuesday, Sept. 24 in Room 1400, Marie Mount. The award cere-
mony, which begins at 3:30 p.m., will be followed by a reception in
the Maryland Room of Marie Mount from 4:30 to 5:30 p.m.
Berman was cited for her role as catalyst, mentor and champion in
the college's drive to increase the number of women and minority
students pursuing engineering degrees at College Park. She has
been affiliated with the university since 1972.
Contracts and Grants
Awards Top $112 Million
Research contracts and grants
administered by College Park for
the 1991 fiscal year topped the $112
million mark for the first time. This
represents a 11.7 percent increase
over FY 1990 and an amount
approaching three times the annual
value of such grants a decade ago,
according to Victor Medina, direc-
tor of the Office of Research
Administration and Advancement.
According to a report released
recently by Medina's office, 2,432
grants and contracts were awarded
last year for a total of $112,851,597.
The federal government
provides most of the research
money to College Park, with more
than 35 departments and agencies
accounting for 79.3 percent of the
award total.
The National Aeronautics and
Space Administration was the larg-
est single federal sponsor of
research on campus, providing 1 7.4
percent of all grant dollars. For FY
1991, NASA awarded a total of
$19.6 million.
The National Science Founda-
tion was the next largest federal
research sponsor, awarding grants
and contracts for more than $15.2
million or 13.5 percent of College
Park's total awards.
Department of Defense agen-
cies — Army, Air Force and Navy —
followed with more than $12.2 mil-
lion, 10.8 percent of all awards.
Rounding out the top group were
the Department of Energy ($7.2
million) and the Department of
Agriculture ($5.3 million). Various
other federal agencies provided a
combined total of $30 million.
State of Maryland departments
such as Agriculture, Education,
Transportation, Natural Resources
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FY 1981 - 1991 SI 12.8
DOLLARS
(Millions)
1981 1982 1983
and Environment provided 4.3 per-
cent of College Park's research
money with $4.9 million.
Private contributors such as
societies, institutes, associations,
corporations and foundations pro-
vided an additional $10 million.
Other sources of funds such as
local governments and other uni-
versities provided $4.8 million.
The College of Computer, Math-
ematical and Physical Sciences
received the largest share of
research dollars with a total of $46
million. Rounding out the top five
College Park recipients were the
Colleges of Engineering ($19.7 mil-
lion); Life Sciences ($9.5 million);
Behavioral and Social Sciences ($8.1
million); and Agriculture ($6.4
million).
"Although federal support of
1988 1989
research projects in 1991 increased
almost seven percent over last
year's federal funding, its share
(79.3 percent) of the total campus
external grant activity is the lowest
it has been in several years," says
Medina. "At the same time, support
of research and scholarly activities
by non-government sponsors such
as foundations, corporations and
other non-profit organizations has
more than doubled over last year.
"Even' in the midst of local and
national recessionary trends. Col-
lege Park researchers have been
able to attract increased financial
support for research, service, train-
ing and scholarly projects."
Fariss Samarrai
New Faculty Join Campus
Community
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Linda F. Williams, a specialist on
American politics, particularly
black and urban politics, public
opinion, and public policy, has
joined the Department of Govern-
ment and Politics as an associate
professor.
Williams was most recently
Weiner Research Fellow at the Joan
Shorenstein Barone Center on the
Press, Politics, and Public Policy at
Harvard University's John F.
Kennedy School of Government.
She has also served as associate
director of research at the Joint
Center for Political and Economic
Studies in Washington, DC, the
nation's premier "think tank" on
public policy issues of concern to
African-Americans.
Bonnie Thornton Dill, formerly
professor of sociology and director
of the Center for Research on
Women at Memphis State Univer-
sity, has joined the Women's Stud-
ies Program. She has written and
lectured extensively on issues deal-
ing with women in American soci-
ety, especially black and white
women in the South, marriage,
work and the family
Steven Irl Marcus, L.B. (Preach)
Meaders Professor in Engineering
at the University of Texas at
Austin, has been appointed director
of the Systems Research Center
(SRC).
Marcus is an authority in control
and system theory, real-time signal
processing and understanding,
stochastic systems, and discrete
event systems.
Steven Irl Marcus
He succeeds John S. Baras, who
holds the Martin Marietta Chair in
Systems Engineering and who had
directed the SRC since it was estab-
lished by the National Science
Foundation in 1985.
Tom Otwell
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Psychology Department to Offer
Dream Interpretation Workshops
The psychology department invites recently divorced women to
participate in free dream interpretation groups or workshops as
part of a research project. The program is designed to be
supportive and informative in better understanding how dreams
may be helpful in coping with divorce. Group leaders will be
experienced, female doctoral students, and all information will be
held as strictly confidental. Women ages 22-55 who have filed for
divorce or have been divorced no longer than two years, and who
can remember 1-2 dreams per week, are invited to call Dana Falk
at 314-7690 for more information.
More Construction Expected At College Park
Although a number of major
building projects were completed
at College Park during the last
year, 1991-92 likely will be another
busy construction year on the
campus.
More than $30 million in build-
ing projects were finished during
the past year including, most
recently, Phase I of major additions
to the Animal Science Building,
major renovations of Byrd Stadium
and the Satellite Control Utilities
Building near South Campus
Dining Hall.
During the coming year, work
will continue on several long-term
projects, including the College of
Business /School of Public Affairs
Building. In addition, officials
expect to award contracts on a
number of major new projects,
including a new computer and
space sciences facility that will cost
an estimated $14.3 million.
Here is a list of current con-
struction activity as provided by
the Department of Engineering and
Architectural Services.
• The $17.8 million College of
Business and Management/ School
of Public Affairs Building is sched-
uled for completion during the
later part of the spring semester.
The 130,000-square-foot building
will be located near the Architec-
ture Building in what was formerly
part of Lot 1.
•A.V. Williams II, a companion
building to the original A.V.
Williams Building is scheduled for
completion shortly after the first of
the year. The second building, a
$10 million structure located adja-
cent to the first, will house electri-
cal engineering, astronomy and
automation research.
•Two new research facilities —
the $1.5 million Neutral Buoyancy
Research Facility and the $1.2 mil-
lion Manufacturing Building — both
of which will be used for engineer-
ing research are under construction
in the parking lot adjacent to the
Animal Sciences and Agricultural
Engineering Building. They are
scheduled for completion next year.
• The $12.6 million renovation
of McKeldin Library will continue.
The project is scheduled for com-
pletion in fall 1992.
• Work continues on the $9.7
million Physical Science Lab locat-
ed on Metzerott Road near the
El kins Building. The project is
scheduled for completion in spring
1992.
• The $2.7 million Physical Dis-
tribution Center, a new campus
warehouse, is under construction
on the eastern edge of the campus
near the Maryland Fire and Rescue
Institute. The project is scheduled
for completion next summer.
Projects on which contracts are
expected to be awarded before Jan.
1 include: the next phase of renova-
tions of Byrd Stadium, a project
that would include the construction
of a new football team building; a
parking garage at University Col-
lege, (this is not a College Park
project but construction activity
could cause some disruption here);
the second phase of an addition to
the Animal Sciences and Agricul-
tural Engineering Building; and
Phase I construction of the new
computer and space sciences
facility.
Brian Busek
MHEC Approves State Higher Education Plan
The Maryland Higher Education
Commission (MHEC) has approved
a plan recommending a number of
important new initiatives to make
higher education in the state more
responsive to the needs of the state
and its citizens.
The plan, "Investing in People:
The Maryland Plan for Postsecond-
ary Education," identifies five areas
of strength particularly important
to Maryland's economic future: bio-
technology, health care, engineer-
ing, information technology, and
ecology and environment.
The plan reinforces three priori-
ties of the 1988 law, including the
importance of College Park as the
state's flagship campus. It states
that the transformation of the Col-
lege Park campus into a major pub-
lic research university must con-
tinue, both through the investment
of additional state funds in College
Park and by holding the campus
harmless in the future. College
Park, in turn, must do more to
make its unique programs available
statewide and to part-time stu-
dents, it says.
The MHEC plan also calls for
the campus to become a leader in
technology transfer, create new
partnerships with federal labs in
conjunction with the University of
Maryland at Baltimore, and be
responsive to Montgomery
County's needs.
It also recommends reconsider-
ing the consolidation of UMAB and
UMBC and suggests formation of a
task force to examine the benefits
of consolidating the resources of
Morgan State University and
Coppin State College. At its last
meeting, the UM System Board of
Regents endorsed the recommenda-
tion to look at a possible Baltimore
merger, but it refused to endorse
the idea of merging Coppin State
and Morgan.
On budget matters, MHEC
recommended restoration of the FY
'91 and '92 budgets and funding of
College Park's $100 million
enhancement plan as part of a five-
year plan to invest in higher
education.
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CALENDAR
Dance Classes Offered to University Community
The Dance Department announces the fall session of its Creative
Dance Lab, a high quality, low cost community dance program for
children, teens and parents. Creative movement and modern dance
classes will be offered for ages 4-1 8, as well as a special
parent/child workshop offered at introductory rates. Saturday
classes begin Sept. 7. For information and registration please call
405-7039.
Coming Exhibition
"School Girls," by Isabel Bishop, is featured In The Art Gallery's
exhibition, "Works on Paper from the Gift of Martin W. Brown,"
drawings and graphic works from a 19S5 gift to the university.
The exhibit will run in conjunction with "Selected Works by
Alfred C. Crimi," from September 12 through October 4. Call The
Art Gallery at 405-2763 for information.
SEPTEMBER 4-11
Kfl WEDNESDAY
Student Locator Service,
7 a.m.-2 p.m., Featuring booths at
10 locations around campus
staffed by volunteer upper class
students, faculty and staff, to pro-
vide directions, maps and infor-
mation. Call 4-6213 for info.
Parents' Association Gallery
Exhibit: "Honoring the Chesa-
peake: Art, Science and Ecol-
ogy," featuring the lithograph
drawings of Neil Harpe, today-
Oct 2. Parents' Association Gal-
lery, Stamp Student Union. Call
4-2787 for info.
SUNDAY
Women's Soccer vs. UNC-
Greensboro, 1 p.m., Denton
Field. Call 4-7070 for info.
Men's Soccer vs. Howard U., 2
p.m., Denton Field. Call 4-7070
tar info.
THURSDAY
Meteorology Seminar: "Radia-
tive and Microphysical Properties
of Marine Stratocumulus Clouds,"
Michael King. NASA/GSFC, 3:30
p.m., 2114 Computer and Space
Sciences: coffee and cookies, 3
p.m. Call 5-5392 for info.
U FRIDAY
OMSE Unity Picnic, a chance
for minority students to meet
other students, faculty and staff,
featuring music, dance and
refreshments, 4 p.m.. Denton
Beach. Call 5-5616 info.
MM SATURDAY
UM Football vs. Virginia, noon.
Byrd Stadium. Call 4^7070 for
into."
MONDAY
OMSE Open House, for minority
students, faculty and staff, 1
p.m., 1101 Hornbake Library
South. Calf 5-5616 for info.
Space Science Seminar: "Spa-
rial and Temporal Variations of
the ULF Pulsations Observed by
the Goose Bay Radar," A.D.M
Walker. 4:30 p.m., 1113 Com-
puter and Space Sciences. Call
5-6226 for info.
a TUESDAY
Employee Development Semi-
nar "Time Manage ment," practi-
cal information on how to man-
age your time, 9 a.m. -4 p.m.,
Training Room, Administrative
Services Building. Call 5-5651 for
info.*
Benefits Orientation, 10 a.m.,
4210T Hornbake Library. Call 5-
6819 far info. This presentation
will be offered the second Tues-
day of every month.
Women's Soccer vs. William &
Mary, A p.m., Denton Field. Call
4-7070 for info.
Physics Colloquium: "Flux
Motion and Resistance in High
Temperature Superconductors,"
Michael Tinkham, Harvard U., 4
p.m.; tea, 3:30 p.m., 1410 Phys-
ics. Call 5-5953 far info.
Faculty Orientation and Workshops for
New Tenure and Tenure-Track Faculty
Sept 10: Benefits Orientation, 10 a.m., 4210T Hornbake Library.
Will be offered the second Tuesday of every month.
Sept. 19: Libraries Open House: "Partners for Knowledge"
10-1: McKeldin: Demonstrations of automated reference services
10-11: Social and Behavioral Sciences, Law, Business
11-12: Sciences
12-1: Humanities
10-1: Hornbake: Tours of automated reference services and
VICTOR Con-line catalog)
1-3: Tours and demonstrations of specialized reference tools in
the branch libraries: Architecture, Art, Engineering, Music,
White (Chemistry) and of Government Documents &
Maps, Non-Print Media, and Special Collections in
Hornbake.
3-4: Reception to welcome new faculty, Hombake Library,
second floor
Sept. 25: "Conversations About Teaching," sponsored by the
Center for Teaching Excellence: "The New Core Courses:
What's Happening Now and Implications for Teaching," noon-
1:30 p.m., Maryland Room, Marie Mounl Hall. Light
refreshments served.
Sept 26: Provosf s Orientation Fair and Reception, sponsored by
the Office of the Vice President for Academic Affairs and
Provost, 3-5 p.m., Marie Mount Hall:
Presentation on campus- wide tenure and promotion process
Representatives from a wide range of campus units will
answer questions and provide information: Benefits, Campus
Senate, Computer Science Center, Graduate Studies &
Research, Libraries, Student Affairs, Undergraduate Studies,
Concert Society at Maryland.
Informal Reception and opportunity to meet campus
administrators
Oct. 2: AT&T Teaching Theatre Open House, 10 a.m. -4 p.m.,
Engineering Classroom Building, room 3140. For more info call
5-2950.
CORE Faculty Workshop, sponsored by the Center for
Teaching Excellence: "Teaching for Critical Thinking in all
Disciplines," Mark Weinstein, Assoc. Director, Institute for
Critical Thinking, Montclair, NJ, 2:30-5 p.m., Maryland Room,
Marie Mount Hall.
Oct 11: Grants Workshop, sponsored by Graduate Studies &
Research, noon-2 p.m., 2118 Lee Building (conference room),
bring brown bag lunch; drinks provided.
Oct 24: CORE Faculty Workshop, sponsored by the Center for
Teaching Excellence: New Faculty Workshop, especially
designed for new faculty in their first or second years on
campus, 3-5 p.m., Maryland Room, Marie Mount Hall.
Nov. 21: CORE Faculty Workshop, sponsored by the Center for
Teaching Excellence: "Enhancing Multicultural and Diversity
Dimensions in Teaching," 3-5 p.m., Maryland Room, Marie
Mount Hall.
WEDNESDAY
"M" Club Rodman Celebrity
Golf Tournament, 18th annual
alumni tournament, two sessions,
7;30 a.m. and 12:15 p.m. Call 4-
7015 for info,'
New Student Celebration: "It's
Maryland Tradition," to welcome
new undergraduate and graduate
students, featuring a showcase of
academic departments, picnic
lunch, remarks from President
Kirwan, Maryland Marching Band
and cheerleaders, 11:30 a,m.-
1:30 p.m., McKeldin Mall. Call 4-
8204 for info.
Molecular and Cellular Biology
Distinguished Lecture: "Role of
CCAAT/En nance r Binding Protein
in Preadipocyte Differentiation,"
M. Danial Lane, Johns Hopkins
School of Medicine, 12:05 p.m.,
1208 Zoo/Psych, Call 5-6991 for
info.
University Theatre Open
House, featuring information
about upcoming auditions and
backstage opportunities, food and
entertainment, 8 p.m., Tawes
Theatre. Call 5-2201 for info.
* Admssion charge for this event.
All others are free.
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