Outlook / the University of Maryland, College Park (1993)

£>/^lyt. ^7- ^^^

OUTLOOK

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

MARCH 1, 1993
VOLUME 7, NUMBER 21

Astronaut Bluford to Speak at Symposium

Astronaut Guy Bluford will speak
at "The Adventure of Science — Catch
the Spirit 11," the second annual
Maryland Junior Science and
Humanities Symposium, to be held in
the Greenbelt Marriott on March 1 1
and 12.

High schoi>l students, with their
teachers, will present research papers
selected by a campus faculty review
committee for prizes.

The Martin Marietta Corporation
is dt>nating prize money for the sym-
posium, which is supported by a
grant from the Academy of Applied
Science.

Students will have the opportunity
to attend four sessions in which the
students will present their papers.

They then have the chance to attend
two laboratory .sessions of their
choice, with topics ranging from a
superconductivity research discus-
sion to a solar car demonstration.

Bluford, who is originally from
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, has been
a NASA astronaut since 1979. He has
participated in four space shuttle mis-
sions, two in the shuttle Challenger,
and two in the shuttle Discovery, He
has logged over bS8 hours in space,
working with Spacelab systems, pay-
load safety issues, and the Remote
Manipulator System.

The two-day symposium culmi-
nates with Bki ford's address at the
luncheon Friday.

— Hentber Davis

Astronaut Guy Bluford

Conference Against Campus Bigotry to be Held March 9-10

Several hundred college and uni-
versity administrators, faculty mem-
bers, and students will meet this
month to devise plans to fight bigotry
on campus. Organized by the Wash-
ington Regional Task Force on Cam-

pus Prejudice, the gathering will be
held Tuesday and Wednesday,
March 9-10, at the University of
Maryland University College Confer-
ence Center.

The task force is an alliance of 24
higher education institutions from
Maryland, Virginia, and the District
of Columbia and the Anti-Defama-
tion League (ADD that focuses on
ways to promote tolerance and diver-
.sity on college campuses and respond

to incidents of racism, cultural con-
flict, or bias based on religious
beliefs, gender, sexual orientation,
ethnicity, or disability.

Cosponsors of the event include
the American Council on Education
(ACE), the ADL, George Mason Uni-
versitv, Towson State University, and
the University of Maryland at College
Park. ACE, the umbrella association

coj! tinned on pas^c 2

Total Quality in Academia

IBM Sponsors Sharing Conference ^ CamOUS PollCe MCmO DCtallS UnlVCrSity

for TQ Gram Winners [j r *

Safety Services

President Clinton's

Inauguration '" ^ recent memo circulated wide-

ly on campus. University of Mary-

Behind the .Scenes. Scott Webber / ^^"^ ^'^^^'''^ '^""'^"^ t^^^ ^^^^'y services
Works Database Wonders 4 available to all faculty, staff and stu-
dents at College Park.

Women's History Month ^ According to Corporal Steven R.

' Kowa, public mrormation officer for

... ,„, , ^ , . the police, no services have been cut,

I ipdate on Women s Commission <— "^

,..,.. r- I J ^ contrary to recent rumors.

and Month-long Calendar ..J „,.,'. ■ • ,- i ■

We have no intention of reducing

, ^ , services to the community," says

Point Ot View |^^,^3 -^g, continue to provide safe-

ty services to all who seek our assis-

Tenure is Not an Entitlement Says /^ tance."

Morris f^re>edinan O According to the February 16

memo sent by Kowa, current safety

Academic Support services include the foUowing;

• Between 5 p.m. and 1 a.m., Mon-

Casey and Chen Gifts to Aid day through Friday, Student Police

Journalism Center and ^ Aides (SPAs) conduct foot patrols

Science Students / across campus, particularly in park-

ing lots during times when many stu-
dents, faculty, and staff are present.
SPAs are non-sworn, unarmed stu-
dent employees of the University
Police Department. They carry police
radios and are in constant contact
with uniformed police of ficers.

• In addition to routine foot
patrol, SPAs are available to provide
escorts to individuals who need to
get from one point on campus to
another point cm campus and who do
not wish to walk alone. To request
an escort, call 405-3555.

• Uniformed police officers pro-
vide services 24 hours a day, seven
days a week. These services include:
emergency response to crimes in
progress and to life threatening inci-

anitiuual on page!

UNIVERSITY

O F

MARYLAND

A T

COLLEGE

PARK

Distinguished Service Nominations Sou^t

The International Affairs Committee is soliciting; nominations for the
third annua] Distinguished hiternational Service Award, to be pre-
sented at a banquet in September or October. The main criteria for
selection is one or more significant contributions to the development
of international institutional programs at College Park, backed by a
distinguished professional career. Please send nominations to Dr.
Marcus Franda, 1 108 Benjamin, before March 20. For more informa-
tion, call 405-4772.

Summer Biology Institute Receives National Recognition

An innovative program that
brings together area high school
teachers with College Park faculty to
foster more effective teaching of biol-
ogy, has been selected as a national
model by the U.S. Department of
Education's Dwight D. Eisenhower
Mathematics and Science Education
Program.

Called the Summer Biology Insti-
tute (SBI), the program operates
under the university's Department of
Zoology. Since its inception, SBI has
helped many high school teachers

become better and more knowl-
edgable biology teachers by helping
them explore new methods and new
strategies for teaching. It does this
through an intensive five- week sum-
mer program that introduces high
school faculty to the experimental
nature of biology, the latest in
research, and innovative approaches
to teaching.

An outreach project, called Zoolo-
gy on Wheels, helps by bringing uni-
versity laboratory equipment,
specimens, and teaching assistants

directly to area high schools.

The Dwight D. Eisenhower Mathe-
matics and Science Education Pro-
gram of the U.S. Department of
Education was enacted to respond to
the nation's need for an increased
understanding of mathematics and
science by its students and a concern
that there continue to be an adequate
supply of mathematicians, scientists
and engineers to support our eco-
nomic security and national defense.

Campus Police

, , cotitiiiucd frout piK^e 1

^/V\ — '

r ^f dents (dial 5-3333 from a campus
V --T ^ phone or 91 1 from a campus pay
V /^••\ phone); foot patrol, patrol with
marked and unmarked police
cars, motorcycles, and bicycles;
and crime and incident reporting
which routinely provides data to
other campus organizations, the
state of Maryland, and the FBI.
• No cost crime prevention
programs including alcohc^l and
other drug education; personal

security presentations; public infor-
mation; and self defense and sexual
assault awareness workshops.

• Police Emergency Response
Telephones (PERT), located through-
out the campus both inside and out-
side many academic buildings and
residence halls. The phones are yel-
low, often with a blue light overhead,
and are marked "Emergency." Indi-
viduals may contact police directly at
no cost by simply lifting the receiver
which notifies an emergency dis-
patcher, via computer at police head-

Conference Against Campus Bigotry

continued from page 1

for the nation's colleges and universi-
ties, has selected the Washington
Regional Task Force as a mode! for
efforts by institutions in other
metropolitan areas to combat
prejudice.

The conference, entitled "Fighting
Bigotry on Campus: Moving
Towards a Comprehensive Plan," has
been designed to promote strategies
that involve all elements of an institu-
tion. Pre-conference workshops
scheduled for March 9 will focus on
ways to enhance the participation
and success of minorities in campus
life; grantsmanship; and efforts to
transform the curriculum in ways
that integrate materials on gender
and race.

Sessions on March 10 will cover a
range of controversial topics, includ-
ing freedom of expression; sensitivity
training for campus police and secu-
rity officers; problems surrounding
student-sponsored events; multicu!-
turalism and anti-Semitism; gay and
lesbian issues; sex discrimination;
and racism and prejudice in fraterni-

ties and sororities.

President William E. Kir wan will
address the conference during a lun-
cheon on March 10. A keynote ses-
sion that afternoon will feature a
debate over "political correctness" on
college campuses.

The Washington Regional Task
Force was formed following a 1989
conference cosponsored by The
George Washington University and
the A DL entitled "Bigotry 101: A
Crash Course in Combatting Preju-
dice on Campus." A second confer-
ence held last year in College Park
drew almost 600 participants from
institutions throughout the area.

The task force, which meets
monthly, serves as an information
exchange, a resource system, and a
clearinghouse of successful pro-
grams, materials, and contacts. It
also organizes professional develop-
ment workshops for task force mem-
bers and provides individuahzed
consultation for campuses. It is co-
chaired by Teri-Ann Gross, associate
director of the ADL, and Gladys
Brown, director of human relations
programs at UMCP,

quarters, of the caller's exact location.

The Office of Commuter Affairs
also provides mi fare bus service
through the Shuttle UM bus system,
which operates 24 hours a day during
the weekdays and during the evening
and early morning hours on week-
ends. Call 314-2255 for more infor-
mation.

Many of these services are out-
lined in a "Safety & Security"
brochure available from police head-
quarters on Route 1 across from
Turner Laboratory.

"The most important thing to
remember is don't hesitate to call us,"
says Kowa. "Sometimes people don't
want to bother the police because
they aren't sure the situation merits
our response. But that's what we're
here for. If something doesn't feel
right to vou, let us know."

OUTLOOK

Outlook is the weekly taculty.staff newspaper serving
the College Park campus community.

Kathryn Costello

Vice President for

Institutional Advancement

Roland King

Director of Public Information

Judith Bair

Director of Creative Services

John FrIU

Editor

Solly Granatstetn

Staff Writer

Laurie Gaines

Calendar Editor

Heather Davis

Editorial Interns

Stepheri Sobek

John T. Consoll

Format Designer

Kerstin A. Neteler

Layout & Production

Al Danegger

Photography

Jennifer Giogan

Production Interns

Susan Heller

Robert Henke

Letters to the editor, story suggestions, campus infor-
mation & calendar items are welcome. Please submit
all rnateriai at least two weeks before the Monday of
publication. Send It to Editor Outlook. 21Q1 Turner
Building, through campus mail or to University of
fVlaryland, College Park. MD 20742. Out telephone
number is {301] 405-4621, Electronic mail address is
jfritz@umdacc.umd.edu. Fas number Is (3011 314-9344.

■MAKYI.A.M).

o

o

K

M A U C H

19 9 3

Senate Meeting March 8

The next Campus Senate meeting will be Monday, March 8, from 3:30 p.m.
to 6:30 p.m. in 0126 Reckord Armory, Special orders of the day will include
a question and answer period with President WilHam Kirwan. Other agen-
da items include: motions to ehminate the Program in Food Service
Administration and the Program in Experimental Foods; teaching assign-
ments for administrators; the report on legislative hearings on spousal ben-
efits; and the policy on distinguished university professors. The meeting
v^ill also cover Executive Committee reports on retrenchment and acceler-
a ted program review. For more information, call 405-5804.

Conference Focuses on Total Quality in

Acadeuiia

Five months after awarding over

director of the College of Business

delivery of that content," said Olian.

$10 million in grants to jumpstart the

and Management's Maryland Center

"The idea is to develop a course

study and practice of Total Quality

for Quality and Productivity.

around the curiosity of the student.

(TQ) in colleges and universities, IBM

University of Maryland -style TQ is

Among other things, this means the

invited the nine institutions to which

embodied by the campus- wide effort

end of the static syllabus. Instead,*

it gave funds and equipment last

called Continuous improvement (CI),

faculty will be constantly reshaping

September to meet at College Park to

which was initiated by President Kir-

the course based on feedback from

discuss how TQ is developing in their

wan two years ago. The campus has

students."

schools.

several CI pilot projects in various

Although all nine of the IBM grant

TQ has long been practiced by

stages of development underv^^ay —

recipients mainly target business and

businesses to achieve greater cus-

the IBM-funded project among them.

engineering for TQ development.

tomer satisfaction, improve workers'

According to Olian, who directs

some of the other colleges and uni-

quality of life and levels of productiv-

Maryland's IBM-TQ grant, the nucle-

versities at the conference have

ity, and develop better products.

us of the project is a four-year TQ

branched out in other areas as well.

More recently it has become a

concentration for business and engi-

Georgia Tech, for example.

campus philosophy through which

neering undergraduate students that

showed how its Office for Minoritv

educational institutions seek to adapt

will be introduced this fall. The

Education uses TQ principles and

TQ principals to achieve the same

object of the new curriculum is to

practices to retain minority students.

basic outcomes as those desired by

pro\ ide students with the education

At the Universitv of Wisconsin TQ is

businesses.

and skills needed to succeed in

being introduced in the school of

The February 9-1 1 conference

today's extraordinarily competitive

education. And Clark Atlanta Uni-

highlighted ways in which colleges

workplace.

versity and Southern College of Tech-

and universities have begun to fash-

All classes will be team taught by

nology have chosen to concentrate on

ion TQ models uniquely suited to

faculty from business and engineer-

ways in which TQ can influence

students and their parents, faculty.

ing, and at the end of their course-

diversity within the two institutions.

staff, and others who are served by or

work students will benefit from a

For more information about the

serve higher education.

capstone experience in the form of a

campus' IBM-TQ project, call project

Business professors Judy Olian

hands-on practicum.

coordinator Peggy Phillips at

and Marvam Alavi made presenta-

"The project allows faculty to

405-7063.

tions on the university's TQ effort.

focus on new curriculum content as

— Merci/ Coogaii

They were assisted by Tom Tuttle,

well as new methodologies for the

Returning Athletes Work Toward Degrees

Concrete Sled Places

University of Maryland athletes

and all earn credits toward their

Third in "Great Race"

who left without attaining their

tuition by making speaking appear-

degree are getting a second chance

ances at local schools.

The 200-pound concrete toboggan.

through the Academic Support for

The first returning student-athlete

the "Terrapin Flyer", flew at nearly

Returning Atheletes Program here.

to complete degree work was Larry

45 m.p.h. to a third place finish in the

Reported in The WiifJiiiighvi Post

Gibson, a former Terps basketball

Great Northern Concrete Toboggan

on December 25, 1992, the program

player. Two more returners will

Race in January.

was established nationally in 1986,

graduate this May.

The red toboggan was designed

and came to the College Park campus

"1 think the returning student-ath-

and built by about 20 members of the

in 1988.

lete program is an obligation all Divi-

campus' American Society of Civil

To be eligible for the program, stu-

sion 1 schools should have,"

Engineers, though only five rode in it

dents must have been away at least 5

President Kirwan was quoted as say-

in the race.

to 6 years, left in good academic

ing in The Wnshin^kvi Past article.

The students spent three days at

standing, and need less than 30 cred-

The program is sponsored by the

the University of Sherbrooke in Que-

its to graduate.

Academic Achievement Programs

bec, Canada, climaxing the four

Participants can receive need-

office.

months' work spent planning and

based financial aid and grant money.

constructing the eight-and-a-half foot
sled.

The toboggan was built around a

Visitor Center Statistics

flight theme, and the riders wore
World War 11 aviator-style uniforms

The Visitor Center has seen nearly
28,000 visitors since its September
1 990 opening, according to Nick
Kovalakides, director of Visitor Ser-

Almost half request information
about admissions. Others inquire
about academics, the Stamp Student
Union, the administrative services

HJ 11 Id LLIU

The third place finish came as a
pleasant surprise to the students,
since this was only the second time
the university has entered the compe-
tition.

vices. The number of visitors has

building, the libraries and UMUC's

been steady from the start, averaging

Center of Adult Education. Visitors

50 people a day. Peak hours occur

also request information on the ath-

between 9 a.m. and 1 p.m., with near-

letic facilities, the arts programs and

ly 10 people arriving at 10 a.m.

the residence halls.

MARCH

19 9 3

O

U

O

K

CLOSE UP

Behind the Scenes at Clmton hiauguration,
Scott Webber Works Database Wonders

In Governor Clinton's
office last May, Scott
Webber shows the
latest computer tech-
nology to the future
President.

We had a
$35 million
operation that was
conceived in a couple
of days, set up in
a couple of weeks,
operated for only
a couple of months,
but had to mn the
same as a company
that's been in business
for years.

Q: What do you do when you
have 6800 eager vohinteers, a disor-
ganized computer network, and a
U.S. Presidential inauguration to n.ni?

A: You call Scott Webber, Mar\'-
land alumnus and the Health Cen-
ter's coordinator of information
systems.

Webber was a key figure behind
the televisual splendor of the Clinton
inauguration. He managed the Mac-
intosh computer systems tin d created
the microcomputer databases which
organized the massive volunteer
effort and personnel department.

Webber, 30, became invtiK'cd with
the Presidential inaugural Committee
(PIC) through his work as a part-time
Apple Computer consultant to the
Maryland campus and to the South-
ern Governors' Association, which,
he qnips, "included at least one for-
mer governor of Arkansas," whom he
met last May in Little Rock.

The Clinton inauguration was not
only the biggest in history, with an
estimated 800,000 attending the four-
day event, it was also by far the
biggest computer effort ever connect-
ed with a presidential inauguration,
according to Webber.

In the 19R8 inauguration, by con-
trast, 50 microcomputers were used,
compared with the 500 used this
vear.

No historical precedent existed for
Webber's operation, which dealt with
circumstances unique to an inaugura-
tion.

"We had a $35 million operation
that was conceived in a couple of
days, set up in a couple of weeks,
operated for only a couple of months,
but had to run the same as a compa-
ny that's been in business for years,"
he says.

Using Claris' FileMaker Pro
database software, Webber built and
ran what he calls an "address book
on steroids" that could produce lists
of volunteers on the basis of their
skiils; time they were available to
work; work assignment; security sta-
tus; or any other of the multiple,
shifting categories called for at a
moment's notice.

"The system was changing every
single dav," he recalls, a fact which
necessitated the printing of a "daily
phone book" of paid personnel.

To insure that the systems would
be ready when staff arrived in the
morning, Webber would rearrange
the databases and prepare the phone
book every night after leaving his
full-time [ob at the Health Center.

"I'd leave the university at about 5
p.m., go down to the Inaugural Com-
mittee at about 6 p.m., and spend a
couple of hours working there."

Those "couple of hours" often
turned into all-night affairs, and he
once worked a 36-hour shift.

Working at a pace which caused
his beeper to wear out batteries on a
weekly basis, Webber continually
honed his system so "every single
dav it got smoother and smoother."

When inauguration week rolled
around, he even bad time to enjoy a
number of festivities. He witnessed
Michael Jackson and Barbara
Streisand sing, the new president toot
the saxt)phone, and the one-song
reunion of Fleetwood Mac.

Webber tried to involve his five-
year-old son, Christopher, as much as
possible. Christopher became a
"known figure" at PIC headquarters
and would point out Clinton in the
pictures which abounded at the inau-
guration.

One of those pictures showed the
new president with Christopher's
father, who was working in the state
capitol in Little Rock for the Southern
Governors' Association when the
photo was taken last May.

Clinton's office "stood out as one
that was really fast paced, but also
had a warm, homev feel to it," an
atmosphere reinforced by "childrens'
paintings tacked to the wall."

Webber was struck by the hospi-
tality he was shown, especially by
Clinton's Chief of Staff Carol Rasco,
now the administration's domestic
policy advisor.

Clinton is a "very emotionally
involved administrator," according to
Webber.

"As Clinton walked in, the Secret
Service started buzzing all over. But
he just gallivanted in with a big smile
on his face, calling everybody by
their first name,"

Webber was in the middle of
installing new computer hardware
when he was told that the Governor
had a moment to greet him and pose
for a picture.

"I was whisked off into his
office.. .He welcomed me to Arkansas,
I showed off some new computer
technology, and he made some com-
ments about the computer project,"

What Webber calls "the most
impressive thing" about his visit
occurred after he met Clinton.

Later that day, Webber watched as
Clinton took time out of his hectic
schedule to speak with two young
girls who had come to meet him from
other parts of the state.

"He came out of a meeting and
asked their names, where they were
from, related times he had been in
their' town, and the people he knew."

Webber was impressed by this act
because "there were no photogra-
phers, no reporters; the kids could
not vote. There was no other reason
other than the fact that these are the
values he holds."

Before working in Clinton's office,
Webber was "absolutely undecided"
about his choice of a presidential can-
didate. Republican or Democrat.
Afterward, he was a true believer.

Clinton's skills as a communicator
especially impressed Webber,
because Webber sees himself as a
communications specialist. "I'm not
a programmer, a technician or a com-
puter scientist. My focus is on the
user."

In his inauguration work, Webber
tried to "to marry the technology
with the skills of the people using it."
He would incorporate "big buttons"
for first-time users, custom-design
screens for visually impaired volun-
teers, or bypass use of a mouse for
those who preferred a keyboard.

Webber started helping Maryland
computer users in 1986 as an under-
graduate majoring not in computer
science, as one might expect, but in
"Global Dynamics," an individual
studies major he conceived.

Webber graduated summa cum
laude and number Dne in his class,
and was the student commencement
speaker for the College of Under-
graduate Studies in 1989.

He has been at Maryland ever
since, setting up the Macintosh com-
puter systems at the College of Busi-
ness and Management before moving
over to the Health Center.

When the Clinton people asked
him if he was interested in an admin-
istration post, Webber says, "1 had to
tell them no, because my current
commitment is to the University of
Maryland,"

Webber doesn't want to leave the
university, in part because he is anx-
ious to develop his Health Center
system, which he says is still "in its
infancy,"

In addition, he prizes the "family
atmosphere" which has arisen
through his years of experience at
Maryland.

— SoUy Granatstein

MARCH

19 9 3

O

O

O

Well to Head WHS

Carola Weil, an '85 College Park alum, has been appointed the new
Executive Director of Women in International Security (WHS). She suc-
ceeds Frances G. Burwell, who served since the group's founding in 1987.

WHS was established under the Center for International and Security
Studies here, and serves as a clearinghouse of information about women
in foreign and defense policy.

W IIS is dedicated to enhancing the opportunities for women working
in these fields. The group organizes seminars and conferences and runs
the summer symposium on international security for graduate students.

Women's Commission Advance Held

The President's Commission on
Women's Affairs held its "advance"
on January 14 to discuss the
accomplishments of the past and to
prepare for future events and
issues.

Margaret Bridwell, director of
student health and chair of the
commission, prefers to use the
term "advance" for the meeting
rather than the more negative
word "retreat."

Tlie commission confirmed
events scheduled for Women's
History Month in March. Members
also clarified the issues they felt

warrant special attention in the
upcoming year.

New issues being addressed by
the commission are women's
health, including AIDS awareness,
violence toward women, preventa-
tive medicine and improvement of
the workplace environment,
including advocacy for the needs
of people with disabilities.

The commission will continue to
address issues of race relations,
sexual harassment, safety, child
care and campus environmental
issues.

Women's History Month Calendar March 1-April 7

MONDAY

Mammography Screening Registration,

11 a.m,-l;30 p.m., 3100 Healtli Cemet,
Actual screenings on March 25 and 26.
Call 4^090 for mfo.

Women's Commission Women's History
Month Opening Event; A Thanh fou to
Women Who Make a Difference.' featur-
ing Jennifer Kelly, Virginia Beauchamp.
and Mary Cothran, 3-4:30 p.m..
Maryland Room, Marie Mount. Call
5-5806 (or Info,

TUESDAY

The Committee on AFrJca and Africa In
the Americas 1993 Harriet Tubman
lecture; 'Lawrence Kasdans Grand
Canyon: A Narrative For Our Times,"
Hazel Carby, Vale. 7:30 p.m., 2203
Art/Soc. Call 5-2118 for info.

WEDNESDAY

College Republicans Forum: "Women

and Politics.' Connie Moreila, United
States Congresswoman, 7 p.m., 1143
Stamp Student Unwn. Call 4-0034 for
info.

THURSDAY

Undergraduate WomGn's Leadership
Committee Breai^fast Hour, Virginia
Beauchamp. 'Women's History at
Maryland.' 8:30-9:20 a.m.. Anne
Arundel. Call 4-8505 for info.

Returning Students' Workshop:

'Multiple Roles.' weekly discussion and
support group to help women manage a
variety of roles. 11 a.m. -noon,
Thursdays, 2201 Shoemaker. Call
4-7693 for info.

Graduate Feminist Network Open
House, meeting of faculty with graduate
students in Women's Studies, 7-9 p.m..
Maryland Room, Marie Mount. Call
5-7710 for info.

FRIDAY

Women's Studies Lecture: 'Straigm is
the Gate: The Heterosenual Subject of

Ear^ Englisti Literature," Carolyn Dinsha*.
UC Berkeley. 3 p.m., Maryland Room,
Marie Mount, Call 5-5280 for info.

SATURDAY

Unde^raduate Women's Retreat, for
women student leaders. 9:45-3 p.m..
Anne Arundel. 15 registration includes
lunch and conference materials. Call
5-2312 for info,'

At) Evening of Music by Amy Beach, in

celebration of Women's Histoi>' Month. 8
p.m., Tawes Recital Hall. Call 5-554S
for info.

MONDAY

President's Commission on Womm's
Affairs Meeting, Committee reports on
Women's Health and Workplace
Environment, noon-2 p.m.. 2118 Lee.
call 5-5806 for info.

■El WEDNESDAY

Plarw Recital, Gail Niwa performs works
by Bach-Busoni, Chopin, Szymanowski.
Tchikousky, and Liapunov, 8 p.m., Tawes
Recital Hall. Call 681-1199 for info.

THURSDAY

Afro- American Studies Conference:
'Racial Identity. Gender, and Skin
Color." Valerie Smith. U. of California
and Bettye Collier Thomas. Temple U.,
9 a.m. -3 p.m.. Maryland Room. Marie
Mount. Call 5-1158 for info.

Commission on Women's Affairs
Women of Color Committee Annual
Program: "Listening to Our Voices," fea-
tures speakers, performers, and open
mike, noon-2 p.m.. Grand Ballroom
Lounge, Stamp Student Union. Call
5-5806 for info.

Women's Commission Committee on
Women of Color Event: 'Listening to
Women's Voices and Sharing Cultural
Expressions," 12-2 p.m.. Grand
Ballroom Lounge, Stamp Student Union.
Call 5-5617 or 5-2842 for info.

FRIDAY

Commission on Women's Affairs
Lecture: "The Relationship of TQM to
Associate Staff and Other Administra-
tors.' Judy Olian. 2:30-4 p.m.. Tyser
Auditorium. Call 5-2327 for info.

Inclusion Statement

(Drafted by the Classified Issues
Committee uf tlie President's Com-
mission on Women's Affairs, the fol-
lowing statement was endorsed by
the President's cabinet on January 28,
1993)

The University of Maryland at Col-
lege Park is making a concentrated
effort to involve all segments of the
community in the ongoing activities
of the university, including campus
governance. Such participation is not
only valued, but should be recog-
nized as official university business.
Because classified employees play a
central role in the daily life of the
community, they should be included,
where appropriate, on ad hoc and
standing committees. As committees
are appointed, 1 ask that you not only
encourage, but also support the rep-
resentation and participation of clas-
sified employees.

— Williom £. Kirumn
President

TUESDAY

Sexual Harassment Prevention
Program: Training of Trainers Workshop,
March 23 and 25, 9:30-5 p.m. each
day. $30 registrationfee. Call 5-2S40
for info."

THURSDAY

frtammography Screening, mot] lie unit
on campus 9:30 a,m.-4 p.m.. Lot T,
tiehind Engineering, If you missed regis-
tration, call 1-800-787-0506. Call

4-8091 for info.

Undergraduate Women's Leadership
Committee Preserrtatlon: "Wham! The
History of Women in Sport at Maryland,"
following women's lacrosse game vs.
Dartmouth at Denton Held at 3 p. m,. a
multi-media presentation, 4:30-6 p.m.
Location TBA. Call 4-8505 for info.

a TUESDAY

University Theatre: To Be Voung, Gifted,
and Black, at Pugliese Theatre on March
30-April 4 at 2 p.m. Tickets are $10
standard admission, $7 students and
seniors. Call 5-2201 for tickets and
info.

In 1991, Gail Niwa became the first woman evef to win the top prize at the prestigious
Gina Bactiauer International Piano Competition. On Maith 10, she performs works by
Bach-Busoni. Chopin. STymanowski. Tchaikovsky, and Liapunou at 8 p.m. in the Tawes
Recital Hall. This free concert is sponsored by the Sigma Alpha lota Professional Music
Fraternity and the Music Department. Call 581-1199 for info.

WEDNESDAY

UMCP Outstamiing Woman of 1993,

deadline for nominations. Call 5-9178
for information,

Women's (Center Brown Bag Lunch, for
Women's Studies core and affiliate fac-
ulty, 12-2 p,m„ U06 Mill. Call 4-8462
for info.

Women's Commission Committee on
Women of Color Live Satellite Vl<tea
Conference: 'Women of Color in Higher
Education," 1 p.m.. Prince George's
Room, Stamp Student Union. A discus-
sion witti panelists will follow the view,
ing. Call 5-5616 for info.

■■THURSDAY

Undergraduate Women's Leadership
Committee Breakfast Hour, focus: com

munity service. 8:30-9:20 a.m.. Anne
Arundel. Call 4-8505 for info.

MONDAY

Presltfent's Commission on Women's
Affairs Meeting, noon-2 p.m., 2113
Lee. Call 5-5806 for info.

' Admission charged for this event. All
others are free.

Note: when calling from off-campus
phones, use the prefi» 314- or 405-
respectively for numbers listed as 4-x3«x

or B-KKM.

WEDNESDAY

Women's Studies Lecture: 'But Where
is Your Home? Black Feminist Thought
as Outsider within Theorizing,' Patricia
Hill Collins, U. Cincinnati, 8 p.m., 2203
Art/Soc. Call 5-6877 for Info.

MARCH

19 9 2

U

o

o

RESEARCH

MARC Award Applications Due by IVIarch 12

Each year, the Maryland Assessment Resource Center honors the Mary-
land higher education institution which has conducted the best assess-
ment study. Assessment projects include evaluations, accountability
efforts and total quahty management or continuous improvement efforts.
Only one project can be submitted from each campus and submission
material is due at MARC (located in 0102 Benjamin) on March 12. Presen-
tation of this award will occur at the Maryland Association for Higher
Education meeting on April 30. Call 405-7873 for more information

Two New Books Examine African-American History

OA^M^

Center photo:
"Black latHirers build-
ing a stockade at
Alexandria, Virginia,
1861" from Freedom:
A Docametttary
History of Emanci-
patiot), 1861-1867:
Series I, Vol 2: The
Wartime Genesis of
Free Labor: The Upper
Soutli, forthcoming
from Camtiridge
University Press.

Morris Freedman is
Professor EmerKus in
Engllst). This editorial
is reprinted witti per-
mission of Tire Detroit
News, a Gannett
newspaper, copyright
1993, which pub-
lished the piece in its
January 26 issue.

University of Maryland
scholars have just produced two
new books dealing with African-
American history, Slaves No
More: TItree Essai/5 im Etmmcipa-
tioti aud f/ic C(i'j7 Worand
CI in I hi tig jamb's Unider: Tlw
Enduriug Legacy of African-
Amaicau Families.

Slaves No More (Cam-
bridge University Press) is a
collaborative effort of the
university's Freed men and
Southern Society Project
(FSSP).
The book's university authors
include Ira Berlin, acting dean for
Undergraduate Studies; Steven
Miller, faculty research assistant in
History; and Leslie Rowland,
director of FSSP. History pro-
fessors Barbara Fields and
Joseph Reidy, of Columbia and
Howard University, also con-
tributed to the book.

Professor Andrew Billings-
ley, chair of Family and Com-
munity Development, wrote
Jacob's Uidder (Simon & Schus-

ter), which the Chilclren's Defense
Fund's Marian Wright Edelman calls
"a masterful tapestry of revealing
insights."

Jacob's Liidder traces the evolution
of the African- American family to the
present day. The pictiire of African-
American families that emerges
shows them as strong, adaptive and
highly resilient, contrasting with
recent depictions of the Black family
as being in crisis.

Billingsley embarked on a January
to Marcb book tour to such cities as
New York, Atlanta, Chicago,
Los Angeles,

Oakland, Boston,

Baltimore and Washington D.C. On
February 18, a reception for the book
was held at the Rossborough Inn,
Slaves No More comprises three
essays taken from the opening vol-
umes of FSSP's a ward -winning series
Freedom: A Dociniieutar]j History of
Emancipation, 186'l-'l867.

The essays examine the Civil
War's shift from a war for union to a
war against slavery; the economic
status of freed slaves in occupied
areas during the war; and the role of
the 200,000 soldiers who were former
slaves in shaping definitions of the
war,

The Freedom documentary
series has been critically
acclaimed in such publications
as The Nmv York Times Boole
Review, which comments,
"Future historians may well
regard the work of the Freed-
nu-n and Southern Societv
I'roject at the University of
Marvland as this generation's
most significant encounter
with the American past."

Academic tenure not an entitlement

■ The writer is a
former editor of
Commentary
magazine.

By Morris Fr««dman

American colleges and universities entered a new era
on Jan. 1, when, by nationai legislation, academic tenure
literally fiecame lifetime. Professors will never again
have to retire at some fixed age.

^^^^^^^^^ The consequences could be dras-
tic. Young college teachers would
find fewer openings. Incompetent
older professors would increasingly
adulterate quality and inflate costs.

The new era could additionally

handicap American higiier educa-
tion.

In the mid 1980s, when Congress outlawed mandato-
ry retirement in most professions, campus officials ob-
jected to emancipating professors in this way because of
the near impossibility of removing them any earlier. The
officials argued that automatic retirement, at 65 or 70, at
least assures that the profession regularly loses its oldest
incompetents. They persuaded Congress to wait until
1993 before exempting faculty from forced retirement.
In practice the new law will have little immediate ef-
fect since most campuses now allow able faculty to work
after 70 on a year-to-year basis. Potentially, however, re-
leasing tenure from all limits may at last break its back.
All professionals, with the exception of judges appointed
for life, at some point, in some way, must routinely ac-
count for their performance. By startling contrast, the
public, judges, legislators, professors themselves have
come to believe that academic tenure confers a virtually
absolute immunity ^m review. This misconception
constitutes the real threat to the academic freedom ten-
ure underpins.

A hoary anecdote about the power of tenure at Har-
vard has a professor there, in one version, fired for pass-
ing his hat after raping an undergraduate, not for the
rape. A tenured professor is a huge cat few administra-
tive mice care to bell.

Tenure has a noble history. Since its adoption early
in the century, it has enabled faculty to teach freely and
do independent, often pioneering research. Upton Sin-
clair demonstrated in his classic The Goose Step how

l«nure enabled professors to resist pernicious pressures.
The resulting academic freedom ensured primacy in
higher education among free nations.

But tenure that protects slothful ignorance, slanted
teaching, fraudulent research, unethical conduct, plagia-
rism, exploitation of students and subordinates, that is
unrelated to responsible citizenship, is more harmful
than no tenure at, all.

F'aculties used to recommend tenure after the moat
exquisitely careful deliberation. In recent years, howev-
er, as campuses have undergone turbulent growth, inept
administrators have conferred tenure carelessly. They
have tolerated notoriously bad teachers and plain rogues,
elevating persons with fake or inadequate credentials.

The professoriat has been alert to the profound impli-
cations of the change. Many joined administrators in fa-
voring a fixed retirement age. "Those who oppose man-
datory retirement for permanent faculty," Professor
Daniel S. Hammermesh of Michigan State University
pointed out in the Chronicle of Higher Education at the
time Congress was considering the issue, "should recog-
nize that abolishing mandatory retirement in effect
would also abolish tenure,"

That is, if we couldn't ever expect professors to retire,
we'd have to fire them more readily. We could easily end
up throwing out the precious baby of tenure with the un-
wanted bathwater of arbitrary retirement.

We can only preserve the blessings of tenure by recog-
nizing how vigilantly we must preserve it as an ideal, as a
privilege to be guarded sensitively, not as an entitlement
to be defended senselessly. The termination of mandato-
ry retirement should force us to revive tenure as a true
bulwark of a free society.

Unless able administrators again bestow tenure scru-
pulously, review regularly and wisely those who have it,
and diligently oust abusers, American higher education
will decline precipitously. On any campus, fit, fearless
administrators can make openings for promising young
faculty by proceeding as firmly against inadequate strip-
lings as against inadequate sexagenarians, septuagenari-
ans or octogenarians.

At any age, professors should enjoy tenure only as
long as they perform appropriately, which was the point,
in the first place, of the new law.

U

O

MARCH 1

19 9 3

Fulbright Scholar Competition Opens

Application materials are available for Fulbright Scholar Awards beginning
March t. The Fulbright Scholar Program for 1994-95 includes some 1,000 grants
for research, combined research and lecturing or university lecturing in nearly
1 35 countries. Opportunities range from two months to an academic year.
Scholars in all academic ranks and virtually all discipUnes and subfields are eli-
gible to apply. Fulbright seeks good teachers as well as active researchers. The
deadUne for research and lecturing grants to all world areas is August 1, 1993,
For more information and applications, call the Council for International
Exchange of Scholars at (202) 686-7877, or contact Anne Geronimo, campus
coordinator, at 405-4178.

New Casey Journali^

nil Center to Focus on Children's Issues

The College of Journalism has

advisory board of journalists and

of the founders of United Parcel Ser-

received a start-up grant of $200,000

experts representing a broad range of

vice, and was named by him and his

from the Annie E. Casey Foundation

issues affecting the outcome of disad-

siblings in honor of their mother. Mr.

in Greenwich, Connecticut to estab-

vantaged or at-risk children.

Casey died in 1983 and bequeathed a

lish the Casey Journalism Center for

"This is a center to be run by and

substantial fortune to the foundation.

Children and Families. The founda-

for journalists to help improve cover-

creating additional resources for

tion also expects to provide annual

age of the issues and public policy

grants to bolster child welfare, educa-

funding.

related to children in a wide range of

tion, mental health, human services

The center will assist journalists by

fields, including education, criminal

and foster care programs that affect

providing information and monitor-

justice, health, social welfare, foster

the life outcomes of children.

ing developments and coverage in

care and parenting," said Reese

"The news media play a key role

the field, will conduct an annual con-

Cleghorn, dean of the College of Jour-

in informing public debates of policy

ference for journalists and wUI

nalism.

issues," said Douglas W. Nelson,

administer a new "Casey Medals for

The Annie E. Casey Foundation,

executive director of the Annie E.

Meritorious Journalism" awards pro-

the nation's largest philanthropy ded-

Casey Foundation. "We believe the

gram for print and broadcast report-

icated exclusively to improving the

center will encourage quality journal-

ing excellence.

futures of disadvantaged children.

ism about the issues and institutions

The center will have a national

was formed in 1948 by Jim Casey, one

affecting children and families."

UMCP Students "Just Say Yes"

Responding to a survey that

rience alcohol-related vomiting, and 4

non-alcoholic night club offering

shows almost 10,000 College Park

percent will experience blackouts.

comedy and music on alternate

students are just saying yes to a

Yet a November, 1991, random

Thursdays; a series of workshops and

healthy, alcohol- and drug-free

survey of more than 1 ,300 College

speakers on alcohol -re la ted topics

lifestyle, the university recently intro-

Park students revealed that 28 per-

sponsored by Greeks Advocating the

duced The Caring Coalition, a group

cent of those surveyed disapproved

Mature Management of Alcohol

of organizations banding together to

of alcohol use.

(GAMMA); and a peer mentoring

nurture and support students opting

The Caring Coalition, funded by a

program for first year shidents.

for a substance-free lifestyle.

two-year grant from the Department

New programs planned by The

"This population of abstainers has

of Education's Fund for the Improve-

Caring Coalition include coordina-

been largely ignored by prevention

ment of Post Secondary Education,

tion of a community service project

specialists, which is unfortunate

will bring this critical mass of stu-

for students, which is designed to

because they are a potentially power-

dents together by offering a variety of

relieve the boredom often mentioned

ful resource," notes Roger Segalla,

substance-free activities and centrally

as a reason for recreational drug use;

director of the University Health

coordinating existing campus pro-

training for faculty, staff and students

Center's Substance Abuse Program.

grams. The central coordination of

in the skills of "listening and refer-

"By tapping into this large group of

programs will create a highly visible

ring" so they can more effectively

students, we believe we can develop

profile for substance- free activities.

help students experiencing sub-

the momentum needed to create real

and will support the large group of

stance-related problems; the Inclusion

social change with regard to the use

students making healthy choices

of prevention-related themes into

and abuse of alcohol,"

regarding substance use.

course curricula; and smoke- and

National studies reveal that

Substance abuse prevention-relat-

alcohol- free residence halls, which

approximately 25 percent of college

ed programs currently in existence

will be instituted, in part, in the fall.

students will experience a hangover

that The Caring Coalition will coordi-

— Beth Workiunit

in a typical week, 7 percent will expe-

nate and expand include NITELIFE, a

New Chen Scholarship

Created to Aid Science Students

Outstanding students in physics.

graduate fellowship in physics.

the improvement of the planet

earth and space sciences will be eligi-

Bom in China and raised in Tai-

Earth," they say.

ble for up to four $10,000 annual

wan, the Chens canne to the U.S. to

Founded in 1977 by Jeffrey Chen,

scholarships created by Jeffrey and

study at the University of Wisconsin

GSC does science and communica-

Lily Chen, President and Vice Presi-

in 1969, eventually receiving doctor-

tions research for the U.S. govern-

dent respectively of General Sciences

ates in nuclear physics. They became

ment. GSC recently developed

Corporation (GSC), a Laurel high

naturalized citizens in 1979.

software for processing weather

technology firm.

"We came to the U.S.A. ..on two

satellite data.

Established with an initial gift of

teaching assistantship awards, then

Preferential consideration for the

$250,000 in January, the first scholar-

stayed and built a career," the Chens

scholarship will be given to children

ship will be awarded during the fall

recall. "We owe everything we have

of employees of GSC, the National

1993 semester.

to this country for offering us that

Aeronautics and Space Administra-

Two of the awards will go for

first opportunity. This scholarship is

tion/Goddard Space FUght Center^

undergraduate scholarships in the

our way of reciprocating.

the National Oceanic and Atmo-

earth and atmospheric sciences.

"We also want to see more talent-

spheric Administration /National

Another will support a graduate fel-

ed yoinig people devoted to the

Weather Service, and students from

lowship in the space sciences and the

study of space, earth, and environ-

Taiwan.

remaining award will underwrite a

mental sciences and to contribute to

u

o

o

K

MARCH 1

19 9 3

CALENDAR

March 1-March 10

Calendar Guidelines

The OUROOH Calendar publishes university-sponsored events, subject to space
availatiilrty. Prefefence is given to free, on-campus everts. The deadline is two
weeks before the Monday of the weeti in which the evert occurs. Mail listings with
date. time, title of event, speaker, sponsoring organization, location, fee (if any),
and number to call for information to: Calendar Editor, 2101 Turner Lab, or fax to
314-9344. Calendar phone nunibers listed as 4-xiotx or 5-xva stand for the prefin
314- or 405- respectively. Events are free and open to Uie public unless noted by
an asterisk CJ. For more info/mation, call 405-7339.

I MONDAY

Unherslty College Ms Pragram
Photography Exhibit: Impressions-
East and West,' 8-8 daily, UMUC
Conference Center Gallery, thnougti
Mgrcfi 28. Call 985-7154 for info.

Art Gallery Exhibitton: 'Art /Nature/
Society. " Selections from the Permanent
Collection, through April 16. Call 5-2763
fof if\fo.

Mammc^aphy Screening R^stratiwi,

11 a.m.-l:30 p.m.. 3100 Healisi Center.
Actual screenings on March 25 and 26.
Call 4-8090 for info,

Returning Students' Woihstwp: Time
Management.' today and Mar. 8, 2-3
p.m., 2201 Sfioemaker, Call 4-7693 for
info.

Women's Commission Women's History
Month Opening E^ent: 'A Thank Vou lo

Women Who Make a Difference.' featur-
mg Jennifer Kelly, Virginia Beauchamp,
and Mary Cothran, 3-4:30 o.m,,
Marvland Room, Mane Mount. Call
5-5806 for info.

Contemjwrary Spanish Cinema: Si Te
Dicen Que Csl. (Vicente Aranda, 19901,
4 p.m.. Language House. Call 5-6441
for info.

Entomology Colloquium: 'Comparative

Population Dynamics of Hemlock Woolly
Adeigid in Native and Introduced
Habitats." Mark McDure. Connecticut
Agncultural Exp. Sta„ 4 p.m.. 0200
Symons. Call 5-3911 fof info.

Compvter Science Colloqultnn: "The
Stanford DASH Multiprocessor:
Hardware and Software Approach.'
Anoop Gupta. Stanford. 4 p.m., 0111
Classroom Building (106K Call 5-2661
for info.

Hofticuiture Colloquium: Creative
Professional Practice: Computers and
Landscape Architecture." Michael

Deeter, U. of Anzona. 4 p,m.. 0128
Hoiiapfel. Call 5-4374 for info.

S(Mice Science Semhar: 'Modeling
ionospheric Convection Dunng a Major
Geomagnetic Stonn on October 22-23.
1981.' J,J, Moses, NASA, 4:30 p.m,,
1113 Computer/Space Sciences. Call
5-7456 for info.

Campus Recreation Services: intramural
Swim Meet registration, 5-S p.m.. Cole
Pool, Call 4-7218 fc: info.

TUESDAY

Unlvefslty Tiieatie; Hamlel at Tawes

Theatre, school matinee at 9:45 a,m.
Also on March 4-6 at 8 p.m.. March 6
with sign interpretation. Tickets are $10
standard admission, S7 students and
seniors. Call 5-2201 for tickets and
info."

Ecology arid Evolutionary Biolc^
Seminar: "Genetically-Based Variation in
the Diapause Response of a Widespread
Estuarine Copepod," Darcy Lonsdale,
SUNY Stony Brook, noon, 1208
Zoo/Psych, Call 5-6948 for Info.

Committee on History and Philosophy
ot Science lecture: Data in the Good
Old Days— Representation and Use ot
Data in Early Genetics," Ltndley Darden,
4;15-6 p.m.. 1407 Chemistry. Call
5-5691 for Info.

Open Music Rehearsal, Guarneri String
Quartet, 7 p.m., Tavves Recital Hall. Call
5-5548 for info.

The Committee on Africa and Africa
In the Americas 1993 Harriet Tubman
lecture: "Lawrence Kasdan's Grani
Canyon: A Narrative For Our Times."
Harei Carby. Vale, 7:30 p.m.. 2203
Art/Soc. Call 5-2118 for info.

Maryland Historic Preservation Lecture:

'Histonc Preservation in Maryland
and/or The Politics of Preservation."
Rodney Little. Maryland Division o(
Historical and Cultural Programs. 7:30
p.m.. Architecture Auditorium, Call
5-1354 tor info.

WEDNESDAY

The Committee on Africa and Africa In
the Americas Graduate/ Faculty
Seminar, Hazel Carby. Tale. 11:30
a.m., Maryland Room, Mane Mount. Call
5-2H8 for info.

Molecular and Cell Biology Seminar:

'Conslitutively Active Mutants of
Rtiodopsin," Phyllis Robinson, UMBC.
12:05 p.m.. 1208 Zoo/Psych, Call
5-6991 for info.

Renaissance Reckonings: 'The
Countervailing of Love: Politics,
Benevolence and Elizabeth I's Golden
Speech,' 1601.' David Harris Sacks,
Reed College, 3:30 p.m., 1120 South
Camptis Surge. Call 5-3809 tor info.

Jewish Studies Lecture: "The Dead Sea

Scrolls and Ancient Jewish Literature.'
Michael E, Stone, Hebrew University,
Jeoisaiem. 4 p.m., 1117 F.S. Key. Call
5-4304 for info.

Astronomy Colloquium: "Results from
Astfo-HUT Experiments.* Handy Kimble.

GSFC. 4 p.m., 1113 Computer/Space
Sciences. Call 5-3001 lor info.

Engineering Lecture: "The Transmanche
Link," Jack Lemley, 6 p.m.. Tyser
Auditorium, Business and Management/
Public Affairs. Call 5-3861.

Architecture Lecture: "With In-Sight,"
Alan Dynerman, Williams and Dynerman
Architects, 7 p.m.. Architecture auditori-
um. Call 5-6284 for info.

College Republicans Fontm: 'Women
and Politics," Connie Moreiia, United
States Congresswoman, 7 p.m., 1143
Stamp Student Union. Call 4-0034 for
info.

KB THURSDAY

Undergraduate Women's Leadership
Committee Breakfast Hour, Virginia
Beauchamp, "Women's History at
Maiyland.' 8:30-9:20 a.m., Anne
Arundel. Call 4-S505 for info.

Returning Students' Workshop;

"Multiple Roles.' weekly discussion and
support group to help women manage a
variety of roles. 11 a,m.-noon, 2201

Shoemaker. Call 4-7593 for info,

Jewish Studies Lunch Time Tallt:

'Apocalypse and Religious Experience,"
Michael E. Storie. Hebrew University,
Jen/salem, noon, 1102 F.S. Key. A $5
lunch IS available with reservation, Call
5-4266 for ihfo.

Meteorology Seminar: 'A Study of

Afforestation m the Sahel: Climatic
Sensitiviiy and Physical Mechanisms,'
Tongiong Xue, 3:30 p.m., 2114
Computer/ Space Science. Call 5-5392
for info.

Committee on History and Phlfosophy
of Science Lecture: 'Super Colliders
and Data." Andrew Baden, 4:15-6 p.m..
1407 Chemistry. Call 5-5691 lor info.

Reliability Seminar: 'An Overview of ISO
9000 Quality Standards." Steve Hoditn,
Penni Datacomm. Networks, 5:15-6:15
p.m., 2110 Ctiemical and Nuclear
Engineenng. Call 5-3887 for info.

Graduate Feminist Network Open
House, meeting of faculty with graduate
students in Wdmen's Studies, 7-9 p,m,,
Maryland Room. Mane Mount. Call
5-7710 for info.

Meet the Artists, discussion of ffamtel
with director and designers, 7-7:45 p.m.,
Expenmental Theater, 0241 Tawes Fine
Arts. Call 5-2201 for info,

FRIDAY

Center for Teaching Excellence CORE
Faculty Workshop: 'Teaching With

Technology: Exploring Ideas,' 8:30
a.m.- 12:30 p.m.. and repeated 1-5
p.m.. AT&T Teaching Theatre. Call
5-3154 for reservations and info.

Geology Seminar; "Mineralogy and
Petrology of Asteroids," Lucy McFadden,
UCSD, 11 a.m.. 0103 Hombake. Call
5-4089 for info.

Counseling Center Research and
Development Meeting: Starting a

Community Service Program at UMCP:
Progress, Opportunities, and
Challenges. "Barbara Jacoby. noon-l
p.m.. 0106 Shoemaker. Call 4-7691 for
mio.

Mental Health Lunch 'N' Learn Seminar

'Discussion of Legal Issues Concerning
Administrative Responsibility of Students
with a Mental Disorder,' Gary Pavela,
1-2 p.m.. 3100E Health Center. Call
4-8106 for info.

Black Graduate Association Meeting.
1-2:30 p.m., 1221 Lefrak. Call 5-2332
for info.

Women's Studies Lecture: 'Straight is

the Gate: The Heterosexual Subject of
Early English Literature," Carolyn
Dinshaw, UC Berlteiey. 3 p.m.. Maryland
Room, Marie Mount, Call 5-5280 for
info.

SATURDAY

Undergraduate Women's Retreat, for

Minen student leaders, 9:45 a.m. -3
p.m., Anne Arundel. $5 registration
includes lunch and conference materi-
als. Call 5-2312 for info.'

Horn Ensemble Concert, 2 p.m., Tawes
Recital Hall. Call 5-5548 for info.

Daniel Heifetz, violinist, wili perform for tlie Artist
Scitoiarsiiip Benefit Series concert at the Kennetly
Center on IVIarch 9.

An Evening of Music by Amy Beach, in

celebration of Women's History Month, 8
p.m., Tawes f^ecitai Hail. Call 5-5548
for info.

■a MONDAY

President's Commtsstod on Women's
Affairs Meeting, Committee reports on
Women's Health and Workplace
Environment, noon-2 p,m„ 2118 Lee.
call 5-5805 for info.

Campus Senate Meeting, 3:»^:30 p.m..

0126 Reckord Armory. Call 5-5805 for
info.

Contemporary Spanish Cinema: Los

Smloi Inocentes. iMario Camus.
1984). 4 p,m,. Language House. In
Spanish witfi English subtitles. Call
5-6441 for info.

Entomology Colloquium; 'Molecular

Phyiijgenies of tfie Yucca Moths and
Their Allies.' Jonathan Brown, Bucknell.
4 p.m,, 0200 Symons. Call 5-3911 (or
info.

Computer Sciertce Collo<{ulun): 'Global
Scientific Computing Via a Flock of
Condors." Miron Livny, U. ofWisconsm,
4 p.m,, 0111 Classroom Building (106).
Call 5-2661 for info.

Horticulture Colloquium: 'Evaporative
Cooling as the Basis for Genetic Heal
Resistance in Pima Cotton," John Radio,
USDA. 4 p.m., 0128 Holzapfel. Call
5-4374 for info.

Space Science Seminar: "The Evolution
of Cosmic Ray Mass Composition in
Photon Field,' A.S. Ambartsumian.
Yerevan Physics institute, Armenia, 4:30
p.m., 1113 Computer/Space Sciences.
Call 5-4855 for info.

Faculty Piano Recital, Gregory Sioles, 8
p.m.. Tawes Recital Hail, Call 5-55488
for info.

TUESDAY

Center for International EKtenslon
Development Brovm Bag Seminar:

"Privitazation. Trade and investment m
Europe's Newly Emerging Economics."
Richard D. Abbott, University Of Idaho,
noon-l p.m.. 0115 Symons. Call
5-1253 for info.

Committee on Africa and Africa In the
Americas Brown Bag Lunch: "Victoria
Matthew's, The Value of Race Literature:
A Fitting Response," Shirley Logan and
Psyche Williams, noon-2 p.m.. 1120N
F.S. Key. Call 5-2118 for info.

Center for Teaching Excellence
Conversations About Teaching:

'Outstanding Course and Teaching
Innovations on Campus: Wfiy They Did it
-And How," 12:30-2 p.m,. Maryland
Room, ft/larie Mount. Call 5-3154 tor

info.

Reluming Students' Workshop: "Writing
Skills," 1-2 p.m., 2201 Shoemaker. Call
4-7693 for info.

Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Seminar; "Foraging and Reproductive
Energetics of Pinnipeds: Life History and
Evolutionary Implications.' Dan Costa.
UC Santa Cair, noon, 1208 Zoo/Psych,
Call 5-6384 tor info.

Committee on History and Philosophy
of Science Lecture: 'Automated
Discovery in Large-Scale Biological Data
Bases." Lawrence Hunter. NIH, 4:15-5
p.ni.. 1407 Chemistry. Call 5-5691 for
info.

Artist Scholarship Benefit Series: The

Pleasuies o( Music," University of
Maryland Symphony Orchestra, conduct-
ed by William Hudson, music by Mozart,
Bernstein, and Prokofiev, 7:30 p.m..
Kennedy Center Terrace Theater. Tickets
are $15 general admission, $9 students
and seniors. Call 1 202) 467-4600 for
ticket info.*

m WEDNESDAY

Gallery Talks: "Nature as a Source and

Subject in Contemporary Prints and
Photos,' Terry Gtps, 'Rural America and
the Land: Mural Studies and Prints oi
the 1930s,' Michelle Kioss, noon. An
Gallery, Call 5-2rS3 for Info,

University Of Maryland Concert Band,

conducted by Robert E. Foster. Jr.. 8
p.m., UMUC Conference Center, Call
5-5548 for info.

Piano Recital, Gail fJiwa perfomis works
by Bacti.eusoni. Chopin, Sjymanowski.
Tchaikovsky, and Liapunov, 8 p,m„
Tawes Recital Hall, Call 661-1199 for
info.

U

O

O

K

MARCH

9 9 3