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Volume 14 'Number 2 • September 7, 1999 P^ 5

Writers Here & Now

Literary Reading Series Celebrates 30 Years of
Interesting Poets and Authors

In the late '60s, a small group of creative writing students
would gather in an ordinary classroom each week to hear
published poets and other authors read aloud from their
works, Thirty years later, these informal sessions have blos-
somed into the highly successful Writers Here & Now series
drawing more than 100 literary enthusiasts from the entire
university community each month.

Calling the series one of the best of its kind in the area,
Don Berger says, "Our list of speakers is as formidable as the
Library of Congress or Folger Library." Berger, assistant direc-
tor of the Creative Writing Program, has been running the
series for the past five years.

Past readers have included notable authors such as Julie
Agoos, Russell Banks, Rita Dove and Gerald Stern. These
authors' visits and readings "bring literature alive for stu
dents," says Michael Collier, a professor in the creative writing
program and former director of the series. "It's valuable to

hear that human voice read what they
produce," he says. "It can really stimu-
late a student or even a new writer.
Sometimes a writer vrill change a
word mid-reading," says Collier.
"That shows the students how mal-
leable a work can be. Even in print,
it's a work still in progress."

Credit for establishing the
reading series goes to Rod
Jellema, a now-retired professor
in the English department, who
founded it in 1 969. "The read-
ings were more fluid, less formal
than now," says Collier,
noting the series was originally more ad
hoc, with invited readers often being
poets in the area, or authors who hap-
pened to be in town.

Collier, who read for the series in
1983, along with poet Malcolm
Glass, says, "Even then, there were
60 people there ."Today, the series
is held in McKeldin Library and
draws higher profile writers and
a broader audience, "The series
has established a literary cul-
ture on campus," says Berger,
Students still remain a vital
part of the series.The English department
has added the MFA in creative writing {established in
1 989) since Writers Here & Now was founded. Those students
offer their input to faculty regarding which writers to invite
each year. They also are involved in publicizing the series.

The final readings of the series feature the student winners
of the Katherine Anne Porter Prize and the Academy of
American Poets Prize. The prizes are awarded to University of
Maryland students who submit poems or stories in a spring
competidon judged by the visldng writers. "Having the stu-
dent winners read at the last event is a nice way to end the
season," says Collier.

The introducdon of the graduate program, says Collier, saw
an expanded Writers Here & Now series. What had been a
month-to-month operadon became a fully developed series,
complete with posters and adverdsements, nodng an entire

Continued on page 3

Students Live and Learn How to
Build a Civil Society

In a world where rudeness
is becoming the norm and
politeness the exception, 121
students at the university are
working to build their own
civil society within the univer-
sity's newest living-learning
program, CIVICUS. Sponsored
by the College of Behavioral
and Social Sciences, Resident
Life and Undergraduate Studies,
CIVICUS opened last week to
engage students in exploring
the dimensions of establishing
a model civil partnership
among students in a communal
environment.

CIVICUS students, known as
associates, will focus on apply-
ing the maxims of citizenship,
leadership, scholarship, commu-
nity service and community
building to organize a mutually
civil habitat. They'll also be
doing their living and learning
in a stunning new residence,
Somerset Hall, which under-
went a $4.4 million, 18-month
renovation.

The program is the newest
addition to the College of
Behavioral and Social Sciences'
civil society initiative. The initia-
tive also includes an undergrad-
uate level honors course and a
lecture series,

"This is a truly unique program that allows a
small, diverse and committed group of first-year
and upper-class students to examine and create
their own unique civil society within a residen-
tial community at the University of Maryland,"
says Sue Briggs, director of CIVICUS.

"The program seeks to promote an atmos-
phere of free and responsible individuals by nur-
turing a network of opinion molders who
understand the foundations of civil society and
who are committed to its preservadon and
advance," she says.

"The possibilides of trust, cooperadon and
persona] striving for integrity are dependent
upon a deep institutional structure that is rarely
understood and-for precisely that reason-very
much 'at risk'," says Briggs, who likens the expe-
rience to the Three Musketeers* "all for one, one
for all" approach.

Cicero argued in De Republica if the law is
the bond of a civil society and jusdce is equality
under the law, by what right can a partnership
of citizens be justly maintained unless there is
equality of status among the citizens? Among
the many lessons students will argue and learn
are the principles of governance and leadership
development in distinctively constructed cours-
es and discourse dealing with the interdiscipli-
nary issues of a civil society.

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Jasmine Thomas,
with one another

Kdstlna Byrd and a fellow CIVICUS student talk
on the steps of Somerset Hall.

Extracurricular and experiential learning
activities, including field trips, guest speakers
and projects will be integrated into the program
to offer practical opportunities for associates to
explore and promote the institutional founda-
tions of a civU society.

Community service will also be an important
aspect of their activities. Already, the associates
have participated in two successful community
service projects, both of which took place
before the start of the fall semester. Late last
month, 40 first-year students made 500 peanut
butter and jelly sandwiches in 30 minutes for
the Washington, D.C. -based nonprofit organiza-
tion Martha's Table. Three days later, all the CIVI-
CUS students traveled to Golden Harvest in
Glyndon, to assist in the watering, mulching and
harvesting of produce that will be donated to
local food banks and soup kitchens.

jasmine Thomas, a senior CIVICUS associate
who also serves as a resident assistant in
Somerset Hall, says the associates "really got
into" the community service projects. "They
were making up songs about mulching, and
about sandwich making as they did the projects.
It was realty great to see," she says.

According to Briggs, the CIVICUS Associates'

Continued on pBge 7

2 OirHook September 7. 1999

Life Sciences Search Committee Formed

"When the technology changes, there is always the danger of
being overwhelmed, because we have not yet developed the
social mechanisms of technology to enable as to deal with
information flow." — Ben Shneiderman, professor of com-
puter science, in a June 21 Wall Street Journal article about
ilie social and psychological effects of information over-
load.

"In my opinion, day trading, for most people, is very much
like gambling in Vegas, It's easy to be successful at day trad-
ing in a market that's going up. It's something people will
see the risks of as we begin to see a market that's not quite
as strong as we've seen for the last few years." — Mary
Vandewegbe, executive-in-residence in the Robert H. Smitli
Scboo! of Business, in a June 20 Baltimore Sun feature
about the impact of online stock trading on the market-
place.

"A year-long study for the National Research Council on the
prevalence of pathological gambling — a chronic and progres-
sive failure to resist impulses to gamble — revealed how little
we know about the impact of widespread gambling. In fact,
the industry supplies most of the information we have,
which means it is not an ideal basis for setting public policy."
— Charles V^llfofd, professor of criminal justice and crimi
noiogy, in an opinion piece in the June 24 St. Louis Post
Dispatch on the need to require gambling enterprises to
share information so researchers can investigate the effects
of legal gambling.

"[Plasdc pocket protectors] promise imperviousness to ruin
and to soil, but in a way so avowedly artificial that there's
another part of us that tends to recoil a bit." — Robert Friedel
pm^ssor of fiistory, in a June 24 NewYoikTmnes article
about the history of pocket protectors as a symbol ofnerdi-
ness.

"Israeli-Syrian negotiations need not take long.The contours
of a settlement are well-known to both sides, and although
important details must still be negotiated, the primary ingre-
dient for success is political will on both sides," — Sbibley
Telbawi, Anwar Sadat Chair for Peace and Development,
in an opinion piece in the June 28 Los Angeles Times
about new hopes for a peace settlement between Israel
and Syria.

"You can't be a diplomatic actor all the time if you are going
to be a spokesman. You can't do it all. But you take the king's
shillings and if they have a job for you, it's appropriate you
answer the call." — William Eaton, curator of the Humphrey
Fellowship Program in the College of Journalism, in a June
28 Associated Press story about the new diplomatic role in
Kosovo for State Department spokesman James P Rubin.

"If you're buying a franchise, one thing you're buying is sup-
port and training that is guaranteed. If the franchisor is dead,
it's not going to be supplying anything." — Scott Shane, asso-
ciate professor of entrepreneurship, in a July 7 story in the
Toronto Star about the cliallenges of going into business as
a franchisee.

"When women work nights and have been married more
than five years, the odds of divorce or separation are three
times as high [as for male night workers]." — Harriet Presser,
sociology professor, in a July 6 Boston Globe story about
the various impacts of night work in service industries.

Mathematics professor John Osborn will head
the search for a new dean for the College of Life
Sciences to replace Paul Mazzochi, who last
spring announced his intention to return to
teaching in 2000,

Senior Vice President and Provost Greg
Geoffroy announced the appointment
of the search committee in late

August and asked Life Sciences
faculty and staff as well as facul-
ty and staff from throughout
the university to help find "a
highly qualified individual
with the experience, energy
and commitment to build on
this momentum, channel the
new resource that we expect to
flow into the College via the
BioSciences Initiative for maximum
effecdveness, and lead the college to
even greater distinction."

In addition to Osborn, the search committee
comprises:

• Earlene Armstrong, associate professor, entomol-
ogy

• Annie Bush, undergraduate student, biological
sciences

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• Catherine Carr, associate professor, biology

• Roberta Donley, staff. College of Life Sciences

• Catherine Feneslau, chair, chemistry and bio-
chemistry

• Michael Fisher, professor, Institute for Physical

Science and Technology

• Beth Gantt, professor, cell biology
and molecular genetics

' Sandra Gordon-Salant, professor,
hearing and speech sciences
• Robert Hampton, associate
provost and dean.
Undergraduate Studies
• Bhakti Petigara, graduate stu-
dent, chemistry and biochem-
istry

• Michael Raupp, chair, entomol-
ogy
• Heven Sze, professor, cell biology
and molecular genetics

• Dev Thirumulai, professor, chemistry and bio-
chemistry/ Institute for Physical Science and
Technology

• Gerald Wilkinson, professor, biology

Nomiiiadons and applications may be forward-
ed to any member of the search committee.

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Investors Group to Feature PSINet's CFO

Edward Postal

Edward Postal, senior vice president and chief
financial officer of PSINet, a global facilities-based
Internet Protocol data communica-
tions carrier for the business market
place, is the featured speaker at the
Wednesday, Sept, 15, meeting of the
Investors Group, The meeting takes
place at noon in the Special Events
Room of McKeldin Library,

Co sponsored by the Friends of
the Libraries and the Office of
Continuing and Extended Education,
the highly popular Investors Group
has a membership of more than 300
from the ranks of faculty. Staff, stu-
dents and the general community.
The meetings are free and open to
everyone and designed to provide a quality pro-
gram of practical financial educadon.

A graduate of the university with a B.S. in
accounting, Postal is responsible for PSINet's
finance, accounting and investor relations func-
tions, At the Investors Group meedng, he will dis-
cuss the future of the Internet, PSINet's planned
acquisidon of Transaction Network Services, Inc.,
in which he was intimately involved, the evolu-
tion of corporate mergers, PSINet's stadium name
deal with the Baltimore Ravens professional foot-
ball team, digital libraries and other timely topics.

Since its founding in 1 989, PSINet, whose
stock is listed on the NASDAQ exchange, has
been a leader in Internet inn ovation. The
Herndon, Virginia-based corporation was the first
company to provide commercial Internet access,
the first to offer guaranteed commercial quality
of service, the first managed private Internet

Provider network service, the first managed
Internet security service, and the first Internet

service provider to offer 1 00 percent
guaranteed uptime Web hosting ser-
vices.

On Aug, 23 PSINet announced it had
entered into a definite agreement to
acquire Transaction Network Services,
Inc. , the leading worldwide provider
of eCommerce data communications,
processing more than 20 million
transactions per day from two million
businesses. Transaction Network,
headquartered in Reston,Virginia,and
listed on the New York Stock
Exchange, handles more than 70 per
cent of the electronic Point of Sale
transactions in the United States, Combining
PSINet and Transaction Network would create
the leading global provider of eCommerce and
Internet solutions to businesses worldwide.

Prior to joining PSINet, Postal was senior vice
president and chief financial officer for The
Hunter Group, a consulting firm that assists
clients in the implementation of various software
packages. He also has held positions with The
Wyatt Company, Satellite Business Systems and
Deloitte and Touche.

A native of Washington, D.C., Postal is a certi-
fied public accountant and an active member in
the Financial Executives Institute where he is
serving on its national board of directors.

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September 7, 1999 Outtook 3

Renovated Career Center Boasts Professional Look, New Features

After a year of major renovations, the Career
Center offices now look as snazzy as a Brooks
Brothers suit.

Warm cherrywood paneling and jade green carpet
distinguishes the new Career Center which recently
moved back Into its newly renovated space on the
third floor of Hornbake Library.

"The new Career Center seeks to reflect the high
standards and quality of the University of Maryland.
Goals for the renovation included correcting past defi-
ciencies and designing for the future, particularly in
the area of technology utilization," says Linda Cast,
Career Center director.

In addition to a new look, the renovated center
includes many new and updated features. The center
now features:

• an welcoming, professional presence for all visitors;

• a suite of 20 interview rooms to accommodate
the growing demand from local, national and interna-
tional organizations to hire Maryland students;

• a Multi-Purpose Room for conducting seminars
and workshops,

career-related classes and employer presentations
using the latest technologies;

• an expanded Career and Employ- ment Resource
Room, including a new computer laboratory, to assist
students in exploring careers and researching employ-
ers and graduate schools.

Career Center administrators see the newly reno-
vated space as more customer service-friendly than
the old facility

"There's an immediate welcoming and professional
presence you feel when you step off of the elevator
on to the third floor of Hornbake Library-South Wing,"
says Cast. "The cherr3fwood and the architectural
details that create a feeling of space and height help
to create this environment."

The renovations helped the Career Center meet its
goal of improving the space to accommodate the large
number of employers and students who utilize the
center's services. In 1997-1998 the Career Center for-
warded 43,222 student resumes to interested employ-
ers through the resume referral program, served more
than 1 0,840 students in the Career and Employment
Resource Room and coordinated 7,666 on-campus
interviews for more than 523 organizations.

On Sept, 30, from 4-7 p.m., the Career Center will

The newly renovated Career Center Is back In Its original home, the third floor of Hornbake Library, South
Wing, an sporting a professional, welcoming look.

host a grand opening event to celebrate its new look
and reintroduce the campus to the "new" center.
Tours will be given of the facility, plus refreshments
and prizes will be provided. Oct. 6 is the grand open-
ing for employers interested in working with the
Career Center to interview and hire students.

From those who've traveled to the newly renovat-
ed Career Center, Cast says the reactions have been
extremely positive. "Consistently we have heard the
exclamation, 'Wow!' when people step off the eleva-
tor into our new center," she says. "Many also have
expressed their pleasure with the university adminis-
tration for acknowledging the importance of the
Career Center to the insdtution by providing a world-
class, state-of-the-art facility."

To go along with its fresh look, the Career Center
has a number of new projects for the upcoming year,
including an expanded career series, improvements to
the Terp Online website and the Implementation of
Terp Network, an online alumni, parent and student
mentoring database.

"The new facility provides renewed opportunities
to collaborate with faculty and staff to ensure stu-
dents have both the educational foundation and the
life skills to become full and contributing members of
society," says Gast.

The Center is located on the third floor of
Hornbake Library. For more information, call the
Career Center at 314-7225 or visit
<wwrw.CareerCenter. umd.edu>.

Writers Here & Now

continued from page I

academic year's speakers

Among the invited
authors reading this year
are 1998 National Book
Award winner Gerald Stern,
and Michael Cunningham,
who won both the
PEN/Faulkner Award and
the Pulitzer Prize for his
third novel. The Hours.

Joyce Kornblatt, profes-
sor in the creative writing
program, also is a featured
reader in this year's series.
Her recently published
novel The Reason for Wings
has received critical acclaim
from Publisher s l^f^kJy
and NPR's "All Things
Considered".

Over the last several
years, says Collier, the series
has been a cosponsor of
other literary related events

by other departments, such
as the Women's Studies pro-
gram and Nyumburu
Cultural Center. "One thing
I've really enjoyed is that
the series is now a universi-
ty wide program. It's not
just serving English majors,"
says Collier.

Funding, which originally
came solely from the
English department, now
comes from a host of
sources, including the
College of Arts and
Humanities, the English
department. Friends of the
Library, the University Book
Center, the Committee on
Africa and the Americas, the
Women's Studies Program
and Asian American Studies
program.

For more information
about the Writers Here and
Now series, call 405-3820.

Fall 1999

Writers Here and Now

Pro-am

Wednesday, Sept, 15,
7 p.m.

Gerald Stern

Stern's eleventh book of
poems. This Time, earned him
the National Book Award in
1998. The recipient of numer-
ous other awards including a
Guggenheim Fellowship, three
National Endowment of the
Arts Fellowships and the
Lamont Poetry Prize, he has
taught at many universities,
including Temple, New York
University and for 14 years at
the Iowa Writers' Workshop.

Wednesday, Oct. 13, 7 p.m.

MFA Faculty Reading
Merle Collins and Joyce
Kornblatt

Collins' published work
includes two volumes of poet-
ry, a volume of short stories,
and two novels, the most
recent of which is The Colour
of Forgetting (Virago), She

teaches in the departments of
English and comparative litera-
ture.

Kornblatt 's much-acclaimed
novel. The Reason for Wings,
was recendy published by
Syracuse University Press. She
is the author of two other nov-
els and a collection of short
stories. She teaches in the
Creative Writing Program.

Wednesday, Nov. 17, 7 p.m.

Share Our Strength: "Writers'

Harvest"

E.A. Markham and Jaimy Gordon

"Writers' Harvest," a reading
on behalf of Share Our
Strength, is one of more than
200 literary events taking place
in bookstores and on campuses
across the country in order to
help raise money for the hun- .
gry. Share Our Strength coordi-
nates food bank services, grant
distribution, public education
and community outreach on
the issue of hunger worldwide.
All proceeds from this reading
will be donated to Share Our
Strength,

Born in Montserrat.West
Indies, Markham completed his
education in Britain and has
lived there for the past 43
years. He has published six vol-
umes of poetry, two of short
stories, four edited anthologies,
most recendy a novel. Marking
Time (Peepai Tree) , and a travel
book, A Fapua New Guinea
Sojourn: More Pleasures of
Exile (Carcanet), Markham is
the editor of The Penguin
Book ofCaribljean Short
Stories and is now professor of
creative writing at Sheffield
Had dam University,

Wednesday, Dec. 8, 7 p.m.

Michael Cunningham

In Spring 1999 Cunningham
won both the PEN/Faulkner
Award and the Pulitzer Prize
for his third novel. The Hours,
which was also nominated for
the National Book Critics Circle
Award. He is the author of two
other novels, /"/esA and Blood,
which earned him a Whiting
Writer's Award in 1 995 and A
Home at the End of the World.

4 Outlook September 7. 1999

maryland

Your Guide to University Events
September 7-16

September 7

6-9 p.m. "Introduction to Matlab."
introduces a popular tool for
exploring and experimenting with
numertcal algorithms. You will learn
to perform array operations, create
scalar, matrix and vector functions,
create two-dimensional graphics,
perform symbolic computations
and create simple programs. 4352
Reckord Armory. 5-2938 or register
at <www.infonn.umd.edu/PT>.'

ft-9 p.nL'lntroductlon to
Machemadca," introduces Che basic
principles of a world-class mathe-
matical tool that can perform com-
plex mathematical operations such
as integration, differentiation, etc. in
symbolic mathematical notation.
Also included is rendering in either
2- or 3-D plots. 4404 Computer &
Space Sciences Bldg. 5-2938 or regis
ter at <www,tnfbnn,umd.edu /PT>.*

September 8

3-5:30 p.m. OMSE Retention,
Orientation and Personal
Enrichment Seminar. Prospective
OMSE members can come and
meet condnuing stuiients, faculty
and staff. Nyumbuni Center 5-56 16.

5:15 p.m.Taekwondo sport club
registration and fall commence-
ment. Orientation and fall registra-
tion for prospective and continuing
Taekwondo students. Introduction
to basic Taekwondo movements.
Wear comfortable clothes, 01 07
HHP Bldg., <www, taekwondo. net/
uind'>.

6-7:30p.m. "Getting to Know Your
WAM Account," introduces WAM
account holders to the concepts
involved in using their accounts.
The class covers receiving and
sending email, deleting mail, and
participating in electronic discus-
sion groups. Perfect for those who
have just begun using their WAM
accounts. 3330 Computer & Space
Sciences Bldg. 5-2938 or register at
< www. inform . umd . ed u/Fr>

6-8 p.m. "Navigating the WebCT
Environment" is for students who
are enrolled in courses at the uni-
versity which have integrated
WebCT into the class environment.
Students will learn to navigate
course content, participate in bul-
letin boards and chat rooms, and
develop presentation materials in
group project space. 4404
Computer & Space Sciences Bldg.
5 2938 or register at <www.iriform.
umd,edu/PT>.

6:30-7:45 p.m. Taekwondo sport
club registration and fall commence-
ment. Orientation and fall registra-
tion for prospective and continuing
Taekwondo students. Introduction
to basic Taekwondo movements.
Wear comfortable clothes. 0107
HHP Bldg., <www.taekwondo.net/
umd/>.

8 11 p.m."University Theatre Open
House," Free entertainment and tours

of the th eater. Tawes Bldg. 5-2201.

September 9

3:30 p.m. Meteorologv Siuiiinar Series:
"Determination of Meteorological
Fronts From Total Ozone Data," Robert
Hudson. 2400 Computer & Space
Sciences Bldg, 5-5392.

4:30-7:30 p.m. "Introduction to
Matlab.' introduces a popular tool for
exploring and experimenting with
numerical algorithms. You will learn
to perform array operations, create
scalar, matrix and vector functions.
create two-dimensional grapliics, per-
form symbolic computations and cre-
ate simple programs. 4352 Record
Armory, 5-2938 or register at

< www. info rm . umd . edu/PT>.*

4:30 7:30p.m."Introduction to
Mathematica," introduces the basic
principles of a world-class mathemati-
cal tool that can perform complex
mathematical operadons such as inte-
gration, differentiation, etc. in symbolic
mathematical notation. Also included
is rendering in either 2- or 3-D plots.
4404 Computer & Space Sciences
Bldg. 5-2938 or register at

< www. inform.umd. edu/PT > .*

September 10

8 p.m. School of Music presents the
Coolidge Quartet. Lllrich Recital Hall.
5-7847.

September 11

6 p.m. Maryland Football vs. Western
CaroUna. Byrd Stadium, 4-7070.*

September 12

1-4 p.m."Introducdon to
Mathematica," introduces the basic
principles of a world-class mathemati-
cal tool that can perform complex
mathematical operations such as inte-
pation, differentiation, etc. in symlxillc
mathematical notation. Also included
is rendering in either 2 or 3D plots.
4404 Computer & Space Sciences
Bldg. 5-2938 or register at
< wwTV. inform, umd .ed u/PT> .'

3p.m. School of Music presents
"Celebrating Goethe: Songs and
Poetry." Robert McCoy and Peter
Beicken. Uirich Recital Hall. 5-7847.

September 13

6-9 p-m. "Getting to Know Your WAM
Account." is designed to introduce
WAM account holders to the con-
cepts involved in using their
accounts, The class covers receiving
and sending email, deleting mail, and
participating in electronic discussion
groups. Perfect for those who have
Just begun using their WAM accounts.
3330 Computer & Space Sciences
Bldg. 5-2938 or register at
< WW w. i nform . umd . ed u/PT> .

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admission. $10 for faculty/staff

for faculty /staff and $5 for

residency. Tickets are $8

and $5 for students.

students. and $5 for students and

November

Maryland Dance Ensemble
presents a program of new
and recent choreographic
works Nov. 15-19.
Choreography by faculty will
be featured and performed by
the ensemble. Performances
take place at

8 p.m. in the Dorothy Madden
Theater, Tickets are $8 and $5
for students and seniors.

December

The Student Dance

6-9 p.m. "Intermediate
Mathematica," continues covering
critically important skills in solving
matrix and vector operations, multi-
ple integrals, differential equations, 2
and 3D plots in parametric, polar,
spherical, cylindrical, implicit, con
tour. mesh, views and much more.
4404 Computer & Space Sciences
Bldg. 5-2938 or register at
< www.inform. umd . ed u/PT>.*

8p.m. School of Music presents the
Walsum Awards Concert with mem-
bers of the 20th Century Consort.
Christopher Kendall, conductor.
Uirich Recital HaU. 5-7847.

September 14

6-7:30 p.m. "Getting to Know Your
WAM Account," is designed to intro-
duce WAM account holders to the
concepts involved in using their
accounts. The class covers receiving
and sending email, deleting malt,
and participating in electronic dis-
cussion groups. Perfect for those
who have just begun using their
WAM accounts. 3330 Computer &
Space Sciences Bldg. 5-2938 or regis
ter at <www.inform.umd.edu/PT>.

March

Two performances of the
Joe Good Performance
Group's "Deeply There (stories
of a neighborhood" takes
place March 6 and 7, 8 p.m. In
the Dorothy Madden Theater.
Tickets are $12 general admis-
sion, $10 for iaculty /staff and
$5 for students.

April

Maryland Dance Ensemble
performs a program of student
choreography April 13-15 and

6-9 p.m. "Introduction to Windows
9 5. "introduces the Windows operat-
ing system. Concepts covered include
how to move around in a window,
use menus, lind files, use help, copy
files, format floppy disks, create fold-
ers, create and manage files for use
with Windows applications, 4 404
Computer & Space Sciences Bldg. 5-
2938 or register at <www.tnform.
umd.edu/PT>,*

September 15

11:35 a.m.- 12:45 p.m. Black Campus
Ministries Program: "Sweet Hour of
Prayer," a Campus Wide Prayer
Service. Memorial Chapel. 4-7759 or
5-9005.

7 p.m. "Writers Here and Now
Reading Series." 1998 Pulitzer Prize-
winning poet Gerald Stern reads his
work at the first reading of (he
Writers Here and Now Series, which
is celebrating its 30th year on cam-
pus. Special Events Room, McKeldin
Library. 5-3820 or dbl88@umall.
umd.edu.

seniors.

May

yisy 10 at 5 p.m. the
Student Dance Association pre-
sents "New Dances," an infor-
mal showing of new works.
The performance is free and
take place in the Dorothy
Madden Theater.

For information on tickets,
contact the dance depart-
ment's box office at 405-7847.

September 16

4:30-6:30 p.m. "Navigating the
WebCT Environment." is for students
who are enrolled in courses at the
university which have integrated
WebCT into the class environment.
In it students will learn to navigate
course content, participate in bul-
letin boards and chal rooms, and
develop presentation materials in
group project space. 4404
Computer & Space Sciences Bldg.
5-2938 or register at <www.inform.
umd.edu/PT>

Calendar Guide

Calendar phone numbers listed as
4-xxxx or 5-xxxx stand for the
prefix 314- or 405. Events are free
and open to the public unless
rioted t)y an asterisk {*). Calendar
information for Outlook is com-
piled from a combination of
inforM's master taiendar and sub-
missions to the OulSook office.
To reach Ibe calendar editor, call
405-7615 or e-maU Outlook@
accmail, omd.edu.

September 7, 1999 Outlook 5

Photo Outreach Program Provides Insight on Homelessness

Children lazing on the grass, a woman reading
a newspaper, a child learning to write... the
images evoke a sense of well-being and nor-
malcy. But they are never associated with
homelessness, a harsh
reality faced by thou-
sands of people in
Maryland.

Now, the Photo
Outreach Program at
the University of
Maryland is putting
together these uncon-
ventional and beauti-
ful images of home-
less people from
Baltimore County in a
date book that will
be distributed to poli
cy makers in the
state. The aim is to
create awareness
about the problem of
homelessness and the
fact that people living
on the streets are not
necessarily alcohol
and drug abusers, but
women and children as well.

"We wanted to put faces on the homeless so that
support programs can l^e created to help these peo-
ple get back on their feet," says Jill Greenberg who
works with the Coalition for Homelessness and
served as homeless education program coordinator on
this project. It was Greenberg who conceived the idea
of a book about the homeless a year ago.

The date book has been funded with grants from
the Prince George's Arts Council, the Maryland State
Arts Council, and the Maryland State Department of
Education's Homelessness Division,

It is tentatively scheduled for release in November
this year. Apart from photographs, the date book will
carry samples of children's artwork on homelessness
and inspirational quotes from various sources. About
1000 copies of thi_ book will be printed, of which

some will be distributed to the homeless so they can
keep their medical and dental records, says Barbara
Tyrol er, arts outreach coordinator at College Park.
Ten students from the Photo Outreach Program assist-
ed Tyroler in shooting hundreds of pho-
tographs for the project. Of these, about
30 will find their way into the date
book, says Tyroler.

The pictures were taken mostly in
shelters in Baltimore County. Tyroler
recalls that while some of the homeless
they were working with were a little
skeptical at first about the photo^a-
phers, the truth is "people love to get
their pictures taken,"

She and her students took only com-
plimentary pictures of their subjects -
"ones that made them look happy and
proud" — and later distributed copies to
them.

The idea behind making the home-
less look happy
in the pictures,
Greenberg
says, was to
show that
homelessness
could affect
anyone, "in our families, in
our neighborhoods."

Student Stacie Marshall,
who spent about a year visit-
ing three shelters to shoot
the pictures, found the expe-
rience of working with the
homeless interesting and
moving.

Her subjects were often
children and she made the
discovery that "kids always
want to be happy, no matter
what their circumstances."
Marshall says she was sur-
prised by how well main-
tained some of the shelters

were and recalls some interesting programs offered
there, like a computer training program where
women could acquire modern computer skills.

She also met people who changed her understand-
ing of the problem of homelessness, such as a woman
who had worked for a county program that helped
the homeless find shelters, but was herself driven to
the streets because of financial problems.

Greenberg points out that people don't often real-
ize the homeless include working people "like any of
us," forced out of their homes by domestic violence, a
fire or some other disaster. Many of them are people
with jobs that don't pay enough, she says.

Half of the homeless, she adds, are families with
children.

— VAISHALI HONAWAR

Photos such as these are highlighted In the date
book designed by the Photo Outreach Program.

6 Outioofc September 7, 1999

Historian

Donates 1,600

Volumes to

Leadership

Library

Pulitzer prize-winning
historian James MacGregor
Burns recently donated
1,600 volumes from his
personal collection to the
Lucille Maurer Leadership
Library housed in Taliaferro
Hall, The books, half of
them biographies, were the
first major acquisition for
the new library, which is
part of the James
MacGregor Bums Academy
of Leadership. More of
Burns' books on leadership
will follow shortly, with
the total donation expect-
ed to reach as many as
2,500 volumes.

"We're thrilled to have
the collec-
tion

here " says Nance Lucas,
director of the Academy of
Leadership. "It's a tremen-
dous resource for serious
scholars of leadership, his-
tory and poUdcal science."

Lauren Brown, curator
of archives and manu-
scripts at the university,
agrees. "It's hard to think of
history or political science
without thinking of the
contributions James
MacGregor Burns has
made to the literature," he
says.

For more information
about the Lucille Maurer
Leadership Library, visit the
Web at < www. academy.
umd.edu/library>.

For more information
about James MacGregor
Bums' upcoming book,
Dead Center: Clinton-Gore
Leadership and the Perils
of Moderation — written
with Georgia Sorenson —
contact Stefanie Weiss,
communications director
at the Academy, at 405-
7938 or
swe iss@acade my. umd.edu

Diversity: ifs Your Future

September Focus on Diversity

All Month

September 15 -October 15

Hispanic Heritage Month, For information

about this month's events, contact the

Hispanic Heritage Coalition at

HHC UM@hotmaU.com

September 8

3 p.m. (Reception) and 3;45-5p.m.
(Program) . OMSK Retention, Orientation
and Personal Enrichment Strategies
(ROPES) .This program will assemble
incoming African American, Asian/Pacific
American, Hispanic/Latino American, and
Native American first-year students giving
them the opportunity to interact with con-
tinuing students, faculty and staff. Student
organizations %vill perform skits that relate
to college life. A faculty/staff representative
will highlight the academic expectations
for first-year students. Nyumburu Cultural
Center. Contact OMSE. 5-5616.

1

Did you know that the Office of
y Human Relations Programs is opening
> SILC — the Student intercultural
' Center? For more Information, con-
; tact Paul GorskI at 5-8192 or

pg92@umail.umd.edu or stop by SILC

at 0106E Shriver Laboratory, East

Wing.

September 9

4:30 p.m. LGBSFA; Ruth Fassinger and Jon
Mohr,''Same Sex Couples: What Do We

Know," Location TBA. Contact Luke Jensen,
ljensen@deans.umd.edu or check out
< www. umd .edu/lgbt/>

September 9
(and monthly)

6:30-9:30 p.m. Action Langley Park
Meeting. Action Langley Park is a neighbor-
hood-based community planning associa-
tion - a coalition of residents, labor, busi-
ness, church, and other allies - linked with
the campus' Langley Park Project provid-
ing campus-community links for immi-
grant-focused community service. Langley
Park Community Center Contact William
Hanna, 5-4005 or bhanna@ursp.umd.edu

September 10

4-7 p.m. (RAIN DATE: September 17).
OMSE Unity Picnic. Engineering Field
House. Contact OMSE, 5-5616.

September IS

10:30 a.m. -noon. Diversity Initiative
Steering Committee Meeting. New mem-
bers are always welcome! Family Studies
Conference Room. Contact the Office of
Human Relations Programs. 5-2838 or
diversity@umail.umd.edu
Also, mark your calendar for the rest of the
semester's Diversity Initiative Committee
meetings. All meetings will be at the same
time and place:

* October 12

* November 17

* December 14

noon T p.m. Deaf Culture. Martha Pugh,
staff interpreter. Disability Support
Services, Counseling Center discusses the
topic of deaf culture. 0114 Counseling
Center, Shoemaker Hall, Contact 4-765 1 ,

September 30

7:30 p.m. Poetry Reading ■ "Performing
Blackness: Voices of the Diaspora."A poetry
reading featuring Sonla Sanchez, Cornelius

The Counseling Center,
Shoemaker Btiilding, offers the fol-
lowing support groups:

• Circle of Sisters - a support group
for Black/African American women
students. The group meets on
Wednesdays, 6-7 :30p.m. Starts on
October 6 - call to register.

• Women of Color - Day & Time TBA

- call to register.

• Walk-in Hour for Students of Color

- counseling services provided by
counselors of color for students of
color without an appointment daily,
3-4 p.m.

For more information or to
register, call 314-7651.

Eady, Merle Collins, ToniAsante Lightfoot,
DJ Renegade and emerging local poets.
The event is free and open to the public.
Sponsored by the Committee on Africa
and the Americas. Multipurpose Room,
Nyumburu Cultural Center. Contact
5-6835.

• To see the full version of the
September "Focus on Diversity" Calendar
go to our "Student Link to the Diversity
Initiative" at <www.inform.umd.edu/
Diversity/Initiadve>,

To place your event in October's "Focus
on Diversity" calendar, e-mail information
to Jamie Feehery-Simmons at
Jfl56@umail.umd.edu or fax 314-9992 no
later than September 20. If you have any
questions, please call 405-2562.

Calendar brought to you by the Diversity
Initiative.

Higli Tecli Advances Public Heaitli Research

Digital videos, interactive games and
CD-ROM are not typical tools used in a
medical office, but at the University of
Maryland they play an integral role in
helping public health researchers find
ways to create healthy lives for world pop-
ulations.

The Laboratory for Public Health
Informatics and Communications Research
is the brainchild of director Robert Gold,
professor of health education. The lab con-
sists of interacdve educational and muld-
media communication technologies
designed to improve on public health
intervendon.

Gold's vision for technology and service
in public health recently earned him fel-
low status at the American Academy of
Health Behavior, one of the highest honors
in public health. As a fellow, he provides
support to association members, reviews
materials for the organization, and partici-

pates in planning association meetings and
activities. Gold has many honors including

The lab consists of
interactive educational and
multimedia communication
technologies designed to
improve on public health
intervention.

Scholar of the Year for the American
Alliance for Health Education. Although he
has been granted many honors, he is most
proud of the Public Health Informatics
Lab.

Gold leads a team that works on dynam-

ic projects, such as designing computer
games for kids on how to manage asthma
and creating interactive games for middle
school aged-children on ways to under-
stand the body, The lab also provides com-
munications technology support to the
Task Force for Child Survival and
Development. The team studies the influ-
ences on child growth and development
through an online Web portal that is
designed for conferencing capability which
allows for communicadon and data collec-
tion.

Beyond gadgets and data, Gold believes
technology influences human behavior
and should be utilized to reach out to pop-
uladons to influence quality of life and
health. He is nationally recognized as one
of the foremost experts in the application
of advanced communication technologies
to health education, ranging from comput-
er software to expert systems technology.

September 7. 1999 Oirttook 7

SILC: A Progressive Approach to intercultural Learning

As you walk around campus this year and notice
something new in Sh river Laboratory's East Wing, you
may ask yourself, "What does SILC mean?" SILC is the
Student Intercultural Learning Center, created by the
Office of Human Relations Programs (OHRP) as a new
student-focused arm of the Diversity Initiative.

The goals of SILC include:

' Continuing to ask for and respond to self-identi-
fied student intercultural needs;

* Enhancing institution-wide intercultural program-
ming and learning initiatives;

* Creating opportunities for students to interact
and engage divergent perspectives through intercul-
tural and intergroup dialogues; and,

* Developing opportunities for students at all levels
of awareness and understanding to develop intercul-
tural skills.

SILC will be the central hub connecting all of the
current student-related activities coordinated by
OHRP and the Diversity Initiative, as well as all of the
new programs, initiatives and activities which are
developed in order to continue addressing student
identified intercultural needs.

In an attempt to provide a vride range of activities
for people with different levels of awareness and
areas of interest, programs will include: opportunities
for students to develop facilitation and mediation
skills through the Sexual Harassment Prevention Peer
Program, the Peer Mediation Program, and the
Diversity Training Circle; academic courses including
"Facilitating Dialogue on Race, Gender and Ethnicity"
and "Multiculturalism in Self and Society"; interperson-
al and intergroup dialogues on a variety of topics; and
various other dialogues, workshops and other pro-
grams hosted throughout the academic year.

"While SILC is a student focused initiadve, it can
also be a valuable resource for faculty and staff. It is a
place to which you can steer students who have an

expressed interest in diversity and intercultural learn-
ing, but SILC is also a place to refer students who are
at an earlier stage of intercultural awareness, comfort
and understanding," says Paul Gorski, coordinator for
SILC.

Many of SILC's initiatives will be in conjunction
with other academic and non-academic units on cam-
pus, including College Park Scholars, the Academy of
Leadership, the departments of comparative literature,
American studies and family studies, the Division of
Student Affairs, and the Office of Campus Programs.
SILC also will continue building coalitions with and
across existing student groups.

SILC was created in response to these student-iden-
tified needs. Last year, with this in mind, OHRP reded-
icated itself to strong student-focused outreach
efforts. OHRP facilitated a series of focus groups
across campus through which students became
"teachers" about their diversity-related needs, accord-
ing to Gorski. Thirteen focus groups were conducted
among student populations ranging from athletic club
captains to the Asian American Student Union. Several
open-ended questions were posed regarding their per-
ceptions of diversity, the Diversity Initiadve and their
campus experiences.

OHRP's modvation for this progressive approach
was based on those student identified — needs, which
Gorski says is the "best approach because the people
with the most expertise regarding student experience
and student needs are . . , students. While this seems
an obvious point, there is too often a tendency in
institutions of higher education for 'experts' in various
fields to make decisions on what students want and
need without spending sufficient time pulling ideas
from the very populadon they attempt to serve. This
can be especially troubling, if not dangerous, when
the role of the 'experts' is to create intercultural or
diversity-related learning opportunities - a responsibili-

ty which is already politically charged and emotional
for everybody involved."

Three major points emerged and ree merged across
the focus group transcripts:

1 . Students value diversity and enjoy being at a uni-
versity where there are many different people and
cultures, but most pointed to the need for more
opportunities for interacdon among the diverse faces,
perspectives and backgrounds.

2. Students want intercultural learning opportuni-
ties that meet them where they are in terms of com-
fort level, awareness and development.

3. Students recognize the need to develop intercul-
tural skills, but prefer to do so in forums consistent
with their learning styles. Some prefer academic
classes, some prefer intergroup dialogues, some prefer
listening to guest speakers or panels and most are
completely uncomfortable with at least one of these
opdons,

"We [OHRP] re-learned the obvious: if you really
want to know about student intercultural needs, ask
the students ."Gorski adds.

OHRP is currendy assembling a student advisory
board that will meet monthly to provide guidance,
ideas and support for SILC and its continuing develop-
ment. The office is also creating a SILC lounge in
Shriver Laboratory, East Wing, where students will find
a small resource library of books, magazines, journals,
and videos dealing with various intercultural issues.

To learn more about SILC and its programs, contact
Paul Gorski. Coordinator for SILC, at 405-8192 or
pg92@umail.umd.edu or visit 0106E Shriver
Laboratory, East Wing.

—JAMIE FEEHERYSIMMONS

Students Live and Learn How to Build a Civil Society

continued from page 1

membership totals 121 in this inaugural class of this
living and learning program. Approximately half are
first year students. The remainder are upperclass stu-
dents representing more than 30 majors.

Due to the newness of the program, admission was
by invitation only. First-year students were accepted
based on a review of application materials submitted
for undergraduate admission. Scholastic achievement,
extracurricular and civic involvement during high
school were also considered. Preference was given to
Behavioral and Social Sciences majors followed by
Letters and Sciences students.

While building this civil society, CIVICUS students
are enjoying sharing some very impressive digs. "This
is nicer than my room at home," says one of the asso-
ciates, who is sharing a triple.

ffiflsiBitts kA

Irving Goldstein, dean of
the College of Behavioral and
Social Sciences, says parents,
too, were impressed with the
attractive dorm. "Several par-
ents said, 'Why don't we send
out kids home and we'll live
here,'" says Goldstein.

Bright hallways, cozy stu-
dent lounges and study
spaces, muted green and
mauve accents and Palladian
windows distinguish Somerset
Hall inside. A brick courtyard
and rock garden, with wood-
en benches and lamp lighting
distinguish the hall outside.
"We've created a living and
learning atmos-
phere that will
give students a
passion for broad-
er participation
and empower-
ment through
local decisionmak-
ing," says Pat Mielke, director of the
Department of Resident Life. "This self-gov-
ernance will result in a greater awareness
for common concerns and aspiradons for
each resident to invesdgate while building
a civil culture to benefit everyone."

Mielke has been instnunental in
developing clusters of residence halls
devoted to living and learning programs. In
addition to the CIVICUS program at
Somerset Hail, both Queen Anne's and
Anne Arundel halls host honors students;

President Dan Mote, above right, visits with students during a recent tour of
Somerset Hall, the new CIVICUS residence hall. Below left, a student relaxes
In her room. The dorm has doybtes, triples and a few sln^e rooms.

Dorchester Hall is the internaUonal house; St. Mary's
Hall is known as the language house; and the
Cambridge Community, a cluster of five halls, includ-
ing Bel Air, Cambridge, Centerville, Chestertown, and
Cumberland, provides living accommodations for the
College Park Scholars.

For Rachel Philofsky, a sophomore associate, CIVI-
CUS is a great opportunity. "Community service was a
huge part of my life in high school and I wanted to
continue that here at the university," she says. "I'm
excited about this program. It's really fiin so far."

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CHORUS

Chorus and Chorale Auditions

The University of Maryland
Chorus and University Chorale are
holding student,
faculty and staff
auditions through
today, Sept. 7 at
the Tawes Fine
Arts building.

Acting Director
Jesse Parker will
lead the chorus
through a season
including Mozart's
"Requiem,"
Brahms ' "Naenie ,"
the annual

Christmas concerts and Handel's
oratorios "Susanna" and "Solomon."

The Chorale, led by acting direc-
tor Phillip Collister, has a season of
music featuring the fall concert,"!
Hear America Singing," the
Christmas concert and the annual
Pops concert.

To audition for either group, call
405-5571.

PeHonning Blackness

The Committee on Africa and
the Americas presents a poetry
reading, "Performing Blackness:
Voices of the Diaspora," Thursday,
Sept, 30, at 7:30 p.m. in the
Nyumburu Cultural Center's
Multipurpose Room. Featured read-
ers include Sonia Sanchez,
Cornelius Eady, Merle Coliins.Toni
Asante Lightfoot, DJ Renegade and
emerging local poets. The event is
free and open to the general pub-
lic.

For information, call 405-6835.

Online Learning

The fifth intemadonal Conference
on Asynchronous Learning Networks
takes place Oct.8-10,at
the University College
Inn and Conference
Center. This
is the pre-

miere conference devoted exclusive-
ly to online learning.

For more information and to

register online, visit the

web site <virww.aln.
org/alnconf99>.

Massage Classes

Geoff Gilbert,
Certified Massage
Therapist with the
University Health Center
is offering massage class-
es beginning Monday.
Sept. 13. There is an $80
fee for 12 weeks (one
class a week) .
Classes are offered Mondays,
from 4:15-5:45 p.m., or from 6-7:30
p.m., in Room 0140 Campus
Recreation Center. You may register
at class or at the University Health
Center, Room 2107.

Two free introductory classes
will be offered at 4 p.m. and 5: 1 5
p,m.,Wednesday, Sept, 8 in Room
0140 of the Campus Recreation
Center. Registration is not required
For more information call 314-
8128.

Many Modules

The Institute for bistructional
Technology (HT) FaD 1999 Series
will offer the WebCT series of five
half-day modules in addition to two
advanced WebCT modules, A
"refresher" Netscape Page Composer
module will also be offered as prepa-
ration for the WebCT modules.

Module information and registra-
tion is available at www.inform.
umd.edu/IIT/c urrent.html. For
more information, contact Ellen
Borkowski at ey9@umail.umd.edu
or Deb Mateik at
dml6@umail.umd,edu.

ATM Short Course

The Instructional Television
System (ITV) presents a short
course seminar, "ATM Technology:

Architecture, Standards and
Applications," with Nasser
Nasrabadi, Wednesday, Sept. 29 and
Thursday, Sept. 30, from 1 1 a.m. to
5 p.m. in the ITV Building (Building
045 on the campus map).

This course provides an intro-
duction to the basic concepts and
techniques used in Asynchronous
Transfer Mode (ATM)-based com-
munications networks. ATM is a
high-speed packet switching proto-
col used to transfer voice, video
and data at high rates over local
area or wide area fiber optic net-
works.

Cost for the two-day seminar is
$345 for University of Maryland
System employees (a more than 50
percent discount). Continental
breakfast and lunch will be
served.

For more information and to reg-
ister, contact ITV's Professional
Development Office at 405-4913 or
dbelisle@eng. umd.edu.

Creative Dancing

The defjartment of dance will
offer Creative Dance Lab, a commu-
nity dance education program for
children, teens and adults begin-
ning Sept. 18. Saturday classes
include:

Modern dance
and yoga for teens
and adults, 9 10
a.m., a fun class
incorporating
simple dance

steps, stretching, strengthening and
great music.

Dance history (fall only) for ages
7 and up, 10-10:30 a.m., a new
class combining discussion, tech-
nique, improvisation and choreog-
raphy focused on the theme of four
pioneers in modern dance.

Basics in modern dance for 7-11
year olds, 10:30-1 1 :30 a.m., an intro-
duction to modern dance technique,
with improvisation and group chore-

ography.

Creative dance for 4-6 year olds,
11:30 a.m.- 12:15 p.m., allows
young children to express them-
selves freely in movement, develop
coordination and explore a wide
range of spatial, rhythmic and
dynamic qualities.

All classes are held in the Dance
Building, Studio 36, located in park-
ing lot V-1. For more information,
check the department's webpage
at <www.citi.net/ski/cdl> or
email director Liz Rolland at dance-
labl@aol.com or call 405 7039.

In Concert

The School of Music presents its
opening concert of the 1999-2000
Artist Scholarship Benefit
Series Saturday, Sept. 18 at
|Sk 8 p.m. in the Ulrich Recital
Py Hall. Chris Gekker, trumpet
ipl and Robert McCoy, piano will
perform a concert of
American music written for
Gekker in the style the late
composer Jacob Drucknian called
"New Romanticism, "The program
features works by Eric Ewazen,
David Snow and James Wintle. For
tickets call 405-7847.

Art Showcase

More than a dozen
professional artists
will be on display
when Senior University
presents an art
show and open
house on Sept.
1 5 from 1 -3 p.m. Presented by
Passageways Art Studios, Inc., Linda
Uphoff will give a talk and answer
questions and refreshments will be
served.

The Senior University is located
at 4321 Hartwick Road. Suite 220.