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Outlook
The University of Maryland Faculty and Staff Weekly Newspaper
Volume 14* Number 16 • February 1, 2000
New Brew,
page3
February Diversity
Calendar,
pa^5
Communications Leader Names
Maryland Arena for $20 Million
Comcast Center Host Basketball Games, Student Activities
gomcastcenter
Beginning in the 2002-2003 season, Terrapins baskettiall teams will play In the newly named
Comcast Center, shown above, to be located south of the Chesapeake Building.
The University of Maryland Terrapins basket
ball teams will play in the Comcast Center
beginning in the 2002-2003 season, thanks to a
$20 million naming rights gift to the university
announced at a news conference Jan. 5. The gift
Is part of a business partnership that also
Includes the provision of cable television ser-
vices to university residence halls. The Maryland
Board of Regents
and the Board of
Public Works must
approve the agree-
ments before they
take effect.
University
Relations Vice
President Brodie
Remington said
the gift is the
largest single dona
tion ever to the
state's flagship
campus, and it
matches the
largest known
corporate naming
gift in the United States for a college athletic
facility. The $20 million represents a significant
portion of the university's share of the cost of
construction on the planned $101 million arena,
which will be built on the north side of the
campus under the auspices of the Maryland
Stadium Authority,
"We are thrilled to welcome Comcast to the
University of Maryland," said President Dan
Mote. "It is particularly fitting that this university,
with its great academic strengths in Information
technology and business, should team up with
Comcast, a leader in cable television services
and content as well as high-speed Internet
access, This is a win-vrin-win for all the parties
involved,
"It's certainly a win for our athletic program
and the campus," Mote said. "It's a win for
Comcast because they have association with a
great university. It's a win for the students
because they will also benefit from the cable
When the $20 million gift was
Debbie Yow, Comcast's Steve
announced, on hand were Gary Williams,
Burch, President Mote and Brodie Remington.
television facilities in the residence halls that
they have so long fought for."
"We're honored to be part of the university,
and we're thrilled to be able to provide financial
support to what I think is going to be the pre-
miere arena in the United States," said Steve
Burch, regional senior vice president, Comcast's
Mid-Atlantic Region and a Maryland alumnus.
Burch arid Mote signed the agreement just min-
utes before the news conference.
"I'm just as excited as a graduate of this uni-
Continued on pa^ 6
Professors Chair Panel H
Studying Diversity Issues j
Two long-time University
of Maryland faculty mem-
bers, both veterans of various
stni^es to enhance diversi-
ty, will chair a panel charged
with Hnding ways to trans-
form Maryland "from a
diverse campus to a diverse
community." President Dan
Mote promised to create the
panel as part of his response
to a series of threatening let-
ters sent to African and
AMcan American student
leaders last fall. The letters
are still under investigation
by state and federal authori-
ties.
Mote named Claire Moses,
professor and chair of the
Women's Studies
Department, and Raymond
Johnson, professor and for
mer chair of mathematics, to
head the panel, The 20-inem-
ber panel of faculty, staiT and
students, chosen in collabo-
ration with the College Park
Senate, held its first organiza-
tional meeting last Friday,
"We have good reason to
be proud of the substantial
and increasing diversity of
our campus," Mote says. "But
incidents tike the hate letters
suggest strongly that we
have not taken full advantage
of opportunities to bring our
campus family together into
a diverse community. Some
say we have become a feder-
ation of interest groups
rather than a union of
diverse people."
Mote says the panel
shouJd "consider any or all<
opportunities for enhance-
ment of our experiences as a
diverse commimity" and
should not be "constralnedi
by current practices and
campus organization' as it
attempts to ^H
* Reduce impediments to ^^
building understanding and
Continued on pa^ 7
Campus Simplifies Business
Processes with BPRIT
After several years of plan-
ning and study, the Business
Process Redesign Project
(BPRIT), part of an effort spon-
sored by the division of
Administrative Affairs to move
campus toward an electronic
workplace, is now entering the
implementation phase.
The $8 million project tar-
gets four core processes,
including hiring, delegated and
small dollar purchasing, travel
approval and expense reim-
bursement, as well as software
development and implementa-
tion.The goal of the BPRIT is
to eliminate unnecessary
process steps, computerize
paper-driven processes and
transform administrative
offices into more service-ori-
ented providers.
"We have been operating
under the same manual busi-
ness processes for the past 50
years," says Sylvia Stewart, asso-
ciate vice president of adminis-
trative afTalrs,"It was time to
look at our processes and to
introduce significant Informa-
tion tools into how we do busi
ness."
Starting in 1995, in response
to numerous complaints about
various business and hiring
processes. Administrative
Affairs began studying each
process and asking staff across
campus how to improve it. The
study by teams of about 1 00
users revealed a cumbersome,
outdated system, with too
many steps and not enough
integration of activities.
"It's a massive paper-chase,"
says Comptroller Julie Phelps.
"Requisitions are filled out in
paper. They're shipped over to
purchasing. Purchasing literally
types the purchase orders out,
so another document is pro-
duced out of purchasing. That
information has to get over to
accounts payable. Then an
accounts payable clerk would
have to input the information
into his own database."
Continued on page 6
2 Outlaok February 1,2000
Melvin Levin
In Metnoriam
Melvin R. Levin
i Llrban studies
pcpert and profes-
sor Melvin R. Levin
died of cancer
pec. 20 at his
home in College
Park. He was 75.
Levims^s chair-
inan of the Urban Studies and
Planning program firom 1978 to
1980. He retired from campus
Well known for his work in
^uiban studies, Levin wrote and
edited 1 2 books, including
"Outside Looking
In: Immigration
a»d Development,'
"Ending
Unemployment :
Space Alternatives
for Public l\>licy,"
land "Educational
Investment in an
Urban Society."
Levin studied Rodolfo RIvas
and documented the affect of
crime and other factors of
attracting residents to
Baltimore neighborhoods like
Union Square, Butcher's Hill
iand Mount Vemon. He also
wrote on such topics as unem-
ployment, urban sprawl and
other patterns of urban devet
ippment, community and
l^^onal piaiming and trans-
^rtation.
Levin was bom and raised in
Brooklyn, N. Y, and served in the
Army tiuiing Worid War n. He
earned his bachelor's degree
from Brooklyn College. In 1949
he received a master's degree in
sociology from University of
Chicago, where he also earned a
doctoral degree in urban plan-
ning in 1959.
He worked as an analyst for
Illinois state government and
was an economist and urban
planning consultant in private
practice before starting bis aca-
demic career
Before coming to campus,
Levin was director of urban
studies at Boston University
from 1964 to 1972. and chair-
man of Rutgers University's
department of urban planning
and iwlicy from 1972 to 1978.
He moved to Maryland in
1978, when he began woridng
at the University of Maryland.
He was president of the
American Institute of Certified
Planners from 1986 to 1988.
Family members said Levin
was a true academic. He trav-
eled extensively and loved
geography.
Levin is survived by his
three sonsjames Levin of
HoIUston, Mass., Dan levin 6f
Cupertino, Calif. , and Thomas
Levin of Richardson,
Texas; a daughter,
Cathy Levin of
BcMton; a sister,
Georgia Bank of
Monroe Township,
N.J.; and Ms three
grandchildren.
Rodoifo Rivas
Rodolfo James Rivas, 40,
assistant professor in the
department of biology Cformer-
ly zoology) sMce 1994, died of
pancreatic cancer Jan. 1 1 at
Montgomery Hospice Casey
House. He would have come
up for tenure this
year.
Rivas' area of
scientific interest was
in development neu-
robiology, particularly
the cellular develop-
ment of the cerebel-
lum/central nervous
system. His interest in
cellular imaging/ con-
focal microscopy led Rivas to
become the primary architect
of a Nadonal Science
Foundation grant to purchase a
confocal microscope in the
department in 1996.
A popular and well-regarded
teacher of developmental btol-
c^ and neural development
courses here, Rivas was award-
ed the Junior Faculty
Excellence Award, College of
Life Sciences, in 1998. He was a
member of the graduate facul-
ties in the Neurosciences and
Cognitive Sciences Program
(NACS) and Molectilar and
Cellular Biology program
(MOCB).
Like President EJan Mote,
Rivas was a Berkeley man. He
hailed from San Francisco, and
earned his bachelor's, master's
and doctoral degrees in zoolo-
gy at Berkeley. From 1988 to
1994, he did postdoctoral work
at Colimibia and Rockefeller
universities.
His publications included
articles in the Journal of
Comparative Neurology as
well as Cell Motility and the
Cytosheleton. He was a member
of the Society for Neurosdencc
and American Society for Cell
Biology. His hobbies included
hiking and rutming.
Survivors include his wife of
12 years, Sharon Kay Powell of
Silver Spring; two daughters,
Lauren PoweL Rivas and
Catherine Elizabeth Rivas, both
of Silver Spring; his mother,
Maria Aida Rivas of San
Francisco; and three sisters.
Experts List Now Accepting Data
University Relations is now gathering informa-
tion to buUd the Experts List and Speakers
Bureau database to help the media find the peo-
ple here who can help them and their readers
understand the issues.
One of the ways in which the University of
Maryland benefits society is by making the vast
intellectual resources that exist in its faculty and
staff available to the world through the media.
Reporters from throughout the world regularly
seek out the university's esperts on topics from
aeronautical engineering to zoology. Some of the
imiversity's experts are already well known to the
media and appear in national and international
publications and news broadcasts frequently. But
there are many more, less well knovt^n to the
media and the world.
The University of Maryland Experts Database
will change that.
LIniversity Relations asks all interested faculty
and staff who are willing to serve as expert
sources for reporters to fill out a simple Web
form (pictured left).TIie information will be com-
piled in a database maintained by the Office of
University Relations. Tlie database will be pub-
lished and updated constantly on the Web, search-
able by topic areas, to help reporters find
experts.
In addition, once a year University Relations
will print the information, sorted by topics, and
make the print version available to reporters. This
database will also serve as the university's
Speakers Bureau list for organizations that call to
find speakers. To provide your information to tlic
experts list, just follow these easy steps;
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follow the link to "submit your informa-
tion to the experts database ."That will
take you to a page explaining how die list
works and why it's needed.
2. You '11 be asked to log in. Use anything
you want for the uscmamc and use
"goterps99'' (without the quotes) for the
password.
3. Fill in the on-line form.This should take
no more than three minutes. That's it.
You're done, and you're in the database.
For more information contact Herb
Hartnett at 405-4628 or George Cathcart
at 405-4618.
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February 1,2000 OuUooh 3
Terp Women's Lacrosse Team Honored
by President Clinton, First Lady
The 1999 NCAA Champion women's lacrosse team game Fiist Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton her own
Terp jersey during a recent White House visit.
The five-time defending national champion
Maryland women's lacrosse team visited
Washington, DC, last month and met President
Bill Clinton and First Lady Hillary Rodham
Clinton.Tlie Terrapins were invited to the
nation's capital to be congratulated for wiiming
the 1999 NCAA Championship, their fifth
straight national title and sixth national title in
the '90s.
The Clintons greeted head coach Cindy
Timchal and the team Thursday afternoon to
recognize them for their achievements.
'It was really an exciting thing for Maryland
women's lacrosse to meet both the President
and the First Lady," says Timchal, who has a .931
TVinning percentage at Maryland over nine
years. "It was a thrill for our students."
Maryland fmished the 1999 season imdefcat-
ed at 21-0, outscoring Virginia 16-6 in the cham-
pionship game. The 1999ACC Coach of the Year,
Timchal and the Terps won their fifth straight
NCAA Championship, and their sixth champi-
onship overall under Timchal, last season.The
team's title streak is the longest active Division I
women's streak in the country, and backed by a
349-80-3 program record (a .808 winning per-
centage) and eight dtles Maryland is the win-
ningest program in women's lacrosse history.
"It's an amazing experience to come to the
White House and to be a part of something that
doesn't happen every day," comments Christie
Jenkins, the 1999 ACC Player of the Year and
first-team Brine/IWLCA All-American, on being
recognized at the White House. "It was a great
experience to meet the First Lady and to have a
surprise appearance from the President himself.
It feels good for us as athletes to know that
what we have accomplished has been recog-
nized in this way."
'I think it's quite an honor," says starting
goalie and first-team All-American Alex Kahoe
(ViUanova, Pa.) of her experience at the White
House. "It's a once-in-a-Iifetime oppoitimity to
get to meet the President and the First Lady. It's
difficult sometimes for lacrosse, because it's not
such a nationally recognized sport, to get the
exposure. To get the recognition of the
President and First Lady is great— it's amazinig—
and will only help the sport to grow more."'
The team begins action this year the week-
end of March 3-5 at Duke and North Carolina,
and then travels to Towson on March 7 before
returning home on March 9 to take on Pemt
State at 3 p.m. The squad looks to continue its
28-game win-streak and challenge for its sixth
straight national title when the 2000 season
begins.
New Brew: Seattle s Best
Coffees Come to Campus
"Visitors to the Dairy have more of a choice for their
morning coffee these days. Dining services lias replaced
its standard S&D brand brew widi Seattle's Best Coffees.
Based upon the success of Starbucks coffee in the
Stamp Union, Director of Dining Services Patricia Higgins
says a demand arose for premium coffee elsewhere on
campus. "I am a coffee snob," she says. "I grind beans and I
like good coffee myself, and I just thought we would
upgrade it in some of our cash operations for the rest of
the campus, who seem to like the Starbucls."
Seattle's Best coffee flavors include Hazelnut Cream,
Vanilla Nut and Henry's Blend. Decaf and hot chocolate
are also available, plus
espresso and cappucci-
no.
Coffiee used to be
95 cents for 12
oimces and $1,30 for
20 ounces. Seattle's
Best is $1.10 and
$1.30, respectively.
Other brews range
from $1.30 for a
short espresso to
$3.15 for a
grande cafe
moclia,
"I think it's
worth it," says
Uatetra Bro'wn,
director of
outreach for
the Alumni
Association.
"1 don't
know if it's
just the packag-
ing. It looks a little nicer, too,
but it docs taste better to me,"
Seattle's Best is also available in the bakery located in
the mathematics and engineering building. South Campus
Dining Hall will continue to offer S&D coffee.
The coffee stand is the busiest section of the t>airy in
the morning, with staff and faculty trying to find an
8 a.m. respite from the cold. "I usually get coffee, but not
today," says Rolando Mendez, a painter in facilities mainte-
nance. Today is a hot chocolate day. "Usually I drink cof-
fee when 1 get donuts or something sweet. But I think
the coffee's pretty good."
— DAVID ABRAMS
Literary History and Racial Memory Addressed by Distinguished
Lecturer, Harvard Professor of Literature Stephen Greenblatt
Stephen Greenblatt, Harry Levin Professor of
Literature at Harvard, is the next speaker in the
Graduate School Distinguished Lecttirer Series. On
Thursday, Feb. 10, Greenblatt will address "Literary
History and Racial Memory" at 4 p.m. in 2205 LeFrak
HaU.
Greenblatt teaches Shakespeare and courses on
other aspects of the fertile Renaissance period tliat
produced Cliristopher Marlowe, Edmund Spenser, Sir
Walter Raleigh and other legendary figures. He has
been called "easily the most prominent [Renaissance
scholar] of his generation."
Founder of the "new historicism," a school of liter-
ary criticism that seeks to understand the historical,
social and anthropological context in which art was
produced, Greenblatt is the author of "Marvelous
Possessions: The Wonder of the New Worid" (1991),
"Learning to Curse: Essays in Early Modem Culture"
(1990), "Renaissance Sclf-Fashionii^: From More to
Shakespeare" (1980), and "Shakespearian Negotiations:
The Circulation of Social Enei^ in Renaissance
England" (1988), which won the James Russell Lowell
Prize of the Modem Language Association.
He is the founding editor of Representations, an
ijifluential Iiterary<ultural journal, and the general
editor of "The Norton Anthology of English
Literature". He was adviser to the Academy Award-
winning "Shakespeare in Love" and has won many
awards, named lectureships and fellowships, and is
much sought after as an entertaining and engagir^
lecturer.
"Works of art that we encoimter aren't raw—
they're cooked," he says. "I'm interested in the cook-
ing and where they came ftrim," His coimterpoint is
Harold Bloom and others who argue that great wotks
of an are entirely transcendent, both of their own
time and of ours.
Greenblatt, on the other hand, is interested in
learning how all w^orks of art relate to the historical
and ciilmial and social world which they come fi^m.
In his lecture Greenblatt will discuss the attempt to
give a progressive spin to the discredited legacy of
nationalist cultural history and he will propose, as an
alternative, what he caUs mobility studies.
4 Outlook February 1. 2000
da telin e
maryland
Your Guide to University Events
February 1-10
February 1
7:30-10 p.m. University of Maryland
Chorus Auditions for students, facul-
ty and staff. Spring 2000 perfor-
mances Include Handel oratorios
"Susanna" and "Solomon. "To sched-
ule an audition, call 5-3571.
February 2
8 a.m. Dtngman Center for
Entrepreneurship Breakfest:"The
Killer Business Plan: How to Write a'
Plan that Attracts Capital." Speakers
are Charles HeUer of the Dingman
Center and C. Edward Spiva of
Anthem Capital. Bethesda Marriott,
5151 PooksHUlRd.
6-9 p.m. Workshop: 'Navigating
WebCT," is for students enrolled in
courses at the university which have
integrated WebCT into the class
environment. In it students will
learn to navigate course content,
paiticipiate In bulletin boards and
chat rooms, and develop presenta-
tions in group project space. 4404
Computer & Space Sciences BIdg.
5-2938, cwpost@umd5, umd.edu or
www.inform.umd.edu/PT.
7:30-10 p.m. University of Maryland
Chorus Auditions for students, Acui-
ty and staff Spring 2000 perfor-
mances include Handel oratorios
"Susanna'" and "Solomon.'To sched-
ule an audition, call 5-5571,
February 3
4:3a 7:30 p.m. Workshop: "Intro-
duction to Mathematica," introduces
the basic principles of a world class
mathematical toot that can perform
complex mathematical operations
such as integration, diHierentiatlon,
etc. In symbolic mathematical nota-
tion. Also included is rendering data
in either 2D or 3D plots. Used in col-
lege and universities worldwide.
4404 Computer & Space Sciences
Bldg. 5-2938, cwpost@umd5.
umd.edu or www.lnform.unid.
edu/PT.*
February 5
1 p.m. Concert: Happy Birthday,
Mozart. The 17th annual Happy
Birthday, Mozart concert, dedicated
to music that pays tribute to the
master. Ulrich Recital Hall. 5-5570.*
February 6
3 p.m. Concert: Happy Birthday,
Mozart. The 17th annual Happy
Birthday, Mozart concert, dedicated
to music that pays tribute to the
master. Ulrich Recital Hall. 55570.'
February 7
&-9 p.m. Worlishop: "Navigating
WebCT," is for students enrolled in
courses at the university which have
integrated WebCT into the class
environment. In it students vifill
learn to navigate course content, par-
ticipate in bulletin boards and chat
rooms, and develop presentations in
group project space. 4404 Computer
& Space Sciences Bldg. 5-2938,
cwpost@umd5.umd.edu or
www.infomi.umd . edu/PT.
February 8
4:30-7:30 p.m. Workshop: "Intro^
ductlon to Mathematica," introduces
the basic principles of a world class
mathematical tool that can perform
complex mathematical ojjerations
such as integration, differentiation,
etc. in symbolic mathematical nota-
tion, Also included is rendering data
in either 2D or 3D plots. Used in col-
leges and universities woridvtride.
4404 Computer & Space Science
Bldg. 5-Z938, cwpost@umd5.umd.edu
or wrww.inform.umd. edu/PT*
February 9
6-7:30 p.m. Computer Workshop:
"Cectii^ to Know Yoiur WAM
Accoimt," is designed to introduce
WAM account holders to the con-
cepts involved in using their
accounts. The class cov«s receiving
and sending email, deleting mall and
participating In electronic discussion
groups. Perfect for those who have
just be;gun using their WAM accounts.
3330 Computer & Space Science
Bldg.
5-2938, cwpost@umd5.umd.edu or
www.inform . umd . edu/PT.
6-9 p.m. Workshop: "Navigating
WebCT." is for students enrolled in
courses at the university which have
integrated WebCT into the class envi-
ronment. In it students will learn to
navigate course content, participate
in bulletin boards and chat rooms,
and develop presentations in group
project space. 4404 Computer &
Space Sciences Bldg. 5-2938,
cwpost@umd5.umd.edu or
www.inform.umd .edu/PT.
7 9 p.m."WMUC Spring Open
House." Semi-annual open house for
those interested In joining or learning
about the campus radio station. 3130
South Campus Dining Hall. Daniel
Plotrowskl. 4-7867, shortarm@
wmuc.umd.edu
February 10
7-9 p.m."WMUC Spring Open
House.' Semi -armual open house for
those interested in Joining or learning
about the campus radio station. 3130
South Campus Dining Hall. Daniel
Piotrow^ki, 4.7867, rfiortarm@wmuc.
umd.edu
I
Concert Society Kicks Offspring Season \
Celebrating 300th Anniversary of the Piano !
One of the most signiBcant anniversaries In
the worW will be marlted this year as the
Concert Society at Maryianti Idclcs off its
Spring 2000 season. Pascal Roge, Litya
Zilbei^tein, Ruth Laredo and Andre Watts will
mark the 300th anniversary of the piano with
performances. Donald Manildi, curator of the
International Piano Archives, will give a pre-
concert lecture and demonstration on great
pianisUc traditions preceding two of the
recitals.
Feeling like an international trip btit can't
aflbrd one? Drop by this spring for WorldSong,
a muld-culttura] totir of global traditions with
an emphasis this year on folk music, The
Spring season features performances by six-
time Irish fiddle champion Martin Hayes and
guitarist Dennis Cahlll.Also on tap-Linda Tillery
& The Cultural Heritage Choir, exploring
African- American musical tradiUons.
For exquisite music in a splendid atmos-
phere, the Washington National Cathedral will
be the setting as the Gabrieli Consort recre-
ates Morales' Requiem Mass for the pow^erftil
Renaissance ruler of the Spanish Empire,
phiUp n.
The Concert Society also fea
tures chamber and
early music,
world music,
and dance per-
formers of inter-
national reputa-
tion. The Concert
Society is a resi-
dent program of
the Clarice Smith
Perfbrmii^ Arts ' '
Center.
To order tickets
or receive a season
brochure, call 405-
7847. Unless other-
wise noted, all concerts take place at the Inn
& Conference Center, University College. A
complete season schedule fbilow/s:
Pascal Roge, piano
Mon,, Feb. 7, 8 p,m. (pre-concert lecture and
demonstration, 6:30 p.m.)
French works by Faur^, Satie, Ravel and
Poulenc.and Debu^y's Preludes (first txiok}.
Tickets-. $18
Windscape
Fri.,Feb. 11,8 p.m. (pre-concert discussion,
6:30 p.m.)
'Roaring Twenties Revisited" feattires the wind
quintet in works by Stravinsky, Weill, Gershwin
and others.
Tickets: $18
Chris Burnside:Travelogue
Tues.,Feb. 15,8 p.m.
Wed., Feb. 16, 8 p.m.
Dorothy Madden Dance Theater
A humorous movement-monologue based on
Burnsjde's seven-week, random drive around
the country with his partner Karl.
Tickets: $12
America's great vocal legacies.
Tickets: $18
Joe Goode Performance Group: Deeply There
(stories of a neighborhood)
Mon.. Mar. 6,8 p.m,
Tues., Mar. 7, 8 p.m.
Dorothy Madden Dance Theater
Dance work incorporates spoken test and
himior to examine community responses to
the AIDS epidemic,
Tickets: $12
Carmina Quartet
Fri,, March 10,8 p.m. (pre-concert ifiscussion,
6:30 p.m.)
String quartets by Schumann, Swiss composer
Patil Giger and Deubssy, ,
Tickets: $18
I
Litya Zilberstein, piano
Sat., March 18. 8 p.m. (pre-concert lecture-
demonstration, 6:30 p.m.) '
All Russian program featuring works by \
Tanayev,
Rachmanioff,
Medtner and '
Mussorgsky.
Tickets: $18
Yasaye Quartet2
Fri., March 24,8
p.m. (pre-concert
discussion, 6:30
p.m.)
String works bjf ^
Haydn, •
DutlUetix and
Ravel.
Tickets; $18
Ruth Laredo, piano
Fri., April 7,8 p.m. Concert with conunentary
profiles artists Felix Mendelssohn, Robert and
Claia Schumann and Johaimes Brahms,
Tickets: $18
Martin Hayes, fiddle and Dennis Cahill, guitar
Sat, April 8, 8 p.m. {pre<oncert discussion, \
6:30 p.m.) ;
Traditionai and contemporary Irish music by »
Ireland's six-time fiddle champion and the
inventive Chicago-bom guitarist. }
Tickets: $18
%n
ida Tillery & The Cultural Heritage Choir
Fri., Feb. 18,8 p.m. (pre-concert discussion,
6:30 p.m.)
Playsongs, folk spirituals and more recent
Afrit:an American traditions from one of
^dre Watts, piano
Mon., April 24, 8 p,m. (pre-concert interview
vidth Watts, 7 p.m.)
Tawes Theatre
A program focused on works by Chopin offers
compelling technique, spontaneity and insight.
Tickets: $15-25
Gabrieli Consort, director Paul McCreesh
Morales Reqtiiem for Philip H
Tues,. May 2, 8 p.m. (pre-concert discussion, 6
p.m. -limited seating)
Co-sponsored by the Wasiiington National
Cathedral
Recreation of a fiill Requiem Mass by Cristobal
Morales.
Tickets: $15 25
February 1 , 2000 OuHook 5
Diversity: Ifs Your Future
February Focus on Diversity
All Month
African- American Heritage Bookfair, In
honor of African-American History month,
the Univcrsitjr Book Center is offering a
20% discount on all African American relat-
ed titles (textbooks excluded). Contact
UBC, 4-7770.
"Looking B(I>ack: Blaxpoitation and
American Cinema" — A Blaxploitation Film
Festival. Six Blaxpoitation films will be
screened. Each will be preceded by intro-
ductions and followed by discussions. All
screenings begin at 7p.m. in Room 2203,
Art & Sociology Building.
Contact co-organizers Marsha Gordon,
gmarsha@wam.umd.edu, Devin Orgeron,
odevin@wam.umd.edu, or Geoffrey
Schramm, gschratnm@wam.umd.edu.
Sponsored by the Committee on Africa
and the Americas. Co-sponsors include
African American Studies Program, the
department of art history, and the Hoff
Theater Film Committee
• Feb. 3-"Shaft"(Dir. Gordon Parks, 1971).
Introduced by Professor Mary Helen
Washington, University of Maryland.
* Feb, lO-'Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss
Song" a>ir- Mario Van Peebles, 1971).
♦ Feb. 15-"Cofiy"(Dir.Jack HUl, 1973).
Introduced by Professor Cynthia Fuchs,
Geoi^e Mason University.
•Feb. 1 7- "Qcopatra Jones" (Dir. Jack
Starrett, 1973). Introduced by Professor
Jennifer Brody, George Washington
University.
' Feb. 24-''I>olemite'' (Dfr. D'Urville Martin,
1975).
* Feb. 29-"Live and Let Die" (fi'a. Guy
Hamilton, 1973). Introduced by Geoffrey
Schramm, University of Maryland.
Feb. 10
5 : 30 p.m. "Celebrate, Educate and
Advocate."The Free State Jusdcc, a grass-
roots organization for the equality of
Maryland's Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual,
Transgender (LGBT) community, will dis-
cuss the bills currently in the state con-
^^ss, including anti-discrimination laws
and the Hate Crimes bill. Also, information
about lobbying and Uie rally in Aimapolis
on Feb. 2 1 will be distributed.
Refreshments will be served. Room 0220,
Jimenez Hall. Contact John Adomato, ador-
nato®wam. imid ,edu.
Feb. 15
2-4 p.m. "Reconsidering the Racial Divide:
The Black and White Paradl^n." Join lead-
ing scholars Stephen Carter (Yale Law
School), Christopher Edley (Harvard Law
School), and Kimerle Crenshaw (Columbia
University's School of Law) as they make
presentations and discuss this topic. Part
of the Building a Civil Society Lecture
Series presented by the College of
Behavioral and Social Sciences. Ft.
McHenry Room, Inn & Conference Center.
Contact Beth Worionan, 5-5722.
7 p.m. "Journey to a Hate-Free
Millenniimi."A documentary film about the
struggle against violence in America, focus-
ing on the killing of Matthew Shepard as
well as James Byrd Jr and the shootings at
Columbine High. Words from Holocaust
survivors and entertainers like Elton John
and OLvia Newton John are also included.
President Mote has been invited to intro-
duce the new director of the Office of
Human Relations Cliristine Qark-The film-
maker will lead a discussion of the film
and its issues foUowing the
presentation. Refreshments
will be served. Sponsored by
the Graduate Lambda
Coalition, LGBTA, the Office
of LGBT Equity, the Associate
Provost for Diversity and
Equity and the President's
Office. Room 2205, LeFrak
Hall. Contact John Adomato,
adomato@wam.umd.edu.
Feb. 16
9:30 a.m.-3:30 p.m. 23rd
Annual Multi-Ethnic Student
Career & Job Fafr.This fair, co-
sponsored by the Career
Center and the Office of
Multi-Ethnic Student
Education, targets the univer-
sity's diverse and talented stu-
dents seeking full-time, part-
time and internship positions.
*Note: Students are required to register '
and attend one of four preparation semi-
nars bchig offered. Stamp Student Union.
Contact Career Center, 5-5616 or
www. careercenter.umd , edu .
2 p.m. "Baseball & CivU Rights: America's
Past time Brashes back Jim Crow." Bruce
Adelson, the author of the book "Brushing
Back Jim Crow: The Integration of Minor-
League Baseball in the American South,"
will speak about this important but little
known aspect of the Civil Rights
Movement. Sponsored by the University
Honors Program. Basement Loiu^e,Anne
Arundel Hall. Contact Jim Airozo, 5-6658 or
j airozo@dean5 . umd. edu.
Feb. 18
8 p.m. Linda Tillery iStThe Cultural
Heritage Choir. Playsongs, folk spirituals
and more recent African American tradi-
tions from one of America's great vocal
legacies. Admission $5 (students), $18
(adults), and $15. 50 (seniors). *Note: pre-
performance discussion at 6:30 p.m. hm &
Conference Center. Contact 5-7847.
11 a.m. Evelynn Hammonds, M.I.T., will
give a talk about race, gender and medi-
cine. It will be followed by a light lim-
cheon at 12:15 p.m., and a discussion and
workshop on "Race, Gender and the
Sciences: Issues In Pedagogy and
Research" from 12:30-2 p.m. Multipurpose
Room, Language House (St. Mary's Hall).
Contact Debby Rosenfelt, 5-6883.
Feb. 21
5 p.m. Rally. Meet at Stamp Student Union
to go to the AimapoUs State House to visit
our elected officials and rally with the
Free State Justice of Maryland, for the anti-
discrimination and the Hate Crimes bills
now feeing Congress. The Gay Men's
Chorus has been invited to sing and
Governor Glendenning has
been asked to speak.
Contact Joim Adornato,
adornato® wam . umd . edu .
Feb. 23
3-5 p.m. Cultural
Exhibition. In celebiution
of Black History Month a
panel of students and oth-
ers from diverse cultural
backgrounds wUl share
personal anecdotes, arti-
facts, food and music that
are traditional fvithin dieir
cultures. Office of Multi-
Ethnic Student Education
(Room 1101,Hombake).
Contact Patricia Thomas, 5-
6822.
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COMMUNITY
7:30 p.m. "Towards a
Conversation about Race."
Manning Marable, depart-
ment of history and Insfitute for Research
in African American Studies, Colimibla
University, will discuss this topic. Room
2203, Art/Sociology Building. Contact
Committee on Africa and the Americas, 5-
6835.
Feb. 29
4 p.m. "Recruitment and Retention of
African-American Students in the Sciences:
What's Happening Nationally and What
That Means For Us." As our society is dri-
ven more and more by science and tech-
nology, what can we do to increase the
involvement of African Americans in the
sciences? Tliis panel will attempt to
address comphcated questions like this
one. Room 1140 Plant Sciences Building
(Lecture Hall A). Contact Mary Kearney,
5-0007.
*To see the full version of the Calendar go
to www.inform.tmid.edu/
Diversity/Initiative - Current Events.
To place your event in the March
"Focus on Diversity" calendar, e-mail infor-
mation to Jamie Feehery-Sitnmons at
jfl56@umail.umd.edu or fex 314-9992 no
later than Feb. 1 8. If you have any ques-
tions, caU 405-2562,
Calendar brought to you by the
Diversity Initiative.
Happy Birthday
Mozart
The School of Music pre-
sents die 17th annual "Happy
Bhthday, Mozart" concert Feb.
5 and 6 in Ulrich Recital Hall
of Tawes Fine Arts Building,
The concert begins at 8 p.m.
Saturday and 3 pm. Sunday
Christopher Kendall, direc-
tor of the School of Music,
will conduct the University of
Maryland Chamber Orchestra
in a program featurii^ Alfred
Schninke's Mozart a la Haydn;
Mozart's Horn Concerto no, 2
in E flat Major, with soloist
Peter Landgten; Mozart's
L'amero saro costantc from 11
re pastore and Bella mla
fiamma; Resta, o cara, with
soloist Linda Mabbs; and
Symphony no. 5 in B fUt
Major by Franz Schubert.
Soprano Linda Mabbs,
acclaimed for her excellence
in oratorio, opera and recital,
has upcoming engagements
with the Dallas, Vancouver,
and Billings Symphonies as
well as a recital tour in the
People's Republic of China.
The Chicago Tribune has
hailed her "stuiming agility
and control, purity and rich-
ness of tone." The
Washington Post called her
1997 worid premiere record-
ing of Argento's Miss
Havisham's Wedding Ni^t on
Koch International "the most
brilliant opera recording of
the year."
Homist Peter Landgren has
appeared in recitals through-
out the United States, Canada
and Europe, and has per-
formed with Summit Brass,
the Melos Ensemble and the
Chamber Music Society of
Lincoln Center. He is associ-
ate principal horn of the
Baltimore Symphony
Orchestra and a faculty mem-
ber of both the Peabody
Conservatory of Music and
the University of Maryland
School of Music.
Conductor Christopher
Kendall is founder and
lutenist of the Folger Consort.
Prior to his appointment as
director of the School of
Music, Kendall directed-l-ted
the music programs at Boston
University and the Tangle-
wood Institute, Guest con-
ducting engagements have
included tlie Chamber Music
Society of Lincoln Center, the
New York Chamber
Symphony, the Dayton
Philharmonic and the
Annapolis Symphony.
Tickets are $16, $12 for
senior citizens and $10 for
students. For more informa-
tion, call 405-7847.
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6 Outlook February 1, 2000
Communications Leader Names Maryland Arena for $20 Million
continued Jrom page I
versity to be able to do something,"
Bunch said. "We re thrilled to be able to
give this great gift and are looking for-
ward to this building and Maryland
going on to win the national champi-
onship in basketball."
Maryland Athletic Director Deborah
Yow praised the efforts of a wide range
of people to bring about the Comcast
deal, including Mote, Remington,
Research Vice President William Destlcr
and Athletic Department .staff members
Joe Hull and Rob Mullens. Yow present-
ed customized team letter jackets to
Mote and Burch.
"The beneficiaries of the Comcast
Center will be our student-athletes, our
Athletic Department staff, thousands of
Terrapin fans and the university com-
munity," Yow said. "The building will be
used fbr graduation, many additional
university events and athletic competi-
tions by our basketball, wrestling, vol-
leyball and gymnastics teams ."The cen-
ter will also provide office space for
125 staff members and coaches, as well
as a state-of-the-art 7,000-squarc foot
Academic Support and Career
Development Center lor student-ath-
letes, Yow said.
Men's and Women's Basketball Head
Coaches Gary Williams and Chris Weller
also attended the news conference and
expressed their latitude and excite-
ment about the announcement.
The university plans to raise another
$25 million for Its share of construction
costs through additional major gifts,
and through a campaign that will make
available 1 ,600 of the Comcast Center's
17,100 seats to major gift donors, said
Joe Hull, associate director of athletics
for development, SEX Sports Group,
which helped to
structure the part-
nership between the
university and
Comcast, has been
retained by the uni-
versity to help iden-
tify additional corpo-
rate partneKi.The
Maryland Stadium
Autliority ■will seek
state funding for the
remainder of the
costs.
Construction on
the Comcast Center
is expected to begin
this summer. Tlie
Maryland Stadium
Authority has been
working with
EUerbe Beckett as
project architect
and Gilbane/Smoot
as construction
comcastcenter
An Inside view of the new Comcast Center.
manager
"The university has been plaiming to
accommodate student vrishes for cable
television service in the residence
halts," said William Destler, vice presi-
dent for research, who led the negotia-
tions for the imiversity.'Cable television
is a benefit provided in many college
residence halls around the country, and
we're pleased that this partnership will
allow us to meet this need at competi-
tive rates,"
Comcast, which provides cable ser-
vice in Prince George's County, will
provide basic cable, with dozens of
channels, to all rooms beginning in Ml
2000, according to the agreement,
Comcast will have its name on one of
the most visible coUegiate basketball
iOacilities in the nation and will Iiave
major marketing opportunities within
the arena, including the most promi-
nent advertising locations. The perenni-
ally successful Maryland Terrapins
teams will assure Comcast regular
regional and national television expo-
sure.
Philadelphia-based Comcast reported
more than $5 billion in revenues in
]998.The company iias more than 5.5
million residential cable customers and
will soon have more than 82 percent of
the cable market in Maryland. About
4,000 of the company's 10,000 cable
division employees work in the state of
Maryland.
In addition to Comcast cable televi-
sion, the company owns the QVC home
shopping network and E!, which reach
70 million and 55 million American
homes, respectively. The company also
provides liigh-specd Internet access in
1 4 metropolitan markets, including sev-
eral in Maryland. The company's
Spcctacor division also owns the
Philadelphia Flyers, 76ers and
Phantoms and two indoor sports are-
nas. Comcast Cable serves nearly 1 .5
million customers in Maryland,
Delaware and Virginia.
Headquartered in Philadelphia,
Comcast Corporation (NASDAQ:
CMCSA, CMCSK) is among the world's
leading communication companies, pro-
viding basic cable, digital cable and
high speed Internet services.
Campus Simplifies Business Processes with BPRIT
continued from page 1
After hearing from the Vice
President's Executive Steering
Committee tVPEST) through the
Council on Continuous Quality
Improvement, the President's Cabinet
approved the BPR action plans pro-
posed by the several teams designed to
allow more time for central offices to
assist customers, rather than process
paperwork.
The most fundamental cimnges
involve computerization. Using a soft-
ware system called the Financial
Records System (FRS), campus will inte-
grate budgeting, accounting, reporting,
purchasing, accounts payable and fixed
assets. The current system, which is
paper-driven, hinders inter-office com-
munication and slows down business
processes Hke procurement and paying
bills.
With the new Integrated accounting
system, every step of the procurement
process is captured in one database,
enabling staff to monitor what equip-
ment is on hand at a given time, how
much was paid for it and who the con-
tractor was. The Intended result is
faster, more informed decision-making.
To cut red tape in small-dollar pur-
chasing, 1,500 Visa cards have been
issued to departments allowing pur-
chases up to $2,500 without filling out
paperwork through Central Purchasing.
Master contracts will be negotiated
with vendors to minimize the expense
of procurement. "We will be going out
and saying 'the university, over the
course of three years, buys 3,000 work-
stations a year. How cheaply would you
sell them to us?' And we'll compete
that," Stewart says. "Then we'll have a
web contract with Gateway or IBM
(whomever wins the contract), and all
you'll liave to do. If you need a new
workstation, is go to that web site and
place your order."
like purchasing and accounting,
human resources and payroll will also
roll out an integrated computer system
to allow fester processing and better
communication between offices.
Faculty and staff can now access and
update their personal information
online, but computerization of human
resources and payroll will give them
access to more information, such as
current sick and annual leave time.
Time sheets wiU become computer-
ized, and employees who now use time
clocks will swipe their ID cards instead
of pimching a card.
At the hiring level, employee records
wiU be entered into one system rather
than going to human resources and
payroll separately in paper form.Also,
the hiring process has been modified to
give hiring units more say in job candi-
date lists. The practice of "open applica-
tions" will be eliminated to remove can-
didates from the lists who may not be
interested in a position any longer or
no longer work for the imiversity.
To improve travel reimbursement,
administration has made "Diner's Club"
cards available. The cards enable travel-
ers to cover business expenses without
having to use their own cash and fill
out paperwoik to be compensated.
The BPRTT implementation process
has just begun, with most of the new
software still in pilot programs. Payroll
and human resources systems will not
go live until February of 2001, and the
ftiH FRS system will not be active cam-
pus-wide until July of 2001. Basic IT
training has already begun, and fixed
assets training is scheduled to begin
this week.
Charles Sturtz, vice president of
administrative affairs, emphasizes the
ongoing nature of the business process
redesign efforts.
"We think that we are on the verge
of achieving what we set out five years
ago to acliieve," says Sturtz. "But
throughout the course of this year, as
these systems and processes roll out in
their revised form, the campus will
have the opportimity to pass judgment
as to whether this is indeed what they
said they wanted us to do to reform
these business processes."
"By 2003, we will reduce the steps
in these four core processes by 35 per-
cent," says Stewart. "When we do that,
we'll declarse materials. Seating is limited and
web-based pre registration is reqiured
at www.inform.umd.edu/ShortCourscs
This course serves as a quick refer-
ence to features added or improved
since Office 97 (for MS Word, MS
Excel and MS PowerPoint).
Questions about course content
can be directed to oit-training®
umail.umd.edu; questions about regis-
tration can be directed to the OFT
Training Services Coordinator at 405-
0443.
Conversations and Connections
The 26th Annual Maryland Student
Affairs Conference takes place Friday,
Feb. 1 1 in the Stamp Student Union.
This year's theme, "Cultivating
Conversations & Coimcctlons" will
challenge participants to consider
how educators engage students and
ourselves in meaningful conversation.
The conference, which annually
attracts more than 500 participajits,
will offer a series of programs reflect-
ing iimovative ideas and approaches
to education and student services.
Cheryl Keen, co-dean of faculty and
director of the Writing Center and
Academic Support Center at Antloch
College, and co-author of "Common
Fire: Leading Lives of Commitment in
a Complex Worid," wiU offer the morn-
ing keynote address. Larry Roper, vice
president for student afbirs and pro-
fessor of ethnic studies at Oregon
State University and graduate of the
University of Maryland's College
Student Personnel Program, will offer
the luncheon address.
The planning committee would Uke
to extend an invitation to all col-
leagues to join us for this annual
regional conference. Re^tration
forms are available from Pat Schaecher
in the Office of the Vice President for
Student Affairs (2108 MitcheC Building
or 314.8431) or may be obtained
througli tlic conference
www, umd .edu/msac).
For further conference information
please contact John Zacker, confer-
ence chair, at 314-8204.
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