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THE UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND FACULTY AND STAFF WEEKLY NEWSPAPER

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Number g • October 23 , 2001

Sturtz Leaves
University
with Growth
in Finances,
Facilities

Charles Sturtz considers
himself one of the last
of a group that shared a
collective vision and
commitment that has helped make
the university what it is today,

"This is the one generation that
made the dramatic improvement
possible." Sturtz said, grouping him-
self with William EKirwan, William
Thomas, Irwin Goldstein and Marie
Davidson.

On July 1 , Sturtz will retire after
spending 19 years as the vice pres-
ident of administrative affairs. His
wife, Judith, a school teacher, will
retire this summer as well.

"It works nicely for us to arrive
at this at the same time," he said.
The couple, who will celebrate
their 43rd wedding anniversary
soon, have five children and five
grandchildren.

"I know it's the trite but true
tiling," Sturtz said, "we're going to
spend some more time with
those folks."

PHOTO BY CYNTHIA NHTCHEL

Charles Sturtz

Sturtz has worked professionally
for about 44 years. He spent more
than half of that time working in
Michigan. After several manage-
ment and budget positions with
the state, he began working at
Wayne State University where he
was eventually promoted to execu-
tive vice president and treasurer.

In 1982, Sturtz came to Mary-
land to be what was then called
the vice chancellor of administra-
tive affairs. Sturtz said when he
arrived, there were some immedi-
ate issues to deal widi.

There was no spending money
for the university, beyond what
was allocated in the budget. Sturtz
set out to build the financial

See STURTZ, page S

Convocation 2001

PHOTO BY CYNTHIA MITCHfL

(resident's Medal Award winner Irwin Goldstein addresses the crowd at this year's Annual
Faculty and Staff Convocation, held Tuesday, Oct. 16 in Memorial Chapel. More on page 5.

Chaplains Offer
Hearts, Minds
to University

Editor's Note: Tiiis is the first of
two stories looking at the univer-
sity's chaplains and their roles
within the campus community.

They come from 1 4 doctrines,
but share one goal; to pro-
vide the campus communi-
ty with a place for spiritual solace
and enrichment, while encourag-
ing individual development.

A normally low-profile group, the
university chaplains played key
roles in helping the campus handle
the recent rash of local and nation-
al tragedies. Many in the campus
community praised the chaplains'
cooperation in creating an inter-
faith memorial for the September
11 victims that seemed to solidify
the campus' sense of community.

"They rose to the occasion so
well," says Patrick Perfetto, director
of Conference and Visitor Services,
whose office oversees the Memori-
al Chapel and its chaplains. "But
they're not folks who like to be
singled out."

They prefer to have what
Lutheran minister Beth Platz calls
"a persistent profile."

See CHAPLAINS, page 7

Putting Life's Experiences
to Work for State, Selves

Legislative leaders and
lobbyists in Maryland
will soon be able to
draw upon the knowledge
of a new kind of intern in
their efforts to better serve
their constituencies.

The university's Center on
Aging's Division of Lifelong
Learning and Engagement
launched its Senior Leader-
ship Maryland Program this
fail. Going on the idea that
the expertise of Maryland
residents ages 50 and up is
valuable, center director
Laura Wilson came up with
the senior internship pro-
gram as a way to put that
expertise to use, while pro-
viding valuable experience
for the interns.

"We built on several mod-
els we had developed else-
where and I thought/It's
time to build a program in
Maryland'," says Wilson. She
talked with legislative dele-
gates about the feasibility of
such a program and received
positive feedback. She then
partnered with the James
MacGregor Burns Academy
of Leadership through

Bladen sburg Mayor David
Harrington, as well as Sharon
Simson, coordinator of the
Center on Aging's Senior
University.

She has also forged part-
nerships with key legisla-
tive offices and state agen-
cies for intern placements.
After three months of
instructional sessions
taught by state and munici-
pal officials and university
faculty, the 25 interns will
spend a minimum of one
day a week working during
the legislative session. The
program's goal is that
interns will use this experi-
ence as a starting point for
providing service in the
state. The Center on Aging
will help interns find other
volunteer opportunities
after the session.

"It sounds like it's going
to be an absolutely wonder-
ful experience," says Melvina
Brooks, a retired administra-
tor from the U.S. House
budget office, i retired from
the Hill in 1995. 1 thought,

See LEADERS, page 6

Helping University
Offices Help Themselves

When Office of Information
Technology vice president
and CIO Don Riley wanted to
create more cohesiveness
among divisions of the Office
of Information Technology, he
called on the skills of a rela-
tively new university unit
called the Office for Organiza-
tional Effectiveness (OOE).

An outgrowth of the contin-
uous quality improvement ini-
tiative of a year and a half ago,
OOE is in the Office of the
Vice President for Academic
Affairs and Provost. Its three-
person staff offers customized
consulting and coaching serv-
ices to meet a range of needs.

OIT was created in 1999
from five separate units. A
reorganization began soon
thereafter "to create a more
unified culture," says Riley.
Foxworth came in last sum-
mer to talk with managers
and assess OIT's needs. She
recommended "a fairly inten-
sive process . . .including
bringing in some outside
expertise to help," says Riley.

"We recommended external
expertise in this instance
because of a particular model

they used that allowed nearly
all of OIT's employees to
engage in planning in one
room at a time," says Foxworth.

Rodney Peterson, director
of policy and planning for OIT,
felt Foxworth 's efforts helped
move the office "to the next
level" in its evolutionary pro-
cess. OOE, in partnership with
consultants Dannemiller Tyson
Associates, engaged employees
in shaping OIT's mission and
value statements by co-facilitat-
ing a retreat first with the lead-
ership team and then another
that included everyone,

Robert Infantino, associate
chair of the biology depart-
ment, says having this kind of
expertise on campus is a dou-
ble asset to a department
working on reorganization or
strategic issues.

"Not only do you get peo-
ple with this expertise, you
get people who understand
university culture and con-
text," he says. His department
worked with OOE for four
months in 1999 to prepare for
a retreat shortly after the new

See EFFECTIVENESS, page 4

OCTOBER 23, 2O0I

dateline
maryland

YOUR GUIDE TO UNIVERSITY EVENTS: OCTOBER 2J-30

October 23

12-1 p.m.. Resiliency in
Tough Times 0121 CRC (Cen-
ter for Health and Wellbeing).
Tom Ruggieri and Joan Bellsey
of the Faculty Staff Assistance
Program (FSAP) offer a presen-
tation/discussion for those feel-
ing a litde frazzled after the
tragedies this fall. For more
information, call the FSAP at 4-
8170 or the center at 4-1493-

1:30 p.m.. Art Department
Fall Lecture Series West Gal-
lery, Art-Sociology Bldg.With
Maren Hassenger, sculptor and
head of the graduate sculpture
program at the Maryland Insti-
tute College of Art. Her work
has been shown at the Studio
Museum in Harlem, the Grade
Mansion Gallery and presently
in a one-person show at the
David Allen Gallery in New
York. For more information,
contact Claudia DeMonte at
McMonte2@aol.com.

4 p.m., Distinguished Cen-
ter For Theoretical Physics
Colloquium: Asking Funda-
mental Questions in Ele-
mentary Particle Physics
1410 Physics/With Gerard't
Hooft, Professor of Physics,
University of Utrecht. For more
information, call 5-5945.

7-9:30 p.m., Screening/Dis-
cussion of Local News

Basement.Tawes Fine Arts, Join
the College of Journalism's
Society of Professional Journal-
ists' chapter for a screening
and discussion of the new PBS
series "Local News." "Local
News" is a five part special
which takes an insider's look
at a Charlotte, N.C. TV station
and its struggle to serve the
public while improving ratings
and viewers. There will be an
audience/panel discussion
which will include local broad-
cast news professionals and
producers from the show.
Refreshments will be served.
For more information, contact
Sue Kopen Katcef at 5-7526 or
susiekk@aol.com.

fIJNESDAV

October 24

12-1 p.m., Research and
Development Presentetion:
Art Therapy: What It Is and
What It Isn't 01 14 Counsel-
ing Center, Shoemaker Bldg.
With Linda Rogers, art thera-

Faculty "Noon" Recital (today):
Wind, Percussion and Piano

Distinguished faculty artists of the Wind, Percussion and
Piano divisions perform today (Tuesday, Oct. 23) at
12:30 p.m. in the Giidenhorn Recital Hall, Clarice Smith
Performing Arts Center. For more information, visit
www.umd.edu/music/calendar or call 5-ARTS.

pist, Kennedy Krieger Institute,
Kennedy Krieger High School,
Baltimore. Meetings are sched-
uled for one hour over bag
lunch. For more information,
contact Vivian Boyd, Counsel-
ing Center director, at 4-7675.

2-3:30 p.m. Refashioning
Rapa: Gander, Generation
and Geography in Ring-
woods 2107/2109 Plant Sci-
ences. With Noli we Rooks
(author of "Hair Raising"). For
more information, contact
Valerie Brown at 5-1354 or
vbJ3@umail.umd.edu.

5:30- 9:30 p.m., Evening of
Dialogue: Civil Liberties
and Security in Wake of
Sept. 1 1 2203 Art-Sociology
Bldg. This event includes guest
speakers, dialogue groups and
an action forum. The purpose
is to learn from experts, share
thoughts and develop ideas to
help us move forward in wake
of terrorist attacks. Shibley Tel-
hami, Anwar Sadat Chair for
Peace and Development, and
Dwight Sullivan, managing
attorney for ACLU of Maryland,
are among the speakers. For
more information contact
Linda Aldoory at 5-6528 or
la74@umail.umd.edu.

6:30-9:30 p.m.. Advanced
Web Design and Develop-
ment Training (Course

SO1 10) 0231 LeFrak Hall. Use
Dream Weaver, Flash, Fireworks
and PhotoShop to design your
Web site. Class meets Wednes-
days through Dec. 1 9- The fee
is $450 for alumni, staff, facul-
ty, students and immediate
family; non-UM price is $495.
Contact LearnlT at 5-1670 or
learruT@oacs.umd.edu, or visit
www.LearnIT.umd.edu.*

October 25

4 p.m., CHPS Colloquium:
Learning to Apply Theories:
Case Studies from the
Chemical Sciences 1116
Institute for Physical Science

and Technology. With Jeff Ram-
sey, Smith College. Cospon-
sored by the Department of
Chemistry, the Committee on
the History and Philosophy of
Science, the College of Arts and
Humanities, and IPST. For more
information, contact hp26@
umail.umd.edu, 5-5691 or visit
http://carnap.umd.edu/chps/.

4:15-5:30 p.m.. Talk About
Teaching: Censorship 0135
Taliaferro Hall. Have you strug-
gled with a banned book? An
R-rated film? The Center Alliance
for School Teachers (CAST)
presents Patricia Gafford, act-
ing program supervisor, pre-K-
1 2, English/Language Arts,
Montgomery County Public
Schools, who will lead an infor-
mal conversation and sharing
of ideas and materials. Open to
classroom teachers, supervi-
sors and administrators from
all levels within the secondary
school systems and community
colleges across the state of
Maryland, as well as from the
university community. Light
refreshments will be provided.
For more information contact
Nancy Traubitz at nt32@umail.
umd.edu or (301) 405-6830, or
visit www.inform.umd.edu/
crbs/programs/cast.

5-6 p.m., Udall Scholarship
Workshop 1 130 Plant Sci-
ences. Faculty members and
student advisors in the envi-
ronmental sciences and related
fields are asked to encourage
their best sophomores and jun-
iors to attend the Udall Schol-
arship workshop given by
Bruce James. The scholarship
also is available to Native Amer-
icans and Alaska Natives in
fields related to health care or
tribal policy. Udall scholars
receive $5,000 for one year.
The application deadline is
Feb. 15, 2002. For more infor-
mation, contact Camille StiU-
wetl at 4-1289 or cstillwe®
deans.umd.edu, or visit
www.umd.edu/nso.

7-8 p.m. Goldwater Schol-
arship Workshop 1 1 40 Plant

Sciences. Faculty members and
student advisors in mathemat-
ics, the natural sciences and
engineering are asked to
encourage their best sopho-
mores and juniors to attend
this workshop given by Robert
Infantino. The Goldwater
scholarship is for U.S. citizens
who intend to pursue research
careers. Goldwater scholars
receive $7,500 for one year.
The campus deadline is Nov.
30 and the foundation deadline
is Feb. 1,2002. For more infor-
mation, contact Camille Still-
well at 4l 289 or
cstillwe@deans.umd.edu, or
visit www.umd.edu/nso.

7:30-8:45 p.m.. Physics is
Phun Details in For Your Inter-
est, page 8.

October 26

9:30 a.m.. International
Conference on Violence
and the French Revolution

Maryland Room, Marie Mount
Hall. Details in For Your Inter-
est, page 8.

9 a.m. -3 p.m.. Residential
Landscape Design Work-
shop 2 1 50 Plant Sciences. In
this two-day workshop (Oct.
26-27), students will acquire
landscape design resources
and apply them to their home
landscape. Landscape architec-
ture and horticulture faculty
will facilitate a thorough site
analysis and develop an appro-
priate plant palette. The work-
shop also provides basic design
techniques in a hands-on for-
mat. Students are encouraged
to bring in plot plans, drawings
and photographs of their resi-
dentia] site. The fee is $250
(includes drawing materials
and plant reference resources).
For more information, contact
Steven Cohan at 5-6969 or
sc293@umail.umd.edu, or
Dennis Nola, ALSA, at 5-0055
or dn9@umail.umd.edu.*

12 p.m., CHPS Colloquium:
Recent Neural Models of
Consciousness: What Do
They Explain, and How?

1208 Biology/Psychology Bldg.
With Ilya Farber, George Wash-
ington University. Cosponsored
by the Neuroscience and Cog-
nitive Science (NACS) Pro-
gram, the Committee on the
History and Philosophy of Sci-
ence, the College of Arts and
Humanities, and IPST. For more
information, contact hp26@
umad.umd.edu, 5-5691 or visit
http ://ca map . umd . edu/chps/.

12-1:15 p.m.. Communica-
tion Department Centenni-
al Colloquium Lecture 0200

Skinner. John Durham Peters,
University of Iowa, presents
"The Conversationalization of
Media and the Mediation of
Conversation," For more infor-
mation contact Trevor Parry-
Giles at tp54@umail.umd.edu

or visit www.comm.umd.edu.

3 p.m.. Distinguished Lec-
ture Series in Atomic, Mol-
ecular & Optical Physics

1412 Physics. The Physics
Department presents Luis A.
Orozco from State University
of New York at Stony Brook in
this week's colloquium-style
talk. The lecture will be hosted
by Nobel Prize-winning profes-
sor William D. Pliillips, Contact
Rcka Shanmugavel at 5-5946 or
reka @p hysics. umd.edu

7:30-8:45 p.m., Physics is
Phun Details in For Your Inter-
est, page 8.

October 27

7:30-8:45 p.m., Physics is

Phun Details in For Your Inter-

_ icitxo

est, page 8.

October 30

8:45 a.m. -4 p.m.,OIT Short-
courses Training; Advanced
MS Excel (Level 3) 4404

Computer & Space Science.
The fee is $90. To register, visit
www.oit.umd.edu/sc. For more
information, contact the OIT
Training Services Coordinator
at 5-0443 or oit-training®
umail.umd.edu.*

4 p.m., Physics in a New
Era: National Research
Council Report on the
Future of Physics 1410
Physics. Physics colloquium
with Thomas Appelquist.Yale
University. For more informa-
tion, call 5-5945.

calendar guide

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calendar and submissions to the Outlook office. Submissions are due two weeks prior to the date of publication. To reach the calendar editor, call 405-7615 or e-mail to
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OUTLOOK

Order Textbooks Early, Help Some Students

Full-time undergradu-
ate students can
spend an average of
$500 per semester on
textbooks. Faculty members
can reduce the average cost
for students by at least $75
per semester if twice as many
instructors order textbooks
before finals week.

Although upper-level stu-
dents are encouraged to keep
their books and build person-
al libraries, many sell them
back to the local bookstores
at the end of the semester. If
the bookstore knows that the
book will be adopted the fol-
lowing semester, it buys the
book back for 50 percent of
the new book price. Other-

wise, it buys the book back
for at around 15 percent.
Because the bookstores have
barely 40 percent of book
orders when they begin buy-
ing books back, students
receive an average of $46 less
when they sell their books
back than they would if just
80 percent of the orders had
been placed.

"If we know that a particu-
lar book is going to be used,
we flag it as a buy back," said
Phil Sirk, textbook manager at
the University Book Center.
"This helps the students and
it helps us."

Sirk explains that when
there are more used books in
inventory, the bookstore does

not have to order as many
new ones.An increased
inventory happens when
more students sell back
books, giving the following
semester's students a larger
supply from which to
choose.

"We're giving them 50 per-
cent of the wholesale price,
not the used price," said Sirk.

By getting orders from
instructors in early, it is easier
for the bookstore to flag more
books being sold back at the
end of semesters.

The chart below lists some
of the books required for a
common full-time freshman
schedule, and illustrates the
price differences.

Course

Book Title

Author

Price,

Price,

Resale

Resale

New

Used

Value If
Reordered

Value If Not
Reordered

BSCI 105

Biology with CD

Campbell

$103.35

$ 77.55

$ 51.70

$21.00

ENGL 101

Writer's Reference

Hacker

$ 36.70

$ 27.55

$ 18.35

$ 900

Perspectives

Engl 101

$ 34.70

$ 26.05

$ 17.35

$ 0.00

HIST 156

Paine & Revolutionary

America

Foner

$ 23.95

$ 18.00

$ 12.00

$ 0.00

Cradle of the Middle

Ryan

$ 19.95

$15.00

$ 10.00

$ 1.50

Class

New England Town

Lockridge

$ 1535

$ 1155

$ 7.70

$ 1.50

MATH 113

College Algebra with
Study Guide &
Internet Aid

Larson

$88.00

$66.00

$44.00

$ 0.00

Resource Manual for

Stone

$ 12.95

$ 9-75

$ 6.50

$ 0.00

■

Math 113

PSYC 100

Psychology

Smith

$ 87.35

$66.55

$ 43.70

$ 0.00

Psychology CD

Smith

$ 27.70

$ 20.80

$ 1385

$ 0.00

A Primer on Collective Bargaining

Many in the univer-
sity community
have questions
about the univer-
sity's new collective bargain-
ing rights for exempt and non-
exempt staff and campus
police. In an effort to dissemi-
nate accurate information.
President Dan Mote and the
Office of Legal Affairs collect-
ed some commonly asked
questions, and their answers,
on a Web site. A summary is
below. For more information,
visit www.umd.edu/cb or call
Legal Affairs at (301) 405-
4945.

The university's position on
collective bargaining is neu-
tral. President Mote encour-
ages employees to make an
educated decision based on
an understanding of the law, a
summary of which can also be
found at the above Web
address.

The university will work
to ensure a fair and open
atmosphere exists so covered
employees will be able to
inform themselves fully about
unionization and make an
informed decision," according
to a statement on the site. "To
do this, the university will
provide factual information

and correct any misstate-
ments which come to its
attention. If an election on
collective bargaining takes
place, the university will pub-
licize the election and encour-
age employees to vote."

Question: What is the State
Higher Education Labor
Relations Board?
Answer: The State Higher Edu-
cation Labor Relations Board
(SHELRB) is a five-member
panel created under the new
collective bargaining statute
to administer and enforce the
law. The SHELRB is responsi-
ble for establishing proce-
dures for elections, overseeing
elecdons, and investigating
and taking action regarding
unfair labor practices.

Question; Am I represent-
ed by a union now?

Answer: University employ-
ees may have joined a union,
but no union is currently
authorized to engage in col-
lective bargaining with the
University.

Question: When will the
union start representing
me?

Answer: Unionization is not an

automatic process. If 30 per-
cent of covered employees in
a bargaining unit sign a union
document (sometimes
referred to as an "authoriza-
tion card") indicating their
interest in being represented
by a particular union, a secret
ballot election will be held for
that bargaining unit. If more
than 50 percent of the
employees who vote in the
election choose to be repre-
sented by a particular union,
then that union will represent
all employees in the bargain-
ing unit.

Question; What is a bar-
gaining unit?

Answer: Under the new Mary-
land law, a bargaining unit is a
group of employees who are
permitted to join together on
each individual University Sys-
tem of Maryland campus and
decide by a majority vote if
they all shall be represented
by a union. Each campus may
have up to three bargaining
units. These units are: exempt
employees (employees who
are not eligible for overtime);
non-exempt employees
(employees who are eligible
for overtime); and sworn
police.

Talking about Solutions

Evening of Dialogue on Civil
Liberties and Security

An event tided "Evening of
Dialogue: Civil Liberties and
Security" will allow faculty,
students and community
members to hear experts,
share thoughts and develop
ideas that will help the uni-
versity and greater communi-
ty move forward in the wake
of the terrorist attacks of Sep-
tember II.

The Department of Com-
munication's Center for Polit-
ical Communication and
Civic Leadership (CPCCL)
will address the issues of civil
liberties and security by host-
ing an evening of speakers,
dialogue- and action on
Wednesday, Oct. 24 at 5:30
p.m. in the Art-Sociology
Building, room 2 203.

The evening will begin
with a panel discussion fea-
turing three speakers who
represent the complex rela-
tionship between civil liber-
ties and security. Among the
speakers will be Shibley Tel-
hami, Anwar Sadat Chair for
Peace and Development at
the University of Maryland
and a non-resident senior fel-
low at the Brookings Institu-
tion. He has written a report
on Persian Gulf security for
the Council on Foreign Rela-
tions and is a co-drafter of
another council report on the
Arab-Israeli peace process. He
is also a member of the Coun-
cil on Foreign Relations and a
member of the advisory com-
mittee of Human Rights
Watch/Middle East.

The other speakers will be
Dwight Sullivan, managing
attorney with the ACLU-Mary-
land and Jack Strayer, vice
president for external affairs
at the National Center for
Policy Analysis.

Following the panel discus-
sion, audience members will
convene in small groups to
discuss opinions and ideas
about maintaining commit-
ments to foundational U.S.
freedoms when the need for
heightened security meas-
ures abounds. With facilita-
tors and a professionally
developed dialogue guide,
each group will develop sug-
gestions for how the commu-
nity can live together in light
of the crisis, how individuals
can take action and what
possible policy suggestions
can be offered. The guide
that will be used was pro-
duced by Study Circles
Resource Center, a Washing-
ton, DC -based national
organization that provides
resources for "helping people
work together for creative
community change." In
response to the September
1 1 terrorist acts, Study Circles
Resource Center created a
dialogue guide specifically to
aid groups in facilitating con-

versations that bring people
of different backgrounds and
life experiences togetiier for
"honest, productive, demo-
cratic conversations."

The Evening of Dialogue
will conclude with the dia-
logue groups coming togeth-
er to share their suggestions.
The CPCCL will compile a
summary report based on the
suggestions, and subsequently
distribute the report to uni-
versity personnel, media and
other community leaders.

"Everyone we know is
searching for a way to
express their feelings about
what has happened, but also,
everyone wants to do some-
thing about it," said Linda
Aldoory, coordinator of the
Evening of Dialogue and
assistant professor of commu-
nication, explaining the impe-
tus for the event."We hope
this event allows people to
learn more about the issues
of civil liberties and security,
to share opinions, but more
importantly, to make sugges-
tions and do something."

The event is planned to
coincide with United Nations
Day. Tlie General Assembly of
the U.N. has proclaimed 2001
the Year of Dialogue Among
Civilizations. The Evening of
Dialogue supports the U.N.'s
resolution that organizations
"continue planning and
organizing cultural, educa-
tional and social programmes
to promote the concept of
dialogue among civilizations."

The evening event is the
inaugural event of the Univer-
sity of Maryland's new Center
for Political Communication
and Civic Leadership, -which
was formed in 2000 with a
mission of "uniting research,
education, and public engage-
ment to foster democratic
communication by a diverse
people."

"We cannot imagine a more
appropriate inaugural event
for the Center given the criti-
cal issues facing the country
and the campus community,"
said Shawn J. Parry-Giles,
director of CPCCL and assis-
tant professor of communica-
tion.

The Evening of Dialogue is
part of the CPCCL's Recover-
ing Democracy Project
designed to invigorate demo-
cratic practices while work-
ing toward the resolution of
national and international
issues. For additional informa-
tion about the CPCCL's activi-
ties or about the Evening of
Dialogue, contact Parry-Giles
at (301) 405-6527 or Aldoory
at (301) 405-6528.

— Julie Gowin, outreach

coordinator with the

Department of

Communication

OCTOBER 23, 2001

Library Notes and News

Exhibit ofPrange Materials Opens at
Baltimore's Pratt Library

An exhibit of photo-
graphs, magazines,
newspapers and chil-
dtvrt's books from the Uni-
versity of Maryland's Gordon
W. Prange Collection will
open at the Enoch Pratt Free
Library, 400 Cathedral St.,
Baltimore, Md., on Thursday,
Oct. 25, and run through
Dec. 29-

Entitled "New Beginnings:
Japan in the Immediate Post-
war Years, 1945-1949; the
exhibit will mark the first
time that Prange materials
have been shown in the
United States. Items in the
exhibit represent a glimpse
of postwar Japan through
the eyes of the Japanese, as
filtered through the Occupa-
tion censorship bureau.

The exhibit at the Pratt
will also celchrate the 20th
anniversary of the sister-state
relationship between Mary-
land and Kanagawa Prefec-
ture. The selected Prange
materials focus on Kanagawa
business, tourism, trade and
literature during the Occupa-
tion period.

In the immediate after-
math of World War II, Japan
experienced a cultural ren-
aissance. Despite the physi-
cal devastation and the
sparse living conditions that
many Japanese experienced,
publishing flourished, as evi-
denced by the 2 1 million
pages of books, magazines
and newspapers that com-
prise the university's Prange

Collection, the nearly com-
plete publishing output of
Japan for the years 1945-
1949.

In October 1945, soon
after the Allied Forces
arrived in Japan, General
Headquarters established the
Civil Censorship Detach-
ment (CCD).The CCD was
charged with enforcing the
10-point code for the Japan-
ese press. When censorship
of the Japanese media was
lifted in 1949, Gordon
Prange. then chief of Gen.
MacArthur's 100-member
Historical Section, arranged
for the declassification and
shipment of the CCD's fde
copies to his home institu-
tion, the University of Mary-
land.

Gordon W Prange began
teaching history at the uni-
versity In 1937. Except for a
leave of absence during WW
II and the Occupation,
Prange taught continuously
at the University until several
months before his death on
May 15,1980.

Public programs at the
Enoch Pratt Free Library dur-
ing November and Decem-
ber will highlight the broad
spectrum of Japanese culture
and the postwar renaissance
including a Japanese Film
Festival, symposia and lec-
tures, children's programs
and music and dance. For
information on the programs
at the Enoch Pratt Free
Library, call (410) 396-5494.

UM Libraries, Ex Libris (USA) Sign
Digitizing Software Partnership Agreement

The Libraries have
entered into a Pre-
mier Partner Agree-
ment with Ex Libris (USA) of
Chicago to further both the
development of DigiTool
digital asset management
software as well as the digital
initiatives of the Performing
Arts Library (PAL) located in
the new Clarice Smith Per-
fbrmingArts Center.The
Maryland Libraries are the
first library in North America
to enter into this agreement.

For the university and
other libraries that have
staked out strategic positions
in creating and managing
digital collections, particular-
ly where they are digitizing
materials, DigiTool has the
essential applications for cre-
ating and maintaining digital
collections that together
comprise the emerging digi-
tal library.

The agreement calls for
the full implementation of
Ex Libris's digjtal asset man-
agement product as well as
having the University of
Maryland actively participate
in the ongoing product
design, development and

testing of new features with-
in DigiTool. As a Premier
partner, the Maryland Libra-
ries will become a focal
point, a leader and a refer-
ence for other libraries
around the world by partici-
pating in the leading edge
work of designing informa-
tion systems for the 21st
century.

"Above all, it gives us an
opportunity to help define
development of digital
library technology with the
leading software developer
of library systems," said
Charles Lowry, dean of
Libraries at the University of
Maryland.

Ex Libris, a leading world-
wide developer of high-per-
formance applications for
libraries, information cen-
ters, and researchers, was
awarded a five-year contract
earlier this year for an
advanced "next generation''
shared Library Information
Management System (LIMS)
for the University of Mary-
land Libraries, in cooperation
with 16 University System of
Maryland and affiliated insti-
tution libraries.

New Usenet Server to Ease Usage

The university's two Usenet
news servers are being consol-
idated onto one new server.
The new server will provide
more efficient service to users,
and it will store accumulated
messages for a longer time.

Usenet "newsgroups" are vir-
tual discussion boards devoted
to a variety of topics. Users
post messages or respond to
the messages of odters, some-
times forming long threads of
interrelated mcssages.The
messages are stored on servers
and downloaded to users'
computers to be read.

At the University of Mary-
land, anyone witii a WAM,
Glue, or cluster account can
access the newsgroups stored
on the university's news
servers.

" Pre viosly, each news server
had about nine gigabytes of

disk space," according to Diane
Donaldson, OIT Usenet admin-
istrator, "but so much news
came in that messages could
not be stored for more than a
few days. The new system has
24 gigabytes, so news can be
stored for much longer.Also,
we were able to increase the
number of newsgroups we
carry from about 4,000 to over
38,000."

The dual systems allowed
duplication of article storage
needs by having two servers,
each of which catered to dif-
ferent communities of users,
but which had a great deal of
article overlap. The new con-
solidated server will eliminate
this redundancy

The new server is called
news2.wam.umd.edu. After a
transition period, the old
servers — news.wam.umd.edu

and news.umd.edu (a.k.a.
news.glue.umd.edu) — will be
turned off, and the new server
will inherit these addresses.

Each news server assigns an
index number to each article,
beginning w ith the number
one. As article index numbers
differ between the systems,
diey will change with this con-
solidation. Current news users
will notice that their article
counts are different after mov-
ing to the new server, but this
will not affect performance.
The OIT Help Desk has hints
on how to make tills
changeover with as little dis-
ruption as possible.

For more information, con-
tact the OIT Help Desk at
(301) 405-1500, helpdesk®
umail.umd.edu, or visit www.
he Ipdesk . u md . ed u/unix/
news/newnewsserver. shtml.

Effectiveness. Facilitating Solutions

Continued from page 1

chairman arrived.

Chas Cadwell, director of the
Institutional Reform and the
Informal Sector (IRIS) Center,
recommends organizations get
in touch with OOE early in
whatever process in which
they're seeking OOE's help. Early
intervention allows Foxworth
and her staff to more fully utilize
their expertise to meet a depart-
ment's needs.

"Joe Sherlin is the hero in my
story," says Cadwell, speaking of
OOE's other organizational
development specialist. Sherlin
helped design and conduct a
retreat. Cadwell appreciated
Sherlin's flexibility when it came
to process and his attention
when assessing staff concerns.

"He spent a lot of time listen-
ing to my folks. It forced us to
focus on a practical agenda. He
did an incredibly good job of
helping employees express their
ambitions for the retreat "This
resulted in unit-wide ownership
of the process and the structure,
adds Cadwell. The center also
defined its vision and opera-
tional issues.

Foxworth, Sherlin and assis-
tant organizational development
specialist Denise Maple plan and
facilitate all inteventions.They
also partner with members of
OOE's Peer Consulting Network
(see side article) on client work.
In the year and a half since its
inception, OOE and PCN have
engaged in more than 40 cam-
pus customized consultations.

Foxworth says that the network
and the work of OOE save the
university money "External con-
sultants charge of a Jot of money
for these services," she says.

And as for results?

"They helped us to move
through a change process in a
fairly quick and painless way,"
said Peterson,

Peer Network Provides Support

In many of the departments on
campus, faculty and staff mem-
bers; can be found who belong
to the Peer Consulting Network,a
program developed by the Office
for Organizational Effectiveness

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The Peer Consulting Network
(PCN J is a voluntary program in
which members receive training
from OOE in process consultation
and team facilitation skills. In addi-
tion, the program offers members
the opportunity to network with
people from all over campus.

Joanne Desiato, ombudsperson
for graduate students, has found
her experience with the program
helpful. "There are positive effects
working with people all over cam-
pus... the better I know the cam-
pus, the better I do my job," said
Desiato.

Desiato explains that one of the
reasons why many of the mem-
bers view the program so favor-
ably is because of the leadership.
Vicky Foxworth, director of OOE,
encouraged many of the members
to join at the beginning and has
been very friendiy and helpfui
since.

Today, the PCN has 20 mem-
bers, from 18 departments. Fox-
worth said, "We intentionally keep
the network fairly small because
we offer ongoing coaching and
professional development oppor-
tunities to the group and we want
to be sure that we can adequately
support PCN members as they are
engaging in client work."

Because the program is volun-
teer based, the members are
involved because they want to be
a part of a group that helps
departments solve organizational
issues.

As Laura Nichols, assistant
director of Women's Studies, said,

"the challenge is as a voluntary
organization" many of the mem-
bers are strained to find the time
for the network. Most, however,
try hard to contact one another
and attend the monthly meetings.
,;rNJ$bblSJtfefca^e!trw f {Jtved M/itb!,-
PCN about two years ago and has
found it "so exciting to be
Involved with a group that works
toward organizational change,
growth and development with
such a broad perspective." She
said being a part of the Peer Con-
sulting Network "empowers the
participants in the place where
they work."

Warren Kelley, executive assis-
tant to the vice president for stu-
dent affairs, is impressed by the
extent to which the program has
grown. The PCN has "been able to
leverage out their expertise to a
much larger organization because
of volunteers they helped train,"
Kelley said. "It is a valuable
resource for campus I don't
believe is well known."

Periodic two-day workshops
and monthly meetings are offered
so the members can come togeth-
er to discuss any problems they
might be having and get input
from each other. The gatherings
allow everyone to gain more skills,
learn from one another, network
with other members and build
community, according to Kelfey.

According to the Office of Orga-
nizational Effectiveness, the
demand for peer consulting pro-
grams such as the PCN continues
to rise throughout the campus.
Opportunities for joining will be
available next spring. Anyone
interested in becoming a member
of the Peer Consulting Network
can contact Joe Sherlin, with OOE,
at (301) 405-7584.

—Cynthia Owens

1

For information about OOE, call (301) 405-7584 or visit www.inform.umd.edu/OOE.

OUTLOOK

Distinguished Faculty
and Staff Honored at
Annual Convocation

At the Annual Faculty
and Staff Convocation
on Tuesday, Oct. 1 6, this
year's distinguished
honorees gathered in Memorial
Chapel. The event was made per-
haps more memorable than most
would have wished by an initial
evacuation due to a threat of
bioteriorism, but soon afterward
the ceremony was underway.
Below, the university's finest
emerge after investigating the
threat. At bottom, honorees and
attendees wait to reenter the
chapel. Below right, Micki
Goldstein<;Preisiderit Dan Mote,

Irwin Goldstein and Patsy Mote
pose together outside the chapel.
Above, Mote confers a congratula-
tory hug on President's Medal
Award winner Irwin Goldstein.
Goldstein, whose commitment to

excellence has been cited as con-
tributing to the rise in Maryland's
academic reputation, is a professor
of psychology and dean of the
College of Behavioral and Social
Sciences. ■ •

Notable

The Division of Nuclear Physics of the
American Physical Society has select-
ed Jhinn-Wel Chen, Maryland
physics research associate, for the
2002 Dissertation in Nuclear Physics
Award. Members and friends of the
Division sponsor this award, which
recognizes a recent Ph.D. in nuclear
physics. Chen will present his disser-
tation at the 2002 APS Spring Meeting
in Albuquerque, NM.

The Alumni Association welcomes
Fr ancena Phillips Jackson as its
new director of alumni affairs for the
Robert H. Smith School of Business.
Jackson is experienced in event plan-
ning, publications and communica-
tions, volunteer management and
consulting with a variety of associa-
tions. She has served as the interim
director in the position for several
month s.Jackson can be reached at
fjackson@rhsmith.umd.edu or (301)
209-3505.

Sturtz

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capacity of the campus by accumulat-
ing debt.

"Debt is good," he said, assuring that
it's quite all right to quote him on that.

Through loans and bonds, projects
that were set aside due to lack of
funds were being completed. During
his time at the university, 53 percent
of all of the campus' square footage
has either been built or renovated.
That's not including the develop-
ments he's been able to launch on
other system campuses, which add up
to more than a million square feet.

Sturtz also wanted to improve Facil-
ities Management. In 1995, he pro-
posed the Business Processes Redesign
Initiadve.The processes for hiring,
budget, travel, personnel and payroll
were to all become electronic. The
transition should be complete within
the next year. This service is being
provided to other USM campuses.

Til never say everything we set
out to do we did well or completely"
Sturtz said. ""We're leaving a significant
agenda for the person that comes
next."

He said he is proud of his accom-
plishments, at the university and in his
life. Sturtz has seen his office's racial
and gender diversity change from 2 to
45 percent. State legislation has gradu-
ally provided him more freedom with
university operadons. He earned his
doctorate and now teaches an upper-
level class in public finance adminis-
tration. Sturtz even spent seven
months as acting athletic director in
the late '80s.

What will stay with him the most,
he said, are the relationships he's
made while at Maryland.

"What one remembers the most are
the people.Academic institudons are
profoundly about people," he said.
"The sum of it all is the wonderful
people that we've had a chance to
grow with."

OCTOBER 23, 2001

Network to Benefit University, Area
Schools and, Most Important, Children

At the Center for Young
Children, everything is
always about the chil-
dren. Although the center has
always had a triple
mission of educat-
ing children, pro-
fessional develop-
ment and research,
Fran Favretto, who
became the direc-
tor of CYC In 1993.
said she felt like
the mission need-
ed clarification
and expansion.

"It seems as if
the professional
development and
research mission
were not highlighted or
implemented as much,"
Favretto said.

With her appointment as
director of the undergarduate
Early Childhood Teacher Edu-
cation program for the Depart-
ment of Human Development,
College of Education two
years ago, she has been able to
work on expanding and inte-
grating the CYC with the
department and the college.

"It was a very logical
match," she said.

Favretto is bridging the mis-
sion of the CYC with the
Department, working with fac-
ulty, staff and area elementary
schools. She is working with
three elementary schools in
Montgomery County who will
join In a partnership with the
university. The partnership
will be a Professional Devel-
opemnt School (PDS) network,
which includes these three
schools and the CYC, This will
begin a dialogue where both
the schools and university can
Jeam from each other.

"This PDS movement is hap-
pening statewide as well as
nationally" she said. Other pro-
grams around the state have
been established and will con-
tinue to establish similar pro-
grams.

She said it's truly a partner-
ship. The undergraduate stu-
dents come in to the schools
to teach and learn their craft.
They can put the philosophi-
cal and theoretical side of
teaching to practice. The uni-
versity faculty can come in to
the schools and share their
research. And with Its pres-
ence in the school, the univer-
sity can see first-hand what's
going on in the schools and
what issues schools are facing.
In the end, the education of
children will be improved,
Favretto said

"We can do a lot of talking
about what teachers need to
know, but they need to be In
the real world of schools."

CYC teachers also teach
undergraduate classes and
handle the first year practi-
cian. She said the courses
have a continuum; they are
linked to practicums at CYC
and in the schools. She also
said that the teachers then
become mentors for other

teachers.

Christian Defayette, a senior
who will graduate in Decem-
ber with a degree In early

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The Canter for Young Children becomes more a
part of the university's Early Childhood Program.

childhood education, said she
feels she can call on either
Favretto or Anne Daniel, the
assistant director of CYC and
her former professor, at any-
time if she needs help with
anything.

"I get a lot of support here,"
said Defayette, who is fulfilling
a semester-long practicum at
CYC."This is part of the
school's mission."

The new program will also
have a practicum for sopho-
mores who have not been
accepted in the program yet.
In the first year an Exploring
Teaching course will enable
sophomores to come into
CYC to work one day a week
to see if teaching is the career
they want. The next year the
students are taking courses
and in schools on a part time
basis. In the senior year, stu-
dents take part in the year
long internship in the PDS
network.

The PDS network is also
beneficial to the Early Child-
hood program because CYC
only has children that range
from 3 years to kindergarten
age. However, early childhood
education licensure spans
from preschool to third grade.
The elementary schools have
primary placements. Favretto
said that the CYC PTA is push-
ing to have the CYC expand
to the third grade.

"I think that would be really
interesting to look at " Favretto
said. "You would be able to fol-
low children from the time
they were 3 to third grade."

Of course the center would
need more physical space and
more teachers. Favretto said
she would add something else
to her wish list: undergraduate
classroom space so that stu-
dents would be ar the center
on a more frequent basis and
they would be able to observe
curriculum and behavioral dif-
ferences in the children. The
research mission would also
be expanded.

The center is ranked one of
the best preschools in the
country by the National Asso-
ciation for the Education of
Young Children.

"The better program we
have, the better the program
will be to benefit the chil-
dren," Favretto said.

More Experts on War Against Terrorism

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his is another small sampling of the several university faculty members who have become resources
in explaining and analyzing the recent world events. Their expertise spans severel fields of research.
For a complete listing, go to www. umd.edu/newspubs. Click on the University Newsdesk link.

Lawrence Mintz, Director of

the Art Gliner Center for Humor
Studies at the University of
Maryland and editor of HUMOR,
International Journal of Humor,
can discuss the search post-dis-
aster humor, "...the trauma is
still going on, it's not over yet,
so you really can't access when
it's OK to laugh again until it's
over."

Suman Mukhophadyay, a
molecular microbiologist, can
discuss the science of dissecting
the genetic properties of bacte-
ria such as anthrax — how inves-
tigators can tell if genes ere
altered, what are the clues that
could reveal tampering.
Mukhophadyay studies

pathogens, including ecoli and
anthrax, looking at how they
divide and replicate.

Glenn Schiraldl is a doctor
of stress management and
expert on post traumatic stress.
A Vietnam veteran, he has
served on the stress manage-
ment faculties at the Pentagon
and the University of Maryland
and Is author of various books
and articles on human mental
and physical health, including
The Pest-Traumattc Stress Disor-
der Source Book.

Susan Walker, assistant pro-
fessor , family studies; State
Family Life Specialist, Maryland
Cooperative Extension and

Department of Family Studies,
can discuss how to talk to chil-
dren about these tragic events
and about their fears. She is an
expert in child care, parenting
education and at-risk families.
As an extension specialist, she
hss had a lot of experience talk-
ing to people about family and
child issues.

Madeline Zilfi, associate
chair department of history and
expert on the Middle East, Islam
and gender issues. Zilfi wrote
"The Politics of Piety: The
Ottoman Uleme in the Post-Clas-
sical Age, and is editor of
"Women in the Ottoman Empire:
Middle Eastern Women in the
Early Modern Era" (19971.

Leaders: A New Kind of Intern

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'Now it's my time to sit back
and relax,' But my energy level
was a little bit higher than
that."

Brooks began volunteering
one day a week the Prince
Georges County's United Com-
munity Against Poverty organi-

she wants it to be clear that
interns offer valuable life expe-
riences as well.

"We go to the state legisla-
ture not asking for something,
but instead offering a valuable
resource. This is a win for
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Lynn Bopp, executive director of the Governor's Office on Service and
Volunteerism, addresses a group Senior Leadership interns during a
recent Friday session. Behind her is a banner charting the state's com-
mitment to community service.

zation. Then it was three times
a week, then five to six.

"My main interest is in sen-
iors. Any experience I get
[through Senior Leadership] , I
can apply it here. It will help
me benefit my community."

She seems to embody Wil-
son's favorite word: engage-
ment. One of her main goals for
the program is to make sure
seniors receive enough signifi-
cant work that they'll become
more active members in dieir
state's government. However,

university, the state, people
over 50."

Horace Fields, who retired
after 32 years of government
service, 21 of them as a lawyer
for the employee and labor rela-
tions division of the Depart-
ment of the Treasury, looks for-
ward to using his expertise
assisting decision makers.

"And I would like to know
how things work," he says.

Wilson's first proof that her
program would work came
through the Senior Leadership's

internship coordinator Gloria
Kovnot. Before more than 200
applicants showed interest in
being an intern, Kovnot was a
guinea pig for the initiative.
When asked about her experi-
ence, Kovnot just beams.

"It was phenomenal. I
worked every Wednesday. I got
up very excited on those days,"
says the retired owner of a
trucking company. Kovnot
worked for Maryland Delegate
Mary Conroy.

"She attended hearings,
wrote synopses of them and
presented them to the delegate.
She helped with testimony for
legislation , prop osals ," say s Pat
Bruce, legislative aide to Con-
roy. "She was very busy. She was
my right arm in dealing with
visitors and constituents. She
also sat in on meetings with
lobbyists and the normal things
that come with it, the gopher-
ing. There's a lot of gophering.
She was superb."

Kovnot agrees that she was
quite busy, but didn't mind the
work at all. She also enjoyed
watching Conroy 's staff address
the needs of her constituents.

"One person can make a dif-
ference. They really listen to
what people have to say," said
Kovnot, who has been asked
back for the next legislative
session,

Kovnot, who calls herself a
'young senior,' makes the point
that Senior Leadership Mary-
land is for everyone who wants
to be an active contributor to
the state. Lynn Bopp, executive
director of the Governor's
Office on Service and Volun-
teerism, who spoke during a
recent instructional session,
seemed to sum it best.

"If you want to make change,
you have to be willing to get
Involved."

OUTLOOK

Chaplains:

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Chaplains have been on the
university campus almost since
its inception. One of the earli-
est groups to establish a pres-
ence is the Episcopal/ Anglican
denomination. According to
interim chaplain Velma Brock,
the denomination has one of
the oldest relationships with
the university.

"Our connection goes back
to 1890.The diocese of Wash-
ington, D.C. felt we needed to
have a presence," she says.

As students arrived from
around the world, the face of
the university's chaplaincy
changed. Students, staff and fac-
ulty may now choose to con-
sult a Muslim imam, two Jew-

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ish rabbis, a Catholic priest, or
Hindu, Mormon and Christian
Scientist chaplains.

To establish a chaplaincy, stu-
dents need to prove to the vice
president for student affairs
that there is an active con-
stituency. Ministers then must
be appointed by their respec-
tive faiths. Chaplains serve as
spiritual advisors and program
coordinators, though their
activities are not financially
supported by the university.

Here are brief profiles of and
thoughts from some of die
chaplains:

Velma Brock —
Episcopal/Anglican

Rev. Brock arrived on campus
a litde more than a year ago
after "coming late into clergy,"
she says. And coming from an
unlikely background, Brock
once was a funeral director and
an adjunct instructor for mortu-
ary science. She holds a mas-
ter's in information science and
went on to earn a master's of
divinity from Washington D.C.'s
Wesley Theological Seminary.

"I focused on urban ministry
with a secondary interest in
clinical pastoral education," says
Brock.

She demonstrates an appreci-
ation for the historical impor-
tance of the church, as well as
the value of its presence on a
college campus. Many Protes-
tant churches were responsi-
ble for founding colleges, uni-
versities and hospitals, Brock
mentions.

"Students don't know that

history. Many of trie social
movements were started by
churches, and then it catches
on in the secular world."

Scott Brown — Hillel Jewish
Student Center

In his fifth year as the execu-
tive director of the "foundation
for Jewish campus life at Mary-
land,"' Scott Brown isn't a rabbi.
However, he knows the impor-
tance of the Hillel Jewish Stu-
dent Center to those it serves.

He, and part-time chaplain
Rabbi Elli Schorr, work to cre-
ate "spiritual, cultural, educa-
tional and recreational opportu-
nities" for one of die largest
faith populations on campus.

Brown holds a master's in
management and brings eight
years of building Jewish com-
munity centers to the universi-
ty. Hillel shares its work with a
second rabbi, Rabbi Eli Back-
man, who represents die
Chabad.

"We are different, but we
have a nice and special work-
ing relationship," says Brown.

Kim Capps — United
Methodist

Credited by her colleagues as
having a strong leadership pro-
gram, Capps just celebrated her
10th year here. Capps directs
service projects to far-flung
areas such as Zimbabwe and
community work in Washing-
ton, DC. She and Lutheran min-
ister Beth Platz also act as the
university police chaplains.

"I feel called to be a part of
the larger community," she says.
"The last month has opened
doors that I hope won't close.
It was a magnified example of
ways we seek to help the
[whole] university."

Capps, who spent her first
three years on campus as an
adjunct chaplain, focuses her
ministry on engaging students.
She also wants to make it clear
that she means all students. v

"I don't care if you're United
Methodist or not. We're here to
serve."

AH Darwish — Muslim

A bachelor's and master's alum-
nus of the university, Darwish
went on to MIT to work on a

doctorate in electrical engineer-

ing. He holds weekly sermons
at three mosques in Washing-
ton, D.C. and has been on the
campus, in various capacities,
since 1 998. He's been the Mus-
lim chaplain for two years.

Like his colleagues, he sees
his role on campus as student-
focused."To inspire students,
educate campus community
and look after students needs,"
he says.

In light of recent events, he
organized safety classes and
clarified "the situation and what
lies ahead through lectures and
articles."

Beth Platz — Lutheran

The first woman to be
ordained in the Lutheran
church in the country, Platz
knows about finding a comfort-
able place for oneself. She lias
been with die university for 36
years. Her easy manner and
obvious comfort in her position
are contagious. Platz focuses on
developing the whole student,
encouraging their spiritual and
academic growth.

"I'm here to not only provide
pastoral care for Lutherans, but
to affirm academic enterprise,
to be a voice in that enterprise."

She is known for her net-
work building skills, as well. If
something needs to be done,
Platz will find die people to do
it, such as getting an intergener-
ational care center built, or
finding resources for a larger
police facility, for example. She
feels her clerical collared pres-
ence at some tables may make
colleagues nervous, though.

"Higher education has ambi-
valent feelings about religious
life," she says. "They wresde
with the fact that it is a signifi-
cant element in people's lives."

Holly Ulmer — United Cam-
pus Ministry (representing
the Piesbyterian Church, Disci-
ples of Christ and the United
Church of Christ)

It was a rainbow that pulled
Ulmer into the ministry. While
studying English and music at
Bucknell University in Pennsyl-
vania, Ulmer had a "real positive
experience" , with the chaplain-
cy. She also found that peers
sought her out to talk with and
"I wasn't sure if it was a gift God
gave me or just being a friend."

The answer came while rid-
ing a double-decker bus in Eng-
land during a study abroad trip.
"I looked up and saw a rain-
bow, then I knew," she says.

Ulmer headed to Princeton
Theological Seminary in New
Jersey to concentrate on preach-
ing."! was ordained to this post
right out of seminary," she says.
"I was only going to be here for
a while." It has been 1 1 years.

She shares her peers' desire
for chaplains to be seen as more
than removed spiritual advisors.

"We're not shallow or lacking
intellectual depth...," she says.
"Sometimes people think the
church is obsolete, but we're
not afraid to get in the midst of
struggle."

"Look, there's no bus service to batt.lt- zones.. . In Vietnam,
you got your reporter's credentials, and when you got
diem you could move on military transport, and if you vio-
lated the agreements — which were not reporting plans or
troop movements — then your credentials would be
suspended. The rules were simple and, I might add, they
worked well." — Eugene Roberts, professor of journalism,
comments on the lack of front line coverage by the
media in the Afghanistan theater of war To bint, things
have not changed all that much. Baltimore Sun, Oct, 1 7

To outside experts, the U.S. effort is overdue. "What we're
doing in Afghanistan, certainly, targeting specific groups, is
our right. But in terms of winning die heartland-minds
battle, it has to be a war of ideas." Shibley Telbamt,
Anwar Sadat Chair for Peace and Development thinks
the battle for tlse hearts and minds of the Middle East is
critical to victory. He feels Muslin moderates must be
given political ammunition in their battle witb the
extremists. San Francisco Chronicle, Oct 16

But all those publications depend on significant backing
from universities and foundations. "You just don't do them
to make money. . . You do them because you think they're
important." — Thomas KunkeL dean of the College of
journalism, remarks on the demise of Brill's Content, a
magazine targeted at improving journalistic ethics and
informing the public about the business. Kunkel knows
of what be speaks: the College oj Journalism publishes
the prestigious American Journalism Review. Baltimore
Sun, Oct. 16

Officials at the University of Maryland, College Park say
family weekend turned into a healing experience for many
on their campus this year. It was held last weekend, less
than two weeks after a tornado hit the school, killing two
sisters, both of whom were students. Families were finally
able to comfort their grieving children"The timing was
good. I was glad for us," says Iinda Clement, the university's
vice president for student affairs, who estimates atten-
dance was up 20 percent this year. Clement's remarks
appeared in the Baltimore Sun, Oct. 14

'One of the immediate reactions is that we have a lot of
smart people here, maybe we can figure something out,"
said Susan Schwab, dean for the School of Public Affairs.
Of course, we always discover that there is no easy answer.
But it has been very helpful to have people share their wis-
dom in an intellectual community, grappling with things
collectively that we're trying to deal with Individually."
Schwab's comments about the revival of "teacb-im" fol-
lowing terrorist attacks appeared in the Baltimore Sun,

At the time, a "teach-in" at College Park seemed appropri-
ate. "Why did we call them teach-ins?" asked Andrea !
associate vice president of academic affairs." We were ]
of the "60s." For Levy, whose own sense of public education
was partly influenced by teach-ins she attended as an
undergraduate at UCLA during the Vietnam era, a teach-in
was an interactive form that made history and politics less
abstract. "They challenged me — not always publicly, bu
privately*— to come to some conclusions about what '
important and why." Baltimore Sun, Oct. 13

i, it appears that U.S. weapons transfers are
1 as party favors, to reward countries that do
ing," says Natalie Goldring, executive director of the
Program on General Disarmament at the University of
Maryland. She describes as "unfortunate" the U,S. decision
last week to sell $1.1 billion worth of sophisticated
weapons to the sultanate. "Given that our pilots are likely
to face U.S. weapons tliat we transferred to the region In
previous years, you'd think we'd be more careful. We are
already facing the possibility that the Taliban will use our
own weapons against us, and we think the answer is: trans-
fer more weapons to this region, with less oversight?"
Goldtittg's criticism of foreign policy appeared in the
Inter Press Service. Oct. 12.

OCTOBER 23, 2001

Physics is Phun

The Department of Physics
proudly presents the 2001-02
public lecture-demonstration
program series Physics is Phun.
In its 20th year, the program is
hosted by Richard Berg and the
staff of the Physics Lecture-
Demonstration Facility, and
assisted by numerous invalu-
able volunteers. This free pub-
lic program, which presents
physics at the high school level
through the use of demonstra-
tions, aims to educate, inform
and entertain. Interactive
experiments are available, with
volunteer supervision, thirty
minutes before each program.

The subject of exploration
this month is "Illusions "featur-
ing illusions and magic tricks
involving physics.

The program will be held
three days in a row; Thursday,
Oct. 25, Friday, Oct. 26 and Sat-
urday, Oct. 27. Doors open by 7
p.m. and the program takes
place from 7:30-8:45 p.m. in
the Physics Department Lec-
ture Halls, 1410-1412 Physics
Building. To volunteer, call
Bernie at (301) 405-5949 a
week before the program. For
more information, call (301)
405-5994, or visit www.physics.
umd.edu/ lecdem/ phph.htm.

Fulbright International
Administrators Deadline

Applications for the Interna-
tiona] Administrator Seminars,
the German Studies Seminar
and the Scholar-in-Residence
are all due on Nov. 1 . The Ful-
bright International Administra-
tors Program includes grants in
Germany, Korea and Japan.
International education profes-
sionals and senior university
administrators with significant
responsibility for international
programs and activities are
encouraged to apply The Ger-
man Studies Seminar explores
themes of Germany's current
society and government. The
topic for 2002 is "International
Migration and National Identities:'

The Fulbright Scholar-in-Resi-
dence Program brings faculty
and professionals from abroad
to lecture at U.S. colleges and
universities for a semester or
one academic year.

For more information con-
tact Vanessa Schulz at (301)
405-0456 or vs68@umail.umd.
edu, or visit www.cies.org.

Book Signing at National
Archives

The National Archives at Col-
lege Park will host another in
its series of author lecture and
book signings on Tuesday, Nov.
1 3- Noted Lincoln authority
Edward Steers will discuss his
book "Blood on die Moon: The
Assassination of Abraham Lin-
coln." Steers introduces the
cast of characters in this ill-
fated drama and corrects the
many misconceptions surroun-
ding this defining moment in
American history.

The lecture will take place at
noon in Lecture Room D at the
National Archives at College
Park, 8601 Adelphi Road. Call
(202) 208-7345 for reservations
and more information.

9th Maryland Regional
Commuter Conference

"Oh, the Places You'll Go!: Serv-
ing Commuter Students," will
be held Saturday, Nov. 3 at Tow-

will speak on the domestic
dimension; Joe Oppenheimer,
Mark 1. Lichbach and Ernest J.
Wilson will speak on the uni-
versal dimension; Shukri Abed
and Jillian Schwedler will speak
on the Middle East dimension;
Anne Pitch, Edw<: >*d Kaufman
and John Davies will speak on
the role of academics and values.
The program is free, and will
take place on Friday, Oct. 26
from 12-3 p.m. in 1208 Tawes
Fine Arts Building. For more in-

Society. The conference will
take place on Wednesday, Nov.
14 from 8 a.m.-4 p.m. in the
Stamp Student Union. OMSE
has extended the deadline to
Oct. 26 for co-sponsorship and
advertisements for the Tenth
Anniversary Program booklet.
The cost for a full page in the
book is $300. Conference regis-
tration is $85 per person.

For more information, con-
tact Jennifer Jackson at (301)
405-5620 or jj4l@umail.umd.

BY CYNTHIA MITCHEL

son University. This conference
is a chance to learn more about
how to advocate with and on
behalf of commuter students. It
will be of interest to faculty,
staff and students, including
student leaders. The confer-
ence provides the opportunity
to connect with other com-
muter students and staff from
Maryland, DC, Delaware.Vir-
guiia, Pennsylvania, New York
and New Jersey. The theme
explores the many options
open to commuter students
when diey are part of a campus
community that values and
engages commuter students.

Registration is $40 for faculty
or staff, $20 for students. Dis-
counts are available for groups.
Deadline for registration is Oct,
30. For more information or to
register, contact Julie Owen at
(301) 405-0986 or jowen@acc-
mail.umd.edu.

Post-Sept. 11 Teach-in

The Center for Conflict Man-
agement and International
Development(CIDCM), the
Center for American Politics
and Citizenship(CAPC), and the
Department of Government
and Politics at the University of
Maryland invite the campus to
join us for an Interactive Teach-
in on "September 1 1: The Glob-
al Struggle Against Terror: An
AnalysLs of Current Strategies
and Future Implications." Partic-
ipating faculty will speak 10
minutes each to be followed by
brief questions. Paul Herrnson,
Eric Uslaner and Mark Graber

formation, contact John Davies
at (301) 314-7709 or Edy Kauf-
man at (301) 314-5907.

CAWG Forum

As a public institution, the Uni-
versity of Maryland is required
to report its progress on differ-
ent sets of quality indicators to
the Maryland Higher Education
Commission (MHEC), the Mary-
land Department of Budget and
Management (DBM). and the
State General Assembly. On Fri-
day, Nov. 2, Bill Spann, Associate
Vice President for Institutional
Research and Planning, will
give a talk entitled "State
Accountability:What UM is
Responsible for Reporting," to
explain the differences among
these entities, what kinds of
data are submitted to each, and
discuss what the future might
hold in this arena.

The forum will be held from
12-1 :30 p.m. in the Maryland
Room, Marie Mount Hall. Light
lunch is provided for those who
RSVP by Oct. 25. For more infor-
mation, contact Eowyn Susan
Rehwinkle at (301) 405-3867
or srehwink@acc.umd.edu.

OMSE: SUCCESS 2000
Conference Sponsorship

The Office of Multi-Ethnic Stu-
dent Education (OMSE) invites
the campus to support its 1 0th
annual conference, SUCCESS
2000 (formerly RETENTION
2000') — Serious Issues for Seri-
ous Times: Educating a Diverse

edii. Or visit www.iriform.umd,
ed u/Camp uslnf o/Departmen ts/

OMSE/special.htm.

International Conference
on Violence and the
French Revolution

The Center for Historical Stud-
ies announces an international
conference on Violence and the
French Revolution, Oct. 26-27
beginning at 9:30 a.m. The free
conference, which is part of
the Center's 2001-2002 pro-
gram on political violence, will
be held in the Maryland Room,
Marie Mount Hall.

Paper topics include war,
government, repression, vio-
lence by women, memories of
violence, low-level insurgency
and revolutionary tribunals.
Scholars presenting papers are
Philippe Bourdin (Universite dc
Blaise-Pascal), Howard Brown
(SUNY, Binghamton), Halm
Burstin (Universita di Milano
Bicocca), Dominique Godineau
(Universite de Haute-Bretagne,
Rennes II), Patrice Gueniffey
(Centre Raymond Aron, EHESS),
Carla Hesse (University of Cali-
fornia, Berkeley), Ted Margadant
(University of California, Davis).
Jean-Clement Martin (Paris I-
Sorbonne)and Timodiy Tackett
(University of California. Irvine).
Rapporteurs are Colin Jones
(University of Warwick) and
Michel Vovelle (Paris 1-Sorbonne).

A schedule of sessions, direc-
tions for obtaining the papers
and other information may be
found at www.inform.umd.
edu/HLST/HistoryCenter/VFR/.