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THE UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND FACULTY AND STAFF WEEKLY NEWSPAPER Volume tj • Number 8 • April 2, 2002

Scholar Honored for Economics Work

PHOTO BV MGNETTE AUSTIN BAILEY

The National Ecomonic Assocation, a non-profit, scholarly organization dedicat-
ed to promoting the professional lives of blacks within the field, gave its annual
Rhonda M. Williams Dissertation Award to LaShawn Richburg Hayes (second
from left). Williams, a labor economist and chair of the Afro-American Studies
Program, died in November 2000 after fighting cancer. Hayes, who earned her doctor-
ate in economics from Princeton University, won with her dissertation, "Do the Poor
Pay More for Food? Three Essays on the Existence of a Poor Price Differential."
Pictured with her are (1-r) Jessica Gordon Nembhard, economist and assistant professor
with Afro-American Studies and The Democracy Collaborative holding an outstanding
service award given to Williams; Lynn Bolles, acting chair of Afro-American Studies
holding the plaque that wLU bear the names of future dissertation award winners and
Mark Turner, with the Institute for Policy Studies at Johns Hopkins University holding
a photo of Williams.

Professors Share
Expertise,
Broaden Reach

As the university zooms into
greater prominence
through its academic and athlet-
ic programs, it is not unusual for
professors to include fielding
media calls as a regular part of
their scholarly dudes.

However, reporters have
been making regular appear-
ances at the university for inten-
sive sessions with faculty on a
number of timely topics as part
of a Council for the Advance-
ment and Support of Education
(CASE) program. CASE Media Fel-
lowships provide opportunities
for campuses to host journalists
in order to build relationships
and educate the media in topics
ranging from education to sci-
ence to health care. It is an obvi-
ous bonus for the reporters and
editors. Professors also appreci-
ate the chance to offer substan-
tive background for stories.

"I enjoyed getting feedback

See CASE, page 6

Institute Makes Strides For
U.S.-China Understanding

A mutually beneficial
relation ship be-
tween the United
States and China
hinges on each country
increasing its understanding
of the other. Expressed by a
recent visitor to the campus,
this sentiment aptly defines
what drives Julia Chang
Bloch.

Minister He Yafei, deputy
chief of mission with the
Embassy of the People's
Republic of China in Wash-
ington, D.C., addressed his
remarks to a group gathered
in An nap o lis Hall as part of
die Institute for Global Chi-
nese Affairs' noon U.S.-China
relations forum series. Bloch,
the IGCA's ambassador-in
residence, organizes the
series and is making it her
mission to at least increase
the campus' understanding
of her birthplace.

"I'm becoming an ambas-
sador for the university, a
link between IGCA, the cam-

pus and the Washington poli-
cy community," she says.
"Every great university needs
to have a solid China pro-
gram. That relationship is so
important. IGCA was created
to begin that process. It
should become the locus for
China-related activities at the
university."

Bloch, who came to the
university last fall, brings
substantial background in
diplomatic relations. She is a
former U.S. Ambassador to
the Kingdom of Nepal
(1989-1993) and past presi-
dent and CEO of the United
States-Japan Foundation, a
private grantmaking institu-
tion. She has had a distin-
guished government career,
holding various senior posi-
tions in the U.S. Senate, the
U.S. Information Agency, the
Agency for International
Development and the State
Department.

See BLOCH, page 7

Favorite Former President
Returns to University System

William Kirwan Named as Chancellor

Called an "ideal choice
to take over the
reins ."William "Brit"
Kirwan will return ■
lo College Park as Chancellor
of the University System of
Maryland.

In remarks made during a
press conference to announce
the appointment, Nathan A.
Chapman Jr., chairman of the
system Board of Regents, added
that Kirwan is considered "a
native son returning home." His
term will begin August 1 . Kir-
wan is currently President of
Ohio State University and was
president of the University of
Maryland, College Park from
1989 to 1998.

He will succeed Donald N.
Langenberg, who will retire on
April 30 after nearly 1 2 years as
chancellor. An 18-member
search committee, comprising
USM regents, faculty, staff and
students and business and com-
munity leaders conducted an
extensive national search
before recommending three
highly qualified individuals for
the regents' consideration. The
board unanimously selected

FILE PHOTO BV JOHN T. CONSOU

William Kirwan

Kirwan for the post.

Gov, Parris N. Glendening
enthusiastically endorsed the
Regents' decision saying, " [Kir-
wan's] tested leadership and
long-standing commitment to
higher education are renowned.
There is no one who could be a

See KIRWAN, page S

Preserving Words, Protecting Paper

Preserving printed materi-
als isn't just in the inter-
est of librarians and
archivists. At a recent sympo-
sium, a physicist explained that
important work is cited in jour-
nals and a historian talked
about how old textbooks
enhance his research work.

The University Libraries, rec-
ognizing a higher demand for
digital resources and the con-
current cry to preserve texts,
recently held "Who Wants Yes-
terday's Papers? A Symposium
on the Research Value of Print-
ed Materials in the Digital Age"
so that academicians, librarians
and archivists could discuss
how to incorporate both
demands into their systems.
The well-attended sympo-
sium allowed an exchange of
ideas about trends in the use
and preservation of research
materials. Participants repre-
sented a diverse array of institu-
tions including federal, state,
public, special and museum
libraries and archives. Partici-
pants came from as far south as
North Carolina and as far north
as Massachusetts.

Jordan Goodman, chair of
the Department of Physics,
helped attendees to under-
stand how physicists use elec-
tronic data almost exclusively.

"But the most important pieces
of their research are the ones
eventually collected in printed
journals," said Yvonne Ca rig-
nan, preservation production
group leader for the Libraries
and one of the symposium's
organizers. "And Stephen Brush
talked about how he research-
es the introduction of new sci-
entific concepts through time
through textbooks." Brush is
Distinguished University Pro-
fessor of the History of Science
with a joint appointment with
IPST.

Charles Lowry, dean of
libraries, and Acting Dean of the
College of Information Studies
Bruce Dcarstyne opened the
program, followed by the pres-
entation of two papers. Eric Iin-
quist talked about the history
of the destruction of the book
in his paper called "Books and
the Iniquity or Wearing of
Time'" and Mark Roosa, head of
the library of Congress Preser-
vation Directorate, shared
"Some Thoughts on the Race
Against Time and Inherent Vice:
Library Preservation in the Late
20th Century." Carignan under-
stands, and is actively involved
in, the preservationists' race.

She makes a distinction

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YOUR GUIDE TO UNIVERSITY EVENTS: APRIL 2-9

april 2

12:30-2:30 p.m.. Faculty
Noon Spotlight: Strings
and Voice G ildenhorn Recital
Hall, Clarice Smith Performing
Arts Center. Faculty artists
from the String and Voice Divi-
sions of the School of Music.
For more information, contact
Amy Harbison 5-8169 or
harbison@wam.umd.edu, or
visit www. claricesmithcenter.
umd.edu.

4 p.m.. Physics Colloquium
1410 Physics Lecture Hall. With
Lawrence Cardman, Jefferson
Laboratory, Newport News.VA:
"CEBAF and Jefferson Lab:
recent results and future plans."
For more information, contact
Sheldon S. Smith at 5-5945 or
sheIdon@physics.umd.edu, or
visit www.jlab.org or
www. physics . umd. edu .

4-6 p.m., 2002 Outstanding
Woman of the Year Award

Program Seating Area, Stamp
Student Union. See For Your
Interest, page 8.

5:30-7:30 p.m., Take Five:
Bill Kirchner Concert Hall.
Clarice Smith Performing Arts
Center. Take Five on Tuesdays,'
a free, informal series offering
an opportunity to experience a
wide range of artistic areas,
presents a talk with multi-tal-
ented jazz saxophonist Kirchn-
er. For more information, con-
tact Amy Harbison at 5-8169 or
harbison@wam.umd.edu, or
visit www.claricesmithcenter.
umd.edu.

EDNESDAV

april 3

9:45 a.m. -12 p.m., OIT
Training: Introduction to
Electronic Workplace 4404
Computer & Space Science.
Geared to the very basic learn-
ing needs of those new to
Windows and Web computing
technologies. There are no pre-
requisites for this basic course.
The fee is $20. For more infor-
mation or to register, contact
the OIT Training Services Coor-
dinator at 5-0443 or oit-train-
ing@ umail.umd.edu, or visit
www.oit.umd.edu/sc.*

3:30-4:30 p.m.. Lecture
whh the Ambassador of
Argentina Multipurpose
Room, St. Mary's Hall. Ambas-

University Volunteer Month Activities

On Sunday, April 7 at 11:30 a.m. Join Happy Helpers for
the Homeless in making sandwiches for people who are
homeless. The group will meet on campus to make sand-
wiches. Interested individuals to will also have the option of help-
ing deliver the sandwiches in Baltimore from 1-4:30 p.m. You
must reserve a space to participate in this project. For meeting
location and more information, contact Sara Condron at
sara_condron@yahoo.com. For more volunteer activities, visit
www.umd.edu/csporcall (301) 314-CARE.

sador Diego Guelar will speak
at the Language House as part
of the Office of International
Programs' Ambassadorial Lec-
ture Series. For more informa-
tion, contact Tanya Hunting-
ton at 5-8933 or thunting®
warn, umd.edu.

6:30-8 p.m., Working the
Room 2460 A. V Williams. This
seminar will teach participants
the art of meeting and greeting
effectively. Anna Hart, protocol
and etiquette consultant, will
teach the tools needed to
"work the room "The program
is part of the Senior Survival
Series. All are welcome. For
more information, contact
Llatetra Brown at (301) 403-
2728, ext. 1 1 or Llatetra®
terpalum.umd.edu, or visit
www.alu_nni.umd.edu.

8-10 p.m.. New Music at
Maryland Giidenhorn Recital
Hall, Clarice Smith Performing
Arts Center. Featuring new
works by graduate and under-
graduate students of the Theo-
ry & Composition Division of
the School of Music. For more
information, contact Amy Har-
bison at 5-8169 or harbison®
wam.umd.edu, or visit www.
claricesmithcenter.umd.edu.

8-10 p.m., SITI Company:
Room Kay Theatre, Clarice
Smith Performing Arts Center,
A one-woman play that traces a
lifetime of writings by Virginia
Woolf. Featuring a solo perfor-
mance by Ellen Lauren. Anne
Bogart directs. Tickets are $25.
For more information, contact
Amy Harbison at 5-8169 or
harbison@wam.umd.edu, or
visit www.claricesmithcenter.
umd.edu.*

april 4

12:15-1:15 p.m.. Walking
Towards Wellness 3100E
Health Center. This is the first
meeting of the faculty/staff
walking club. All you need is a

pair of tennis shoes. Walking
for 3045 minutes with 1 5 min-
utes of stretching. For more
information, contact Jennifer
Treger at 4-1493, or treger®
health.umd.edu.

5-7 p.m., Spring Fling
Happy Hour Golf Course Club
House. University Professionals
United hosts its First Annual
Spring Fling Happy Hour. The
Club House is on University
Boulevard and the event will
be held in the banquet room.
RSVP by April 2 to Lisa Fisher
at (301) 4394200.

6-7:30 p.m.. Opening
Reception, Successions:
Prints by African American
Artists from the Jean and
Robert Steele Collection
Art Gallery, Art-Sociology Build-
ing. The Art Gallery presents
62 prints and works on paper
by some of the most highly
regarded African American
artists of our time, such as
Romare Bearden, Elizabeth
Catiett, David Driskell, Jacob
Lawrence and Faith Ringgold.
For more information, call 5-
2763 or visit www.angallery.
umd.edu.

7:45-9 p.m.. Lecture on
African American Art Art

Gallery, Art-Sociology Building.
Richard J. Powell, professor of
Art and Art History at Duke
University, will present "Fin-de-
siecle Blues," a lecture discuss-
ing recent visual art activities
that have emanated from the
African Diaspora. The lecture
is free, but registration is
required. For more information
and to register, contact Kim
Kindelsperger at 5-2763 or
ag2 10@umail.umd. edu, or visit
wwwartgallery. umd.edu.

april 5

8:45 a ,m -4 p.m., OIT Short-
course: Introduction to MS
FrontPage 4404 Computer &
Space Science. Prerequisites:

familiarity with the Windows
environment, word processing
and use of a Web browser. The
fee for the class is $90. For
more information or to regis-
ter, contact OIT Training Ser-
vices Coordinator at 5-0443 or
oit-training@umail.umd.edu, or
visit www.oit.umd.edu/sc.*

7 p.m., Gymkana A gymnas-
tics exhibition at Cole Field
House, Tickets are available at
the door. For more information
or to order tickets, call Scott
Welsh at 5-2566.

8-10 p.m., Masters of Indian
Music Concert Hall, Clarice
Smith Performing Arts Center.
Playing the violin, tabla and
ghatam, these masters produce
the captivating and ethereal
music of India. With Shankar,
double string violin, and Zakir
Hussain, tabla. Tickets are $35.
For more information, contact
Amy Harbison at 5-8 1 69 or
harbison® warn . umd . ed u , or
visit www.claricesmithcenter.
umd.edu.*

8-10 p.m, Teatro de la Luna

Kogod Theatre, Clarice Smith
Performing Arts Center. Per-
formed in Spanish with simul-
taneous translation into Eng-
lish. Cuentos de Hadas (Fairy
Tales) by Raquel Diana. Post-
performance question-and-
answer session in Spanish.
Tickets are $20. For more infor-
mation, contact Amy Harbison
at 5-8169 or harbison® warn.
umd.edu, or visit www.
claricesmithcenter, umd.edu.*

april 6

7 p.m., Gymkana A gymnas-
tics exhibition at Cole Field
House. Tickets are available at
the door. For more information
or to order tickets, call Scott
Welsh at 5-2566.

8:30 p.m. -12:30 a.m., BFSA
Spring Dance Grand Ball-
room Stamp Student Union.
Featuring Lady "D" the hottest
DJ in the East. The cost is $20
in advance and $25 at the
door. Send all selections you
would like to hear at the dance
to mcothran@deans.umd.edu.*

april 8

2-3 p.m., Information and
the War on Terrorism: Infor-
mation Integration and
Sensor Fusion 0113/0115
Hornbake Library. The ongoing
series on Information and the
War on Terrorism presents
James Hendler, computer sci-
ence department. For more
information, contact Diane
Barlow at 5-2042 or dbariow®
deans.umd.edu.

6-9 p.m., Microsoft Power-
Point: Creating Effective
Computer Presentations

4404 Computer and Space Sci-
ence. The fee Is $10 for stu-
dents, $20 for faculty/staff and
$25 for alumni. The class will
provide a basic introduction to
the elements of designing
effective, professional-looking
slide, overhead and computer*
based presentations. For more
information or to register, con-
tact Carol Warrington at 5-2938
or cwpost@umd5.umd.edu, or
visit www.oit.umd.edu/pt.*

april 9

7:30-8:45 p.m.. An Evening
with Langston and Martin

Kay Theat re, Clarice Smith Per-
forming Arts Center. Actors
Danny Glover and Felix Justice
offer critically acclaimed por-
trayals and readings of the
works of Martin Luther King Jr.
and Langston Hughes, The cost
is $10 for students, $30 general
audience. For more information,
contact Beth Workman, 5-5722
or bworkman@bsos.umd.edu.
(Also see article on page 5.)*

12 p.m., Xinjiang: China
and Political Islam in the
Post-Taliban Era 0105 St.
Mary's Hall. With Justin Rudel-
son, executive director, IGCA;
George Quester, professor; and
Graham Fuller, scholar and
author. Sponsored by the Insti-
tute for Global Chinese Affairs.

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OUTLOOK

Information, Not
Necessarily Force, Key
to Anti-terrorism Efforts

Forget weapons of mass
destruction and highly
trained troops. To hear
some tell it, the weapon of
choice for war's new format is
information. Those that do the
best job of collecting it, analyz-
ing it and using it will win.

Several campus units spon-
sored "Information, Intelligence
and the War Against Terrorism,"
a day-long look at how informa-
tion and technology converge
to help American troops fight
today, and what those troops
can do in the future. A quote by
Dwight Eisenhower used in a
PowerPoint presentation by Jim
Hendler seemed to sum up the
conference's theme: " . . .1 con-
ceded that more intelligence
about their war-making capabil-
ities was a necessity."

Hendler, director of the Sem-
antic Web and Agent Technolo-
gies, Maryland Information and
Network Dynamics and com-
puter science professor, said,
"This country needs a new tech-
nology base surpassing anything
currently available. . . it requires
an unprecedented coupling of
computer power and machine
intelligence" to sort through
massive amounts of informa-
tion, Unci patterns and put them
together. An example would be
the ability to determine precur-
sors for specific attack scenar-
ios and examine the data over
time for indicators.

He echoed comments made
by Lee Strickland, visiting pro-
fessor with the College of Infor-
mation Studies and chief of the
CIA Information Review Group.
In an opening session, he
remarked that the complexity
of the al Qaeda leadership, for
example, requires an equally
complex mapping of die net-
work. Hendler said much of this
is possible "but we must start
identifying key new technolo-
gies and uniting them to devel-
op interdisciplinary appro aches
to counter terrorism."

Tliroughout the day, speakers
from on and off campus dis-
cussed the technological impli-
cations of the September 1 1
terrorist attacks; how military
strategy, business and the Amer-
ican public are affected.

Addressing the military's use
of information at the tactical
level, Joseph Malt with the Cen-
ter for Technology and National
Security Policy, National
Defense University (NDU) dis-
cussed the military's plan to
convert the Army "from a Cold
War construct to a full spec-
trum combat force' by 2030.
This transformation was first
envisioned by Army Chief of
Staff Gen. Eric K. Shinseki in the
fail of 1999. The Army expects
to trade mass for information.
As evidenced in Desert Storm, it
took months to mobilize five
divisions. By relying upon light-
weight manned and unmanned
ground vehicles, and unmanned
aerial vehicles, the Army hopes
to move the same 500,000 sol-
diers in 30 days. To compensate
for the reduction in mass, this
more responsive, agile and ver-
satile army will network its sen-
sors and vehicles to increase its
understanding of a developing
situation.

This gathered intelligence,
however, is only as good as the
military's ability to decipher
and use it. Doug Oard, an assis-
tant professor with the College
of Information Studies, said, "It
is useles to collect this stuff if
you don't have a way of finding
the pieces you need. You have
to be able to translate It."

As for how the American
public is deciphering what is
going on, Strickland said that
his increased requests for pre-
sentations in non-military set-
tings is an indication of individ-
uals wanting to grasp this differ-
ent kind of war. "We're still root-
ed in traditional concepts, to
the extent people understand
war at all," he said, adding that
many people use the Vietnam
War as a frame of reference.
"There's a tremendous demand
to understand the U.S. response."

The symposium, which drew
approximately 1 60 people, was
co-sponsored by NDU, the Col-
lege of Information Studies, the
Center for International and
Security Studies at Maryland,
the university's Council for
Security and Counter-Terrorism
and American Management Sys-
tems Inc.

LibQUAL+ is here!

T

' oday, Tuesday, April 2, some
lucky students, faculty or staff
received an electronic mailing
inviting them to complete a Web-based
survey and to enter a drawing for a lap-
top PC.

If you were selected to help the uni-
versity Libraries, please take 13 minutes
to complete the survey.
The campus is again taking part in a national survey sponsored by
the Association of Research Libraries. Results from LibQual+ will
help us to improve the quality of service provided (169 other
research libraries are participating). For more information about
LibQUAL+ go to: www.lib.umd.edu/STAFF/PAS/MIS/LibQual.html.

Barber Shop-Hair Salon Serves Dual Purpose

Professor's Business Combines Research, Community Outreach

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PHOTOS BY LAUHA LEE

As a graduate stu-
dent, Will Drake-
ford spent a lot of
time in correction-
al facilities for youth offend-
ers. They were not only his
focus for research, but he
was also there as an advocate
and court monitor to im-
prove educational services.
Drakeford said there was
always one question the chil-
dren would ask him that he
could never say yes to:
"Could you get me a job?"

"That was their reality.
Research was my reality," said
Drakeford, now a visiting
assistant professor and proj-
ect associate for the National
Center on Education, Disabil-
ity and Juvenile Justice in the
Department of Special Educa-
tion.

It was five years ago when
Drakeford got to a point
where he wanted to provide
an opportunity for the youth
that he was studying and this
January he did so with the
opening of Drake's Place, a
unisex barber shop and hair
salon in Lanham. The purpose
of Drake's Place is to provide
employment opportunities as
well as study the youth com-
ing out of correctional
facilities, youth with special
needs and youth at risk.

"I really saw a need to help
a population of kids tliat were
at risk for long-term failure "
Drakeford said, adding that
there is a disproportionate
number of children with dis-
abilities, illiteracy, and African
American males in the youth
corrections system. "That was
a great concern."

Drakeford said that the ulti-
mate goal is to help youth suc-
ceed once they are released
from corrections. He credits
the research and mentorship
of the university's Peter Leone
and Sheri Meisel as major
motivators and encourage-
ment for him to go ahead with
his idea. He started saving and
investing his money and when
the time came he was able to
get a spot in a new aerospace
center on Greenbelt Road.

This is a typical day at Drake's Place, the unisex barber shop and hair
salon created by special education professor William Drakeford to serve
the community and to assist his research on youth and corrections facili-
ties. Top, head manager Edward Matthews gives customer Anthony
Hargrove a trim as manager Ann Massillon looks on. Above, barber/stylist
Daniel McDougall braids three-year-old Dominque Cox's hair.

After evaluating the types of
things youth in correctional
facilities like to do, Drakeford
settled on a vocational trade.
"They really enjoy the art of
barbering and cosmetology,"
he said.

He thought it was a solid
idea. Drakeford saw barber
shops and hair salons as some
of the more enduring business-
es in the black community.
"What better way to do
research about something I'm
passionate about and provide
an opportunity to those who
are leaving corrections or at
risk?" he said.

Growing up in housing proj-
ects in Brooklyn, NY, Drakeford
said he can identify with the
children that he is reaching
out to. "Those kinds of experi-
ences are everlasting" he said.
"I feel a need to give back to
the community at large."

The shop is very much com-
munity oriented. It has an
exchange program with Duval
High School where two stu-
dents come three to four times
a week to receive mentoring,
job training and a class grade.
"This is an opportunity for stu-
dents who have difficulty get-
ting internship experience and

work study experience because
they're perceived as slow or
inefficient," Drakeford said.

The shop also has outreach
services to Avery Garden, a
retirement home, and is partic-
ipating in efforts to boost men-
tor membership with Big
Brother Big Sisters. Drakeford
as has local radio disc jockey
Lorenzo "Ice Tea" Thomas
signed on as a celebrity spon-
sor. Thomas, who recendy
released his own clothing line,
provides designer styling
capes and jackets for the shop
as well as time as a mentor.

As for Drakeford's research,
he will conduct case studies,
surveys, spend more time in
youth correctional facilities
and help society better under-
stand youth at risk,

Drake's Place currently
employs a staff five barbers
and six stylists. The bulk of the
shop's daily operations is han-
dled by two head managers,
one for each section, and a
third manager who can fill in.
Drakeford said he hand picked
professional and experienced
employees who could
enhance his vision.

See BARBER, page 7

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Answering a Higher Call

Hudson Pursues Ministry, Ordination

Although her mother
made sure she went
as a child. Rae Hud-
son hadn't been an avid
church goer during most of
her adult life. She sent her
children off to participate in
youth activities in her neigh-
borhood church, though she
and her husband didn't go to
service themselves.

One Sunday. Hud-
son's husband, who
often worked during
traditional service
times, suggested they
go to church.

"In the first few
minutes I could have
joined right then and
there," Hudson said
about the visit. "I got
involved in going to
church on a regular
basis. F wanted to do
more."

A few years later
Hudson, the coordina-
tor of external affairs
for the School of Pub-
lic Affairs, finds her-
self nearing the end
of a three-year
process to become an
ordained deacon in
the African Methodist
Episcopal CAME)
Church. In November
of this year she will
be officially ordained and
given more responsibilities in
the church. Hudson will be
able to conduct services
such as funerals, weddings
and baptisms and she will
continue to give sermons as
she does now, but she will
be allowed to wear a robe
while doing so.

When Hudson first got
involved in the ministry, she
didn't set out to become a
minister. She began going to
Bible study classes. She
remembers one in particular
that discussed where you go
when you die, which she
says prepared her for her sis-
ter's death in 1 998. She con-
tinued studying and had
worked her way up to three
Bible studies a week. "I
couldn't get enough," she
said. "The more I learned, the
more 1 wanted. I was wear-
ing Bibles out."

Finally, Hudson said she
was "called" in 1999 while
on a women's retreat with
her church. One night, alone
in her room with no televi-
sion, she said she got the call
from God to preach. "He told
me he wanted me to go out
and tell the people "she said.

Hudson has since enrolled

in Evangel Theological Semi-
nary in Harrisburg,Va., and
takes training courses from
the AME church. She is cur-
rendy in Odenton at Mt. Zion
AME Church, a four-year-old
church with a small congre-
gation, where she gives ser-
mons about once a month
and organizes workshops

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become an ordained deacon in the
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and seminars.

Before she got into the
ministry, Hudson said she
didn't have any public speak-
ing experience. Now that
she's had more practice she
said she still gets nervous,
but the "spirit" guides her
through her sermons.

She said she does not
want there to be a separa-
tion from her church life and
her work life. While her
duties for the School of Pub-
lic Affairs include the putting
together the school's
newsletter and marketing
materials, she said her col-
leagues are aware of her
ministry and some of them
came to her after September
1 1 and asked for advice.

Earlier this month Hudson
gave a sermon on campus
for the Black Ministries Pro-
gram by invitation of chap-
lain Ruby Reese Moone.
After her ordination, Hudson
will continue to work at her
church in Odenton, but she
says she does not know what
the future holds for her.

"I feel that God is calling
me to do something bigger,
but I have no idea what that
is," she said." I have no clue.
I'm just waiting."

Editor's note: Outlook 's feature, extracurricular, will take occasional
glimpses into university employees' Hits outside of their day jobs. We uwl-
<wnc story suggestions; citll Monette Austin Bailey at 001) 405-4629
or send them to outlook@atcmail.umd. edit.

Teachers Awarded Distinguished Title

The six Fall 2002-2003 Distinguished Scholar- Teachers represent excellence in physical,
mental and theoretical areas of study. As with past selections, this year's class was cho-
sen based on peer references, student comments and professional accomplishments.
Each honoree will receive $5,000 for scholarly activities and will present a lecture in the fall.

James Hagberg

PHOTO BV CYNTHIA MUCHEL

Sylvester James Gates Jr.

PHOTO COURTESY OF S.J. DATES

James Glass

Robert Pooling

flit tp : //www. bsos .
umd.edu/psyc /
dooling/homebo%
7El.htm) is proba-
bly best known for
his work with the
auditory systems of
birds and humans.
Pooling, with the
Pepartment of Psy-
chology, is a pio-
neer in researching
the similarities
between birds and
humans that led to
some significant dis-
coveries about the
ability to regenerate
cells and repair lost
or damaged hear-
ing. He has been on

campus, and with psychology, since 1981 . An
Alexander von Humboldt Senior Scientist and NIH
Career Scientist award winner, Pooling focuses his
mentorship on graduate students, having worked
with 10 postdoctoral fellows over the past 20 years.

Physicist Sylvester James Gates Jr. (http://www.
physics, umd.edu/ep/gates/ gates.html) has been
hailed as "one of the five best minds in America"
by the prestigious Isaac Asimov Memorial Panel
Debate. He Is a leader in the areas of supersyme-
metric particles, fields and strings. Gates is known
for making the highly complex mathematically
based theories clear and entertaining to all types of
audiences. The first African American to hold an
endowed chair in physics at any major research
institution in the country, Gates receives praise
from students and colleagues. On the campus for
14 years, he was also instrumental in developing
the physics programs of Howard and Hampton
universities and Florida A&M.

James Glass (http://www.bsos.umd.edu/gvpt/
glass/) has been working with the assumption that
to understand political behavior one must first
understand human nature. Glass' research on the
intersection of psychology and politics brings up
questions that are high on the public and academ-
ic agenda in light of recent world events. With
more than 30 years of teaching experience at
Maryland, Glass has been able to "infect" dozens of
students with his passion for this area of study, as
well as other connections involving behavior. He is
given partial credit for heightening the profile of
Pepartment of Government and Politics.

As a kinesiologist .James Hagberg flittp:// www.
inform.umd.edu/ KNES/faculty/jhagberg/) focuses
his research on health and functional capacity
with emphasis on gerontology. Current under-
standing about how regular exercise influences
the occurrance of coronary heart disease, hyper-

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Allan Wigfield

tension and diabetes is based on a substantial
amount of Hagberg s work. His scholarship has
earned him editorial board positions with the
American College of Sports Medicine, the Ameri-
can Heart Association Council for High Blood Pres-
sure Research and the American Academy of Kine-
siology and Physical Education. Puring his six
years at the university, he has taught both under-
graduate and graduate courses, and introduced one
of the campus' CORE courses, "Science of Physical
Activity and Cardiovascular Health."

Susan Taylor Chttp://www, mbs.umd.edu/mao/
staylor/) is lauded as one of the Robert H. Smith
School of Business' most high-profile and prolific
scholars. She writes and teaches on feedback,
stress, recruitment, hiring practices, performance
appraisal, turnover, quality management and sever-
al other subjects. Taylor also serves on three high
profile journals, one of which would be an honor
for those in her field: the Academy of Management
Review, the Academy of Management Journal and
the Journal of Applied Psychology. She came to
Maryland's then-College of Business and Manage-
ment in 1983 and quickly began serving the cam-
pus community through committee memberships
and assisting student research.

A professor with the College of Education's Depart-
ment of Human Development, Allan Wigfield
(http://education.umd.edu/Depts/EPHD/faculty/
wigfield.html) specializes in researching the devel-
opment and socialization of children's motivation,
with an emphasis on literacy. He is consistently
supported through grants from the National Insti-
tute of Child Health and Human Development and
the Spencer Foundation. Wigfield's colleagues cite
his energy, perceptiveness and methodological
rigor as reasons he deserves the Distinguished
Scholar-Teacher honor. On campus since 1989, he
also received a 2001 Outstanding Service to the
Schools award from the university.

OUTLOOK

Connecting Democracy and the Arts

Artists and intellectuals
have been in the fore-
ground of opposition
movements in oppressive
regimes throughout history, often
risking their reputations and even
their lives to speak openly and
even mockingly against political
oppression, Danny Glover is among
the leading actors who have been
outspoken advocates and activists
for social justice.

The Democracy Collaborative, in
cooperation with the Afro-Ameri-
can Studies Program and the
Clarice Smith Performing Arts Cen-
ter, will host Glover and fellow
actor Felix Justice for "An Evening
with Langston and Martin" next
week. The performance includes
portrayals and readings of the
works of Martin Luther King Jr. by
Glover and Langston Hughes by
Justice. A question and answer ses-
sion with the actors will follow.

Launched at die university last
year, die collaborative is an interna-
tional consortium of leading aca-
demic centers and civil society
organizations committed to devel-
oping innovative approaches to
strengthening the understanding
and practice of democracy world-
wide. It was founded by Gar Alper-
ovitz, Benjamin Barber, Stephen
Elkin, William Galston, Jessica Gor-
don Ncmbhard, Gary LaFree and
Linda Williams and Virginia
Hodgkinson of Georgetown Univer-
sity. The collaborative fosters the
strong link between the arts (and
artists) and democracy, noting that
theater and the other arts expand
our capacity to understand the
world; giving people the courage to
plumb its depths and, at times, to
change it.

"Danny volunteered his sought-
after services to the collaborative
because he shares with us a passion
for democracy and the belief that
the arts are an essential part of a
democratic society," said Alperovitz.

The collaborative is not new to
creating opportunities for people
to explore democratic ideals
through arts. Last April, at a collabo-
rative-hosted Internadonal Round-

Danny Glover is known for his activism
as well as his theatrical pursuits.

table held in Washington, D.C. one
of the five areas covered in the dis-
cussion on "The Theory and Prac-
tice of Civic Globalism" was this
topic. The session took place at the
Clarice Center and featured a per-
formance and discussion. Some of
the questions considered were:
What is the role of arts in a civil
society? How can a free democratic
society support die arts? Can the
arts play a specific role in cultivat-
ing civic globalism and a sense of
citizenship and civil society across
national boundaries? A follow-up
round table will be held in Berlin in
June, •where the arts will again be
on the agenda.

And Glover is no stranger to the
university. In September he gave
the keynote address at a dinner for
the Baltimore Incentive Awards Pro-
gram. The awards, which were pre-
sented by President Dan Mote,
were modeled after a program at
the University of California, Berke-
ley, where Mote served as vice
chancellor for university relations
before coming to Maryland. The
program, which has a scholarship
component, is targeted at students
who demonstrate uncommon per-
sistence, academic ability and matu-
rity despite adverse life situations.

In presenting the College Park
audience with dramatic portrayals
and readings of civil rights leader
King and Harlem Renaissance poet
Hughes, Glover and Justice will
bring to life one of the major
heroes of the 20th century and one
of its foremost poets. King's ser-
mons and speeches and Hughes'
poems are reflections of the sor-
rows and joys, and hopes and
dreams of all people. Both men
address the injustices and oppres-
sion suffered by African Americans;
their words and deeds speak elo-
quenUy and universally to the
human condition.

Both dreamed of equality and jus-
tice in this nation. King, in hLs
famous "I Have a Dream" speech of
August 23, 1963, hoped "that one
day this nation will rise up and live
out the true meaning of its creed:
"We hold these truths to be self-
evident: that all men are created
equal." And that one day his "four
children will. . . live in a nation
where they will not be judged by
the color of their skin but by the
content of their character." Hughes,
in "1 Dream a World," similarly
yearned for a world;

"Where black or white.

Whatever race you be,

Will share the bounties of the

earth

And every man be free.

Where wretchedness will hang

its head

And joy, like a pearl.

Attends the needs of all

mankind

Of such I dream, my world?"

— Sondra Myers

An Evening with
Langston and Martin"
will be performed
Thursday, April 9 at 7:30 p.m. in
the Kay Theatre, Clarice Smith
Performing Arts Center. Tickets
are S30, $10 for full-time students
with ID. For ticket information,
call (301) 405-ARTS (2787).

Kirwan: Former President's Return Welcomed

Continued from page 1

more effective, more respected
chancellor than Brit Kirwan."

During Kirwan 's tenure as the
president, the number of freshman
with SAT scores of 1400 and above
increased from 49 to 342; the aver-
age SAT scores of all freshmen
increased from 1057 to 1199; the
number of National Academy of Sci-
ences members among the faculty
grew from one to 17;sponsored
research nearly doubled from $82
million to $ 1 55 million; annual pri-
vate funds raised went from $14
million to over $65 million; and the
university's endowment reached
$158 million from $36 million in
1988. Ohio State University has
experienced similar increases dur-
ing Kirwan's presidency of that uni-
versity. He led a fund raising cam-
paign that succeeded in raising
$1.23 billion, making Ohio State
only the third public university to
raise in excess of $1 billion in a sin-

gle campaign,

"Brit will bring to the chancel-
lor's position the same enthusiasm,
intellect, and leadership skills that
made him such a success as presi-
dent of the University of Maryland,
College Park and Ohio State Univer-
sity," said Chapman.

Kirwan, whose two children and
two grandchildren live in the state,
cites personal and professional rea-
sons for coming back. "I firmly
believe that one can go home
again," he said. "In some ways Patty
and I have never left.

"It's a great honor and privilege
to be asked to lead a system com-
prised of such diverse and wonder-
ful institutions. 1 am keenly aware
of the need for a high degree of
autonomy and independence for
the constituent institutions and
their presidents. The presidents
must be strong and visible advo-
cates for their institutions if these

institutions are to realize their full
potential. As chancellor, I will be an
ardent defender of the presidents'
role in this regard."

A native of Kentucky, Kirwan
holds a doctorate and a master's
degree from Rutgers University; he
has a bachelor's degree from Uni-
versity of Kentucky. He is a member
of several honorary and profession-
al societies including Phi Beta
Kappa. Phi Kappa Phi, the Ameri-
can Mathematical Society and the
Mathematical Association of Ameri-
ca. He is co-editor of the book
"Advances in Complex Analysis."

He grew up on the University of
Kentucky campus where his father
was dean of students, graduate
dean and president of the universi-
ty. Kirwan is married to Patricia
Harper Kirwan; his children,
William E. Kirwan III and Ann Kir-
wan Horton, are alumni of the Uni-
versity of Maryland, College Park.

Notable

Robert S. Gold will assume the position of dean of
the College of Health and Human Performance on
July I . He has been acting chair and professor of the
Department of Public and Community Health and
director of the Public Health Informatics Research
Laboratory.

Sally Kobli us ky . chair and professor in the Depart-
ment of Family Studies, has been named a 2002-03
American Council on Education Fellow. The ACE Fel-
lows Program is the premier higher education lead-
ership development program in the country. It iden-
tifies and prepares senior faculty and administrators
to become skilled in the leadership of change.

Earlene Armstrong, associate professor in the
Department of Entomology, was honored as a Distin-
guished Alumni of a historically black college or uni-
versity (HBCU) at the National Association for Equal
Opportunity in Higher Education's national confer-
ence in Washington, D.C, Membership of the 33-year-
old association comprises 1 18 of the nation's
HBCUs. Armstrong attended North Carolina Central
University, wluch nominated her for the award.

Larlssa A. Grunlg has been appointed as the Uni-
versity of Maryland representative to the Maryland
Work-Life Alliance by Lt. Governor Katlileen
Kennedy Townsend. Grunig is a professor in the
Department of Communication. The Maryland Work-
Life Alliance is a public/private/nonprofit coalition
organized by Townsend to help educate employers
and the public on the importance of work-life inte-
gration, and find solutions to the expanding needs of
Maryland's workforce.

Nicole P. Roup academic coordinator for aerospace
engineering, has been elected a member-at-large for
the Maryland College Personnel Association Execu-
tive Council. The position is a two-year commitment
beginning in Spring 2002 and assists the Executive
Council in programmatic, professional development,
networking and membership activities. Roop is cur-
rently working on her doctorate in higher education
administration.

Michael King is die new chief financial officer of
the University of Maryland College Park Foundation.
He is a College Park alumnus, has held several high
level financial management positions (most recently
as assistant vice president at Trinity College in Wash-
ington, D.C), and is a certified public accountant.

Nelson Marban is the new director of develop-
ment for individual giving for the Clark School of
Engineering. Nelson comes from the United Way of
Miami-Dade, where he served as director of UW

Direct.

Barbara Qiiimi is now interim executive director
for university development, filling in until Donna
Frithsen's position is filled. She will continue with
her overall University Relations responsibilities.

Several promotions have been earned in University
Publications and Marketing: John Consoll, universi-
ty photographer, has been promoted to creative
director, magazines and director of photography.
Consoli will also be a member of the marketing and
communications management team.

Jennifer Paul's new title is art director, university
magazines. Jason Quick has been promoted from
designer to senior designer, a position left open
when Raissa Ludwig was selected as assistant
director, client publications.

Gillian Harry, production manager, will be taking
on accounting responsibility for all financial accounts
in marketing, video, communications and publications.
She will continue to be the production task master.

APRIL 2

2 2

University Develops Online Tutoring
Program to Target Local Digital Divide

Program Piloted in Prince George's County Schools

Shirley Morman (center), principal investigator for ProjectUNKS and director of Educational Talent
Search, poses with the charter group of ProjectUNKS tutors at the September 2001 tutor orientation.

The University of
Maryland Educa-
tional Talent
Search Program
is using hardware and a
soft touch to help some
240 Prince George's Coun-
ty middle school students
cross the digital divide.

In the program dubbed
ProjectUNKS, students
from three targeted
schools received a new
personal computer for
their homes and access to
an online tutoring pro-
gram that features a real
person — a University of
Maryland student — on
the other end of the Web
connection.

Some of the university
and middle school students
will meet face-to-lace for
the first time Friday, April 5
for a 9 a.m. mock tutorial
session celebrating the
launch of the program. Stu-
dents and teachers from
Kettering, Buck Lodge and
Oxon Hill Middle Schools
will join university student
mentors and campus offi-
cials to showcase the Pro-
jectLINKS capabilities. The
event will be held in the
multipurpose room of the
Nyumburu Cultural Center
at Maryland. LINKS stands
for Linking Information
Networks and Knowledge
to Students.

ProjectUNKS ' specially
designed program helps
strengthen academic skills
and computer competency.
It includes computer-based
tutorials, skill enrichment
projects, an email list serve
and online chat rooms for
direct interaction with uni-
versity tutors.

"Human interaction
really sets this program
apart from others," says
Shirley Morman, principal
investigator for Project-
UNKS and director of the

Educational Talent Search.
"The students and men-
tors form a personal con-
nection as they work on
skills directly tied to the
students' actual school-
work."

University mentors pro-
vide four half-hour online
tutoring and homework
assistance sessions each
week. Many of the men-
tors are former Talent
Search participants who
have benefitted from the
program's ongoing efforts
to help low-income stu-
dents improve their poten-
tial for academic success
in college.

Morman notes the
online approach devel-
oped from a need to
expand the reach of a uni-
versity-based weekend
program run by Talent
Search. The Saturday
Scholars Program brought
students to Maryland for
academic enrichment
activities in one of the
computer-equipped class-
rooms, but it was limited
to students who could
physically come to the
campus.

"With ProjectUNKS
there are no such barriers,"
says Morman. "We can
reach the students who are
most in need; those who
have access to the fewest
resources to prepare them-
selves for success in a com-
petitive world."

The program targets
low-income students who
would be the first in their
family to attend college,
have demonstrated the
need for academic sup-
port and enrichment and
lack access to a computer
at home. The project is
based in schools not cur-
rently served by Talent
Search programs. Pro-
jectUNKS is funded by a

$600,000 grant from the
U.S. Department of Educa-
tion Office of Post Sec-
ondary Education. NCS
Technologies of Sterling,
Va. funded the purchase of
computers for each stu-
dent.

Teachers and adminis-
trators from the county
schools have been inte-
grally involved in the pro-
ject's development since
planning started in Octo-
ber 2000."This is an excel-
lent project to counsel
and support deserving stu-
dents to help make sure
they are adequately pre-
pared both academically
and technologically to
pursue their dreams of a
college education," said
Superintendent of Prince
George's County Schools
IrisT. Metts.

Morman adds, "This is a
very ambitious program
that seeks to help solve a
global problem using
focused community
efforts. This is just the
beginning. We hope to see
the growth of grassroots
support to help expand it
to more schools."

Special attention has
been paid to making the
program easy to replicate
in other local schools and
in other Talent Search
school-university partner-
ships across the country.

The ProjectUNKS
demonstration
will be held at 9
a.m. on April 5 in the
Nyumburu Cultural
Center's Multipurpose
Room. A reception will
follow. Those interest-
ed in attending should
call (30 1t 314-7763 or
send an e-mail to
rsvp@links. umd.edu.

Paper: Libraries Seek Input

Continued Jrom page 1

between preservation and conserva-
tion. Preservation relates to all activi-
ties that maintain collections for use
in the original or some other format.
Preservation thus includes preven-
tion of damage. Conservation is the
physical or chemical treatment of
library materials to sustain them in
the their original form. A lab on cam-
pus staffed by a professional conser-
vator, students and full-time employ-
ees works to rebind books and mend
works. More routine binding is
shipped off to a commercial book-
binding company.

"And we make recommendations
for proper storage and shelving," she
said. Some of the paper her depart-
ment handles is so brittle that it
breaks at die binding or when han-
dled. The acidic deterioration isn't
reversible, so one option is to box
the book. Another option, said Carig-
nan, is to preserve a photocopy on
what is called permanent paper. In
some cases, they can just replace the
book with a reprint.

Another panel, "Digital Demand vs.
Paper Pleas," brought together aca-
demic faculty from diverse disci-
plines to talk about their research
requirements for both traditional
materials and rapidly evolving digital
resources. Martha Nell Smith, with
MITH, moderated this panel with
Brush; Neil Fraistat, English depart-
ment; Goodman and John Newha-
gen, with the Philip Merrill College
of Journalism. A second panel,
"Enduring Value," fostered debate on
"how to best preserve library and
archival materials in a milieu of limit-
ed resources and diverse formats." It

was moderated by Abby Smith, direc-
tor of programs, at the Council on
Library and Information Resources.
Sitting on the panel were Walter
Cybulski, head of the Quality Assur-
ance Unit at the National Library of
Medicine; Phyllis Franklin, executive
director of the Modern Language
Association; Doug McElrath, curator,
Marylandia and Rare Books at Mary-
land and Nancy Schrock, chief collec-
tions conservator at Harvard College
Library.

University Ubraries struggle with
some of the issues common to the
group. With limited resources, it is
sometimes hard to serve the public
in the most efficient manner. Preserv-
ing newspapers, for example, is a
challenge because of the volume and
acidity. "We put them on microfilm,
which is extremely long-lived when
filmed correcdy, but people don't
like using microfilm. It can be hard
to use " said Carignan. Space is also
an issue. It is expensive and there is
only so much of it on campus.
"We've gone to off-site shelving."

The symposium, Carignan hopes,
is the beginning of a process. She
would like the campus community
involved. "The outcome of this ought
to be a continuing of this dialogue.
Educate us on what's important for
you and we want people on campus
to know what we're doing."

She welcomes comments through
email at yc38@umail.umd.edu. The
symposium's Web site is http://www.
Ub.umd.edu/TSD/PRES/symposium.
html. Abstracts and papers from the
symposium will be available at that
URL in the near future.

Continued from page 1

from a less technical
audience," says Jim
Hendler, director of the
Semantic Web and Agent
Technologies, Maryland
Information and Net-
work Dynamics and
computer science pro-
fessor. "And I found their
questions interesting."

Hendler participated
in "Where Is HAL?
Today's Computers Are
Doing Less and More
Than Ever Imagined,"
held in February. The
three-day fellowship
examined state-of-the-
art computer intelli-
gence and robotics in
light of past predic-
tions, present achieve-
ments and future direc-
tions. Journalists visited
the university's Neutral
Buoyancy Research
Facility, the Space Sys-
tems Laboratory and
the Human Computer
Interaction Laboratory.

"The feet that they're
coming to us shows the
strengths of our depart-
ment and the universi-
ty," he adds.

The university is for-
tunate to host two fel-

Fellowships Beneficial

lowships during the
2001-2002 scssion.The
second, "Globalization
from Both Sides of the
Barricades," will be a
four-day fellowship
held later this month
with the goal of help-
ing clarify the conten-
tious issues surround-
ing the globalization
debates. Professors of
economics, politics,
business, sociology, his-
tory and communica-
tion will discuss, among
other things, a guide to
the economic machin-
ery of globalization, the
new financial architec-
ture of multilateral
organizations, civil dis-
obedience and civil
society. Participants will
take field trips to near-
by multilateral organiza-
tions and take part in
an interactive simula-
tion that puts them in
the roles of decision-
makers in a global
economy.

Each host institution
provides room and
board for the journal-
ists and their media
organizations pay travel

expenses and salary
during the

fellowship .Twenty-four
different programs will
be held in Spring 2002
as part of the 2001-
2002 CASE program.
More than 200 short-
term fellowships will
be awarded and jour-
nalists can select from
topics at 22 colleges
and universities.

Based in part on the
success of this format,
the university's media
relations associates will
begin hosting similar
sessions around several
topics in which the
campus boasts expert-
ise. Steve Halperin,
dean of the College of
Computer, Mathemati-
cal, and Physical Sci-
ences, understands the
value of the fellow-
ships. "Not only do we
do good things here,
but it's important that
the world and the com-
munity appreciates
what's going on," he
says. "We compete for
these and the feet that
we get them is a good
thing."

OUTLOOK

CTE Broadens Development Activities

The most recent Center for Teaching Excellence training session members.

The Center for Teaching
Excellence (CTE) has
done faculty develop-
ment work in South America,
South Africa and even on the
Eastern Shore of Maryland. But
CTE had never been sum-
moned to appear before a
judge.

CTE members, in a two-year-
old partnership with the Mary-
land State Department of Edu-
cation and the Judicial Institute
of Maryland, help judges
improve their teaching. While
judges spend most of their pro-
fessional time performing offi-
cial duties, a number of them

are also called upon to teach
new judges some things about
taking the bench, to run work-
shops on new developments in
the law or in the judicial sys-
tem, to show other judges how
to incorporate technology into
their jobs and other topics rele-
vant to continuing education
of the judiciary.

The unusual partnership
between CTE and the Judicial
Institute has involved CTE
Director Jim Greenberg, Asso-
ciate Director Sue Gdovin,
Prof, Katheryn Russell of crimi-
nology and criminal justice
and Prof. Wayne Mcintosh of

government and politics. The
first year's sessions were so
successful that one of the par-
ticipants arranged for CTE to
come up to Baltimore to con-
duct a full day workshop with
the entire Uinvcrsity of Mary-
land Law School faculty. CTE
was invited to reprise the
workshop with a new group of
judges at the Judicial Institute
in Annapolis this year. All
involved have found the expe-
rience to be mutually reward-
ing and expect a continuing
relationship in support of the
goal of improving judicial edu-
cation.

Barbers Rebuilding Lives

Continued from page 3

Edward Matthews, one of
the shop's two head man-
agers, said that when Drake-
ford approached him about
his idea for a shop it was like
a godsend because he had
always wanted to do some-
thing community oriented. He
used liis veteran's benefits to
put himself through to learn
barbering school in 1972 and
stresses professionalism in the
workplace. Matthews also has
a first-hand understanding of
what kind of support and
structure some youth who are"
at risk need to be successful.

"As a youth I would say I
had a problem doing things as
a challenge," Matthews said. "If
I tried to do something illegal
and get away with it, that was
a challenge." Instead, he added,
people need to be challenged
in a positive way. "That's what
can happen here."

Johnese Stewart, the shop's
other head manager, had a dif-
ferent kind of challenge in
front of her after a car acci-
dent In 1990 left her with
traumatic brain injury. She had
to re-learn the basics skills of
life such as walking, reading
and writing. A stylist for much
of her life doing hair in the

neighborhood she grew up in,
Stewart was formally educat-
ed in the trade four years ago.

Stewart said that if a young
person came into the shop
with a similar disability she
would empadiize with their
situation. "I'm trying to get
them back that the way they
used to be," she said. "You can
come back."

Stewart's words are echoed
in Drakefords efforts to keep
the recidivism rates for youth
down. She said he wants the
shop to be a model to show
that programs like i his can
keep youth from becoming
repeat offenders.

Daniel McDougall, a 21-
year-old currently under an
apprenticeship, said Drakes
Place was a guiding point for
him. A specialist with natural
hair, he has aspirations of
becoming a professional styl-
ist in the entertainment or
fashion industry. He is also
two months out of a six-
month incarceration.
Although he had the barber-
ing and styling skills before
going to prison he said he
"just didn't have a chance to
express them."
Now he does.

Bloch: Ambassador Seeks to Offer Campus Opportunities to Explore China

Continued from page 1

The energetic ambassador
serves as an adviser and vis-
iting professor for two of
China's premier universities:
Peking University in Beijing
and Fudan University in
Shanghai. She is at Maryland
at least twice a week.

"She is a wonderful per-
son,'* says Chuan Sheng Liu,
vice president of research
and the graduate school and
director of IGCA."We
thought it was such a good
opportunity to have her
here."

As she munches a sand-
wich between commit-
ments, Bloch talks about
plans she has for IGCA. In
cooperation with the Philip
Merrill College of Journal-
ism, it will help launch a
journalist-in-residence pro-
gram in China with Pulitzer
Prize-winning Washington
Post columnist David Broder
serving as the first partici-
pant. She is also working
with Maryland's Asian Ameri-
can Studies Program to put
together this year's celebra-
tion of Asian Pacific Ameri-
can Heritage Month on April
30, with an eye toward intro-
ducing role models to the
university's large Asian pop-
ulation. The noon forums
are her way of inviting oth-
ers to learn about IGCA and
what it has to offer students,
faculty, staff and those
beyond the campus.

"In my first six months
with the university, I decid-

PHOT0 BY CYNTHIA MITCH6L

Julia Chang Bloch, IGCA's ambassador-in-residence, speaks with Clopper Almon
(center), director of the economics department, and Larry Goldberg, a Golden ID
student, after a recent Center for International and Security Studies at Maryland
forum in Van Munching Hall.

ed to focus IGCA on enliven-
ing and broadening the cam-
pus debate on China and to
reach beyond the university
to the China policy commu-
nity," says Bloch, whose
efforts are as a volunteer. Liu
says the institute provides an
assistant.

"The forums have been
well received. We get people
who are tops in their fields
to come and speak. We are
also getting regulars, people
who have come to all the
forums, even though they
have to pay."

The next forum, "Xin-
jiang: China and Political
Islam in the Post-Taliban Era."
will be held April 9. Speakers
will be: Justin Rudelson,
executive director of IGCA
and Graham Fuller, senior
political scientist at the
RAND Corporation in Wash-
ington D.C. and former vice-
chairman of the National
Intelligence Council at the
CIA. George Quester, profes-
sor with the Department of
Government and Politics,
will moderate.

Bloch feels that by offer-
ing a wide range of topics
and speakers, she can help
create a broader understand-
ing of China. She believes
that the U.S.-China relation-
ship must go beyond tradi-
tional political, military
strategic interests.Transna-
tional issues such as the envi-
ronment and energy are
increasingly important. Cul-

Future IGCA
Noon Forums
on U.S.-China
Relations

• April 9 - Xinjiang: China
and Political Islam in the
Post-Taliban Era

• April 23 - China in the
Global Economy

■ April 30 - Key Diplomatic
Players in U.S. China Policy

• May 7 - China and Taiwan
the WTO: Opportunities and
Challenges

The first three will be held
in 0105 St. Mary's Halt.
The May 7 forum will be held
in the Maryland Room of
Marie Mount Hall. Lunch is
served and will cost $5 for
students, $10 for all others.
Reservations can be made.
For more information, call the
IGCA at (301) 405-0208.

rural understanding is at the
core. He Yafei said of presiden-
tial summit meetings that it Is
important that leaders get to
know each other, so that when
decisions are being made there
is some understanding of
where the other person comes
from. Bloch extends the impor-
tance of familiarity to people at
all levels.

"There is clearly a need for
the IGCA at the University of
Maryland," she says.

APRIL 2

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Words, Beats and Life

The Words, Beats and Life con-
ference will be held April 6- 1 2
in the Stamp Student Union.
Panel discussions and hands-on
workshops focused around hip-
hop will be held throughout
the week. The keynote speak-
ers are scheduled to be Fred
Hampton Jr. on April 8, and Tri-
cia Rose on April 9- "The Gath-
ering," a play written by Will
Powers, will be presented in
Tawes Theatre on April 9. The
conference will end with a con-
cert on April 12.

For more information, visit
www. wordsbeatsandlife .com .

Arab Women Take On
the Texts

The Center for Historical Stud-
ies announces a public lecture
by Judith E. Tucker, professor of
history at Georgetown Univer-
sity, tided "Contesting the Tradi-
tion: Arab Women Take On the
Texts." Tucker will discuss Arab
women who are engaging and
reinterpreting the texts, tradi-
tions and customs of their soci-
eties. The lecture will take
place on Thursday, April 4 from
3:30 to 5 p.m. in 2154 Tawes.

Tucker is the author or edi-
tor of many books on women
and gender in the Middle East,
including "Women in Nine-
teenth-Century Egypt" and
"Women in the Middle East and
North Africa: Restoring Women
to History."

For more information, con-
tact Stephen Johnson at (301)
405-8739 or historycenter®
umail.umd.edu.

Attitude Is Everything
Video Premiere

"Attitude Is Everything" follows
a group of students as they deal
with a variety of conflicts with
their peers. Under the supervi-
sion of playwright Wanda
Schcll, students at the
Springhlll Lake Community
Center developed the script
and performed in the video,
which is designed to help
guide young people toward
peaceful resolution of conflict.

"Attitude Is Everything" is
designed to be part of a class-
room program on conflict reso-
lution and was produced as a
joint project of the Democracy
Collaborative and the Clarice
Smith Performing Arts Center.

The premiere is Sunday, April
7 from 2-4:30 p.m. in 0200
Skinner. A reception will follow
the screening.

For more information, contact
Tom Ellington at (301) 4054557
or tellington@gvpt.umd.edu.

Outstanding Woman of
the Year Award

The President's Commission on
Women's Issues (PCWT) pres-
ents the annual Outstanding
Woman of the Year Award by
President Mote on Tuesday,
April 2 at 4 p.m. in Stamp Stu-

Black Saga 2002: Everyone's a Winner

PHOTO BY CYNTHIA MITGHEL

The three students from Nicolas Orem Middle School (Prince Georges County)
who made up this year's winning team in die Black Saga Middle School
Competition pose with their trophies, their checks and Charles Christian (r), a
University of Maryland social geographer who founded Black Saga 10 years ago. "Not
everyone gets the top prize, but in this competition everyone is a winner," said Christian.
"If the students get a more complete picture of American history, learn about teamwork
and develop study skills, then truly each is a winner." The competition was held in Stamp
Student Union Saturday, March 23. Fourth- through eighth-grade students from schools
in Prince George 's, Anne Arundel, Baltimore and Howard counties, and Baltimore City,
participated. Beltsville Academic Center won the Elementary School Competition.

dent Union. This year's hon-
oree is Ellin Seholniek, associ-
ate provost for faculty affairs
and professor of psychology.
The PCWI invites the campus
community to join in a ceremo-
ny and reception to help honor
our colleague whose contribu-
tions to this campus and to its
community of women are
legion.

Israeli Journalist to Visit

The Center for Historical Stud-
ies at the Urn versify of Mary-
land, in conjunction with the
Joseph and Rebecca Meyerhoff
Center for Jewish Studies, will
hold a lecture and seminar with
Tom Segev, one of Israel's best-
known journalists and an inter-
nationally acclaimed writer on
the history of Palestine and
Israel.

On Monday, April 8 at 4 p.m.,
Segev will offer a lecture, "One
Palestine Complete: Jews and
Arabs under the British Man-
date, 1922-1948,"in the Multi-
purpose Room, Nyumburu Cul-
tural Center. On Tuesday, April 9
at 12:30 p.m., Segev, along with
Professor Madeline Zilfi, a Mid-
dle Eastern specialist in the
Department of History, will
jointly lead a seminar, "Post-
Zionism and Israel's New Histo-
rians," in the Maryland Room of
Marie Mount Hall.

Segev writes a weekly column
for Haaretz, Israel's leading
daily newspaper, in which he
addresses questions of politics,
culture and human rights. He
has been a pioneer in rethink-
ing the origins and early devel-
opment of the state of Israel.

Sunday Brunch Cruise

Join the University of Maryland
Alumni Association and the
Black Alumni Club for the Third
Annual Sunday Brunch Cruise
aboard the Odyssey. Special
guests include the creator of
The Boondocks, Aaron McGrud-
er 98 and musical guest Spur
of the Moment. The event will
include a silent auction to ben-
efit the Parren Mitchell Scholar-
ship Fund, The cruise is Satur-
day, May 19 from 10:30 a.m. to
1:30 p.m. Seating is limited,
RSVP by April 12. Advance pay-
ment is required: $45 for Alum-
ni Association members and
$50 for non-members.

For more information, con-
tact Liatetra Brown at (301)
403-2728, ext. 11 or Liatetra®
terpalum.umd.edu, or visit
www. alumni . umd . edu .

Commencement
Regalia Rental

Rental orders are now being
accepted through the Universi-
ty Book Center for regalia for
this May's commencement. The
deadline for guaranteed aca-
demic hood colors is Friday,
April 4. All orders must be
received by Friday, April 26 to
avoid additional charges. Visit
the book center's Web site at
www.ubc.umd.edu and link to
Graduation Center for pricing
and ordering information.

For more information, con-
tact Melissa Gauthier at (301)
314-7839 or mm369@umail.
uxnd.edu, or visit www.ubc.
umd.edu.

Memory & the Invention
off Jewish History

Jewish Studies will be sponsor-
ing a two-day conference titled
"Memory and the Invention of
Jewish History "April 14-15,
from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Sun-
day and from 10 a.m. to 3:30
p.m. on Monday.

For more information, e-mail
jwst@arhu.umd.edu or visit
www. info rm . umd . e du/rWST.

Perspectives on Minority
Achievement

The Maryland Institute for
Minority Achievement and
Urban Education (MIMAUE) is
sponsoring a Spring 2002 Col-
loquium Series, "Perspectives
on Minority Achievement." The
series will provide a forum for
faculty, staff, students and the
public to examine views and
issues on minority achieve-
ment, including: the levels of
achievement of different racial,
ethnic and economic groups
within the schools of Maryland;
various factors contributing to
"achievement gaps"; and sug-
gestions for needed research in
each area.

The series will take place on
April 9, April 23 and May 14 in
the College of Education, 1121
Benjamin Building. Each series
will be held from 4:15 to 6:00
p.m. All are welcome. Light
refreshments will be served.

For more information, con-
tact Martin L.Johnson, director
of MIMAUE at mjl3®umail.
umd.edu or visit www.
education.umd .edu/MIMALTE .