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THE UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND FACULTY AND STAFF WEEKLY NEWSPAPER

Volume i u • Number 3 • February 11, 2003

It's Not for
Everybody

Campus Musings on
Valentine's Day

Valentine's Day. . . every
man's nightmare! Will
you even remember to
buy your sweetheart something,
and even if you do. will it fit your
lover's preconceived idea of the
"perfect gift"? An idea, by the
way, that your lover has failed to
adequately communicate to you
lest your spontaneity be lost!
The whole day is enough to
make you crazy, which actually
is stunningly appropriate, as
many philosophers on the sub-
ject fittingly associate love with
madness. Plato felt that love "is a
grave mental disease."

H.L. Mencken said that "love
is the triumph of imagination
over intelligence," while Jules
Renard conjures up the wonder-
ful image of "love being like an
hourglass, with the heart filling
up as the brain empties,"

If you don't buy the madness
metaphor, how about some cyn-
icism? Dan Greenberg suggests
that "love is the self-delusion we
manufacture to justify the trou-
ble we take to have sex," while
good old Woody Allen swears
that "there's only one kind of
love that lasts — that's unrequit-
ed love, and it stays with you
forever!" Any way you cut it,
making the right choice for
Valentine's Day is a real prob-
lem. ..maybe you should just
buy the hourglass and explain
the metaphor?... or not!

— Robin G. Sawyer, chair.

Department of Public Sc

Community Health

Love is grand. Divorce is more
like one hundred grand!
There is a lot of humor devoted
to sex, relationships, marriage
and, yes, love. Most of it is nega-
tive. It is not impossible to voice
cute, sweet and positive senti-
ments about love, but humor is
more likely to be used as an
antidote to cloying romanticism,
or as a licensed expression of
cynicism, skepticism or even
hostility for those who are less
enraptured (at the moment, one
hopes). Our public discourse on
matters of sex, love, relationships
and marriage is very problemat-
ic. It is easy to offend, violate
taboos, reveal more about our
relationships and ourselves than
is wise and proper, and expose
ourselves to. . . trouble. Using
humor does not get us off the
hook entirely, but it is a good
try. Our culture places a very
high value on matters of the
heart; experience reminds us

See VALENTINES, page 6

University's Window on the Universe

The lecture hall is
full. All the seats are
taken. Director of
the University of
Maryland Observatory Eliza-
beth Warner paces the room,
waiting for tonight's lecturer.
She repeats her instructions
to the Astronomy 100 stu-
dents present; sign the log-
book with your ID ready to
get credit for showing up.
In the observatory next door,
four telescopes are trained
on the Orion Nebula, the
Pleiades star cluster, Saturn
and Jupiter. The University of
Maryland Observatory open
house is set to begin.

The bimonthly open hous-
es, held on the 5th and 20th
of every month, draw crowds
of retirees, families and ama-
teur astronomers in addition
to the Astronomy 100 stu-
dents required to attend.
The open houses begin
with a lecture from a profes-
sional astronomer, usually
focusing on his or her
research.

On litis night, Stacy
McGaugh of the astronomy
department lectures on the
theoretical dark matter, mate-
rial thought to comprise
most of the matter in the uni-
verse. Called 'dark' because it
doesn't react with the matter
we do — like light, atoms, mol-
ecules, etc.— it is by defini-
tion undetectable. McGaugh
is conversational and breezy

PHOTO BY CYNTHIA MITCHEt.

Astronomy undergraduate Brian Young observes Saturn through
one of the university observatory's powerful scopes.

as he plants transparencies of
background microwave radia-
tion and the spin curves of
spiral galaxies on the over-
heard projector.
"We try to make sure the

lecture topics remain accessi-
ble and interesting to the
general public and amateur
astronomers. Sometimes they

See OBSERVATORY, page 5

Scholar-Teachers Honored for Excellence

The Fall 2003-2004
Distinguished Scholar-
Teachers have been
announced. The group repre-
sents excellence in sociologi-
cal, civic and environmental
areas of study. As with past
selections, this year's class
was chosen based on peer
references, student comments
and professional accomplish-
ments. Each honoree will
receive a monetary award for
scholarly activities and will
present a lecture in the fall.

Colleagues know Scott Angle
(www, agnr. umd . edu/users/
agron/faculty/angle.htm),
professor in the Department
of Natural Resource Sciences
and Landscape Architecture,
for his environmentally
important work with benefi-
cial bacteria and phytoreme-
diation, which (simply) is the
process for removing chemi-
cals from soils. Students
know him for his innovative
teaching and enthusiastic
research.Angle also holds the

PHOTO COUHTESY OF S. ANGLE

Scott Angle

position of associate dean of
the College of Agriculture
and Natural Resources, as
well as associate director of
the Maryland Agricultural
Experiment Station. He's
widely published and holds
numerous patents.

Suzanne Bianchi (www.bsos.
umd . edu/socy/sbianchi . html),
professor in the Department

of Sociology and director of
the Center on Population,
Gender, and Social Inequality,
takes mentoring students as
seriously as she takes her
work. Several former stu-
dents wrote letters of recom-
mendation, noting Bianchi s
time and interest in their
projects. A recent doctoral
student of hers, Wan He, was
the first Maryland student to
win the Outstanding Doctor-
al Dissertation Award from
the American Sociological
Association in 2000. As a
scholar, her research on gen-
der, work and families has
appeared in premiere jour-
nals and used as a model for
students. (Photo not available)

Ramalingam Che I lappa
(www. cfar, umd . ed u/~ rama/
main.html), professor of elec-
trical engineering and affili-
ate professor of computer
science, holds world-class
stature in the fields of image

See TEACHERS, page 5

University,
Corriinunity
Partnerships
Reap Big
Rewards

The Democracy Collaborative
at the university works to
strengthen democracy and civil
society all over the world, all over
the country and in our backyard.

A recent symposium sponsored
by the collaborative highlighted
how university-community part-
nerships have improved the quali-
ty of life and democracy in Prince
George's County and what needs
to happen to enable current and
future partnerships to do more.

"The university exists to serve
the community," said Margaret Mor-
gan-Hubbard, associate director of
the collaborative, adding that parti-
cipants looked at three dimensions
of a university's responsibility to a
community: service, research and
advocacy. "It isn't just about doing
service. It's about changing things
. . .building a cadre of engaged fac-
ulty around the country."

Keynote speaker Henry Louis
Taylor Jr., author of "Race and the
City: African Americans and the
Rise of Buffalo's Post-Industrial
City," described how race and class
have remained important themes
through decades of university-
community engagement.

The 50-pIus attendees included
university faculty and staff, Prince
George's County administrators
and elected officials. Local cities
and neighborhoods were also well-
represented with a number of staff
from local community-based
organizations and citizen activists
present.

"It was a fantastic meeting," said
Morgan-Hubbard. "The upshot of
this meeting is that 30 people
signed up for more."

Most of those attending expres-
sed surprise at the number and
variety of current town-gown part-
nerships that provide much need-
ed services and resources in the
county. A few examples:

• Carmen Roman, community out-
reach coordinator for the Latin
American Studies Center and the
Departments of Spanish and Por-
tuguese, recruits Latino students
from local high schools and pro-
vides mentoring and tutoring to
help them graduate. In the first six
years, the program recruited 142
first-generation students and gradu-
ated 126 of them.

* The Prince George's Interagency
Early Childhood Committee, a col-
laboration of more than 20 univer-

See PARTNERSHIPS, page 7

FEBRUARY II, 2003

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YOUR GUIDE TO UNIVERSITY EVENTS: FEBRUARY II - 18

f ebruary 1 1

12:30-1:45 p.m., Leverag-
ing Corporate Knowledge

1412 Rouse, Van Munching
Hall. This seminar on "Building
a Cutting-Edge Business Ware-
house" will be presented by
Bob Cybulski, director. Infor-
mation Services, Marketing,
Finance and Planning Systems.
Hershey Foods Corporation.
For more information, contact
Susan Weil at 5-4448 or sweil®
rhsmith.umd.edu, or visit
www. rhsmi th . umd . ed u/ces.

7 p.m., King's Dream Hoff
Theater, Stamp Student Union,
Dramatic presentation on an
American Legend and the spir-
it of the Civil Rights Move-
ment. For more information,
contact Erika Ross at 4-8498.

8 p.m., Faculty Spotlight
Recital Gildenhorn Recital
Hall, Clarice Smith Performing
Arts Center. Milton Steven,
trombone, and JohnTafoya,
timpani, will perform. Free. For
more information, call (301)
405-ARTS or visit www,
claricesmithcenter. umd .edu .

WEDNESDAY

f ebruary 12

9:30 a.m. -3: 30 p.m., 26th
Annual Multi-Ethnic Job
Fair Grand Ballroom, Stamp
Student Union. Sponsored by
the Career Center and Office
of Multi-Ethnic Student Educa-
tion. For more information,
contact Christopher Irwin at
cirwin@ds9 .umd.edu.

10 a.m., Andre Watts Piano
Master Class Gildenhorn
Recital Hall, Clarice Smith Per-
forming Arts Center. Watts is
artist-in-residence at the School
of Music, where he teaches
select students in the piano
division. Free. For more infor-
mation, call (301) 405-ARTS or
visit www.claricesmithcenter,
umd.edu.

Noon-1 p.m.. Living and
Learning in A Global Soci-
ety 0114 Counseling Center,
Shoemaker Building. Presenta-
tion by Kirsten la Cour Dabelko,
director. Global Communities
International Education Ser-
vice. Part of the Counseling
Center's Research and Devel-
opment Meetings Series. For
more information, contact

"Pardon the Interruption" —
Meet Michael Wilbon and Crew

Meet Michael Wilbon, Washington Post columnist, and
the crew of ESPN's "Pardon the Interruption" on Mon-
day, Feb. 17 from 8-10 p.m. in 0200 Skinner. Spon-
sored by the Philip Merrill College of Journalism chapter of the
Society of Professional Journalists. Show co-host Wilbon and
the crew will talk about what goes into the making of the sports
show and anything else audience members want to discuss.
Audience participation is encouraged. For more information,
contact Sue Kopen Katcef at 5-7526 or susiekk@aol.com.

Vivian S. Boyd at vbl4@umail.
umd.edu.

THURSDAY

f ebruary 13

4 p.m.. Cognitive Neuro-
science and the Dissociable
Self 1116 IPST Building. The
Committee on the History and
Philosophy of Science collo-
quium series presents Carl
Craver, Philosophy, Washington
University, St. Louis. For more
information, contact the CHPS
office at 5-5691 or hp26@
umail.umd.edu. Information is
also available online at http://
caraap . umd. edu/cpas .

4:15-5:30 p.m., Talk About

Teaching: Harlem Renais-
sance: Historical Context

Conference Room, Center for
Renaissance & Baroque Studies
(01 35 Taliaferro Hall). Join the
Center Alliance for School
Teachers (CAST) for an infor-
mal school-university conversa-
tion. Students, classroom teach-
ers and administrators from
schools and community col-
leges are welcome. Bring a
dozen copies of a lesson plan
to share with colleagues.
Examination copies of new
text materials and refresh-
ments will be provided. For
more information, contact
Nancy Traubitz at 001) 405-
6833 or nt32@umail.umd.edu,
or visit www.inform.umd.
edu/crbs/programs/cast/.

5:30-7:30 p.m.. Open Forum
on Proposed Shuttle-UM
Changes for Fall 2003 Balti-
more Room, Stamp Student
Union. The Department of
Transportation Services invites
the campus community to give
feedback on the major changes
to shutde service under con-
sideration. For more informa-
tion, contact the Public Rela-
tions Manager at 4-201 9 or
PRShuttle@accmail.umd,edu.

8 p.m.. Book Reading: Jane

Br ox Ground floor entrance,
Dorchester Hall. The Jimenez-
Porter Series at the Writers'
House presents Jane Brox,
author of "5000 Days Like This
One: An American Family His-
tory," and "Here and Nowhere
Else." Brox was the recipient of
the 1996 L.L.Winship/PEN
New EnglandAward for the
best book by a New England
author. In 1994, she was award-
ed a Literature Fellowship from
the National Endowment for
the Arts. For more information,
call Johnna Schmidt at 5-0675.

f ebruary 14

Noon, How Large Are the
Classification Errors in the
Social Security Disability
Award Process? 1 101 Art-
Sociology Bldg. Seminar with
John Rust, Economics Depart-
ment. For more information,
visit www.popcenter.umd.edu.

Noon, Synthesis and
Characterization of Single
Crystal Zircon Doped with
238Pu and 239Pu 1201
Physics. Seminar with John
Hanchar of George Washington
University. Part of the Depart-
ment of Geology's spring semi-
nar series. Coffee and tea will
be served in the Geology
Building starting at 1 1 :30 a.m.
For more information, contact
Karen Prestegaard at kpresto®
geol.umd.edu.

Noon-1 :1 5 p.m., Depart-
ment of Communication
Colloquium 0200 Skinner.
Guo-Ming Chen of the Uni-
versity of Rhode Island will
present "Global Communica-
tion Competency." For more
information, contact Trevor
Parry-Giles at 5-8947 or
tp54@umail.umd.edu.

4-5:30 p.m.. The Triumphs

of Thusnelda: Germans and
Romans in Baroque Opera

Maryland Room, Marie Mount.
Lecture by Robert Ketterrer of
the University of Iowa. For
more information, contact the
Department of Classics at 5-
2013 or jhl0@umail.umd.edu.

SATURDAY

f ebruary 15

1 -5 p.m.. Trip to Great
Blacks in Wax in Baltimore

Transportation is provided. For
more information, contact
Jessica Solomon at jtsolo®
wam.umd.edu.

7:30 p.m., Maryland Opera
Studio Gildenhorn Recital
Hall, Clarice Smith Performing
Arts Center. Students will per-
form a semi-staged concert
reading. Free. For more infor-
mation, call (301) 405-ARTS or
visit www.claricesmithcenter.
umd.edu.

f ebruary 17

4 p.m., A Phenomenology
of Brown Feelings 2154

Tawes Theatre. Lecture by Jose
Munoz of New York University.
Part of the seminar series "A
Queer Decade: Taking Stock of
Studies in Sex, Culture and
Society." For more information,
call 5-5428 or e-mail
lgbts@umail . umd . edu .

4 p.m.. Lords of Caesarea:
The Sociology of Power in
the Late Antique City 2118
Taliaferro. The Center for His-
torical Studies (CHS) will host
a seminar with Maryland's Ken-
neth G. Holum, historian of late
antiquity specializing in the
classical cities of the eastern
Mediterranean. This seminar is
the third in the CHS faculty
works-in-progress series. Dis-
cussion will be based on a pre-
circulated paper, hard copies
of which are available in 2115
Francis Scott Key Hall (electro-
nic copies at historycenter®
umail.umd.edu). Refreshments
will be served before and after
the seminar. For more informa-
tion, call 5-8739.

4:15-5:45 p.m.. Introducto-
ry Massage Therapy Class

HHP 0107 (Matted Room).
This 1 2-week class teaches par-
ticipants how massage therapy
can help people reduce stress
and become more productive
and focused at work. The cost
is $95. Register at 2107 Univer-
sity Health Center, or call 4-
8128. Participants will receive
massage therapy weekly and
learn how to massage others.
For more information, contact
instructor Geoff Gilbert at
(301) 881-3434.

5-5:30 p.m., How to Start a
Business and Help Rebuild
Communities Multi-Purpose

Room, Nyumburu Cultural
Center. Panel discussion. For
more information, call Pamela
Allen at 4-7244.

5-7 p.m.. Discussion: The
Racist History of the Uni-
versity of Maryland Multi-
purpose Room, Nyumburu Cul-
tural Center. Refreshments will
be provided. For more informa-
tion, contact Michael Sean
Spence at 4-8326.

f ebruary 18

8:45 a.m.-4 p.m., OIT Short-
course Training: Intermedi-
ate MS Excel 4404 Computer
& Space Science. The course
covers creating charts to ana-
lyze and manipulate data, and
using drawing tools to add
graphic objects and otherwise
modify presentation charts. Pre-
requisite: Introduction to MS
Excel or similar experience.
The class fee is $90. To regis-
ter, visit www.oit.umd.edu/sc.
For more information, contact
Jane S.Wieboldt at 5-0443 or
oit-training@umail. umd.edu.

8:45 a.m. -4 p.m., OIT Short-
course Training: Intermedi-
ate MS Access 4404 Com-
puter & Space Science. The
class fee is $90. To register,
visit www.oit.umd. edu/sc. For
more information, contact Jane
S.Wieboldt at 5.0443 or oit-
training@umail. umd.edu.

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NEWS FROM THE CLARICE SMITH

PERFORMING ARTS CENTER

Department of Theatre Presents Off-Broadway Hit

c y — X was looking for
(_JX a play after 9-1 1
f that would deal
' — ^ with how we

heal "said Scot Reese, director
of"BlueWindow"a Depart-
ment of Theatre production
opening Friday, Feb. 14 and
running through Saturday,
Feb. 22 at the Kogod Theatre
in the Clarice Smith Perform-
ing Arts Center.

Written by playwright Craig
Lucas, "Blue Window" is an
affecting, funny kaleidoscopic
examination of young adults
growing up. Lucas explores
their frailties and neuroses,
dreams, and loves in this
poignant play. Critics have
called "Blue Window" "a mar-
vel, an intricate and quiet
piece that never stops surpris-
ing you, with passion and ter-
ror in a rich panoply of ideas
hidden just under its glossy,
soft-spoken surface."

This urban comedy of man-
ners opens in the last few
moments before a group of
contemporary 20-something
city dwellers set off for a Sun-
day night dinner party, hosted
by a self-doubting Libby.We
witness the guests in their
respective apartments prepar-
ing for the party— dialogue
crisscrossing back and forth.
At the party, the strangers talk,
yet are disengaged.

The play's opening, which
takes place in five different
apartments, posed a challenge
for director Reese. "The actors
have music in their voices," he

Theatre Honors Past, Plans Future

explains, "which creates a sur-
real effect and so there's a need
to direct the vocal and visual
elements as a symphony."

The symbolic "Blue Win-
dow" title refers to what sky-
divers jump out of as they
prepare to exit their aircraft.
Reese says this is the heart of
the play's theme. There's a
desire for intimacy, but also a
fear of it. "Some jump, some
hesitate," he says,"some never
leave, and some have to be
pushed."

A Department of Theatre
faculty member since 1995,

Reese previously produced
the contemporary comedy, "As
Bees in Honey Drown," an
Afro-Cuban version of "Elec-
tra," and "Once Upon an
Island."

And what does Reese hope
audiences will take away from
"Blue"? "It's to keep on trying,
look for the positive, know
that life is tough and that peo-
ple will disappoint you. But
it's your job to pick up the
pieces, move on and to take
everything as a lesson."

Tickets are $15. For more in-
formation, call (301) 405-ARTS.

Valentine Cabaret Features Jazz Great Carol Sloane

1 ...

f you haven't made your

Valentine's Day plans,

why not spend a romantic

evening at a cabaret fea-
turing legendary jazz vocalist
Carol Sloane, pianist Normar
Simmons and special gin
Paul West? The concert will
be held Thursday, Feb.13, at
8 p.m. in the Gildenhorn
Recital Hall.

Carol Sloane delivers t
perfect valentine straight
from the heart. Enjoy time-
less love songs and ballads from Gershwin,
Porter, Ellington, Mercer and Badgers and
Hart. Sloane's elegant and flawless vocal inter-
pretations convey the wisdom of a "woman
who has been there, done that and moved on"
(The New York Times). The New Yorker says,
"Carol Sloane has become one of the grand
dames of jazz singing. Her knowing interpreta-
tions and shy phrasing should be closely stud-
ied by the new generation of chanteuses."

Named one of the top female jazz vocalists
in Down Beat Magazine's 1995 Critics Poll,
Sloane has made numerous record, club and
concert appearances. She has performed at

ading jazz venues, including
r. Kelly's in Chicago, where
le opened for Jackie Mason
id the Smothers Brothers;
ngry I in San Francisco,
_ she opened for Bill
osby and Richard Pryor; and
iq Angel in New York,
she opened for Phyllis
'tiller and Meara and
ie Vernon.
A regular on "The Tonight
how with Johnny Carson."
,loane was also a regular
radio cast member on Arthur Godfrey's CBS
weekly program, The multi-talented artist also
is a successful radio host, having hosted "The
Jazz Matinee" on WICN-FM, the NPR affiliate
in Worcester, Mass.

Sloane has recorded two albums for the
Contemporary label, six albums with Concord
Jazz and a tribute album to Duke Ellington on
the DRG label. In 1998 she debuted with the
Boston Pops Orchestra, and in 1999 with the
New York Pops. Her most recent release is "I
Never Went Away" on the HighNote label.

Tickets for a Valentine's Day Cabaret are S25.
For more information, call (3D1) 405-ARTS.

w

hen a depart-
ment draws
award-win-
ning faculty,
prominent guest artists and
committed students.it is a
good thing. And when this
department seems to be
moving into a whole new era
of productivity and recogni-
tion, it's dme to celebrate
those who got the whole
thing started.

The Department of The-
atre will honor its two found-
ing fathers on Feb. 15 in the
Ina and Jack Kay Theatre of
the Clarice Smith Performing
Arts Center during "A Cele-
bration of the Legacy of
Rudolph E. Pugliese and
Roger L. Meersman," The
event is also an attempt to
gather alumni from this
small, but dedicated school.
Dan MacLean Wagner, acting
chair of the department, says
that Pugliese and Meersman
were "bookends" for the pro-
gram and it makes sense to
honor them together.

"Rudy came in 1948 as our
first theatre specialist. He
was here for 15 years and
then Roger was our next
major addition in 1963,"says
Wagner. "We want to cele-
brate the legacy of theater
on the campus, specifically
as it concerns these two."

Pugliese, a professor emer-
itus, did his undergraduate
and graduate work at Mary-
land, then became the divi-
sion's director when it was
part of speech and dramatic
arts. He retired in 1986. Once
theatre became its own
department in 1989, Meers-
man, who retired in 2001 ,
stepped in as its first chair.
Each man remembers leaner,
though no less ambitious,
times.

"I was making $5,500 a
year. When you got a $500
raise, that was a big amount, i
always had job offers from
other places," says Meers-
man, "but the university
always met them. They kept
showing more interest in the
arts, so I kept staying to see
what would be done."

Pugliese, who saw the
department go from its
beginnings in Woods Hall to
Tawes Theatre under Meers-
man 's direction, worked with
"no demand and limited fac-
ulty" to establish the school's
graduate program. Even cre-
ating an undergraduate pro-
gram required staff and facul-
ty to "realty stick our necks
out," he says, adding that part
of the theatre department's
success comes from consci-
entious faculty members
who teach well and put stu-

dents first. Meersman, who
came to Maryland from the
University of Scranton after
earning his doctorate
through the G.I. Bill, agrees
and feels students deserve
just as much credit.

"How lucky we were to
have such a talented group
come to the university.
They're enthusiastic and ded-
icated."

Meersman and Pugliese
bring their own commitment
to Maryland and the arts.
Both professionals, Pugliese
directed more than 80 plays
for Maryland and area the-
aters. Meersman is a noted
theater critic. He is also a
board member and founding
judge of the Helen Hayes
Awards. Both taught and
have worked as administra-
tors.

Wagner, who is a theatre
alumnus (lighting design),
mentions that Pugliese took
on the task of tracking down
alumni for the department's
recent connection effort.
Approximately 800 are in
theatre's database, with
another 100 or so in the Col-
lege of Arts and Humanities
records. Because theatre
majors weren't always called
such, it is not always easy to
determine. After it was called
speech and dramatic arts, for
a brief period the division
was called communication
arts and theatre.Wagner
would also like to reach out
to those who may have par-
ticipated in productions,
though not majors.

"A lot of non-majors partic-
ipated in theatre produc-
tions. That's another unique
facet of this department ,"
says Wagner.

As for Meersman and
Pugliese, if there are any
regrets, it's that they didn't
get to produce any works for
the new center's stages. "It's
an international showpiece,"
says Pugliese. "There's noth-
ing like it in the country. I'm
so jealous."

"I wanted to stay until
they got it built and open,
that's when I retired," says
Meersman, "It was a wonder-
ful 40 years."

For ticket information or to
request a season brochure,
contact the Ticket Office at
301. 405. ARTS or visit www.
clarices mithcenter.umd.edu .

Clarice Smith

Perforj^ingAris

Centerat Maryland

FEBRUARY II, 2003

Are All Dads Equal?

New Findings About Fathers:
Marriage Counts

When it comes to
quality fathering, it
is marriage, not
biology, that separates the
men from the boys, accord-
ing to a new university study.

In a paper published in the
Feb. 3 edition of the Journal
of Marriage and Family, San-
dra Hoffcrth, professor of
family studies at Maryland,
says married stepfathers are
equally good at fathering both
their biological and the step-
children who live with them.

In contrast, Hoffcrth 's
study shows that cohabiting,
but unmarried, male partners
who are the biological
fathers of the children in the
household, don't put in as
much time or show as much
warmth as married biological
fathers.

"Previous studies have
tended to show that children
don't do as well with stepfa-
thers as with their own bio-
logical fathers," Hoffcrth said.
"But one of the problems is
that those studies have com-
pared one group of biologi-
cal fathers to a different
group of stepfathers. Stepfa-
thers tend to be economical-
ly and socially disadvantaged,
so they were really compar-
ing apples and oranges. There
are so many children in this
country who are growing up
with stepparents, it's realty
important to accurately
examine the quality of par-
enting they're getting."

Hoffcrth 's study looks in
detail at two-parent blended
families, in which fathers are
biological father to some and
stepfather to other children.

"We found that when you
examine the same fathers,
children spend as much time
with married stepfathers as
with married biological
fathers. Stepfathers, on aver-
age, spend 1 2 hours a week
engaged with stepchildren
and do nine out of 13 differ-
ent types of activities with
them in a month.

"As important, they score
five out of six on the amount
of warmth they show. They
spent about the same amount
of time and showed the same
amount of warmth with their
biological children.

""We also found that cohab-
iting partners, even if they
are biological father to the
child, do not invest the same
amount of time with chil-
dren as married biological
fathers, and they are less
warm than the married bio-
logical fathers."

In the study, funded by the
National Institute of Child
Health and Human Develop-
ment, Hoffcrth and her coau-
thor, Kermyt Anderson of the
University of Oklahoma, ana-
lyzed data from a nationally
representative sample of
1 ,628 children under the age
of 1 3 who live with their bio-

logical mother and the
mothers husband or partner.
They included white, African-
American and Hispanic men
of all income levels. The
average educational level of
the men was 13 years.

Using detailed 24-hour
diaries of children and sur-
veys with fathers and moth-
ers, Hoffcrth measured the
amount of time fathers and
mothers' partners were
involved with the children.
Involvement ranged from
such activities as doing laun-
dry to reading a book to play-
ing video games or sports.

Hoffcrth also measured
parental warmth — how
many times in a month the
father hugged the child,
expressed love, joked or
played, talked with the child
or told the child he appreci-
ated what the child did.

"Results of the study point
to some things to consider
when we make family poli-
cy," says Hoffcrth. "First, mar-
riage between the mother
and father, whether he's the
biological or stepfather
makes a difference. Children
benefit when their mother
marries or remarries.

"Second, even though they
don't contribute as much as
married fathers, cohabiting
men contribute substantial
amounts of time and warmth
to their partner's children,
seven to nine hours per
week. Public policies
designed to promote positive
family relationships should
address the involvement of
these residential cohabiting
partners," Hoffcrth says.

"We also found that stepfa-
thers contribute more to
young children than to older
children. So it's important
that these new families be
established when children
are young.

"Our results also show
that fathers who pay child
support to children they
don't live with contribute
less to their residential chil-
dren. Supporting children in
several families is not easy.
Our findings point to the
need to help fathers and
mothers manage cross-family
obligations."

Hofferth says of the 80
percent of children who live
in married households, one
of every six lives with a step-
parent. More than two mil-
lion children were living
with unmarried parents in
1990, but Hofferth estimates
the number is higher today.

"The number of cohabit-
ing couples rose 50 percent
between 1990 and 1997
alone. We're talking about a
lot of children. We need to
develop policy that takes
into account what's really
happening in these families,
then encourage the things
that benefit the children."

Faculty Rewarded for Scholarship

The Office of Research and Graduate Studies has announced its General Research Board
and Creative and Performing Arts awards for the 2003-04 academic year. The two catego-
ries allow faculty members to devote time to a research project, either during a semester
or the summer. Recipients are expected to disseminate their results through publications
or other scholarly work.

General Research
Board 2003-2004

Semester Research
Award

College of Arts and
Humanities

American Studies/History

Sony a Michel

The Benefits of Race and
Gender: Old-Age Security in
America's Public/Private Welfare
State

Art History and Archaeology

William Pressly

Writing the Vision for a New
Public Art: James Barry's Murals
at the Royal Society of Arts

Asian & European Languages
and Cultures

Elizabeth Papazian

From "Producer" to "Engineer
of Human Souls": Changing
Models of Soviet Authorship,
1921-1934

Classics

Steven Rut I edge
Museion Romae: The Ancient
City as Museum

Communication

Mari Tonn

Mining Motherhood: The Labor
Union Agitation of Mary Harris
"Mother" Jones

English

Kent Cartwright
The Arden Shakespeare
Comedy of Errors

Donna Hamilton
The BlackweH History of English
Renaissance Literature, 1485-1615

Linda Kauffman
The Body Politic: Culture,
Scandal, Spectacle

Robert Levlne

After Dred Scott: African
American Literature Beyond the
Nation

French and Italian
Carol Mossman
"La Mogador or Rewriting the
Bohemian Life: Two Chapters"

History

Robyn Money

"False Daughter of Afternoon
Bridge": Josephine Roche and the
Progressive Tradition in Twentieth-
Century America

Theatre

Heather Nathans

Lifting the Veil of Black:
Sentiment and Slavery on the
American Stage, 1787-1861

Catherine Schuler
Theatre & Empire: Performing
National Identity in Imperial

Russia. 1750-1882

Linguistics

Stephen Crain

Third Year Grammar: The
Mergence of Meaning in Child
Language

Music

Dora Hanninen

A General Theory for Context-
Sensitive Music Analysis

Philosophy
Lindley Oarden
Discovering Mechanisms in
Biology

John Horty

Reasoning with Normative
Generalizations

Women's Studies

A. Lynn Boltes

"No Problem, You're on
Vacation and I'm on the Job:"
Women Tourist Workers in
Jamaica

College of Behavioral and
Social Sciences

Government and Politics
Christian Davenport
The Promise of Democratic
Pacification: State Repression and
Democracy During the Third Wave

College of Computer,
Mathematical and Physical
Sciences

Mathematics
Ricardo Nochetto
Nonlinear Multiscale Problems:
Analysis and Computation

Physics

Wolfgang Losert

Nonlinear Dynamics of
Biomaterials: Dynamic Control and
Analysis of Biopolymer Networks

College of Journalism

Maurine Beasley
Women Journalists and the
News in Washington

College of Life Sciences

Biology

James Dietz

The Effects of Habitat
Fragmentation on the Dynamics of
Neotropical Predator-Prey Systems

Summer Research
Award

College of Arts and

Humanities

Asian & East European
EricZakim

Manufacturing Memory:
Holocaust and the Culture Industry

Art History & Archaeology
Anthony Colantuono

The Culture of Prudence:
Learned Advisors and Artistic
Creativity in Early Modern Italy

Steven Mansbach
Modernism in the Baltic

English

Matthew Kirschenbaum
Mechanisms: A Forensics of
Digital Inscription

English/Jewish Studies

Sheila Jelen

"Remembering the Shtetl:
Gender and Literary Politics of
Nostalgia" from A Portrait of the
Artist as a Young Woman:
Intimations of Textual and Sexual
Difference in the Hebrew Fiction of
Dvora Baron

French and Italian

Herve-Thomas Campangne

Travel Narratives, Discovery and
Cosmography in the Histoires
Tragiques (1560-1630)

Caroline Eades

Private Memories, National
History, and the Contemporary
Cinema: A Post-Colonial
Perspective on the French Empire

History/Asian American Studies

Lisa Mar

Inventing Ethnic Canadian ness:
Chinese in Canadian Politics, 1924-
1960

History

Thomas Zeller

Consuming Landscapes: The
View from the Road in the United
States and Germany 1910-1995

Madeline Zilfi

Female Slavery and the Slavery
Question in the Late Ottoman
Middle East

Spanish & Portuguese

Manel Lacorte

Whole-Group and Individual
Teacher-Student Linguistic
Interaction in the Spanish as a
Second-Language Classroom

College of Behavioral and
Social Sciences

Anthropology
Michael Paolisso
Identifying Collaborative

Opportunities for Blue Crab

Ecological Research

Economics

Nuno Limao

Preferential Trade Agreements
with Non-Trade Objectives as a
Stumbling Block for Multilateral
Liberalization: Evidence from the
US and the European Union

Government & Politics
Marc Howard

Migration and Membership: The
Politics of Citizenship in the

See AWARDS, page 7

OUTLOOK

Teachers:

Continued from page 1

Awards Recognize Work, Student Praise

PHOTO COURTESY OF R. CHEUAPA

Ramalingam Chellapa

processing and computer
vision. He is director of the
Center for Automation Research
in the College of Computer,
Mathematical, and Physical Sci-
ences. His colleagues cite his
ability to maintain "a golden
balance between theory and
practice." Chellappa edits a pre-
miere journal in his field and

PHOTO BY CYNTHIA MITCHEL

James Lesher

his highly regarded by his
peers. He is also noted for his
skill in managing diverse proj-
ects while engaging students.
"Well organized" and "never a
dull moment" were comments
students used to describe his
teaching style.

Jamas Lesher (wwwphiloso-

PHOTO BY CYNTKIA MITCHEL

Vladimir Tismaneanu

phy umd . edu/people/faculty/
lesherjames/), professor in the
Department of Philosophy,
focuses his research and teach-
ing on the history of philoso-
phy, with an emphasis on early
Greek knowledge. Known as
the most prolific contributors
to this field, Lesher has held
research fellowships at both

Harvard and Princeton univer-
sities. He is sought out, nation-
ally and internationally, for
speaking engagements. Students
appreciate Lesher's accessibility
and depth of knowledge. Evalu-
ations repeatedly mention the
respect he gives and earns.

Professor Vladimir Tismaneanu
(www. bsos. umd . edu/gvpt/
tismaneanu/), in the Depart-
ment of Government and Poli-
tics, came to the university as
an established intellectual
leader and as a key figure in
Romania's political resistance
movement against dictatorship.
His research spans comparative
politics and political theory,
and is called "relentless" by col-
leagues. Tismaneanu organizes
scholarly venues in both post-
communist Europe and the
United States. As for his work
with students, he received the
first award for excellence in
teaching mentorship that the
department conferred.

Observatory- Amateurs, Researchers Gaze Heavenward

Continued front page 1

go over everyone's head," says Warner.
From the questions McGaugh fields
after his lecture, the audience apparent-
ly found the material accessible.

As McGaugh *s applause fades, Warner
then announces that the observatory is
open. The crowd of almost one hun-
dred shuffles to low, white building
next door. The observatory has an
office section in the middle and two
wings, or bays, housing telescopes. A
pair of tracks elevated by a series of
columns in line with the building
extends out from the bay roofs.

"When people come up they wonder
why are there these extra columns with
railroad tracks on top of them," Warner
says.

Their function may surprise them.
Onto these tracks roll the roofs of the
bays, exposing the telescopes to the
night sky, Warner says roll-away roofs
were adopted in observatory design to
facilitate the equalizing of observatory
and night air temperatures. Equalizing
the temperatures is essential because
the telescope's optical components are
made of glass, which contracts as it
cools, distorting the images it either
reflects from a mirror or refracts
through a lens, The bays are unhealed, so
the temperature is roughly equal to that of
the night air. But there is still a difference,
the bays are slighUy warmer, that must be
eradicated before observing can begin.

"You don't want a warm lens contract-
ing as you look through. That means it's
changing shape and distorting what you're
seeing "Warner says.

With its small stature and proximity to
the Comcast center, the Maryland observa-
tory is not at all the picture of the tradi-
tional tall, domed building on a lonely
mountain top,

Warner says that when the observatory
was built it was "probably way out in the
boonies, but the area grew up around it."
The growth unleashed a flood of light
from streetlights and signs into the sky to
wash out the fainter objects. This light pol-
lution rendered the observatory practically
obsolete for "see to the edge of the uni-

PHOTO BY CYNTHIA MITCH

Junior astronomy student Robin Siskind counts
Jupiter's rings and tries to make out all four of the
planet's moons during the university observatory's
open house last week.

verse" research. But Warner says that
advances in technology, especially the
advent of digital photography in recording
telescope images, are making it possible to
compensate for light pollution, enough so
that she looks forward to getting the
observatory back into serious research.

For now, the observatory is primarily
used for student research, the open houses
and other community outreach programs.

What the open house attendees will see
on a given night depends primarily on the
time of year and where the Earth and
other planets are in their orbits.

Of course the biggest factor is cloud
cover.

Tonight only a wispy Hat stripe of cloud
crosses in front of the heavens.

Through one of the telescopes Saturn's
rings, and several moons for those with
sharp eyes, are visible. Jupiter, the Pleiades
star cluster and the Orion Nebula are in

the nearby telescopes.

Assisting the attendees are astronomy
graduate and undergraduate students
who move and focus the telescopes.
The public is only allowed to focus the
eyepiece to accommodate those with
glasses and varying eyesights.

In addition to running the busy
open houses, Warner runs observing
programs for the public and amateur
astronomers. Some of those programs
are the New Telescope Owner Nights
held in January "for all those people
who got telescopes for Christmas and
don't know how to use them." Last year
the observatory started the Learn the
Sky Friday program. She plans to start
more programs for more advanced
amateur astronomers to complement
the work of professionals.

"A lot of research in astronomy
depends on the amateurs. For a long
time, amateurs were the ones discover-
ing most of the new comets and help-
ing determine the orbits of asteroids."

Warner says these activities, not
exciting enough to garner grant money,
lay the groundwork for the research of
professionals. And she adds many ama-
teurs have the equipment to do the
work but don't always know that.

It's unclear whether any new amateur
astronomers were minted tonight, but the
open house, as measured by the lines to
the telescopes and the lively conversation,
was a definite success.

Warner has been running the open
houses since last summer and worked
with the former director, Gretchen Walker.
She originally came from an observatory in
South Carolina to Maryland to work on the
Deep Impact project studying the compo-
sition of comets. She began assisting at the
open houses, but her role changed abrupt-
ly when Walker left for a job in New York.
"Talk about trial by fire. [I was told] OK,
the program's yours. You get to run it.' And
I was like, 'I was just going to teach in it,"
Warner says, laughing.

For more information about open hous-
es at the observatory , visit www.astro.
umd . ed u/openhouse .

Notable

Virginia Walcott Beauchamp,
associate professor emerita,
will be inducted into the
Maryland Women's Hall of
Fame in a ceremony in March.
Beauchamp taught English and
Women's Studies from 1973
until her retirement in 1990-
She was chairman of the Presi-
dent's Commission on Women's
Affairs from 1974 to 1990 and
served as special assistant to
President Brit Kirwan on
women's affairs from 1992 to
1994.

Jacques S. Gansler, the Roger
C. Lipitz Chair in Public Policy
and Private Enterprise, and
Shelley Metzenbaum, visiting
professor and senior fellow,
have both been elected fellows
of the National Academy of
Public Administration. NAPA is
an independent, nonpartisan
organization chartered by Con-
gress to assist the government
in improving its effectiveness.

Several aerospace engineering
faculty members received
recognition recently Frederic
Schmitz Martin Professor of
Rotocraft Acoustics, was
appointed vice chair of the
environmental noise advisory
council by the Maryland
Department of the Environ-
ment. Norman We rely, associ-
ate professor, received an out-
standing achievement award
from Virginia's Office of Sci-
ence and Technology for his
work with Materials Modifica-
tion Inc. in Fairfax on a Phase
2 Small Business Technology
Transfer Project. Nicole Roop,
academic coordinator, has
been elected as member-at-
large for the Maryland College
Personnel Association's execu-
tive council. A new addition,
Alison Flatau, joined the
department as an associate
professor and is working with
the Small Smart Structures
Lab.

Margaret Zsrnosky Saponaro
has joined the Libraries as man-
ager, staff learning and develop-
ment. In her previous position,
Saponaro was the associate
director, learning resources, for
the Northern Virginia Commu-
nity College's Alexandria cam-
pus for the past six years. The
Staff Learning and Develop-
ment Office provides educa-
tional programs and resources
for the more than 300 staff in
the libraries, under the
umbrella of the Learning Cur-
riculum. The Learning Curricu-
lum is a comprehensive educa-
tion program that supports
individual and organizational
development.

FEBRUARY II, 2003

gxtracurticula r

Reluctant Athlete Wins a Medal

Libraries Offer More Comprehensive Catalog System

Chris Higgins,
massive muscles
aside, was more
self-professed couch
porato than athlete,
more prone to creating
delicate pieces of pot-
tery than hefting heavy
things. Yet this technical
support coordinator
recently won a gold
medal in power lifting
during an international
competition.

Higgins competed in
the Gay Games held in
SydneyAustralia last
November. Approxi-
mately 14,000 athletes
from more than 80
countries spent just
over a week trying to
earn medals in 31
sports. The games, held
for more than 20 years,
offer a more inclusive
atmosphere for athletes than the
Olympics. Individuals don't have
to qualify, though they are often
grouped by ability. Organizers
emphasize participation and
each athlete shooting for his or
her personal best.

For Higgins, that meant taking
what began as physical therapy
after knee surgery to another
level. Power lifting involves three
components: the squat, bench
press and dead lift. Each athlete
must compete in all three events.
Higgins, who jokingly blames a
campus personal trainer for his
new hobby, didn't expect to do
well competing against "guys
who were huge. ..who had been
doing this longer*

Before venturing to Australia as
part of the 200-strongTeam D.C.,
he learned about specific pieces
of assistive gear worn by power
lifters, and that getting into those
squat suits and bench shirts takes
two people. With help from the
campus trainer and another cam-
pus power lifter, assistant direc-
tor of personnel services Marvin
Pyles, Higgins tried to learn and
retain what form and rules gov-
ern the sport. Higgins didn't do
as well, he says, in the bench
press not because he couldn't lift
the weight, but because he for-
got to pause or hold the bar
steady during his first two
attempts.

"On my third attempt I was
able to do it, but it was light, 100
kilos 1220.26 lbs.)," he says. By
the time the dead lift event
began, however, Higgins realized
that he was ahead overall by
about 70 pounds. He began to
watch what other competitors
were lifting. The leader was pick-
ing up 400 pounds. Since com-
petitors declare what weight
they'll attempt, Higgins decided
to make the competition a bit

PHOTO C0UHTESV OF C. HIGGINS

Chris Higgins goes for the gold — and gets it.

tougher.

"I couldn't do that, but I did go
up 5 kilos [1 1 lbs.]. After, I felt as
if I could ve gone up 5 to 10
more kilos."

Approximately 40 men and
women competed in Higgins'
sport, though only four were left
in his weight class by the end.
Gay Games athletes are grouped
not just by country, as in the
Olympics, but by state or city as
well, Higgins guesses that a third
of the athletes were from Aus-
tralia and at least another third
were from America. Another
campus employee, Allan Pacheco
of Facilities Planning, did a per-
sonal best in the triathlon.

"The people are amazing," says
Higgins, who coordinates instruc-
tional technology support for fac-
ulty using the teaching theaters
and technology classrooms. "A
number of guys took me under
their wing. I still keep in contact
with them. . . And in the diving,
one guy was so bad, but people
cheered for him because he had
the guts to do it."

Lest anyone think that the
games are a place for those who
can't make the cut in other
world-class competitions, Higgins
asserts that many athletes —
straight or gay — post times and
set records that count in other
international bodies that govern
each sport. It is believed, for
example, that one of the 4 x 100
relay swim teams clocked the
fifth fastest time in the world. In
Higgins' sport a 17-year-old com-
petitor set an Australian record in
bench press.

So when asked why Gay
Games athletes may not shoot for
Olympic medals, Higgins
answers,"The games are not an
either-or. They're a way to bring
people together. , . in an open,
non-threatening environment."

Below are more ques-
tions and answers con-
cerning the libraries'
new catalog system:

Q. Will there be classes or
other training to help
people adjust to the new

catalog?

A. Many of the library instruc-
tion classes that teach students
how eo conduct research for
their class assignments will
include information on the
use of the new catalog. In
addition, you can obtain help
though "Chat with a Librari-
an," a live, real-time interactive
reference service (www.lib.
umd.edu/ENGIN/CHAT/), or
by using an e-mail form to
"Ask a Librarian" (www.lib.
umd.edu/PURSERV/eref html),
or from the various library
telephone and walk-in refer-
ence service desks. Faculty
can also get help from their
subject specialists. See www.
lib.umd edu/UES/specialist for
the name and contact informa-
tion for your subject specialist.

Q. Are all the universities
and colleges in the Uni-
versity System of Mary-
land and affiliated Institu-
tions converting to the
new catalog system?

A.Yes, all USMA1 libraries will
be using the new catalog.
Fourteen campuses went

"live" with the new system on
January 6. Later in 2003, cata-
log USMAI will also provide
access to the University of
Maryland Health Sciences and
Human Services Library and
St, Mary's College of Mary-
land.

Q. What other major col-
leges and universities use
this catalog system?

A. Our catalog system — the
ALEPH 500 integrated library
system produced by the Ex
Libris company — is in use at
more than 750 sites in 50
countries. Other major col-
leges and universities using
this system include the State
University of New York
(SUNY), the Harvard Univer-
sity Libraries, the Massachu-
setts Institute of Technology
(MIT), the University of Cali-
fornia-Davis, and McGill Uni-
versity. In January, Ex Libris
announced that the British
Library will implement the
Ex Libris integrated library
system in early 2004.

Q. What is this new SFX
technology?

A. On Jan. 15, the Libraries
implemented a new citation/
resource linking technology
called SFX. SFX links together
the Libraries' databases and e-
journals, making it easier to
find the online full-text of an

article or track down addition-
al information about a topic.

Students and faculty search-
ing in die Libraries' research
databases can click on an SFX
button to link directly to an
article's full-text or to look up
a journal title In the catalog,
saving time and effort. In this
first release, SFX links are
available in all of the databas-
es to which the Libraries sub-
scribe from Ebsco, OCLC First
Search, Gale and ProQuest. A
complete list of the databases
that are currently SFX-enabled
and additional information on
SFX is available at www.lib.
umd . edu/ETC/sfxfaq . html .
Over the next few months,
additional databases will be
enabled for SFX.

Q. Is it true that with the
new catalog one can
renew materials online?

A.Yes, most items in the gen-
eral circulating collections
may be renewed online. Bor-
rowers should go to the
online catalog, sign in and
click on "My Account." You
may then renew items on
your list of current loans.
Renewals are not permitted
for items with outstanding
holds, items more than one
month overdue, or for certain
other special categories
(Interlibrary Loan materials,
Non print Media Services
materials, etc.).

Valentines: Of Hearts and "Hollowdays"

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lid t tor's note: Outlook's feature, extracurricular, will take occasional
glimpses into university employees' lives outside of their day jobs. We
welcome story suggestions; call Monette Atistln Bailey at (301.) 405^629
or send them to ontlook@accmailumd.edti.

that things of great value can

also carry a pretty high price.

— Lawrence E. Mintz,

American Studies, and director

of the Art Gliner Center for

Humor Studies

Valentine's Day rivals New
Year's Eve as the holiday
of shattered expectations, so
why waste a lot of money? I
say, prepare to be disappoint-
ed and hope for the best,
which I've outlined below.

Best giffc A small amount
of really good chocolate, not a
large amount of really medio-
cre chocolate. Flowers die
before you can eat them.

Best card: An inappropri-
ate one that you can make
funny by personalizing it, like
a Far Side cartoon card depict-
ing the "Boneless Chicken
Ranch "with the handwritten
note, "No bones about it. I
love you." Contrary to popular
perception, leering, lecherous
cards with lewd suggestions
are not romantic.

Best love story: Not "Love
Story" by Oliver Segal, but
"Mama Day" by Gloria Nay I or,
one of the best contemporary
stories of passion, love, mysti-
cism and loss Ive ever read.

Best date: Staying home
and renting a great movie clas-
sic about true love, like "The
Philadelphia Story." Not the
night to see "Gangs of New

Patty asked me, "What
do you know about
love?" At that moment,
I knew I was the right
man for the job.
— Brian Jose

YonVorTreida."

Best aphrodisiacs: Danc-
ing, a well-posed meaningful
question and a babysitter.
Short of that, anything that
shows just the teensiest bit of
advance thought.

— Stefanie Webs,

communications director,

Academy of Leadership

So Patty, my wife, asks me,
"What are you working
on?" Say I, with a modicum of
pride: "Some thoughts on the
meaning of love and the rele-

vance of Valentine's Day." Patty
asks bewilderedly,"What do
you know about love?"At that
moment, I knew I was the
right man for the job.

Valentine's Day fairly defines
the term "pedestrian" In fact, I
think it is the most offensive
of the saccharine lot of "hol-
lowdays." It reminds me of my
favorite line from "The Simp-
sons." Homer is asked why he
is so confident that his mar-
riage is strong and he replies,
"Because it is built on a .solid
foundation of routine!"

The key, I believe, to love
and happiness is the antithesis
of Homer's statement. Once
you are fortunate enough to
have found your true love, as
I have, make every effort to
minimize routine; and while
living in union, celebrate each
other's singularity as a person.
Then, perhaps in spite of the
pressure, distractions and rou-
tine of life, love has a chance
to thrive.

Truthfully, though, I've
always hated February 14 —
ever since, after tendering no
gifts to a former college girl-
friend and claiming,'! thought
Valentine's Day was always
the fourth Thursday before
the Vernal Equinox,' I was
summarily dumped.

— Brian Jose, director of

communications, Clarice Smith

Performing Arts Center

OUTLOOK

Dear Faculty and Staff,

February 2003

2002 Chick-fil-A Peach Bowl Champions... School record-tying 11-win season in
2002... 2002 Butkus and Bednarik Award Winner for Defensive Player of the Year, EJ
Henderson... Eight AII-ACC Players... 2001 ACC Champions... 2001 FedEx Orange Bowl)

If you think we have accomplished all we have set out to do, you are sorely mistaken!
This is only the beginning and we will not stop until we bring more ACC and Bowl
Championships and a second National Championship home to College Park! The last
two years our players and staff have accomplished what many Division I football pro-
grams will never accomplish. We have proven numerous critics wrong and with the
support of our faculty and staff, we will accomplish even more.

Faculty and staff on campus are given the opportunity to purchase a season ticket for
$144 or $96 depending on desired section. That is a 20 percent discount off the adult
season ticket price. For information on the reduced facutty/staff season ticket and single
game tickets, call the Terrapin Ticket Office at (301) 314-7070 or visit www.umterps.com.

Show your support and buy season tickets for next season! Ask your friends and fam-
ily to join you in being part of a premiere Division I football powerhouse. Our fans can
truly become our "12th Terp" and home field advantage. Now is the time to guarantee
that you will be part of that advantage and rich tradition we have established.

Order now to get the best seats available because they are going fast. Byrd Stadium is
the place to be in 20031 Thank you for your support and I will see you in September.

Awards: Support Research

Continued from page 4

Ralph Friedgen

Head Football Coach

Partnerships: Overcoming Setbacks

Continued from page i

sity departments and county agencies,
established the Judith R Hoyer Family
Learning Center in Adelphi, which pro-
vides early childhood learning services to
local children and families. The committee
also sponsors an annual conference on
early childhood development in the coun-
ty and created a teen family literacy pro-
gram with Bladensbiirg High School.

■ The City of Seat Pleasant and the depart-
ment of Public and Community Health
formed a Health Partnership in 1 999.
Directed by Jerry Greenberg, the partner-
ship improves the health of Seat Pleasant
residents and enhances learning and
research for students and faculty by pro-
viding health education services that
might not otherwise be available. The
partnership's projects have included
health promotion workshops, a study of
community health insurance needs, a
health fair and community health resource
guide, and health screenings for children
at after-school and recreation programs.

• The Langley Park Project, directed by Bill
Hanna, utilized the Urban Studies and Plan-
ning program's graduate studio require-
ment to assist redevelopment efforts in
the city of Langley Park. After two success-
ful studios, the project helped create
Action Langley Park, a separate nonprofit
that sponsors Langley Park Day, an annual
event with more than a dozen university
and county partners.

Not all partnerships are as successful, of
course. Participants and presenters from
the county identified some common rea-
sons why The county lacks an adequate
nonprofit infrastructure and has yet to
develop a history of private philanthropic
support. As a result, some collaborations
with the university never get off the
ground; others are limited by funding
shortages and lack of staff capacity.

There are roadblocks that make it diffi-
cult for projects to move forward. For
example, the Seat Pleasant partnership dis-
covered that the statistics they needed to
assess health issues in the community

were only available at the county level, not
by jurisdiction. The result was an inability
to create a health report card for the small
city whose suburban population was
developing community health problems
more common in urban areas.

Setbacks aside, those involved feel as if
the connections are working. "The univer-
sity has so many resources, the community
needs to know about them. It's been a
very good resource for us," said Thurman
Jones, president of Patriots Technology
Training Center In Seat Pleasant and board
member of the Seat Pleasant project.

Even successful projects must fend for
themselves once the semester is over or
the research ends. Some neighborhoods
and communities routinely ask university
collaborators how long they plan to stay,
having experienced the negative result of
a high turnover in good will.

And there are roadblocks on the cam-
pus side as well, including difficulties gar-
nering credit, funding, class-release and
professional recognition for community-
based work. In some cases, the need for
project management above and beyond
the research or scholarly work was too
daunting or was outside the expertise of
some faculty members.

Subde challenges in university-commu-
nity collaborations were also apparent. A
faculty tendency to respond more directly
to a research agenda than to the needs of
the community was noted as a common
problem. Likewise, some communities had
trouble valuing intellectual work and mak-
ing use of it prograrnmatically. In all cases,
advocacy — the engagement of public intel-
lectuals with current issues — seemed to
take a back seat to research and direct
service.

The Democracy Collaborative will
address some of these issues at its next
meeting: "Engaged Research," on Friday,
Feb. 28 at the University Inn and Confer-
ence Center. All interested faculty are
welcome. For more information, contact
Margaret Morgan-Hubbard at mmh®demo-
cracycollaborative.org or (301) 314-2745.

— Anne L'Ecuyer, Academy of Leadership

European Union

Psychology

An dree Chronis

Comprehensive Family-Based
Assessment of ADHD in Low-Income
Children

Sociology
Laura Mamo

Kinshtp-in-the Making: Assisted
Reproduction and Lesbian Users

College of Education

Education Policy and Leadership

Meredith Honig

No Small Thing: Implementing
Small Schools Initiatives in Urban
Districts

Human Development

Min Wang

Learning to Read in a Second
Language: Cross Language and
Writing System Transfer

College of Life Sciences

Biology

Alexandra Bely

Breaking the Ante dor- Posted or Axis

Kenneth Sebens

Effects of Non indigenous Species in
Coastal Marine Ecosystems

Chemistry & Biochemistry

Sang Bok Lee

Electromodulated Drug-Molecule
Transport in Gold Nanotube
Membrane

Entomology
Jeffrey Shultz

Evolutionary Morphology and
Phylogeny of Harvestmen (Opiliones)

Health and Human Performance

Kinesiology

Stephen Roth

The Role of Human Genetic
Variation in Susceptibility to Obesity-
Associated Cardiovascular Disease
Risk

Internet Ventures 1996-2002

Finance

Soeren Hvidkjaer

Directional Trading Volume and the
Cross-Section of Stock Returns

Robert Marquez

Corporate Control and Information
Flows

Russell Wermers

A Matter of Style: The Causes and
Consequences of Style Drift in
Institutional Portfolios

Logistics, Busines & Public Policy
Deepak So mays

Patent Enforcement Through the
International Trade Commission

Marketing

Judy Frels

Standards-Scape: An Emergent
Agent-Based Model of Competition in
Technology Markets with Network
Externalities

Rebecca Hamilton
Feature Fatigue: When Capabilities
Become Too Much of a Good Thing

School of Architecture

Urban Studies Si Planning
Howell Baum

The Road Not Taken: Desegregation
of Baltimore City Public Schools

School of Engineering

Chemical Engineering

Srinivasa Rag ha van

Liquid-Cry staltine Hydrogels &
Nanocomposites: A New Class of
Smart Materials

2003-2004 Creative
and Performing Arts
Board Award
Recipients

Arts& Humanities

Comparative Literature

Robert H. Smith School of

Regina Harrison

Business

Tourism of Terror: Mining Potosi

Decision & Information

Dance

Technologies

Nejla Yatkin

Ritu Agarwal

Historical Legacy of American

IT Strategy, IT Human Resources,

Dance

and Firm Performance: An Empirical

Investigation

English
Elizabeth Arnold

Cheryl Druehl

"Civilization" (second book of

Competition Incentives for

poems)

Suppliers

Joshua Weiner

Wolfgang Jank

"Trampoline" A Book of Poems

Analyzing Spatially Referenced Data

horn Large Databases

Music
James Stern

Itir Karaesmen

Compact Disc Recording: Fantasias

Effective Workforce and Resource

for Violin and Piano

Management in On- Demand Services:

Experience from the Fractional Jet

Theatre

Ownership Business

Helen Huang
East Meets West

Entrepreneurship

Wesley Sine

School of Architecture

Boom to Bust; The Role of

Ronit Eisenbech

Organizational Structure, Strategy,

Witnessing Detroit at 300 - A

External Endorsements, and Change

Manifold of Voices: A Multimedia

on the Growth and Survival of New

Publication

FEBRUARY II, 2003

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2003 Angyelof Award
for Outstanding Service
to Commuter Students

This award recognizes an
undergraduate or graduate stu-
dent whose activities and
involvement have directiy or
indirectly benefitted other
commuters during the 2002*
2003 academic year. Advocacy
for commuter issues or a spe-
cific commuter student popula-
tion, encouragement of com-
muter involvement on campus,
promoting understanding of
commuter life, and developing
initiatives which serve com-
muter students are examples of
specific contributions. The
application deadline date is Fri-
day, March 14. For more infor-
mation about the award and
the nomination process, con-
tact Leslie Perkins at 4-7250 or
lperkins@ . umd .edu .

A Brahms Classic

When Johannes Brahms com-
pleted, after 11 years, his 1868
masterwork"Ein Deutsches
Requiem (A German Requiem)"
commemorating the passing of
his mentor Robert Schumann,
and later his mother, he sought
to convey a message of hope
and consolation to the living.

The School of Music will
present Brahms' choral and
musical masterpiece at the
Dekelboum Concert Hall of the
Clarice Smith Performing Arts
Center on Thursday, Feb. 20 at
8 p.m. and Sunday, Feb. 23 at 3
p.m. Under the direction of
Edward Maelary, the program is
a collaboration of the Maryland
Chorus, the University Chorale
& Chamber Singers and the
university's Symphony Orches-
tra, soprano Ji Yeon Park and
baritone Darren Perry.

Tickets are $15. For more in-
formation, call (301) 405-ARTS.

Developing Fitness

Whether you are just begin-
ning to exercise, are not seeing
the results you want, or just
want to learn more about
exericise and fitness, this free,
6-week workshop is for you. It
is designed to help you reach
your individual fitness goals.
Beginning Feb. 1 2, sessions
meet each Wednesday from 3
to 4 p.m. in 0121 Campus
Recreation Center (Center for
Health and Wellbeing).

For more information, con-
tact Jennifer Treger at (301)
314-1493 or treger@health.
umd.edu.

Williams Award for
Social Change

In recognition of Rebecca
Williams, this award for com-
mitment to social change is
given to an undergraduate or
graduate student who has
demonstrated a commitment
to advocating change in issues
and values such as those which
have concerned Williams. This

Hope Chinese School

in the New Year

PHOTO BY CVNTHH MITCHEL

The Hope Chinese School at College Park rang in the Chinese New Year at the
Reckord Armory on Sunday, Feb. 2. The boisterous celebration, organized by
school administrators to introduce school members and the larger community
to Chinese New Year traditions, included music, games, riddles, karaoke, ballroom
dancing and prizes, as well as colorful decorations and plenty of Chinese cuisine.
Above, children from the 6rst- and fourth-grade classes play chess as a parent looks on.

commitment may be demon-
strated in many ways, through
individual or organizational
leadership, and may have been
shown across varying amounts
of time. The individual's efforts
may or may not have brought
about change.

Please submit nominations,
including student name and
address and a description of
your reasons for the nomina-
tion by March 7 to Bill Sed-
lacek, Counseling Center, by
campus mail or e-mail at
ws 1 2@umail, umd .edu.

For more information, con-
tact Sedlacek at (301) 314-7687
orwsl2@umail.umd.edu.

Become an Ally

The Office of Lesbian, Gay,
Bisexual &Transgender (LGBT)
Equity is offering training for
members of the university
interesting in becoming allies
to the LGBT community. The
training is given in two parts
and lasts a total of six hours.
Sessions are held weekly during
the semester, and individuals
who complete the training are
invited to become part of the
Rainbow Terrapin Network.
The next training session
will be held on Tuesday, Feb.
1 1 . To register or for more
information, contact Tricia
Slusser at the Office of LGBT
Equity at (301) 405-8720 or
SlusserT@aol.com.

Spatial Analysis with
ArcView Workshops

The UM Libraries will hold a
series of workshops on
ArcView this semester in 2109
McKeldin. They are free, but
advance registration is required
at www.lib.umd.edu/UES/gis.

html. The workshops explore

the more complex query and
spatial analysis aspects of
ArcView GIS. The prerequisite
is familiarity with ArcView, The
workshop will be offered on:

• Thursday, Feb. 1 3,

9:30 a.m. to noon

■ Monday, Feb. 24,

2 to 4:30 p.m.

" Wednesday, March 5,

1 to 3:30 p.m.

For more information, con-
tact User Education Services at
(301) 405-9070 or ue6@
umail.umd.edu. or visit www,
libumd.edu/UES/gis.html.

Schools as Breeding
Grounds for Prisons

On Feb. 19 at noon, the Social
Justice Educator Development
Programs will host "Schools as
Breeding Grounds for Prisons"
in 0106 Shriver Laboratory, East
Wing as part of its Spring 2003
workshop series. The work-
shop will consider the deliber-
ate establishment and develop-
ment of the public school sys-
tem as an oppressive socializa-
tion instrument. It will also
examine the problems facing
urban high schools and how
they act to "graduate" students
into prisons. Finally, it will sug-
gest a strategy to reclaim pub-
lic education for educators and
students in their fight for
equality and social justice.

To RSVP and for more infor-
mation, call (301) 405-2841 or
e-mail cclarkl@umd.edu.

Charles and
Symposium

White

On Monday, Feb. 17 from 10
a.m. to noon, the Charles and
Helen White Symposium will
be held at the Marriott Inn and
Conference Center near cam-
pus. "New Systems for a New

Era" will explore the future
implications of the intercon-
nections among bioengineer-
ing, information technology
and nanotechnology. The
keynote speaker is 1 978 Nobel
Laureate Arno Penzias, whose
research gave unprecedented
support to the "Big Bang" theo-
ry of the universe's creation.
Penzias will join Maryland Fac-
ulty for a panel discussion.

The day also features the
long-awaited groundbreaking
of the Jeong H. Kim Engineer-
ing and Applied Science Build-
ing. This state-of-the-art facility
will house some of the most
sophisticated engineering
research and educational labo-
ratories in the nation. There
will be a "virtual "groundbreak-
ing ceremony at 2 p.m.

For more information, visit
www. eng. umd . ed u/ki m/.

Proposal Deadline —
Teaching with
Technology Conference

The deadline for proposals to
participate in the 10th annual
Teaching With Technology con-
ference is Friday, Feb. 14. Facul-
ty, teaching assistants and
instructional technology sup-
port professionals are encour-
aged to share the ways in
which technology has enabled
them to facilitate learning in
new and exciting ways. This
year's conference, co-spon-
sored by the Office of Informa-
tion Technology, Center for
Teaching Excellence and Uni-
versity Libraries, will be held
on Friday, April 4 in McKeldin
Library. Submit a proposal
application at
www.oit.umd.edu/rwt. For
more information, contact Deb-
orah Mateik at 5-2945 or
zdeb@umd.edu, or visit
www.oit.umd.edu/twt.